I am thrilled that my dream project was funded by the #ERC @erc.europa.eu as a 5 year Advanced Grant! Final amount somewhere over €2M. I'll be advertising 2 postdocs (1 more empirical; one more theoretical), technician and research administrator in due time. erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

The secret's out – thrilled to share I’ve been selected as a member of the inaugural class of @sciam.bsky.social's Young American Scientists! It's been so fun to learn about the work of the other 27 awardees from around the country. www.scientificamerican.com/issue/sa/202...

Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea). From my forthcoming book, PONDS: An Illustrated Guide, Yale University Press, Sept 2026. 🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #warblers #birds #BirdArt

New #DAWNDINOS paper! Another "here's everything relevant about a cool Triassic/early Jurassic archosauriform's locomotion that we can figure out so far, with a 3D model of it"-- this time focused on the big nasty "rauisuchian" Postosuchus. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Functional morphology and biomechanics of the locomotor apparatus in the large Late Triassic carnivore Postosuchus kirkpatricki (Archosauria: Rauisuchidae)

A three-dimensional model is used to analyze the locomotor biomechanics of the large Late Triassic archosaurian reptile Postosuchus kirkpatricki. The study finds that it is more uncertain than previo...

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Today I spent the day at the @royalvetcollege.bsky.social looking at some crocodile forelimbs with @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social! Stay tuned for some exciting science and cool anatomy 🐊

Come join us! We have a one-year, part-time, education-focussed Assistant Professor post in Palaeobiology. Deadline for applications is 2nd June 2026. Please see more at the below link: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Assistant Professor (Education) in Palaeobiology - School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences - 107465 - Grade 8

You will contribute to a range of education-related activities. In addition you will be expected to demonstrate academic citizenship, developing and maintaining mutually respectful and supportive work...

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#Primates move in very different ways, from swinging and climbing to walking on the ground or upright on two legs. Using detailed 3D musculoskeletal models of eight primates, we mapped how hind limb muscles generate leverage across a wide range of postures: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... #RSOS

Big day ahead. First live-animal studies I've done in our lab for a while. Alpacas moving through our gait lab including over soil, rough terrain and pressure pad. Lots of tech. Bio-inspired robot foot design with Dr. Sara Abad-Guaman from UCL. Hopefully some alpaca pics and video to come...

Posting my 3D dynamic Pteranodon folding wing membrane model again. I never got around to making a propatagium & uropatagium to go along with it, but this was still a useful proof of concept should I ever make a full animated pterosaur (which I fully plan on doing, eventually).

We are deeply saddened by the death of Alan Wilson. Our thoughts are with his family, friends, collaborators & colleagues 🧵1/3 www.biologists.com/stories/a-tr...

I've released version 1.2 of my SDF simulations! This update further improves the runtimes: - Simple checking for collision between two meshes run at >150 FPS - Full 6DOF ROM simulations optimising the translations for each rotational pose run at >5.6 FPS - Ligament path estimation run at >5.1 FPS

I had a great day yesterday at the @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social symposium Anatomy: past, present and future! There were some fantastic talks and I also got to presented my current work on bird flight

Congratulations to all of the remarkable ECRs whose research has been recognised in the 2025 JEB Outstanding Paper Prize shortlist Find out about each of the shortlisted papers and their outstanding ECR authors journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

My recent bird shoulder XROMM study got nominated and shortlisted for the @jexpbiol.bsky.social Outstanding Paper Prize! Unfortunately, I did not win but very happy to have been considered!! If you want to learn more about our study see below thread!

Dr. Oliver Demuth@oliverdemuth.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The final PDF of our XROMM study on bird shoulders w/ @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social & @fieldpalaeo.bsky.social is now available at @jexpbiol.bsky.social!

Haolong dongi, amazing new spiny (yes,really) iguanodontian from early cretaceous china #sciart

Version 1.1 of my SDF simulations are out! This update significantly improves the runtime of all simulations while making the installation a lot easier! ROM simulations used to take days, now they only take a few hours and include physiological accurate soft tissue constraints!

New President of the @royalsociety.org is going to tackle exorbitant UK visa fees for scientists. We sure need a big change! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Top UK scientist says research visa restrictions endanger economy

Prof Sir Paul Nurse says the UK is

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Joints aren’t just bones 🦴 Ligaments shape how vertebrates move New study by @oliverdemuth.bsky.social et al in @jexpbiol.bsky.social combines in silico & ex vivo #XROMM of the partridge shoulder to show how ligaments constrain motion 🐦 👉 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Soft tissue constraints on joint mobility in the avian shoulder

Summary: Experimental ex vivo data and in silico simulations shed light on the function of ligaments in the bird (partridge) shoulder joint in maintaining shoulder articulation and constraining joint ...

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The final PDF of our XROMM study on bird shoulders w/ @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social & @fieldpalaeo.bsky.social is now available at @jexpbiol.bsky.social!

🚨 Palaeo jobs alert!! 🚨 Two(!!) postdoc positions available in Cambridge! 1. Human Evolutionary Anatomy: cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... 2. Evolutionary Biomechanics: cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... As part of the @erc.europa.eu funded STEPS project!

🚨 Job position @cam.ac.uk 🚨 Project Coordinator for 5 years at 0.5 FTE on the ERC Funded STEPS project. Closing date for application 2nd January 2026, interviews ~3 weeks later! Apply here: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/project... @cam-archaeology.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

A-level English, voluntary work, delayed citizenship: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants | Nesrine Malik

A-level English, voluntary work, delayed citizenship: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants | Nesrine Malik

It’s easier for politicians to blame others than to face the truth: Britain has been stripped of the spaces and opportunities that allow for true social integration, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Happy to share my first postdoc work published in @funecology.bsky.social ! A huge thank-you to @oliverdemuth.bsky.social @lizzysteell.bsky.social @fieldpalaeo.bsky.social @grumpydrfabre.bsky.social and to @snsf.ch besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Constrained variation in the internal architecture of avian wing bones

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Last week our in press manuscript was made available at @jexpbiol.bsky.social with the typeset version following soon. We conducted ex vivo XROMM experiments to determine the joint mobility in Red legged partridges and compared them with in silico simulations: doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

We are delighted to share that Dr Ashleigh Wiseman has been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starter Grant for her project STEPS: Biomechanical simulations of hominin locomotion across complex terrains. 👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/ashleig... #ERCStG

Dr Ashleigh Wiseman awarded ERC starting grant

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Very proud of the amazing Dr. Ashleigh Wiseman! Securing an @erc.europa.eu starting grant is a huge achievement! Keep your eyes open for PostDoc opportunities in her new research group at @cam-archaeology.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk!!

I'm recruiting a PhD student to join the lab at @gtsciences.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Broad taxonomic and topical freedom under the umbrella of vertebrate joint form and function. Information here: www.manafzadeh.com – please share 🦴🩻

Armita R. Manafzadeh@armanafzadeh.bsky.social · last yr.

✨Some news✨: after finishing my postdoc, I’ll be starting my lab as an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. Join us in Atlanta to study how joints work and where they come from!

🚨 Hiring! We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in computational fluid dynamics and structural simulations to investigate biomechanics and mechanosensory feedback in insect flight. Extreme agility ✔️ Morphological computing ✔️ Meshes! ✔️ jobs.rvc.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

a close up of a fly 's head with a blurred background .

ALT: a close up of a fly 's head with a blurred background .

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Interesting study, however, every scientist should stay as far away as possible from #generativeAI! It is literally just making things up with little to no control over the output. No morphology, soft tissues nor anything else can be "reconstructed" or "augmented" with genAI.

Catalina Pimiento 🆓🇵🇸@pimientoc.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Check out our perceptive on the Emerging uses of artificial intelligence in deep time biodiversity research www.nature.com/articles/s44... #AI #paleontology

Sauropods dared to ask the radical question: "What if dinosaurs were really, really big?" I will post an ID chart later, but if anyone wants to guess, then feel free to sound off in the comments. 🦕🦕🦕🦕🦕🦕🦕🦕🦕🦕🦕🦕🦕🦕🦕