Talks and activities
3rd July 2026: Emilia Jarochowska presented an invited plenary keynote at the STRATI2026 Congress: “Bridging the Disciplinary Unconformity: Incorporating Stratigraphy in Evolutionary Biology”
29th June 2026: Xianyi Liu and Emilia Jarochowska led a workshop on stratigraphic forward models with CarboKitten at the STRATI2026 Congress in Suzhou, China
23rd June 2026: Myrthe van der Heide, MSc student co-supervised by Rachel Warnock and Emilia Jarochowska, presented her talk “A dive into deep-sea lobsters: A Bayesian total-evidence approach to the phylogeny of polychelidan lobsters” at Progressive Palaeontology in London
19th May 2026: Charlotte Summers presented her talk “Exploring how biotic interactions affect cyclicity in carbonate rocks with CarboKitten.jl” at the Origins Center 2026 Conference
1st May 2026: Emilia Jarochowska and our two students, Myrthe van der Heide and Bruno Peeters, joined the science fair for kids, Expeditie NEXT at Enkhuizen, and engaged children and their parents in creating phylogenetic trees based on vertebrate skulls and in forming and deforming the stratigraphic record to learn why fossils are so rare.
Niklas Hohmann presented “Building FAIR R packages for scientists” at the Programming Cafe of Utrecht University on the 2nd of April, slides are available here
As part of the ICDP/IODP3 Kolloquium 2026 in Münster, Niklas Hohmann did teach a workshop on age-depth modeling together with Christian Zeeden at the GESEP school (Materials available here)
Emilia Jarochowska and Joël Koelewijn taught a half-day workshop “Building models for stratigraphic palaeobiology in R” at the Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting in Portsmouth, December 2025. All materials are available here - open as science should be!
5th October 2025: We presented a theater show about modelling evolution “Waarom zijn er verschillende organismen?” at Weekend van de Wetenschap in Utrecht, involving our alumna Anna Jansen
August 2025: Niklas Hohmann has presented the poster “Phylogenetic Inference from an Incomplete Fossil Record” at Congress of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) 2025 in Barcelona, Spain.
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