Anne-Claire Fabre
@grumpydrfabre.bsky.social
Curator of mammals, NMBE Assistant Professor, University of Bern, Evolutionary Biology, Shape diversity, Functional Morphology, Salamanders lover!!!
Cool review to read! 🦇
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Cool review to read! 🦇
Well deserved @quentinwildlife.bsky.social , such an amazing picture again!
Thrilled to have won the Amphibians and Reptiles category of the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year and to be able to share this fascinating frog behavior! #wpy61 #frogs #herpetology www.quentinmartinez.fr
October 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Well deserved @quentinwildlife.bsky.social , such an amazing picture again!
Thank you to you Fabio for including me in this great project!
Happy to share my first postdoc work published in @funecology.bsky.social ! A huge thank-you to @oliverdemuth.bsky.social @lizzysteell.bsky.social @fieldpalaeo.bsky.social @grumpydrfabre.bsky.social and to @snsf.ch
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Constrained variation in the internal architecture of avian wing bones
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Thank you to you Fabio for including me in this great project!
Reposted by Anne-Claire Fabre
New in @science.org, meet Acronichthys maccagnoi, a new species from Late Creatacous Canada that changes what we know about the origins and evolution of one of the most successful fish groups on Earth.
October 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
New in @science.org, meet Acronichthys maccagnoi, a new species from Late Creatacous Canada that changes what we know about the origins and evolution of one of the most successful fish groups on Earth.
Reposted by Anne-Claire Fabre
PhD Alert! 😍 Our lab is hiring a PhD student to study how shrews shrink in winter and grow in spring. Yes, you read that right!
tinyurl.com/shrinkingshr...
Join us at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, study a super cool animal, and join the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social community!
DM me for questions!
tinyurl.com/shrinkingshr...
Join us at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, study a super cool animal, and join the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social community!
DM me for questions!
Seasonal size change and aging in shrews
imprs-qbee.mpg.de
September 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
PhD Alert! 😍 Our lab is hiring a PhD student to study how shrews shrink in winter and grow in spring. Yes, you read that right!
tinyurl.com/shrinkingshr...
Join us at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, study a super cool animal, and join the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social community!
DM me for questions!
tinyurl.com/shrinkingshr...
Join us at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, study a super cool animal, and join the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social community!
DM me for questions!
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A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species
go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother
Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
go.nature.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species
go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
Reposted by Anne-Claire Fabre
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....
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
July 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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....
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....
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Excited to share the first paper from my PhD!
We looked at what traits help Aneides salamanders excel at climbing using museum specimens, CT scans, SEM, and more! No claws or toe pads, so how do they do it? In short, with long limbs, big feet and grippy toes! 🦎🧪
DM for PDF
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
We looked at what traits help Aneides salamanders excel at climbing using museum specimens, CT scans, SEM, and more! No claws or toe pads, so how do they do it? In short, with long limbs, big feet and grippy toes! 🦎🧪
DM for PDF
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
August 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Excited to share the first paper from my PhD!
We looked at what traits help Aneides salamanders excel at climbing using museum specimens, CT scans, SEM, and more! No claws or toe pads, so how do they do it? In short, with long limbs, big feet and grippy toes! 🦎🧪
DM for PDF
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
We looked at what traits help Aneides salamanders excel at climbing using museum specimens, CT scans, SEM, and more! No claws or toe pads, so how do they do it? In short, with long limbs, big feet and grippy toes! 🦎🧪
DM for PDF
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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
www.rts.ch
August 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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...
Reposted by Anne-Claire Fabre
Freshwater mussels mostly use fish as a host to move upstream. The salamander mussel is unique in latching on to aquatic salamanders! Its larvae encyst in the gills of mudpuppies, possibly staying with their hosts over the winter! (204)
August 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Freshwater mussels mostly use fish as a host to move upstream. The salamander mussel is unique in latching on to aquatic salamanders! Its larvae encyst in the gills of mudpuppies, possibly staying with their hosts over the winter! (204)
🚨Paper Alert🚨Wanna know how a climate crisis 56 million years ago shaped the current diversity of salamandrids? Check the the paper led by the amazing Loredana Macaluso and a fantastic team of collaborators@robertorozzi.bsky.social, A. Villa & B. Mennecart. I am truly delighted to be part of it!!!🦎👇
Our study on the role of the #PETM on the early evolutionary success of #salamandrids is out! Delighted to be part of this great project led by Loredana Macaluso, with A.Villa, @grumpydrfabre.bsky.social & B.Mennecart #salamanders #climatechanges 🌡☀️⌛️
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... (1/2)
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... (1/2)
Time to grow up: the PETM climatic event favoured metamorphosing salamanders (Urodela, Salamandridae) | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Currently, little is known about the early evolution and geographical origin of Salamandridae,
the most species-rich family of Palearctic salamanders. The description of new fossil
material from the e...
royalsocietypublishing.org
August 14, 2025 at 7:39 AM
🚨Paper Alert🚨Wanna know how a climate crisis 56 million years ago shaped the current diversity of salamandrids? Check the the paper led by the amazing Loredana Macaluso and a fantastic team of collaborators@robertorozzi.bsky.social, A. Villa & B. Mennecart. I am truly delighted to be part of it!!!🦎👇
Reposted by Anne-Claire Fabre
Attending the virtual #ICVM2025 conference? Check out our lightning talk on the imaging and articulation techniques we used to make our physical model of a dogfish skull and how physical models give new insights in research & education. icvm.econference.io/public/3JC8E... (registration req to view)
July 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Attending the virtual #ICVM2025 conference? Check out our lightning talk on the imaging and articulation techniques we used to make our physical model of a dogfish skull and how physical models give new insights in research & education. icvm.econference.io/public/3JC8E... (registration req to view)
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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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Huge congratulations to Isabelle Toussaint-Lardé on publishing the first paper of her PhD! 🎉
Ever wondered whether paedomorphic species change their feeding strategies from larval to adult stages? Is adulthood in axolotls just an illusion? 🧠👀
Ever wondered whether paedomorphic species change their feeding strategies from larval to adult stages? Is adulthood in axolotls just an illusion? 🧠👀
August 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Huge congratulations to Isabelle Toussaint-Lardé on publishing the first paper of her PhD! 🎉
Ever wondered whether paedomorphic species change their feeding strategies from larval to adult stages? Is adulthood in axolotls just an illusion? 🧠👀
Ever wondered whether paedomorphic species change their feeding strategies from larval to adult stages? Is adulthood in axolotls just an illusion? 🧠👀
You can be proud! They were all amazing!!! 🤩
Proud supervisor moment! 🥹🤩
So incredible to watch our undergrad students from the lab shine in front of such a knowledgeable audience at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social. They absolutely crushed it and I couldn’t be prouder!
@fernandalandim.bsky.social, Anna Clara Annes, Jorge Silva and Gabriela Karam.
So incredible to watch our undergrad students from the lab shine in front of such a knowledgeable audience at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social. They absolutely crushed it and I couldn’t be prouder!
@fernandalandim.bsky.social, Anna Clara Annes, Jorge Silva and Gabriela Karam.
August 3, 2025 at 7:33 AM
You can be proud! They were all amazing!!! 🤩
Reposted by Anne-Claire Fabre
Critics of Colossal's de-extinction ideas and projects are being hit by online, apparently (mostly) AI-generated, smear campaigns. It's dodgy as hell. This is anti-science; anti-free-speech; vile shenanigans. It needs to stop.
www.newscientist.com/article/2490...
www.newscientist.com/article/2490...
Critics of de-extinction research hit by mystery smear campaign
Several researchers who have been critical of Colossal Biosciences’ plans to revive extinct animals say they have been targeted by online articles trying to discredit them
www.newscientist.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Critics of Colossal's de-extinction ideas and projects are being hit by online, apparently (mostly) AI-generated, smear campaigns. It's dodgy as hell. This is anti-science; anti-free-speech; vile shenanigans. It needs to stop.
www.newscientist.com/article/2490...
www.newscientist.com/article/2490...
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! 👇👇👇
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🚨Exciting news🚨
The illustrated version of Otherlands has appeared through my letterbox!
The art by Gavin Scott is just beautiful, with more than 100 pages of scenes, stories, and guides to bring the past to life.
Perfect for readers aged 7-11, but also for anyone who just wanted more pictures!
The illustrated version of Otherlands has appeared through my letterbox!
The art by Gavin Scott is just beautiful, with more than 100 pages of scenes, stories, and guides to bring the past to life.
Perfect for readers aged 7-11, but also for anyone who just wanted more pictures!
July 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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🚨 I'm looking for #Postdoc opportunities starting this September! 🧑🔬🔍
I'm a highly motivated researcher with experience in R, network analysis, and multivariate statistics. My focus is on the evolution of ecosystems and biodiversity over deep time.
I'm a highly motivated researcher with experience in R, network analysis, and multivariate statistics. My focus is on the evolution of ecosystems and biodiversity over deep time.
June 13, 2025 at 8:24 AM
🚨 I'm looking for #Postdoc opportunities starting this September! 🧑🔬🔍
I'm a highly motivated researcher with experience in R, network analysis, and multivariate statistics. My focus is on the evolution of ecosystems and biodiversity over deep time.
I'm a highly motivated researcher with experience in R, network analysis, and multivariate statistics. My focus is on the evolution of ecosystems and biodiversity over deep time.
Reposted by Anne-Claire Fabre
Really glad to share with you what would be the oldest evidence of the epidermal skin of early synapsids, with the description of sphenacodont body impressions, likeky belonging to Dimetrodon teutonis, from the early Permian of BROMACKER! Behold Bromackerichnus!
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Early Permian synapsid impressions illuminate the origin of epidermal scales and aggregation behavior
Marchetti et al. describe Bromackerichnus, the first definite body impression of early
synapsids and, more specifically, sphenacodontids. Bromackerichnus includes the earliest
fossil evidence of epide...
www.cell.com
May 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Really glad to share with you what would be the oldest evidence of the epidermal skin of early synapsids, with the description of sphenacodont body impressions, likeky belonging to Dimetrodon teutonis, from the early Permian of BROMACKER! Behold Bromackerichnus!
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
En français 📢 Ce matin j'étais sur la RTS pour parler de Madagascar, de sa faune et de sa flore uniques, et des lémuriens en particulier dans l'émission CQFD.
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www.rts.ch/audio-podcas...
#CQFD #RTS #CQFD #friturevocale @nmbern.bsky.social
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www.rts.ch/audio-podcas...
#CQFD #RTS #CQFD #friturevocale @nmbern.bsky.social
Des expositions, des lémuriens et notre libre arbitre
Pint of Science et Les mystères de lʹUNIL
Les brèves du jour
Lʹhistoire évolutive des lémuriens
Notre libre arbitre est-il réellement libre?
www.rts.ch
May 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
En français 📢 Ce matin j'étais sur la RTS pour parler de Madagascar, de sa faune et de sa flore uniques, et des lémuriens en particulier dans l'émission CQFD.
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www.rts.ch/audio-podcas...
#CQFD #RTS #CQFD #friturevocale @nmbern.bsky.social
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www.rts.ch/audio-podcas...
#CQFD #RTS #CQFD #friturevocale @nmbern.bsky.social
Apply! 👇👇🐍🪱🥒
I am looking for a PhD candidate to work on the morphological and functional evolution of the head shape of limbless squamates. The project will involve evolutionary biology, experimental and computational biomechanics, and a lot of scaly animals!!! More info here:
adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...
adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...
adum.fr
April 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Apply! 👇👇🐍🪱🥒
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Connaissez vous les noms féminins des animaux...?
L'imagier des femelles est là pour vous, pour les grand.e.s et les petit.e.s!
Ravie d'avoir apporté ma contribution à cette belle initiative!
www.sens-dessus-dessous-editions.fr/albums/lionn...
L'imagier des femelles est là pour vous, pour les grand.e.s et les petit.e.s!
Ravie d'avoir apporté ma contribution à cette belle initiative!
www.sens-dessus-dessous-editions.fr/albums/lionn...
April 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Paper alert 🚨
Our 1rst paper with @vivienl.bsky.social and colleagues is out in Functional Ecology! In this paper, we investigated how complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata.Want to know more? Read this👇
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Our 1rst paper with @vivienl.bsky.social and colleagues is out in Functional Ecology! In this paper, we investigated how complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata.Want to know more? Read this👇
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Paper alert 🚨
Our 1rst paper with @vivienl.bsky.social and colleagues is out in Functional Ecology! In this paper, we investigated how complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata.Want to know more? Read this👇
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Our 1rst paper with @vivienl.bsky.social and colleagues is out in Functional Ecology! In this paper, we investigated how complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata.Want to know more? Read this👇
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Want to know more about craniofacial evolution in vertebrates? Join us at symposium#9 organized by Olivia Plateau and Kevin Le Verger @ESEB2025 in beautiful Barcelona!!!! #frenchconnexion #ESEB2025
April 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Want to know more about craniofacial evolution in vertebrates? Join us at symposium#9 organized by Olivia Plateau and Kevin Le Verger @ESEB2025 in beautiful Barcelona!!!! #frenchconnexion #ESEB2025