Events
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We organize workshops dedicated to the Palaeoverse, either along conferences or as separate events.
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Lecture Series
Cleaning taxonomy, time, and their messy interactions with the fossilbrush R package
April 30, 2026 · Dr Joseph Flannery-Sutherland, University of Birmingham (UK)
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Building Open, Reproducible Palaeontology: A Practical Introduction to FAIR Data and MorphoBank
March 26, 2026 · Dr Brooke Long-Fox, Phoenix Bioinformatics (USA)
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Hack-a-thons: what, why, and how to run them
February 26, 2026 · Dr Natalie Cooper, Natural History Museum (UK)
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Tips for TABS (Temporal Altitudinal Biogeographic Shifts)
January 29, 2026 · Dr Johannes De Groeve, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
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Mammals as a key to evolutionary theory
December 18, 2025 · Dr Juan Cantalapiedra, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Spain)
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The high fidelity of trophic structure in ancient marine ecosystems: from functional diversity to food webs
November 20, 2025 · Dr Carrie Tyler, University of Nevada (USA)
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Mechanistic biodiversity modelling with gen3sis: population-based simulations across regional and global domains to deep and shallow time
October 30, 2025 · Dr Oskar Hagen, Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany)
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The Tree of Life and Death: What do Fossil Taxa Contribute to Morphological Phylogenetics?
September 25, 2025 · Dr Nicolás Mongiardino Koch, Princeton University and Dr Russell Garwood, University of Manchester
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Modelling ancient food webs: ecosystem changes across the Pliocene marine megafaunal extinction
August 28, 2025 · Amy Shipley, University of Leeds
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Both round and upward: Spiral morphometry and how to compare things that are the same, but different
June 26, 2025 · Dr Katie Collins, Natural History Museum (UK)
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Automating large-scale morphometric data generation using AutoMorph and deep learning
May 29, 2025 · Dr Allison Hsiang, Stockholm University
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Modelling ancient animal habitats in space and time: linking fossils and Earth system models
April 24, 2025 · Dr Richard Stockey, University of Southampton
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FOSSILPOL: The Workflow To Process Global Palaeoecological Data Of Fossil Pollen For Vegetation-Based Macroecological Synthesis
March 27, 2025 · Dr Ondřej Mottl, Charles University
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DDE-Outcrop3D: an interactive platform for digital outcrop models
February 27, 2025 · Dr Xia Wang, Chengdu University of Technology
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The 'rgplates' interface to tectonic calculations in R: overview, updates and related projects
January 30, 2025 · Dr Ádám Kocsis, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
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Top 10 of the best disparity metrics to use in palaeobiology; number 10 might surprise you!
December 19, 2024 · Dr Thomas Guillerme, University of Sheffield
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Quantitative approaches to understanding marine ecosystems: Insights from Stellar's Sea Cow and ancient food webs
November 21, 2024 · Dr Roxanne Banker, Providence College
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Building modeling pipelines for stratigraphic paleobiology in R
October 31, 2024 · Niklas Hohmann, Utrecht University
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Reproducing emergent eco-evolutionary patterns from a first-principles agent-based model
September 26, 2024 · Dr Euan Furness, University of Cambridge
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Advancing morphological research with computed tomography: a case study on predatory rodents
August 29, 2024 · Dr Rafaela Missagia, Universidade de São Paulo
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Spatially standardized subsampling for fair comparisons and meaningful characterisations of ecological metrics through time
July 25, 2024 · Dr Gawain Antell, University of California
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Models, Meaning, and the Middle Cambrian
June 27, 2024 · Dr April Wright, Southeastern Louisiana University
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Neural network models to infer diversity trajectories and the drivers of speciation and extinction
May 30, 2024 · Prof. Daniele Silvestro, University of Fribourg
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Assessing the adequacy of morphological models used in palaeobiology
April 25, 2024 · Laura Mulvey, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
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Modelling species range shifts in the past and future
March 28, 2024 · Dr Benjamin Shipley, University of Oxford
Conference
The Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting 2024
March 04, 2024 · Erlangen, Germany
Conference
Progressive Palaeontology 2024
March 04, 2024 · Bristol, UK
Lecture Series
Using Spatial point process analyses to quantify the behavioural ecology behind trace fossils
February 29, 2024 · Dr Emily Mitchell, University of Cambridge
Conference
7th International Palaeontological Congress
December 09, 2023 · Cape Town, South Africa
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12th North American Paleontological Convention
December 07, 2023 · Ann Arbor, USA
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3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology
December 07, 2023 · Montreal, Canada
Workshop
R for Palaeobiologists: Getting started with the palaeoverse R package
December 07, 2023 · Ann Arbor, USA
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IBS Biennial Conference
July 20, 2023 · Prague, Czechia
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Across the End Permian "Great Extinction"
May 16, 2023 · Lausanne, Switzerland
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Palaeo Down Under 3
March 28, 2023 · Perth, Australia
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14th Romanian Symposium of Palaeontology
March 28, 2023 · Bucharest, Romania
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March 25, 2023 · Birmingham, UK
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Life and Planet
March 10, 2023 · London, UK
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Crossing the Palaeontological-Ecological Gap
March 02, 2023 · Vilnius, Lithuania
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Taming the BEAST
February 23, 2023 · Squamish, Canada
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Progressive Palaeontology 2023
February 20, 2023 · Liverpool, UK
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Quantitative methods for population dynamics in R
February 09, 2023 · Montpellier, France
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14th Symposium of the International Fossil Coral and Reef Society (IFCRS)
January 26, 2023 · 26-060, Poland
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XX Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists
January 26, 2023 · Sabadell, Spain
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XII Brazilian Vertebrate Paleontology Symposium
January 26, 2023 · Santa Maria, Brazil
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Macroecology and Biogeography 2023
January 17, 2023 · Bayreuth, Germany
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Analytical Paleobiology
January 16, 2023 · Erlangen, Germany
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Modelling species distributions under global change
January 05, 2023 · Copenhagen, Denmark
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Evolution 2023
December 21, 2022 · Albuquerque, USA
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Mathematical and Computational Evolutionary Biology
December 15, 2022 · Cargèse, France
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EJIP/IMERP 2023
December 06, 2022 · Lourinhã, Portugal
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PalAss Annual Meeting 2023
December 05, 2022 · Cambridge, England
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Introduction to Analytical Palaeobiology
December 05, 2022 · Berlin, Germany
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EGU 2023
December 05, 2022 · Vienna, Austria