After a nasty post-festival flu, it’s very nice to come back online and see that our paper: “Osteohistological evidence for terrestrial adaptation and an extended growth period in mekosuchine crocodylians and its potential role in their extinction”, is out now in The Anatomical Record!

Phil Mannion@pdmannion.bsky.social · 3w ago

Our new paper led by @devinhoffman.bsky.social + @piginatutu.bsky.social on growth in mekosuchine crocodylians, with implications for their extinction versus the survival of Crocodylus in Australasia (+ @houssayecnrs.bsky.social, @rnf.bsky.social, @reddirtpalaeo.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1002/ar.7...

This led to the Butlerian Jihad, after Samuel Butler, author of the 1863 letter 'Darwin among the machines', which concludes: 'war to the death should be instantly proclaimed against them. Every machine of every sort should be destroyed by the well-wisher of his species.' Worth reading!

DanTechnik@dantechnik.bsky.social · last mo.

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” This line hits different at the moment. Dune.

📢 JOB ALERT! 📢 I am recruiting a 30-month postdoc to work on modelling the vision of trilobites @hfspo.bsky.social ! If you like 3D data, fossils, and functional morphology, this is the one for you! 📆Deadline 27. Aug Pls contact me with any Qs and share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Big awesome job opportunity!

@drphilcox.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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...

New paper out today! @sternarchella.bsky.social and I review how modularity and integration influence adaptive radiations and diversification. Read it here: rdcu.be/fpcSX

Hey look: A job! @echinerd.bsky.social and I are looking for a research technician to work on sea urchin development. If you are good at segmenting CT scans and want a chance to work on some super cool organisms, this job here at UCL is for you! apply now: bit.ly/4o2qccY

RVC needs a Lecturer in Anatomy (Maternity Cover) to join our department for 12 months (very well could include joining Structure & Motion Lab)! jobs.rvc.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Deadline 22 June

Job Opportunity at the RVC: Lecturer in Anatomy (Maternity Cover)

We have an exciting opportunity for a Lecturer in Anatomy to join the Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences for a maternity cover (12 months) position. The post is suitable for academics with ...

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Job alert: Director of Science @ Defra! Join my team in a critical science leadership role to ensure robust evidence underpins decisions on nature, climate, pollution, food & more. Apply if you enjoy solving big, complex challenges & want to make a real difference! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

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

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

For #FossilFriday I’m pleased to announce our new paper on investigating the cranial performance and evolution of feeding behavior in tyrannosauroids and other theropods. Here’s a thread on some of our major findings. #Dinosaurs #Paleontology #Tyrannosaurus #Theropods

JOB KLAXON! The @nhm-london.bsky.social is recruiting a micro-CT specialist! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

CT Data and Micro CT Specialist :South Kensington

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📣 Welcome to DPCB! We’re SICB’s Division of Phylogenetics & Comparative Biology — the home for tree-thinking, evolutionary relationships, and comparative approaches across organisms. #DPCB #SICB2026 #Phylogenetics

Check out our new paper on the evolution of morphological variation in the avian head, led by @knapprew.bsky.social and out now in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proc B

Andrew Christopher Knapp@knapprew.bsky.social · 10mo ago

You wait ages for a paper, and two come along (almost) at once! This is the first publication from the project we're currently working on, where we're investigating the relationship between different regions of the avian head. 1/n royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Save the date: 19Feb2026. Our all-day #symposium, celebrating #UCL200, is now bookable, FREE: tinyurl.com/UCL200Anatom... Topic: #Anatomy: Past, Present & Future - 14+ speakers, plenty of discussion/networking opportunities; refreshments & lunch included @ucl.ac.uk @uclnews.bsky.social

Centre for Integrative Anatomy Symposium - Anatomy: Past, Present & Future

Dive, in-person, into the fascinating world of anatomy and explore its journey from past discoveries to present and future innovations!

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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

It's #caturday so here's Emile, the star of my talk today at #svp2025.

If you're at #SVP2025 please stop by my poster and say hi! I'd love to talk to you about bird head evolution!

Good morning #SVP2025! Big day for the Felice Lab- three talks this morning from postdocs @jwoyston.bsky.social, Ryan Marek, and @knapprew.bsky.social, on bird diversity, theropod necks, and mammal brains, and the PhD student Kat Gregory presenting a poster on tradeoffs in the head of birds!

So happy to share that after years of hard work our paper on low hatching success in the #ExtinctInTheWild #Sihek has now been published in Animal Conservation! Read more here: zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Ornithology #ConservationScience 🌍 🦤 🧪

Parental Age, Inbreeding and Incubation Method Influence Extremely Low Hatching Success in the Ex‐Situ Population of the Extinct in the Wild Sihek

Reproductive success rates are a key parameter determining the recovery potential of ex-situ managed threatened species, with high rates often being required to produce offspring for wild releases wh...

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POST-DOC #JOB ADVERT – DEADLINE 20th Aug 2025 @ucl.ac.uk @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social @moazenlab.bsky.social To work on a #HFSP funded project that aims to understand the musculoskeletal system of head-first burrowers; leading computer simulation aspects of the project see moazenlab.com/vacancies/

Are you looking for a PhD project starting this year? I have a funded (UK rates) project on mammal skull diversity and function, looking at skull allometry and how mammal heads adapt to trade-offs in tissue demands during growth 🦌🦘🐘🦥 Please share and apply: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/buil...

Do you like 3d imaging and invertebrate development? apply for this postdoc with @echinerd.bsky.social and me!

Jeff Thompson@echinerd.bsky.social · last yr.

Interested in Developmental biology? Imaging? Marine invertebrate body plans? Then this three year postdoc in my group @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social is for you! Join our team to decypher how signalling molecules shape skeletal phenotype in juvenile sea urchins. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

New post-doc opportunity working with Dr Marcello Ruta at the University of Lincoln. 3 year position titled “Key Innovations as Evolutionary Drivers of the Fish-Tetrapod Transition” and working on resolving phylogenetic patterns near the ancestral roots of amniotes. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS325/p...

Post Doctoral Research Associate in Evolutionary PalaeobiologySchool of Natural Sciences at University of Lincoln

Discover Post Doctoral Research Associate in Evolutionary PalaeobiologySchool of Natural Sciences jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

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yes, penguins are flightless birds, but this is taking it too far

Unsecured penguin caused helicopter crash in South Africa

Pilot lost control after bird in cardboard box slid off a passenger's knee and knocked controls, aviation authority finds.

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Exciting times ahead! www.gov.uk/government/n...

New Chief Scientific Adviser appointed

Professor Anjali Goswami becomes Defra’s new Chief Scientist

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check out @m-j-mitchell.bsky.social 's research on extinct in the wild birds ⬇️

Matthew Mitchell@m-j-mitchell.bsky.social · last yr.

#ExtinctInTheWild (EW) species are some of the most at risk in the world, existing only in human care. I’m a PhD student at @zslofficial.bsky.social and @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social studying how time spent in human care may affect EW bird recovery #BOU2025 #Ornithology #ConservationScience 🌍 🦤 🧪 1/6

check out this new paper from @devinhoffman.bsky.social using bone histology to uncover growth rates in a fossil gator 🐊

Phil Mannion@pdmannion.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our new paper led by @devinhoffman.bsky.social (+@houssayecnrs.bsky.social, @tweetisaurus.bsky.social, @rnf.bsky.social & Eryka Goldsmith) on the histology of the alligatoroid Diplocynodon indicates that growth strategy in alligators and caimans evolved early in the group: doi.org/10.1111/joa....

What good is a big brain? In our new preprint, @jwoyston.bsky.social, Mike May, and I show that birds with bigger brains have lower extinction rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...