📢 Hello! Slightly unusual request from me, buttt we're likely to need a freelance writer to produce some content in Feb & Mar for the NHM's 'Find Your Climate Action' tool. If you've experience writing about the climate and inspiring action, please send me a message! www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/fi...

📣 The Newton International Fellowship programme by the Royal Society opens on 15th January! 📍If you're an early career researcher interested in collaborating and moving to Liverpool, lets chat! 🔗 www.royalsociety.org/grants/newto...

One month to go… UCL turns 200! 🎉 On 11 February, we kick off #UCL200 – a year of celebrations marking our radical founding in 1826 as London’s first university, open to all. Expect parties, exhibitions, student festivals, art, books, performances, and more. Get ready! @uclspeccoll.bsky.social#UCL200

If you missed it, my lab got featured in three separate press pieces this week!! My students & I are so excited that people are taking interest in our headbutting research! We are working on new and exciting ways to share it with the public! They are linked here: nicoleackermans.com/press-covera...

“But I think it is naive, frankly, to say that we should get rid of him because he’s a bad person. I’m afraid there’s many bad people around, but they have made scientific advances.” - the carte blanche for every bully in academia…

Deadline soon! Contact us if you are interested and meet the requirements 👇

SEB Florence will be having an exciting workshop on the new EXN - European XROMM Network! We're collecting information from those interested in attending, participating, and being looped in! Please share and DM me if you'd like to be on our mailing list! www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...

Our job adverts are now live! 🤩 We are hiring a Research Software Engineer and a Community Engagement Coordinator to support @palaeoverse.bsky.social over the next two years, based at UCL. Apply by January 18th 2026, ideally to start in March 2026 🗓️ More info and links below 👇

Some greatest gorilla hits (the more SFW ones) from the "Guerilla Girls" special exhibit at the Getty Center, LA. I looooove the action figure!

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Wasps are extraordinary animals living within complex social structures. Zoom inside a virtual nest and experience their homes, lifestyles and relationships at our exhibition until 24 January. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-collections/events/2025/jun/world-wasps #GMZWasps

It’s day one back after 13 months of maternity leave. Started strong with not remembering how to make a new email. It’s going to take me a while to get back up to functional. but I want to be transparent and open for any other parents returning to work. This is hard.

This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.

My lab is seeking a #postdoc for a 3-year project on Pilbara leaf-nosed #bat 🦇 conservation, addressing climate change vulnerability using physiological, ecological, & modelling approaches. Apply now: murdoch.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/MurdochCaree...

Come check out back-to-back Law lab talks today in the Shape and Climate session (room B112)! 10:15am - Long fuse evolution of carnivoran skeletal phenomes 13:30am - Endocranial shape variation in relation to climate in primates #SICB2026 @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social

Cost of living crisis in the UK has hit undergrads hard, especially due to tuition. I've seen a massive change in their behaviour since I became faculty in 2003. They used to enjoy coming to campus and spending time. Now they budget their schedules carefully and do as much work remotely as they can.

Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity. Apply here no later than February 11 2026: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1

Calling all model makers, 3D scanners, anatomists, digital dissecters❗️❗️❗️ I'm the organiser of the symposium "Digital Resilience: Immortalising biodiversity through 3D anatomical models". Most of my network on here have incredible work that I'd love to see, so submit an abstract! Open 7th Jan 😁

🦦 If you're attending SICB 2026, don't miss my team’s presentations exploring how the cranial morphology of otters and other mustelids reflects how they move, sense, and survive in their environment. #SICB2026

Interested in a PhD at @icmcsic.bsky.social with me & @fonamental.bsky.social? We’re seeking motivated candidates for an #INPhINIT incoming fellowship to study mesophotic coral ecosystems as thermal refuges & holobiont responses across depth gradients. Info: fundacionlacaixa.org/ca/beques-do...

Loving how the animals I consulted on turned out in the Jurassic World Evolution 3. I worked on the early development, creating anatomy and behaviour artist reference sheets for some of the critters (below). Congrats to the extremly talented team at Frontier.

Agradecemos a ‪@sepaleontologia.bsky.social ‬ la noticia sobre nuestro último trabajo en paleoclimatología del Cuaternario, publicado en doi.org/10.5194/cp-2...

My updated website is up, which works as a visual CV 💙✨ it's also the main direct way of getting in touch with me regarding non-University enquiries (switch to desktop mode, not phone optimised yet) natalia-jagielska.weebly.com

A kingfisher made from a circular saw blade, paint pen, and spray paint. I sketched it, Echo cut it out and added the copper eye, and I painted it. This was a gift, but we'd love to make more birds like this! What birds would you want to see?

What did the brain of the giant rat of the Canary islands look like? Check out our new article👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... Very proud of my former Master student @flavienvincent.bsky.social who did an amazing job! 🧠🐀😄 Also see the beautiful illustration made by @gamarraptor.bsky.social

Looking for a PhD in palaeontology or associated fields? Just a heads up that we have a list of opportunities on the @thepalass.bsky.social website: palass.org/phd-opportun... ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky (If you're advertising one, you can add it to our listings too: palass.org/form/webform... )

New paper alert! Morphometrics helps define subspecies in otters. Thank you Luca Russo, @evoswami.bsky.social & team #science #museumlife 🦦🦴 @nhm-london.bsky.social academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

Geologists, too! Not too long ago someone commented to me that there’s little value in rock sample and core libraries because everything important had surely been digitized. Relatively little has (and, even if it has, it’s hard to run a chemical or physical test on an image or PDF file).

On this shortest day of the year, let's all admire an iconic diorama depicting a scene from a place of eternal night . . .

Excited to find this at my local bookstore.

We need to focus on academia-friendly journals! I will definitely use this as a guide to my next submissions. doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

New NoCTURN paper on open science in computed tomography out now! royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

Our manuscript is now out in @royalsocietypublishing.org! We tested hypotheses that Cenozoic climatic change influenced the evolution of the cranial, appendicular, & axial skeleton in carnivorans. @tsengzj.bsky.social @hlusko.bsky.social 🧵 1/n royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

You wait ages for a paper, and two come along (almost) at once! This is the first publication from the project we're currently working on, where we're investigating the relationship between different regions of the avian head. 1/n royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

We are proud to currently host the world's first exhibition centred on wasps, combining science, art and technology to reveal the secret world of these complex animals. Read more in the LCCOS Annual Report here: www.ucl.ac.uk/lccos/about-...

Help me, Hive Mind! I've got multiple students interested in deep time vertebrate paleontology -- everything from early tetrapod evolution to dinosaurs. This is not my field, and we don't have any paleontologists at UMaine (vertebrate or invertebrate). Do you know of any good internships or REUs?

JOB ALERT! Collection Manager job going in Palaeontology at the Australian Museum in Sydney, Australia iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/collecti...

Presenting my latest work on the evolution of sea urchin feeding morphology and my use of deep learning at #PalAss2026 @thepalass.bsky.social - come have a chat during the poster session!

Great news! We can now publish full details of our timetable for our Annual #Symposium on Th 19Feb2026 in London, celebrating #UCL200 and focusing on #Anatomy: Past, Present & Future. Please order your FREE ticket and obtain further info: tinyurl.com/UCL200Anatom... @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Finally made a logo and acronym for my mentorship program! Check it out chrisjlaw.github.io/NEST.html

Are you coming to #SICB Portland? sicb.org/events/upcom... if so, don't miss S03: The #evolutionary consequences of life cycle complexity organized by Anne-Claire Fabre anne-claire-fabre.weebly.com & Ronald Bonett, ronbonett.weebly.com #biology #academia #scientists #science #conferences

For those who weren't able to join our headbutting party live yesterday, you can find the recording here: www.youtube.com/live/SGfaomS...

Save the date: 19Feb2026. Our all-day #symposium, celebrating #UCL200, is now bookable, FREE: tinyurl.com/UCL200Anatom... Topic: #Anatomy: Past, Present & Future - 14+ speakers, plenty of discussion/networking opportunities; refreshments & lunch included @ucl.ac.uk @uclnews.bsky.social

Prof Erin Saupe (@eesaupe.bsky.social) has been awarded funding from the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grants! The EXTINCT project will develop new ways of determining what causes marine invertebrates to die out. www.earth.ox.ac.uk/article/prof...

Looking for a master student to work on the microstructure of metapodials and phalanges in arboreal mammals!! Fully funded by the MNHN. Cool collab with @houssayecnrs.bsky.social ! Contact me for more info 😁

New paper! Here we look at shape evolution of the mandible in Pelagiaria, a group of open-ocean fishes that includes tuna and mackerel. We find that shape disparity accumulated rapidly at the origin of the clade at around the K/Pg boundary... academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

Join us on 9 January for award-winning actor Jonathan Goodwin’s live one-man adaptation of H. G. Wells’ sci-fi classic The Time Machine in the atmospheric surroundings of @ucl.ac.uk’s zoology museum! www.ucl.ac.uk/event-ticket...

A new study by De Ridder et al shows that, once size-scaled, zebras, onagers, and horses share highly comparable architecture—with subtle boosts in distal flexor strength for zebras on rough terrain! Read more at anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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 👇

In my latest (and long overdue) blog post, I give a short account of some work that was published in the summer looking at tapir hand muscles, and their internal architecture. Hopefully interesting for biologists, conservationists, and veterinarians alike! Enjoy! #tapir #anatomy #locomotion