Lewis A. Jones
@LewisAlanJones
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Palaeobiologist @ES_UCL 🌍 | @NERCscience Research Fellow 🔬 | @ThePalaeoverse 👨🏻💻 | Internet Officer @fossil_reef 🪸| He/Him
University College London
Joined April 2012
I guess it's past time. I don't really care about what platform - they're all basically the same to me. It's you, the community, I enjoy logging on for. 🔗
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RT @ThePalaeoverse: Yesterday, we formally decided to action our permanent switch to Bluesky. We will not be deleting this account but it w….
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RT @ThePalaeoverse: Don't miss out this Thursday! Catch @atkocsis's talk at 16:00 UTC. Details and registration link below ⬇️⬇️⬇️.
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This paper is the product of a student field course to Egypt and highlights the potential of opportunistically collecting data to support long-term monitoring efforts.
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🚨NEW PAPER!🚨. We have a new paper out in @BioDataJournal on "Quantifying diversity and growth form distribution of scleractinian corals, in Mangrove Bay, El Qoseir, Egypt" with Theres Koch, @AngelinaIvkic, et al.
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Coral reefs provide habitat for approximately 25% of all extant marine species, including 845 species of scleractinian corals. These rich ecosystems are becoming increasingly degraded in many regions...
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RT @ThePalaeoverse: 🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨. 🗓️30th January, 16:00 UTC (11:00 EST). For this month's lecture, we will be joined by @a….
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🚨New preprint!🚨. “Global plate model choice impacts reconstructions of the latitudinal biodiversity gradient” out now @biorxivpreprint with @willgearty, Lucas Buffan, and @bethany_j_allen. 🔗 #palaeobiology #palaeontology.
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The latitudinal gradient of declining species richness from the Equator towards the poles is one of the most pervasive macroecological patterns on Earth today. However, the ubiquity of this trend...
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Interested in conservation, corals, & predictive modelling? 🪸. PhD project supervised by myself (@ES_UCL) & @nsantodomingo (@NHM_London) on the tropicalisation of marine communities across time & space available @NERC_TREES_DLA. 🗓️ Apply by 20th Jan 2025.
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RT @ThePalaeoverse: Join us tomorrow for @TGuillerme's talk!. 📊"Top 10 of the best disparity metrics to use in palaeobiology; #10 might sur….
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The Palaeoverse (https://palaeoverse.org) is an organisation that aims to bring the palaeobiology community together to share resources, work toward data standards, and improve reproducibility in...
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If you are interested in accessing and making use of Macrostrat's data ( within the R environment, check out the rmacrostrat R package developed by @bethany_j_allen, @willgearty, @PrincessQuatris, and I!. 🔗 #RStats.
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I had a great time at the @ThePalAss annual meeting last week and presenting @ThePalaeoverse's rmacrostrat R package 📦. Big thanks to all the organisers (@emmadnn, @Thomas_Clements, @rachelwarnock, @reefshugger, and team) for a fantastic meeting!
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RT @pdmannion: Great set of presentations @ThePalAss meeting in Erlangen from @es_ucl researchers @palaeoburke, @paiva_als, @piginatutu, @P….
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RT @ThePalaeoverse: 🚨PALAEOVERSE LECTURE SERIES🚨. Next Thursday, we'll hear from @TGuillerme with a talk titled "Top 10 best disparity metr….
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RT @willgearty: 🚨New Diamond 💎 Open Access Journal in Paleontology 🦴🐚!🚨. Send us your manuscripts 📜 and publish fully open access 🔓 entirel….
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RT @Paula_Moraga_: rspatialdata: a collection of data sources and tutorials on downloading and visualizing spatial data with #rstats 💻🗺️📊….
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🚨NEW JOURNAL?!?🚨. Open Palaeontology is live! - A Diamond #OpenAccess journal focused on providing a flexible and free platform for publishing palaeontological research!🪸. 🔗 We look forward to your submissions!. #Palaeontology #Palaeobiology #Fossil
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RT @UMichPaleo: Today is #GivingTuesday! Support the Stocker‑Nesbitt Professional Development in Paleontology Fund, empowering undergradua….
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Gifts to this fund support the Stocker-Nesbitt Professional Development in Paleontology Award. This award provides crucial financial assistance to undergraduate students, enabling them to attend...
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RT @Chomicki_G: !!BREAKING NEWS!! Your dream PhD is advertised. 'Origin and evolutionary dynamics of rainforest assembly in the Fiji Isla….
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The CRAN Task View is maintained by @willgearty, @erinmdillon, @PedroLGodoy, @harrietdrage, @PrincessQuatris, @BrunaMFarina, and I. If you have any suggestions for improvements, please raise a GitHub issue, pull request, or email a maintainer. See:
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CRAN Task View: Paleontology. Contribute to cran-task-views/Paleontology development by creating an account on GitHub.
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We've put together a CRAN Task View for the palaeontological community - a curated list of R packages relevant for palaeontological research📦🦕. You can install the CRAN Task View via:. ctv::install.views("Paleontology"). Read more: #Paleontology #Rstats.
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Overview
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RT @HohmannNiklas: 🚨#preprint alert🚨.Describing new #R package to combine biological simulations with sedimentological forward models into….
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1. The fossil record is an important source of information to understand biological processes that take place over timescales not accessible to human observation or experiments. Fossil data is not a...
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