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UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social · 14d

Susan Evans has just returned from the Institute of #Vertebrate #Paleontology and #Paleoanthropology, Beijing. She has been working on Mesozoic #fossil #reptiles with colleague, Dr Liping DONG, Professor (Associate). english.ivpp.cas.cn/about/Introd... @ucl.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

A woman (Susan Evans), dressed in blue sitting at a computer desk bearing a microscope, holding a Mesozoic fossil reptile specimen

A woman (Susan Evans), dressed in blue sitting at a computer desk bearing a microscope, through which she is viewing a Mesozoic fossil reptile specimen

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UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social · 14d

@ucl.ac.uk has again performed strongly in @ResearchEngland’s KEF5, being recognised as one of the top #universities in England for #knowledge exchange.

This assesses how #unis are performing in activities that positively impact the #economy and wider #society.

www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se...

UCL rated as a leading university for knowledge exchange five years in a row

UCL has been recognised as one of the top universities in England for knowledge exchange in Research England’s Knowledge Exchange Framework 2025 (KEF5), which came out today.

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UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social · 20d

Prof Anjali Goswami and colleagues report, in the Journal of #Anatomy, on mammal #skull #bone junctions, which are important indicators of the #biomechanical and #developmental pressures on the skull
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social
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UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social · Aug 11

@ucl.ac.uk has a new homepage (#website landing page), reflecting our new #branding and move to the Drupal 10 platform. Check it out here: www.ucl.ac.uk.

Soon, similar changes will be made to @ucllifesciences.bsky.social, @ucl-cdb.bsky.social and our own [email protected]

Welcome to UCL

Founded in 1826 in the heart of London, UCL is London's leading multidisciplinary university, with more than 18,000 staff and 51,000 students from over 150 different countries.

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UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social · Aug 11

A study (with our @drphilcox.bsky.social) in #rabbits & #hares, found: those adapted for running have greater facial tilt & simpler #skull joints versus those with scrambling or hopping-based #locomotion, which could help with hinge-like mobility. @ucl.ac.uk onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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...

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UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social · Jul 7

YAY! We have achieved Silver status in June's #Laboratory Efficient Assessment by @ucl.ac.uk's Katherine Howett. Thank you to all Centre members who worked hard to achieve such #sustainable #labs. Info: stainabilityexchange.ac.uk/leaf_a_new_a... @sustainableucl.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social

UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social · Jun 25

Job Vacancy - Anatomy Tutor needed to deliver practical-based #anatomy teaching to under/post-graduate students, using cadaveric and prosected material, Anatomage table and #imaging resources. Max.12 h pw, September2025-May2026: www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/...
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Job Vacancy - Anatomy Tutor (max. 12 h pw, September 2025-May 2026)

Anatomy Tutor(s) needed to deliver practical-based anatomy teaching to undergraduate and postgraduate students, using cadaveric and prosected material, Anatomage table and imaging resources.

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Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · Jun 19

Today’s the day - Our Story with David Attenborough is officially open! 🎉

Watch as the walls and floor burst into life around you in this 360° cinematic experience featuring Sir David Attenborough!

Book your tickets now 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibi...

David Attenborough sits in a chair facing away from the camera. He is surrounded by screens showing gorillas in a green, leafy environment.

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The Palaeoverse Community @palaeoverse.bsky.social · Jun 18

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️26th June 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️

Join us for next week’s talk given by Dr Katie Collins from the Natural History Museum, UK, on “Both round and upward: Spiral morphometry and how to compare things that are the same, but different” 🐚

Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

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UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social · Jun 23

In our #research, we see how #climate or #environmental changes affect the #animal world. Interested/concerned? In/near London? Perhaps book this FREE session @nhm-london.bsky.social THIS Thursday, 25Jun. More info at: www.nhm.ac.uk/events/creat... @sustainableucl.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social

Creating Change: Climate Action Night | Natural History Museum

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UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social · Jun 19

Creating a buzz: prepare to appreciate those #picnic pests! Wasps purr!! @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social hosts the World of #Wasps from 25 June 2025. Evening and #family events. #summer #wasp #exhibition #science #FamilyFun #insect @ucl.ac.uk @ucl-cdb.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social #nature

A large, colour picture of the inside of the Grant Museum having superimposed thereon a mock-up of a wasp flying low over a grassy meadow - the pic being set above two smaller images: to the left a yellow and black depiction of 'World of Wasps' and to the right a close-up of a wasp on a white flower

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UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social · Jun 16

Congratulations to our Kat Gregory, who has just completed her 'Couch to 5k'. Kat, a PhD student with @rfelices.bsky.social, only started #running with *our Running Club in March 2025, so it's a great achievement!
*Anyone from @ucl-cdb.bsky.social welcome - contact [email protected] for info.

Mobile phone screenshot of schematic map of Gunnersbury Park showing route Kat Gregory ran (around the periphery - a red line) marked with her various personal bests and showing she completed both the Couch to 5K and also ran for 1 hour straight (distance 5.72km, average pace 10.3/km)

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UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social · Jun 13

Four of our postgraduate #researchers (#PGRs) are talking about their work to @ucl-cdb.bsky.social's PGR #Student Symposium: Kat Gregory & Matt Mitchell (supervised by Ryan Felice), Atena Soltanian (Phil Cox), & Patrick Hennessey (Laura Porro). Topics range from #chickens to giant #crocodiles!

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UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social · Jun 6

Our #Artist-in-Residence, Mary Yacoob, has produced new large-scale #cyanotype prints reimagining of #scientific visual data from @ucllifesciences.bsky.social #researchers. Faculty private #exhibition details here: tinyurl.com/YacoobUCL
#artandscience #art #artwork @ucl.ac.uk @ucl-cdb.bsky.social

Poster from UCL Faculty of Life Sciences headed in olive green, under which are images of cyanotypes (whole image to left in blue and white, partial detail to right in blue & green on dark background) under which is a substantially blue and white panel detailing the event, speakers and background info - all available more accessibly via the online link.

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UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social · Jun 5

Today is #WorldEnvironmentDay2025 - highly appropriate that yesterday we had our #LEAF audit to ensure our labs work as sustainably as possible. The focus is on #plastics - let's reduce production: reduce demand, so recycle, reuse and find alternatives @ucl.ac.uk
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World Environment Day

World Environment Day is the United Nations day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action to protect our environment.

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UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social · May 30

We love #functional #morphology in our Centre (relating an animal's shape to how it moves, eats ...). Here's an interesting article & great images on #elephantine #giants, and the trade-off between size/range of #locomotion. #elephant #mammoth #biology
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The elephant backbone: Morphological differences, dorsostability, and vertebral fusions

In this study, we examine various aspects of the functional morphology and intervertebral mobility of the elephants backbone, comparing it to that of other large herbivorous mammals, as well as to ex...

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UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social · May 30

#Climate change threatens crops & wildlife. Could our #research into ancient animals help us to build resilience vs climate impacts? Podcast on ideas from the Peruvian ‘Potato Guardians’ & UK Natural History Museum below.
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The Climate Question - Can the past teach us how to fight climate change? - BBC Sounds

Why farmers around the world are bringing back ancient crops - and ancient animals!

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UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social · Apr 25

#anatomy #biomedicalimaging #comparativeanatomy #biology

Journal of Anatomy @journalofanatomy.bsky.social · Apr 24

This month sees a Special Issue of @journalofanatomy.bsky.social, with a specific focus on Biomedical Imaging in Comparative Anatomy. The cover image shows the wing muscles of the Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus), from @acsharp.bsky.social and colleagues, which is included in this issue.

UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social · Apr 25

News! 2025's World Anatomy Day is on 15 October, focusing on 'global perspectives of #anatomy – recognising differences while celebrating similarities within the international anatomy community. We'll be celebrating - watch this space! @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk #WAD2025

Lozenge-shaped blue-mauve banner having a blue/green glob held by a brown hand to the right edge, with the words World Anatomy Day (orange), Global Perspectives of Anatomy (white), 15 October 2025 (orange) arrayed to the left side

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UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social · Apr 23

@UCL has issued its Annual #Sustainability Report 2023–2024. www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable/.... We ranked 1st in the UK, 3rd in Europe and 5th globally in the QS Sustainability Rankings; achieved 56% reduction in building #energy emissions & a 60% decrease in #waste per person in 4y; and grew #LEAF.

Achievements and Progress

Follow our sustainability journey through our Sustainable UCL Annual Reports. They document UCL's successes and challenges towards creating a more sustainable university. You can also check progress o...

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UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social · Apr 23

Susan Evans & co-researchers suggest #lizard-like #reptiles may have climbed on waterside vegetation, dropping into the water if threatened. Hand #bone scans show suitably long, curved phalanges. @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @nhm-london.bsky.social @natural-history.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

The paper provides a reassessment of the lifestyle of the small Middle Jurassic lizard-like reptile, Marmoretta (Reptilia: Lepidosauromorpha), based on new high-resolution hashtag#scans of a specimen from hashtag#fossil deposits on the Isle of Skye.

Marmoretta was previously interpreted as partially aquatic, as its hashtag#bones were found in a lagoonal hashtag#environment and in similar numbers to those of aquatic reptiles and hashtag#amphibians. The bones of terrestrial members of the assemblage are generally rarer.

However, the new scans reveal the hand of Marmoretta to have long, curved, penultimate hashtag#phalanges – a feature of modern arboreal-scansorial** lizards, like geckos and iguanians, that climb on vertical surfaces.

A possible scenario to explain the relative abundance of their bones is that they may have climbed on vegetation close to the water’s edge, dropping into the water if threatened. South American basilisk lizards have been seen to do this when cornered on branches by predatory monkeys.

Ford DP, Benson RBJ, Griffiths EF, Evans SE. 2025 Evidence for clinging arboreality in a Middle Jurassic stem lepidosaur. Proc. R. Soc. B 292: 20250080. https://lnkd.in/e-rK2e36.

Susan's collaborators are from the Earth Sciences Department, Natural History Museum; the Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History; and the Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford Earth Sciences

**"Arboreal" refers to an animal that lives primarily in trees, conducting most of its life activities there, such as feeding, nesting, and reproduction.
"Scansorial," on the other hand, describes an animal's ability or propensity to climb, often on trees or other three-dimensional surfaces, but not necessarily living exclusively in them.
While scansorial animals may climb and occasionally utilize trees for resources, they are not necessarily arboreal.

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UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social · Apr 8

Susan Evans & collaborators from China have published a paper describing a new genus and species of lizard from ~75 million years ago in Henan Province, China. #paleo #evolution #anatomy #lizard @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
Full paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A new anguimorph lizard from the Upper Cretaceous of Henan Province, China

A new genus and species of anguimorph lizard, Zhongyuanxi jiai gen. et sp. nov., is described from the Upper Cretaceous (?Maastrichtian) Qiupa Formation of Henan Province, China. Its holotype speci...

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UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social · Apr 7

We in the Centre are pleased to have (a) completed the work for & (b) made our application for a #LEAF silver award. We already have bronze status. LEAF is a scheme to support more #sustainable #labs in #research orgs.
@ucl.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl-cdb.bsky.social #environment #esg

A table showing, across the top, the three levels of LEAF award: bronze, silver, gold; and down the left side, the five categories of focus: waste, people, sample/chemical management, equipment and ventilation. The table is completed with the criteria that must be met for each award level. The whole table has lines and background to header in lime green

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UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social · Apr 7

At American Association for Anatomy's '#Anatomy Connected' conference, Susan Evans & Marc Jones presented on the #evolution of bony arches surrounding #skull apertures in reptiles (lizards, snakes). @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @anatomyorg.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social @ucl-cdb.bsky.social

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UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social · Apr 3

Matt Mitchell is presenting at the British Ornithologists' Union conference today, with a concurrent BlueSky presentation going live at 17:15 from his account @m-j-mitchell.bsky.social. Matt is a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant (PGTA) in @ucl.ac.uk's Division of Biosciences #birds

A head photo of Matt Mitchell, wearing a dark shirt and brown glasses

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