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"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 ...

Jansen recently completed his PhD at Cornell University (USA) in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and will provide scientific support for the project. To begin, he will evaluate the Big Questions submitted by the global paleontology community to identify common themes...

We plan to send our first newsletter to all interested colleagues in fall 2020. At the moment we are working on creating a good overview of the Big Questions submitted. We will then present the results in the newsletter. In addition, we will also include further information about the project and...

Dear interested parties in the workshops, as we are still in a pandemic and cannot predict if the workshops can take place in Erlangen as planned we would like to ask you to also suggest your workshop being held remotely. Of course we hope... and will do everything to make sure that your worksho...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has appointed palaeobiologist Wolfgang Kiessling to act as a main author of the next world climate report. Knowledge of Primeval Times Helps to Counter the Climate Crisis An interview with Wolfgang Kiessling was published by the Volkswagen...

In April 2020 the SVP sent a letter to more than 300 paleontology journals with proposals for "significant changes to the common practices in palaeontology". Carolin Haug and more than 40 colleagues welcome the initiative but consider the proposals to be counter-productive. The authors explain t...