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Younger paleontologists are working to overcome historical legacies of their discipline and change how people learn about natural history. During an expedition to Tunisia, Mohamad Bazzi (University Uppsala, Sweden) invited local colleagues and citizens to participate in the field work. In a...

Because COVID-19 is still impacting our daily routines – more time is allowed to submit solutions to the ORC. That is, we extend the deadline from 1st of February to 31th of March! The submission portal is activated from today on; you can find the respective upload interface at the bottom of eac...

The PaleoSynthesis Project is issuing a second call for submission of Big Questions in Paleontology. Based at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, the objective of the PaleoSynthesis Project is to strengthen paleontology by developing a long-term research vision for the f...

Dear colleagues, After a special 2020 -- a year that has impacted all of us and we all could not have imagined it before -- we are now looking positively to the future. We look forward to 2021 and to upcoming tasks in PaleoSynthesis. We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. A...

Dear interested parties and colleagues, today we present our 2nd newsletter with updates from the last three months. We introduce some more team members but also report about the decision which workshop we will hold, how the development of the app "FossilDiscovery" is progressing, about the FAU Ope...

"Organismic groups vary non‐randomly in their vulnerability to extinction. However, it is unclear whether the same groups are consistently vulnerable, regardless of the dominant extinction drivers, or whether certain drivers have their own distinctive and predictable victims. ... Focusing on the fo...

FAU Open Research Challenge "With its third Open Research Challenge, the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) is primarily targeting young international scientific talents or junior teams with a penchant for big data, algorithms and gaming. They have the opportunity to solve c...

The Division of Paleontology at the FAU is largely focusing on marine systems and timescales spanning millions of years in order to study the relationship between environmental change and evolution. Among lab work, geochemistry, and microscopy, modelling and statistical analyses become more and mor...

Today we present you our first newsletter in which some team members introduce themselves personally. We also inform you about the latest activities and developments. You can download the newsletter here >> Newsletter. We are happy about feedback and suggestions!

Due to the ongoing Covid pandemic we have decided to extend the deadline for the submission of workshop applications until October 15th. In order to be able to hold the planned workshops under all circumstances, we ask you to submit a proposal - in addition to the regular proposal - that describes ...