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Love Dalén @lovedalen.bsky.social · 23d

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/...

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Liverpool EMB lab @livevobiomech.bsky.social · Aug 12

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! 💀🐇📝

Dr Amber Wood-Bailey @apwoodbailey.bsky.social · Aug 7

Check out our new paper in @journalofanatomy.bsky.social!

🐇💀

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Factors impacting the complexity of the leporid intracranial joint

Anatomy of the intracranial joint and the 2D semi-landmarks used to capture complexity in the intracranial joint. (a) The intracranial joint can be seen here (in red) between the parietal and occipit....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · Aug 8

Oh so it does have phd level intelligence

Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · Aug 7

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.’

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

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Dr Alana Sharp @acsharp.bsky.social · Aug 8

New paper where we look at complexity of the intracranial joint in rabbits and hares.
Second paper from @apwoodbailey.bsky.social PhD work 🎉🐇

Dr Amber Wood-Bailey @apwoodbailey.bsky.social · Aug 7

Check out our new paper in @journalofanatomy.bsky.social!

🐇💀

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Factors impacting the complexity of the leporid intracranial joint

Anatomy of the intracranial joint and the 2D semi-landmarks used to capture complexity in the intracranial joint. (a) The intracranial joint can be seen here (in red) between the parietal and occipit....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Aug 23

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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Dr Amber Wood-Bailey @apwoodbailey.bsky.social · Aug 7

Check out our new paper in @journalofanatomy.bsky.social!

🐇💀

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Factors impacting the complexity of the leporid intracranial joint

Anatomy of the intracranial joint and the 2D semi-landmarks used to capture complexity in the intracranial joint. (a) The intracranial joint can be seen here (in red) between the parietal and occipit....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · Aug 4

The sort of energy I bring to the workplace:

Screenshots from The Man from Uncle, which ran from 1964-1968. Napoleon Solo talks into a speaker and asks his partner, Ilya Kuryakin: Ilya? We're in need of your special talents. Are you free?

Through the speaker, Ilya responds: No man is free who has to work for a living, but I'm available.

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · Aug 4

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

Nature @nature.com · Aug 4

“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

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

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · Jul 31

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...

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

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Dr Alana Sharp @acsharp.bsky.social · Jul 28

📣I’m hiring!
Two weeks to apply for an October start.
Start date is also flexible.
#PhD #Morphology #evolution

Dr Alana Sharp @acsharp.bsky.social · Jul 3

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, ...

www.liverpool.ac.uk

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Liverpool EMB lab @livevobiomech.bsky.social · Jul 17

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!

Dr Alana Sharp @acsharp.bsky.social · Jul 3

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, ...

www.liverpool.ac.uk

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Dr Amber Wood-Bailey @apwoodbailey.bsky.social · Jul 17

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 💀🧠🐴🦍🦁🐂🐅🐫🦌🦏🦒🫎

Amber with supervisors, Alana and Nathan

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Dr Alana Sharp @acsharp.bsky.social · Jul 16

Graduation day!! 🎉🎉Congratulations @apwoodbailey.bsky.social and thank you @nathanj.bsky.social. Can’t wait for the next chapter 👀

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Dr Amber Wood-Bailey @apwoodbailey.bsky.social · Jul 14

@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.

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Dr Amber Wood-Bailey @apwoodbailey.bsky.social · Jun 17

A while back I finished my first needle felting project. A gift for my PhD supervisor. I think it represents my thesis pretty well! 🐇💀

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Dr Amber Wood-Bailey @apwoodbailey.bsky.social · Mar 18

Check out our new paper on leporid lagomorph cranial fenestrations! 🐇

The Anatomical Record @anatrecord.bsky.social · Mar 18

Rabbits and hares (leporid lagomorphs) have uniquely fenestrated skulls, but why? Using finite element analysis, a new study found that fenestrations don’t impact biting efficiency but may lighten the skull for agility.
Wood-Bailey & Sharp: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Gabriel S. Ferreira (he/his) @gsferreira.bsky.social · Mar 7

Just out of the oven! Today @migueldlm.bsky.social just published his first paper related to his PhD thesis! BFEX is a new Blender tool for making FEA more accessible for biologists and paleontologists! All using open and free software 😱

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

BFEX: A Toolbox for Finite Element Analysis With Fossils and Blender

We introduce BFEX, a Blender add-on for building Finite Elements Analysis for Fossils software. This approach streamlines the process of creating and visualizing FE models.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Dr Amber Wood-Bailey @apwoodbailey.bsky.social · Mar 1

Passed!! 🎉😁

Dr Amber Wood-Bailey @apwoodbailey.bsky.social · Feb 28

Wearing my hare shirt as go faster stripes for my viva today.

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Dr Amber Wood-Bailey @apwoodbailey.bsky.social · Feb 28

Wearing my hare shirt as go faster stripes for my viva today.

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Dr Amber Wood-Bailey @apwoodbailey.bsky.social · Feb 21

A wonderful day! Thanks to everyone who organised and to all of the speakers 😁

UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social · Feb 21

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

Group photo of attendees remaining after 5pm at the UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy's annual symposium 2025. A large group of people are standing on a light, parquet floor, looking up at the camera with smiling faces

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Dr Amber Wood-Bailey @apwoodbailey.bsky.social · Feb 20

Early start for us Liverpool folks heading down to @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social for the Functional Morphology symposium. Bit of viva prep on the way can't hurt 😂

So excited to hear what everyone's been getting up to this year!

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Dr Amber Wood-Bailey @apwoodbailey.bsky.social · Feb 15

Very productive use of the limbo period between thesis submission and viva.

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · Jan 27

Always worth remembering, even if ‘successful’, it won’t be a dodo.

Success will be something that meets a set of criteria. An approximation.

And no one really knows what a dodo looked like. Or how it behaved.

So it will a bit of biofantasy, and —if released— an environmental experiment.

Dr Ross Barnett @deepfrieddna.bsky.social · Jan 27

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

The dodo bird is extinct. This scientist says she can bring it back.

The company she works for is betting millions it can realize a once-far-fetched idea of “de-extinction.”

www.washingtonpost.com

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Dr Amber Wood-Bailey @apwoodbailey.bsky.social · Nov 27

Can't believe we've had three years with our baked bean-lookin' hound.

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Dr Amber Wood-Bailey @apwoodbailey.bsky.social · Nov 15

Finally, social media use seems to be starting to reflect real-life social networks. The difference is that we're facilitating the lumping/splitting via corporate-owned social media. Probably says something awful about me, but my social media interactions pretty much reflect my real-life network.

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