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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 ...

Hot summer and hot topics! Lee Hsiang Liow is our 2nd external teacher at the Summer School. She brought CMR Methods and Time Series Analyses with her from Olso; hopefully the students won't break out in a sweat 😅

"Phylogenetic estimation is, and has always been, a complex endeavor. Estimating a phylogenetic tree involves evaluating many possible solutions and possible evolutionary histories that could explain a set of observed data, typically by using a model of evolution. Modern statistical methods involve...

On Monday we started the third PaleoSynthesis Summer School. All students arrived safely and are once again being prepared for scientific analyses by our team and external colleagues. Thanks to the generous support of the Volkswagen Foundation, we were able to guarantee financial support for the pa...

We are proud to present the latest Workshop Icon! Our FAU designers have once again done a great job and created a very individual icon for IRATE... including some paleo cliché with a dino :)