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After an eventful year, 2024 is now coming to an end. Have a good start into the new year! We look forward to your continued support of PaleoSynthesis. 🦖 Dinormous Happy Holidays 🦕!

With the PRIME workshop a decision was made to support a workshop focussing on extinctions and their roles in evolution. Now also PRIME has its own unique icon again designed by the brilliant FAU Brand Office.

Preparations begin. IRATE will be holding its first small workshop at PalAss 24 in Erlangen. The “big one” will then follow in February. And, the PIs from PRIME will be present as keynote speakers!

With PRIME, we have found the next workshop for PaleoSynthesis. The application from Baran Karapunar (Leeds) and Bethany Allen (Zurich) was seen as having the greatest potential. We congratulate them on their successful application and look forward to working with them.

Times are changing and so is our social media profile. In the future, we will not only inform you via the channels we already use, but also via #BlueskySocial . You can find us there under @PaleoSynth. See you there!

To all colleagues! Don't forget.... the deadline to submit your workshop proposals is November 11th. Do you have any questions? Then get in touch with us. You can find information and contact details here.

Today we are opening the next call for PaleoSynthesis Workshops. Again there is full funding for travel and accommodation for the workshop team. We hope for many exciting topics! All information is provided here. Deadline is November 11, 2024.

The PaleoSynthesis Summer School is coming to an end. The last two days are presented by Erin Saupe from Oxford University. Erin is teaching on Spatial Subsampling and Niche Modeling and was already part of the past two summer schools.

It continues, the last week Summer School has begun and Daniele Silvestro (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) has taken over the scepter. Topics are: PyRate and AI-based diversity.

The decision for the last PaleoSynthesis PostDoc has been made. All candidates invited to the interview presented themselves outstandingly. However, together with the Advisory Board, which took part in the interviews, Danijela Dimitrijevic came out on top in the end. The decision was unanimous and w...