Ryan N. Felice
@rnf.bsky.social
Associate professor of evolutionary biology at UCL felicelab.com
📢 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...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
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Big awesome job opportunity!
@drphilcox.bsky.social · last mo.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...
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs hiring Director of Science in England, United Kingdom | LinkedIn
Posted 1:55:56 PM. LocationThis role can be based at any Defra Group policy hub location which includes Bristol…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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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
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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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 · 8mo agoYou 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
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/
Moazen Lab – to advance understanding & repair of bones & joints
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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...
Building giants: tissue relationships during skull growth in large mammals | Courses | University of Liverpool
From elephants to rhinos to bison, enormous increases in body mass have repeatedly evolved within Mammalia over relatively short timescales, leading to a diversity of size and shape. In this project, ...
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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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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 · last yr.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...
there is no "defensible use case" for chatgpt. do your own work and use your own brain or fuck off
#SaveThePCC Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease. For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...
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