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Dr. Bethany Allen
@bethanyjallen.bsky.social
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Palaeobiologist interested in biodiversity patterns over long timescales 📉
Postdoc at @gfz.bsky.social 🇩🇪
Co-chair of @besmacro.bsky.social, member of @paleodb.bsky.social committee and @palaeoverse.bsky.social dev team 👩‍💻
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Dr. Bethany Allen @bethanyjallen.bsky.social · Sep 4
Huge thanks to @palaeopercs.bsky.social for inviting and hosting me! If you missed my talk on Tuesday, you can now catch up via their YouTube channel 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x19X...
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phil-donoghue.bsky.social
NERC GW4+ PhD: Genome duplication, extinction and diversification in the evolution of flowering plants, supervised by Phil Donoghue, James Clark and Ilia Leitch. Deets soon but get in touch with @phil-donoghue.bsky.social if interested. Jan 8 application deadline @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
bethanyjallen.bsky.social
I reviewed The Tree of Life by @maxjtelford.bsky.social for @natecoevo.nature.com 🌳
You can access my review for free here: rdcu.be/eOcYY
November 6, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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mtanichthys.bsky.social
Neat paper: A Guided Tour of Phylogenetic Comparative Methods for Studying Trait Evolution
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
A Guided Tour of Phylogenetic Comparative Methods for Studying Trait Evolution
Phylogenetic comparative methods are important tools in biology, providing insights into the way traits evolve. There are many technical resources describing how these methods work. Our aim here is to...
www.annualreviews.org
November 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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tweetisaurus.bsky.social
New @nhm-london.bsky.social 5-day course on integrative biodiversity discovery! Learn how to collect specimens, obtain genomic data, and interpret biodiversity using cutting edge phylogenomic analysis. It's free, and aimed at early career researchers: www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...
Integrative biodiversity discovery | Natural History Museum
An introduction to field collection, laboratory analysis and phylogenomics.
www.nhm.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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lewisajones.bsky.social
Interested in corals, dispersal, and diversification dynamics? 🪸

We're offering a PhD project on how the Tethys closure shaped global marine biodiversity — supervised by me, Bridget Wade, Nadia Santodomingo, & Francesca Bosellini.

🗓️ Apply by 17th December 2025

www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/how...
How did the closure of the Tethys Ocean impact global marine biodiversity? | TREES DLA
The closure of the Tethys Ocean during the Miocene represents one of the most profound reorganisations of Earth’s surface systems in the Cenozoic. Once a vast marine corridor linking the Indo-Pacific ...
www.trees-dla.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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gerlame.bsky.social
Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15

Please share far and wide 🚀

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Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities
Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2-year (2026-2028) - 2 positions OPENAt UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in resea...
biodiversity.ubc.ca
November 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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python.org
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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daveyfwright.bsky.social
🚨New paper out in Palaeontology! Check it out if you're interested morphological evolution, fossil phylogenetics, and macroevolution 🧪

"Assessing the impact of character evolution models on phylogenetic and macroevolutionary inferences from fossil data"
Assessing the impact of character evolution models on phylogenetic and macroevolutionary inferences from fossil data
Understanding the evolution and phylogenetic distribution of morphologic traits is fundamental to macroevolutionary research. Despite decades of major advances and key insights from molecular systema...
dx.doi.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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lewisajones.bsky.social
Just in time for #FossilFriday! Our paper is out today in Palaeontology @thepalass.bsky.social

Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology 🧹🦕

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Another great @palaeoverse.bsky.social team effort to offer a community resource!
Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology
Large datasets of fossil occurrences, often downloaded from online community-maintained databases, are a vital resource for understanding broad-scale evolutionary patterns, such as how biodiversity h...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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palaeoverse.bsky.social
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️30th October 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️

Join us next week to hear from Dr Oskar Hagen, on “Mechanistic biodiversity modelling with gen3sis: population-based simulations across regional and global domains to deep and shallow time” 🌐

Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
A flyer for the next instalment of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series. The flyer features a cartoon landscape with a river and trees, overlying a grid showing how the system might be simulated across space. There is also a picture of Dr Oskar Hagen, wearing a white shirt and navy suit jacket, smiling into the camera.
October 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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paleosynth.bsky.social
👏 Congratulations 👏 to the Big Questions team lead by Jansen A. Smith! After such a hard work the paper "Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a
community-driven project"is published in Paleobiology (doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042)
October 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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yomoseco.bsky.social
Announcing 🍱 Lunchbox Models 🍱
– an online seminar series all about ecological modelling & career insights, hosted by the @gfoesoc.bsky.social AKs Computational Ecology and YoMos 🦊

Find the topics and details as well as access to Zoom on our webpage: www.yomos.org/lunchbox-mod...

Please share!
Image shows a poster for the 'Lunchbox Models' seminar series. It shows a sandwich illustration between green boxes with information regarding the seminar series. The left column has general information and the right side has the schedule for the first 11 talks. All the info can be found on the webpage of the seminar series (linked in posting text and QR Code in poster). Several other food item illustrations are used as decoration, e.g. onigiri, coffee/tea cups, and pasta on a fork.
October 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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thepalass.bsky.social
🎓 Member News! 🌟

We’re excited to announce a brand-new series of Early-Career Researcher (ECR) webinars all about careers and grants 💼💡

Our ERC Officer will be joined by inspiring grant awardees and professionals from diverse career paths who’ll share their experiences, tips, [1/3]
October 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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biodivlibrary.bsky.social
🌱 Help secure the future of the Biodiversity Heritage Library! 🙏
Your donation will keep biodiversity knowledge open, connected, and growing, and fund the dedicated staff who make it all possible. 📖 👩‍💻 🌱 🌏 🧪
🔗 Donate: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLDona...
#BHLTransition #ILoveBHL
An historic illustration of of two brown stripy butterflies and a caterpillar on a plant with white flowers.
October 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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ignacioq.bsky.social
Excited to share our new paper where we find that the rise, decline and fall of clades is not explained by the usual suspects (diversity-dependence, ecological opportunities) but rather by species' insidious loss of macroevolutionary fitness: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3
Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The interplay between speciation and extinction rates shapes clade diversity dynamics. Using a novel phylogenetic model that includes living and fossil lineages, the authors estimate speciation and ex...
www.nature.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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acapomorphic.bsky.social
Out now in Biology Letters, my latest paper tackles an apparently simple question: how many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny? TL;DR: in most cases between 100 and 500, more than a substantial portion of morphological datasets, but the story is more complex... doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
October 15, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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egu.eu
🚨#JobAlert
Are you currently a #student living in Germany and looking for a part-time & remote job?
This opportunity is waiting for you!
#EGU are looking for a Community Development Assistant work-student to join their communications team!
📅Apply by 24 October 2025.
Learn more here: egu.eu/9Y1PZ8
Image description: A mountain silhouette at sunset with text reading:' we’re hiring! Community Development Assistant Apply by 24 October 2025 Currently Pursuing a graduate degree in the Earth, planetary or space sciences, or a relevant Be living in Germany for full-time education Good organisational skills and attention to detail Ability to interact with individuals online with sensitivity and professionalism Expert command of English Send your application to vacancy@egu.eu Interested? Here is your next step Apply by 24 October 2025 Send your application to vacancy@egu.eu'
October 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
bethanyjallen.bsky.social
Looking forward to this! I will be helping @josephtobias.bsky.social lead discussions on what preregistration could look like for macroecology - join us on Wednesday 📝🌍
sortee.bsky.social SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 29d
🚨 SORTEE’s conference #SORTEE2025 is fast approaching

This year, we have opted once again for a format that facilitates lively exchanges of ideas & which has led to wonderful outcomes. Some examples: www.sortee.org/past/
There is still time to join us - register at sortee.org/upcoming/
Past events
Past events by Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)
www.sortee.org
October 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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sortee.bsky.social
🚨 Just one week left until our conference kicks off!

Join us for unconferences, workshops, and hackathons.

Register now at sortee.org/upcoming #SORTEE2025
Upcoming events
Upcoming conference by Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)
sortee.org
October 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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paleosynth.bsky.social
We are opening the last call for workshop proposals in 2025! Deadline is December 15, 2025. Visit the website with the necessary information before preparing a proposal. Questions? Contact Danijela Dimitrijevic (science) or Barbara Seuß (logistics) Info: www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/index.php/sc...
October 8, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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sse-evolution.bsky.social
Nominations are now open for the Dobzhansky Prize, which recognizes the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding early-career evolutionary biologist. The award includes $5000 and an award talk at the in-person Evolution meeting. Deadline: December 1
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Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Dobzhansky Prize to recognize the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding early-career evolutionary biologist. Nominations due December 1, 2025.
October 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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filiphusnik.bsky.social
OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx!
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...
October 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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tscourses.bsky.social
🌳 What can Bayesian inference tell us about evolutionary history?
New edition of the course: Bayesian phylogenetic inference with BEAST2.

📅 27th October – 7th November 2025 (Online)

#WeareTransmittingScience
September 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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katharinehayhoe.com
Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.

Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.
A map of the world showing how levels of worry in most countries are greater than 70%. Source: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, International Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2023.
October 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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mariestenseke.bsky.social
University of Gothenburg announces a strategic professorship in biodiversity with an interdisciplinary profile
academicpositions.com/ad/universit...
The Crown Princess Victoria Professorship in Biodiversity - Academic Positions
Seeking an internationally recognized scientist for a prestigious professorship in biodiversity. Lead groundbreaking research, interdisciplinary collaboratio...
academicpositions.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM