Application open; Miriam Jiménez Román Fellowship supports post-doctoral candidates and junior scholars whose research advances the study of Afro-Latinx communities in the U.S. 👇latinxproject.nyu.edu/miriam-jimenez…

Here is a picture of two hoatzin in the Amazon waiting for their phylogenetic position to be confidently resolved

March 31, 1850, birthday of Charles Doolittle Walcott, American paleontologist famous for the discovery in 1909 of well-preserved Cambrian fossils in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, #Canada
siarchives.si.edu/history/charle…

Invasive species drive cross-ecosystem effects worldwide rdcu.be/dBKYx

Ever wondered why cheetahs are so dang fast, but smaller animals, like mice, or larger animals, like elephants, are much slower? Thrilled to share our new study in Nature Communications led by Evolutionary Biomechanics Laboratory & Christofer Clemente w/ Peter Bishop. A chat that started 10 y ago
rdcu.be/dANSE

We have updated and reuploaded the 'paleobioDB' package to CRAN, which allows to query the Paleobiology Database API from R. A convenient way to get fossil data for your analyses 😎 Thanks Adrián Castro Mapas Lab for your help‼️👇docs.ropensci.org/paleobioDB/

🚨New paper Science Magazine led by my PhD student Cooper Malanoski on extinction selectivity. We find taxa will go extinct regardless of their traits if climate change is great enough: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
University of Oxford Dan Lunt Alex Farnsworth🌻 Graphic by: Maija Karala

🌎 Join us for the Paleobiology Database Summer Workshop at George Mason University from July 15th-19th!

🖥️ Open to all, but emphasis on graduate students and early career researchers

✏️ More info and apply here: forms.gle/EoAh148Ey9tRfy…

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I have made my entire 'Introduction to ggplot2' tutorial available on my website!

The tutorial covers the basics of ggplot2, geometries, colors, themes, etc.

It includes code and comments, as well as references to Pokémon!

#RStats #ggplot2 #dataviz

brunomioto.com/posts/intro_gg…

Commonly used parametric and non-parametric statistical tests!

Image credits: Unknown

Academic Chatter™ OpenAcademics PhD Voice - Independently Run PhD Friend #Statistics

Ep159: An Introduction to Palaeontology
palaeocast.com/introduction-t…

Prof. Roy Plotnick introduces the field in what should have been our very first episode! We cover some of the fundamental questions of what #palaeontology actually is and why it's so important.

#podcast #fossil

DEI Grant Proposals are due tomorrow!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

#paleontology #stem #grant #dei #diversity #equity #inclusion

My dad published a book on Arabic poetry!! Translated, the book is titled “Standing on the Ruins in Arabic Poetry”— ‘standing on the ruins’ is a line from a famous Arabic poem.

Nominate a student or ECP by 2/16 for the Diversity Engagement and Enhancement in Paleontology (DEEP) Award!

Winners who have promoted diversity in paleo will receive an honorarium, plaque, & PS membership.

paleosoc.org/deep-award

#paleontology #fossils #diversity #sciencelife

Apply now for the PS DEI Grant!✨The PS is pleased to fund this new opportunity – 5 grants of $500 for initiatives in paleontology that will aid our members in increasing diversity and removing barriers to careers in paleontology.👩‍🔬🦖
Due Feb. 20!🚨

Link: forms.gle/S7jwfVhMQeFDqR…

Lovely news!

1) GPlates 2.4 is out
2) It has built-in Scientific colour maps

Thank you to those who made it happen! 💫

gplates.org/news/2023-12-0…
#UseBatlow EarthByte

🚨New paper alert! 🚨

I am over the moon that our new paper, “Contrasting terrestrial and marine ecospace dynamics after the end-Triassic mass extinction event” is out in Royal Society Publishing Proceedings B today!

🔗: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

So what’s this all about? 🧵

'Prediction in Ecology and Evolution'

Given the interest in this paper, American Institute of Biological Sciences has made it freely available until the end of the year - go get it now!

academic.oup.com/bioscience/adv…

There are many ways to get across the point of distortion in the Mercator map. Here's a planisphere indicating a distance across Africa and another distance across Russia and things don't add up

[source, read more: buff.ly/3HGVLme]