#Digitalization: The “Antscan” web platform is the world’s largest digital database of 3D #insect data. It is the result of an international and interdisciplinary cooperation initiated by #KITKarlsruhe and the @oistedu.bsky.social in Japan. www.kit.edu/kit/english/...

The final part of the story: "The arduous path to obligate asexuality in Daphnia" is out in #ProcB 🥳 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article.... 1. Instead of comparing long-established asexuals to sexuals, we generated new asexual lineages to observe the transition in action.

Happy to hare that the preprint I was advertising below has been published by the Journal of Evolutionary Biology: academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-... Thanks @jevbio.bsky.social for supporting responsible publishing!

Rare Sex in “Obligate” Asexuals. Earlier this year, I was pleased that the first part of our work on Daphnia reproductive modes was published in JEB doi.org/10.1093/jeb/.... In brief, females from so-called obligate parthenogenetic lineages, are in fact able to rarely reproduce sexually. Thread👇

New paper out! It was an honor to collaborate with the legend Leah Krubitzer on this review to show that paleontologists and neurobiologists working together can only improve our understanding of brain evolution 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s44... Full access to the paper: rdcu.be/eK167

Olfaction written in bones A new study, led by Dr Quentin Martinez (@quentinwildlife.bsky.social) and Dr Eli Amson (@eliamson.bsky.social) from State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart gives new insights into the evolution of the sense of smell in mammals. Press release: t1p.de/7riwv

Olfaction written in bones 👃🧠🦴🧬 Thrilled to see our latest study showing that the olfactory bulb endocast is a reliable proxy for mammalian olfaction, now published in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Thread 👇

Happy to be a part of this big project led by Mario Bronzati & Matteo Fabbri—out today #OA in @currentbiology.bsky.social bit.ly/3M5weun —on the brain endocast of a close pterosaur cousin & what it means for pterosaur brain evolution...maybe different from bird brain evolution. 1/2

After two years of hard work, I’m proud to announce that our new special exhibition @smnstuttgart.bsky.social is now open for the public – Meet Triassic Life: Dawn of the world of reptiles (1/7).

Thrilled to have won the Amphibians and Reptiles category of the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year and to be able to share this fascinating frog behavior! #wpy61 #frogs #herpetology www.quentinmartinez.fr

🎉 PAPER OUT ! Happy to see another chapter of my PhD out in #MBE ! The African pygmy mouse flips the script on sex determination. Its multiple sex and neo-sex chromosomes 🤯 shape brain transcriptomes and drive sexual polymorphism, reflecting new evolutionary trajectories for sex-linked regions.

🚨 We are looking for 2 PhD students! 🧠🐸👃 Join the Manzini Lab @jlugiessen.bsky.social to explore the olfactory system in #aquatic #vertebrates. We mainly use #amphibians, combining: 🔬 Imaging 👩‍🔬 Cell biology 🐝 Behavior 👉 bit.ly/neurophd 🌍 bit.ly/manzinilab Please share! #PhD #neuroscience #job

Our paper on rodent thumbnails is out! Big team effort, powered by museum collections. Turns out, nails can reveal a lot about rodent evolution. Shoutout to Dr. Gordon Shepherd for the wild idea to study rodents thumbs!

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species go.nature.com/4mOb5T9

Huge congratulations to Isabelle Toussaint-Lardé on publishing the first paper of her PhD! 🎉 Ever wondered whether paedomorphic species change their feeding strategies from larval to adult stages? Is adulthood in axolotls just an illusion? 🧠👀

I am proud and grateful to present a dream project today in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Meet #Mirasaura grauvogeli, a #wonderreptilewith skin appendages that rival feathers and hairs, challenging our view of reptile #evolution🪶🦎

Thrilled to share our new paper out in BMC, part of my postdoc at @cornellvet.bsky.social! 🐘🐀 We found that larger mammals evolve more diverse morphologies, while smaller ones can explore many locomotor strategies without much change to their forelimbs. bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

A 45-million-year-old cetacean brain exhibits prominent olfactory regions, indicating that early whales retained a sense of smell 🐳🧠 academic.oup.com/evolut/advan... @smnstuttgart.bsky.social

Fossil brain 🧠🧟 of a 45-million-year-old cetacean! We are proud to publish‪ @journal-evo.bsky.social l the result of Elena Berger’s Bachelor’s thesis @smnstuttgart.bsky.social. Thread 👇 ‬

🚨🚨PhD position alert!🚨🚨 Do you like 🐢🐢? Or ecomorph evolution? I am offering a 36-month PhD position funded by the DFG about ecomorphology and neuroanatomy of turtles. Check out the ad here: www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc... Please share and if you have questions, send me a message 😉

My official baptism of Bluesky! Hot off the press! My last chapter of PhD has been finally published! Here we compare the internal anatomy of the chela closing muscles in two species of scorpions at the extremes of the chela morphological gradient. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Almost the weekend! Georges the caecilian (Herpele squalostoma) is clearly feeling it too! 🪱 #NameItToSaveIt #Caecilian #Amphibians @smnstuttgart.bsky.social

Paper alert 🚨 Our 1rst paper with @vivienl.bsky.social and colleagues is out in Functional Ecology! In this paper, we investigated how complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata.Want to know more? Read this👇 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Happy to have had the opportunity to write a short article discussing the findings of an exciting recent paper on the diversification of burrowing behaviour in mammals by Pinkert et al. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kzR93QW8S... (Full access via link until 10.06.25)

New @erc.europa.eu funded #ConvergeAnt preprint on using the evolution of pseudogenes to document the parallel regression of oral anatomy in myrmecophagous mammals posted at @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are hiring!! 🦎🧠🐍 2 year postdoc to work on on the evolution of brains in snakes and lizards (on our current ARC Discovery project). Applications close 25th March 2025! careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

Fun data acquisition at the Senckenberg Nature Museum! More #herpetology and #mammalogy to come! 🐻🐸🐍🦎

We CT scanned thousands of vertebrates from US natural history collections and made them freely available. Countless people have used the data for research (>200 pubs) and to learn anatomy/morphology. www.morphosource.org/projects/000...

Museum Resource 🩻 Digital Imaging Gallery Our Digital Imaging Division produces two- and three-dimensional data from museum collections. Many are available on Sketchfab & Morphosource. Explore some of the specimens our digitization team has been working on: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/digital-lab/...

Exciting PhD opportunity with amazing supervisors—don't miss out! 🦴🔬🐸

Happy New Year, featuring some Bornean highlights from last summer! #herpetology 🐍🦎🐸

What is this unique needle-like sesamoid for? Well, we do not know yet... so stay tuned! Meanwhile, check out our new paper on the evolution of #shrews royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Excited to regularly share squamate renderings created with our recently published SmARTR photorealistic pipeline—all derived from solely CT scan data! Check out the networks to create your own also here: github.com/MeVisLab/SmA...

Did you know elephants have over 100 nasal structures to enhance olfaction? 🐘👃Check out our new paper on turbinal bones across all placental mammal orders. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Amazing talk presented today by @barraza_ilse at #WCH10 🦎👃🧠

[New Paper] Interested in #olfaction, respiration, and nasal cavities? 👃🧠🐭🐒🐺🦇🐍🦎🐊🐸 Check out our review of turbinal bones across tetrapods, now published in Biological Reviews. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#CT scanning some monsters from the @smnstuttgart.bsky.social collections! 🐳

Happy to have our last olfactory paper highlighted on the cover image of @jevbio.bsky.social, featuring a cute mouse from the south of France. academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...

[New paper] Linking genomics and olfactory capabilities in mammals 👃🧬🐭🐒🐘🦦🦇 academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

Looking back on 2023, we spotted some cool species in French Guiana and Australia! #herpetology #PostdocLife

Just some super cool species from our last ecuadorian field trip with @CecileMolinier 😀

First #diceCT scans for @barraza_ilse the new PhD student of the @smnstuttgart.bsky.social working on olfaction in reptiles and amphibians! Follow her for more insights and updates!

[New paper] Mammalian maxilloturbinal evolution does not reflect thermal biology 👃🌡️- 🦥🐭🐪🦭 #CTscan #mammals nature.com/articles/s41...

Another cool #CTscan and #diceCT scan session with @gsferreira.bsky.social to be ready for the #ICVM2023 😁

Interested in Reptiles, Amphibians, and Morphology? Interested in pursuing a PhD? Join our SMNStuttgart team! "Convergent evolution of the olfactory system of subterranean reptiles and amphibians" Application deadline: May 18, 2023. quentinmartinez.fr/funded-phd-p...

[New paper] When morphology does not fit the genomes: the case of rodent olfaction. In rodents, we demonstrated an absence of relation between the main genomic and morphological proxies for olfaction. 👃🐭 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Having fun with @AmsonEli at the @kitkarlsruhe.bsky.social trying to scan some big skulls from the @smnstuttgart.bsky.social thanks to @Thomas_vdKamp, Marcus Zuber and Elias Hamann!

Our last paper is now freely available in @pnas.org Check out the differences between subterranean mole and amphibious desman! pnas.org/content/117/... 1/7

When you miss fieldwork! :D #Borneo

What a cool surprise that the Jaguar came to say hello to the camera only one day after setting up the camera-trap! Homemade camera-trap with CecileMolinier and Vincent Goanec. French Guiana 2019