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We are pleased to announce the workshop decision for the our last call. The Scientific Advisory board has decided on ConSensIS led by Rachel Racicot from Senckenberg, Frankfurt aM, and Travis Park (Monash University, Australia). The CONservation SENsory paleobiology International Scientific network...

PaleoSynthesis has been running for over six years, and Elizabeth Dowding has been on board almost from the start. In the early years, Liz was primarily involved in the Big Questions before succeeding the project's first postdoc, Jansen Smith, in December 2022. Throughout this time, Elizabeth has n...

Three more weeks to submit your Paleobiology Summer School application. Don't forget! We need your application and the letter of support by your supervisor. Questions or do you need assistance? Get in contact and we are happy to help. More info is provided here.

2025 is coming to an end and the PaleoSynthesis team would like to thank for your contributions to the project. We hope that you stick with us and continue to support PaleoSynthesis. 🎅🏽 Happy Holidays 🎅🏽 and may 🎇 2026 🎆 be a good one for all of you!

On Saturday November 15, 2025 we will open the call to submit proposals for the Analytical Paleobiology School 2026 for grad students in Erlangen for a training in analytical methods. Do you want to join or send someone? More info and details

We warmly congratulate Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kießling on his outstanding achievement in the Ranking of the Stanford List 2025. According to the latest edition, a total of 236 researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) are among the world’s top two percent of most-cited sc...

On October 29, 2025, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kießling gave a lecture at the Nuremberg Planetarium titled “Between Heat and Hope: Species conservation in the Age of Climate Change.” The event is part of the lecture series “Artenschutz im Anthropozän: Strategien für eine lebenswerte Zukunft” (Species cons...

Hello out there! A little reminder about our workshop call… No ideas of your own? Maybe you know a colleague you'd like to throw into the ring. So feel free to spread the word and the link!

👏 Congratulations 👏 to the Big Questions team lead by Jansen A. Smith! After such a hard work the paper "Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project" is published in Paleobiology. "Paleontology provides insights into the history of the planet, from the origins of life ...

We are opening the last call for workshop proposals in 2025! The deadline is December 15, 2025. Please visit the website with the necessary information before you start to prepare a proposal. For questions you may contact Danijela Dimitrijevic (science) or Barbara Seuß (logistics)