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Richard Stockey
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Lecturer in Palaeobiology at University of Southampton
––– trying to understand how environmental change has impacted oceans and the animals that live in them through Earth's history |he/him|
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willgearty.bsky.social
It's so great to see this package (on CRAN since 2021) finally formally described in a journal! Here's to many more years of standardized, customizable, and reproducible geology data visualization!

And shout out to @richardstockey.bsky.social and @lewisajones.bsky.social for years of encouragement!
August 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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stevewang251.bsky.social
Heard from a former (undergrad) student who just defended her PhD. Students: tell your old profs about your successes and achievements. It's not bragging, and we love to hear about it. It's one of the best parts of being an educator.
#academicsky
April 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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palaeoverse.bsky.social
See you later today for our next Lecture! 🤩
palaeoverse.bsky.social The Palaeoverse Community @palaeoverse.bsky.social · Apr 15
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️24th April 2025, 16:00 UTC🗓️

Next week’s talk is from Dr Richard Stockey @richardstockey.bsky.social from University of Southampton, on “Modelling ancient animal habitats in space and time: linking fossils and Earth system models”

Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
A flyer for the Palaeoverse lecture series, featuring a cartoon geology toolkit and a photo of Dr Stockey in a brown hat and dark fleece
April 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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thepalass.bsky.social
Don't miss a great opportunity—register for the Lecture Series organized by @palaeoverse.bsky.social
Registration link ⬇️
bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

#lecture #palaeontology #modelling
April 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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palaeoverse.bsky.social
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️24th April 2025, 16:00 UTC🗓️

Next week’s talk is from Dr Richard Stockey @richardstockey.bsky.social from University of Southampton, on “Modelling ancient animal habitats in space and time: linking fossils and Earth system models”

Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
A flyer for the Palaeoverse lecture series, featuring a cartoon geology toolkit and a photo of Dr Stockey in a brown hat and dark fleece
April 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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willgearty.bsky.social
Really excited for this talk by @richardstockey.bsky.social next week! You won't want to miss it!

I hear he'll even be announcing a new R package 📦?! 😯🤫
palaeoverse.bsky.social The Palaeoverse Community @palaeoverse.bsky.social · Apr 15
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️24th April 2025, 16:00 UTC🗓️

Next week’s talk is from Dr Richard Stockey @richardstockey.bsky.social from University of Southampton, on “Modelling ancient animal habitats in space and time: linking fossils and Earth system models”

Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
A flyer for the Palaeoverse lecture series, featuring a cartoon geology toolkit and a photo of Dr Stockey in a brown hat and dark fleece
April 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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lizzyt.bsky.social
Hey check out my dire wolf
A dark gray dog (half GSD, half pitbull terrier) laying on his back on a green fleece blanket covering a dark brown couch. His head is turned out to the side and his front right leg is pointing straight up in the air. His back legs are splayed out in frog position, showing remarkable hip flexibility. He is a just a big ol baby.
April 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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thefosterlab.bsky.social
!New Paper Alert! Matrix independent and interference free in situ boron isotope analysis by laser ablation MC-ICP-MS/MS pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a.... In it we use our Neoma MC-ICPMS/MS to overcome the complexities of measuring boron isotopes by Laser Ablation in carbonates and other minerals. ⚒️🧪🌊🪸
Cross plots of d11B reference value vs. what we measure using Laser Ablation on our Neoma MC-ICPMS/MS. All the data lie on the 1:1 line showing that we can get accurate d11B data using laser ablation on a range of matrices from carbonate to silicate when normalised to NIST 612 glass. Mass scans from m/z 9.7 to 11.1 for the Neoma MS/MS, base Neoma and Neptune when ablating carbonates. The Neptune shows an elevated background due to scattering of Ca and Ar 4+ ions. This is reduced in the base Neoma and entirely eliminated in the Neoma MS/MS. We think this is because the formation of Ca4+ and Ar4+ is reduced in this design of MS and scattering of this multiply charged ions is reduced once Ar and Ca are cut out by the pre-filter. This shows the problem with laser ablation boron isotopes in carbonates on our Neptune MC-ICPMS. It shows a mass scan from m/z 9.7 to m/z 11.1 with peaks at the boron masses 10B and 11B. Rather than being a flat line - the baseline is elevated around boron 10 (and 11) due to scattering of 4+ Ar and Ca.
April 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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bjwmills.bsky.social
The SCION Earth Evolution Model is turning 4 years old this spring. We have celebrated by extending the framework back to ~1 Ga before present

We find some agreement with broad environmental trends from the rock record, but there is still plenty to learn!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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@uoscommsallison.bsky.social @uosmedia.bsky.social @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social
Come one come all... Launch event 4th April, 6-9pm
March 9, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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profpaulbarrett.bsky.social
Really sad to report that our friend and colleague Richard Fortey passed away this morning after a short battle with cancer. We’ll all miss his wit and wisdom. Here he is checking out a dino footprint we found while filming together on the Isle of Wight
March 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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palaeoverse.bsky.social
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️27th February, 16:00 UTC

Next week we are looking forward to hosting Dr Xia Wang from Chengdu University of Technology, who will give a talk on “DDE-Outcrop3D: an interactive platform for digital outcrop models”

Don’t miss it! Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
A flyer showing the time, title and speaker for the next Palaeoverse lecture. The flyer also includes a picture of Dr Xia Wang, dressed in a dark hoodie and holding a camera.
February 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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bjwmills.bsky.social
Over its multimillion-year history, multiple planetary cooling mechanisms working together were required to push Earth into 'icehouse' conditions and to form ice caps.

See our new paper on this here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Schematic of plate tectonics showing different plate boundaries and the CO2 emissions from each type, reconstructed over 400 million years. Lower panel showing geogrpahic potisions of reactive continental lithologies over the same timeframe.
February 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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palaeoverse.bsky.social
We’d like to announce the Spring 2025 line-up of the
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
Don’t miss these four excellent speakers! Register for a Zoom link here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-lecture-series-2025
Flyer outlining the upcoming talks of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series. February 27th, Dr Xia Wang from Chengdu University of Technology, will present ‘DDE-Outcrop3D: an interactive platform for digital outcrop models’ March 27th, Dr Ondřej Mottl from Charles University, will present ‘FOSSILPOL: the workflow to process global palaeoecological data of fossil pollen for vegetation-based macroecological synthesis’ April 24th, Dr Richard Stockey from University of Southampton, will present ‘Modelling ancient animal habitats in space and time: linking fossils and Earth system models’ May 29th, Dr Allison Hsiang from Stockholm University, will present ‘Automating large-scale morphometric data generation using AutoMorph and deep learning’
February 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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willgearty.bsky.social
Strong evidence of ecosystem engineering 🪱🪸 increasing biodiversity 🎨 throughout the Phanerozoic! Really awesome work by @alisoncribb.bsky.social; I'm honored to have been involved!

#ecosystemengineering #paleontology #paleobiology #rstats
alisoncribb.bsky.social Dr Alison Cribb @alisoncribb.bsky.social · Jan 6
New preprint live today on ecosystem engineers during the Phanerozoic, and evidence we have found that metazoan bioturbators and reef-builders have had persistent positive impacts on community biodiversity since the Cambrian 🪱🪸

www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
www.researchsquare.com
January 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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alisoncribb.bsky.social
New preprint live today on ecosystem engineers during the Phanerozoic, and evidence we have found that metazoan bioturbators and reef-builders have had persistent positive impacts on community biodiversity since the Cambrian 🪱🪸

www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
www.researchsquare.com
January 6, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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alisoncribb.bsky.social
Southampton palaeobiology having a great time at #PalAss2024 this year 🌍🦕🪸🐚 @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social
December 12, 2024 at 7:31 AM
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alisoncribb.bsky.social
Merry PalAss to all who celebrate 🎄🪨🦖🪼🐚 @richardstockey.bsky.social
December 9, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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fossilsinthills.bsky.social
Hello! 👋

We are Fossils in t'Hills, a volunteer science communication group based in Yorkshire, England!

Our team are all experienced palaeontologists who have full-time 'day jobs' in museums and science education.
The three team members (two men, one woman) of Fossils in t'Hills pose in front of their stall. They are carrying various props including artwork and cuddly toys. There are many fossils on the table behind them.
November 28, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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channelwidth.bsky.social
🚨Fully-Funded PhD Alert! 🚨 Want to join the @unisouthampton.bsky.social Leverhulme Resilience Centre? This project, supervised by me, @profjulianleyland.bsky.social and Dr Nick Dorward, explores links between sand mining, urbanisation and river-related risks: www.southampton.ac.uk/study/postgr...
A drone shot shows numerous barges off-loading river sand to the shore of the Bassac River, with Phnom Penh's skyline in the background. Photo credit: Andy Ball
November 29, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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climategordon.bsky.social
New paper led by Emily Hollingsworth in Geochemical Perspective Letters. We use Raman spectroscopy to evaluate rock organic carbon oxidation during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum and assess its role as a positive feedback mechanism! (1/3)

www.geochemicalperspectivesletters.org/article2444/
November 26, 2024 at 12:38 PM
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sethf.bsky.social
A very pointless & unproductive thing I did is analyze electoral durations of U.S. House Representatives. Two superficial similarities to Phanerozoic taxon durations jump out: (1) declining turnover rates through time & (2) the election of 1932 was basically the P-Tr mass extinction for Republicans.
November 18, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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alisoncribb.bsky.social
Migrating back to the good place... and speaking of good places, why not consider coming to the University of Southampton to do a PhD in coral reef palaeoecology??!

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
November 15, 2024 at 10:22 AM
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sethf.bsky.social
Not sure if #FossilFriday is a thing here, but just in case here's sunrise and sunset on a 4x4-cm landscape of brachiopods, bryozoans, and crinoid fragments from the Late Ordovician Ellis Bay Formation of Anticosti Island, Québec. Imaged with a Keyence vhx-7000.
November 15, 2024 at 3:47 PM
richardstockey.bsky.social
In Nature Geoscience today, we use our community-driven consortium science approach to reconstruct a Neoproterozoic oxygenation event that may have played a role in the Cambrian radiation of marine animals but didn’t oxygenate the deep oceans www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sustained increases in atmospheric oxygen and marine productivity in the Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic eras - Nature Geoscience
Oxygen in shallow shelf waters rose linearly with atmospheric oxygen in the Neoproterozoic era, potentially driving the first radiation of marine animals, but widespread ocean oxygenation came later, ...
www.nature.com
July 2, 2024 at 10:08 AM