Yuting Lin
@tinandemu.bsky.social
Vet who studies how animals move and evolve 🐾🦴 | PhD: birds standing up @RoyalVetCollege & @UCL | Curious about how animals are built, function & survive
So cool! You can see how the chicken switches to a more columnar posture because it's Centre of mass is pulled closer to the hip!
Jay@kakapojay.bsky.social · 4mo agoStumbled across this video - really interesting seeing how a chicken walks with a tail that can correctively balance. I bet if you did this with a duck, and strapped half a paper plate to its back, we'd get a decent idea of what Spinosaurus was doing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfsP...
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Professor John R. Hutchinson@johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 3mo agoI am thrilled that my dream project was funded by the #ERC @erc.europa.eu as a 5 year Advanced Grant! Final amount somewhere over €2M. I'll be advertising 2 postdocs (1 more empirical; one more theoretical), technician and research administrator in due time. erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
Our work on mammalian hallucal grasping, led by Irene Montañez-Rivera during her time in the @johnnyakatura.bsky.social group, is out now in iScience. A true team effort; thanks to the whole crew for inviting me to contribute a small piece! www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Congratulations to Thomas Cowgill, my MRes student, and @tinandemu.bsky.social , my PhD student, on both winning runner-up best presentations (graphical abstract/poster, and talk respectively) at RVC's postgraduate research day yesterday! I'm proud of them both.
Honoured to receive the Ruth Bowden Award for my PhD research on the cool biomechanics behind how birds stand up from British Federation of Women Graduates! Grateful to the committee and everyone who supported this journey. #BFWG #BritishFederationofWomenGraduates
Professor John R. Hutchinson@johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · last yr.Congratulations to PhD student @tinandemu.bsky.social, who has won the British Federation of Women Graduates' Ruth Bowden Award, honouring female scientists in anatomy-related disciplines. Hurrah! Prof. Bowden OBE had a stunning array of achievements-- livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB...
Our Annual Symposium 2025 on interdisciplinary aspects of functional morphology was enjoyed by over 70 attendees, incl. 17 speakers, yesterday (20 February). This full-day conference delved into the fascinating and inter-disciplinary world of #anatomy. @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
Watch our video to learn how compressive forces sculpt the intricate head scales of #crocodiles! 🎥🐊 And read the full @nature.com article here ⬇️ nature.com/articles/s41... @rorylcooper.bsky.social @genevunige.bsky.social
The mechanics of crocodile head scales patterning
YouTube video by The LANE channel
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Ever wondered how birds stand up? Our paper explores how emus use their muscles to stand up. We found that these large, flightless birds use large muscle fibre length changes, activations and forces. My 1st PhD chapter, out now in @jexpbiol.bsky.social! journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Hindlimb kinematics, kinetics and muscle dynamics during sit-to-stand and sit-to-walk transitions in emus (Dromaius novaehollandiae)
Summary: The dynamics, biomechanical constraints and musculotendinous coordination strategies during the sit-to-stand/walk transitions for a large bipedal bird – the emu – inform morphology, evolution...
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Find out more about JEB's new article type, Theory & Modelling, allowing scientists to publish research leveraging modelling and theory to address new biological questions, in Sheila Patek, Monica Daley, Matt McHenry & Sanjay Sane's Editorial journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Oh groovy, our paper on the hindlimb biomechanics of the Triassic dinosauriform Lagosuchus is out! A quick thread for now. We uCT-scanned most of the existing skeletal material for this important outgroup to Dinosauria. We sorted through the elements and chose the best ones to make a 3D model from.
Very cool science!! Explainer video here-- www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Watch this bird-inspired drone leap into the air
Lightweight mechanical legs enable this fixed-wing drone to navigate complicated terrain.
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Monica Daley@birdbiomech.bsky.social · 2y agoA fun collaborative paper out in Nature on RAVEN: a bird-inspired robot that uses it’s legs to propel flight take off. An example of how robots can test ideas about integrated function in animals. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Running performance in Australopithecus afarensis: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Running performance in Australopithecus afarensis
Bates et al. present the first physics simulations of running in Australopithecus and demonstrate that maximum running speed was considerably lower than modern humans, with a restricted submaximal range available for endurance running, which suggests that key features in the human body plan evolved specifically for improved running performance.
cell.com
London's Centre for Ecology and Evolution is having a 1-day symposium on climate change and (broadly defined) biodiversity, all day, Friday 8 September -- free tickets here: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/centr...
Centre for Ecology & Evolution: Autumn symposium on 'Climate change…
Speakers from across CEE’s 10 institutions will come together to discuss research on 'Climate change and biodiversity'.
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