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Postdoc advert now live! Come and work with me at the UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy
@ucl-c4ia.bsky.social
on the Mediterranean Neogene insular giant fauna. You'll also get to work with a great team:
@toriherridge.bsky.social
@nannonstevens.bsky.social
and Jesse Hennekam
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UCL โ University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?nPostingId=17769&nPostingTargetId=43064&id=Q1KFK026203F3VBQBLO8M8M07&LG=UK&languageSelect=UK&mask=ext
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Very excited to announce that our Leverhulme grant on insular gigantism was successful! 3 year project with
@toriherridge.bsky.social
@nannonstevens.bsky.social
and Jesse Hennekam. Postdoc advert coming soon, but feel free to contact me via email for more details.
16 days ago
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My new(ish) colleague at
@ucl-c4ia.bsky.social
,
@neelimasharma.bsky.social
, was on the ScienceStuff podcast talking about synovial joints and rather impressively cracking her knuckles:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
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Why Do Our Knuckles Crack?
Podcast Episode ยท ScienceStuff ยท March 11 ยท 38m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-do-our-knuckles-crack/id1800137997?i=1000754614833
17 days ago
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Congratulations to
@osteosophia.bsky.social
- now Dr Anderson - on successfully passing her viva!
@eloygl.bsky.social
and I very much enjoyed supervising Sophia and we're looking forward to the papers being published!
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New paper out! The first from
@osteosophia.bsky.social
's PhD - a new (hopefully more objective) way for categorising locomotor repertoires. With
@eloygl.bsky.social
@livevobiomech.bsky.social
and Laura Fitton:
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
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A novel approach to quantifying mammal locomotor repertoires using scoring and cluster analysis
Abstract. Describing behaviour using qualitative categories is a staple of studies on tetrapod functional morphology, ecology and evolution. However, such
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/293/2065/20252515/480467/A-novel-approach-to-quantifying-mammal-locomotor
about 1 month ago
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New paper out! From
@livevobiomech.bsky.social
with small contributions from me
@ucl-c4ia.bsky.social
, all ably led by Alice Maher - a very comprehensive look at scaling in the head and neck across tetrapods.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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New perspectives on head and neck allometry and ecomorphology in tetrapods
The skull and neck are vital parts of the body, influencing feeding ecology, habitat exploitation and locomotion. Numerous studies have therefore sought to understand how the size of these segments v...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.70099
5 months ago
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reposted by
Grant Museum of Zoology
6 months ago
Take part in activities celebrating World Anatomy Day! Join us on 18 October and find out how our museum is used for cutting-edge approaches to study ecology, evolution and skeletal anatomy.
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Family Event: Amazing Anatomy
The Grant Museum has a takeover day in partnership with UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy. Pre-book for 11:00, drop-in 12:00 - 14:00
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/family-event-amazing-anatomy-tickets-1577267963939
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New paper out today with the amazing
@apwoodbailey.bsky.social
all about the unusual leporid intracranial joint.
add a skeleton here at some point
8 months ago
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This is a horrible smear campaign.
@toriherridge.bsky.social
is highly qualified to comment on the de-extinction debate and as someone who's published and co-supervised with her, I can confidently say you'd be hard pushed to find anyone with more academic integrity.
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https://archive.is/20250731122301/https://www.newscientist.com/article/2490643-critics-of-de-extinction-research-hit-by-mystery-smear-campaign/
8 months ago
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Why does this dwarf goat look so goofy? If you want to be the person that finds out, why not apply for this funded PhD with me at UCL,
@evoswami.bsky.social
at the NHM and Jesse Hennekam at Maastricht:
tinyurl.com/mphf2hd9
about 1 year ago
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PhD studentship funded by the Anatomical Society at the UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy
@ucl-c4ia.bsky.social
. Studying the functional morphology of sheep, goats and their relatives including the fossil island dwarf Myotragus:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
. Contact me for more details.
about 1 year ago
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New paper in
@royalsocietypublishing.org
Open Science: peanut feeding may have altered the morphology of red squirrel skulls and jaws:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
about 1 year ago
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