Fabio Alfieri
@fabioalfieri2.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist and functional morphologist focusing on the evolution of bone morphology in vertebrates. Post-doc at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Delighted to share that from August 2026 I'm joining the @amgc-vub.bsky.social at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) as a postdoctoral researcher within the ERC Advanced project PLIODIS (pliodis.github.io). Looking forward to exploring South African Plio-Pleistocene hominin evolution.
PLIODIS
Understanding hominin dispersal to southern Africa during the Plio–Pleistocene.
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It has been an honour and a great experience attending the wonderful Society for Experimental Biology 2026 meeting in Florence, contributing with a talk on fossil trabecular bone and related methods. Thanks to my collaborator @aveneziano.bsky.social and @sebiology.bsky.social
New paper out! 🦴🐒 In the trabecular bone of tamarin limbs, we found that beyond non-locomotor factors, leaping distance leaves a signal! Thanks to @aveneziano.bsky.social, and colleagues from the lab led by @johnnyakatura.bsky.social Open Access on American Journal of Biological Anthropology
John Nyakatura@johnnyakatura.bsky.social · 2mo agoFinally out. More of our work on tamarins 🤩. Whole‐Epiphysis Trabecular Bone in Tamarin Limbs Suggests Effects of Leaping Distance Alongside Non‐Biomechanical Factors - Nguyen et al. - 2026 - American Journal of Biological Anthropology - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
It was very rewarding collaborating on a citizen science project dealing with City Nature Challenge 2025 in Turin🌿! Thanks to all the colleagues! Paper now out as Open Access on Urban Ecosystems #CitizenScience #CityNatureChallenge #UrbanEcology #Turin link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Institutional coordination in urban citizen science: a case study within the Italian City Nature Challenge - Urban Ecosystems
Citizen science is increasingly used to document biodiversity in urban ecosystems while simultaneously promoting public engagement with nature. However, how institutional coordination relates to parti...
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I’m very happy to share that our work on bone inner structure of Madagascar’s subfossil sloth- and koala-lemurs is finally out 🦴🐒 on @zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social A big thank you to co-authors @julsam.bsky.social Carla Argilés Esturgó and Damiano Marchi! academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a... 1/6
The locomotor behaviour of subfossil Malagasy sloth-lemurs (Strepsirrhini: Indriidae) and koala-lemurs (Strepsirrhini: Megaladapidae): new insights from limb trabecular bone
Abstract. The locomotion of Malagasy Quaternary subfossil lemurs, including palaeopropithecines (‘sloth-lemurs’) and megaladapids (‘koala-lemurs’), has bee
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Very happy to share the preprint of our work on Quaternary subfossil lemur trabecular structure! Thanks to co-authors @julsam.bsky.social, Carla Argilés Esturgó and Damiano Marchi www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The locomotor behavior of subfossil Malagasy sloth-lemurs (Strepsirrhini: Palaeopropithecidae) and koala-lemurs (Strepsirrhini: Megaladapidae): new insights from limb trabecular bone
The locomotion of Malagasy Quaternary subfossil lemurs - including palaeopropithecids (sloth-lemurs) and megaladapids (koala-lemurs) -has been investigated on abundant postcranial remains. Proposed st...
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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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Our latest paper on fibulas 🦴 has finally a home in the @journalofanatomy.bsky.social! We studied trabecular architecture to check if it records arboreal habits 🌳 in #primates 🐒🦧🦍... (1/2) 🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth dx.doi.org/10.1111/joa....
The relationship between primate distal fibula trabecular architecture and arboreality, phylogeny and size
The fibula, despite being traditionally overlooked compared to the femur and the tibia, has recently received attention in primate functional morphology due to its correlation with the degree of arbo....
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