And a lot of them have done parachute science. Nussaïbah Raja and Dr Emma Dunne's work show just how parachute #paleontology is still rampant. The countries that are hit the hardest are in the Global South. science.org/content/articl…

Registration for The PalAss Annual meeting in Erlangen is zooming along. Our first fieldtrip is fully booked, and our second is at 50% capacity - so if you want to reserve your spot to go to the amazing Messel pits register today! palass.org/meetings-event…

The chronospace R package is now published!! I hope it'll provide useful tools for visualizing and exploring sensitivity in estimates of divergence times. A really fun project with lifelong friend Millacarmonia besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/20…

Lots to digest in this piece - well worth 5 mins of your time to read. Though grim, the original study puts tangible numbers on the utterly shit situation that so many PhD grads + postdocs are finding themselves in right now 😔

It took me SEVEN years to figure out that you can save a ggplot as a vectorized .svg file ggsave("file.svg"). The svg file can be opened on powerpoint and it will be completely vectorized, even text are still recognized as text boxes! No more recreating plots on illustrator!!!!!

🚨 It's just over one month to the deadline for #PalAss24 abstract submission on Thursday October 3rd! ✨ More info about registration and abstracts here: palass.org/meetings-event…

📢 Due to issues with our payment processor Worldpay, we have been forced to temporarily suspend registration for #PalAss24. We are very sorry for the inconvenience, and are working hard to find a fix as soon as possible. Thanks, in the meantime, for your patience! 📢

At no point in Africa's post-colonial history has a national museum been looted at this scale this is yet more evidence that the UAE is a colonial scourge in Sudan, exactly like the French and British theft of Africa's priceless artifacts middleeasteye.net/news/rsf-loots…

Our application note is now in preprint at bioRxiv DeepDiveR is a package for deep learning estimation of diversity from fossil occurrences in R and Python 🤿🐅 Thanks to @bethany_j_allen and Daniele Silvestro for the collaboration so far! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Just 3 more weeks to nab early bird registration and submit your abstract for #PalAss24! ✨ All of the necessary info is here: palass.org/meetings-event…

🌋Mega El Niño instigated the end-Permian mass extinction📷. New research in Science Magazine on how mega-El Niño solve a decades old problem in unifying both land and marine extinctions. The deadliest extinction in Earth's History. #sciencetwt #sciencetwt science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The media avoiding the term “ethnic cleansing”

🚨 There's only 1 WEEK left to nab early bird registration and submit an abstract to The PalAss Annual Meeting in Erlangen! 🚨 Deadline is Thurs Oct 3rd 23:59 BST! #PalAss24 More info here: palass.org/meetings-event…

The deadline is creeping up on us. Get those abstracts in you last minuters!

‼️Abstract submission deadline for #PalAss24 is tomorrow, the 3rd of October. If you haven't submitted your abstract yet, now it is time to do it! 👉 Information and registration form: tinyurl.com/mu3r75uk See you in Erlangen!

Our new temporary #exhibition “Bringing #dinosaurs back to life: 200 years of research” opens on Mon 7th Oct. Explore how #science has changed our understanding of dinosaurs, how they looked like and how they may have lived. Read more: birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/lap… Uni of Birmingham

‼️ It's abstract deadline day! ⌛️ Once you have registered for #PalAss24 check your registration confirmation email. You will find a link at the bottom to enable you to submit your abstract. ✨ See you in Erlangen! 🇩🇪

We are absolutely blown away by the number of early bird registrations and abstract submissions that came in before the deadline - it's going to be a lively and diverse meeting in December! #PalAss24 🌍🦴🐚

This. Many of the issues faced by myself, my friends, and my colleagues is not because of 'science'. It's because of the systemic issues within academia: job insecurity, low wages, lack of jobs, rampant bullying, and toxic work environments.