DEAR COLLEAGUES, TRANSMITTING SCIENCE IS OFFERING A NEW COURSE: "PALAEOBIOLOGY WITH R: METHODS FOR DEEP-TIME DATA ANALYSIS" Course schedule: Online live sessions on November 25th-29th, 2024. From 14:00 to 18:00 (Madrid time zone). Instructors: Dr. Lewis A. Jones [1], Dr. Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza [2], and Dr. Chris Dean [3] (University College London, UK). Course Overview In this introductory course to Analytical Palaeobiology attendees will be provided with an extensive guide to the theory behind it, and tools available for getting started with reconstructing deep-time macroecological and macroevolutionary patterns. First, key concepts such as the structure of the fossil record and associated geological and anthropogenic biases will be introduced, followed by the type of data and databases available for reconstructing deep-time biodiversity trends. Subsequently, we will introduce various tools available within the R environment for modelling deep-time macroecological and macroevolutionary patterns, and testing hypotheses. R is one of the most popular languages in the world of Data Science and has been widely adopted by the paleobiological community to clean, analyse and plot data. This course will provide an extensive introduction to palaeoverse, an R package that supports data preparation and exploration for paleobiological analysis. Additional packages developed by Palaeoverse [4], such as rmacrostrat, will also be introduced along with the versatility R has to offer. This course will provide an opportunity for attendees to work with different researchers and gain experience working collaboratively in R to generate reproducible research. Participants are encouraged to bring their dataset (but not required), as the schedule will include time for applying the tools presented in the workshop to their research questions. More information and registration: https://www.transmittingscience.com/courses/palaeobiology-with-r-methods-for-deep-time-data-analysis/ If you have any questions, please write to courses@transmittingscience.com Best wishes Sole Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno, PhD Director Transmitting Science www.transmittingscience.com Twitter @SoleDeEsteban Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2049-0890 Under the provisions of current regulations on the protection of personal data, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 (GDPR), we inform you that personal data and email address, collected from the data subject will be used by TRANSMITTING SCIENCE SL to manage communications through email and properly manage the professional relationship with you. The data are obtained based on a contractual relationship or the legitimate interest of the Responsible, likewise the data will be kept as long as there is a mutual interest for it. The data will not be communicated to third parties, except for legal obligations. We inform you that you can request detailed information on the processing as well as exercise your rights of access, rectification, portability and deletion of your data and those of limitation and opposition to its treatment by contacting Calle Gardenia, 2 Urb. Can Claramunt de Piera CP: 08784 (Barcelona) or sending an email to info@transmittingscience.com or http://transmittingscience.com/additional-terms. If you consider that the processing does not comply with current legislation, you can complain with the supervisory authority at www. aepd.es . Confidentiality. - The content of this communication, as well as that of all the attached documentation, is confidential and is addressed to the addressee. If you are not the recipient, we request that you indicate this to us and do not communicate its contents to third parties, proceeding to its destruction. Disclaimer of liability. - The sending of this communication does not imply any obligation on the part of the sender to control the absence of viruses, worms, Trojan horses and/or any other harmful computer program, and it corresponds to the recipient to have the necessary hardware and software tools to guarantee both the security of its information system and the detection and elimination of harmful computer programs. TRANSMITTING SCIENCE SL shall not be liable. Links: ------ [1] https://www.transmittingscience.com/lewis-a-jones/ [2] https://www.transmittingscience.com/instructors/alfio-alessandro-chiarenza/ [3] https://www.transmittingscience.com/chris-dean/ [4] http://www.palaeoverse.org Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)