It was an absolute pleasure giving this course, with such engaged and friendly participants!

Welcome to new lab member Damiano Trovato. For his internship, he learn acquiring geometric morphometric data. If, as it often happens, he will stay for his MSc thesis, he will have the opportunity of applying the knowledge to a scientific problem www.fruciano.org/events/new-l...

After a very nice course on Foundations of Geometric Morphometrics at the beginning of February, full of engaged participants, I'm looking forward to give this course on Multidimensional Phenotypic Evolution at the beginning of March!

Explore the evolution of multidimensional traits! 📊 Join our online course Multidimensional Phenotypic Evolution with @carmelofruciano.bsky.social (2–6 March ) to learn hands-on analysis of complex phenotypic traits across multiple dimensions. 👉 www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

The #GeometricMorphometrics course on data acquisition & design just started with @carmelofruciano.bsky.social, one of the best in the field! We offer a companion course on Multidimensional #PhenotypicEvolution, focusing on data analysis: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Nice new #RStats package/function to parallelize existing code in the context of the future ecosystem www.jottr.org/2026/01/22/f...

Quite happy that my #Rstats package GeometricMorphometricsMix is now available on CRAN. This doesn't change much for most users, as the package has been available for years on GitHub, but I thought it was about time and it may be helpful for novice users www.fruciano.org/events/geome...

Delighted to have contributed to this new paper by the Matt Phillips lab (at QUT, Australia, where I did a postdoc) on phylogenetic inference using morphometric data doi.org/10.1093/sysb... (in press in Systematic Biology)

Join our online course on Multidimensional Phenotypic Evolution (2-6 Mar 2026) with @carmelofruciano.bsky.social . Learn to analyse complex traits with hands-on sessions using morphometrics, PCA, and phylogenetic methods. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

I look forward to teaching both these courses again!

Congratulations to lab member Sebastiano Battaglia for presenting his first poster to the annual congress of the Italian Zoological Union! Sebastiano used geometric morphometrics to study macroevolutionary patterns in #dragonflies #geometricmorphometrics #evolution

A much-overdue welcome to Deborah Vicari who has recently joined us as a non-tenure-track (Research) Assistant Professor. She came as a recipient of a "Seal of Excellence" for a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship. #Evolution #Cetacea #geometricmorphometrics

Back home from #eseb2025. It was great to see so many old friends and colleagues and to see so much interesting research. Was there only for a short time, but it was totally worth it!

At the airport heading to #ESEBCongress2025 #eseb2025. Unfortunately, this year I will only stay for a short time, but looking forward to catching up with many friends and colleagues, as well as meeting with new people!

Joanna Mietlińska from the University of Lodz (Poland) spent 3 months with us, diving deep into #geometricmorphometrics on human vertebrae. She's leaving with an almost-complete first manuscript draft! Proud of her dedication. #Science #Anthropology #Archaeology

Joanna Mietlińska from the University of Lodz (Poland) spent 3 months with us, diving deep into #geometricmorphometrics on human vertebrae. She's leaving with an almost-complete first manuscript draft! Proud of her dedication & our lab's collaborative spirit. #Science #Anthropology #Archaeology

As someone who published in @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social when I was an early career researcher, I am saddened to hear about the passing of John Allen academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a... It was an absolute pleasure, in so many ways, having my manuscripts handled by him.

Welcome to Joanna Mietlińska-Sauter who is going to stay with us until the end of June! She had attended one of my courses and now she's going to spend some time in my lab to work on 3D geometric #morphometrics of human vertebrae from archaeological remains #archaeology

The Geometric Morphometrics course with @carmelofruciano.bsky.social is wrapping up! 🎉 Over 3 days, we covered data acquisition (2D & 3D), quality control, and basic analyses.

🚀 We’ve just kicked off our Geometric Morphometrics course with Carmelo Fruciano! 🔬✨ This week, participants will dive into data acquisition (2D & 3D), quality control, and basic analyses—building a solid foundation for shape analysis.

Registrations are open for the 3-day course "Foundations of Geometric Morphometrics" with @CarmeloFruciano in February (3rd-5th) For more information, please visit: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Join us in March to jump into the world of multidimensional phenotypic evolution with @CarmeloFruciano . This course unpacks essential tools for analyzing complex phenotypes, from geometric morphometrics to gene expression. Check it out: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Delighted to have given a talk at Evolmar - the Italian Congress on #Marine #Evolution. I presented some yet unpublished work on rates of speciation and phenotypic evolution in a fish clade