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New #DAWNDINOS paper! We do predictive simulations of vertical height jumping in the Triassic theropod Coelophysis & extant (tinamou) bird Eudromia. Mainly as sensitivity analysis of what parameters are most important. We show how crucial tail mobility is. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...

What drives impaired exercise tolerance in type 2 diabetes? James Charles and Roger Kissane use experimental and musculoskeletal modelling data to show that diabetes changes tendon mechanics in a way that makes locomotion more expensive 🦴🐁💪📉 physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...

‼️📄 Two new papers out today in @jexpbiol.bsky.social lead by @jamescharles90.bsky.social, all about locomotion and load-carrying across different working dog breeds! ⤵️ 🐕 🏋️‍♂️ 🦮 (1/4)

We are asking working dogs to help by carrying loads & now @jamescharles90.bsky.social & co have discovered that burdened spaniels trot faster & stride farther, unlike shepherds and Labradors that slow down & are better suited to carry burdens in the long term journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

📝🐕‼️ 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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Tagging all the co-authors on twitter: @samcoatham.bsky.social @cbrassey.bsky.social @tomomahoney.bsky.social @jamescharles90.bsky.social (and myself =) Ashleigh Wiseman wrote an accompanying dispatch: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Human evolution: Run Lucy, run!

Endurance running is thought as critical for the evolutionary success of hominins. A new study analysing the running skills of the famous ‘Lucy’ — Australopithecus afarensis — finds that they performed poorer than modern humans, suggesting that key features of the human body plan evolved specifically to improve running performance.

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