More excellent news came in late 2025 when I heard that my application to renew my Future Leaders Fellowship #ukriflf @ukri.org for an additional three years was successful! Look out for new collaborations, cool data and results, and an upcoming postdoc position!

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...

#SVP2025 was finally an opportunity to show the excellent reconstructions of Dysalotosaurus created by @dragonsofwales.bsky.social

Alongside @emilyrayfield.bsky.social and @palaeostephan.bsky.social we organised a symposium at the 85th Annual Meeting of @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social #SVP2025 in November 2025 on "Multidisciplinary Approaches to Skull Function and Evolution" generously sponsored by the @biologists.bsky.social

Our lab participated in both the 2024 and 2025 #WorldAnatomyDay #WAD2025 @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social

Was this the FLUFFIEST #dinosaur!? 🦖 🦕 #palaeontology youtube.com/shorts/DQsji.... This summer, our Laura Porro was interviewed by TV presenter Maddie Moate, resulting in fun, educational videos on #reptile teeth, dinosaur #diets & animal #brains!” @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl-cdb.bsky.social

It's been a BUSY year for outreach. This was really fun - filming short segments with Maddie Moate on reptile anatomy, dinosaurs and brains! www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

I was really excited to write a dispach piece for @currentbiology.bsky.social led by @fishfetisher.bsky.social available here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to announce that the 1st paper from my postdoc is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! Using a large dataset of 3D preserved fossils, we explore the diversification of jaws in early bony fishes. 1/15 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Another paper led by former postdoc Marcos Becerra with Diego Pol looked at the postcranial anatomy of one of my all-time-favorite fossils, the Argentine heterodontosaur Manidens: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I also published a paper led by @perahlberg.bsky.social with several of our Latvian colleagues on the braincase of the amazing early tetrapod Ventastega in EESTRSE, see here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Some more chameleon goodness, with links to the paper!

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

The @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social held our 2025 Annual Symposium in February with over 70 attendees!

@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 ...

A second paper from @leaveylab.bsky.social on frog hindlimbs, this time using automated segmentation appraoches to track frog muscle fibres!

I also had a lot of fun travelling up to University of Hull to present in their Biology Seminar Series in December 2024!

Myself and former PhD student Cassius Morrison both presented at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 2024 Annual Meeting on crocodilian FEA and dinosaur tooth mircowear, see abstract book t.co/hryOuhzgPe @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social

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

I have been awful at keeping up on social media in recent years - mostly because there's been too much neat stuff happening! So apologies as I repost some cool stuff going back a long way as it leads up to some cool upcoming events!