New Anatomy Pub! 🦴🫁🧠 We report count and pattern of facial nerve branches near the TMJ based on cadaveric dissections - we also found that pics in anatomy texts are WAY OFF! Please pay for new #medicalillustration instead of repeating old errors! #anatomy #AnatomyEd #TMJ #MedEd #art 🔗 rdcu.be/egiKs

Support birds where you live and be a part of the bird-friendly movement! Learn more about the 7 simple actions you can take to help birds at www.3billionbirds.org/7-simple-act.... 🐦

The dogwoods are just getting started

Snow in Tulsa, crystallizing on the backs of hungry birds. #birds #birdphotography #winter 🪶❄️📷

All are welcome in the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology! In collections? Education? Ethics? Methods? Become a member today! Already a member? Share with your community and help build a more inclusive discipline!

Two lifers on my trip to LA for a conference, Anna’s and Allen’s hummingbirds 🪶 (looking forward to the name updates):

Just out - clinical anatomy students exploring anatomical pathology in cadavers w/faculty support benefit as educators themselves. 🔬🧠🫁🫀🥼This work is an outgrowth of a summer anatomy program I taught at CMU College of Medicine. #MedEd #anatomyEd #anatomy #dissection #pathology #OpenAccess

Join us! I am looking for a Postdoc to join my WWTF VRG Group at the University of Vienna investigating nut-dropping behaviour in crows using biologging technology. Funding available for 3 years! All info here: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... Application deadline March 20th. Please share widely!

New paper from me: wild Orkney starlings use pieces of wool to clean themselves! I spotted this tool use by chance out the window, so we can chalk this one up to daydreaming. Some starlings even made tools, gathering bits of wool into a clump 🧪🪶🛠️🐑 www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org/article.php?...

Are you a Post-baccalaureate interested in Biological Science Research? Through "Understanding Nature and Los Angeles Biodiversity" training, hosted researchers will engage with NHMLAC Mentors in a year-long research and preparation program. Applications due February 29, 2024 12AM PT: nhm.org/unlab

Enjoying the snowbirds. Dark-eyed juncos are so variable they used to be called different species.. if I’m honest, the different types with different colors and ranges SEEM like different species… but what do I know. I wish you could at least specify type on eBird. Below, slate-colored type. 🪶❄️

Recovering from COVID, I haven’t had a chance to get out birding in a while. All the more reason to be grateful for the back yard birds in winter, reliable fluffs of joy for just the cost of a few peanuts and seeds. White-breasted nuthatch in Tulsa, OK. 🪶 #feederbirds #backyardbirding

What a difference a season makes. Adorable Canada Geese 🪶 #michigan #birds #gosling

Though I know it’s the most colorful, flashy birds that usually draw us into birding, I’ve come to be more interested in the subtleties that distinguish diverse but sometimes overlooked groups, like sparrows. Here, though soon to be renamed, a juvenile Harris’ Sparrow in Bixby, OK USA. 🪶

Speaking of cold and snowy, here is one of my favorite Snowy Owl pictures from Michigan last year. The only reason it isn’t my favorite is that it happens to also be the moment I learned you can’t shoot out the window of a hot car in the cold without getting haze - darn! 🪶🦉❄️🤍

Applications for SOAR 2024 are now open! This summer undergraduate research internship program is a great opportunity for undergrads to do PAID research in anatomy, functional morphology, bioanthropology, and biomechanics. Apply at unthsc.edu/soar.

As I turn my attention to the AABA meetings this spring, I am excited to see friends and colleagues for the first time since pre-pandemic, and also happily remembering more recent acquaintances, as pictured (L. catta Tsimanampesotse park, Madagascar). @biologicalanth.bsky.social

Though I am looking forward to the spring migration, a perk about my recent move to OK is that the sparrows that passed by me quickly in MI are here for the whole winter. Here is a Savannah Sparrow I saw in MI last spring, maybe it's here in OK now! #Birds #migration #sparrow #imisshashtags

This time last year I was heading to the “UP” - the upper peninsula of Michigan for a winter birding tour. This snowy obliged our wish for some great pics. Stunner. #birds #birding #winter #SnowyOwl #Michigan

Lincoln’s Sparrow wintering in Tulsa. The morning light really brings out those gold and copper tones in what some would call an “LBB” - “little brown bird”

We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2024 American Association of Biological Anthropologists awards. The winner of the Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award is Dr. Laurie Godfrey. Join us at #AABA2024 in LA to celebrate Dr. Godfrey!

We just emailed all first authors of accepted abstracts for AABA 2024 with presentation details! If you didn't get it, check your spam folder. Looking forward to seeing y'all in LA! @biologicalanth.bsky.social

I’ve really enjoyed my experience talking to classrooms through “Skype a Scientist” and encourage other scientists to take advantage of this great outreach opportunity

@restingdinoface.bsky.social wrote a great piece about our underwater cave paleontology research in Madagascar, for the "Daredevil" issue from Popular Science. Read all about it here: (# paleontology, extinction, lemurs, caves and cavediving)