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Harriet B. Drage
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Postdoc at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Studies palaeoecology and evolution of arthropods. Co-founder of journal Open Palaeontology. Absolute video game nerd. Loves climbing, hiking, weightlifting.
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openpalaeo.bsky.social
Open Palaeontology is looking for Managing Editors and Steering Committee members! Please consider joining us on our mission to promote community open-access publishing in palaeontology.
Advert for Open Palaeontology Steering Committee Member Advert for Open Palaeontology Managing Editor
November 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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thepalass.bsky.social
🎉 A few facts and figures about this year’s conference!
We’re excited to welcome 275 delegates from every continent (except Antarctica 🐧).
✨ Here’s what awaits you:
📣 1 Annual Address
🧪 1 ECR Workshop & Social
🥂 1 Icebreaker Reception
🚌 1 Post-Conference Field Trip [1/2]
November 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
harriedrage.bsky.social
*Gain skills and training in journal publishing!* Open Palaeontology is looking for Managing Editors and Steering Committee members! Please consider helping to shape community open-access publishing in palaeontology, and spread the word!
openpalaeo.org
@openpalaeo.bsky.social
Open Palaeontology (open access journal) Managing Editor job advert Open Palaeontology (open access journal) Steering Committee job advert
November 19, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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jordanbestwick1.bsky.social
The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure

Please show your support by signing the below!

c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
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November 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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altagliabue.bsky.social
Seeking a three year postdoc in the field of ocean biogeochemistry and productivity using mechanistic models and synthesis of observations. Note the short fuse for applications. Please help distribute. All nationalities welcome to apply! 🌊

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG117/p...
Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Liverpool
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Postdoctoral Research Associate on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
harriedrage.bsky.social
Last week the @palaeoverse.bsky.social team published our new paper outlining steps for cleaning palaeobiological occurrence data. I'm really proud of this one; we even have a step-by-step run-through of data cleaning and an accompanying vignette. Thanks to the fantastic team! ⭐
October 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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orlabe.bsky.social
🚨We have exciting new webinar series starting next Wednesday @1730 BST!

Join me as we discuss the #ERCStartingGrant with our panel speakers who have recently obtained this funding.

Anyone is welcome to join this webinar - register here 👇
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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palaeoverse.bsky.social
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨

It’s time to announce our Winter 2025 talk schedule 👀
We’re excited to host talks from Drs Oskar Hagen, Carrie Tyler, @singerstone.bsky.social and Johannes De Groeve!

Sign up here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
Flyer for the Winter schedule of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series, usually the last Thursday of each month but with some dates moved this time to avoid public holidays. Scheduled for 3pm UTC. 30th October 2025 - Dr Oskar Hagen, Goethe University Frankfurt “Mechanistic biodiversity modelling with gen3sis: population-based simulations across regional and global domains to deep and shallow time” 20th November 2025 - Dr Carrie Tyler, University of Nevada, Las Vegas “The high fidelity of trophic structure in ancient marine ecosystems: from functional diversity to food webs” 18th December 2025 - Dr Juan Cantalapiedra, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales “Mammals as a key to evolutionary theory” 29th January 2026 - Dr Johannes De Groeve, University of Amsterdam “Tips for TABS (Temporal Altitudinal Biogeographic Shifts)”
September 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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acapomorphic.bsky.social
We (me, @barankarapunar.bsky.social, @sinjinis.bsky.social and @harriedrage.bsky.social) organized a symposium for the next IPC (Cape Town 2026!) on evolution, diversity and ecology in marine ecosystems throughout the Phanerozoic.
Contact us if you would like to participate or to know more about it!
ipc7.bsky.social IPC7 @ipc7.bsky.social · Sep 19
Symposia 🔍

Among our 29 themed symposia + 1 open symposium, we are pleased to feature:

✨ Life in the Phanerozoic Oceans: Evolution, diversity and ecology in deep time marine ecosystems✨

📩 To participate in this symposium or get more information, contact the conveners: 👇
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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thepalass.bsky.social
⚠️Don't forget to register for the annual dinner. The maximum capacity is 240 guests 🤩🥳 ⬇️
palass.org/annual-meeti...

⚠️ Abstract submission deadline: 19th of September ⬇️
palass.org/annual-meeti...

#conference #uk #palaeontology #dinner #registration
September 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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thepalass.bsky.social
⚠️ We’re excited to announce our invited speakers for the #PalAss Annual Meeting! 🎉
🔗 Registration link ⬇️
palass.org/annual-meeti...

#conference #uk #palaeontology #meeting
September 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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palaeoverse.bsky.social
Join us later today! We’re looking forward to it 🤩
palaeoverse.bsky.social The Palaeoverse Community @palaeoverse.bsky.social · Aug 21
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️28th August 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️

Join us for next week’s talk given by @sauropodlets.bsky.social from the University of Leeds, on “Modelling ancient food webs: ecosystem changes across the Pliocene marine megafaunal extinction” 🦈

Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
A flyer for the next edition of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series, featuring a cartoon of an open laptop with the Palaeoverse logo on the back, and a picture of Amy Shipley, wearing a denim jacket and with sunglasses on her head, smiling into the camera
August 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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palaeoverse.bsky.social
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️28th August 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️

Join us for next week’s talk given by @sauropodlets.bsky.social from the University of Leeds, on “Modelling ancient food webs: ecosystem changes across the Pliocene marine megafaunal extinction” 🦈

Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
A flyer for the next edition of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series, featuring a cartoon of an open laptop with the Palaeoverse logo on the back, and a picture of Amy Shipley, wearing a denim jacket and with sunglasses on her head, smiling into the camera
August 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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willgearty.bsky.social
📢 deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable and reproducible visualizations of data over geological time intervals

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2096...

Fully #openaccess in @bigearthdata1.bsky.social with insight about deeptime📦 development and code examples!

#rstats #geology #paleontology
Plot of global benthic δ18O data for 0 – 5.3 Ma (Lisiecki & Raymo, 2005) with geomagnetic polarity subchrons displayed on the top x-axis and planktic foraminiferal primary biozones plotted on the bottom x-axis using the deeptime package. A mammal phylogeny (Garland et al., 1992) plotted in the fan layout using the ggtree and deeptime packages. The greyscale concentric circles in the background indicate geological stages, whereas the linear colored timescale indicates geological epochs. Early tetrapod occurrence data (Jones et al., 2023) plotted as a taxonomic/biostratigraphic range plot using the geom_points_range() function from the deeptime package. A stratigraphic column of Cretaceous lithostratigraphic units from the San Juan Basin, USA. The deeptime package has been used to add pattern fill which indicate the primary lithologies of the units as reported by the Macrostrat API (Peters et al., 2018) via the rmacrostrat R package (Jones et al., 2024).
August 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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palaeoverse.bsky.social
If you were unable to attend, all of the materials for the workshop are freely accessible on our website: workshop.palaeoverse.org
July 28, 2025 at 7:49 AM
harriedrage.bsky.social
Had a great time teaching about R and open data science yesterday! Huge thanks to the team and everyone attending! 📈👩🏼‍🔬
palaeoverse.bsky.social The Palaeoverse Community @palaeoverse.bsky.social · Jul 28
Yesterday we led a workshop at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social on “Building open data science skills in paleobiology and ecology”. Huge thanks to everyone involved for making the workshop so successful and fun! 🤩
William Gearty presents some advanced topics when using GitHub Lewis Jones discusses different approaches for dealing with missing data Harriet Drage feeds back suggestions from the group, written on post-its, on the opportunities and difficulties of archiving data and code A group picture of the workshop leaders and participants in front of a fresco at the University of Zurich
July 28, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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willgearty.bsky.social
📢 rredlist 📦 1.1.0 is now on #CRAN!!!

- wrapper to download multiple assessments ⬇️
- wrapper to extract assessment data from lists of assessments 🐍
- filter latest assessment to a particular scope 🌏

Docs 👉 docs.ropensci.org/rredlist/ind...

#rstats #iucn #redlist #api
IUCN Red List Client
IUCN Red List (<https://api.iucnredlist.org/>) client. The IUCN Red List is a global list of threatened and endangered species. Functions cover all of the Red List API routes. An API key is required.
docs.ropensci.org
July 28, 2025 at 8:19 AM
harriedrage.bsky.social
This week, Open Palaeontology published our first research article: a reassessment of the giant millipede-like Arthropleura by Lhéritier, Vallois and Durand! Thank you to the authors for being part of the open-access publishing revolution!
www.openpalaeo.org/article/view...
Re-assessment of Arthropleura from the Moscovian of Northern France: new anatomical information and adaptations to terrestrial environments | Open Palaeontology
www.openpalaeo.org
June 6, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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palaeoverse.bsky.social
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨

It’s time to announce our Summer 2025 talk schedule 👀
Looking forward to hearing from @spissatella.bsky.social, @sauropodlets.bsky.social, @nmkphylo.bsky.social and @russellgarwood.co.uk!

Sign up here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-lecture-series-2025
A flyer for the Palaeoverse Lecture Series for Summer 2025 June 26th - Dr Katie Collins, Natural History Museum “Both round and upward: Spiral morphometry and how to compare things that are the same, but different” July 31st - Summer break August 28th - Amy Shipley, University of Leeds “Modelling ancient food webs: ecosystem changes across the Pliocene marine megafaunal extinction” September 25th - Dr Nicolás Mongiardino Koch, UC San Diego and Dr Russell Garwood, University of Manchester “The Tree of Life and Death: What do fossil taxa contribute to morphological phylogenetics?”
June 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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lewisajones.bsky.social
Interested in applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship this year? Feel free to reach out!

We've got micro🔬, invert 🪸, and vert palaeo🦕 @es-ucl.bsky.social!

📆 We are accepting Expressions of Interest until 9th June!

marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...
Postdoctoral Fellowships
The information provided on this page is a summary of the main rules and requirements for Postdoctoral Fellowships (PFs) and who can apply for them.
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu
May 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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thepalass.bsky.social
⚠️We are excited to invite you to a member-only webinar✨
🔹When: 4th of June, 17:30 BST
🔹Where: on Zoom, register ⬇️
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#webinar #June #palaeontology #career
May 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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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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thepalass.bsky.social
🌟Members Exclusive!🌟

Join our upcoming webinar to learn the ins & outs of the Palaeontological Association Engagement Grant, featuring previous awardees as our panel speakers.

🗓️Wednesday the 23rd of April, 17:30 (BST)

Don't miss your chance to boost your outreach ideas!
April 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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evopalaeo.bsky.social
Here is a little video I made for @thepalass.bsky.social. Its aimed at GCSE students and ties into the national curriculum. Lots more planned, if you want to be involved, give me a shout.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwF7...

Please share widely, like and subscribe!
Palaeontologists Explain: How do fossils form?
YouTube video by The Palaeontological Association
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March 26, 2025 at 8:05 AM
harriedrage.bsky.social
So happy to share our new preprint on cleaning and sharing palaeobiological occurrence data! This was such a great paper to work on, with a fantastic team! 🌟
lewisajones.bsky.social Lewis A. Jones (he/him) @lewisajones.bsky.social · Mar 21
Happy #FossilFriday!

We’re excited to share our new preprint from the @palaeoverse.bsky.social team “Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology”, available now from EcoEvoRXiv: doi.org/10.32942/X2F...

With a bonus accompanying vignette!
tenrules.palaeoverse.org
Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology
Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology
tenrules.palaeoverse.org
March 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM