My first Palaeontology paper! 🥳 Lots in here about different approaches to using the FBD model for tree inference, explored using simulations, led by Joëlle Barido-Sottani. TL;DR careful taxonomy & morphological data collection really matter for these analyses!

This #Paleobiology paper (led by Jansen Smith & Nussaïbah Raja) came out a few days ago, but I want to bump it because I think it's really important for best practices around data reuse in #paleontology Paper: doi.org/10.1017/pab.20… My blog: t.ly/NR6Nm 🧵👇

The Fossilised Birth-Death Model is Identifiable biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

Introducing treesurgeon (github.com/evo-palaeo/tre…), a new R package of tools and tricks for working with phylogenetic trees and data, especially morphology! Here's a few things it can do...

Our next event in the Palaeoverse #lecture series will be held Thurs, 25 April at 14:00 UTC! Laura Mulvey will present a talk entitled "Assessing the adequacy of morphological models used in palaeobiology" Sign up: bit.ly/palaeoverse-le… #computational #palaeoecology

Really happy to see paper one of my PhD out today in Nature Communications. We develop a deep learning framework for estimating diversity from fossil data 🤿 🦣🐚 Many thanks to @JoeFlanSan and Daniele Silvestro for the collaboration nature.com/articles/s4146…

🚨Lecture series🚨 Our next lecture will be by Prof. Daniele Silvestro on "Neural network models to infer diversity trajectories and the drivers of speciation and extinction". 📈🦕 🗓️Thursday, 30th May at 14:00 UTC ✏️Sign up: bit.ly/palaeoverse-le… #palaeobiology #RStats

We're looking forward to welcoming all kinds of palaeontologists to Erlangen this December for the The PalAss Annual Meeting! 🐚🦕🌿🌍 Registration info coming soon, in the meantime, check out our offerings of workshops and field/museum trips! palass.org/meetings-event…

🚨Lecture series🚨 To kick off the summer series, we're thrilled to welcome Dr. April Wright (@WrightingApril) with a talk on "Models, Meaning, and the Middle Cambrian" 🗓️Thursday, June 27th at 18:00 UTC (2pm EDT) ✏️Sign up: bit.ly/palaeoverse-le… #palaeobiology #RStats

Very happy to announce our new preprint! We investigated how bacteria breakdown a carcass - do environmental bacteria invade a carcass after death or is decay driven by internal bacteria that live within us? What does that mean for soft tissue fossilisation? Find out below🦠☠️🐟

Super proud that our review of the Cretaceous Lagerstätte of Lebanon is finally out! Read all about the different sites, the beautiful soft tissue fossils, the taphonomy, and also how colonialism impacts Lebanese palaeontology. Link: lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10.11…

🚨Our paper on the major update to R package mvSLOUCH is out!🚨 Now w/ rapid speed for your large multivariate datasets + measurement error + missing data + crucially, the ability to specify precisely how sets of traits evolving by OU/BM interact, e.g. for modularity tests!

Last week @PaleoFAU joined forces with the phylo fans at Institute of Evolutionary Biology UW and Earth Sciences - Utrecht University for a workshop on trees in paleo 🧬🐚🦍🪱👩🏼‍💻 Thanks to our wonderful hosts in Warsaw ❤️ 🤍 and to Erasmus+ for funding 🇪🇺 Looking forward to more joint initiatives!

🚨 Registration for #PalAss24 is now OPEN! ✨ We're so excited to welcome everyone to Erlangen 🇩🇪 in December! Check out the webpage for all that will be on offer during the conference and beyond:🎄🥨 palass.org/meetings-event…

🚨 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…

Our article 🐌 "Phylogeny of the longest existing gastropod clade (Pleurotomariida) reconstructed with Bayesian and parsimony methods and its implications on gastropod shell characters" 🐚 by me, Sebastian Hoehna & A. Nützel is published🥳 #MolluscMonday tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Congratulations to Kenneth De Baets @[email protected] on being awarded an Opus 27 Grant for your research project, "The impact of mass extinctions on the diversity and evolution of parasites"!