90% of people are right-handed, and no other primate species comes close to this level of hand preference. A new Oxford-led study suggests the reason may lie in two defining features of human evolution: walking on two legs and the expansion of the human brain. More info ⬇️ https://bit.ly/42Cbvnc

Inici de campanya a Creu de Conill 20 en bona companyia @a-urciuoli.bsky.social, @gamarraptor.bsky.social i Josep Manel Méndez! Avui, a pic i pala⛏️ Start of the Creu de Conill 20 campaign, with some cleaning and shoveling for today! #fieldwork de l'ICP

#Outreach Tomorrow I will be talking about #Nakali🇰🇪 at L'Estruch bar in Sabadell as part of the @pintofscience.es festival 🍻🔬 ⏰ 19:00h 📍 C/ de Sant Isidre, 140 Don't miss it! @ICP_MCrusafont #BPpostdoc #PINT26ESP #PINT26SAB

Cap de setmana intens però molt agraït

Exploring Cambridge!

Landed in Cambridge! Tomorrow I begin a new role as Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research @cam-archaeology.bsky.social Over the next three years, I’ll be working on the evolution of human bipedalism as part of the STEPS project, led by Ashleigh Wiseman.

There's also a Perspective on it, by Dr David M. Alba and I, check it out here👇👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Masripithecus was very interesting to learn and think about!

We all know lemurs like to move it move it, but how did they evolve to do this? Using fossil limbs of Malagasy sloth-lemurs & koala-lemurs, this paper uncovers the potential use of internal bone structure for reconstructing locomotor evolution! 🌍🧪👇

I’m very happy to share that our work on bone inner structure of Madagascar’s subfossil sloth- and koala-lemurs is finally out 🦴🐒 on @zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social A big thank you to co-authors @julsam.bsky.social Carla Argilés Esturgó and Damiano Marchi! academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a... 1/6

New paper alert!!🚨 Trabecular structure of the Malagasy sloth-lemurs and koala-lemurs and its relationship with locomotion🐒🐒 led by @fabioalfieri2.bsky.social It was great to work with all the people involved! Check it out👇🏽https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/206/3/zlag021/8509525

Very grateful for these last years I spent at the ICP doing my PhD. Yesterday was great 🙂 New adventures to come 🦧🦍🦴

Paper alert!!🚨 Ape-like adaptations in the radius of Pliobates 🐒 Check out the amazing paper of @julsam.bsky.social !👇👇👇

First official postdoc paper out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social! We compare different approaches to studying kinematics in a macaque ankle and note that the talocrural joint seems to contribute minimally to dorsiflexion of the foot during stance phase. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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🌍❄️ New paper out! Early primates didn’t just thrive in tropical forests, they evolved and dispersed through cold & temperate climates 🐒🧊 Enjoyed being part of this collaboration led by @avaria_jorge! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Fossil ape tali tell their tale 🦧 Check out our new dissemination paper on the isolated dryopith talus from Abocador de Can Mata and its important implications for the evolution of locomotor behaviors in modern apes 👇 www.uab.cat/web/news-det...

Paper alert!!! 🐒🦍🦧🚨🚨🚨Must read this summer! Check out the amazing paper of @euarchont.bsky.social ! Many thanks again for including me in this study! 👇👇👇

New paper on early primate locomotion! 🐒 Based on tarsal shape, we reconstruct the locomotor repertoire of several early primates, providing the most extensive taxonomic scope to date. 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... With David M. Alba, @grumpydrfabre.bsky.social and Judit Marigó

#Nakali🇰🇪 🦍⚒️🦴 Thrilled to be awarded a Research Grant from the @leakeyfoundation.org I’m happy to count on a great team, some of them are on @bsky.app 👇🏽 @dmartinperea.bsky.social @albavicente.bsky.social Congratulations to the other amazing awardees 👏🏼 leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-...

#Fieldwork Week 2 on the move! New excavators and new fossils already 🦴🦴🦴 #BPpostdoc @ICP_MCrusafont @gencat

New paper alert! 🦧 Described a new dryopithecine talus from the Vallès-Penedès basin to inform about crown hominoid locomotor evolution 👇 doi.org/10.1002/ajpa... with Shubham Pal, @tpuschel.bsky.social , @a-urciuoli.bsky.social , Víctor Vinuesa, Josep M. Robles, Sergio Almécija and David M. Alba

Ens haurem de distreure d'alguna manera... Road to STL! 🔜

the text that annoyed Trump is from the AABA Statement on Race & Racism... share it widely...BioAnth doing the work-- bioanth.org/about/aaba-s....

🧵 1/2 PhD Opportunity! Join my new HEAR lab @ the University of Zurich (Sept 2025) to research hominin hearing evolution. 4yr contract, SNSF funded. Focus: cochlear anatomy, computational modeling, fossil hearing. shorturl.at/ohH44

@a-urciuoli.bsky.social is looking for a PhD student to study hominin hearing evolution! Ears are great (I'm not biased at all): uzhcareer.ch/de/jobs/deta...

#Outreach Next week I will be talking about #Nakali🇰🇪 as part of the paleotalk series that the @ICP_MCrusafont organises 🦍🦏🐖🦛🐘 and more! #BPpostdoc @gencat

📢 Hoy en El País se publica un artículo en honor a Elisabeth Vrba, una de las científicas que más han inspirado mi carrera. He tenido el privilegio de participar en su creación junto a @singerstone.bsky.social y @hdezfdez.bsky.social 👇🔗 elpais.com/ciencia/2025...

Very happy to have participated in this study on the ulnar morphology of the enigmatic crouzeliid Pliobates cataloniae 😁🐒 @julsam.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This afternoon at #AABA2025 I had the pleasure to present my work on the description and functional analysis of the most complete dryopithecine talus recovered so far. It's being an amazing experience in Baltimore! (Still haven't tried the very renowned crab cakes though!)

New research on the inner ear morphology of Neanderthals and their ancestors challenges the widely accepted theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of their genetic diversity 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...