🦴✨ We’re excited to share that the Centre for Integrative Anatomy will be part of this fantastic event! Come along, meet our researchers, and discover how integrative approaches are shaping the future of anatomical science. 📍 Don’t miss it—see you there! 🔗 Event details: bsky.app/profile/laur...

We’re really excited to be a part of this! Join us @royalsociety.org for cutting-edge scientific activities, specimens and more!

Learn more about our exhibit here: Learn more: www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

Our exhibit "Immortalising Natural History in 3D" will be one of of the flagship exhibits at the @royalsociety.org #SummerScience Exhibition from June 30th - July 5th! @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social with @leaveylab.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social

Now some really exciting news - together with @leaveylab.bsky.social at @unisouthampton.bsky.social myself representing @ucl.ac.uk will be co-leading one of the 13 flagship exhibits for @royalsociety.org #SummerScience Exhibition! @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Our newest paper, led by postdoc Thayara Carrasco & published in @funecology.bsky.social, tracks functional diversity loss of land mammals during the Late Pleistocene extinctions in a grassland ecosystem 🧵 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🎨: @lacerdajulio.bsky.social

Hey students: AI might make your emails *look* clever but all you are doing is pushing your work on to me. I can smell it a mile away, and I don’t play that game.

Our work is featured on the cover of the latest issue of @jexpbiol.bsky.social!! Stunning photo of the green salamander (Aneides aeneus) taken by Brady O'Brien (braveotterbiology.com).

Interested in foot biomechanics and especially heel pads? We have a 3.5-year PhD studentship open now! Fully funded at UK rates by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and Vivobarefoot ltd.

🦇 Postdoc fellowship opportunity for Mammal Collection Curator at UENF, Brazil (instructions in Portuguese). Join an active research group in a vibrant Institution in Brazil: sites.google.com/uenf.br/ecol...

Please share! It’s a quick turn-around for this PhD opportunity accepting applications until 29 June! Join an amazing lab in an amazing city…

🚨 New paper in @asejournal.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1002/ase.70286 🚨 @drchn.bsky.social and I studied how 3D digital models are used in animal anatomy education and what makes them great. We found that many people were not aware of existing resources, so let's get some shared in the thread below!

Come join our team in Exeter! We're looking for a Lecturer in Archaeology for a three year teaching post, focusing particularly on practical skills and fieldwork (closing date 30 June): careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/95...

Ever wondered what a hackathon is? I wrote this to accompany our paper on data- and code- sharing where all the data came from a hackathon... methodsblog.com/2026/04/09/t... Paper: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

New paper out! 🦴🐒 In the trabecular bone of tamarin limbs, we found that beyond non-locomotor factors, leaping distance leaves a signal! Thanks to @aveneziano.bsky.social, and colleagues from the lab led by @johnnyakatura.bsky.social Open Access on American Journal of Biological Anthropology

There was some good news on grants in 2025 as well. First, along with Antonio Ballell Mayoral we were thrilled to recieve a @leverhulme.ac.uk Research Project Grant to support a three-year project looking at the evolution of cranial kinesis in lizards based in the @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social

I was really pleased to be selected by our medical students as one of the Top Teachers for Year 2 in both 2024 and 2025: www.ucl.ac.uk/medical-scie...

Feeling honoured to have been invited to present the Robert Broom Memorial Lecture. Come join me if you want to hear all about #brain evolution in the African hominin #fossil record 🧠💀

@edwindejager.bsky.social postdoctorant @palevoprim.bsky.social, donnera la "Robert Broom Memorial Lecture" organisée par le DITSONG: Museums Of South Africa en ligne le 17 juin à 10.00. Register here: lnkd.in/exjQBGFx @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @fondationfyssen.bsky.social @univpoitiers.bsky.social

Some more chameleon goodness, with links to the paper!

📣 We have a new FUNDED PhD opportunity on ageing of the human heelpad: tissue properties and gait biomechanics. 📍Location: @livevobiomech.bsky.social 👩‍💻The team: @krisda.bsky.social @drrostireadioff.bsky.social and me! 🔗 Apply: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

First an awesome digital dissection of frog pelves and hindlimbs from former lab PhD student and postdoc @leaveylab.bsky.social

Another early release from our special issue celebrating Integrative Anatomy and UCL's 200th anniversary. Go check it out!

The A Land Fit for Heroes trilogy by Richard K. Morgan. I need to see Ringil in HBO!

Late 2025 was a busy time for publications from the lab! First, our digital dissection of the heads of male and female veiled chameleon in @anatrecord.bsky.social led by @leaveylab.bsky.social with @eloygl.bsky.social

The lab was represented at the virtual ICVM 2025 Meeting by both @eloygl.bsky.social and @leaveylab.bsky.social who presented their work on chameleon head geometric morphometrics and anatomy @isvmorph.bsky.social

@leaveylab.bsky.social was busy in early 2025, first presenting her postdoctoral work in the lab on veiled chameleon digital dissection at the Anatomical Society Winter Meeting, also with lab postdoc @eloygl.bsky.social ...

Looking for a cool MRes degree project in a great 5-faculty biomechanics lab in the UK? I've still got one open, on the biomechanics of locomotion in chickens. Great for people wanting a biomechanics background, anatomy, evolution, animal welfare/veterinary, etc.! www.rvc.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Turns out this link doesn't work. Try this one instead: ce0568li.webitrent.com/ce0568li_web...

Probably the best and most horrible thing you're gonna see today

We presented two published studies on #Australopithecus brain endocasts and the reconstruction of Little Foot’s face, and exciting ongoing research to identify functional signals in postcranial elements by @juliaramendi.bsky.social and J. Karoui-Canedo, all using #HPC!

Very glad that our new #GRAVIBONE paper led by C. Etienne is out. It describes microanatomical adaptations in the forelimb long bones in rhinos (with high resolution scans of these large bones) & notably introduces our new approach for trabecular bone mapping. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🌈Want to come listen to me talk about queer nature? Of course you do! I'm doing a cute little talk this Sunday 07 for Manningtree Pride at ✨Little Bear Bar✨. Tickets are only £5, so if you're in the area you've got no excuse, really. Buy a ticket! 👇 checkout.square.site/merchant/MLA...

Just four weeks to go until @royalsociety.org #SummerScience!! As well as running the 'Immortalising Natural History in 3D' exhibit, I'll be speaking on the 'Anatomy - old science meets new tech' panel as part of 'Attenborough at 100: a weekend of wildlife' 🦎🐸 royalsociety.org/science-even...

Hey look: A job! @echinerd.bsky.social and I are looking for a research technician to work on sea urchin development. If you are good at segmenting CT scans and want a chance to work on some super cool organisms, this job here at UCL is for you! apply now: bit.ly/4o2qccY

Finally, Assistant Research Scientist Anne Kort leads an investigation of the postcranial anatomy and function of the early canid Mesocyon: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

There's a persistent fantasy that maybe some other nice countries will start mass-hiring US scientists. That's not going to happen. A few high-profile, big name researchers will get poached, sure. But most countries, including some very nice ones, are underemploying their own scientists already.

This week @apwoodbailey.bsky.social @lucyhholmes.bsky.social and I went to Knowsley Safari Park to see some of the amazing animals we’ll be studying during our @leverhulme.ac.uk Building Giants project 😄🦏🦌🦒

Assistant Professor position in paleontology @uugeo.bsky.social 🤩 🐚 🌊 🧪 ⚒️

UCL’s Laura Porro recently teamed up with children’s TV presenter Maddie Moate to explore dinosaur diets, reptile teeth, and even what brains can tell us about intelligence. 🔗 Read more: www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

*Upcoming deadline for two advertised posts in the Miller Cognition and Conservation Group is 5 June 2026* - 4-year PhD advert: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... - 4-year Postdoc advert: careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/78...

Our (Jenny Dunn, Carolina Chagas, @willjsmith.bsky.social) paper on the evolution of island Wrens is finally out @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social! We describe the evolution of island gigantism in the St Kilda and Shetland subspecies. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...

Just received the feedback from a(nother) grant application I did not get. First time ever such feedback has made me feel good about myself. Thank you for that, decision panel!

📣 Introducing MorphSim: an R package for simulating discrete morphological data along phylogenetic trees, built for fossil-inclusive phylogenetics, with all the complexity of real morphological data baked in 🪨🌿 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Looking for a postdoc to join my group at the NHM London & work on aDNA of dogs/wolves! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

I visited alpaca gait biomechanics - inspired robotics collaborator Dr Sara Abad Guaman in the BioARL at UCL today, finally seeing the robots we're working on in the roboflesh. www.ucl.ac.uk/engineering/...

Researchers at Utrecht University have upgraded Paleolatitude - originally built to link fossil records to ancient climates, but now it is a free online tool that traces the geological history of any point on Earth over the last 320 million years 🌐 paleolatitude.org#!/

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

Reviewers in two groups were given identical resumes for Emily Clarke and James Clarke and told they had used AI. Emily's was 2x as likely to raise doubts about competence. "She can't even write a CV herself." But James "just needed a bit of help." fortune.com/2026/05/10/i...