Here is a link to our new publication on the origins of vertebrates. "Early vertebrate biomineralization and eye structure determined by synchrotron X-ray analyses of Silurian jawless fish" url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Calling all JEB ECRs! It's that time again! The deadline for the next JEB Travelling Fellowship applications is 6 February, so if you've got a burning desire to travel to another lab to answer an extraordinary question get your application ready now! www.biologists.com/grants/trave...

Second PhD paper is out! We find: 1) aquatic and terrestrial salamanders have different limb bone adaptations, 2) complex life cycles promote different traits, 3) decoupling of external and internal bone traits increase diversity. Thread (1/8) and FREE link below! 🦎🧪 doi.org/10.1111/joa....

We are hiring a POSTDOC on an NIH award to measure inertial effects of (in)active muscle. Please share and re-post widely! Please send expressions of interest to my UML email.

New paper (with @konowlab.bsky.social)! Muscle force varies with length, but how does this affect muscle function in life? Combining live animal and muscle prep data, we found rat jaw muscles routinely operate at long, forceful (potentially unstable) lengths. rdcu.be/eNIQk

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Great new paper just dropped! A really comprehensive look at how mammals and their ancestors moved from sprawling to upright stances... but not in the straightforward way you might think! Congratulations to all the authors! 🎉

I'm so excited to share my latest paper out now! How did the ancestors of mammals make the switch from sprawling to upright, taking over the world in the process? Spoiler alert; it's complicated! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

How did our mammalian #posture arise from our sprawling #synapsid ancestors? @docrobbrock.bsky.social &co reveal #parasagittal postures in stem therians, implying that synapsids evolved & radiated with distinct forelimb trait combinations for most of their history @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4loAHoy

Oh look! Me and @nhcooper123.bsky.social have done a podcast! For each episode we scour the @nhm-london.bsky.social's collections for weird and fun specimens that fit the theme, and then ramble to each other about them. So if that's your bag, give it a listen! 🎉

New publication day! 🥳 Read all about arm joints in mammals and lizards - what they look like and how they move - with me, @l-fahn-lai.bsky.social and our co-authors. Out today in @jexpbiol.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

Announcing The first found, and most complete, #dinosaur skeleton from the Middle #Jurassic of Scotland! 📢🦖 So delighted to finally be able to share this great new fossil, published today! It was actually the first dinosaur found in #Scotland... thread 🧵 #OpenAccess #fossils doi.org/10.1017/S175...

The Elgol Dinosaur is out! This is the first and most complete dinosaur skeleton from the Jurassic of Isle of Skye, Scotland. I got to work with the amazing @elsa-panciroli.bsky.social on bringing this early ornithischian back to life. #Sciart Link to paper: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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/...

New research led by Spencer Hellert tests the idea that major radiations within synapsids are begun by small faunivores. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Exciting pair of muscle evolution companion papers just out! Bishop & Pierce describe the fossil record of appendicular muscle evolution in Synapsida on the line to mammals in forelimb & hindlimb anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...