Deep Time Ecology group
@deeptimeecology.bsky.social
We are based in the Department of Zoology and University Museum of Zoology Cambridge working on how ecology impacts evolution from the first animals to our modern oceans
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This #FossilFriday I am delighted to share a postdoctoral position that we @deeptimeecology.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social are advertising on early animal evolution in the #Ediacaran.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...
February 6, 2026 at 11:32 AM
This #FossilFriday I am delighted to share a postdoctoral position that we @deeptimeecology.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social are advertising on early animal evolution in the #Ediacaran.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...
Fantastic time at #BES2025 @britishecologicalsociety.org talking community ecology past and present! From the early animals of the #Ediacaran time period with modern corals and rainforests
December 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Fantastic time at #BES2025 @britishecologicalsociety.org talking community ecology past and present! From the early animals of the #Ediacaran time period with modern corals and rainforests
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New paper alert! 🚨 🐌
We studied historic Antarctic fossils from the Zinsmeister Collection to assess whether the K-Pg extinction, as recorded on Seymour Island, was sudden or gradual. We found that benthic life thrived in the 4 million years before the K-Pg.
doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...
We studied historic Antarctic fossils from the Zinsmeister Collection to assess whether the K-Pg extinction, as recorded on Seymour Island, was sudden or gradual. We found that benthic life thrived in the 4 million years before the K-Pg.
doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...
December 13, 2025 at 10:51 AM
New paper alert! 🚨 🐌
We studied historic Antarctic fossils from the Zinsmeister Collection to assess whether the K-Pg extinction, as recorded on Seymour Island, was sudden or gradual. We found that benthic life thrived in the 4 million years before the K-Pg.
doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...
We studied historic Antarctic fossils from the Zinsmeister Collection to assess whether the K-Pg extinction, as recorded on Seymour Island, was sudden or gradual. We found that benthic life thrived in the 4 million years before the K-Pg.
doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...
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A great talk from Yarong about using Bayesian network analysis to reveal multi-scale community dynamics in the Ediacaran Shibantan Biota. #PalAss2025 @thepalass.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
A great talk from Yarong about using Bayesian network analysis to reveal multi-scale community dynamics in the Ediacaran Shibantan Biota. #PalAss2025 @thepalass.bsky.social
A great talk from Yarong about using Bayesian network analysis to reveal multi-scale community dynamics in the Ediacaran Shibantan Biota. #PalAss2025 @thepalass.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
A great talk from Yarong about using Bayesian network analysis to reveal multi-scale community dynamics in the Ediacaran Shibantan Biota. #PalAss2025 @thepalass.bsky.social
Brilliant talk from Emily on constraining the lifespan of early animals of the Ediacaran!
#PalAss2025 @thepalass.bsky.social
#PalAss2025 @thepalass.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Brilliant talk from Emily on constraining the lifespan of early animals of the Ediacaran!
#PalAss2025 @thepalass.bsky.social
#PalAss2025 @thepalass.bsky.social
We are at PalAss in Portsmouth! Princess is presenting a poster on Charniodiscus in the Portland Building, Tara on Avalonian community compositions in the Richmond Building, and Emily is giving a talk on constraining lifespans of Ediacaran animals in the Richmond Building LT at 9.30. Exciting day!
December 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
We are at PalAss in Portsmouth! Princess is presenting a poster on Charniodiscus in the Portland Building, Tara on Avalonian community compositions in the Richmond Building, and Emily is giving a talk on constraining lifespans of Ediacaran animals in the Richmond Building LT at 9.30. Exciting day!
We have had a fantastic time at University of Zurich for CPEG 2015 discussing ecology, palaeoecology and conservation palaeobiology. Thanks to the wonderful organisers and looking forward to CPEG 2027 😀
August 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
We have had a fantastic time at University of Zurich for CPEG 2015 discussing ecology, palaeoecology and conservation palaeobiology. Thanks to the wonderful organisers and looking forward to CPEG 2027 😀
🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨: Depth affects the population dynamics on a soft coral-dominated reef on the Great White Wall, Fiji 🪸
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Depth affects the population dynamics on a soft coral-dominated reef on the Great White Wall, Fiji - Coral Reefs
Soft corals (order Alcyonacea) are an important component of tropical coral reefs, and often form locally abundance dense carpets. Some soft coral species are prone to bleaching and heat stress like s...
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July 29, 2025 at 8:39 AM
🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨: Depth affects the population dynamics on a soft coral-dominated reef on the Great White Wall, Fiji 🪸
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Fantastic to be back in Newfoundland for our research on the early animals of the #Ediacaran
July 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Fantastic to be back in Newfoundland for our research on the early animals of the #Ediacaran
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Delighted to share our paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social iology.bsky.social with a palaeo-evo-devo perspective on the evolution of symmetry in echinoderms. Led by Steffi Woodgate with Frankie Dunn, @echinerd.bsky.social, @laurentformery.bsky.social & Sam Zamora
www.cell.com/current-biol...-5
www.cell.com/current-biol...-5
A new Cambrian stem-group echinoderm reveals the evolution of the anteroposterior axis
Woodgate et al. describe a new bilaterally symmetrical echinoderm, Atlascystis acantha,
from the Cambrian of Morocco. Comparisons of plate growth with other echinoderms reveal
that Atlascystis possess...
www.cell.com
June 26, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Delighted to share our paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social iology.bsky.social with a palaeo-evo-devo perspective on the evolution of symmetry in echinoderms. Led by Steffi Woodgate with Frankie Dunn, @echinerd.bsky.social, @laurentformery.bsky.social & Sam Zamora
www.cell.com/current-biol...-5
www.cell.com/current-biol...-5
Deep Time Ecology members presenting at #progpal2025 in Edinburgh. @shujie.bsky.social ’s poster on competition in Ediacaran communities, @princessairab.bsky.social ’s talk on Charniodiscus and @yarongliu.bsky.social ’s talk on trace fossils
June 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Deep Time Ecology members presenting at #progpal2025 in Edinburgh. @shujie.bsky.social ’s poster on competition in Ediacaran communities, @princessairab.bsky.social ’s talk on Charniodiscus and @yarongliu.bsky.social ’s talk on trace fossils
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New paper alert!!
With @pettorelli.bsky.social and Regan Early
We asked whether social media records could be used to study species distributions - and it turns out they can!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
With @pettorelli.bsky.social and Regan Early
We asked whether social media records could be used to study species distributions - and it turns out they can!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Occupancy of Urban Habitats by the Jersey Tiger Moth Is Revealed by Social Media Data but Not Traditional Monitoring
Photos posted on social media could provide information on species' responses to climate change that is up to date and from areas under-represented in traditional biological record data. Instagram an...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:37 AM
New paper alert!!
With @pettorelli.bsky.social and Regan Early
We asked whether social media records could be used to study species distributions - and it turns out they can!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
With @pettorelli.bsky.social and Regan Early
We asked whether social media records could be used to study species distributions - and it turns out they can!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Congratulations to @princessairab.bsky.social for winning a Presidents talk Prize 🥳
December 12, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Congratulations to @princessairab.bsky.social for winning a Presidents talk Prize 🥳
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Go check out @nis38.bsky.social ‘s poster on secondary succession in the Avalon Ediacaran at #PalAss24!
December 12, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Go check out @nis38.bsky.social ‘s poster on secondary succession in the Avalon Ediacaran at #PalAss24!
Fantastic talk today by @ming-tfk27.bsky.social talking about ecological complexity in the run up to the K-Pg extinction in Seymour Island
December 12, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Fantastic talk today by @ming-tfk27.bsky.social talking about ecological complexity in the run up to the K-Pg extinction in Seymour Island
Super excited to kick off this post coffee session with @princessairab.bsky.social talking about her work on the #Ediacaran fossils
December 11, 2024 at 10:10 AM
Super excited to kick off this post coffee session with @princessairab.bsky.social talking about her work on the #Ediacaran fossils
The Deep Time Ecology Group have several talks at #PalAss24!
Starting us off early in the morning on Day 1: In Session 2A, at Großer Saal at 11:00, @princessairab.bsky.social will be talking about the "Morphometric analyses of Charniodiscus from the Ediacaran of Newfoundland, Canada."
Starting us off early in the morning on Day 1: In Session 2A, at Großer Saal at 11:00, @princessairab.bsky.social will be talking about the "Morphometric analyses of Charniodiscus from the Ediacaran of Newfoundland, Canada."
December 10, 2024 at 9:10 PM
The Deep Time Ecology Group have several talks at #PalAss24!
Starting us off early in the morning on Day 1: In Session 2A, at Großer Saal at 11:00, @princessairab.bsky.social will be talking about the "Morphometric analyses of Charniodiscus from the Ediacaran of Newfoundland, Canada."
Starting us off early in the morning on Day 1: In Session 2A, at Großer Saal at 11:00, @princessairab.bsky.social will be talking about the "Morphometric analyses of Charniodiscus from the Ediacaran of Newfoundland, Canada."
The Deep Time Ecology Group have several talks at #PalAss24! @ming-tfk27.bsky.social will be speaking on Day 2: Session 6B at 14:30 at the Kleiner Saal, about "Metacommunity structural changes of Antarctic invertebrates over the latest Maastrichtian".
December 10, 2024 at 9:08 PM
The Deep Time Ecology Group have several talks at #PalAss24! @ming-tfk27.bsky.social will be speaking on Day 2: Session 6B at 14:30 at the Kleiner Saal, about "Metacommunity structural changes of Antarctic invertebrates over the latest Maastrichtian".
The Deep Time Ecology Group have several talks at
#PalAss24!
Also in the morning on Day 1: In Session 2A, at Großer Saal at 11:30, postdoc Euan Furness will be talking about "Predators, zooplankton, and the origins of ecosystem stability."
#PalAss24!
Also in the morning on Day 1: In Session 2A, at Großer Saal at 11:30, postdoc Euan Furness will be talking about "Predators, zooplankton, and the origins of ecosystem stability."
December 10, 2024 at 9:06 PM
The Deep Time Ecology Group have several talks at
#PalAss24!
Also in the morning on Day 1: In Session 2A, at Großer Saal at 11:30, postdoc Euan Furness will be talking about "Predators, zooplankton, and the origins of ecosystem stability."
#PalAss24!
Also in the morning on Day 1: In Session 2A, at Großer Saal at 11:30, postdoc Euan Furness will be talking about "Predators, zooplankton, and the origins of ecosystem stability."