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03JAN 2022
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Nature Ecology & Evolution – Nussaibah Raja-Schoob & Paulina Nätscher
Nussaibah Raja-Schoob and Paulina Nätscher, together with colleagues from the UK, South Africa, Brazil and India, recently published a paper highlighting the effects of colonial history and socio-economic factors on sampling biases in the fossil record. The study shows that 97% of fossil data collected in the last 30 years were contributed by researchers in […]
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19DEC 2021
News from the GeoZentrum
PalaeoFAU’s Bele-mighty video won 1st place in the Palaeovision Fossil Contest!!!
The Annual Meeting of The Palaeontological Association 2021 ended again with the Palaeovision Fossil Contest. This is an online, interactive, international competition to decide the Annual Meeting’s favourite fossil for this year. The Paleontology Team (FAU) successfully completed a video about belemnites for FAU’s contribution to the PalAss Meeting’s Palaeovision Fossil Contest and won the […]The Annual Meeting of The Palaeontological Association 2021 ended again with the Palaeovision Fossil Contest. This is an online, interactive, international competition to decide the Annual Meeting’s favourite fossil for this year. The Paleontology Team (FAU) successfully completed a video about belemnites for FAU’s contribution to the PalAss Meeting’s Palaeovision Fossil Contest and won the […]
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17DEC 2021
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Speaker series “Diversity Dynamics and Crisis in Paleontology”
We are excited to share the Diversity Dynamics and Crisis in Paleontology speaker series with you all! “Thank you” to the fantastic speakers and to the organisers of the speaker series Nussaibah Raja-Schoob (Erlangen) and Emma Dunne (Birmingham) as well as Jansen Smith (Erlangen). Here’s our YouTube playlist with all contributions.
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19OCT 2021
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Gotland Field Trip 2021
Every second year our institute carries out a field trip to Gotland (Sweden). Photos from this year’s excursion led by Rachel Warnock and Axel Munnecke can be found here. The next trip to Gotland will be in 2023.
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12OCT 2021
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Temporary Faculty Position in Palaeontology
The Research Group Palaeobiology at the Geozentrum Nordbayern, Department of Geography and Geosciences, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany offers a: Temporary Faculty Position in Palaeontology We invite applications for an Akademischer Rat auf Zeit (= senior postdoc, assistant professor without tenure track) in our research group, which focuses on Global Change Paleobiology. We seek a candidate with […]The Research Group Palaeobiology at the Geozentrum Nordbayern, Department of Geography and Geosciences, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany offers a: Temporary Faculty Position in Palaeontology We invite applications for an Akademischer Rat auf Zeit (= senior postdoc, assistant professor without tenure track) in our research group, which focuses on Global Change Paleobiology. We seek a candidate with […]
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12OCT 2021
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We are back! Flügel Courses – September 2022
5 – 9th September and 12 – 16th September 2022 Nobody can reliably predict how the pandemic will develop over the next few months, but – thinking positive! – it looks like we can offer two “Flügel-Courses” on carbonate microfacies in September 2022. We are extremely pleased! The courses will take place from September 5th […]
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