Today's bombshell in @nature.com by Lindsay Zanno & James Napoli @jgn-paleo.bsky.social (bit.ly/4qBE6ng) shows that putative juvvy T. rex fossils actually are Nanotyrannus. I reviewed the manuscript, so Nature invited me to write the News & Views commentary. Free link: rdcu.be/eNv94 🦖

New craniodentally associated P. boisei post crania! ✋ 🦶 from Koobi Fora 🔥 Congrats to carriemongle.bsky.social caleyorr.bsky.social et al!

Like you, I've read so many nice things about Jane Goodall's amazing life and legacy today, but this video of the realease of the chimp called Wounda is beyond words ♥️ If only we could find the will to stop destroying the extraordinary natural world around us... youtu.be/ClOMa_GufsA?...

Interested in the functional morphology of mammal heads and want to come join us in Liverpool? Apply for this exciting new PhD project with Alana!

Grateful to Dr. Jasmine Pan and @commsbio.bsky.social for the opportunity to share my journey of using art as a gateway into science. It was a pleasure to discuss how creativity can shape and enhance scientific exploration! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

I'm excited to share that next fall, I'll be joining the faculty at Fairfield U as an Asst Prof in Biology! 🦌 I'm deeply grateful for my time at the AMNH and as part of the Bio Anth Lab. I look forward to continuing and expanding on these collaborations in this next chapter! 💀👂🧠

Check out this month's Editor's Choice author interview featuring @jordynneal.bsky.social and Dr. Allison Bronson: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/editors-... Read more about their exciting research on shark skeletal labyrinths here: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Our 3D scans of the ~2.0 million-year-old hominin pelvis (DNH 43) from Drimolen (Cradle of Humankind, South Africa) publicly available at this link. Species is most likely Paranthropus robustus. Please use scans & cite Berg et al (2025). #paleoanthropology 🏺🧪 human-fossil-record.org/index.php?/c...

New paper from my lab & Drimolen team (@ozarchaeomaglab.bsky.social) on the DNH 43 hominin pelvis. I first saw it in 2019. Given the importance of the pelvis in the evolution of human locomotion and birth, I was surprised only a basic description had been published. 1/ #paleoanthropology 🏺🧪

Excellent opportunity for any students interested in ear evolution! 👇👇

New paper is out! We used microCT to reanalyze the partial cranium of Plesiolestes nacimienti - the oldest plesiadapiform cranium currently known! @purgatoriidae.bsky.social nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

New paper co-led by Maddy Lang and myself, providing the most comprehensive analysis of the evolution of olfactory bulb size in living and fossil euarchontoglirans. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Fascinating new research from @a-urciuoli.bsky.social using the inner ear to dig deep into Neanderthal evolution. Check it out!!

An open-access collection of early fossil hominin scans from Swartkrans, South Africa was recently published in the journal PaleoAnthropology by Skinner et al. Both Paranthropus robustus & early Homo are represented in the assemblage. paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph... 🏺🧪🦣 #paleoanthropology

New paper alert! Kimi_Chapelle, lab PI Chris Griffin, and Diego Pol try our best to review everything we know about dinosaur ontogeny and reproduction in under 2k words in an invited contribution to Biology Letters royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

🚨 ICYMI: We've launched 6k+ 3D skeletal scans of primates, freely accessible! Led by my AMNH mentor, Sergio Almécija, it's a game-changer for biology, anthropology, & conservation research. nature.com/articles/s41...

NEW PUBLICATION ALERT! I started writing this paper in 2020 and it's come a long way since. We went in trying to figure out why braincases in headbutting animals looked bumpy, we found... 🧪 🧠 👩‍🔬 #SICB2025

turns out you can do some pretty cool stuff with the power of diceCT, SPROUT (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...), and the SmARTR pipeline (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...)

Our new paper announcing a freely available database of 3D scans of primate skeletal material--a major effort led by Sergio Almécija & his team at the American Museum of Natural History. 🧪 🏺 #paleosky #anatomy #primates #anthropology #morphology #zoology #paleoanthropology #openscience

The human evolutionary story is full of oddities. The Paranthropus group is particularly fascinating. Today, we present new insights into their inner ear indicating that one species -Paranthropus robustus- may have indeed been doing something different! 1/4🧵 authors.elsevier.com/a/1kGFIAlZXX...

Happy #ThinSectionThursday Here is a side by side comparison of virtual histology from synchrotron tomography on the left and “traditional” histology from optical microscopy on the right. It’s sometimes hard to tell what’s a growth mark in virtual histology but with this, we can can train our 👀

Where did our neck muscles come from?🧪 Here's our #evodevo #devbio deep dive feat. #zebrafish, mouse, axolotls, & more! Led by Eglantine Heude & Tajbakhsh lab at Pasteur, the team at National Museum of Natural History France, & lab alumni Karin Prummel & Rob Lalonde. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper! For all of you working with 3d scans (e.g. micro-CT, MRI), check out SPROUT, a rapid open-source tool for generating segmented and parcellated data, meaning your scans are separated into the individual elements without any manual labelling or training. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thank you Dr. @claudiakrebs.bsky.social and Dr. Segun Oyedele for the wonderful opportunity to chat about the intersection of art and science/anatomy! Check out their BodyBanter podcast here!: bodybanter.ca

New podcast on Body Banter: The intersection of Art and Science with Chris Smith bodybanter.ca

Excited to share our latest paper, new in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congrats to @armanafzadeh.bsky.social et al. on a fascinating study giving us new perspectives into theropod locomotor evolution!

Our lesson plan from the Resources for Inclusive Evolution Education working group is now online! Collab w/ US, UK, Pakistan, Nigeria. If you want to lead a classroom discussion about genotype-phenotype associations + their intersection w/ societal issues: qubeshub.org/publications...

Happy #Croctober! Glad to be a part of this #OA article led by @drmarkyoung.bsky.social, Julia Schwab, and Steve Brusatte on evolution of one my favorite anatomical systems—air sinuses—in extinct marine thalattosuchian crocs! 🐊 Funding: @LeverhulmeTrust, @NSF, & others. doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

The best work from home buddy ❤️