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Winter is coming and our new workshops – BITE and IRAL – have held their first meetings. In the kick-offs, held online, the first cornerstones were set and more precise timetables were created. After an intensive exchange among the members, we are now moving into the active phase in ...

Congratulations to Nussaibah from the DDCP Speaker Series workshop. Her article on colonialism and today's biodiversity was recently published in Nature ecology & evolution. "The effects of the redistribution of flora and fauna by European empires are still visible in global biodiversity tod...

Two exciting days lie ahead of us! Today, Thursday, and tomorrow, we will participate in the virtual workshop of the Volkswagen Foundation, present our project, and then have an intensive exchange with the other grantees. It will be exciting to see how the other projects dealt with the pandemic but ...

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kiessling: The project „Paleosynthesis: The German Seed for Global Collaboration“ in which he wants to discuss „the big questions“ in palaeontology. Could that be a great thing to have a good basis for public outreach activities? ! Big Questions are central to every scientific di...

The three intense weeks of the summer school are nearly over. After a BBQ Wednesday night mixing up with the week 1 participants of the #FlügelCourse (Homepage; Facebook) the last two days of the AWP2022 are on niche modelling taught by Erin Saupe from Oxford.  

The time has come! Some time ago, FAU announced the "Open Research Challenge". Now the winner The time has come! Some time ago, FAU announced the "Open Research Challenge". 1. Fossil occurrence databases are indispensable resources to the palaeontological community, yet present unique data clean...

🤩 Safely having arrived in Erlangen and after three days of intense work the participants of the Analytical Paleobiology Workshop 2022 in Erlangen seem still happy.

The time has finally come! On Monday, the Analytical Paleobiology Workshop starts after 2 years of Covid-related break. We are happy to welcome 12 students in Erlangen and look forward to three weeks of intensive work. More about the course can be found here.

Today we release our 6th newsletter - the summer edition 2022. For regular updates folllow us on Twitter, FB, and Instagram! ...See our update on the PaleoSynthesis project here!

It took a while but now we are happy to finally announce our next two workshops! BITE and IRAL will have full funding and will be supported by our future PostDoc Elizabeth Dowding. Visit the respective websites for more information.