Susan Evans has just returned from the Institute of #Vertebrate #Paleontology and #Paleoanthropology, Beijing. She has been working on Mesozoic #fossil #reptiles with colleague, Dr Liping DONG, Professor (Associate). english.ivpp.cas.cn/about/Introd... @ucl.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

@ucl.ac.uk has again performed strongly in @ResearchEngland’s KEF5, being recognised as one of the top #universities in England for #knowledge exchange. This assesses how #unis are performing in activities that positively impact the #economy and wider #society. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se...

Prof Anjali Goswami and colleagues report, in the Journal of #Anatomy, on mammal #skull #bone junctions, which are important indicators of the #biomechanical and #developmental pressures on the skull @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

@ucl.ac.uk has a new homepage (#website landing page), reflecting our new #branding and move to the Drupal 10 platform. Check it out here: www.ucl.ac.uk. Soon, similar changes will be made to @ucllifesciences.bsky.social, @ucl-cdb.bsky.social and our own [email protected]

A study (with our @drphilcox.bsky.social) in #rabbits & #hares, found: those adapted for running have greater facial tilt & simpler #skull joints versus those with scrambling or hopping-based #locomotion, which could help with hinge-like mobility. @ucl.ac.uk onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

YAY! We have achieved Silver status in June's #Laboratory Efficient Assessment by @ucl.ac.uk's Katherine Howett. Thank you to all Centre members who worked hard to achieve such #sustainable #labs. Info: stainabilityexchange.ac.uk/leaf_a_new_a... @sustainableucl.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social

Job Vacancy - Anatomy Tutor needed to deliver practical-based #anatomy teaching to under/post-graduate students, using cadaveric and prosected material, Anatomage table and #imaging resources. Max.12 h pw, September2025-May2026: www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/... @ucl.ac.uk,@ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Today’s the day - Our Story with David Attenborough is officially open! 🎉 Watch as the walls and floor burst into life around you in this 360° cinematic experience featuring Sir David Attenborough! Book your tickets now 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibi...

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️26th June 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us for next week’s talk given by Dr Katie Collins from the Natural History Museum, UK, on “Both round and upward: Spiral morphometry and how to compare things that are the same, but different” 🐚 Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

In our #research, we see how #climate or #environmental changes affect the #animal world. Interested/concerned? In/near London? Perhaps book this FREE session @nhm-london.bsky.social THIS Thursday, 25Jun. More info at: www.nhm.ac.uk/events/creat... @sustainableucl.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social

Creating a buzz: prepare to appreciate those #picnic pests! Wasps purr!! @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social hosts the World of #Wasps from 25 June 2025. Evening and #family events. #summer #wasp #exhibition #science #FamilyFun #insect @ucl.ac.uk @ucl-cdb.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social #nature

Congratulations to our Kat Gregory, who has just completed her 'Couch to 5k'. Kat, a PhD student with @rfelices.bsky.social, only started #running with *our Running Club in March 2025, so it's a great achievement! *Anyone from @ucl-cdb.bsky.social welcome - contact [email protected] for info.

Four of our postgraduate #researchers (#PGRs) are talking about their work to @ucl-cdb.bsky.social's PGR #Student Symposium: Kat Gregory & Matt Mitchell (supervised by Ryan Felice), Atena Soltanian (Phil Cox), & Patrick Hennessey (Laura Porro). Topics range from #chickens to giant #crocodiles!

Our #Artist-in-Residence, Mary Yacoob, has produced new large-scale #cyanotype prints reimagining of #scientific visual data from @ucllifesciences.bsky.social #researchers. Faculty private #exhibition details here: tinyurl.com/YacoobUCL #artandscience #art #artwork @ucl.ac.uk @ucl-cdb.bsky.social

Today is #WorldEnvironmentDay2025 - highly appropriate that yesterday we had our #LEAF audit to ensure our labs work as sustainably as possible. The focus is on #plastics - let's reduce production: reduce demand, so recycle, reuse and find alternatives @ucl.ac.uk www.worldenvironmentday.global

We love #functional #morphology in our Centre (relating an animal's shape to how it moves, eats ...). Here's an interesting article & great images on #elephantine #giants, and the trade-off between size/range of #locomotion. #elephant #mammoth #biology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#Climate change threatens crops & wildlife. Could our #research into ancient animals help us to build resilience vs climate impacts? Podcast on ideas from the Peruvian ‘Potato Guardians’ & UK Natural History Museum below. bsky.app/profile/nhm-... bsky.app/profile/nhm-... bsky.app/profile/ucll...

#anatomy #biomedicalimaging #comparativeanatomy #biology

News! 2025's World Anatomy Day is on 15 October, focusing on 'global perspectives of #anatomy – recognising differences while celebrating similarities within the international anatomy community. We'll be celebrating - watch this space! @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk #WAD2025

@UCL has issued its Annual #Sustainability Report 2023–2024. www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable/.... We ranked 1st in the UK, 3rd in Europe and 5th globally in the QS Sustainability Rankings; achieved 56% reduction in building #energy emissions & a 60% decrease in #waste per person in 4y; and grew #LEAF.

Susan Evans & co-researchers suggest #lizard-like #reptiles may have climbed on waterside vegetation, dropping into the water if threatened. Hand #bone scans show suitably long, curved phalanges. @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @nhm-london.bsky.social @natural-history.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

Susan Evans & collaborators from China have published a paper describing a new genus and species of lizard from ~75 million years ago in Henan Province, China. #paleo #evolution #anatomy #lizard @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk Full paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We in the Centre are pleased to have (a) completed the work for & (b) made our application for a #LEAF silver award. We already have bronze status. LEAF is a scheme to support more #sustainable #labs in #research orgs. @ucl.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl-cdb.bsky.social #environment #esg

At American Association for Anatomy's '#Anatomy Connected' conference, Susan Evans & Marc Jones presented on the #evolution of bony arches surrounding #skull apertures in reptiles (lizards, snakes). @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @anatomyorg.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social @ucl-cdb.bsky.social

Matt Mitchell is presenting at the British Ornithologists' Union conference today, with a concurrent BlueSky presentation going live at 17:15 from his account @m-j-mitchell.bsky.social. Matt is a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant (PGTA) in @ucl.ac.uk's Division of Biosciences #birds

Delighted to be awarded a prestigious Human #Science Frontiers Program (@hsfpo.bsky.social) #Research Grant entitled “Musculoskeletal system of head-first burrowers: an interdisciplinary approach”. $1.5M award/3 years/4 international #scientists. @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @mmoazen.bsky.social

UCL's President and Provost Dr Michael Spence and Faculty of Life Sciences Dean Professor Gail Taylor contributing to a Community Cloth which will be an artefact for UCL's bicentenary. If you're a UCL student or member of staff find out how you can get involved: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

On Friday, four of us from the Centre sang (with London City #Chorus in St Andrew's, Holborn) Michael Haydn's Requiem & Vivaldi's Gloria. As the photo shows, a good time was had by all! To join, see londoncitychorus.com/Joinachoir #sing #choralmusic #choir @ucl.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Our Annual Symposium 2025 on interdisciplinary aspects of functional morphology was enjoyed by over 70 attendees, incl. 17 speakers, yesterday (20 February). This full-day conference delved into the fascinating and inter-disciplinary world of #anatomy. @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

It's official - our #Symposium is now sold out/oversubscribed! Looking forward to greeting our speakers and hearing their short (15 mins) talks, listening to our Keynote Speaker (30 mins) and discussing all things #anatomy#morphology #evolution#development &c @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

On 17 Feb, @ucl.ac.uk starts 28 Days of #Sustainability 2025! Talks, workshops, films &c, to spark change and bring the UCL community together. Next week: Love your #planet, #tree planting, mend & repair, net zero policy and cooking! @ucllifesciences.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable/...

Only 10 places left at our Annual Symposium on Functional #Morphology (how #vertebrate shape & function inter-relate/change). Hear 17 speakers, and meet, discuss & socialise with fellow #researchers on Thurs 20 Feb 2025 in London. @ucllifesciences.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-centre...

@ucl.ac.uk's #Equality, #Diversity and #Inclusion Committee of Practice is promoting our International Women's Day 2025 events in the run up to #IWD on 08 March. These events are free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/womens-healt... #AccelerateAction #edi #WomensHealth @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

#Anatomy Lab #Forensic Unit published a multi-disciplinary framework for ethical study of human #decomposition, gathering data from #human #burials & promoting collaboration among European forensic experts. #palaeontology #fossils @ucllifesciences.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

We participated in the #Anatomy Lab's Green Impact 'walk the distance to Brussels in 4 wks' challenge, and achieved at least 178% of that. Why Brussels? Guess below. Answer to follow! @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @ucl-cdb.bsky.social #sustainability www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable/...

#Job: #Lecturer in the UCL CDB to #research in the area of computational cell #biology, #teach at undergraduate and/or graduate level and contribute to the e-learning platform SysMIC, &c. Apply by 20 February 2025. Queries to [email protected]. Full details: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

And just before January closes, we note that @ucl.ac.uk Christmas 2024 #switch-off, in which we took part, contributed to saving 225 tonnes of #carbon and planting 3,744 #trees! Let's aim for this all year round! #Sustainability @ucllifesciences.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable/....

Exciting to get our J of Morphology email alert on articles published today and see our Alice Leavey's paper on #frogs highlighted. Fruitful collaboration with the Royal Veterinary College and her supervisor, our LauraBPorro. #[email protected] @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

The @royalsociety.org has just published a paper by our @drphilcox.bsky.social about #skull & lower #jaw shape differences in red #squirrels from fragmented UK populations: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #anatomy #evodevo @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @ucl-cdb.bsky.social

@ucl.ac.uk #Anatomy Lab is sharing tips to help #labs (and associated offices) be more #sustainable, including a note of some #plants to promote cleaner #air, including the commonly-available spider, pothos and snake plants, which are said to absorb certain organic chemicals and #CO: #LEAF #green

We've just received this interesting fact from our associates in the @ucl.ac.uk #Anatomy Lab, which we thought worth sharing, on #stress effects on human #teeth! #ecology #sustainability #LEAF

Today @ucl.ac.uk,Laura Porro is hosting a visit and talk by Professor Anthony Herrel @cnrs.bsky.social, Paris on the #evolution of burrowing in legless lizards wrt the shape of the #cranium v forces produced, and comparing those in these #lizards with those in #snakes @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Our @rnf.bsky.social's lab has a #BBSRC #research grant with Dr Jeff Thompson, @unisouthampton.bsky.social to work on sea urchin #skeletons, via #cell movement and #gene regulation, to help understand skeletal #disease. #anatomy #biology #evolution @ucl.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Tickets are selling fast - over one third of places booked since advertising - speakers and anyone else who would like to attend needs to register on Eventbrite to gain entry (but there is no charge!) to our 2025 symposium on 20 February. #symposium #anatomy #UCL #biology #evolution #formandfunction

Our 2025 annual #symposium on functional #morphology is now open to FREE registration - apply now to secure your place. More details at: tinyurl.com/FunctionalMo... @uclofficial.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl-cdb.bsky.social #anatomy #biology #formandfunction #ECR

This week, our Dr Alice Leavey presented a poster at The Anatomy Society's Winter Meeting on Anatomical Education and Imaging. Her talk was about using micro-CT-derived digital models of the veiled #chameleon @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @uclofficial.bsky.social ‪‪@leaveylab.bsky.social‬ #anatomy

Our annual in-person #symposium is on 20Feb2025. Theme: functional #morphology. Watch (our social media & website) for full details. 17 speakers. Registration: compulsory but completely free. #anatomy #evodevo @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl-cdb.bsky.social @uclofficial.bsky.social #biology

Alice Leavy used a new digital method to extract #muscle fibres from microCTs: contractile speed & force outputs of #frog hindlimb muscles differ between jumpers/swimmers but not between these and walkers/hoppers. #anatomy @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @uclofficial.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/jmor...

Interested in a UCL MRes in Biosciences, graduating in Integrative Anatomy: Vertebrate Form, Function and #Evolution? Find out more about the integrative #anatomy stream: www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/... or the #biosciences MRes in general here: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-... @uclofficial.bsky.social

We have just signed our pledge to the @UCL #Christmas #Switch OFF, e.g., to switch off non-essential equipment & #lights. In 2023, over 400 pledges saved 100 tonnes of #carbon – equal to planting 1,677 #trees! And saved UCL £144,194. @ucllifesciences.bsky.social #sustainable @ucl-cdb.bsky.social