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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · Aug 11

Want to do a PhD on White Sharks using high-powered imaging to analyse form and function of their teeth and jaws?

You will work with me and the dream team @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social @meyer-sci.bsky.social @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social & #SARDI at Flinders Uni

🦈🦷🦴 Interested? Get in touch!

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arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · Aug 1

Yoshinobu Inada on how diving birds mitigate the forces of entering the water at high speed. Not shown here: an awesome catapult system for firing physical models at high speeds!

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arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · Aug 1

Danial Forouhar (from @dadriaens.bsky.social lab) had amazing 3D images of the muscluoskeletal system of seahorse tails, which opened lots of exciting questions about how these body muscles actuate tail prehension.

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arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · Aug 1

Estelle Klein @estelle-kl.bsky.social is studying how the digging mechanisms of moles can be understood and simplified for biomimetic applications

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arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · Aug 1

Peter Kappel @peterkappel.bsky.social from @poppingalab.bsky.social introduced me to the fascinatingly mobile, three-dimensional jaws of leeches with some clever imaging experiments

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arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · Aug 1

Girish Kumar (www.southerndragon.in) gave a fanstastic instroduction to praying mantis jumps...these sketches don't do justice to his videos!

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · Jul 31

New palaeo-PhD opportunity! Will you be the one to figure out the anatomy and function of fossil jawless fish? Come join the team! Application Deadline August 22nd, funding for UK student only (sorry)
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · Jul 31

Nick Gladman @drnickgladman.bsky.social from our own @livevobiomech.bsky.social looked at how singing muscles age (and let me practice drawing birds!)

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arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · Jul 31

Charlie Woodrow @charliezoology.bsky.social on why bees buzz at different pitches-- really fun mix of ecology, physiology, and mechanics

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arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · Jul 31

Myriam Uhrhan (from htlinlab.com) got me thinking about how insects build their own "strain gauges" to sense how their wings are deforming

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arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · Jul 31

Lukas Hageneder from @uafunmorph.bsky.social is studying how the tongue and skeleton of ducks interact to successfully filter food

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arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · Jul 30

Helen Gorges helengorges.bsky.social introduced me to the projectile seeds of the spitting cucumber with some amazing videos!

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arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · Jul 30

Victor Colognesi vcolognesi.bsky.social from biologylu.bsky.social on wing pitch during flapping flight in birds

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arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · Jul 30

Merel Van Gorp @merelvangorp on the adorable--but no less skillful--swimming of boxfish

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arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · Jul 30

Chris Richards (@frogtronics.bsky.social) got me thinking in new ways about force-velocity curves, muscle-skeleton interactions and how they control motion.

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arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · Jul 30

Here come the science sketchnotes from @sebiology.bsky.social Meeting in Antwerp this July! These are shared with the presenter's permission (but all mistakes, especially spelling, are mine).

First, @sharrison09.bsky.social on the jumping kinematics and power of monkey grasshoppers

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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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Peter Falkingham @peterfalkingham.com · Jun 25

New paper led by Tash Prescott - we applied equations for speed, etc that are commonly used on #dinosaur tracks to tracks made by living birds we could watch and time. TLDR: equations aren't even nearly close. Animals moving freely on compliant substrates very different to steady-state lab data

Speed from fossil trackways: calculations not validated by extant birds on compliant substrates | Biology Letters

Fossil trackways serve as a valuable tool in understanding the behaviour and locomotion of extinct animals. Calculating speeds from trackways has become a standard approach, particularly for dinosaurs...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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Peter Falkingham @peterfalkingham.com · Jun 18

FYI for those doing #XROMM, we've now moved everything over to github: github.com/XROMMPackages

XROMM

XROMM has 9 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

github.com

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arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · Jun 2

Thank you for summarizing my research program:

(and sharing beautiful fish artwork)

Caro @wayofbrush.bsky.social · May 26

That sounds awesome!!! I think if ever visited such a big aquarium, you would have a hard time getting me out again. I'd probably want to have a sleep-over 😆 I feel like fish are totally underrated, especially the weird ones. "Everyone loves whales"...but have you heard about anglerfish? Oh my.

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Dr Claire M. Tierney @drctierney.bsky.social · Mar 25

Research Assistant in Anatomy - position for 6 months. Great short term project to get experience in dissection and work as part of a great team! Please spread yhe word!! @bridgetwaller.bsky.social

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ093/r...

Research Assistant - Anatomy - Grade 6 at University of Liverpool

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Research Assistant - Anatomy - Grade 6 at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Hugo Dutel @hugodutel.bsky.social · Mar 20

🗓️ Save the date!

26-28 May 2025 | Université de Bordeaux, France.

Symposium and workshop :
Biomechanical simulation techniques in evolutionary morphology and biomedical sciences.

More info and registration: www.eventbrite.fr/e/1263754958...

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Pauline Provini @paulineprovini.bsky.social · Feb 26

Abstract submission for @sebiology.bsky.social in Antwerp is open until Fri 7th March! #SEB2025

Plenty of #Biomechanics Special Sessions—pick your poison!

🦕 Bringing Fossils "Back to Life"
🏃‍♀️ Musculoskeletal Mechanics & Modelling
🤖 Kinematics & Robotics
🔧 Innovative Methods
🎖️ Tribute to Peter Aerts

SEB Annual Conference Antwerp 2025

Abstract submissions will open from Monday 6th January until Friday 7th March 2025

www.sebiology.org

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arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · Feb 21

Try it yourself! We've put up a tutorial (figshare.com/collections/...)
All the Maya and Matlab codes: bitbucket.org/ArielCamp/dy...
The CT scans used in this paper: xmaportal.org/webportal/la...

I'd love to hear how people use this. My team are in the process of applying it to pufferfishes...

arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · Feb 21

How do you measure what isn't there?

Elska did a fantastic job leading this paper on how we can measure the volume of changing, 3D spaces inside XROMM skeletal animations. And, importantly, how good are those volume measurements?
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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