Winter 2024/25
We are excited to announce the Winter 2024/25 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 16:00–17:00 UTC (12:00 EDT)*.
This semester, we will be joined by the following four speakers:
October 31st 2024 - Niklas Hohmann, Utrecht University
Building modeling pipelines for stratigraphic paleobiology in R
*November 21st 2024 (15:00 UTC) - Dr Roxanne Banker, Providence College
Quantitative approaches to understanding marine ecosystems: Insights from Stellar’s Sea Cow and ancient food webs
December 19th 2024 - Dr Thomas Guillerme, University of Sheffield
Top 10 of the best disparity metrics to use in palaeobiology; number 10 might surprise you!
January 30th 2025 - Dr Ádám Kocsis, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
The ‘rgplates’ interface to tectonic calculations in R: overview, updates and related projects
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
November 21st 2024 - Dr Roxanne Banker, Providence College
Quantitative approaches to understanding marine ecosystems: Insights from Stellar’s Sea Cow and ancient food webs
October 31st 2024 - Niklas Hohmann, Utrecht University
Building modeling pipelines for stratigraphic paleobiology in R
Lecture materials: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14001502
September 26th 2024 - Dr Euan Furness, University of Cambridge
Reproducing emergent eco-evolutionary patterns from a first-principles agent-based model
August 29th 2024 - Dr Rafaela Missagia, Universidade de São Paulo
Advancing morphological research with computed tomography: a case study on predatory rodents
July 25th 2024 - Dr Gawain Antell, University of California
Spatially standardized subsampling for fair comparisons and meaningful characterisations of ecological metrics through time
At the request of the speaker, this lecture is not publicly available. However, you may request a private link to the talk from either Dr Gawain Antell or Dr Erin Dillon.
June 27th 2024 - Dr April Wright, Southeastern Louisiana University
Models, Meaning, and the Middle Cambrian
May 30th 2024 - Prof. Daniele Silvestro, University of Fribourg
Neural network models to infer diversity trajectories and the drivers of speciation and extinction
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