Dr Amber Wood-Bailey
@apwoodbailey.bsky.social
Postdoc. Cranial biomechanics, functional morphology, #scicomm, #FirstGen, she/her🌈
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During the earliest stages of domestication, dogs in archaeological sites would be indistinguishable from wolves.
Unless you find them on a small island where no wolves would survive on their own, eating things wolves normally don’t eat.
Such as here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Unless you find them on a small island where no wolves would survive on their own, eating things wolves normally don’t eat.
Such as here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
During the earliest stages of domestication, dogs in archaeological sites would be indistinguishable from wolves.
Unless you find them on a small island where no wolves would survive on their own, eating things wolves normally don’t eat.
Such as here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Unless you find them on a small island where no wolves would survive on their own, eating things wolves normally don’t eat.
Such as here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Deadline next week! Don't forget to nominate! (and if you have problems, get in touch with us directly via our website)
Have you completed or commissioned a piece of palaeoart in the last year? Nominations are now open for The Marsh Palaeoart Award! 🎨🦕🌿🐌🐟🎨
You can self-nominate, or nominate an artist you think deserves recognition. Check out our website for more details - palaeosoc.org/grants-prize...
You can self-nominate, or nominate an artist you think deserves recognition. Check out our website for more details - palaeosoc.org/grants-prize...
November 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Deadline next week! Don't forget to nominate! (and if you have problems, get in touch with us directly via our website)
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A reminder to all #palaeoartists; the deadline for the Marsh Palaeoart Award is fast approaching!
If you want to submit I'd recommend doing it ASAP as, while it says 25th Nov here, the webpage specifies the 21st (I'm glad I checked😅).
Anyway, good luck to y'all!
#paleoart @palaeontosoc.bsky.social
If you want to submit I'd recommend doing it ASAP as, while it says 25th Nov here, the webpage specifies the 21st (I'm glad I checked😅).
Anyway, good luck to y'all!
#paleoart @palaeontosoc.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A reminder to all #palaeoartists; the deadline for the Marsh Palaeoart Award is fast approaching!
If you want to submit I'd recommend doing it ASAP as, while it says 25th Nov here, the webpage specifies the 21st (I'm glad I checked😅).
Anyway, good luck to y'all!
#paleoart @palaeontosoc.bsky.social
If you want to submit I'd recommend doing it ASAP as, while it says 25th Nov here, the webpage specifies the 21st (I'm glad I checked😅).
Anyway, good luck to y'all!
#paleoart @palaeontosoc.bsky.social
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Nice 3-year teaching+research postdoc at NYIT!
careers-nyit.icims.com/jobs/4126/po...
The human anatomy teaching experience is tremendously valuable; for people in our fields (e.g., morphology, biomechanics, palaeontology) it opens up great faculty job opportunities! And the NYIT faculty are great.
careers-nyit.icims.com/jobs/4126/po...
The human anatomy teaching experience is tremendously valuable; for people in our fields (e.g., morphology, biomechanics, palaeontology) it opens up great faculty job opportunities! And the NYIT faculty are great.
New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)
careers-nyit.icims.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Nice 3-year teaching+research postdoc at NYIT!
careers-nyit.icims.com/jobs/4126/po...
The human anatomy teaching experience is tremendously valuable; for people in our fields (e.g., morphology, biomechanics, palaeontology) it opens up great faculty job opportunities! And the NYIT faculty are great.
careers-nyit.icims.com/jobs/4126/po...
The human anatomy teaching experience is tremendously valuable; for people in our fields (e.g., morphology, biomechanics, palaeontology) it opens up great faculty job opportunities! And the NYIT faculty are great.
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Interested in implants and dental rehabilitation?
I have a fully funded PhD available on modelling mandibular implants after oral cancer.
Apply now or email me 🙂
🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
I have a fully funded PhD available on modelling mandibular implants after oral cancer.
Apply now or email me 🙂
🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Interested in implants and dental rehabilitation?
I have a fully funded PhD available on modelling mandibular implants after oral cancer.
Apply now or email me 🙂
🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
I have a fully funded PhD available on modelling mandibular implants after oral cancer.
Apply now or email me 🙂
🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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📣Another exciting PhD available!
Partnered with @nottswildlife.bsky.social and fully funded by the ACCE+ NERC Doctoral Landscape Award.
We will look at morphological trait evolution, isolation and environment change, and rewilding of large herbivores.
#evolution #WilderFuture #rewilding #PhD
Partnered with @nottswildlife.bsky.social and fully funded by the ACCE+ NERC Doctoral Landscape Award.
We will look at morphological trait evolution, isolation and environment change, and rewilding of large herbivores.
#evolution #WilderFuture #rewilding #PhD
November 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
📣Another exciting PhD available!
Partnered with @nottswildlife.bsky.social and fully funded by the ACCE+ NERC Doctoral Landscape Award.
We will look at morphological trait evolution, isolation and environment change, and rewilding of large herbivores.
#evolution #WilderFuture #rewilding #PhD
Partnered with @nottswildlife.bsky.social and fully funded by the ACCE+ NERC Doctoral Landscape Award.
We will look at morphological trait evolution, isolation and environment change, and rewilding of large herbivores.
#evolution #WilderFuture #rewilding #PhD
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📣 Funded PhD combining anatomy, surgery and engineering!
💀 This project aims to characterise the biomechanical behaviour of jaw implants following mandibulectomy.
📍@livuni-ilcams.bsky.social Liverpool, UK
🥼@ukshaq.bsky.social @clairebrockett.bsky.social and me!
💀 This project aims to characterise the biomechanical behaviour of jaw implants following mandibulectomy.
📍@livuni-ilcams.bsky.social Liverpool, UK
🥼@ukshaq.bsky.social @clairebrockett.bsky.social and me!
October 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
📣 Funded PhD combining anatomy, surgery and engineering!
💀 This project aims to characterise the biomechanical behaviour of jaw implants following mandibulectomy.
📍@livuni-ilcams.bsky.social Liverpool, UK
🥼@ukshaq.bsky.social @clairebrockett.bsky.social and me!
💀 This project aims to characterise the biomechanical behaviour of jaw implants following mandibulectomy.
📍@livuni-ilcams.bsky.social Liverpool, UK
🥼@ukshaq.bsky.social @clairebrockett.bsky.social and me!
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and another one! join us!
BBSRC PhD studentship investigating how different anatomy and locomotor patterns affect joint loading in domestic dogs and other mammals 🐩🦴🐎
The project will involve a variety of biomechanics techniques including finite element analysis and MDA modelling - info below
BBSRC PhD studentship investigating how different anatomy and locomotor patterns affect joint loading in domestic dogs and other mammals 🐩🦴🐎
The project will involve a variety of biomechanics techniques including finite element analysis and MDA modelling - info below
(BBSRC NWD CASE) Selective breeding vs natural selection: how does body shape influence locomotor biomechanics in domesticated dogs and other mammals? at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - (BBSRC NWD CASE) Selective breeding vs natural selection: how does body shape influence locomotor biomechanics in domesticated dogs and other mammals? at University of Liverpool, listed ...
www.findaphd.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
and another one! join us!
BBSRC PhD studentship investigating how different anatomy and locomotor patterns affect joint loading in domestic dogs and other mammals 🐩🦴🐎
The project will involve a variety of biomechanics techniques including finite element analysis and MDA modelling - info below
BBSRC PhD studentship investigating how different anatomy and locomotor patterns affect joint loading in domestic dogs and other mammals 🐩🦴🐎
The project will involve a variety of biomechanics techniques including finite element analysis and MDA modelling - info below
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📣 📃 New paper out in press!
🦷 We look at the biomechanical impact of #tooth root morphology to inform #dental implant design.
👩💻We use finite element modelling to compare single vs. multiple roots on strain across the mandible.
@apwoodbailey.bsky.social @livevobiomech.bsky.social
🦷 We look at the biomechanical impact of #tooth root morphology to inform #dental implant design.
👩💻We use finite element modelling to compare single vs. multiple roots on strain across the mandible.
@apwoodbailey.bsky.social @livevobiomech.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
📣 📃 New paper out in press!
🦷 We look at the biomechanical impact of #tooth root morphology to inform #dental implant design.
👩💻We use finite element modelling to compare single vs. multiple roots on strain across the mandible.
@apwoodbailey.bsky.social @livevobiomech.bsky.social
🦷 We look at the biomechanical impact of #tooth root morphology to inform #dental implant design.
👩💻We use finite element modelling to compare single vs. multiple roots on strain across the mandible.
@apwoodbailey.bsky.social @livevobiomech.bsky.social
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🚨Our next Marsh Palaeoart Award launches next week! 🚨Recognising talent in the depiction of fossil fauna, this award is judged by a panel of artists and scientists, and has a cash prize of £500 💰 Check our website for more info: palaeosoc.org/grants.../th...
October 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
🚨Our next Marsh Palaeoart Award launches next week! 🚨Recognising talent in the depiction of fossil fauna, this award is judged by a panel of artists and scientists, and has a cash prize of £500 💰 Check our website for more info: palaeosoc.org/grants.../th...
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I’m very excited to welcome @lucyhholmes.bsky.social to the lab! Lucy will be working on Building Giants, funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk to investigate cranial sinuses in large mammals 🦓🐘🦛🦏🐪🦒🦬🐂🦌
This project is something I’ve been wanting to do for over a decade …
This project is something I’ve been wanting to do for over a decade …
October 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I’m very excited to welcome @lucyhholmes.bsky.social to the lab! Lucy will be working on Building Giants, funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk to investigate cranial sinuses in large mammals 🦓🐘🦛🦏🐪🦒🦬🐂🦌
This project is something I’ve been wanting to do for over a decade …
This project is something I’ve been wanting to do for over a decade …
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One week left to apply for our postdoc position on Deep-Time Small Rodent Palaeogenomics!
This is a 2-year full-time position that includes Swedish employment benefits, as well as funding for research expenses and work-related travel.
More info and application link:
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
This is a 2-year full-time position that includes Swedish employment benefits, as well as funding for research expenses and work-related travel.
More info and application link:
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
September 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
One week left to apply for our postdoc position on Deep-Time Small Rodent Palaeogenomics!
This is a 2-year full-time position that includes Swedish employment benefits, as well as funding for research expenses and work-related travel.
More info and application link:
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
This is a 2-year full-time position that includes Swedish employment benefits, as well as funding for research expenses and work-related travel.
More info and application link:
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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What makes the skulls of rabbits and hares so special? Find out in this new paper from our very own @apwoodbailey.bsky.social @acsharp.bsky.social & others! 💀🐇📝
August 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
What makes the skulls of rabbits and hares so special? Find out in this new paper from our very own @apwoodbailey.bsky.social @acsharp.bsky.social & others! 💀🐇📝
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Oh so it does have phd level intelligence
Google Gemini doesn’t appear to be doing too well:
‘"I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes . . . I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe," the bot continued.’
‘"I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes . . . I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe," the bot continued.’
Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments
Google Gemini users said the bot is sharing self-loathing messages while attempting to solve tasks, including "I am a disgrace to this universe."
www.businessinsider.com
August 8, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Oh so it does have phd level intelligence
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New paper where we look at complexity of the intracranial joint in rabbits and hares.
Second paper from @apwoodbailey.bsky.social PhD work 🎉🐇
Second paper from @apwoodbailey.bsky.social PhD work 🎉🐇
August 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
New paper where we look at complexity of the intracranial joint in rabbits and hares.
Second paper from @apwoodbailey.bsky.social PhD work 🎉🐇
Second paper from @apwoodbailey.bsky.social PhD work 🎉🐇
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Wearyingly frequently necessary reminder that "social darwinism" or anything else that equates notions of intelligence with "fitness to live" is just ableist eugenicist bullshit derived from a fascist-minded misapplication of darwinism, no matter how clever and snarky and cool you think you're being
August 23, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Wearyingly frequently necessary reminder that "social darwinism" or anything else that equates notions of intelligence with "fitness to live" is just ableist eugenicist bullshit derived from a fascist-minded misapplication of darwinism, no matter how clever and snarky and cool you think you're being
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The sort of energy I bring to the workplace:
August 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The sort of energy I bring to the workplace:
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Critics of #ColosalBiosciences, including myself, are not angry, or getting meaner and meaner, we are being intellectual honest about what Colossal is up to 1/n
“The dire wolf fits the Jurassic Park model of de-extinction beautifully. It is clearly for spectacle”
Colossal’s bold de-extinction claims have drawn criticism from many scientists, but the billion-dollar firm is not backing down
go.nature.com/458Q4L2
Colossal’s bold de-extinction claims have drawn criticism from many scientists, but the billion-dollar firm is not backing down
go.nature.com/458Q4L2
This company claimed to ‘de-extinct’ dire wolves. Then the fighting started.
Colossal’s bold announcements have drawn criticism from many scientists, but the billion-dollar firm is not backing down.
go.nature.com
August 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Critics of #ColosalBiosciences, including myself, are not angry, or getting meaner and meaner, we are being intellectual honest about what Colossal is up to 1/n
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In far less pleasant news -- it turns out that @devoevomed.bsky.social, @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social & I have all been targets of on-line smear articles, all in reference to our public criticisms of de-extinction.
www.newscientist.com/article/2490...
www.newscientist.com/article/2490...
Critics of de-extinction research hit by mystery smear campaign
Several researchers who have been critical of Colossal Biosciences’ plans to revive extinct animals say they have been targeted by online articles trying to discredit them
www.newscientist.com
July 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
In far less pleasant news -- it turns out that @devoevomed.bsky.social, @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social & I have all been targets of on-line smear articles, all in reference to our public criticisms of de-extinction.
www.newscientist.com/article/2490...
www.newscientist.com/article/2490...
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📣I’m hiring!
Two weeks to apply for an October start.
Start date is also flexible.
#PhD #Morphology #evolution
Two weeks to apply for an October start.
Start date is also flexible.
#PhD #Morphology #evolution
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...
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, ...
www.liverpool.ac.uk
July 28, 2025 at 7:11 AM
📣I’m hiring!
Two weeks to apply for an October start.
Start date is also flexible.
#PhD #Morphology #evolution
Two weeks to apply for an October start.
Start date is also flexible.
#PhD #Morphology #evolution
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Interested in the functional morphology of mammal heads and want to come join us in Liverpool? Apply for this exciting new PhD project with Alana!
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...
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, ...
www.liverpool.ac.uk
July 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Interested in the functional morphology of mammal heads and want to come join us in Liverpool? Apply for this exciting new PhD project with Alana!
Teamwork makes the dream work. Officially PhDone 🎓
Thanks to the lovely lot at @livevobiomech.bsky.social, my supervisors @acsharp.bsky.social, @drphilcox.bsky.social and @nathanj.bsky.social and my awesome wife @naturecaroline.bsky.social.
We're not done here 👀 Watch this space 💀🧠🐴🦍🦁🐂🐅🐫🦌🦏🦒🫎
Thanks to the lovely lot at @livevobiomech.bsky.social, my supervisors @acsharp.bsky.social, @drphilcox.bsky.social and @nathanj.bsky.social and my awesome wife @naturecaroline.bsky.social.
We're not done here 👀 Watch this space 💀🧠🐴🦍🦁🐂🐅🐫🦌🦏🦒🫎
July 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Teamwork makes the dream work. Officially PhDone 🎓
Thanks to the lovely lot at @livevobiomech.bsky.social, my supervisors @acsharp.bsky.social, @drphilcox.bsky.social and @nathanj.bsky.social and my awesome wife @naturecaroline.bsky.social.
We're not done here 👀 Watch this space 💀🧠🐴🦍🦁🐂🐅🐫🦌🦏🦒🫎
Thanks to the lovely lot at @livevobiomech.bsky.social, my supervisors @acsharp.bsky.social, @drphilcox.bsky.social and @nathanj.bsky.social and my awesome wife @naturecaroline.bsky.social.
We're not done here 👀 Watch this space 💀🧠🐴🦍🦁🐂🐅🐫🦌🦏🦒🫎
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Graduation day!! 🎉🎉Congratulations @apwoodbailey.bsky.social and thank you @nathanj.bsky.social. Can’t wait for the next chapter 👀
July 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Graduation day!! 🎉🎉Congratulations @apwoodbailey.bsky.social and thank you @nathanj.bsky.social. Can’t wait for the next chapter 👀
@naturecaroline.bsky.social grew some nasturtium from seed but the caterpillars came and decimated them. The plant put out a chemical, which attracted a parasitic wasp. Which laid its eggs in the caterpillars. The larvae hatched and built cocoons and in 7-10 days they will emerge as adult wasps.
July 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
@naturecaroline.bsky.social grew some nasturtium from seed but the caterpillars came and decimated them. The plant put out a chemical, which attracted a parasitic wasp. Which laid its eggs in the caterpillars. The larvae hatched and built cocoons and in 7-10 days they will emerge as adult wasps.