Anyone interested in applying for PhDs at #2025SVP, email or find me or @tguillerme.bsky.social for a chat if you’re interested in morphological trait evolution with a conservation theme: 🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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...

PhD advert 🥳 BBSRC studentship focusing on the role of fibrillin-1 on the microvascular and mechanical function of skeletal muscle - potential for a whole range of interdisciplinary research techniques 💪🦴🧬🩸 All info at the link below - come join us!

📣 📃 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

📣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!

It's spoooky season! 🎃🦇 👻 Check out is video of our Egyptian Fruit Bat, stained with iodine and CT scanned to visualise the muscles

Taking over #3DThursday while Brandy Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social is out of office for some adventures! 🦇: Rousettus aegyptiacus stained in 10% Lugol’s iodine for 3 months 🔬: PerkinElmer Quantum GX microCT 🥼: @acsharp.bsky.social 🏛️: University of Liverpool’s Centre for Preclinical Imaging

On the 4th December 2025, @eesaupe.bsky.social will be giving an in person lecture at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social as part of the MENDLS series. There will be tea and cake, a panel discussion, and a reception to follow! Open to all, more details 👇 Register here: forms.gle/hHEQA4mSZEXg...

Our new MSc is rolling! Semester one provides a solid general background in Biomechanics with some fun practicals. Check out our students have fun learning surface electromyography.

Violence, scientific DRAMA, and misunderstanding! Who first asked if woodpeckers get headaches, or if rams are immune to brain damage? New Paper! I trace the history of human thought on brain injury in head-hitting animals, and it's a wild ride. 🧪 🏺 A thread - 1/🧵 doi.org/10.1002/ar.7...

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 …

I’m coming to #SVP2025 in Birmingham! Very excited to see many friends again after so long. My last SVP was 2017 👀🤯 #2025SVP #skulls #biomechanics

BREAKING: Traitorous Liverpool PhD student lured to co-supervising institution with the promise of sloth chat and YouTube views 🦥🎥

📣Postdoc in whale biomechanics and evolution based in Bristol and Oxford, UK, with Dr Katrina Jones and Prof. Erin Saupe 📣🐋 #evolution #biomechanics #CFD

Our new paper led by recent lab alumni Hannah Shideler and postdoc Elska Kaczmarek is out in ICB @sicbjournals.bsky.social! For the first time ever, we reconstructed the volume of the oral cavity during suckling, and found that nipple design impacts tongue function. doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

Rare as hen's teeth: an Assistant Curator job, with our fantastic team at National Museums Scotland! Closing date 24th August #museums #museumjobs careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553

The Department of Integrative Biology @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor of Human Anatomy! Open until September 19. Please share with anatomy/paleo/func-morph colleagues and friends. Happy to answer any questions. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05053

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! 💀🐇📝

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...

The virtual #ICVM conference is happening now. I can’t attend live, but I’m looking forward to catching up on the recordings over the next week or two! #vertebrate #morphology

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 🎉🐇

Harry Gill first PhD paper is out, applying @deeplabcut.bsky.social to dog gait analyses ... and it worked pretty well :) You can access the paper here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lXNEcF2Ow... @cbrassey.bsky.social

Y’all!!! Our comparative anatomy textbook is out!!! Free, open access, and just in time for the fall semester!

📣evolutionary biomechanics job! This sounds like a fun project on the skull of head-first burrowers, working in @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social

Here come the science sketchnotes from @sebiology.bsky.social Meeting in Antwerp this July! These are shared with the presenter's permission (but all mistakes, especially spelling, are mine). First, @sharrison09.bsky.social on the jumping kinematics and power of monkey grasshoppers

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

Curator job available at Queensland Museum! smartjobs.qld.gov.au/jobs/QLD-QM6...

Posters, talks, medieval manuscripts, getting lost in the NHM and writing about themselves in the third person! It's all here in a new blog post by PhD students Sidney and Harrie!📝 embliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/t...

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 👀

#ICVM2025 abstracts are now published! (1 pdf to rule them all) Remember that, whatever format you're doing, the recorded presentation must be submitted by 20 July! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10974687...

Are you looking for a PhD project starting this year? I have a funded (UK rates) project on mammal skull diversity and function, looking at skull allometry and how mammal heads adapt to trade-offs in tissue demands during growth 🦌🦘🐘🦥 Please share and apply: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/buil...

We have just opened searches for 3 new continuing Teaching & Research Academics. All positions are open at Level B (Lecturer) or Level C (Senior Lecturer), and we have one position in Genomics and two in Ecology. careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

I also urge you to check out the re-vamped MorphoSource online 3D viewer! The team has been working on new features for it, including the ability to save annotations, take measurements, new navigation controls, & camera settings. You may not even need to download models to collect data you need!

Check out our new paper in @journalofanatomy.bsky.social with @cbrassey.bsky.social using FEA and bend tests to show that seal whiskers are stiffer - in both shape and material - than terrestrial species. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Had some fun with the microCT yesterday. I’m excited about these new projects! 🐀🐒 #diceCT #biomechanics

New funded PhD opportunity for UK students. Working with National Joint Registry data to assess clinical performance of total ankle replacement www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Our lab does @prelights.bsky.social! Check out this one by PhD student Sidney and follow our new lab account @livevobiomech.bsky.social

The 2025 Marie Curie Fellowships are now open! If you are interested in #biomechanics #morphology #evolution #skulls #feeding #mechanobiology get in touch! happy to chat about hosting in #Liverpool marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

Register now for #ICVM2025 online & see our keynote talks: Faysal Bibi, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Germany Anne Claire Fabre, Univ. Bern, Switzerland Tiana Kohlsdorf, Univ. São Paulo, Brazil Karen Sears, Univ. California LA, USA Neil Shubin, Univ. Chicago, USA www.isvm-icvm.org/icvm-2025

MSCA fellowships are open for applications! Happy to chat with anyone from EU interested in comparative functional morphology considering a postdoc. We have amazing facilities for biomechanics including biplanar x-ray, gait analysis, FEA marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

The groups findings of Egyptian fruit bat flight muscles can be viewed in #3D, #VR or #AR at skfb.ly/p7QZV, with the full @journalofanatomy.bsky.social paper at doi.org/10.1111/joa....

Little data is available on the #muscle properties and architecture of bat flight muscles. @acsharp.bsky.social and colleagues show that the Egyptian fruit #bat pectoralis is optimised for power, and the elbow flexion/extension group is optimised for high forces with large PCSA and short fibres

This month sees a Special Issue of @journalofanatomy.bsky.social, with a specific focus on Biomedical Imaging in Comparative Anatomy. The cover image shows the wing muscles of the Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus), from @acsharp.bsky.social and colleagues, which is included in this issue.

🚨New publication alert!🚨 A big one! It might just be my *biggest* one: doi.org/10.1093/iob/... IMPORTANT THREAD! From the moment Dave Blackburn set me loose at the Florida Museum, I had a marvelous time using diffusible iodine-based contrast-enhanced CT (diceCT) to create anatomical datasets 🧪1/6

It’s international bat appreciation day! 🦇 And just this week our paper on bat flight muscles made the front cover of @journalofanatomy.bsky.social