Wolfgang Kiessling
@kiessl.bsky.social
Paleobiologist, Climate Scientist, Reefs through time
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@IPBES.net assessments highlight gaps in biodiversity and ecosystem knowledge. Your work may already help fill them.
📝 Contribute to this global effort and have your input reported to the IPBES Plenary: https://www.ipbes.net/knowledge-gaps-questionnaire-2025
📝 Contribute to this global effort and have your input reported to the IPBES Plenary: https://www.ipbes.net/knowledge-gaps-questionnaire-2025
November 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
@IPBES.net assessments highlight gaps in biodiversity and ecosystem knowledge. Your work may already help fill them.
📝 Contribute to this global effort and have your input reported to the IPBES Plenary: https://www.ipbes.net/knowledge-gaps-questionnaire-2025
📝 Contribute to this global effort and have your input reported to the IPBES Plenary: https://www.ipbes.net/knowledge-gaps-questionnaire-2025
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Bundeskanzler Merz: Taten statt Blockaden auf der Klimakonferenz!
Die Welt blickt auf die kommenden Klimaverhandlungen in Belém. Dieser Gipfel wird den Kurs für die globalen Klimamaßnahmender nächsten Jahre bestimmen – in einer Zeit, in der die Klimakrise längst Rea...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/bu...
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Coming to WBF2026 in Davos? Join our session on supporting GBF goals using marine biodiversity across time and disciplines! 👇
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess...
@worldbioforum.bsky.social
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@worldbioforum.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Coming to WBF2026 in Davos? Join our session on supporting GBF goals using marine biodiversity across time and disciplines! 👇
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess...
@worldbioforum.bsky.social
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess...
@worldbioforum.bsky.social
Was ist verkehrt an einem verplichtenden Gesellschaftsjahr? Es könnte so viele Fliegen mit einer Klappe schlagen. Ein bisschen mehr an einem Strang ziehen, kann uns in Deutschland sicher nicht schaden.
October 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Was ist verkehrt an einem verplichtenden Gesellschaftsjahr? Es könnte so viele Fliegen mit einer Klappe schlagen. Ein bisschen mehr an einem Strang ziehen, kann uns in Deutschland sicher nicht schaden.
Gibt es sogar auf Deutsch. Was sind die großenFragen der Paläontologie weltweit
Also press release here: www.fau.eu/2025/09/news...
Palaeonology: A small subject has big questions
The involvement of around 200 researchers from over 30 different countries and more than five years’ work have resulted in 89 “Big Questions” – the most important research questions in paleontology…
www.fau.eu
October 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Gibt es sogar auf Deutsch. Was sind die großenFragen der Paläontologie weltweit
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Also press release here: www.fau.eu/2025/09/news...
Palaeonology: A small subject has big questions
The involvement of around 200 researchers from over 30 different countries and more than five years’ work have resulted in 89 “Big Questions” – the most important research questions in paleontology…
www.fau.eu
October 11, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Also press release here: www.fau.eu/2025/09/news...
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Human impacts on large mammals went well beyond triggering late Quaternary mass extinctions. A new paper by Brook et al. showing that biogeographic patterns were erased by the spread of domesticated species:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
A related paper is in press. Stay tuned.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
A related paper is in press. Stay tuned.
August 13, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Human impacts on large mammals went well beyond triggering late Quaternary mass extinctions. A new paper by Brook et al. showing that biogeographic patterns were erased by the spread of domesticated species:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
A related paper is in press. Stay tuned.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
A related paper is in press. Stay tuned.
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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!
Contact us if you would like to participate or to know more about it!
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: 👇
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
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!
Contact us if you would like to participate or to know more about it!
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🚨Registration open!🚨
Join us for the 4th Early Career Researcher Symposium of the International Fossil Coral and Reef Society (it’s online and free!) 🪸
📆 13th November 2025
⏰ 09:00–16:00 UTC
🔗 Register: fau.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...
Join us for the 4th Early Career Researcher Symposium of the International Fossil Coral and Reef Society (it’s online and free!) 🪸
📆 13th November 2025
⏰ 09:00–16:00 UTC
🔗 Register: fau.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...
September 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
🚨Registration open!🚨
Join us for the 4th Early Career Researcher Symposium of the International Fossil Coral and Reef Society (it’s online and free!) 🪸
📆 13th November 2025
⏰ 09:00–16:00 UTC
🔗 Register: fau.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...
Join us for the 4th Early Career Researcher Symposium of the International Fossil Coral and Reef Society (it’s online and free!) 🪸
📆 13th November 2025
⏰ 09:00–16:00 UTC
🔗 Register: fau.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...
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I haven't used "Academia .edu" for 15 yrs (only tried it when it 1st came out) but they just tried charge me ~$400 automatic on a card w/o any notification or me agreeing to renew/reactivate anything. This is such a predatory scam & they really shouldn't be allowed an ".edu" too Watch out for them
September 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I haven't used "Academia .edu" for 15 yrs (only tried it when it 1st came out) but they just tried charge me ~$400 automatic on a card w/o any notification or me agreeing to renew/reactivate anything. This is such a predatory scam & they really shouldn't be allowed an ".edu" too Watch out for them
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Ich bin großer Fan der @fau.de
Es fehlen jetzt hier nur noch 65 follower und wir haben die Schnapszahl 4444. die FAU wäre die erste deutsche Uni, die das schafft. Bitte repostet.
Es fehlen jetzt hier nur noch 65 follower und wir haben die Schnapszahl 4444. die FAU wäre die erste deutsche Uni, die das schafft. Bitte repostet.
September 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Ich bin großer Fan der @fau.de
Es fehlen jetzt hier nur noch 65 follower und wir haben die Schnapszahl 4444. die FAU wäre die erste deutsche Uni, die das schafft. Bitte repostet.
Es fehlen jetzt hier nur noch 65 follower und wir haben die Schnapszahl 4444. die FAU wäre die erste deutsche Uni, die das schafft. Bitte repostet.
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If you know anyone interested in starting a Master's project working on ammonoid phylogenetics (or the phylogenetics of a mollusc group spanning the OAE2 event in the Late Cretaceous), then ask them to get in touch with me.
The situation is a little tricky, as it would be funded by the remainder…
The situation is a little tricky, as it would be funded by the remainder…
September 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
If you know anyone interested in starting a Master's project working on ammonoid phylogenetics (or the phylogenetics of a mollusc group spanning the OAE2 event in the Late Cretaceous), then ask them to get in touch with me.
The situation is a little tricky, as it would be funded by the remainder…
The situation is a little tricky, as it would be funded by the remainder…
Der (fast) letzte Schritt zur Dekarbonisierung ist getan:
Wärmepumpe ☑️
PV-Anlage ☑️
Solarthermie ☑️
E-Auto ☑️
Es hat lange gedauert, aber jetzt erstmal happy.
Wärmepumpe ☑️
PV-Anlage ☑️
Solarthermie ☑️
E-Auto ☑️
Es hat lange gedauert, aber jetzt erstmal happy.
August 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Der (fast) letzte Schritt zur Dekarbonisierung ist getan:
Wärmepumpe ☑️
PV-Anlage ☑️
Solarthermie ☑️
E-Auto ☑️
Es hat lange gedauert, aber jetzt erstmal happy.
Wärmepumpe ☑️
PV-Anlage ☑️
Solarthermie ☑️
E-Auto ☑️
Es hat lange gedauert, aber jetzt erstmal happy.
Very true!
August 23, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Very true!
A still very worthwhile read. Charles Lyell made it possible that both these great thinkers appeared in the same issue of the journal.
#OnThisDay in 1858, a seminal journal article comprised of papers by Alfred Russel Wallace FRS and Charles Darwin FRS on the theory of evolution by natural selection was published by the Linnean Society, the first public announcement of the theory of evolution. bit.ly/3k8fq4u
August 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
A still very worthwhile read. Charles Lyell made it possible that both these great thinkers appeared in the same issue of the journal.
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The Legacy of Elizabeth Vrba paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/t...
The Legacy of Elizabeth Vrba
During the paleobiological revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, the status of paleontology as an evolutionary discipline was attempted to be established by a number of paleontologists. From 16th to 1…
paleonerdish.wordpress.com
August 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The Legacy of Elizabeth Vrba paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/t...
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Wahnsinnsgrafik, Wahnsinnszahl, kaum besprochen:
August 1, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Wahnsinnsgrafik, Wahnsinnszahl, kaum besprochen:
More than happy that this is finally out. Well done @isaiah-e-smith.bsky.social
Happy to announce the publication of our new study!📝Ádám T. Kocsis, @kiessl.bsky.social, and I examined occupancy trajectory and its influence on extinction risk in marine microplankton! 🔬🦠🌊 (1/2)
bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...
bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...
Occupancy history influences extinction risk of fossil marine microplankton groups
Abstract. Geographic range has long been acknowledged as an important determinant of extinction risk. The trajectory of geographic range through time, however, has not received as much scientific atte...
bg.copernicus.org
July 25, 2025 at 3:45 AM
More than happy that this is finally out. Well done @isaiah-e-smith.bsky.social
Artwork makes the heart work, especially when it is meaningful. This is Emiliana huxleyi, perhaps the most abundant eukaryotic organism on our planet!
Morning light on this incredible #protist sculpture. Artwork makes the heart work. Grateful to have inspiring art in my workplace.
July 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Artwork makes the heart work, especially when it is meaningful. This is Emiliana huxleyi, perhaps the most abundant eukaryotic organism on our planet!
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🚨New paper just out on environmental upset at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary🚨
Using boron isotopes in fossil oysters, we find a major pulse of ocean acidification and CO2 rise, driving global warming and delaying ecosystem recovery following the end-Triassic mass extinction
rdcu.be/ev6XV
🧪🌊⚒️🐚🧵
Using boron isotopes in fossil oysters, we find a major pulse of ocean acidification and CO2 rise, driving global warming and delaying ecosystem recovery following the end-Triassic mass extinction
rdcu.be/ev6XV
🧪🌊⚒️🐚🧵
July 15, 2025 at 3:57 AM
🚨New paper just out on environmental upset at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary🚨
Using boron isotopes in fossil oysters, we find a major pulse of ocean acidification and CO2 rise, driving global warming and delaying ecosystem recovery following the end-Triassic mass extinction
rdcu.be/ev6XV
🧪🌊⚒️🐚🧵
Using boron isotopes in fossil oysters, we find a major pulse of ocean acidification and CO2 rise, driving global warming and delaying ecosystem recovery following the end-Triassic mass extinction
rdcu.be/ev6XV
🧪🌊⚒️🐚🧵
Well deserved @neilshubin.bsky.social. Not all is lost for US science future.
The NAS Council has approved the nomination of Neil H. Shubin to be the next president of the National Academy of Sciences. An evolutionary biologist and science communicator, Shubin would succeed Marcia McNutt when her term ends on June 30, 2026. Read more: www.nasonline.org/news/neil-h-...
July 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Well deserved @neilshubin.bsky.social. Not all is lost for US science future.
💥 Die Bundesnetzagentur erwägt Netzentgelte – auch für private Solarstrom-Einspeiser. Das bedeutet: Wer die Energiewende auf dem eigenen Dach vorantreibt, könnte künftig draufzahlen. ✍️ Jetzt WeAct-Petition unterzeichnen und die Energiewende schützen: weact.campact.de/petitions/fi...
Finger weg von der Photovoltaik!
Was genau plant die Bundesnetzagentur?
Die Bundesnetzagentur stellt in einem offiziellen Diskussionspapier sechs Modelle zur Debatte, wie private Einspeiser künftig Netzentgelte zahlen sollen – also e...
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July 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
💥 Die Bundesnetzagentur erwägt Netzentgelte – auch für private Solarstrom-Einspeiser. Das bedeutet: Wer die Energiewende auf dem eigenen Dach vorantreibt, könnte künftig draufzahlen. ✍️ Jetzt WeAct-Petition unterzeichnen und die Energiewende schützen: weact.campact.de/petitions/fi...
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"Wir werden Schäden bekommen, die wir uns heute nicht vorstellen können […] Das sind Dinge, die uns ins Handeln bringen werden.
Aber es ist unnötig. Wir könnten vorsorgend voranschreiten und uns eine sehr viel bessere Zukunft sichern." - Hans Poertner AWI & IPCC WGII
#Klimakrise #EndFossilFuels
Aber es ist unnötig. Wir könnten vorsorgend voranschreiten und uns eine sehr viel bessere Zukunft sichern." - Hans Poertner AWI & IPCC WGII
#Klimakrise #EndFossilFuels
Klimaforscher: "Wir könnten uns eine viel bessere Zukunft sichern"
Cali, Baku, Busan: Zuletzt reihte sich eine Umweltkonferenz an die nächste. Was bleibt aus den Klima-Bemühungen aus diesem Jahr? Nicht viel, sagt Forscher Hans-Otto Pörtner. Aber er hat noch Hoffnung ...
www.tagesschau.de
December 28, 2024 at 10:09 AM
"Wir werden Schäden bekommen, die wir uns heute nicht vorstellen können […] Das sind Dinge, die uns ins Handeln bringen werden.
Aber es ist unnötig. Wir könnten vorsorgend voranschreiten und uns eine sehr viel bessere Zukunft sichern." - Hans Poertner AWI & IPCC WGII
#Klimakrise #EndFossilFuels
Aber es ist unnötig. Wir könnten vorsorgend voranschreiten und uns eine sehr viel bessere Zukunft sichern." - Hans Poertner AWI & IPCC WGII
#Klimakrise #EndFossilFuels
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Vegetation might not be able to keep up with current rates of environmental change, given data from the pollen fossil record. Fun doing this work with David Fastovich in the lead, but sobering www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Coupled, decoupled, and abrupt responses of vegetation to climate across timescales
Climate and ecosystem dynamics vary across timescales, but research into climate-driven vegetation dynamics usually focuses on singular timescales. We developed a spectral analysis–based approach that...
www.science.org
July 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Vegetation might not be able to keep up with current rates of environmental change, given data from the pollen fossil record. Fun doing this work with David Fastovich in the lead, but sobering www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...