Our special issue of the @journalofanatomy.bsky.social (co-edited by Virginia Abdala and me) on the evolution of joints in vertebrates is out now — check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14697580...

IOB "In #odontocete #cetaceans (toothed #whales, #dolphins, and #porpoises), a #palatopharyngeal sphincter permanently anchors the laryngeal inlet in the #nasopharynx and isolates the airway from the gut tube." from A W Vogl , et al doi.org/10.1093/iob/... #science #biology #biomechanics

New paper out in @pnas.org led by Marine Cazenave shows different locomotor repertoires in Swartkrans Paranthropus and Sterkfontein Australopithecus! www.mpg.de/26471037/swa...

WE’RE BAAAAACK!🥼🧬🧠🫀 #anatomy26 #annualmeeting #anatomy #albuquerque #anatomyconnected26

We hope to see everyone at Anatomy Connected 2026 aka the BEST Anatomy meeting! 🥼🧬🧠🫀 #anatomy26 #annualmeeting #anatomy #albuquerque #anatomyconnected2026

I love the bony labyrinth and so should you lawnchairanthropology.com/2026/04/09/t...

🚨 Two postdoc positions open in the #LHOSA team at @palevoprim.bsky.social! Passionate about Australopithecus and hominin paleobiology? Skilled in virtual study of long bones or #GIS applied to hominin-bearing sites? Join us 👇

Out today in @pnasnexus.org! We present evidence for a new way to characterize the vestibular organs, challenging traditional assumptions about how the human inner ear is organized.🧵 1/5 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

🚨Science news! Recent research led by Meghan Forcellati, a comparative biology Ph.D. student in the Museum’s Richard Gilder Graduate School, has uncovered new clues about reptile evolution by studying the bony encasements of the inner ears of living lizards and snakes.

📢 Call for Papers! We invite submissions for special issue “Development, Evolution, and Comparative Anatomy of the Larynx.” This issue aims to highlight interdisciplinary work exploring the development, evolution, and structure–function relationships of the larynx across species. 📅 Deadline: Sep 15

I'm happy to present our paper in which we describe hominin postcrania from Drimolen. Many of these specimens sat in a drawer at Wits Uni for > 20 years. It's amusing to me that the image here includes two fossils in that drawer that were labeled "hominin" but that we decided are not! 1/

I am really excited to share news of this new jaw...until now Paranthropus had been conspicuously absent from the Afar. Fieldwork at Mille-Logya is not easy, and this fossil is the result of years of very hard work (and a lot of days of dry screening by our team)! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is great. It's not as in depth as the suggestions here, but at my JC in grad school we always asked two questions at the end: "What is the most valuable thing we can take from this paper?" and "What's the next step we would take related to that most valuable thing?" It was fantastic.

Just finished this awesome new-ish book by @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social on animal communication. It covers a lot of ground with a huge diversity of species—& it's a blast to read! Great for those interested in sensory ecology. (I had skulls of all the cover animals, so I snapped a photo! 😃)

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 ❤️