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Emma R Schachner
@paleofox.bsky.social
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Assistant prof at UF Vet Med | Evolutionary functional morphologist (LUNGS 🦉🐊🫁) | Affiliate curator FLMNH | Dog servant | Military history enthusiast 📚
www.theropoda.com
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stephanopteryx.bsky.social
This was such a cool project to be a part of! I contributed scanning & rendering 3d anatomical models of some specimens, but this international team led by @gayani.bsky.social & @tdcapellini.bsky.social combined many methods to reveal how exactly humans evolved to walk upright on two legs. 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️

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August 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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tdcapellini.bsky.social
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/s...
Uncovering the Genes That Let Our Ancestors Walk Upright
www.nytimes.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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witmerlab.bsky.social
Really important review of dinosaur physiology out today led by @stephanopteryx.bsky.social & @paleofox.bsky.social w/
Jason Bourke & ‪‪@rockjock80.bsky.social‬‬: bit.ly/43I1gxJ. Cool to see this old ankylosaur friend as Figure 1, from a collab w/ former PhD students Jason Bourke & Ruger Porter.
Derived from work originally published here: Bourke, J. M., W. R. Porter, and L. M. Witmer. 2018. Convoluted nasal passages function as efficient heat exchangers in ankylosaurs (Dinosauria: Ornithischia: Thyreophora). PLOS ONE 13(12): e0207381. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207381
May 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
paleofox.bsky.social
New #OpenAccess dinosaur physiology paper out as part of the Bio Letters theme issue on 200 years of dinosaurs! 🥳 Led by Stephanie Baumgart 🦖🦕🫁🫀🧠

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
stephanopteryx.bsky.social Stephanie Baumgart, PhD 🦖🦆 @stephanopteryx.bsky.social · May 29
What can we learn about dinosaur physiology? 200 years after the 1st dino was named, new technologies yield amazing data from fossils. Physiology is vast, we hit on a few topics & gave ideas for improving hypotheses regarding how dino bodies may have worked. 🌡❤️🫁🦕🦖🧪⚒️🪶
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
Text: dinosaur physiology: what has been done and what could be done next. Image is a sauropod with a heart icon and a question mark, an ankylosaur with a thermometer and question mark and CFD model on its head, and theropod with bird lungs with a question mark.
May 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
paleofox.bsky.social
🐊🥳 TT faculty Job alert: The Dept of Physiological Sciences at UF Vet Med is hiring! We have phys, evo anatomy, toxicology, and cell bio in our dept. Come teach pharm & collab with the Florida Museum, Medicine, Bio etc! Apply here by May 20: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
University of Florida - Details - Assistant or Associate Professor of Pharmacology
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May 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
paleofox.bsky.social
Thanks for having me! Excited for many future evodevo collabs with the Griffin Lab team 🐊🦜🐥🪺
griffinlabpaleo.bsky.social Griffin Lab @griffinlabpaleo.bsky.social · Apr 30
Thanks to @paleofox.bsky.social for the visit and seminar, blowing our minds with the weird and wonderful world of bird lungs
April 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
paleofox.bsky.social
Thanks for sharing our work! #BirdAgenda
bou.org.uk BOU @bou.org.uk · Feb 28
Unidirectional airflow, air sacs or the horizontal septum: what does it take to make a bird lung? | doi.org/10.1098/rstb... | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | #ornithology 🪶
March 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
paleofox.bsky.social
Congratulations to PhD student Aracely Martinez! 🥳🫁 Learn about the lungs of Zebra Finches (open access) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
February 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
paleofox.bsky.social
Pleased to announce the publication of a special theme issue I co-edited with Dr. John Maina of the University of Johannesburg in Philosophical Transactions on avian respiratory biology!! There are three contributions from our team, and all are OA! 🥳 royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1920
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February 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
paleofox.bsky.social
So pleased that our team’s work made the cover of @journalofanatomy.bsky.social for January 2025! This project on African Grey Parrot air sacs and pneumaticity was led by my former PhD student Dr Adam B Lawson (now anatomy faculty at Tulane Med) 🥳🦜🦆🦅🦉#BirdAgenda
December 30, 2024 at 6:14 PM
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rorylcooper.bsky.social
🚨Hyped to share our new article in @natureportfolio.bsky.social! We show that crocodile head scales develop from compressive folding that arises from constrained skin growth 🐊🔬
Really proud of this one - it's cool 😎
Please read & share! 🧪
@genevunige.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Self-organized patterning of crocodile head scales by compressive folding - Nature
Crocodile head scales self-organize through purely mechanical compressive skin folding rather than a patterning process controlled by gene interactions.
www.nature.com
December 11, 2024 at 4:25 PM
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nytimes.com
The world’s oldest known wild bird, a 74-year-old Laysan albatross named Wisdom, is expected to welcome another baby chick in the coming months, astonishing scientists who have been tracking her since the Eisenhower administration. nyti.ms/4f7VadN
A photo of Wisdom, a 74-year-old Laysan albatross, looking at an egg at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge at the northwestern edge of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Headline reads: "World’s Oldest Known Wild Bird Lays an Egg at 74." Photo credit: Dan Rapp/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Associated Press.
December 7, 2024 at 3:31 AM
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skwinnicki.bsky.social
Happy Thanksgiving, US folks! It would make sense to share photos of Wild Turkeys but I haven’t taken any good ones recently

However, yesterday I did take a bunch of photos of a friendly Anhinga, also known as a Water Turkey, so here’s a thread of Anhinga facts and photos:

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Brown long-tailed and long-necked bird suns its silvery wings on a wooden post A long-necked bird emerges from the water with a large silver mullet fish impaled on its bill
November 28, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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corriemoreau.bsky.social
📣 📣 📣 Still lots of TT jobs being advertised: The 2024-2025 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ecoevojobs.net 2024-25
docs.google.com
November 26, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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jaimiagray.bsky.social
Do you love talking about tomography as much as I do? I made a starter pack full of people who use CT to do their science!! Let me know if you want to join in on the tomography talk! Other 3D imaging modalities also welcome ☢️🩻👩‍🔬
go.bsky.app/VjBpAAy
November 14, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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evoswami.bsky.social
New paper! For all of you working with 3d scans (e.g. micro-CT, MRI), check out SPROUT, a rapid open-source tool for generating segmented and parcellated data, meaning your scans are separated into the individual elements without any manual labelling or training. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Figure showing diverse datasets analysed with SPROUT, including a skink skeleton, aardvark skull, human heart, concrete block, and foraminifera.
November 24, 2024 at 1:09 PM
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stephanopteryx.bsky.social
Hi everyone who recently joined!! I'm Stephanie, a postdoctoral researcher at UF College of VetMed in @paleofox.bsky.social's lab. My main interests are birds and pterosaurs and their weird lungs, but I also do plenty of CT scanning for other projects. Digging up fossils is fun too. 🧪🪶⚒️
X-ray view of an American coot (Fulica americana) getting ready for a CT scan. Me excavating limb bones a dinosaur in Niger.
November 7, 2024 at 10:27 PM
paleofox.bsky.social
Extremely pleased to share our team’s latest #BirdAgenda work in Nature - we found that hawks and other soaring birds use their respiratory system to enhance their flight muscles: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The respiratory system influences flight mechanics in soaring birds - Nature
An investigation of the subpectoral diverticulum—an inflatable air sac structure between the major flight muscles—in 68 avian species reveals that the respiratory system has a role in the mechani...
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June 12, 2024 at 7:59 PM
paleofox.bsky.social
Interested in lung development? Come join the lab!
stephanopteryx.bsky.social Stephanie Baumgart, PhD 🦖🦆 @stephanopteryx.bsky.social · Jan 13
Come join the Schachner and Reznikov labs at UF Vet Med! Two wonderful PIs are tackling effects of climate change in bird lung development and are looking to mentor an awesome PhD Student interested in development and morphology! Please share! 🐦‍⬛🫁🧪🪶⚒️
@paleofox.bsky.social
Graduate Opportunity at UF Vet Med: on the impact of climate change on avian lung development. Work in both the Schachner and Reznikov labs. Project: 3D qualitative and quantitative imaging, morphometrics, and transcriptomics of lung development of the bronchial tree and air sacs in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia castanotis). Minimum requirements: BS in biology or a similar field. Preferred Qualifications: experience with R, some background in anatomy or development. Opportunity to take and TA Vet anatomy. Salary: $35k with benefits. Funding: College of Vet Med block grant awards. For info: contact Emma Schachner (eschachner@ufl.edu) or Leah Reznikov (leahreznikov@ufl.edu). www.theropoda.com. www.reznikovlab.com
January 13, 2024 at 2:37 AM
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fishguy.bsky.social
We have funding for a student in an art program to come to Friday Harbor Labs for the Spring quarter. Travel, room, board, and fees.

If you know #SciArt students let them know.

fridayharborlabs.wufoo.com/forms/x3puut...
October 23, 2023 at 4:20 PM