Rebecca Cooper

Postdoctoral researcher at Natural History Museum & Centre for Planetary Habitability Oslo 🦖 Computational palaeobiology, deep learning and macroevolution 🦣

[Rebecca Cooper @Rebeccasaurus_]

Really happy to see paper one of my PhD out today in @NatureComms. We develop a deep learning framework for estimating diversity from fossil data 🤿 🦣🐚
Many thanks to @JoeFlanSan and Daniele Silvestro for the collaboration

https://t.co/V085PqpfAR

[Catalina Pimiento @pimientoc]

Our new paper is online in @CurrentBiology!
We found that; 1) today's sharks & ray diversity was already reached ~100Ma; 2) that the K/Pg extinction was not catastrophic; 3) that the max diversity was reached ~50Ma; and 4) that today's diversity is depleted compared to the past.

[CPEG & CPB Symposium 2025 @CPEG_CPB25]

🚨 Registration & abstract submission are NOW OPEN for the CPEG Meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium! 🚨

📅 Summer 2025
📍 University of Zurich, Switzerland

Visit our website for keynote speakers, deadlines, fees, workshops & more
https://t.co/QmNu3RyUfu

#CPEGCPB25

[Rebecca Cooper @Rebeccasaurus_]

@geology_johnson Thanks! Found a few now, seems a great way to get started

[Rebecca Cooper @Rebeccasaurus_]

Trying to find people over on the other place 🔎🦋 seems a good bit calmer so far

[ignacio quintero @ignacioqevo]

Please share if you can! I will give a second, revamped workshop on Probabilistic inference of Phylogenetic Comparative Methods (PCM) using Julia:
https://t.co/wvEynReIyS

[CPEG & CPB Symposium 2025 @CPEG_CPB25]

🚨 Exciting news! The second circular for the upcoming CPEG meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium in summer 2025 is out!
Details on keynote speakers, abstract submissions, registrations, fees, workshops, and more:
https://t.co/QmNu3RyUfu
See you in Zurich!🇨🇭 #CPEGCPB25

[Will Gearty @willgearty]

📢📢 New preprint out now on @EarthArXiv!

"deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable visualizations of data over geological time intervals"

That's right, there is now a proper citable paper for my deeptime R package!

https://t.co/40LL4w2wDx

#rstats #geology

[Rebecca Cooper @Rebeccasaurus_]

Our application note is now in preprint at @biorxivpreprint DeepDiveR is a package for deep learning estimation of diversity from fossil occurrences in R and Python 🤿🐅
Thanks to @bethany_j_allen and Daniele Silvestro for the collaboration so far!

https://t.co/B5Oj9G68Dc

[Kateryn Pino @KaterynPino]

If you’re to attend #GSA2024 & are interested in paleo, #macroevolution & quantitive methods to estimate diversity dynamics in time & space, consider joining our course on Sat 21st Sep: “Decoding the past: Deep Learning for Macroevolutionary Analysis” 💻🦖⚒️

[Rebecca Cooper @Rebeccasaurus_]

@CooperPalaeo @wl_allen @CindyFroyd @AlexDunhill @pimientoc @JNGriffy @TheFSBI Congrats Dr Cooper! 🦈

[Lewis A. Jones @LewisAlanJones]

Interested in doing a PhD on reconstructing Phanerozoic marine biodiversity and testing its drivers?

We are advertising a fully-funded position at the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM) in sunny Barcelona! ☀️

Details here: https://t.co/ueVbUj90xp

#palaeontology #palaeobiology

[Pimiento Research Group @PimientoGroup]

We are very excited to invite you all to the next edition the Crossing the Palaeontological-Ecological Gap (CPEG) meeting AND the Conservation Paleobiology Symposium, which will be held together, at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) in the summer of 2025

[Catalina Pimiento @pimientoc]

Benchmarking imputation methods for categorical biological data - Gendre - Methods in Ecology and Evolution -

We compare different methods to impute missing trait data, use sharks as a test, and introduce an R package https://t.co/0esSAQ8GNx

[Juan L. Cantalapiedra @singerstone]

1/ Glad to see our new study published! We present a new analytical tool to untangle the complexity of factors driving speciation and extinction patterns over deep-time. Our method uses paleontological occurrences and is based on neural networks.

https://t.co/5PuMIVneIN

[Juan David Carrillo @juand_carrill0]

Colombian museum housing scientifically important fossils may close | Science | AAAS https://t.co/7MmVItrI3n

[Lewis A. Jones @LewisAlanJones]

New paper alert!🚨

A Phanerozoic gridded dataset for palaeogeographic reconstructions 🌐

Global Plate Models are widely used in the Earth Sciences to reconstruct the past geographic position of geological samples, but their application is not trivial...

https://t.co/jXB7FKZQPZ

[Carlos Calderón del Cid @caldecid]

Thrilled that our research, "Challenges in estimating species' age from phylogenetic trees," was published in @GEB_macro .

Estimating species age is not trivial, but now it is more accurate thanks to our proposed method.

https://t.co/vR4WxY6ZwQ

[Dr. Jack Cooper 🦈 @CooperPalaeo]

Pleased to share my latest PhD chapter; where me & @pimientoc investigate the rise & fall of shark functional diversity during the Cenozoic era.

Now published OA in @GEB_macro! 🦈

[NatureEcoEvo @NatureEcoEvo]

Heterogeneous selectivity and morphological evolution of marine clades during the Permian–Triassic mass extinction https://t.co/7ecUVuO5b8

[The Palaeoverse Community @ThePalaeoverse]

In case you missed Daniele's lecture on "Neural network models to infer diversity trajectories and the drivers of speciation and extinction", you can catch up over on our YouTube channel!

https://t.co/APLvMViqO2

#FossilFriday #palaeobiology #paleontology