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

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

Wearyingly frequently necessary reminder that "social darwinism" or anything else that equates notions of intelligence with "fitness to live" is just ableist eugenicist bullshit derived from a fascist-minded misapplication of darwinism, no matter how clever and snarky and cool you think you're being

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

The sort of energy I bring to the workplace:

Critics of #ColosalBiosciences, including myself, are not angry, or getting meaner and meaner, we are being intellectual honest about what Colossal is up to 1/n

In far less pleasant news -- it turns out that @devoevomed.bsky.social, @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social & I have all been targets of on-line smear articles, all in reference to our public criticisms of de-extinction. www.newscientist.com/article/2490...

📣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 💀🧠🐴🦍🦁🐂🐅🐫🦌🦏🦒🫎

Graduation day!! 🎉🎉Congratulations @apwoodbailey.bsky.social and thank you @nathanj.bsky.social. Can’t wait for the next chapter 👀

@naturecaroline.bsky.social grew some nasturtium from seed but the caterpillars came and decimated them. The plant put out a chemical, which attracted a parasitic wasp. Which laid its eggs in the caterpillars. The larvae hatched and built cocoons and in 7-10 days they will emerge as adult wasps.

A while back I finished my first needle felting project. A gift for my PhD supervisor. I think it represents my thesis pretty well! 🐇💀

Check out our new paper on leporid lagomorph cranial fenestrations! 🐇

Just out of the oven! Today @migueldlm.bsky.social just published his first paper related to his PhD thesis! BFEX is a new Blender tool for making FEA more accessible for biologists and paleontologists! All using open and free software 😱 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Passed!! 🎉😁

Wearing my hare shirt as go faster stripes for my viva today.

A wonderful day! Thanks to everyone who organised and to all of the speakers 😁

Early start for us Liverpool folks heading down to @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social for the Functional Morphology symposium. Bit of viva prep on the way can't hurt 😂 So excited to hear what everyone's been getting up to this year!

Very productive use of the limbo period between thesis submission and viva.

Always worth remembering, even if ‘successful’, it won’t be a dodo. Success will be something that meets a set of criteria. An approximation. And no one really knows what a dodo looked like. Or how it behaved. So it will a bit of biofantasy, and —if released— an environmental experiment.

Can't believe we've had three years with our baked bean-lookin' hound.