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Dr. Oliver Demuth @oliverdemuth.bsky.social · 8d

Last week our in press manuscript was made available at @jexpbiol.bsky.social with the typeset version following soon. We conducted ex vivo XROMM experiments to determine the joint mobility in Red legged partridges and compared them with in silico simulations: doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Accepted manuscript. Oliver E. Demuth, John R. Hutchinson, Vittorio La Barbera, Sharon E. Warner, Daniel J. Field; Soft tissue constraints on joint mobility in the avian shoulder. J Exp Biol 2025; jeb.250952. doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.250952

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 7d

In a new study from #BiologyLetters, a team of palaeontologists have revealed how bone growth was maintained in the earliest chondrichthyans, a group now represented by sharks, skates and ratfish that lack the capacity to ossify their tissues. buff.ly/LzT9xZY | #DevelopmentalBiology #Palaeontology

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Stephan Spiekman @stephanspiekman.bsky.social · 8d

PhD position available at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin on avialan ontogeny (birds and their closest non-avian dinosaur relatives)!

jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/e...

42/2025 Research Associate with the goal of a doctorate (f/m/d)

jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin

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Morgan PROUST @morganproust.bsky.social · 12d

Hello, microanatomy &/or salamander enthusiasts!

If you’re a first-year master’s student, I might have an exciting internship for you on the microanatomy of two salamanders sp., with already great results on the humerus.

What: Zeugopod microanatomy
Where: SMNS

Contact: [email protected]

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The Anatomical Record @anatrecord.bsky.social · 14d

For centuries, anatomists debated true origin of levator veli palatini—vital for speech & swallowing. Researchers found it arises from cartilaginous Eustachian tube not petrous bone, reshaping understanding of vocal tract evolution
Pagano et al: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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The Society of Systematic Biologists @systbiol.bsky.social · Aug 19

Early career researcher in systematics?

Make sure to apply for early career travel funds to attend #ssb2026

👇
www.systbio.org/early-career...

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Miguel Díaz de León @migueldlm.bsky.social · Aug 26

MyoGeneratorRemix is a reimplementation of MyoGenerator (Herbst et al., 2022), a tool for muscle reconstruction and parameter estimation—essential for downstream analyses like FEA.

Our version brings major upgrades, including full compatibility with Blender 4.5.2.

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · Aug 21

🚨 We are hiring!! 🚨

The Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS' is looking for:

- a scientific coordinator

- a science communication officer

🚨 Deadline: September 15 🚨

See links for the full advertisements:

uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Wissenschaftliche/r Geschäftsführer/in (m/w/d, E14 TV-L, 100%)

uni-tuebingen.de

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Humboldt-Stiftung @humboldt-foundation.de · Aug 21

Researchers in Brazil — Estamos procurando por você!

The CAPES-Humboldt Research Fellowships support top researchers from Brazil with a fully funded research stay in Germany.
Learn more at our upcoming Info Session:
🗓 26 Aug, 10am – 11:30am (Brasília time)
www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/connect/i...

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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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Dr Alana Sharp @acsharp.bsky.social · Aug 11

Last day to apply! 📣
Come and join my lab in Liverpool @livevobiomech.bsky.social for a PhD on the skulls of giant mammals! Full funding for 4 years (UK Home rates) 🐘🦌🦘🐂🐪🦏
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Building giants: tissue relationships during skull growth in large mammals at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Building giants: tissue relationships during skull growth in large mammals at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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The Anatomical Record @anatrecord.bsky.social · Aug 9

Our September issue is now live!
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494...
The cover article by Sven Sachs et al. describes the early-diverging plesiosauroid Seeleyosaurus guilelmiimperatoris from the Lower Jurassic of Germany:
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Christian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social · Aug 8

I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group.

The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects.

Please RT.

Details 👇:
shorturl.at/iiiOv

116 FB 5 Research Assistant (m/f/d) field of Theoretical Ecology and Evolution or Computational Biology: Uni Osnabrück

shorturl.at

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Dr. Bethany Allen @bethanyjallen.bsky.social · Aug 8

Interested in inferring biodiversity in deep time? 📈📉 Check out our new R package DeepDiveR, led by @rebeccasaurus.bsky.social and now published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social, helping you to prepare datasets for machine learning inference with DeepDive 🤿
doi.org/10.1111/2041...

A schematic explaining the analytical pipeline for using DeepDiveR and DeepDive. DeepDiveR helps users to convert their fossil data into the appropriate input format for DeepDive, as well as to prepare the configuration file describing the analysis settings. These two files can then be run in the Python library DeepDive. DeepDive uses the data to simulate diversity curves and sampling scenarios, and trains a model on the relationship between the two, allowing subsequent inference of the ‘true’ diversity curve from an incomplete and biased empirical fossil record.

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houssayecnrs.bsky.social @houssayecnrs.bsky.social · Aug 7

New #GRAVIBONE paper from @camillebader.bsky.social with Rémy Gilardet, Nicolas Rinder, @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social & @toriherridge.bsky.social on the long bone microanatomy of elephants. Well done Camille :)
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

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Aaron O'Dea @odealab.bsky.social · Aug 4

We are hiring a lab manager for our lab family at Naos Island in Panama. More information and position description here: odealab.com/opportunities/.

Deadline is today, but if you need more time please just let me know

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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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katja heuer @k4tj4.bsky.social · Jul 27

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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!

🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Mehran Moazen @mmoazen.bsky.social · Jul 22

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

moazenlab.com

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Dr. Jaimi Gray @jaimiagray.bsky.social · Jul 26

Say hello to Florida's newest established species, Typhlonectes natans - the Rio Cauca Caecilian! You can read about their relative abundance, distribution, & natural history, in our brand new paper:

journals.ku.edu/reptilesanda...

Here is one individual I CT scanned that had 7 babies inside!

A 3d rendering of a CT scan of a Rio Cauca caecilian with transparent body and bone colored skeleton, showing 7 baby caecilians inside, each rendered in a different color - counter-clockwise from tail to head - red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, dark blue, purple.

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Stephan Spiekman @stephanspiekman.bsky.social · Jul 23

I am proud and grateful to present a dream project today in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Meet #Mirasaura grauvogeli, a #wonderreptilewith skin appendages that rival feathers and hairs, challenging our view of reptile #evolution🪶🦎

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Gabriel S. Ferreira (he/his) @gsferreira.bsky.social · Jul 23

unfortunately none of the authors are on Bsky, but I would like to thank them all, specially my dear friend, Wafa AlHalabi for her great and promissing work on Syrian fossils!

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Gabriel S. Ferreira (he/his) @gsferreira.bsky.social · Jul 23

New 🐢 paper alert 🚨🚨 and this is a special one! We describe a stereogenyini turtle (a nearshore pleurodiran lineage) from Syria, Syriemys lelunensis. This is the first vertebrate species named after a fossil discovered in the country, so very cool stuff! You can check the paper here: t.co/LdWpNlHzz0

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · Jul 21

I'm back home with my dad and have thoughts about being an Indigenous scientist and academic. I'm writing this in real time so it might get disrupted and will have typos.

I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · Jul 16

Kunming Institute of Zoology, China, seeks Senior and Junior PIs and postdoctoral fellows in evolution, genetics, ecology, and conservation. Applications assessed from 12 Aug 2025. Info: www.kiz.ac.cn #job

中国科学院昆明动物研究所

www.kiz.ac.cn

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