Oriol Monclús Gonzalo
@euarchont.bsky.social
PhD student at Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont and Substitute Professor at Unitat d'Antropologia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Primate tarsal bones 🦶| Geometric morphometrics 💻 | Phylogenetic comparative methods 📊
Primate tarsal bones 🦶| Geometric morphometrics 💻 | Phylogenetic comparative methods 📊
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First official postdoc paper out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social! We compare different approaches to studying kinematics in a macaque ankle and note that the talocrural joint seems to contribute minimally to dorsiflexion of the foot during stance phase. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Comparison of ankle dorsiflexion using XROMM and external angular kinematics in a quadrupedally walking macaque
Summary: Different approaches to measuring ankle dorsiflexion capture different underlying kinematics. Evidence indicates that dorsiflexion at the talocrural joint is actively limited during walking i...
journals.biologists.com
September 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
First official postdoc paper out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social! We compare different approaches to studying kinematics in a macaque ankle and note that the talocrural joint seems to contribute minimally to dorsiflexion of the foot during stance phase. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Reposted by Oriol Monclús Gonzalo
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#ICVM2025 LIVE sessions begin tomorrow, Thursday 7 August 2025, at icvm.econference.io/public/: 0700 EST (USA) (*not 1200 I'd posted before*) = General Assembly / Members' or Business Meeting Please come! There will be plenty of useful information and opportunities for Q&A!
icvm.econference.io
August 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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🌍❄️ New paper out! Early primates didn’t just thrive in tropical forests, they evolved and dispersed through cold & temperate climates 🐒🧊
Enjoyed being part of this collaboration led by @avaria_jorge! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Enjoyed being part of this collaboration led by @avaria_jorge! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
The radiation and geographic expansion of primates through diverse climates | PNAS
One of the most influential hypotheses about primate evolution postulates that their
origin, radiation, and major dispersals were associated with e...
doi.org
August 6, 2025 at 7:37 AM
🌍❄️ New paper out! Early primates didn’t just thrive in tropical forests, they evolved and dispersed through cold & temperate climates 🐒🧊
Enjoyed being part of this collaboration led by @avaria_jorge! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Enjoyed being part of this collaboration led by @avaria_jorge! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Fossil ape tali tell their tale 🦧
Check out our new dissemination paper on the isolated dryopith talus from Abocador de Can Mata and its important implications for the evolution of locomotor behaviors in modern apes 👇
www.uab.cat/web/news-det...
Check out our new dissemination paper on the isolated dryopith talus from Abocador de Can Mata and its important implications for the evolution of locomotor behaviors in modern apes 👇
www.uab.cat/web/news-det...
Fossil ape tali tell their tale: A new fossil informs about hominoid locomotor evolution
A research article published in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology by an international team led by researchers from the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP-CERCA) descr...
www.uab.cat
July 24, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Fossil ape tali tell their tale 🦧
Check out our new dissemination paper on the isolated dryopith talus from Abocador de Can Mata and its important implications for the evolution of locomotor behaviors in modern apes 👇
www.uab.cat/web/news-det...
Check out our new dissemination paper on the isolated dryopith talus from Abocador de Can Mata and its important implications for the evolution of locomotor behaviors in modern apes 👇
www.uab.cat/web/news-det...
Reposted by Oriol Monclús Gonzalo
Paper alert!!! 🐒🦍🦧🚨🚨🚨Must read this summer! Check out the amazing paper of @euarchont.bsky.social ! Many thanks again for including me in this study! 👇👇👇
New paper on early primate locomotion! 🐒
Based on tarsal shape, we reconstruct the locomotor repertoire of several early primates, providing the most extensive taxonomic scope to date. 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
With David M. Alba, @grumpydrfabre.bsky.social and Judit Marigó
Based on tarsal shape, we reconstruct the locomotor repertoire of several early primates, providing the most extensive taxonomic scope to date. 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
With David M. Alba, @grumpydrfabre.bsky.social and Judit Marigó
Reconstruction of the locomotor repertoire of early primates in the light of astragalar and calcaneal shape
The locomotor behavior of the earliest euprimates is key to our understanding of the origin and early diversification of the group. Postcranial traits…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Paper alert!!! 🐒🦍🦧🚨🚨🚨Must read this summer! Check out the amazing paper of @euarchont.bsky.social ! Many thanks again for including me in this study! 👇👇👇
New paper on early primate locomotion! 🐒
Based on tarsal shape, we reconstruct the locomotor repertoire of several early primates, providing the most extensive taxonomic scope to date. 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
With David M. Alba, @grumpydrfabre.bsky.social and Judit Marigó
Based on tarsal shape, we reconstruct the locomotor repertoire of several early primates, providing the most extensive taxonomic scope to date. 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
With David M. Alba, @grumpydrfabre.bsky.social and Judit Marigó
Reconstruction of the locomotor repertoire of early primates in the light of astragalar and calcaneal shape
The locomotor behavior of the earliest euprimates is key to our understanding of the origin and early diversification of the group. Postcranial traits…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 19, 2025 at 8:09 AM
New paper on early primate locomotion! 🐒
Based on tarsal shape, we reconstruct the locomotor repertoire of several early primates, providing the most extensive taxonomic scope to date. 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
With David M. Alba, @grumpydrfabre.bsky.social and Judit Marigó
Based on tarsal shape, we reconstruct the locomotor repertoire of several early primates, providing the most extensive taxonomic scope to date. 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
With David M. Alba, @grumpydrfabre.bsky.social and Judit Marigó
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#Nakali🇰🇪 🦍⚒️🦴
Thrilled to be awarded a Research Grant from the @leakeyfoundation.org
I’m happy to count on a great team, some of them are on @bsky.app 👇🏽
@dmartinperea.bsky.social
@albavicente.bsky.social
Congratulations to the other amazing awardees 👏🏼
leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-...
Thrilled to be awarded a Research Grant from the @leakeyfoundation.org
I’m happy to count on a great team, some of them are on @bsky.app 👇🏽
@dmartinperea.bsky.social
@albavicente.bsky.social
Congratulations to the other amazing awardees 👏🏼
leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-...
July 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
#Nakali🇰🇪 🦍⚒️🦴
Thrilled to be awarded a Research Grant from the @leakeyfoundation.org
I’m happy to count on a great team, some of them are on @bsky.app 👇🏽
@dmartinperea.bsky.social
@albavicente.bsky.social
Congratulations to the other amazing awardees 👏🏼
leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-...
Thrilled to be awarded a Research Grant from the @leakeyfoundation.org
I’m happy to count on a great team, some of them are on @bsky.app 👇🏽
@dmartinperea.bsky.social
@albavicente.bsky.social
Congratulations to the other amazing awardees 👏🏼
leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-...
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#Fieldwork
Week 2 on the move! New excavators and new fossils already 🦴🦴🦴
#BPpostdoc @ICP_MCrusafont @gencat
Week 2 on the move! New excavators and new fossils already 🦴🦴🦴
#BPpostdoc @ICP_MCrusafont @gencat
May 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM
#Fieldwork
Week 2 on the move! New excavators and new fossils already 🦴🦴🦴
#BPpostdoc @ICP_MCrusafont @gencat
Week 2 on the move! New excavators and new fossils already 🦴🦴🦴
#BPpostdoc @ICP_MCrusafont @gencat
New paper alert! 🦧
Described a new dryopithecine talus from the Vallès-Penedès basin to inform about crown hominoid locomotor evolution 👇
doi.org/10.1002/ajpa...
with Shubham Pal, @tpuschel.bsky.social , @a-urciuoli.bsky.social , Víctor Vinuesa, Josep M. Robles, Sergio Almécija and David M. Alba
Described a new dryopithecine talus from the Vallès-Penedès basin to inform about crown hominoid locomotor evolution 👇
doi.org/10.1002/ajpa...
with Shubham Pal, @tpuschel.bsky.social , @a-urciuoli.bsky.social , Víctor Vinuesa, Josep M. Robles, Sergio Almécija and David M. Alba
A Dryopithecine Talus From Abocador de Can Mata (Vallès‐Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula): Morphometric Affinities and Evolutionary Implications for Hominoid Locomotion
Objectives
The functional interpretation of postcranial remains of Middle Miocene great apes from Europe (dryopithecines) suggests a combination of quadrupedalism and orthograde behaviors without mo.....
doi.org
April 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
New paper alert! 🦧
Described a new dryopithecine talus from the Vallès-Penedès basin to inform about crown hominoid locomotor evolution 👇
doi.org/10.1002/ajpa...
with Shubham Pal, @tpuschel.bsky.social , @a-urciuoli.bsky.social , Víctor Vinuesa, Josep M. Robles, Sergio Almécija and David M. Alba
Described a new dryopithecine talus from the Vallès-Penedès basin to inform about crown hominoid locomotor evolution 👇
doi.org/10.1002/ajpa...
with Shubham Pal, @tpuschel.bsky.social , @a-urciuoli.bsky.social , Víctor Vinuesa, Josep M. Robles, Sergio Almécija and David M. Alba
Ens haurem de distreure d'alguna manera...
Road to STL! 🔜
Road to STL! 🔜
April 8, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Ens haurem de distreure d'alguna manera...
Road to STL! 🔜
Road to STL! 🔜
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the text that annoyed Trump is from the AABA Statement on Race & Racism... share it widely...BioAnth doing the work-- bioanth.org/about/aaba-s....
April 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
the text that annoyed Trump is from the AABA Statement on Race & Racism... share it widely...BioAnth doing the work-- bioanth.org/about/aaba-s....
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🧵 1/2 PhD Opportunity! Join my new HEAR lab
@ the University of Zurich (Sept 2025) to research hominin hearing evolution. 4yr contract, SNSF funded. Focus: cochlear anatomy, computational modeling, fossil hearing. shorturl.at/ohH44
@ the University of Zurich (Sept 2025) to research hominin hearing evolution. 4yr contract, SNSF funded. Focus: cochlear anatomy, computational modeling, fossil hearing. shorturl.at/ohH44
Open PhD position on Biomechanics and Anatomy of the Ape and Hominin Organ of Hearing
shorturl.at
March 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
🧵 1/2 PhD Opportunity! Join my new HEAR lab
@ the University of Zurich (Sept 2025) to research hominin hearing evolution. 4yr contract, SNSF funded. Focus: cochlear anatomy, computational modeling, fossil hearing. shorturl.at/ohH44
@ the University of Zurich (Sept 2025) to research hominin hearing evolution. 4yr contract, SNSF funded. Focus: cochlear anatomy, computational modeling, fossil hearing. shorturl.at/ohH44
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@a-urciuoli.bsky.social is looking for a PhD student to study hominin hearing evolution! Ears are great (I'm not biased at all): uzhcareer.ch/de/jobs/deta...
Open PhD position on Biomechanics and Anatomy of the Ape and Hominin Organ of Hearing
uzhcareer.ch
March 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
@a-urciuoli.bsky.social is looking for a PhD student to study hominin hearing evolution! Ears are great (I'm not biased at all): uzhcareer.ch/de/jobs/deta...
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#Outreach
Next week I will be talking about #Nakali🇰🇪 as part of the paleotalk series that the @ICP_MCrusafont organises
🦍🦏🐖🦛🐘 and more!
#BPpostdoc @gencat
Next week I will be talking about #Nakali🇰🇪 as part of the paleotalk series that the @ICP_MCrusafont organises
🦍🦏🐖🦛🐘 and more!
#BPpostdoc @gencat
March 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
#Outreach
Next week I will be talking about #Nakali🇰🇪 as part of the paleotalk series that the @ICP_MCrusafont organises
🦍🦏🐖🦛🐘 and more!
#BPpostdoc @gencat
Next week I will be talking about #Nakali🇰🇪 as part of the paleotalk series that the @ICP_MCrusafont organises
🦍🦏🐖🦛🐘 and more!
#BPpostdoc @gencat
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📢 Hoy en El País se publica un artículo en honor a Elisabeth Vrba, una de las científicas que más han inspirado mi carrera. He tenido el privilegio de participar en su creación junto a @singerstone.bsky.social y @hdezfdez.bsky.social 👇🔗
elpais.com/ciencia/2025...
elpais.com/ciencia/2025...
Elisabeth Vrba, la mosquetera que revolucionó la paleobiología
En febrero falleció la paleobióloga Elisabeth Vrba, que logró integrar la teoría evolutiva, el neodarwinismo, con las nuevas evidencias derivadas del estudio del registro fósil
elpais.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
📢 Hoy en El País se publica un artículo en honor a Elisabeth Vrba, una de las científicas que más han inspirado mi carrera. He tenido el privilegio de participar en su creación junto a @singerstone.bsky.social y @hdezfdez.bsky.social 👇🔗
elpais.com/ciencia/2025...
elpais.com/ciencia/2025...
Very happy to have participated in this study on the ulnar morphology of the enigmatic crouzeliid Pliobates cataloniae 😁🐒 @julsam.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Ulnar morphology of Pliobates cataloniae (Pliopithecoidea: Crouzeliidae): Insights into catarrhine locomotor diversity and forelimb evolution
Pliobates cataloniae is a small-bodied crouzeliid pliopithecoid from the Miocene (∼11.6 Ma) of Abocador de Can Mata (ACM; Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Ibe…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Very happy to have participated in this study on the ulnar morphology of the enigmatic crouzeliid Pliobates cataloniae 😁🐒 @julsam.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This afternoon at #AABA2025 I had the pleasure to present my work on the description and functional analysis of the most complete dryopithecine talus recovered so far. It's being an amazing experience in Baltimore! (Still haven't tried the very renowned crab cakes though!)
March 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This afternoon at #AABA2025 I had the pleasure to present my work on the description and functional analysis of the most complete dryopithecine talus recovered so far. It's being an amazing experience in Baltimore! (Still haven't tried the very renowned crab cakes though!)
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New research on the inner ear morphology of Neanderthals and their ancestors challenges the widely accepted theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of their genetic diversity 🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
New research on the inner ear morphology of Neanderthals and their ancestors challenges the widely accepted theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of their genetic diversity 🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...