A new model of skull function just dropped, written by yours truly! It describes the skull as an arch-bridge like structure that uses tensile elements to guide arcs of compressive stress between the biting teeth and jaw joints. 💀🤓💀🤓💀🤓💀🤓💀🤓 #skull #science onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/QTY2SA...

Do you work on #palaeoneurology ? I’m honored to be serving as @natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Reports collection Guest Editor on this most awesome topic, and I am eager to read your submission! #brain #evolution 🧠 Learn more about the collection and how to contribute: go.nature.com/3NSfTut

@theskullywaglab.bsky.social 's Rex Mitchell has totally outdone himself with a paper explaining how (akinetic) skulls evolve with bite stresses. The genius sub-surface stress distribution visualisations need to be seen to be believed so here are a couple. doi.org/10.1111%2F17...

It's been the most fun science I've done for a long time...visiting @ansto.bsky.social synchrotron to scan huge shark heads with @draliceclement.bsky.social

‪[1/n] New paper co-lead by @emmadnn.bsky.social‬ @macroecoevoale.bsky.social‬ and I: we combined fossil occurrences, biogeography and climate modelling to investigate the origins and early evolution of pterosaurs 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It’s live!🎉 The new ARDC Nectar Research Cloud node at the University of Adelaide is now providing South Australian researchers with cloud computing resources. Learn how Nectar can boost your research > 🔗 ardc.edu.au/article/new-...

An incredible new resource - Go @bluerehn.bsky.social !

Congrats to @draliceclement.bsky.social for a very well deserved Research Leader Award!

The latest episode of What The Duck (Dogs!) is all about dingoes! Have a listen! www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

@draliceclement.bsky.social is making waves across the country!

Rare job opportunity @ WA Museum Perth. Research Officer of marine fishes 2 year position. Fish IDs, DNA sequencing, curation and digitisation 🐟🔬🧬📷 search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...

Happy to say that @aus10ash.bsky.social's MSc work on patterning at the p4/m1 boundary is out: link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007... #mammal #ungulate #dentition #DevBio #morphometrics #EvoDevo #evolution

Oh like the Ninja Turtle in Go Extinct! Megafauna! I will ruthlessly exploit the opportunity to plug that this and 29 other drawings of Australian (mega)fauna is freely available CC-BY-SA on Wikimedia Commons, link is on: epicaustralia.org.au/resource/goe... @wikimediafoundation.org

Pleased to say that the final chapter of my PhD is out today in Nature Ecology and Evolution: www.nature.com/articles/s41... My favourite bit of science that I've done to date. If you enjoy biogeography, weird reptiles, and the TARDIS, then have a read!

Wildlife belongs in the wild, not hung up on walls as decoration. That's why we're urging Amazon to join Etsy and eBay and stop selling painted woolly bats so their populations can again flourish in the wild — where they belong. Add your voice. ⬇️

🗺️ Ever wander to a new place and think, "Hmm I wonder what birds/plants/[insert favourite taxonomic group] I can find here?" 🔍 We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏

What a brilliant idea! Now let's find a way of getting dead white men's names off those charts :-)

Laurel Nave-Powers is scanning sand lance to do cranial morphometrics on different species. She just got her first volume rendering of her own scans. Very exciting. #scanAllFish 🧪

We postponed the deadline to June 22, so there is still a bit less than two weeks to apply!

If government really took this issue seriously it could be fixed very quickly and everyone—most importantly Australia's wildlife and ecosystems—would be far better off www.abc.net.au/news/rural/p...

Decided there's not enough lizards in the #ColorsOfSkullAnatomy collection 🦎 So, new to the gang: Phyllurus platurus (southern leaf tail gecko). An Aussie lizard of course, and one of the 1st specimens I scanned at Florida Museum in 2021 www.graysvertebrateanatomy.com/leaftail-gecko-skull-anatomy/

🚨Anyone want a job?🚨 We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪 - cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo - bioinformatics and molecular biology Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n

Less than two months before our book is finally released. If you are interested in bird behaviour or comparative neurobiology and want to learn more, this is the book for you! mitpress.mit.edu/978026255273... And the ebook will be open access! #neuroskyence #ornithology #birds 🧪🧠

Today we’re publishing Ozboneviz, an open-access 3D atlas of Australian vertebrate (mostly mammal) bones: doi.org/10.1093/bios...

Declining to behave unethically & declining to capitulate to zionists could've saved Melbourne Symphony Orchestra $3.3 million in legal fees

A leaked report has confirmed what Larrakia people and environmental experts have been saying all along — Labor's Middle Arm Gas Hub is an ecocidal disaster in the making. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If you happen to be in Alice Springs this Saturday morning, Megafauna Central is hosting an international tabletop game day featuring our Go Extinct! Game. If you happen to be elsewhere, you can print and play at home: epicaustralia.org.au/resource/goe...

* An immediate increase in spending—to at least 1% of the federal budget annually— on environmental protection and restoration. biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/top-sci...

Today is #WorldEnvironmentDay 🌏. A message for @albomp.bsky.social, Senator Watt, & Labor, we urgently need: * The long promised but yet to be delivered environmental law reform, & reform that’s strong & consistent with the recommendations of experts. theconversation.com/5-things-we-...

Yesterday I taught 110 2nd year biology students how anyone can keep tabs on any biodiversity, anywhere in Oz, using the Atlas of Living Australia's incredible Spatial Analysis portal.

Postdoc position with Erin Saupe at Oxford on whales past and present my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Erin’s great! And who doesn’t like whales? 🐋🐳

Always was, always will be Aboriginal land. Please watch this and share. And, question your local MP how anyone could approve a project that puts ancient First Nations peoples' culture at risk! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3AP... Save Murujuga. Say NO to the North West Shelf Gas project.

Further evidence that you’ll find gagged scientists and corrupt politicians behind every approval for more fossil fuels in Australia. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Loving my 2nd year marine prac - reminds me that oceans are full of creepy aliens with slimy tentacles and multi-fanged jaws

Thylacines. A3 private commission. A pair of Tasmanian wolves chase a pademelon (a sort of Tasmanian wallaby) My first time doing a thylacine. Definitely my first time going a pademelon.

Belated shoutout to @draliceclement.bsky.social for the incredible claw print paper that came out last week in Nature!

Finally decided to claw my back out of social media oblivion...so nice to see all the best people here 🥰.