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...

Last week I had the privilege to visit the Amazon Free Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) experiment near Manaus, Brazil & speak to the scientists studying climate change impacts on rainforest dynamics. Dangling from a crane over the canopy was an experience I won’t soon forget! www.gov.br/g20/en/news/...

Thanks for hosting me - I great to see all of the fantastic science happening @pml.ac.uk!

Plymouth Marine Laboratory@pml.ac.uk · 5mo ago

From advancements in #eDNA and #AI, to battling #PlasticPollution at its source, PML welcomed Defra’s Chief Scientific Advisor, Professor Anjali Goswami FRS (@evoswami.bsky.social), to explore the breadth of our research. Find out more 👇 pml.ac.uk/news/pml-wel...

So stoked that our new @booktrust.org.uk Cymru book is by @evoswami.bsky.social !! How cool! Diolch :)

And @evoswami.bsky.social #DarwinDayLecture in 2023 was a real treat, tackling the question of what allows some species to survive and exploit new opportunities, while others are consigned to the fossil record. We hope you enjoy diving into the Darwin Day Lectures! youtube.com/live/aDmAX2f...

On the train back to London from Manchester after an inspiring and packed week at #IPBES12. We aren’t moving fast enough because we aren’t working together. We must break down siloes to speed up action for #nature recovery because: Nature is the economy Nature is national security Nature is health

And @evoswami.bsky.social #DarwinDayLecturein 2023 was a real treat, tackling the question of what allows some species to survive and exploit new opportunities, while others are consigned to the fossil record. We hope you enjoy diving into the Darwin Day Lectures! youtube.com/live/aDmAX2f...

Great to be back in my very full lab @nhm-london.bsky.social for the first time in 2026 and to welcome new #MarieCurieFellow @haibingwang.bsky.social to the team! Joining from IVPP in Beijing, Haibing will be working on cranial and dental modularity and evolution in Mesozoic mammals.

New paper! Led by @knapprew.bsky.social, we show that jaw shape in pelagiarian fishes diversified early in their evolution. Surprisingly, jaw shape is highly correlated with habitat, but not diet & with different optimisations for mechanical advantage during closing. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

Quite a jump from #2025SVP in Birmingham to #COP30 in Belém! If I had been asked which of these conferences would feature a dancing TRex presenting the fossil of the day award, I would definitely have guessed wrong (but it has smoothed my transition 🦖🦖🦖)

It's #DINOvember! Danny Go is all the rage here. Doing his Dino Dance with this fantastic nonfiction title makes for a super engaging day in prek! buff.ly/0QEby7t @evoswami.bsky.social #TLSky #Skybrarians #SchoolLibraries

New paper alert! Worked with an incredible group of scientists across fields on this vision for much needed investment in Indian natural history collections: Linking eras and data: natural history collections as the foundation of India’s biodiversity science url: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...

Linking eras and data: natural history collections as the foundation of India’s biodiversity science

Abstract. India, one of the world’s most biodiverse countries and now the most populous, stands at a critical intersection of ecological wealth and intense

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We were delighted that our Chief Scientist Dave Stone was invited to take part in a Parliamentary Roundtable exploring the latest science on climate & nature. The roundtable was chaired by @evoswami.bsky.social Defra Chief Scientific Adviser & hosted by Minister @marycreagh.bsky.social

Fun! @evoswami.bsky.social is quoted from the interview on @sciam.bsky.social by @katewong.bsky.social on "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me" from @npr.org! (min 34:50) www.npr.org/2025/05/24/1...

Ego Nwodim talks Poker Face and how to get an SNL crowd to swear in unison : Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

This week, special guest Ego Nwodim joins panelists Tom Papa, Dulceé Sloan, and Hari Kondabolu

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Can’t believe this interview made it onto Wait, wait. Also can’t believe that my half awake tweet from several years ago (though I stand by it) has gotten this much attention. Definitely regretting using the phrase “yeah, they suck” to describe all other animals…

Jeanne Timmons@mostlymammoths.bsky.social · last yr.

Fun! @evoswami.bsky.social is quoted from the interview on @sciam.bsky.social by @katewong.bsky.social on "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me" from @npr.org! (min 34:50) www.npr.org/2025/05/24/1...

Love that this interview is making people laugh! Of course as a scientist, I don’t think perfection is a biologically realistic concept, but, if it were, surely cats are our best example of it. Not least because cats couldn’t care less if we think they are perfect or not & I worship them for it!

Dr Julia Shaw@drjuliashaw.bsky.social · last yr.

This is the funniest science writeup I've seen in a long time. It's about why cats are so perfectly evolved 🧪 Apparently lots of other animals have "tried to be cats" and the fact that other species have so much more variation is "because they suck" 😆 www.scientificamerican.com/article/cats...

“Cats have nailed one thing so well that they all do it and just come up with slightly different sizes. They're not jacks-of-all-trades; they're masters of one.” Evolutionary biologist @evoswami.bsky.social explains why 🐈‍⬛ 🐈 are perfect evolutionarily: buff.ly/qMc1Ql6

One fine day in the Los Alamitos Formation!

Hello from Patagonia and Patagotitan!

From balmy Brazil to a much chillier Patagonia…

Catching up with our Triassic kin in Porto Alegre

Thrilled to share my second PhD paper with @tomezard.bsky.social & @evoswami.bsky.social focused on the application of landmark-free geometric morphometrics! 🎉 Excited to contribute to advancing shape analysis techniques in biology. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1186/s128...

Assessing the application of landmark-free morphometrics to macroevolutionary analyses - BMC Ecology and Evolution

The study of phenotypic evolution has been transformed in recent decades by methods allowing precise quantification of anatomical shape, in particular 3D geometric morphometrics. While this effectiven...

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I absolutely love that this new article about my appointment as DEFRA chief science adviser managed to squeeze in my obsession with Zelda! 🧝‍♀️🗡️🎮 www.linkedin.com/posts/global...

#globalindian #anjaligoswami #womeninstem #scienceforchange… | Global Indian

What started with a childhood tiger sighting in India has now led her to the UK govt as Chief Scientific Adviser at Defra. From decoding the past to guiding climate action, she’s bringing deep-time th...

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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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Come join us @linneansociety.bsky.social Monday, April 7 at 6pm for a fascinating talk by world-renowned tiger expert Prof Uma Ramakrishnan from @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social as she tells us about how cutting-edge genomics is helping to save wild tigers in India! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-geneti...

How Genetics Explain Tigers and Secure Their Future

How cutting edge genomics is being applied to one of the most charismatic carnivores on earth.

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My single favourite wildlife photo from our trip to Galápagos has to be this marine iguana sneezing out salt - such an elegant and glamorous adaptation to their unusual lifestyle!

I had the immense privilege to visit the Galápagos Islands last summer and see thousands of marine and land iguanas up close, even swimming with some and watching them feed underwater.

We’re micro-CT scanning iguanas today to better understand the evolution of the incredible adaptations of the Galapagos marine iguanas. Some of the specimens in our collection were collected by Darwin himself! 150 years later, they are still contributing new knowledge about the natural world.

So excited to see this paper finally out! Part of the Paleobiology 50th anniversary issue, we cover the history of the field, morphometrics, morphospaces, new approaches to evolutionary models & disparity, incorporating climate, the importance of fossils & more. Check it out! doi.org/10.1017/pab....

Fantastic thread pulling the very standard, well-established mouse science out from behind the PR curtain of mammoth de-extinction.

Tori Herridge@toriherridge.bsky.social · last yr.

Once upon a time, in the late 1800s, people in Japan got really into breeding mice. Coloured mice. Patterned mice. Even mice that danced. They became known as Japanese Fancy Mice, and that caught the attention of researchers in Europe and America, who imported them for study. 2/n