Talks and activities

• June 2025: We have hosted the CycloNet meeting: a conference and workshop for cyclostratigraphers, led by Niklas Hohmann. The meeting took place at Utrecht University on 26th - 29th June. It was followed by a 2-day field trip to the Devonian and Carboniferous of Belgium, led by Anne-Christine da Silva and David De Vleeschouwer. The conference included three workshops: on stratigraphic forward modeling with CarboKitten.jl, led by Johan Hidding and Xianyi Liu, on age-depth modeling in R, led by Niklas Hohmann, David De Vleeschouwer and Christian Zeeden, and on FAIR data, led by Aristotelis Kandylas, Vincent Brunst and Ilja Kocken.

• March 2025: We presented a show on modelling evolution and an interactive booth at Science is Wonderful! 2025 in Brussels in March. Read the report here

• February 2025: Xianyi Liu presented his talk How does subaerial erosion of carbonate platform distort the sedimentary record? at the SedsOnline webinar. See the recording

• February 2025: A recording of Niklas Hohmanns’ presentation “Recovering Trait Evolution From Incomplete Carbonate Successions” at PaleoPERCS is now available on YouTube

• February 2025: We joined the workshop on Efficient Programming in Julia at the Netherlands eScience Center, where Johan Hidding presented examples from CarboKitten.jl

• October 2024: The Paleoverse lecture “Building modeling pipelines for stratigraphic paleobiology in R” by Niklas Hohmann can now be viewed on YouTube, all materials are available on Zenodo

• September 2024: Niklas Hohmann received the PeerJ prize for the best talk at the Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft

• September 2024: We held the first workshop “Building modeling pipelines for stratigraphic paleobiology in R”. The materials are freely available online

• July 2024: Johan Hidding presented examples from CarboKitten.jl at his talk at JuliaCon 2024: Natural Science, Computer Modeling and Literate Programming See his talk on YouTube