Anne-Claire Fabre
@grumpydrfabre.bsky.social
Curator of mammals, NMBE Assistant Professor, University of Bern, Evolutionary Biology, Shape diversity, Functional Morphology, Salamanders lover!!!
Huge congrats to Isabelle on publishing another chapter of her PhD! 🥳 In this study, she explores how metamorphosis and body size impact aquatic feeding kinematics in the Iberian ribbed newt 🦎🌊 Want to learn more? Check out her blog post: shorturl.at/jzJOq And the paper: shorturl.at/oQbJj
Huge congratulations to Isabelle on publishing a new paper as co-first author with her Master’s student! 🥳 In this study, they explore how habitat use and prey-capture behaviour differ between Pyrenean Brook Newts living in cave streams versus surface streams 🦎💧🕳️ 👀 👉 Check out: shorturl.at/SL6yw
Congrats to @morganefo.bsky.social on publishing her 1 PhD paper as 1 author! 🥳 She investigated morphological variation in populations of alpine newts depending on their different life cycles.🦎 Wanna know what she found? 👀 Check out her blog post: shorturl.at/G4koO and the paper: shorturl.at/pLNTz
👌👏 so glad to see this great news! Congrats and well deserved @evoswami.bsky.social! Great prize for an amazing researcher, role model and human being! 🥂🎉🤩
Professor Anjali Goswami FRS@evoswami.bsky.social · last mo.Absolutely delighted to have been awarded the Faraday Prize! Scientific research is critical for solving the challenges that humanity and the planet currently faces, but ensuring that diverse communities are engaged in & benefit from science are just as important as the work that happens in the lab.
🚨Excited to share my first PhD paper, out in Journal of Morphology 🐸 With @kengelkes.bsky.social, we studied the ontogeny and homology of anuran forelimb muscles across 11 species, resolving long-standing inconsistencies in their nomenclature and homology. First step of many! doi.org/10.1002/jmor...
Ontogeny and Homology of the Shoulder Joint and Forelimb Muscles in Frogs and Toads (Lissamphibia: Anura)
The ontogenetic development, innervation, and morphology of the shoulder joint and forelimb muscles were investigated in 11 anuran species. The results reveal largely conserved splitting patterns of ...
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Excited to share our latest study highlighted on the cover of @science.org 🥳Combining a 3D dataset representing 250 taxa spanning the whole Cenozoic, 3D modelling & printing and material testing; we deciphered the form-function relationship in the lower 🦷 of mammals www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Congrats @narimanechatar.bsky.social , @tsengzj.bsky.social et al!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Z. Jack Tseng@tsengzj.bsky.social · 3mo agoOur newest paper on mammalian dental evolution, out today as the cover article in @science.org, lead by @narimanechatar.bsky.social with a team of fantastic early career scientists!!! 🎉🥳 “Performance trade-offs define a fundamental dental dichotomy in mammals” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paper Alert🚨🦎 Ever wondered how variation in life cycles fosters the feeding musculature in Caudata? Check out the first paper by Morgane Taillades! Many thanks to @morganefo.bsky.social @vivienl.bsky.social @anthony-herrel.bsky.social I.Toussaint-Lardé, M. Mandica academic.oup.com/icb/advance-...
Impact of life cycle variation on feeding system musculature in Caudata
Abstract. Caudata (salamanders and newts) exhibit considerable diversity in terms of ecology, life cycle, morphology, and behavior, ranging from species wi
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Congrats and well deserved @gsferreira.bsky.social ! Brasil is lucky to have you back! now I have one more excellent reason to come to Brasil 😊🎉
Gabriel S. Ferreira (he/his)@gsferreira.bsky.social · 6mo agoThanks & auf Wiedersehen, Tübingen 🇩🇪! The last ~6 years at the @sgn.one and uni Tüb were great, filled with experiences and people I'll take with me. But now it's time to start a new chapter as a Vert Zool Professor at the University of São Paulo in Ribeirão Preto. Back to 🇧🇷 here we go!
🚨sounds to be a really neat paper to read👇 congrats @osteosophia.bsky.social @eloygl.bsky.social et al. 🎉
Dr Sophia C Anderson@osteosophia.bsky.social · 7mo agoAbsolutely thrilled that this novel method is now published! It's been a long time coming, but this method is instrumental in my PhD work and I hope it will prove as useful to others' research!
Better late than never! If you haven’t yet read Isabelle’s latest paper on the impact of tweezers on table manners in salamanders, now’s the time. Check out her blog and the full paper at the link below👇 that’s an order 😉 metamorphosis-project.org/publications...
How are ballistic tongues in plethodonts and chameleons similar and different? Zeng et al. (2025) explore this in this week's #AWNews. Visit AmphibiaWeb.org to read more.
🦎 Funded 4-year PhD position on Lizard Evolutionary Ecology in our lab at UCLouvain (Belgium)! Apply before 9 March! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...
Beyond excited to announce that as of today I officially started a Ramón y Cajal 5-year senior fellowship (tenure-track) at University of Alcalá in Madrid, if you are interested in birds & vertebrate macroevolution & you like sun & good food, hit me up to explore postdoc or PhD opportunities!
#SICB2026 Day 1 begins! 1: Host- #microbe interactions across #biological scales in a changing world 2: #Dinosaurs to #drones: comparative approaches to understanding flight 3: The #evolutionary consequences of metamorphosis in #metazoans Youtube youtube.com/shorts/D4mbr...
Well deserved @quentinwildlife.bsky.social , such an amazing picture again!
Quentin Martinez@quentinwildlife.bsky.social · 12mo agoThrilled to have won the Amphibians and Reptiles category of the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year and to be able to share this fascinating frog behavior! #wpy61 #frogs #herpetology www.quentinmartinez.fr
Thank you to you Fabio for including me in this great project!
Fabio Alfieri@fabioalfieri2.bsky.social · 12mo agoHappy 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/...
New in @science.org, meet Acronichthys maccagnoi, a new species from Late Creatacous Canada that changes what we know about the origins and evolution of one of the most successful fish groups on Earth.
PhD Alert! 😍 Our lab is hiring a PhD student to study how shrews shrink in winter and grow in spring. Yes, you read that right! tinyurl.com/shrinkingshr... Join us at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, study a super cool animal, and join the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social community! DM me for questions!
Seasonal size change and aging in shrews
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A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother
Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
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Thrilled to share our new paper out in BMC, part of my postdoc at @cornellvet.bsky.social! 🐘🐀 We found that larger mammals evolve more diverse morphologies, while smaller ones can explore many locomotor strategies without much change to their forelimbs. bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Body mass evolution as a driver of morphological and ecological diversity in terrestrial mammals - BMC Ecology and Evolution
Body mass plays a fundamental role in the macroevolutionary dynamics of morphological, ecological, and phylogenetic diversification. Given biomechanical principles, large body masses in terrestrial ve...
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Excited to share the first paper from my PhD! We looked at what traits help Aneides salamanders excel at climbing using museum specimens, CT scans, SEM, and more! No claws or toe pads, so how do they do it? In short, with long limbs, big feet and grippy toes! 🦎🧪 DM for PDF doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
Ce matin, j'étais la grande invitée de l'émission CQFD sur RTS. Merci encore à Lucia Silling, Stéphane Gabioud et Cécile Guérin pour leur invitation ! Une fois de plus, ce fut un grand plaisir de participer à votre émission ! #scienceisFUN; #RTS; #CQD www.rts.ch/audio-podcas...
Des chauves-souris et Anne-Claire Fabre, conservatrice des mammifères
Le swarming : quand les chauves-souris femelles choisissent leur partenaire Les brèves du jour Grande invitée : Anne-Claire Fabre, conservatrice des mammifères au Muséum dʹhistoire naturelle
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Freshwater mussels mostly use fish as a host to move upstream. The salamander mussel is unique in latching on to aquatic salamanders! Its larvae encyst in the gills of mudpuppies, possibly staying with their hosts over the winter! (204)
🚨Paper Alert🚨Wanna know how a climate crisis 56 million years ago shaped the current diversity of salamandrids? Check the the paper led by the amazing Loredana Macaluso and a fantastic team of collaborators@robertorozzi.bsky.social, A. Villa & B. Mennecart. I am truly delighted to be part of it!!!🦎👇
Roberto Rozzi@robertorozzi.bsky.social · last yr.Our study on the role of the #PETM on the early evolutionary success of #salamandrids is out! Delighted to be part of this great project led by Loredana Macaluso, with A.Villa, @grumpydrfabre.bsky.social & B.Mennecart #salamanders #climatechanges 🌡☀️⌛️ royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... (1/2)
Attending the virtual #ICVM2025 conference? Check out our lightning talk on the imaging and articulation techniques we used to make our physical model of a dogfish skull and how physical models give new insights in research & education. icvm.econference.io/public/3JC8E... (registration req to view)
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Professor John R. Hutchinson@johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · last yr.#ICVM2025 LIVE sessions begin tomorrow, Thursday 7 August 2025, at icvm.econference.io/public/: 0700 EST (USA) (*not 1200 I'd posted before*) = General Assembly / Members' or Business Meeting Please come! There will be plenty of useful information and opportunities for Q&A!
Huge congratulations to Isabelle Toussaint-Lardé on publishing the first paper of her PhD! 🎉 Ever wondered whether paedomorphic species change their feeding strategies from larval to adult stages? Is adulthood in axolotls just an illusion? 🧠👀
