Spring 2024
We are excited to announce the Spring 2024 Palaeoverse Lecture Series focused on software development and methodological approaches in palaeontology. The aim of this lecture series is to promote the use of new tools in the field and to give researchers a platform to showcase their work. The format is intended to be flexible but will generally include a short seminar followed by a demonstration of the speaker’s software toolkit and/or method and will conclude with a group discussion.
Lectures will be held on the last Thursday of each month from 14:00–15:00 UTC.
This semester, we will be joined by the following four speakers:
February 29th 2024 - Dr Emily Mitchell, University of Cambridge
Using Spatial point process analyses to quantify the behavioural ecology behind trace fossils
March 28th 2024 - Dr Benjamin Shipley, University of Oxford
Modelling species range shifts in the past and future
April 25th 2024 - Laura Mulvey, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Assessing the adequacy of morphological models used in palaeobiology
May 30th 2024 - Prof. Daniele Silvestro, University of Fribourg
Neural network models to infer diversity trajectories and the drivers of speciation and extinction
Please register below for the series. All are welcome to join and we ask that all participants abide by the Palaeoverse Code of Conduct.
Previous lectures
April 25th 2024 - Laura Mulvey, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Assessing the adequacy of morphological models used in palaeobiology
March 28th 2024 - Dr Benjamin Shipley, University of Oxford
Modelling species range shifts in the past and future
February 29th 2024 - Dr Emily Mitchell, University of Cambridge
Using Spatial point process analyses to quantify the behavioural ecology behind trace fossils