PBDB "Social Distancing" webinar series

The Paleobiology Database is here to help with your research while we help keep the world safe via social distancing. The PBDB will be holding a series of webinars on how you can use the PBDB in your research! These webinars will be recorded and posted on the PBDB Resources webpage as well as their Youtube channel.

The first webinar will be on downloading data from the PBDB and will be held on Thursday, April 9, at 1 pm Eastern Daylight Time. If there are many people interested, we will take the first group on April 9, and schedule another for the overflow. The PBDB is considering hosting other sessions in Spanish and Greek, so please let us know if you are interested in these alternatives.

UPDATE 1: A new webinar has been announced, this one will focus on how you can use the PBDB in your classrooms using their Educational Resources. This webinar will be held on Friday, April 17, at 1 pm Eastern Daylight Time. Please contact the PBDB by 5 pm Eastern, April 16, if you want to join the session.

UPDATE 1: A new webinar has been announced, this one will focus on how to use the PBDB for Bayesian Phylogenetic Analyses with the Paleobiology Database. Pete Wagner will host this webinar and it will be held on Thursday, May 7, at 1 pm Eastern Daylight Time. Please let info@paleobiodb.org know by 5 pm Eastern, May 6 if you want to join the session.

If you are interested in joining these sessions, please drop an email to info@paleobiodb.org and they will send you instructions to join in. If you are interested in joining the PBDB team and entering data yourself, you can go to paleobiodb.org and click on Join the PBDB. There you can register for a guest user account which is the first step to becoming a data enterer.