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Dr Claire M. Tierney
@drctierney.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Anatomy at University of Liverpool, PI in Craniofacial Research. Irish, cat mammy and love to laugh! Generally a mad hatter but always well meant 🤓🐈🇮🇪🧠☘️ All opinions are my own
Think I just got one of the best compliments in work today - got told I looked like the pink version of Cruella DeVille #work #anatomy #liverpool
September 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Why is it that I can remember that there was something I was supposed to put on the shopping list AND the store I need to buy it in BUT FOR LOVE OF GOD, I can’t remember the specific item!!??! Ugh #brainfog
michael scott is sitting in front of a window with his eyes closed and his hand on his chin .
ALT: michael scott is sitting in front of a window with his eyes closed and his hand on his chin .
media.tenor.com
August 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Reposted by Dr Claire M. Tierney
New paper where we look at complexity of the intracranial joint in rabbits and hares.
Second paper from @apwoodbailey.bsky.social PhD work 🎉🐇
August 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Reposted by Dr Claire M. Tierney
Hyperostosis frontalis interna (HFI) progresses slowly—~1mm/3 years per new histo analysis. Despite neurological risks, HFI doesn’t show faster bone growth, just steady accumulation. Early detection could enable timely intervention
Hogg & Peburn: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
August 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Amazing dissection of cranial nerves CN V and VII
August 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Introduced the Irish mammy to tiktok and she’s already on the pope side of tiktok 🤣🤣🤣
July 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The wildflower garden beds are just amazing on campus this time of year #uniofliverpool #wildflowers #bees @liverpooluni.bsky.social
July 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Sonay Kartel! The power and control - brilliant match! #sonaykartel #wimbledon
July 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
First flowering of my #blackiefuschia plant I got as a tiny seedling at last years #RHS #chelseaflowwr show - she’s an absolute beauty!
July 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Reposted by Dr Claire M. Tierney
New review paper on primate facial expression! 🙈🙊🙉 with @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social @jmicheletta.bsky.social and Olivia O’Callaghan @ntupsychology.bsky.social
Facial expression production and perception in non-human primates

Review by Bridget M. Waller, Olivia O’Callaghan, Jérôme Micheletta & Jamie Whitehouse

Web: go.nature.com/43NLtid
PDF: rdcu.be/erdXJ
June 16, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Reposted by Dr Claire M. Tierney
Fab review forcing us to think differently about facial expression in conversation
Facial clues to conversational intentions

Review by Judith Holler
tinyurl.com/4mw5m87x
June 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Reposted by Dr Claire M. Tierney
Genius
Venn diagram
June 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Every year I say I’m not watching Wimbledon - yet here I am watching it the minute I got home 😂 #wimbledon
June 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
God forbids that I get my morning coffee before her royal feline highness gets her breakfast first 😂
April 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Pink stethoscopes are just elite! #stethoscope #medical #anatomy
April 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Reposted by Dr Claire M. Tierney
Short-term (6 months) research assistant role supporting the project I worked on as a postdoc - check it out! Looks like a great role for a recent anatomy grad.

@drctierney.bsky.social @bridgetwaller.bsky.social

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ093/r...
Research Assistant - Anatomy - Grade 6 at University of Liverpool
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March 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Reposted by Dr Claire M. Tierney
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!
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March 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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
March 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Reposted by Dr Claire M. Tierney
Research assistant in anatomy (6 months) on ERC project www.FACEDIFF.co.uk - join our team! Based at University of Liverpool with collaborator @drctierney.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

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Research Assistant - Anatomy - Grade 6 at University of Liverpool
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March 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Reposted by Dr Claire M. Tierney
Hello everyone, with April being just around the corner, we would like to introduce to you our speakers at the IAS Online Spring Scientific Meeting & AGM. It will start with Professor David Bainbridge from University of Cambridge giving a talk inspired by his book 'How Zoologists Organise Things'
March 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Reposted by Dr Claire M. Tierney
Rabbits and hares (leporid lagomorphs) have uniquely fenestrated skulls, but why? Using finite element analysis, a new study found that fenestrations don’t impact biting efficiency but may lighten the skull for agility.
Wood-Bailey & Sharp: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
March 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
New publication alert! Linking Individual Variation in Facial Musculature to Facial Behaviour in Rhesus Macaques - please have a look, a lot of interesting data!

anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Linking individual variation in facial musculature to facial behavior in rhesus macaques
Facial expression is a key component of primate communication, and primates (including humans) have a complex system of facial musculature underpinning this behavior. Human facial musculature is high...
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Uh #sortyourlifeput always make me cry, this week especially #tayla and mom are amazing! @bbc
March 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Does anybody else constantly have a song singing in their head at all times? I never know which song will playing either 😂 #song #music #earworm
March 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM