Currently paying 15% on anything I earn over £29k. Currently this equates to nearly £200 a month. I did my masters in 2017-2019 and it's gone from £10k to over £15k since then 😬

This week's #MonographMonday is an illustration of Nautilus imperialis (now Cimomia imperialis) by J Sowerby. This is from Monograph on The Eocene Mollusca or descriptions of shells from the older Tertiaries of England by Frederic E. Edwards (Volume 2: Issue 2, 1849)

Review of CH Waddington's influence on developmental biology and evo-devo: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... includes supp info with his 50th birthday songs!

this reads like he is some child-emperor disposing of his ill-suited and scheming viziers

JOB ALERT! We are recruiting at @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social - a lecturer (Grade 8) or associate professor (Grade 9) in primate or human evolutionary anatomy (research and teaching). Contact Susan Evans or myself for further details. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRZ412/l...

Leaf cutter bees are back! So tidy 😍

Feel free to contact us about the position which closes in 2 weeks.

We were out walking at sunrise this morning (4am) for the solstice. Pretty cool but the ~10 women in the sea were cooler!

She didn’t recover… Her legacy will continue to inspire conservation efforts in Lebanon and elsewhere, even if she is no longer around

Please share! It’s a quick turn-around for this PhD opportunity accepting applications until 29 June! Join an amazing lab in an amazing city…

The 1979 Star Trek poster resembles a Pride flag but it seemed like something was missing so I added some square wrinkles

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

Introducing #MonographMondays! 🎉 We’re taking a stroll through the archives, one issue at a time. Every Monday, we'll share a figure from one of our monographs, working our way through nearly two centuries of scholarship, discovery and illustration. First stop: Volume 1: Issue 1 (1848).

Sometimes I forget Hilda is a dog and not a human being and then sometimes she licks a rotting porpoise carcass on the beach and I'm reminded.

I stopped using term "palaeoartist" to describe myself because it annoyed some white guys in the community who insisted palaeoart cannot be stylized I won two palaeoart prizes in a row, awarded by the oldest palaeontological society in the world🏅 ✨Don't listen to gatekeepers✨

RVC needs a Lecturer in Anatomy (Maternity Cover) to join our department for 12 months (very well could include joining Structure & Motion Lab)! jobs.rvc.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Deadline 22 June

Hey look: A job! @echinerd.bsky.social and I are looking for a research technician to work on sea urchin development. If you are good at segmenting CT scans and want a chance to work on some super cool organisms, this job here at UCL is for you! apply now: bit.ly/4o2qccY

This week @apwoodbailey.bsky.social @lucyhholmes.bsky.social and I went to Knowsley Safari Park to see some of the amazing animals we’ll be studying during our @leverhulme.ac.uk Building Giants project 😄🦏🦌🦒

The first Pelagiceti whale from the Eocene of Poland with its evolutionary and biogeographic significance. Study by Daniel Tyborowski et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

📣 Introducing MorphSim: an R package for simulating discrete morphological data along phylogenetic trees, built for fossil-inclusive phylogenetics, with all the complexity of real morphological data baked in 🪨🌿 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Interesting new tool to extract phylogenies from images (Tremble). It is crazy that this is still something we have to do. doi.org/10.1093/bioi...

Leaf cutter bees are back in the garden. This year, they're not interested in my wisteria, I thought there were some suspiciously round looking holes in my beans!

New publication 🥳 More whales in museums🐳 The entire history of one whale from death to exhibit! Preparation and mounting of a sperm whale at the Natural History Museum in Oslo, Norway - out now in @nhcm.pensoft.net led by Maximo Rojo. 🧪 nhcm.pensoft.net/article/1917...

We’ve looked at snails with one shell and slugs with no shells. Now let’s have a look at a snail with two shells, because Nature laughs at our puny attempts to pigeonhole. In today’s #AtoZ – J is for Julia (Juliidae) (1/9) Pic: © uwkwaj CC BY-NC

If you think Bluesky sucks, you are not using it correctly. I have curated my feed to be full of DeliciousWeirdos™️ and KingShitposters™️ which means endless nerdiness (complimentary), bangers, and really insightful threads. Sorry you aren't having fun you aren't playing right. Try harder!

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...

📣New page! Follow @isvmorph.bsky.social for all your International Society of Vertebrate Morphology news including updates about the 2027 ICVM in Halifax, NS! #morphology #anatomy #evolution #biomechanics #vertebrates

The Friends of Lyme Regis Museum have an appeal to raise funds for an exceptionally rare, partial handwritten letter by pioneering fossil collector Mary Anning. Artist Lee Brown has generously donated an original piece of art work to help with fundraising Here's the link if you want to bid on it!

Ever wanted to see how a coral skeleton grows? In this paper (led by: @jtrendbio.bsky.social) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... we use Live CT, a method of scanning live organisms using microCT, to visualise how the skeleton grew over about one month.

Anyone else reading a tonne in an attempt to escape various bad habits re: social media? Thought I'd document what I've been reading here 📚🤓

If you are looking for an example of best-practice in abstract-writing, this is a good starting point

Are you looking for a small grant to assist your palaeontological research on fossil fauna and/or flora of the British Isles and Ireland? 🦕🐌🦎🦈🌿 Applications are now open for our Richard Owen Research Fund. Further details can be found here: www.palaeosoc.org/grants-prize... Deadline 28th Feb 2026.

Awesome opportunity to nominate an early career researcher for the Edward Forbes Prize. Deadline just 5 days away! #palaeontology

Had lots of fun delivering the @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social Carl Gans award lecture yesterday at @sicb.bsky.social #SICB2026! Grateful to have the support of so many incredible colleagues in comparative biomechanics.

I'll never bitch about mammals again ever.

A 1672 bunny rabbit from St Isidore’s #Rome - symbolising the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception (JMcC) Today 8 Dec is the feast.

During the earliest stages of domestication, dogs in archaeological sites would be indistinguishable from wolves. Unless you find them on a small island where no wolves would survive on their own, eating things wolves normally don’t eat. Such as here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Deadline next week! Don't forget to nominate! (and if you have problems, get in touch with us directly via our website)

A reminder to all #palaeoartists; the deadline for the Marsh Palaeoart Award is fast approaching! If you want to submit I'd recommend doing it ASAP as, while it says 25th Nov here, the webpage specifies the 21st (I'm glad I checked😅). Anyway, good luck to y'all! #paleoart @palaeontosoc.bsky.social

Nice 3-year teaching+research postdoc at NYIT! careers-nyit.icims.com/jobs/4126/po... The human anatomy teaching experience is tremendously valuable; for people in our fields (e.g., morphology, biomechanics, palaeontology) it opens up great faculty job opportunities! And the NYIT faculty are great.

Interested in implants and dental rehabilitation? I have a fully funded PhD available on modelling mandibular implants after oral cancer. Apply now or email me 🙂 🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📣Another exciting PhD available! Partnered with @nottswildlife.bsky.social and fully funded by the ACCE+ NERC Doctoral Landscape Award. We will look at morphological trait evolution, isolation and environment change, and rewilding of large herbivores. #evolution #WilderFuture #rewilding #PhD

📣 Funded PhD combining anatomy, surgery and engineering! 💀 This project aims to characterise the biomechanical behaviour of jaw implants following mandibulectomy. 📍@livuni-ilcams.bsky.social Liverpool, UK 🥼@ukshaq.bsky.social @clairebrockett.bsky.social and me!

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

📣 📃 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

🚨Our next Marsh Palaeoart Award launches next week! 🚨Recognising talent in the depiction of fossil fauna, this award is judged by a panel of artists and scientists, and has a cash prize of £500 💰 Check our website for more info: palaeosoc.org/grants.../th...

I’m very excited to welcome @lucyhholmes.bsky.social to the lab! Lucy will be working on Building Giants, funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk to investigate cranial sinuses in large mammals 🦓🐘🦛🦏🐪🦒🦬🐂🦌 This project is something I’ve been wanting to do for over a decade …

One week left to apply for our postdoc position on Deep-Time Small Rodent Palaeogenomics! This is a 2-year full-time position that includes Swedish employment benefits, as well as funding for research expenses and work-related travel. More info and application link: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

What makes the skulls of rabbits and hares so special? Find out in this new paper from our very own @apwoodbailey.bsky.social @acsharp.bsky.social & others! 💀🐇📝

Oh so it does have phd level intelligence