Two new blog posts for #fossilfriday - first up is Meghan Jenkinson writing on the recent GCG symposium of #Toarcian palaeobiology geocollnews.wordpress.com/2024/08/23/183… (1/2)

We've just opened our Fearnsides Award AND our Geoscience Communications Fund! If you're an early career researcher or someone seeking to set up a sci-comm initiative, you'll want to see what we can offer! Deadline 20th Oct yorksgeolsoc.org.uk/awards-grants 📷Dr Adam Woodhouse Dr Liam Herringshaw

A great new Phanerozoic temperature reconstruction from Judd et al: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… And a perspective on how this fits into our current view of life and the Earth by me: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… For me, the similarity between the temperature of the hottest periods is

🚨 There's only 1 WEEK left to nab early bird registration and submit an abstract to The PalAss Annual Meeting in Erlangen! 🚨 Deadline is Thurs Oct 3rd 23:59 BST! #PalAss24 More info here: palass.org/meetings-event…

Absolutely thrilled to have submitted my PhD thesis today! I am so proud of the work behind it and so very, very grateful for the village around me that has made it possible. More to come post-viva, but for now I'll be taking some time to celebrate this milestone 🥳

We've got another excellent line-up of speakers over the next few months!

Check out this commentary by former Palaeo@Leeds PGR Lewis Alcott on a recent high profile paper on oxygenation of the oceans.

Looks like former Palaeo@Leeds PGR Dr Adam Woodhouse is the new face of the Yorkshire Geological Society. He's a handsome chap, isn't he?

The 3rd Geobiology Society Conference will be held in the Rocky Mountains at Banff, Canada on May 20th-24th 2025. Invited speakers (incl ECRs) from across the world talking about tracing the biosphere throughout Earth history. Registration/abstracts: cms.eas.ualberta.ca/geobiology2025/

New fossil-y fun with food webs from Dr Alex Dunhill and co. showing that communities collapsed via secondary extinction cascades in the early Toarcian seas of Yorkshire.

Delighted to be hosting Alex Farnsworth from University of Bristol to talk about his work on mega El Nino events and the Permo-Triassic mass extinction. It's literally standing (or sitting on cabinet) room only.

Welcome to Leeds Annabel and Lila!

Interested in pursuing a PhD in paleobiology and want to think more about extinction? Check out the below PhD project! Please get in contact if interested! earth.ox.ac.uk/disentangling-… Illustration by Victor O. Leshyk

The ESSILeeds welcome event quiz is underway!

Very excited the first paper from PhD is now out! Dr Alex Dunhill James Davis Reimer Maria Beger Trait networks: Assessing marine community resilience and extinction recovery: iScience cell.com/iscience/fullt…

This weeks' ESSILeeds PGR Welcome event featured a phenomenal pub quiz organised by Lauren Geiser... including a round where contestants needed to ID pictures of extinct animals drawn by my 6 year old son... for #FossilFriday, who can get 10/10? NB, pay attention to the clues

📢Submission are now OPEN for the Marsh #Palaeoart Award! It recognises talent in depicting the extinct fossil faunas of the British Isles. This year's guest judge is the amazing Bob Nicholls Art. Closing date 25th November. Full details: palaeosoc.org/grants-prizes/… #paleoart

Looking forward to my 1st lecture of the 2024-25 The PalAss Innovations in Palaeontology Lecture Series in Prague next week! Should be a good 'un! palass.org/awards-grants/…

Next week, we're delighted to host Dr Thomas Westerhold from MARUM Universitat Bremen for a special ESSILeeds Science Seminar as part of the ECORD Distinguished Lecturer Programme.

.Benjamin Mills discusses hot and cold Earth for the last 540 million years on the John Batchelor on CBS player.fm/series/the-joh…