JOB ALERT! We are recruiting at @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social - a lecturer (Grade 8) or associate professor (Grade 9) in primate or human evolutionary anatomy (research and teaching). Contact Susan Evans or myself for further details. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRZ412/l...

Lecturer / Associate Professor in Primate or Human Evolutionary Anatomy at UCL

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Please share! It’s a quick turn-around for this PhD opportunity accepting applications until 29 June! Join an amazing lab in an amazing city…

Alana Sharp@acsharp.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📣 We have a new FUNDED PhD opportunity on ageing of the human heelpad: tissue properties and gait biomechanics. 📍Location: @livevobiomech.bsky.social 👩‍💻The team: @krisda.bsky.social @drrostireadioff.bsky.social and me! 🔗 Apply: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📣 We have a new FUNDED PhD opportunity on ageing of the human heelpad: tissue properties and gait biomechanics. 📍Location: @livevobiomech.bsky.social 👩‍💻The team: @krisda.bsky.social @drrostireadioff.bsky.social and me! 🔗 Apply: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Ageing of the human heelpad: tissue properties and gait biomechanics at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Ageing of the human heelpad: tissue properties and gait biomechanics at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com

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How to make a giant - an article about our newly-funded project in the @leverhulme.ac.uk media collection: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/pcox

How to make a giant: the evolution of increased body size on islands

Using a cross-disciplinary suite of methods to study a broad range of fossil giants alongside their living, non-giant relatives, Philip Cox and his team aim to determine if a rule governs how and why ...

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Study of crab-eating macaques reveals widespread sex differences in skull size & shape—but with surprising regional variation. Males show greater variability, and some regions defy typical patterns. Cardini & O'Higgins: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🚨 We’re Hiring! 🚨 Journal of Anatomy is looking for a new Editor-in-Chief to join one of the world’s most respected platforms in anatomical science. Passionate about advancing scholarly research in the anatomical sciences? Visit the link - tinyurl.com/znwubuu2

We wish to appoint an additional co-Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of Anatomy. We're particularly interested in people with expertise in musculoskeletal anatomy. You can register your interest via the linked expression of interest form.

Pangolins possess a spectacular, dense network of diploic veins for brain drainage! In our latest study, we show that this pattern may also provide rare morphological evidence linking pangolins and carnivorans in the Ferae clade. Check it out here: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

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

Out today in @pnasnexus.org! We present evidence for a new way to characterize the vestibular organs, challenging traditional assumptions about how the human inner ear is organized.🧵 1/5 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Evolutionary modularity of the primate vestibular system: Morphological distinction of otolithic and canalicular organs

Abstract. The mammalian inner ear is traditionally divided into two systems: the peripheral vestibular system (for balance) and the cochlea (for hearing).

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Have you ever wondered what happens to your muscles if you exercise up a mountain? 🗻 New paper out by Roger Kissane and colleagues looks to understand the skeletal muscle response to training under hypoxia:

Skeletal muscle adaptation to muscle activity and hypoxia: Differential structural and metabolic remodelling

Abstract figure legend There has been controversy about the structural (capillary) response of skeletal muscle to altered O2 status, involving decreased supply (hypoxia) or increased demand (activity...

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Come learn about how pufferfish puff into such adorable angry balls...in a bar! Join us tonight at @chesterscibar.bsky.social :)

Chester SciBar@chesterscibar.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Ever seen an x-ray of a pufferfish? Well you have now! Join us with @arielcamp.bsky.social on Tues when we'll use x-rays, animations & digital models to learn how, despite having skin as soft as lycra and spines as hard as porcelain, the pufferfish can repeatedly inflate & deflate fb.me/e/91BFyRDr9

Productive afternoon in @livuni-ilcams.bsky.social weekly seminar practicing sketchnoting and learning a little bit about cardiophysiology :) Thanks to @rainbowlabuol.bsky.social for explaining his work so well and letting me share it.

We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps | Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps | Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis

Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp, say Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis

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Also this month, Manson and @nathanj.bsky.social used finite element modelling informed by neonatal MRI data, to test whether simple mechanical deformation from brain and masticatory muscle growth can predict early cranial shape change, focusing on the basicranium and face doi.org/10.1111/joa....

📣 📃 New paper out in press! 🦷 We look at the biomechanical impact of #tooth root morphology to inform #dental implant design. 👩‍💻We use finite element modelling to compare single vs. multiple roots on strain across the mandible. @apwoodbailey.bsky.social @livevobiomech.bsky.social

and another one! join us! BBSRC PhD studentship investigating how different anatomy and locomotor patterns affect joint loading in domestic dogs and other mammals 🐩🦴🐎 The project will involve a variety of biomechanics techniques including finite element analysis and MDA modelling - info below

(BBSRC NWD CASE) Selective breeding vs natural selection: how does body shape influence locomotor biomechanics in domesticated dogs and other mammals? at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - (BBSRC NWD CASE) Selective breeding vs natural selection: how does body shape influence locomotor biomechanics in domesticated dogs and other mammals? at University of Liverpool, listed ...

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Joyous reminder of both Spitting Image circa 1986 and my misspent youth moshing in dingy 1990's night clubs youtube.com/shorts/xX8Vh...

Nirvana on Rubber Chickens

YouTube video by Vinheteiro

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Been working on some validation data for AI tools commonly used to segment anatomical structures 🤔😞 😱 Almost impossible to get funding/university support to do this sort of work anymore. They only ever want to fund/support the penthouse of science, and never the ground floor or basement....

an aerial view of a building being demolished with smoke coming out of it

ALT: an aerial view of a building being demolished with smoke coming out of it

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I'm very excited to work on this with an amazing team including @rnf.bsky.social @nathanj.bsky.social @apwoodbailey.bsky.social and @lucyhholmes.bsky.social

Bit of a cliché. Assumes that current leadership know what will be needed/important in the future. The betamax of funding strategies.... UKRI chief: ‘Do fewer things in research but do them really well’ www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ukri-ch...

UKRI chief: ‘Do fewer things in research but do them really well’

Ian Chapman backs ministers’ calls for more research specialisation by universities in first public comments since taking over at £9 billion-a-year research funder

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📝🐕‼️ Think you really know the difference between a dachshund and a German shepherd? Not without reading our latest blog post! embliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/d...

Do different dog breeds move differently? – A DogWalk Study outreach event

By James Charles Since the dawn of civilisation, humans have pondered the question: do Dachshunds move the same as German Shepherds? Ponder no longer. Starting in July 2023, myself, Prof Karl Bates…

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Hi all, me, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and the amazing UK-US-Moroccan team are delighted to announce that.. we have a new specimen of Spicomellus AND IT'S WAY WEIRDER AND WAY COOLER THAN WE EVER IMAGINED!!

Meet Spiny Norman, the earliest known and definitely the most outrageously spiky ankylosaur ever discovered, as presented by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social & @richardjbutler.bsky.social in @nature.com. Q: how did it mate? A: carefully. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur - Nature

The ankylosaurian dinosaur Spicomellus afer possessed a tail weapon and uniquely elaborate dermal armour.

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A study (with our @drphilcox.bsky.social) in #rabbits & #hares, found: those adapted for running have greater facial tilt & simpler #skull joints versus those with scrambling or hopping-based #locomotion, which could help with hinge-like mobility. @ucl.ac.uk onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Factors impacting the complexity of the leporid intracranial joint

Anatomy of the intracranial joint and the 2D semi-landmarks used to capture complexity in the intracranial joint. (a) The intracranial joint can be seen here (in red) between the parietal and occipit...

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Last day to apply! 📣 Come and join my lab in Liverpool @livevobiomech.bsky.social for a PhD on the skulls of giant mammals! Full funding for 4 years (UK Home rates) 🐘🦌🦘🐂🐪🦏 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Building giants: tissue relationships during skull growth in large mammals at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Building giants: tissue relationships during skull growth in large mammals at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com

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New paper out today with the amazing @apwoodbailey.bsky.social all about the unusual leporid intracranial joint.

Dr Amber Wood-Bailey@apwoodbailey.bsky.social · last yr.

Check out our new paper in @journalofanatomy.bsky.social! 🐇💀 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper where we look at complexity of the intracranial joint in rabbits and hares. Second paper from @apwoodbailey.bsky.social PhD work 🎉🐇

Dr Amber Wood-Bailey@apwoodbailey.bsky.social · last yr.

Check out our new paper in @journalofanatomy.bsky.social! 🐇💀 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Check out our new paper in @journalofanatomy.bsky.social! 🐇💀 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Factors impacting the complexity of the leporid intracranial joint

Anatomy of the intracranial joint and the 2D semi-landmarks used to capture complexity in the intracranial joint. (a) The intracranial joint can be seen here (in red) between the parietal and occipit....

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