Armita R. Manafzadeh
@armanafzadeh.bsky.social
Man-off-ZAH-deh. PhD. Donnelley Fellow & NSF PRFB postdoc @ Yale. From August 2026: Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. How do joints work and where do they come from? manafzadeh.com
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✨Some news✨: after finishing my postdoc, I’ll be starting my lab as an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. Join us in Atlanta to study how joints work and where they come from!
I'm recruiting a PhD student to join the lab at @gtsciences.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Broad taxonomic and topical freedom under the umbrella of vertebrate joint form and function. Information here: www.manafzadeh.com – please share 🦴🩻
Incredibly cool preprint on empirical fitness seascapes 🌊 by Swathi Nachiar Manivannan & @cbo.bsky.social – if you like thinking about adaptive landscapes, a must-read.
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In one study--“Deconstructing empirical fitness seascapes across scales of granularity”---we break down fitness seascapes by measuring how environmental context shapes aspects of mutational steps, loci, epistatic interactions, and whole-landscape features.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
In one study--“Deconstructing empirical fitness seascapes across scales of granularity”---we break down fitness seascapes by measuring how environmental context shapes aspects of mutational steps, loci, epistatic interactions, and whole-landscape features.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org
February 12, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Incredibly cool preprint on empirical fitness seascapes 🌊 by Swathi Nachiar Manivannan & @cbo.bsky.social – if you like thinking about adaptive landscapes, a must-read.
Had a great seminar visit with the crew at Ohio University — thanks to Susan Williams, @witmerlab.bsky.social, and Peishu Li for a very fun start to the week!
February 11, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Had a great seminar visit with the crew at Ohio University — thanks to Susan Williams, @witmerlab.bsky.social, and Peishu Li for a very fun start to the week!
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Excited to share that our co-edited volume on the Iron Age Philistine cemetery from Ashkelon is now out! This volume presents the bioarchaeological findings from the c. 250 individuals, each with a dedicated catalogue entry that synthesizes their stratigraphic, osteological & artifactual contexts.
January 29, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Excited to share that our co-edited volume on the Iron Age Philistine cemetery from Ashkelon is now out! This volume presents the bioarchaeological findings from the c. 250 individuals, each with a dedicated catalogue entry that synthesizes their stratigraphic, osteological & artifactual contexts.
Had lots of fun delivering the @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social Carl Gans award lecture yesterday at @sicb.bsky.social #SICB2026! Grateful to have the support of so many incredible colleagues in comparative biomechanics.
January 8, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Had lots of fun delivering the @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social Carl Gans award lecture yesterday at @sicb.bsky.social #SICB2026! Grateful to have the support of so many incredible colleagues in comparative biomechanics.
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JEB is proud to be sponsoring the 2026 @sicbjournals.bsky.social Carl Gans Lecture by Armita Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social at 13:30 in Oregon 201, the Oregon Convention Center
Dr Manafzadeh's lecture is entitled 'Joints: form, function, and the future of comparative biomechanics'
Dr Manafzadeh's lecture is entitled 'Joints: form, function, and the future of comparative biomechanics'
January 7, 2026 at 10:35 AM
JEB is proud to be sponsoring the 2026 @sicbjournals.bsky.social Carl Gans Lecture by Armita Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social at 13:30 in Oregon 201, the Oregon Convention Center
Dr Manafzadeh's lecture is entitled 'Joints: form, function, and the future of comparative biomechanics'
Dr Manafzadeh's lecture is entitled 'Joints: form, function, and the future of comparative biomechanics'
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🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!
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December 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!
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The Vertebrate Paleontology students did a great job 3D printing and painting skulls—look at that homology!
December 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The Vertebrate Paleontology students did a great job 3D printing and painting skulls—look at that homology!
Congratulations, @caleb-m-gordon.bsky.social et al.! Such creative work; nothing more satisfying than a good cross-field method-repurposing.
Hey everyone! I’m excited to share that one of my thesis projects was just published in @currentbiology.bsky.social and featured on phys.org! In this paper, we use an old statistical approach developed by the US Navy in WW2 to predict the aquatic habits of various dinosaurs and marine reptiles 🦖🐊
November 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Congratulations, @caleb-m-gordon.bsky.social et al.! Such creative work; nothing more satisfying than a good cross-field method-repurposing.
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Hey everyone! I’m excited to share that one of my thesis projects was just published in @currentbiology.bsky.social and featured on phys.org! In this paper, we use an old statistical approach developed by the US Navy in WW2 to predict the aquatic habits of various dinosaurs and marine reptiles 🦖🐊
November 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Hey everyone! I’m excited to share that one of my thesis projects was just published in @currentbiology.bsky.social and featured on phys.org! In this paper, we use an old statistical approach developed by the US Navy in WW2 to predict the aquatic habits of various dinosaurs and marine reptiles 🦖🐊
Looking forward to joining the @royalsociety.org Proceedings B editorial board in 2026 – send us your papers!
November 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Looking forward to joining the @royalsociety.org Proceedings B editorial board in 2026 – send us your papers!
Excited to have the opportunity to share my perspective on comparative biomechanics in a plenary at this year's SICB meeting. Grateful to my mentors/collabs/students for their support along the way, and very honored to receive the Gans Young Investigator Award!
November 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Excited to have the opportunity to share my perspective on comparative biomechanics in a plenary at this year's SICB meeting. Grateful to my mentors/collabs/students for their support along the way, and very honored to receive the Gans Young Investigator Award!
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the word that best captures my feelings about receiving the Duke University 2025 Outstanding Postdoc award is just grateful
grateful to sheila for the opportunity to grow as a scientist and grateful for my students for teaching me more than they know
@dukepostdocs.bsky.social
@snpatek.bsky.social
grateful to sheila for the opportunity to grow as a scientist and grateful for my students for teaching me more than they know
@dukepostdocs.bsky.social
@snpatek.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
the word that best captures my feelings about receiving the Duke University 2025 Outstanding Postdoc award is just grateful
grateful to sheila for the opportunity to grow as a scientist and grateful for my students for teaching me more than they know
@dukepostdocs.bsky.social
@snpatek.bsky.social
grateful to sheila for the opportunity to grow as a scientist and grateful for my students for teaching me more than they know
@dukepostdocs.bsky.social
@snpatek.bsky.social
Happy to share 2 more patellofemoral papers out of Fulkerson group:
(1) On the importance of studying TTTG in 3-D to personalize treatment www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
(2) Dr. Fulkerson sharing his updated perspective on surgical planning for TTOs journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
(1) On the importance of studying TTTG in 3-D to personalize treatment www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
(2) Dr. Fulkerson sharing his updated perspective on surgical planning for TTOs journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
October 31, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Happy to share 2 more patellofemoral papers out of Fulkerson group:
(1) On the importance of studying TTTG in 3-D to personalize treatment www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
(2) Dr. Fulkerson sharing his updated perspective on surgical planning for TTOs journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
(1) On the importance of studying TTTG in 3-D to personalize treatment www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
(2) Dr. Fulkerson sharing his updated perspective on surgical planning for TTOs journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
An exciting update on the human joint side – we found that lateral patellar tracking and malalignment are correlated with progressive cartilage damage, and that the 3D metrics we've been developing to describe PF morphology can be used to quantify the risk.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
September 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
An exciting update on the human joint side – we found that lateral patellar tracking and malalignment are correlated with progressive cartilage damage, and that the 3D metrics we've been developing to describe PF morphology can be used to quantify the risk.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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Come and be our new Chair of Biology at @gtsciences.bsky.social! We are growing an incredibly exciting ecology and evolution group here at GT and would love a visionary eco-evo minded person at the helm to help us do that. Please spread the word!
biosciences.gatech.edu/chair-search
biosciences.gatech.edu/chair-search
Chair Search
Chair, School of Biological Sciences Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta The School of Biological Sciences of the Georgia Institute of Technology (“Georgia Tech”) invites applications for the pos...
biosciences.gatech.edu
September 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Come and be our new Chair of Biology at @gtsciences.bsky.social! We are growing an incredibly exciting ecology and evolution group here at GT and would love a visionary eco-evo minded person at the helm to help us do that. Please spread the word!
biosciences.gatech.edu/chair-search
biosciences.gatech.edu/chair-search
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I'm recruiting a PhD student to join the lab at @gtsciences.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Broad taxonomic and topical freedom under the umbrella of vertebrate joint form and function. Information here: www.manafzadeh.com – please share 🦴🩻
✨Some news✨: after finishing my postdoc, I’ll be starting my lab as an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. Join us in Atlanta to study how joints work and where they come from!
September 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I'm recruiting a PhD student to join the lab at @gtsciences.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Broad taxonomic and topical freedom under the umbrella of vertebrate joint form and function. Information here: www.manafzadeh.com – please share 🦴🩻
I'm recruiting a PhD student to join the lab at @gtsciences.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Broad taxonomic and topical freedom under the umbrella of vertebrate joint form and function. Information here: www.manafzadeh.com – please share 🦴🩻
✨Some news✨: after finishing my postdoc, I’ll be starting my lab as an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. Join us in Atlanta to study how joints work and where they come from!
September 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I'm recruiting a PhD student to join the lab at @gtsciences.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Broad taxonomic and topical freedom under the umbrella of vertebrate joint form and function. Information here: www.manafzadeh.com – please share 🦴🩻
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July 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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✨Some news✨: after finishing my postdoc, I’ll be starting my lab as an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. Join us in Atlanta to study how joints work and where they come from!
July 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
✨Some news✨: after finishing my postdoc, I’ll be starting my lab as an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. Join us in Atlanta to study how joints work and where they come from!
Our paper on entry point-transition point angle elevation in patellofemoral instability patients, led by PhD student Johannes Sieberer and featuring his awesome Python/C# 3D curvature visualization tool (zenodo.org/records/1121...), is out now in OJSM: doi.org/10.1177/2325...
July 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Our paper on entry point-transition point angle elevation in patellofemoral instability patients, led by PhD student Johannes Sieberer and featuring his awesome Python/C# 3D curvature visualization tool (zenodo.org/records/1121...), is out now in OJSM: doi.org/10.1177/2325...
✨Some news✨: after finishing my postdoc, I’ll be starting my lab as an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. Join us in Atlanta to study how joints work and where they come from!
July 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
✨Some news✨: after finishing my postdoc, I’ll be starting my lab as an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. Join us in Atlanta to study how joints work and where they come from!
Great writeup by @caleb-m-gordon.bsky.social! 🐢
Can simple #algorithms tell cryptic species apart?
by Caleb Gordon, MPhil, B.A.
iobopen.com/2025/05/04/c...
On
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
#morphology #machinelearning #science #conservation #turtles #organisms #biology
by Caleb Gordon, MPhil, B.A.
iobopen.com/2025/05/04/c...
On
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
#morphology #machinelearning #science #conservation #turtles #organisms #biology
May 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Great writeup by @caleb-m-gordon.bsky.social! 🐢
A nice conceptual summary of what we’ve learned so far in the Fulkerson group about the importance of studying kneecaps in 3D, led by med student Nancy Park (who just matched ortho at Duke — congrats, Nancy!!), is out today in Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy Review: journals.lww.com/sportsmedart...
March 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
A nice conceptual summary of what we’ve learned so far in the Fulkerson group about the importance of studying kneecaps in 3D, led by med student Nancy Park (who just matched ortho at Duke — congrats, Nancy!!), is out today in Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy Review: journals.lww.com/sportsmedart...