Postdoc advert now live! Come and work with me at the UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social on the Mediterranean Neogene insular giant fauna. You'll also get to work with a great team: @toriherridge.bsky.social @nannonstevens.bsky.social and Jesse Hennekam

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...

Have you ever wondered what happens to your muscles if you exercise up a mountain? 🗻 New paper out by Roger Kissane and colleagues looks to understand the skeletal muscle response to training under hypoxia:

Come learn about how pufferfish puff into such adorable angry balls...in a bar! Join us tonight at @chesterscibar.bsky.social :)

Productive afternoon in @livuni-ilcams.bsky.social weekly seminar practicing sketchnoting and learning a little bit about cardiophysiology :) Thanks to @rainbowlabuol.bsky.social for explaining his work so well and letting me share it.

We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps | Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Also this month, Manson and @nathanj.bsky.social used finite element modelling informed by neonatal MRI data, to test whether simple mechanical deformation from brain and masticatory muscle growth can predict early cranial shape change, focusing on the basicranium and face doi.org/10.1111/joa....

📣 📃 New paper out in press! 🦷 We look at the biomechanical impact of #tooth root morphology to inform #dental implant design. 👩‍💻We use finite element modelling to compare single vs. multiple roots on strain across the mandible. @apwoodbailey.bsky.social @livevobiomech.bsky.social

and another one! join us! BBSRC PhD studentship investigating how different anatomy and locomotor patterns affect joint loading in domestic dogs and other mammals 🐩🦴🐎 The project will involve a variety of biomechanics techniques including finite element analysis and MDA modelling - info below

Joyous reminder of both Spitting Image circa 1986 and my misspent youth moshing in dingy 1990's night clubs youtube.com/shorts/xX8Vh...

Been working on some validation data for AI tools commonly used to segment anatomical structures 🤔😞 😱 Almost impossible to get funding/university support to do this sort of work anymore. They only ever want to fund/support the penthouse of science, and never the ground floor or basement....

I'm very excited to work on this with an amazing team including @rnf.bsky.social @nathanj.bsky.social @apwoodbailey.bsky.social and @lucyhholmes.bsky.social

Bit of a cliché. Assumes that current leadership know what will be needed/important in the future. The betamax of funding strategies.... UKRI chief: ‘Do fewer things in research but do them really well’ www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ukri-ch...

📝🐕‼️ Think you really know the difference between a dachshund and a German shepherd? Not without reading our latest blog post! embliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/d...

Hi all, me, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and the amazing UK-US-Moroccan team are delighted to announce that.. we have a new specimen of Spicomellus AND IT'S WAY WEIRDER AND WAY COOLER THAN WE EVER IMAGINED!!

Meet Spiny Norman, the earliest known and definitely the most outrageously spiky ankylosaur ever discovered, as presented by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social & @richardjbutler.bsky.social in @nature.com. Q: how did it mate? A: carefully. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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....

Last day to apply! 📣 Come and join my lab in Liverpool @livevobiomech.bsky.social for a PhD on the skulls of giant mammals! Full funding for 4 years (UK Home rates) 🐘🦌🦘🐂🐪🦏 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

New paper out today with the amazing @apwoodbailey.bsky.social all about the unusual leporid intracranial joint.

New paper where we look at complexity of the intracranial joint in rabbits and hares. Second paper from @apwoodbailey.bsky.social PhD work 🎉🐇

Check out our new paper in @journalofanatomy.bsky.social! 🐇💀 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣I’m hiring! Two weeks to apply for an October start. Start date is also flexible. #PhD #Morphology #evolution

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!

Teamwork makes the dream work. Officially PhDone 🎓 Thanks to the lovely lot at @livevobiomech.bsky.social, my supervisors @acsharp.bsky.social, @drphilcox.bsky.social and @nathanj.bsky.social and my awesome wife @naturecaroline.bsky.social. We're not done here 👀 Watch this space 💀🧠🐴🦍🦁🐂🐅🐫🦌🦏🦒🫎

Want to move to Spain? Do you study craniodental evolution in human and non-human primate evolution? Looking for postdoc position? Interested in working with my @Tied2Teeth group here @CENIEH??? Deadline to apply: 28 March 2025 www.cenieh.es/en/about-cen...

New paper on macaque facial muscles with @clarekimock.bsky.social @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social and others! Macaques don’t show the same extreme variability in facial musculature as humans… anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Rabbits and hares (leporid lagomorphs) have uniquely fenestrated skulls, but why? Using finite element analysis, a new study found that fenestrations don’t impact biting efficiency but may lighten the skull for agility. Wood-Bailey & Sharp: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

PhD studentship funded by the Anatomical Society at the UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social. Studying the functional morphology of sheep, goats and their relatives including the fossil island dwarf Myotragus: www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... Contact me for more details.

Next week I will join the ranks of recovering UK academics on BlueSky, and start work for a non-departmental public body instead. Very much looking forward to the new challenges and ways of working. 🙈🙉🙊 🧪🧪

Taung child – 100yrs young tomorrow🎂 (+ ~2.6million years). Nice open access potted history in Nature. Piece mentions Meave Leakey. I had the pleasure of meeting her many years back, briefly staying at the Nairobi National Museum. Lovely people and place. 🧪🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We are getting ready for the launch of our MSc! We strongly believe in the benefits of international exchange of expertise - and students! Here is your Programme Director presenting his work on gait and aging at the amazing Garden City University in Bangalore. #biomechanics #mastersdegree

Fresh off the press! Delighted to see Amy Manson’s PhD work published in J. Anat. Shows how structural interactions during growth shape the human skull. Congrats Amy. 🧪🧪 doi.org/10.1111/joa....

My new book 'Evolution Evolving. The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity', written with Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marc Feldman & Scott Gilbert, is published by @princetonupress.bsky.social For more information see www.evolutionevolving.org #science #evodevo #plasticity

Interesting piece re. lack of longer-term vision and planning in Australian higher education. UK not far behind. I have been (un)lucky to experience the collegial model of governance - painfully slow but better at planning beyond the VC’s best before date www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/acad...

Why are all these universities emailing me about the QS Global Academic Survey? Y'all would be great if, in the words of @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social, you had fewer administrators and more faculty, and stopped operating like private equity and real estate empires with education as a side hustle.

Nice review of an excellent book. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41... I’ve worked on the extragenetic potential of tissue interactions during development in shaping skull form and found that some colleagues still cling to oversimplified genocentric paradigms.

Cool paper on lipocartilage, and it's used to help craft complex geometries like the pinna. Already thinking about elaborate proboscises... 🐽👃👂🧪🧪🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A very happy Christmas 🎄🎄 to you all from north Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Been to a meeting in London, and happened to pass my alma mater. What the £&$¥# have they done with the Jeremy Bentham pub! I almost cried, many fond (and partially lost) memories.....

I use the gorilla from this plate as my Microsoft user icon to remind myself to learn from rather than repeat history.... As a PhD student i thought I had made a new and exciting discovery regarding the tentorium cerebelli. Turned out Thomas Huxley stole my idea back in 1863, bastard!

Pup's first snow! Time to dig out that toboggan....🌨️❄️❄️🏂

Autumnal sunset over the Clwydian Range..... 😍

The #ERC/#UKRI funded post-doc in my lab, looking at #dinosaur locomotion through footprints, is open for one more week. Maybe you have a #biomechanics background, or maybe you have a #geotechnics background, take a look! jobs.ljmu.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

just over two weeks left to apply for this post-doc with me: jobs.ljmu.ac.uk/vacancy/rese... #Biomechanics, #XROMM, #DEM, #opensim, #dinosaurs #birds #evolution #palaeontology, #paleontology etc...

🧪 I briefly worked in the hunterian museum @ royal college surgeons over 20yrs ago. Just been back for the first time.... I prefer the old gallery (of course I do!). No denying, it's still an amazing place. Free entry too. Worth a visit if you are in London hunterianmuseum.org

🧪🐸Want to work in the best city in the world, and research neck biomechanics in tetrapods - look no further! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DJJ517/p...

Job ad now live for a postdoc in my lab, either biomechanics/musculoskeletal modelling, OR sediment simulation backgrounds are welcome #postdoc #paleontology #palaeontology #biomechanics #simulation jobs.ljmu.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Great Nature paper on air sacs and flight in birds. Congrats to all, and especially University of Liverpool colleagues Roger Kissane & Karl Bates. 🧪🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...