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RT @CPEG_CPB25: 🚨 Registration & abstract submission are NOW OPEN for the CPEG Meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium! 🚨. 📅 Summer 2….

The second circular for the CPEG meeting and Conservation Paleobiology symposium in 2025 is now available!.

RT @AmsonEli: We are not advertising one, but TWO fossil preparator positions @SMNStuttgart . Wherever you are from, consider joining our t….

RT @OxUniEarthSci: Congratulations to @ErinSaupe who is the recipient of the 2024 Schuchert Award presented by @PaleoSoc!! The award is pre….

We are very excited to invite you all to the next edition the Crossing the Palaeontological-Ecological Gap (CPEG) meeting AND the Conservation Paleobiology Symposium, which will be held together, at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) in the summer of 2025.

RT @UZH_en: A recently published paper by UZH paleontology professor @pimientoc has got people talking. This has to do with the charismatic….

@LewisPalaeo @ReganDunn5 Emojis that we forgot to add in the thread above include: 🦪@paulharnik; 🦣@ReganDunn5; 👶🏻 @MolluscMatt.

We also had a wonderful poster session, featuring the research of Torchet, Corthésy, @LewisPalaeo, Sinéad, Ravenscroft & @ReganDunn5, as well as plenty of opportunities to chat, laugh & connect 🧠🫀.

… of Eurasian mammal communities 🐻. Then, Petryshen presented his work on how paleoenvironmental uncertainty affects evolutionary models ⁉️. @GaetanPtn closed our session on how of how animals from the paleopolar circle adapted to warm environmental conditions in deep time ❄️.

African herbivores & the contribution of climate, size and phylogeny 🐘. @ReganDunn5 followed, talking about large-scale fires as the primary cause of the megafaunal extinctions in the Pleistocene. Parker then presented her work on the past, present and future… ->.

@PinoyPlankton then talked about reconstructing historical fish records using sedDNA 🧬. @pimientoc closed the slot by providing an overview of conservation paleobiology from a shark perspective 🦈. Our final slot began w/ a keynote by @singerstone on the diversification of ->.

… intrinsic extinction risk in the marine realm using fossil and modern data. @KristinaKocak then talked about age-dependent extinctions⏳, followed by @elizabethsibert on ecological and evolutionary dynamics of oceanic fish under hothouse conditions 🐟 ->.

… on community changes across paleoclimatic warming events 🌡️. @MolluscMatt closed the slot by talking about the rise of novel ecosystems in the Anthropocene. The next day of our special session began with a keynote by @paulharnik, who provided an overview on… ->.

… the role of intrinsic & extrinsic drivers of extinction over the past 485 myrs🌐. @GregorMathes then talked about causal inference and shark extinctions🥶. Hansford then presented his work on extending historical ranges & improving forecasts 🐊. D'Onofrio followed… ->.

Schild then talked about the relationship between biomass & biodiversity in boreal forests🌲. @EdwardByrdDavis followed, describing exciting opportunities from the FuTRES data repository 🐿️. The following slot was opened by @ErinSaupe’s keynote on… ->.

We started w/Silvestro’s keynote on the use of AI to model past, present & future biodiversity 🤖. Then, @FerranSayol presented his work on predicting bird extinctions under anthropogenic change 🦤. @MarinaCRillo followed, describing local biodiversity changes using BioDeepTime📉.

We had the most amazing time at the #WBF2024. Our special session “Insights from the past for a better future” brought together 30+ inspiring paleontologists and macroecologists who shared their exciting research, while surrounded by the breathtaking landscape of Davos🏔️🇨🇭.🧵👇🏽.

RT @pimientoc: @KathelijneKoops and I became friends first thanks to multiple networking opportunities provided by our faculty. Then, it be….