Palaeoverse has a Twitter account! 🦕🦖🦣🐚💻📈📊 Super excited to be involved in this project, and can’t wait to show you what we’ve put together. Give us a follow for all the info, landing very soon!!👇

Also the logo Miranta Kouvari (she/they) 🎨🦥 and Cecily Nicholl designed is so cool. They turned the R hex into a cube! Mind blown 🤯

Wow!🤯 We’ve been live for just 24hrs and there are so many faces here. Thanks for joining! For those that missed our initial tweets earlier in the year, we wanted to say a little bit about what palaeoverse is…

WHAT KILLED THE CRABS? The official story is something like “a billion snow crabs disappeared.” If that sounds fishy to you, keep reading. Let’s dive into the ecology, oceanography, & geopolitical history of the Bering Sea. A science thread on crabs, corruption, & collapse: 🦀

We feel it's high time we introduced the faces behind #palaeoverse 👩‍💻, and Monday seems as good as any time to start! Over the next couple of weeks, we will introduce a different member of the team each day 👋...

First up we have Sofía Galván: Hola! I am a biology PhD student at Universidade de Vigo (Spain) studying the impacts of deep-time climatic change on species diversity and their distribution. I am also interested in biases in current and fossil biodiversity data. 📈🌍

Very grateful to the Scientific American team for the write up about our recent taphonomy paper! You can read about how sticking pH probes where the sun don't shine in dead seabass helps us understand how some fossils form here! 🐟☠️⚗️🧪

Coming out scarily close to my first chapter, my second PhD chapter is now published! I wish I could say that this rapid succession of papers was planned along, but it really wasn't 😅 Thank you so much once again Sam Giles and Dr Emma Dunne! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Choose your own adventure: does this facial expression indicate a childlike sense of wonder or two functioning brain cells? You decide.

Our recent fieldwork in the early Paleocene Punta Peligro area of Patagonia, Argentina 🇦🇷, finding lots of crocodile, turtle, & mammal fossils 🐊🐢🦥, with Diego Pol, Patagonian Fossil Turtles 🐢🇦🇷🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♂️🇬🇷, Cecily Nicholl, Miranta Kouvari (she/they) 🎨🦥, Santiago Reuil & others EarthSciences UCL MuseoEgidioFeruglio The Royal Society & National Geographic-funded

It’s here! We are very pleased to share our preprint introducing the palaeoverse R package📦, hosted on EarthArXiv.🌍 eartharxiv.org/repository/vie…

Glad to see our The Palaeoverse Community preprint out in EarthArXiv while is in review at Methods in Ecology and Evolution 🦖💻📊 Interested in Analytical Paleobiology, full reproducibility and #OpenScience? Send across your feedback or simply play with the development version on GitHub #RStats 🦕💻📈

🚨palaeoverse v1.0.0 is now available on CRAN🚨 cran.r-project.org/package=palaeo… #palaeoverse

It’s officially one week since palaeoverse v1.0.0 has been available on CRAN! 😲 Let’s start introducing available functionality!🔧 We’ll share a function a day over the coming weeks🗓️

The `time_bins` function can be used to extract intervals from the Geological Time Scale: - Generate bins using interval names - Generate bins using age values - Generate bins at different ranks - Generate near-equal-length time bins - Plot bins #palaeoverse

Our new bird is coming out today in nature! Meet Janavis finalidens, a large gull-like toothed bird with lots to say about the evolution of modern birds. Janavis’ palate overturns more than 150 years of ornithological paradigm! nature.com/articles/s4158…

New paper led by Loredana Macaluso Università di Torino on the fossil record of Palearctic salamanders, which we evaluate to explain how their present-day enigmatic and disjunct distribution reflects regional extinctions caused by tectonic + climatic drivers doi.org/10.1098/rsos.2… EarthSciences UCL

Fully funded 4-year conservation palaeobiology PhD studentship with me EarthSciences UCL using the fossil record of birds to evaluate the impact of climate + early humans on their taxonomic and ecomorphological diversity over the last few million years 🐦🦅🦆🦤🦜 rb.gy/ggwhju

More super exciting work by Jorge García-Girón, Ph.D. and Alessandro Chiarenza on community networks and their structure before and after the K/Pg extinction. Congratulations to the team!

Slightly delayed to the party, but strongly recommend checking out this very exciting research from Emma et al.! A great example of some of the neat techniques that are allowing us to answer big questions in palaeo. Congrats to all the authors!!