Harriet B. Drage

We at the @palaeoverse.bsky.social are so excited to announce the launch of our mentorship scheme! Please do apply if you're interested in learning how to create tools in R for palaeobiological research, and spread the word!

A reminder that there is one week left to apply to my open PhD position analysing the palaeoecologies of early arthropods at the University of Geneva! #palaeontology #palaeobiology #paleontology #fossils

🦠 We're hiring a 2-year postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Warsaw, to join the PARADIVE lab: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/469223

🚨Postdoc job alert: Come work with my paleontology & evolution group in Edinburgh! Researcher in Cognitive Evolution Over Deep Time. You'll study how brains & neurons have evolved over time, and predict neuron count in extinct species! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTC355/p...

Exciting news! We here at the LSU Museum of Natural Science @lsumns.bsky.social and Dept. of Biological Sciences are looking for Curator and Assistant Professor of Vertebrate Paleobiology! Come work with us! We are fun, supportive and active! lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...

Interested in fossil arthropods, palaeoecology, dispersal, and interesting methods? 🦀 🌎 I'm hiring a 4-year, fully funded PhD student at the University of Geneva as part of my European Research Council (ERC) grant. Deadline: 16th October. Reach out if any questions! www.unige.ch/sciences/ter...

Please consider applying when live for our two roles at UCL, UK! Join an excellent, diverse and friendly team to drive forwards open science and learn lots of new skills!

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️18th December 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week for our last talk of 2025, given by @singerstone.bsky.social from Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, on “Mammals as a key to evolutionary theory” 🦬 Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

🌟Continuing our Friday (afternoon) 🌟 Registration 🕐 13:00 – 18:00 📍 Portland Building Symposium: Experimental Palaeontology 🕒 13:30 – 17:15 📍 Portland Building, PO 1.74 Icebreaker Reception 🕠 17:30 – 19:30 📍 Portland Building Atrium & Richmond Building Atrium #PalAss25 #conference #portsmouth

Consider applying for the PhD project, if you're in the market, with two extremely great researchers and managers! I know it'll be fascinating and teach loads of useful skills!

🎉🦕 Big news! The Palaeontological Association has just released the abstract booklet and programme for the 69th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association (Portsmouth, 11–15 Dec 2025)! 🌍📖 ⬇️ palass.org/annual-meeti... #conference #PalAss25 #uk

📣 Hey PalAss participants! The 2025 Annual Meeting in Portsmouth is getting closer 🦕📍 Just a quick reminder: If you’re tagging us on social media, don’t forget to use our official hashtag #PalAss25 🙌✨ Happy #FossilFriday! 🐚🦴

🚨Join our fantastic Panel of Speakers this evening at 1730 GMT to discuss the #LeverhulmeTrust Early Career Fellowship! Registration open to all here 👇 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @thepalass.bsky.social

🎓✨ Calling all early-career researchers! Thinking about applying for a Leverhulme Research Grant? Don’t miss this chance to get insider guidance from researchers with successful grant experience. 🧠💡 Join our upcoming webinar to learn: ✔️ What makes a strong application [1/2]

Open Palaeontology is looking for Managing Editors and Steering Committee members! Please consider joining us on our mission to promote community open-access publishing in palaeontology.

🎉 A few facts and figures about this year’s conference! We’re excited to welcome 275 delegates from every continent (except Antarctica 🐧). ✨ Here’s what awaits you: 📣 1 Annual Address 🧪 1 ECR Workshop & Social 🥂 1 Icebreaker Reception 🚌 1 Post-Conference Field Trip [1/2]

The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure Please show your support by signing the below! c.org/KtYyZB8dHk

Last week the @palaeoverse.bsky.social team published our new paper outlining steps for cleaning palaeobiological occurrence data. I'm really proud of this one; we even have a step-by-step run-through of data cleaning and an accompanying vignette. Thanks to the fantastic team! ⭐

🚨We have exciting new webinar series starting next Wednesday @1730 BST! Join me as we discuss the #ERCStartingGrant with our panel speakers who have recently obtained this funding. Anyone is welcome to join this webinar - register here 👇 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 It’s time to announce our Winter 2025 talk schedule 👀 We’re excited to host talks from Drs Oskar Hagen, Carrie Tyler, @singerstone.bsky.social and Johannes De Groeve! Sign up here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

We (me, @barankarapunar.bsky.social, @sinjinis.bsky.social and @harriedrage.bsky.social) organized a symposium for the next IPC (Cape Town 2026!) on evolution, diversity and ecology in marine ecosystems throughout the Phanerozoic. Contact us if you would like to participate or to know more about it!

⚠️Don't forget to register for the annual dinner. The maximum capacity is 240 guests 🤩🥳 ⬇️ palass.org/annual-meeti... ⚠️ Abstract submission deadline: 19th of September ⬇️ palass.org/annual-meeti... #conference #uk #palaeontology #dinner #registration

⚠️ We’re excited to announce our invited speakers for the #PalAss Annual Meeting! 🎉 🔗 Registration link ⬇️ palass.org/annual-meeti... #conference #uk #palaeontology #meeting

Join us later today! We’re looking forward to it 🤩

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️28th August 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us for next week’s talk given by @sauropodlets.bsky.social from the University of Leeds, on “Modelling ancient food webs: ecosystem changes across the Pliocene marine megafaunal extinction” 🦈 Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

📢 deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable and reproducible visualizations of data over geological time intervals 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2096... Fully #openaccess in @bigearthdata1.bsky.social with insight about deeptime📦 development and code examples! #rstats #geology #paleontology

If you were unable to attend, all of the materials for the workshop are freely accessible on our website: workshop.palaeoverse.org

Had a great time teaching about R and open data science yesterday! Huge thanks to the team and everyone attending! 📈👩🏼‍🔬

📢 rredlist 📦 1.1.0 is now on #CRAN!!! - wrapper to download multiple assessments ⬇️ - wrapper to extract assessment data from lists of assessments 🐍 - filter latest assessment to a particular scope 🌏 Docs 👉 docs.ropensci.org/rredlist/ind... #rstats #iucn #redlist #api

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 It’s time to announce our Summer 2025 talk schedule 👀 Looking forward to hearing from @spissatella.bsky.social, @sauropodlets.bsky.social, @nmkphylo.bsky.social and @russellgarwood.co.uk! Sign up here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-lecture-series-2025

Interested in applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship this year? Feel free to reach out! We've got micro🔬, invert 🪸, and vert palaeo🦕 @es-ucl.bsky.social! 📆 We are accepting Expressions of Interest until 9th June! marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

⚠️We are excited to invite you to a member-only webinar✨ 🔹When: 4th of June, 17:30 BST 🔹Where: on Zoom, register ⬇️ us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #webinar #June #palaeontology #career

Don't miss a great opportunity—register for the Lecture Series organized by @palaeoverse.bsky.social Registration link ⬇️ bit.ly/palaeoverse-... #lecture #palaeontology #modelling

🌟Members Exclusive!🌟 Join our upcoming webinar to learn the ins & outs of the Palaeontological Association Engagement Grant, featuring previous awardees as our panel speakers. 🗓️Wednesday the 23rd of April, 17:30 (BST) Don't miss your chance to boost your outreach ideas!

Here is a little video I made for @thepalass.bsky.social. Its aimed at GCSE students and ties into the national curriculum. Lots more planned, if you want to be involved, give me a shout. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwF7... Please share widely, like and subscribe!

So happy to share our new preprint on cleaning and sharing palaeobiological occurrence data! This was such a great paper to work on, with a fantastic team! 🌟

Like morphometrics, micro-CT scanning, and morphological evolution? Then please consider applying for our 18 month postdoc position at the university of Southampton! Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF402/r...

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️30th January, 16:00 UTC (11:00 EST) For this month’s lecture, we will be joined by Dr Ádám Kocsis, presenting “The ‘rgplates’ interface to tectonic calculations in R: overview, updates and related projects” Register here: t.co/nkPis8u8JK

Interested in Conservation Palaeobiology, corals, and predictive modelling? 🪸 PhD project supervised by myself and Nadia Santodomingo on the tropicalisation of marine communities across time and space available @treesdla.bsky.social 🗓️ Apply by 20th Jan 2025 www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/les...

Have you ever thought to yourself 'huh, where did all these arthropod Pokémon come from??' Well, wonder no more! Read my commitment to nerdosity and palaeontology in my article: jgeekstudies.org/2024/08/24/e... 🦀🦂🐛🐝🪰🐞🕷️ #pokemon #videogames #palaeontology #PalAss2024

🚨NEW JOURNAL?!?🚨 Open Palaeontology is now live! - A Diamond #OpenAccess journal focused on providing a flexible, free, and accessible platform for publishing palaeontological research! 🦕🐚🦴 Want to know more?🔗 www.openpalaeo.org We look forward to your submissions! #Palaeontology #Palaeobiology

Check out Open Palaeontology, for a flexible DOA palaeontology journal, community run and led! We're open for submissions, come chat to us at #PalAss2025! 🌟