Several members of our core team headed to Edinburgh this week to attend the official launch of the Institute for Research Software @softwaresaved.bsky.social (formerly the Software Sustainability Institute), who support much of the work we do via their Research Software Maintenance Fund.

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1/ Two really fun reviews just landed back to back in Current Biology, both on a question I never get tired of: why did animals take over when they did? One argues animals engineered their own world. The other argues oxygen and temperature had to line up first.

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6/ The big idea: an engineering 'regime shift' in the late Ediacaran (key step: White Sea to Nama), bringing new rules of community assembly. Framed as a hypothesis to test. Are humans the latest one? @alisoncribb.bsky.social @willgearty.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2026.08.056

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🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 We are very excited to share our next four talks in the Series 💻🦕🌎🌿🐚 This time, we're looking forward to hearing from Basanta Khakurel, Abigail Keeler Parker, Corentin Gibert, and Lizzy Steell! If you are interested, sign up here: palaeoverse.org/training/lec...

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Momentum Demonstration xkcd.com/3312/

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