Wolfgang Kiessling

Eine Grafik, die den Frauenanteil in wissenschaftlichen Führungspositionen über die Zeit von 1997 bis 2022 zeigt. Max-Planck und Leibniz haben dabei 2022 immerhin knapp 30% erreicht, die Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft liegt mit etwas über 23% im Durchschnitt und Fraunhofer ist weit angeschlagen mit 8.3%

Heute ist #InternationalerFrauentag #IWD💐.
Zeit, darauf aufmerksam zu machen, dass zB. im deutschen Wissenschaftssystem Frauen (insbesondere in Führungspositionen) immer noch unterrepräsentiert sind. Spannend ist dabei auch der Blick auf die bundesfinanzierten großen Forschungseinrichtungen. 🧵
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The billion-dollar case for sustaining palaeontology’s digital databases - Nature Ecology & Evolution The authors survey community palaeontological databases, documenting their contributions to science as well as their vulnerabilities, and provide recommendations for the future of open science databas...

New paper emerging from our Paleosynthesis project @paleosynth.bsky.social.
In www.nature.com/articles/s41..., we highlight the value of databases to #paleontology and the importantce of sustained funding. Our finding are probably applicable to other science fields as well.

Grad students! Three more weeks to submit your Paleobiology Summer School application. Don’t forget!
We need your application & the letter of support by your supervisor. Questions or do you need assistance? Get in contact and we are happy to help.
More info: www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/apw-apply/

Apply for Sepkoski Grants $1000 USD if you are a paleontologist from Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Central and South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia www.paleosoc.org/sepkoski-gra... deadline March 1 @paleosoc.bsky.social

Wow—thanks @bruceslieberman.bsky.social for posting the entire issue of Paleobiology vol 51/4 2025 “Punctuated Equilibria at 50”—open access papers from the GSA 2022 50th anniversary symposium! A great community celebration!!

Hi there. I’d like to be added to this list. I’m a German paleontologist working on climate impacts on the biosphere.

scholar.google.de/citations?us...

Could you add me to this list?
I’m a paleontologist in Germany and here is a link to my Scholar site

scholar.google.de/citations?us...

A little less than a week to submit abstracts for the World Biodiversity Forum 2026! Join our session on #MarineBiodiversity science across time and disciplines can help achieve the #30x30 protection goal! 🐳🐙🐟🦈
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess...

@IPBES.net assessments highlight gaps in biodiversity and ecosystem knowledge. Your work may already help fill them.

📝 Contribute to this global effort and have your input reported to the IPBES Plenary: https://www.ipbes.net/knowledge-gaps-questionnaire-2025

Bundeskanzler Merz: Taten statt Blockaden auf der Klimakonferenz! Die Welt blickt auf die kommenden Klimaverhandlungen in Belém. Dieser Gipfel wird den Kurs für die globalen Klimamaßnahmender nächsten Jahre bestimmen – in einer Zeit, in der die Klimakrise längst Rea...

Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/bu...

Coming to WBF2026 in Davos? Join our session on supporting GBF goals using marine biodiversity across time and disciplines! 👇
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess...
@worldbioforum.bsky.social

Was ist verkehrt an einem verplichtenden Gesellschaftsjahr? Es könnte so viele Fliegen mit einer Klappe schlagen. Ein bisschen mehr an einem Strang ziehen, kann uns in Deutschland sicher nicht schaden.

Gibt es sogar auf Deutsch. Was sind die großenFragen der Paläontologie weltweit

Palaeonology: A small subject has big questions The involvement of around 200 researchers from over 30 different countries and more than five years’ work have resulted in 89 “Big Questions” – the most important research questions in paleontology…

Also press release here: www.fau.eu/2025/09/news...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Human impacts on large mammals went well beyond triggering late Quaternary mass extinctions. A new paper by Brook et al. showing that biogeographic patterns were erased by the spread of domesticated species:

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

A related paper is in press. Stay tuned.

We (me, @barankarapunar.bsky.social, @sinjinis.bsky.social and @harriedrage.bsky.social) organized a symposium for the next IPC (Cape Town 2026!) on evolution, diversity and ecology in marine ecosystems throughout the Phanerozoic.
Contact us if you would like to participate or to know more about it!

🚨Registration open!🚨

Join us for the 4th Early Career Researcher Symposium of the International Fossil Coral and Reef Society (it’s online and free!) 🪸

📆 13th November 2025
⏰ 09:00–16:00 UTC
🔗 Register: fau.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...

I haven't used "Academia .edu" for 15 yrs (only tried it when it 1st came out) but they just tried charge me ~$400 automatic on a card w/o any notification or me agreeing to renew/reactivate anything. This is such a predatory scam & they really shouldn't be allowed an ".edu" too Watch out for them

Screenshot des bsky profils der @fau.de. 4379 follower. Ziel in rot eingetragen: 4444. GO!

Ich bin großer Fan der @fau.de

Es fehlen jetzt hier nur noch 65 follower und wir haben die Schnapszahl 4444. die FAU wäre die erste deutsche Uni, die das schafft. Bitte repostet.

If you know anyone interested in starting a Master's project working on ammonoid phylogenetics (or the phylogenetics of a mollusc group spanning the OAE2 event in the Late Cretaceous), then ask them to get in touch with me.

The situation is a little tricky, as it would be funded by the remainder…

Der (fast) letzte Schritt zur Dekarbonisierung ist getan:
Wärmepumpe ☑️
PV-Anlage ☑️
Solarthermie ☑️
E-Auto ☑️
Es hat lange gedauert, aber jetzt erstmal happy.

Very true!

A still very worthwhile read. Charles Lyell made it possible that both these great thinkers appeared in the same issue of the journal.

The Legacy of Elizabeth Vrba During the paleobiological revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, the status of paleontology as an evolutionary discipline was attempted to be established by a number of paleontologists. From 16th to 1…

The Legacy of Elizabeth Vrba paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/t...

Bundesumweltministerium: Großer Teil des BUdgets geht für Atommüll drauf

Wahnsinnsgrafik, Wahnsinnszahl, kaum besprochen:

More than happy that this is finally out. Well done @isaiah-e-smith.bsky.social

Artwork makes the heart work, especially when it is meaningful. This is Emiliana huxleyi, perhaps the most abundant eukaryotic organism on our planet!

Journal title in Nature Communications

🚨New paper just out on environmental upset at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary🚨

Using boron isotopes in fossil oysters, we find a major pulse of ocean acidification and CO2 rise, driving global warming and delaying ecosystem recovery following the end-Triassic mass extinction
rdcu.be/ev6XV

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Well deserved @neilshubin.bsky.social. Not all is lost for US science future.