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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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Interested in inferring biodiversity in deep time? 📈📉 Check out our new R package DeepDiveR, led by @rebeccasaurus.bsky.social and now published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social, helping you to prepare datasets for machine learning inference with DeepDive 🤿
doi.org/10.1111/2041...
A schematic explaining the analytical pipeline for using DeepDiveR and DeepDive. DeepDiveR helps users to convert their fossil data into the appropriate input format for DeepDive, as well as to prepare the configuration file describing the analysis settings. These two files can then be run in the Python library DeepDive. DeepDive uses the data to simulate diversity curves and sampling scenarios, and trains a model on the relationship between the two, allowing subsequent inference of the ‘true’ diversity curve from an incomplete and biased empirical fossil record.
August 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Finally finished entering the plant names from Linnaeus’ Species Plantarum (1753) into @paleodb.bsky.social, and seeing this gorgeous inside cover was my reward 🐌😍
Grateful to @biodivlibrary.bsky.social for enabling me to access this important piece of historic literature 🪴
A piece of the back inside cover of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus (1753), showing yellowed pairs of snails facing each other in a repeated pattern
August 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Can't wait for #PalAss24 to kick off tomorrow! I'll be co-teaching the workshop on fossils and phylogenies in the morning, then speaking in the symposium on extinction in the afternoon 🌳🐚 Fellow attendees, feel free to catch me from the icebreaker onwards, when I will be decidedly more chill 😎😂
Title slide of a presentation on "Inferring extinction rates from phylogenies" by Bethany Allen, Tim Vaughan, Rachel Warnock, and Tanja Stadler. The slide also features logos for the Computational Evolution research group, alongside ETH Zürich and FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. The right hand side is illustrated with a white phylogeny on a navy background.
December 9, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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Huge thanks to Rachel Warnock and PaleoFAU for hosting me and sharing science for the last two weeks! Looking forward to returning to Erlangen for PalAss next winter 🌳
Shedding autumnal trees with a rainbow overhead in Erlangen
November 20, 2023 at 1:13 PM
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If you're at GSA, come and see our poster on the palaeoverse R package in Booth 241! I will be there with William Gearty from 3:30 til 5:30 today, please swing by to say hello and/or get your hands on one of our hex stickers ⚒️🦕🐚
A poster explaining the usages of the palaeoverse R package Hex stickers of the palaeoverse logo
October 16, 2023 at 2:04 PM