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A community-driven initiative advancing open science through shared tools, training, and resources 🛠️🌎🦕📈🌿 Find out more at https://palaeoverse.org/ Reposts are not endorsements.

A flyer featuring a photograph of Pablo Milla Carmona advertising his talk entitled "Investigating evolution using theoretical morphospaces: a practical workflow with 'morphospace'", which will take place on Thursday 30th July at 15:00 UTC.
Our new website is live now! Visit: https://palaeoverse.org/.
rphylopic 1.7.0 out now! Highlights include local caching of phylopics, and the use of phylopics in igraph and ggraph network plots.
A poster showing Dr Corinne Myers advertising her talk entitled PaleoENM: a quantitative tool to study paleoecology and macroevolution on a dynamic Earth.
Palaeoverse Lecture Series Last Thursday of every month at 15:00 UTC June 25th – Dr Cori Myers, University of New Mexico PaleoENM: a quantitative tool to study paleoecology and macroevolution on a dynamic Earth July 30th – Dr Pablo Milla Carmona, University of Bristol Investigating evolution using theoretical morphospaces: a practical workflow with 'morphospace' Aug 27th – Bruno do Rosario Petrucci, Iowa State University Budding phylogenetic trees: inference with BEAST2 and post-processing with paleobuddy Sept 24th – Dr Emilia Jarochowska, Utrecht University CarboKitten.jl – stratigraphic forward modeling of marine carbonate rocks and its applications in paleobiology
palaeoverse 1.5.0 out now! Highlights include: New tax_certainty() function, Grouping support in tax_range_time()/strat(), axis_geo() gains title & autofitting, Lots of under-the-hood improvements.
A poster showing Dr Alex Howard advertising her upcoming talk: Combining palaeontological, neontological, and spatial data to understand evolution through time and space using the ppgm R package
Palaeoverse core team members photographed on the UCL campus
A flyer for the next instalment of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series. The flyer features a cartoon laptop with a sticker of the Palaeoverse logo on the lid, alongside a picture of Natalie, wearing glasses and a white and green shirt.
A flyer describing the next four talks in the Palaeoverse Lecture Series, which take place on the last Thursday of every month at 3pm UTC. February 26th: Dr Natalie Cooper, Natural History Museum, London Hack-a-thons: what, why and how to run them March 26th: Dr Brooke Long-Fox, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Building open, reproducible palaeontology: a practical introduction to FAIR data and MorphoBank April 30th: Dr Joseph Flannery-Sutherland, University of Birmingham Cleaning taxonomy, time, and their messy interactions with the fossilbrush R package May 28th: Dr Alexandra Howard, Texas A&M University Using palaeontological, neontological, and spatial data to understand evolution through time and space
A flyer advertising the next instalment of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series. The flyer features a cartoon of a sloping landscape, featuring a river and trees, overlying a grid system suggesting how it might be modelled. There is also a black and white picture of Dr De Groeve, with spiky hair and wearing a black t-shirt.
A flyer for the next talk in the Palaeoverse lecture series. The flyer features a cartoon of a graph, illustrating orange fluctuating lines, varying across time bins. There is also a photo of Dr Cantalapiedra, who sits cross-legged on the floor, in a blue-grey T-shirt, brown trousers and black trainers. He sits next to a large animal bone.
A flyer for the next instalment of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series, featuring a yellow cartoon trilobite following a trail of small cubes. There is also a picture of Dr Tyler, wearing a teal and black scarf and smiling into the camera.
A schematic showing “Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data im palaeobiology”, each illustrated with a cartoon and arranged around three key processes, in circles. The first stage is Project setup. Here we have: 1. Choose the right data for your question, with a cartoon of an arrow in a bullseye 2. Keep raw data raw, with a cartoon of a hand next to a small ‘no entry’ sign 3. Document your workflow, next to a cartoon of two stacked papers with writing on The second stage is Data exploration & cleaning, which can be performed iteratively: 4. Explore your data, with a cartoon of a magnifying glass over a normal distribution 5. Identify and handle incomplete data records, with a cartoon showing four squares in a larger square, all filled except the one in the bottom right, which is outlined 6. Identify and handle outliers, with a cartoon showing four squares in a larger square, where the one in the bottom right is larger and extends beyond the others 7. Identify and handle inconsistencies, with a cartoon showing three squares in a larger square, with the bottom right quadrant instead featuring a triangle 8. Identify and handle duplicates, with a cartoon showing an opaque square stacked over a transparent (edge only) square The final stage is Reporting and archiving: 9. Report your data and cleaning efforts, with a cartoon of a loudspeaker 10. Deposit your data and workflow, with a cartoon of a safe
A flyer for the next instalment of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series. The flyer features a cartoon landscape with a river and trees, overlying a grid showing how the system might be simulated across space. There is also a picture of Dr Oskar Hagen, wearing a white shirt and navy suit jacket, smiling into the camera.
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)”
Flyer for the next instalment of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series. The flyer features a yellow cartoon trilobite, and pictures of Drs. Mongiardino Koch and Garwood. Mongiardino Koch wears a grey t-shirt and glasses, while Garwood wears a white shirt and is holding a glass trophy.
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
A poster describing the palaeoverse R package beneath a Diplodocus skeleton
William Gearty presents some advanced topics when using GitHub
A flyer for the next instalment of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series, featuring a cartoon of an open laptop with the Palaeoverse logo on, and a picture of Dr Collins with pink hair, wearing glasses and a checked shirt
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?”
A flyer for the next lecture in the Palaeoverse Lecture Series, featuring a cartoon laptop with a picture of Dr Hsiang smiling, wearing glasses with a checked top and white collar
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
A flyer for the next talk in the Palaeoverse Lecture series, featuring a picture of Dr Ondřej Mottl, wearing a checked shirt and smiling into the camera
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.
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’
A blue flyer showing the timing, title and speaker for the next Palaeoverse lecture. Dr Ádåm Kocsis, a bearded man, is shown standing in a black coat.
A flyer describing the date, time and title of the next Palaeoverse lecture, alongside a picture of Thomas Guillerme with a koala
A flyer for the next edition of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series. Aside from the above details, Dr Banker, from Providence College, is shown wearing a top with seashells and corals on.
A flyer showing a picture of Niklas next to his talk time and title
The palaeoverse R package logo, showing a dinosaur exploring the world above layers of fossils below ground