Lewis Williams

🚨 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 cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch/en.html #CPEGCPB25

🚨 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: cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch/en.html See you in Zurich!🇨🇭 #CPEGCPB25

Today, I passed my PhD viva. I am now (unofficially) Dr Cooper! 📜🦈 Huge thanks to chair @wl_allen & my examiners @CindyFroyd + @AlexDunhill for making it such a pleasant experience. And my biggest gratitude to @pimientoc, @JNGriffy & @TheFSBI for all their support! #PhDone 🦈

We're thrilled to announce the upcoming CPEG & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium! Join us in person or virtually at the University of Zurich🇨🇭 in the summer of 2025. First circular here: cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch

How are sharks and seaweeds connected? Now that’s what I call a quiz tie-breaker! Great get together with our Coastal Ecology @BefScale group and @PimientoGroup. 🎄

Fantastic weekend as always at @WEEN_Wales! Endlessly fascinating science throughout! Chuffed to take 1 of the talk prizes too. Big thanks to rest of the committee & shout out to @LewisPalaeo & @ClemPrieul for their 1st conference talks as PhD students 🦈 #WEEN23

@CooperPalaeo @WEEN_Wales @ClemPrieul @SaraMBariselli @theSeimParticle @rubygeorge_ @BootlegBryos @amygresham48 @SarahduPlessi16 @chessie_m Thanks Jack for all your work organising it, it was awesome! 🦈

JOB: We're hiring a Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer in Palaeobiology (permanent) @BristolPalaeo @UoBEarthScience @BristolUni. Researchers of any branch of the tree of life and interval of Earth History welcome. Application deadline Dec 20. Please RT

Our first speaker in Ethology & Evolutionary Processes is Lewis Williams on the angiosperm terrestrial revolution 🌱

We are so happy to have two new members (@ClemPrieul & @LewisPalaeo) in our team this semester! We are also excited about the results of Dominink's master's project, to be presented at @UZH_Science next month. So many shark questions & such great group of people to answer them 🦈

We had a blast during our joint lab retreat discussing ideas and planning new projects. We were so lucky to be able to meet in such a beautiful spot! 🦈🐋🌲🐭🐘🌊🧬🦕

The abstract submission for WBF24 is now open! We invite the PALEO community to submit abstracts for our session: Insights from the past for a better future. worldbiodiversityforum2024.org/session-progra… See in Davos! Ps: There are excellent train connections to get to Switzerland #ReduceFlying

@Sandy_Heth @ERC_Research @InstMolPlantSci @SBSatEd Congratulations Sandy!!

So excited to have been awarded an ERC StG @ERC_Research @InstMolPlantSci @SBSatEd to pursue our work on the evolution of phyllotaxis. In project WhyFib we will investigate the evolutionary driving force behind the widespread nature of Fibonacci spirals in plants

📣Fully funded #evolution #palaeobiology PhD position at the @OpenUniversity @OU_LHCS "The evolution of skeletal diversity and complexity in tetrapod animals" with myself and Luke Mander. ➡️Start date February 2024 ➡️Application deadline 22nd September tomstubbs.co.uk/students.html

Day 4 @BristolPalaeo Iberian Chains fieldtrip we studied sediments, taphonomy, ecology of Las Hoyas lagerstatte and visited Cuenca Palaeontological Museum. Special thanks to Jesus Marugan-Lobon and Hugo Martin-Abad, Y4 students Kacper, Lewis, Felix + @Conodontoman and @Macro_Fun

@Sandy_Heth @HFSP @BristolBioSci @beeckman_tom @PSB_VIB @fujinami_rieko @InstMolPlantSci @SBSatEd Congratulations! That's absolutely brilliant news 🎉

1/3 Very excited that our @HFSP grant led by Jill Harrison @BristolBioSci, and including Tom Beeckman @beeckman_tom @PSB_VIB, Rieko Fujinami @fujinami_rieko and myself @InstMolPlantSci @SBSatEd was funded 🎉🥳🎉!!!! hfsp.org/awardees/newly…

@wl_allen Thanks Will! I can't wait to come back home and get started!

✨ MEET THE TEAM ✨ @LewisPalaeo will be joining our team in September to do a PhD at @SwanseaUni on shark phylogenetics, co-supervised by @wl_allen and D. Silvestro. He's interested in data science & machine learning, & also loves playing music, rock climbing & mountain biking