Palaeobiology student Niklas Hohmann connects mathematics and paleontology in unexpected ways. In his contribution for the 1st palaeontological virtual congress, he describes how a blurring effect used by Instagram and Photoshop can be used to describe how extinction events are preserved in the fossil record.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb21XDR-Geo&t=1s
Reversing Time Averaging and Reconstructing Extinction Rates with Approaches from Image Processing
