Had an amazing week in La Paz🇲🇽. Exciting science, excellent food & phenomenal wildlife. Thanks so much to Pablo, Alba, Miguel, Eloísa, Lillian & Salvadore for their hospitality. Final leg of the journey home now. Looking forward to seeing my boys and wife❤️

Adios La Paz 👋

That's a Blue Whale in the Sea of Cortez. It was BIG!

Sea of Cortez sunsets are something else.

We have announcement...... you're gonna want the sound on for this!
Massive appreciation to Mat Nicholls for arranging this and supporting his local hometown!

Arrived in La Paz for a workshop on modern and past extinctions. It's very nice.

🚨 Postdoc position 🚨

Excited to be recruiting a postdoc to use sedimentary #ancientDNA 🧬 to better understand climate-associated impacts on an Arctic coastal ecosystem

Deadline: 15th June 2024
Based at Centre for Palaeogenetics & Stockholm University

Come join us! 😀

su.se/english/about-…

TWO funded PhD projects starting this October.

1. Green Planet:

phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/1972-g…

2. Alternative Earths:

phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/1973-a…

Part of a project to understand the evolution of Earth's surface environment, and planetary surface environments in general.

Please apply!

This is really concerning - 2024 ocean temps are so far off the norm... bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

WE DID IT 🦉

We are recruiting a fully-funded PhD studentship for a 2024 start University of Leeds on 'Advanced 3D ground modelling workflows to support the sustainable development of offshore windfarms'.
#PhDfunding ESSILeeds IAG Leeds geosociety

phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/1963-a…

Huge away win today. Proud of my boys. Destroyed the opposition with zero mercy. Be nice off the pitch, but ruthless on it 💪

📢There are just five weeks left before abstract submission and registration for presenting delegates closes on May 17th for the Symposium on Toarcian Palaeobiology!

If you plan to present at the symposium, make sure to register soon to avoid disappointment! 🐊🐚🦋🐾🌲🌋

📢Dear #PalAss members, are you interested in hosting the PalAss Exceptional Lecturer, Dr
Dr Alex Dunhill?

☄️ Alex will be giving a talk entitled: ‘Species loss, community collapse, and ecosystem recovery during times of #MassExtinction ’

👉 tinyurl.com/3rdb36rw #FossilFriday

Why can't we figure out whether dinosaur diversity was already in decline before the K-Pg mass extinction? Check out our new paper, showing how the assumptions we make within our statistical methods are the root of the problem. 🦕🦖☄️
doi.org/10.1017/ext.20…

📢Dear #PalAss members, are you interested in hosting the PalAss Exceptional Lecturer, Dr. Dr Alex Dunhill ?

☄️Alex will be giving a talk entitled: ‘Species loss, community collapse, and ecosystem recovery during times of #MassExtinction ’

👉tinyurl.com/3rdb36rw

#FossilFriday

Got a Year 5 child who wants to play football in the Leeds area? Gildersome Spurs Juniors FC are now recruiting girls and boys of all abilities. Please RT.

South Leeds School Sports Partnership South Leeds Mumbler West Riding FA
Grassroots Leeds Youth Alliance South Child Friendly Leeds

Our new paper on the future of ecosystems is out today! We used climate and biome models to infer how anthropogenic CO2 emissions might shape the global distribution of different vegetation types over the next 500 years 🌎🌲🌴🌵
doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2…