Lewis A. Jones
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Absolutely over the moon to share that I have been awarded a
@NERCscience
Independent Research Fellowship 😱
From September, I'll be joining
@ES_UCL
to work on elucidating diversity dynamics in Cenozoic marine tropical hotspots!🪸
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Grant rejection day🙃
I'm not really one to post about this stuff here but one reviewer highlighted the lack of a publication from my MSc as a weakness.
Come on, don't do this. Not everyone had the opportunity or resources to publish their MSc project.
Am I tainted forever?😅
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This wasn’t always easy to keep up, especially during the thesis writing period… but, I am quite proud of this little achievement! Thank you
@duolingo
for the free education!
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We have some exciting news to share! We are in the process of developing 'palaeoverse', a community-driven R package📦📈🌍🦕
The aim of the 📦 is to provide generic functions to streamline analyses, and improve code readability and reproducibility.
As part of the development...
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New paper alert!🚨
A Phanerozoic gridded dataset for palaeogeographic reconstructions 🌐
Global Plate Models are widely used in the Earth Sciences to reconstruct the past geographic position of geological samples, but their application is not trivial...
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Our (
@LewisAlanJones
&
@EichenseerK
) new paper on uneven spatial sampling and reconstructing global palaeotemperatures is out today in Geology
@geosociety
!!! 🌍🌡️🐚
You can check out the full paper here:
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Today I received the reviews of a big paper I have been working on. Here they are, told in a series of GIFs...
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I wasn’t sure this day would ever come, but I’ve done it!!! I passed my PhD viva with no corrections! Thanks a bunch to my examiners
@nhcooper123
and Mark Sephton 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
#PhDone
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sepkoski 0.0.1 is now on CRAN📦!
The package is provided to support teaching exercises and an example dataset for function documentation.
Features include:
- Access to Sepkoski's compendium🐚
- Plotting Sepkoski's curve 📈
#CRAN
#rstats
#palaeobiology
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Our rphylopic package (
@willgearty
and I) allows users to conveniently add silhouettes of organisms from
@PhyloPic
to plots in R. 🕷️
But did you know that you can also use the package to conveniently add other images to plots? 😉
#rphylopic
#rstats
#dataviz
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My first lead-author paper just got published! Using ecological niche modelling, we combine modern & fossil coral data to quantify the global distribution of suitable habitats under past & future climate scenarios.
#OpenAccess
#GraphicalAbstract
#Coral
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Our new paper (
@LewisAlanJones
,
@pdmannion
,
@Climate_AlexF
, Frann Brag, and
@ClimateSamwell
) on the drivers of coral reef distributions over geological timescales is out today in
@NatureComms
!
🔓You can check out the full paper here:
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Our paper (
@PrincessQuatris
,
@pdmannion
,
@Climate_AlexF
and Peter Allison) on spatial sampling bias and reconstructing latitudinal biodiversity gradients in deep time is out
@RSocPublishing
today!!! You can check out the full paper here:
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Huge thanks to
@MirantaKouvari
for this awesome new logo for the sepkoski R package, it looks great! 😍
#palaeobiology
#sepkoski
#palaeoverse
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I am thrilled to share that the
@ThePalAss
has awarded me a Grant-in-Aid. Fantastic news at this time of year😁
Next year
@ThePalaeoverse
team and I will run a R workshop and hackathon for palaeobiologists. More details in the New Year!...
Until then, happy holidays everyone!🎄
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Does Global Plate Model choice matter?
This is the question we address in our recent
@MethodsEcolEvol
article with co-authors
@LucasBuffan
, Mathew Domeier,
@chris_scotese
,
@tectonicSZ
, and
@_Sara_Varela
:
#palaeogeography
#palaeobiology
#palaeoclimate
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Pleased to announce that I will soon be joining
@_Sara_Varela
's
@MapasLab
at
@uvigo
as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. I can't wait to start working with such a great team on investigating macroecological patterns and processes in deep time🐠🐚📈💻
#ECR
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Our preprint describing rphylopic is now live on
@biorxivpreprint
📦🐜
The package has changed quite a bit this year, with a whole bunch of new functionality! You can find out more here:
🔗
Feel free to contact myself or
@willgearty
with any questions!
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Well, the PhD thesis has been submitted!
Now we play the waiting game...
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Well, that's an end of an era for me! Officially graduated from
@ESEImperial
@imperialcollege
. A big thank you to everyone who enriched my experience at Imperial. I am so glad and thankful to have made so many great friends along the way, you're the best!🙌
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Want to use data from , but struggle working with APIs?🪨🔨
We’ve got an R package for you!📦Introducing rmacrostrat, our latest
@ThePalaeoverse
toolkit.
Pre-print describing rmacrostrat is available
@EarthArXiv
:
#Geology
#RStats
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Thrilled to have been selected for a Juan de la Cierva-Formación fellowship by
@AgEInves
@CienciaGob
. I will be continuing my
#palaeobiology
research
@MapasLab
and I am excited for the greater freedom this fellowship brings, including teaching and having my own PhD students!🪸🌍
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Thank you
@PaleoSoc
! 🎉 Extremely happy to have received a Norman Newell Early Career Grant to support my new research line 🥳
#Congratulations
🎉 to our 2024 Norman Newell Early Career Grant Recipients:
@RachelPaleo
,
@LewisAlanJones
, Eugene Bergh, and Keyron Hickman-Lewis!
Interested in supporting our early career grants? Donate here:
#paleo
#geoscience
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Check out our new preprint on estimating latitudinal temperature gradients through multi-proxy integration in a Bayesian framework 🌡️📉
⬇️⬇️⬇️
How hot was the early Eocene? 🔥
@LewisAlanJones
and I have developed a Bayesian model to estimate latitudinal temperature gradients from spatially incomplete geochemical and ecological proxy records.
Read and comment the preprint at
#palaeoclimate
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Mission impossible theme playing in my head
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Very happy to share that our MURKY paleosynthesis working group has been funded! Excited to get started on evaluating the resilience of mesophotic and turbid reefs through time 🪸 📈 with
@nsantodomingo
,
@MikoZapalski
,
@bosellini
,
@AngelinaIvkic
,
@reefshugger
,
@kiessl
, and team!
The decision has been made - we welcome Murky and FDTP to the PaleoSynthesis team. Stay tuned for future updates and the next call in April! Check out the new workshops here:
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Spain here I come! 🇪🇸 Really excited to be joining
@MapasLab
to work on some deep time spatiotemporal diversification dynamics research 🌏
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My review of "Timefulness: How thinking like a geologist can help save the world" by Marcia Bjornerud is now available in the
@ThePalAss
newsletter! Thanks to
@Thomas_Clements
for the review invitation!
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It's here! It's been great fun working with everyone in putting this together. However, it is really just the start. The package will see continuous updates and improvements going forward and forms part of the wider
@ThePalaeoverse
project! Check it out:
We are thrilled to share that the paper describing the
#palaeoverse
package is now out in
@MethodsEcolEvol
! 📦
Check it out to learn more about our
#community
project, and some of our future plans! 🔓
#OpenAccess
#RStats
#GraphicalAbstract
#Palaeontology
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The reviewers' comments were generally very kind, positive, and encouraging. As a community, we generously give up our time to review... so this post is not to sound critical or unappreciative, just trying to increase awareness a little and highlight the weight of small comments.
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Another specimen from
@UniOslo_NHM
from a recent visit. A Silurian Mixopterus kiaeri (Approx. 70 cm)
#FossilFriday
#Fossil
#Palaeontology
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📢
#NAPC2024
abstract submission deadline is approaching!😱
Are you developing or applying new
#computational
methods in
#palaebiology
?👩💻
Check out our session on "Recent Advances in Computational Palaeobiology" convened by
@willgearty
,
@erinmdillon
,
@bethany_j_allen
, and I!
📢Are you on the cutting edge of the development and/or application of new methods in
#computational
#paleobiology
💻🐚🦴? Submit an abstract to our
#NAPC2024
session "Recent Advances in Computational Paleobiology"!
Submissions are open until January 20:
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I just received a notification that I've been nominated for the Union Fellowship award for my efforts in the student halls. The past 15 months have been pretty hard for wardens, so it is really nice to be nominated, thank you whoever is responsible! I have a big grin on my face😁
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Interested in how spatial sampling impacts our estimates of global temperate? Come check out our poster on ‘Uneven spatial sampling in Phanerozoic palaeo climate curves’.
#PalAss19
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Out on fieldwork this week in León looking at some Devonian sections. The sun is shining and there are plenty of corals to be found. It’s great to be back in the field 😁
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Sarcosuchus imperator from a recent visit to
@Le_Museum
& one very average-size Lewis for scale
@fossilfriday
#FossilFriday
#palaeontology
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Does Global Plate Model choice matter?🌍
This is the question we address in our recent
@EarthArXiv
preprint by
@LucasBuffan
, myself,
@_Sara_Varela
, Mathew Domeier,
@chris_scotese
, and
@tectonicSZ
#palaeogeography
#palaeobiology
#palaeoclimate
#tectonics
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I have been a pastoral warden in student halls for the past four years. This year has been without doubt the hardest on both students and the wardening team. This morning I woke up to a Christmas tree and present outside my door as a thank you from the students 😭
#toomanyfeels
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On top of this, I wanted to say a personal thank you to all fellow instructors and organisers!
@piginatutu
@bethany_j_allen
@PrincessQuatris
@EichenseerK
@sofiaGA96
@MirantaKouvari
You’re a fantastic bunch!
We’ve had a fantastic two days this week at UCL, London for the 1st Edition of the Palaeoverse Workshop and Hackathon! A big thank you to all attendees for bringing such enthusiasm (despite the warmth!) and being such a lovely bunch.
#palaeoverse
#palaeontology
#palaeobiology
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Fascinating keynote from
@Mass_Coral_Lab
on the mechanisms that enable corals to persist and thrive in extreme environments
#IFCRS2023
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Hoy tengo treinta años y un roscón de más de 30 centímetros de diámetro 😁
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We want to hear from you, the palaeobiology community!📢
What generic functions do you wish existed? 🔨
What takes up more of your time than it should? ⌛️
Please let us know what functions you think would be useful for you, and for the wider community:
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Stoked to see
@ThePalaeoverse
on the issue cover of
@MethodsEcolEvol
this month. Great job on putting together this wonderful graphic
@MirantaKouvari
and
@piginatutu
!
Don’t forget to check out our resources at .
#palaeoverse
#palaeobiology
#palaeontology
The image I created with
@piginatutu
introducing
@ThePalaeoverse
R package was chosen for this month's
@MethodsEcolEvol
issue! So proud🥹🥹🥹
📰 Check out our paper here:
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#FossilFactOrFiction
is open! Stop by Einstein’s Garden to find out how our view of past life is obscured by geological and human biases
#GreenMan19
Activities for both children and adults 👨👩👧👦
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If you are at
#PalAss22
and want to hear more about the palaeoverse project,
@emmadnn
and I would love to chat with you. The team would also love to hear from you in our survey, check out the thread below!☺️
We have some exciting news to share! We are in the process of developing 'palaeoverse', a community-driven R package📦📈🌍🦕
The aim of the 📦 is to provide generic functions to streamline analyses, and improve code readability and reproducibility.
As part of the development...
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Glad to see this paper out in
@MethodsEcolEvol
!
Check out
@willgearty
's thread for a glimpse at all the possibilities! 🐜
#rstats
#dataviz
#ecology
#palaeontology
🚨 Our paper describing the recently revamped
#rphylopic
#rstats
package is out now
#openaccess
in
@MethodsEcolEvol
!
Article 👉
Documentation on our website 👉
In-depth vignettes 👉
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Ichthyosaurus communis from the Lower Lias in Lavernock, Wales. Exhibited
@Museum_Cardiff
#FossilFriday
#fossils
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Corals are red,
Corals are blue.
Corals are many colours,
But if we don't make changes,
they’ll lose their hue.
#coral
#bleaching
#HappyValentinesDay
#ClimateBreakdown
#PhD
#PhDlife
Image from Michael Webster
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It's been great fun working with everyone on this project, and I've learnt so much from them all. Exciting things ahead!
It’s here! We are very pleased to share our preprint introducing the palaeoverse R package📦, hosted on
@EarthArXiv
.🌍
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Showing some coral love this
#FossilFriday
with this well-preserved Galaxea from a Last Interglacial fossil reef (~125,000 years old!) near Quseer, Egypt (left) 🪸.
These corals are even more beautiful when alive (right) 😍.
#fossil
#coral
#reef
@fossil_reef
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🇷🇴 Friends,
🇩🇪 Colleagues,
🇪🇸 Loved ones.
🇫🇷 I have them all from these European countries.
🇵🇱 Tomorrow will be a day of celebration for some,
🇮🇹 and a day of great sadness for others.
🇦🇹 Whatever side of the fence you stand on,
🇵🇹 be kind, and be mature.
🇬🇷 Also... 🖕Farage.
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Very excited to be leading this with
@AngelinaIvkic
! We've got some amazing early career researchers lined up, and a very exciting plenary talk. More details coming soon. For now, please spread the word and save the date😁
The IFCRS student council is organizing an online early career researcher symposium on the 15th of October! Registration will be free and expect many exciting talks! More info coming soon! STAY TUNED!
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Really excited for this series we've put together, a great line up of speakers! Don't forget to sign up 😁
#palaeoverse
#RStats
#palaeontology
🚨ANNOUNCEMENT!🚨
We're excited to share our new lectures series which will bring you the latest on novel software tools and methodological approaches in
#palaeobiology
!
The lectures will run on the last Thursday of every month at 14:00 UTC.
Sign up:
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Want to use data from , but struggle working with APIs?🪨🔨
We’ve got an R package for you!📦Introducing rmacrostrat, our latest
@ThePalaeoverse
toolkit.
Pre-print describing rmacrostrat is available
@EarthArXiv
:
#Geology
#RStats
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Recent update with palaeorotate() allows you to specify which Global Plate Model(s) you want to use... and calculate palaeogeographic uncertainty for those models😉
🚨palaeoverse ver. 1.1.1 is now on CRAN!🚨
Main updates:
- tax_range_space now has a coords argument to control output
- model argument in palaeorotate() now allows multiple models to be called.
More here:
#palaeoverse
#rstats
#OpenScience
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I just found out my 13 year old brother is learning Python in school. I didn’t even touch programming until my PhD 😂. I feel old.
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Just picked the banners up for
#PalAss17
Looking forward to having you all here
@ImperialRSM
@ThePalAss
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If Lewis can not go to
@GreggsOfficial
, Greggs will come to Lewis. Also, vegan sausage rolls are ace.
@Deliveroo
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Well it is a work in progress, but after following quite a few discussions from the palaeontological community on the need for self-promotion, I finally set up a website
It's also an excuse for me to share my hobby with you 📸
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Silurian Eurypterid for
#FossilFriday
displayed
@CosmoCaixa
@fossilfriday
#Palaeontology
#Eurypterid
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Abstract submission is now open for our
#NAPC2024
session on "Recent Advances in Computational Paleobiology" 🧑💻📈 Deadline 20th January!
📢Are you on the cutting edge of the development and/or application of new methods in
#computational
#paleobiology
💻🐚🦴? Submit an abstract to our
#NAPC2024
session "Recent Advances in Computational Paleobiology"!
Submissions are open until January 20:
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We’ve had perfect weather for looking at some Neogene Porites patch reefs with the undergraduates in the Sorbas basin today!
#corals
#reefs
#palaeontology
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I saw this lad from
@GUARDSofPEACE
spreading an important message today. Don't give into Islamophobia.
#love4all
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Does anyone else get a little triggered when people say doing a PhD isn’t really ‘working’? 😅
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Spending today and tomorrow undergoing mental health first aid training
@imperialcollege
Unbelievable amount of scary statistics!
#MentalHealth
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Hit the big 500 day streak on
@duolingo
today! Finding the motivation on a daily basis during thesis write up/panic was not always easy 😅
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Next up Anne Gothmann on the geochemical journey of corals through geological time
#IFCRS2023
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I never expected the thesis write-up period to be easy, but trying to simultaneously put together grants and finish up papers is exhausting
#PhDlife
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Post thesis submission holiday. Finally getting stuck into
@aptshadow
’s Children of Time... struggling to put it down, it’s so good! 🕷 🧬 🚀
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We've put together a summary of our recent paper in Geology. It is available to read in English, Spanish or German. 🇬🇧🇪🇸🇩🇪
Our (
@LewisAlanJones
&
@EichenseerK
) new paper on uneven spatial sampling and reconstructing global palaeotemperatures is out today in Geology
@geosociety
!!! 🌍🌡️🐚
You can check out the full paper here:
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Up next we have
@nsantodomingo
presenting on the long-term resilience of turbid reefs in the coral triangle 🪸
#IFCRS2023
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Can we determine different types of latitudinal biodiversity gradient from the sampled fossil record? Find out at our talk in this afternoon’s session
#PalAss19
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Don't forget to sign up for the new
#palaeoverse
#lecture
series bringing you the latest on novel software toolkits and methodological approaches in
#palaeobiology
! ⚙️🧰🧑💻
It's an incredible line up😁
⬇️⬇️⬇️
🚨ANNOUNCEMENT!🚨
We're excited to share our new lectures series which will bring you the latest on novel software tools and methodological approaches in
#palaeobiology
!
The lectures will run on the last Thursday of every month at 14:00 UTC.
Sign up:
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Visiting the Extinction exhibit in Porto, Portugal today. This is a photograph, taken in mid 1870s, showing a pile of American bison skulls.
#extinction
#bison
#america
#conservation
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Great introduction to constructing evolutionary simulations in R from
@bethany_j_allen
!
#palaeoR
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The initial development of 'palaeoverse' is a collaboration effort between
@bethany_j_allen
,
@willgearty
,
@emmadnn
,
@AAlechiarenza
,
@EichenseerK
,
@MirantaKouvari
,
@sofiaGA96
, Lucas Buffan and myself...
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We will be posting updates about palaeoverse from this account for now on, please follow to stay up to date with progress! 😊
Hello, world! 🌍
We’ve decided to bring the palaeoverse to the twitterverse. Give us a follow to stay up to date with our latest progress!
We’ve got some exciting news to share soon📦
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Finished this really great book over the weekend. This is one of the few books I’ve come across that gives a refreshing economic perspective for why we need rewilding🌳🐝🦋🕊
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Arrived just in time for the weekend and
#FossilFriday
!😁Looking forward to binge-read
@TJDHalliday
's new book 'Otherlands'.
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Very well deserved, congratulations
@MarkSutton15
!
Dr Mark Sutton, Senior Lecturer in
@ESEImperial
, has received a President's Medal for Excellence in Teaching Innovation, in recognition of his inspiring and innovative teaching approach.
Congratulations Mark!
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