Rebecca Cooper

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 nature.com/articles/s4146…

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.

🚨 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

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

@Rebeccasaurus_ Find the paleo and geo starter packs if you've not got them already.

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

Please share if you can! I will give a second, revamped workshop on Probabilistic inference of Phylogenetic Comparative Methods (PCM) using Julia: transmittingscience.com/courses/evolut…

🚨 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

📢📢 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! doi.org/10.31223/X5841N #rstats #geology

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! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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” 💻🦖⚒️

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

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 🦈

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: icm.csic.es/en/calls/fully… #palaeontology #palaeobiology

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

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 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/20…

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. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Colombian museum housing scientifically important fossils may close | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

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... nature.com/articles/s4159…

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. doi.org/10.1111/geb.13…

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! 🦈

Heterogeneous selectivity and morphological evolution of marine clades during the Permian–Triassic mass extinction rdcu.be/dKu4F

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! youtube.com/watch?v=hGJ7OM… #FossilFriday #palaeobiology #paleontology