Watch #ProcB authors Nelly Fragoso Vargas and Michael Berthaume talk about the #evolution of the knee sesamoid bones in Primates: cassyni.com/events/4o6j6... #phylogenetics

A study of 150,000 people with ADHD in Sweden confirms that drugs taken to manage the condition have wider benefits beyond improving immediate symptoms

Lovely to see the #prosthetic work in #SriLanka getting some local press in the country 🥰 www.themorning.lk/articles/quI...

Easy to gain but hard to lose: the #evolution of the knee sesamoid bones in Primates—a systematic review and phylogenetic meta-analysis: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #ProcB #phylogenetics

Exacerbated sonic hedgehog signalling promotes a transition from chemical pre-patterning of chicken reticulate scales to mechanical skin folding doi.org/10.1098/rsob...

Here’s the last version I’ve done…

Call for proposals! 🎉 We are inviting proposals for our cross-journal special feature (between @funecology.bsky.social and @animalecology.bsky.social): "Energy trade-offs under changing environments" Guest edited by myself, @amandapettersen.bsky.social, and @nealdawson.bsky.social!

STATEMENT FROM QUEER BRITAIN – Images from Queer Britain

Legacies of colonialism can stifle science. But there are ways to rein it in.

Head of Human Rights Commission on #r4today confirms trans women cannot access women's public toilets. She says trans people 'should advocate for sex-neutral third spaces'. And in the meantime? How are they supposed to have a wee when they are out and about? How does that not infringe their rights??

UK Supreme Court just defined what it means to be a "woman," would love to know what it means to be born "biologically female." Are we going to test all ovaries to ensure they are not internal testes? Transgender ppl are still protected, but what about intersex ppl? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...

Genomic basis of non-human-primate diversity and adaptation www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Sharing this paper I worked on with one of my PhD students, Matt, last year. Grasshoppers have "teeth" and it is possible to quantify their shape like in mammals using dental topographic analysis! ...odd choice of picture here, but oh well! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

If I randomly followed you and you don't know who I am, this is why! I've discovered 584 Bluesky users from my Twitter/X network using the Sky Follower Bridge.✨ Check it out: share.sky-follower-bridge.dev?q=584 #skyfollowerbridge

Western Europe’s oldest face adds new wrinkles to human evolution The face fossils date to as early as 1.4 million years ago www.sciencenews.org/article/west...

Worse days to end my workweek when staying in a city and country the #WHO declared and #Ebola outbreak in

… I landed in Kampala m, Uganda today… someone also died of Ebola in Kampala today…

Today’s fun thing… finding out I have an IMDB page for work I did as a talking head years ago 😆 “Known for: Massive Engineering Mistakes” 😆😆😆 context is key here!! m.imdb.com/name/nm15608...

***Job opportunity!!!*** Nicky Bailey, Elena Seminati, and I are looking to hire a 1-year Postdoc to create an interface for @blender3d.bsky.social to help with prosthetic limb provision in low-resource settings. Message for Q's - Please RT/share 😁 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLG491/r...

Myself and @mberthaume.bsky.social celebrating our #BlueSkyBirthday! 🥳 🥂