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Simon Baeckens @simonbaeckens.bsky.social · 7d

🦎 Funded 4-year PhD position on Lizard Evolutionary Ecology in our lab at UCLouvain (Belgium)! Apply before 9 March! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...

Society of Island Biology @islandbiology.bsky.social · 8d

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Island Biology 2026 - Registration & Key Information

Registration & Key Information

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UAntwerp FunMorph @uafunmorph.bsky.social · 13d

By integrating evidence from #mammals 🦁, #fish 🐟, #amphibians 🐸, #reptiles 🦎, and #birds 🐦, this paper highlights broader evolutionary patterns and provides a clearer comparative framework that facilitates interpretation of future results. Read more here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Peter T. Rühr @peter-t-ruehr.bsky.social · 18d

Exciting news! 🚨🎉

On February 5th, 2026, I will defend my PhD thesis on insect bite force - the method, the data, and its evolutionary implications - seasoned with some anecdotes from the field!

🐜🐝🐞
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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 19d

Are Darwin's finches affected by climate change? Time-series analyses of beak and body traits, precipitation and temperature show finches are a resilient system, responding mainly to short-term weather variation rather than to long-term climate change:

Carrión et al. (2025)

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Darwin’s finches and climate change: insights from a resilient system

Abstract. Climate change is known to influence biodiversity worldwide, with changes in organismal traits observed in many populations and species. Such eff

doi.org

Charlotte Brassey @cbrassey.bsky.social · 25d

CLOSING SOON: Join us as Technical Facility Manager of our new digitisation centre @manmetuni.bsky.social. Run our new Neoscan microCT with loading rigs and autochanger. Plus LEICA BLK360 laser scanner, Creaform HandyScan, Olympus DSX microscope, Resonon Hyperspectral camera: tinyurl.com/y8x596hd

The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 26d

The Royal Society's Newton International Fellowships are now open for applications, aimed at non-UK early career scientists who wish to conduct research in the UK. Find out more and apply by 11 March: #RSGrants https://royalsociety.org/grants/newton-international/

Dr. Alice Gauthey, a Newton International Fellow, standing in a forest, smiling at the camera and holding a leaf. A quote about establishing early-career research independence appears next to her, attributed to her and mentioning The Royal Society: "I wanted to establish greater independence as an early-career researcher. The Newton International Fellowship provided both the time and the resources to develop a strong research portfolio."

Anthony Herrel @anthony-herrel.bsky.social · Dec 17

Thèse are copies from the FitzSimons field guide… maybe not what you needed

Anthony Herrel @anthony-herrel.bsky.social · Dec 17

Hope this helps

Anthony Herrel @anthony-herrel.bsky.social · Dec 14

Will have a look first tho tomorrow

Anthony Herrel @anthony-herrel.bsky.social · Dec 14

I think I have a copy in my office what do you need

Dr Mark D. Scherz @markscherz.bsky.social · Dec 1

🚨PhD position available!🚨🧪
I am seeking a talented PhD student to join my ERC StG project GEMINI, to explore the exciting world of vertebrate genomics and comparative genomics, seeking to understand the genomics of miniaturisation! 🦇🦎🦜🐸🐟🦈 🤏🧬
Deadline: 4 Jan 2026!
employment.ku.dk/phd?show=153...

Catherine Williams @cjaw.bsky.social · Nov 26

Stiff and different - Lizard osteoderm papers from a collaboration with @henrikbirkedal.bsky.social's group led by Adrian. We show a capping tissue from Heloderma that is enamel-like in mechanical properties but highly disordered in crystal pattern
doi.org/10.1016/j.ac...
doi.org/10.1002/adfm...

$A microCT of a Heloderma osteroderm paired with xray diffraction and xray fluorescence data showing the superficial capping tissue and underlying transition zone and bone.$

Kiisa Nishikawa @kiisa.bsky.social · Nov 20

The Nishikawa lab at Northern Arizona University and the NSF-funded Integrative Movement Sciences Institute are hiring a postdoc to help develop multiscale muscle models - please apply and share widely! careers.nau.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Postdoctoral Scholar - Flagstaff, Arizona, United States

Special Information This position is an on-site position which requires the incumbent to complete their work primarily at an NAU site, campus, or facility with or without accommodation. Opportunities...

careers.nau.edu

Alice Leavey @leaveylab.bsky.social · Nov 15

Full chameleon cranial atlas article out now in @anatrecord.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1002/ar.7... 🦎✨️

3D anatomical atlas of the heads of male and female adult Chamaeleo calyptratus

The veiled chameleon is a model organism in reptile development research. Utilizing contrast-enhanced microCT and deep learning segmentation models, we have generated the first digital atlases of the...

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Journal of Zoology @jzoology.bsky.social · Nov 3

#Temperature effects on compensatory responses in an early spring-breeding #amphibian - #OpenAccess zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #climatechange #phenology #frogs @anthony-herrel.bsky.social @uhl-lab.bsky.social @elissazcameron.bsky.social @amcell.bsky.social

Journal of Zoology @jzoology.bsky.social · Oct 30

A 164.7 cm #rhino horn from #Yakutia sheds light on woolly rhinoceros morphology, longevity, and sexual dimorphism zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #permafrost #palaeoecology @davehone.bsky.social @amcell.bsky.social @elissazcameron.bsky.social @conservresearch.bsky.social

Al Evans @drteethal.bsky.social · Oct 23

How do we capture fast and furious snake bites? High-speed video with 3D reconstruction, all at 1000 frames per second! @monashbiol.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social

Simon Baeckens @simonbaeckens.bsky.social · Sep 8

Extreme climate events can catalyze rapid evolutionary change! in our new Current Biology (@currentbiology.bsky.social) piece, Colin and I argue it’s time to study their evolutionary consequences systematically — beyond opportunistic observations. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Evolutionary consequences of extreme climate events

Simon Baeckens and Colin Donihue review case studies of rapid evolutionary change in response to extreme climate events and sketch a framework for future studies in the rapidly changing climate of the...

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Anne-Claire Fabre @grumpydrfabre.bsky.social · Aug 29

Ce matin, j'étais la grande invitée de l'émission CQFD sur RTS. Merci encore à Lucia Silling, Stéphane Gabioud et Cécile Guérin pour leur invitation ! Une fois de plus, ce fut un grand plaisir de participer à votre émission ! #scienceisFUN; #RTS; #CQD www.rts.ch/audio-podcas...

Des chauves-souris et Anne-Claire Fabre, conservatrice des mammifères

Le swarming : quand les chauves-souris femelles choisissent leur partenaire Les brèves du jour Grande invitée : Anne-Claire Fabre, conservatrice des mammifères au Muséum dʹhistoire naturelle

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ScorpYuri @scorpyuri.bsky.social · May 21

This may suggest a trade off between grasping and holding with profound consequences of predatory strategies, diet and even venom evolution.

Thanks to @anthony-herrel.bsky.social and Arie van der Meinden for your supervision! It

If anyone needs a copy of the manuscript just drop me a message

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · May 26

#ICVM2025 symposia: www.isvm-icvm.org/icvm-2025

1. Phenotypic variation and development of mammalian and avian voice boxes;
2. Comparative functional morphology of elasmobranch fishes
3. Paleo-Evo-Devo: A Pilgrimage into the Past through the Lens of the Present
4. Recent Advances in the Macroevolutionary Morphology of Rodents
5. Anatomical foundations of the mammalian biodiversity
6. Kings and queens of the air: how archosaurs grew wings and controlled the skies

American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · Jun 23

Simon et al. compared the role of constraints and selection on function to align evolutionary patterns of hindlimb trait covariation in frogs. They inferred that species tracked jumping performance peaks along lines of least resistance within-species.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Priscila Rothier @priscilarothier.bsky.social · Jul 11

Thrilled to share our new paper out in BMC, part of my postdoc at @cornellvet.bsky.social! 🐘🐀
We found that larger mammals evolve more diverse morphologies, while smaller ones can explore many locomotor strategies without much change to their forelimbs.
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Body mass evolution as a driver of morphological and ecological diversity in terrestrial mammals - BMC Ecology and Evolution

Body mass plays a fundamental role in the macroevolutionary dynamics of morphological, ecological, and phylogenetic diversification. Given biomechanical principles, large body masses in terrestrial ve...

bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com

Journal of Zoology @jzoology.bsky.social · Jul 16

The #evolution of sexual dimorphism in semi-fossorial #lizards: a case study with Ablepharus kitaibelii zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #morphometrics #skink

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · Jul 14

#ICVM2025 abstracts are now published! (1 pdf to rule them all)
Remember that, whatever format you're doing, the recorded presentation must be submitted by 20 July!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10974687...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Anthony Herrel @anthony-herrel.bsky.social · Jul 11

Great paper by the amazing @priscilarothier.bsky.social

Check it out!

Priscila Rothier @priscilarothier.bsky.social · Jul 11

Thrilled to share our new paper out in BMC, part of my postdoc at @cornellvet.bsky.social! 🐘🐀
We found that larger mammals evolve more diverse morphologies, while smaller ones can explore many locomotor strategies without much change to their forelimbs.
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Body mass evolution as a driver of morphological and ecological diversity in terrestrial mammals - BMC Ecology and Evolution

Body mass plays a fundamental role in the macroevolutionary dynamics of morphological, ecological, and phylogenetic diversification. Given biomechanical principles, large body masses in terrestrial ve...

bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com

Anthony Herrel @anthony-herrel.bsky.social · Jun 23

Really cool paper by my collaborators!

American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · Jun 23

Simon et al. compared the role of constraints and selection on function to align evolutionary patterns of hindlimb trait covariation in frogs. They inferred that species tracked jumping performance peaks along lines of least resistance within-species.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

www.journals.uchicago.edu

Gabriel S. Ferreira (he/his) @gsferreira.bsky.social · May 30

🚨🚨PhD position alert!🚨🚨
Do you like 🐢🐢? Or ecomorph evolution? I am offering a 36-month PhD position funded by the DFG about ecomorphology and neuroanatomy of turtles. Check out the ad here: www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...

Please share and if you have questions, send me a message 😉

Anthony Herrel @anthony-herrel.bsky.social · May 26

Deadline for abstracts today

Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · May 26

#ICVM2025 symposia: www.isvm-icvm.org/icvm-2025

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