Pauline Provini
@paulineprovini.bsky.social
#WomeninSTEM working @mecadev.bsky.social @mnhn.fr, exploring functional #morphology and #biomechanics of birds🐥🦖
Interested in #locomotion 🐧🦅🐤 #birdsong 🎶🐦, #feeding 🦆
Curator of the MNHN digital collection, in charge of @e-colplus.bsky.social
She/Her
Interested in #locomotion 🐧🦅🐤 #birdsong 🎶🐦, #feeding 🦆
Curator of the MNHN digital collection, in charge of @e-colplus.bsky.social
She/Her
Reposted by Pauline Provini
Aide à la #numérisation3D pour #e-COL+
L’équipe Consult.O. (T. Oudoire, H. Bordet) a numérisé plus de 100 types d’ammonites des #collections de l’UCBL (tinyurl.com/ystcv6s2), avec le soutien du labo Biogéosciences (UBE CNRS EPHE), merci Emmanuel Fara !
🙏 Merci Nicolas Rinder pour la formation !
L’équipe Consult.O. (T. Oudoire, H. Bordet) a numérisé plus de 100 types d’ammonites des #collections de l’UCBL (tinyurl.com/ystcv6s2), avec le soutien du labo Biogéosciences (UBE CNRS EPHE), merci Emmanuel Fara !
🙏 Merci Nicolas Rinder pour la formation !
November 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Aide à la #numérisation3D pour #e-COL+
L’équipe Consult.O. (T. Oudoire, H. Bordet) a numérisé plus de 100 types d’ammonites des #collections de l’UCBL (tinyurl.com/ystcv6s2), avec le soutien du labo Biogéosciences (UBE CNRS EPHE), merci Emmanuel Fara !
🙏 Merci Nicolas Rinder pour la formation !
L’équipe Consult.O. (T. Oudoire, H. Bordet) a numérisé plus de 100 types d’ammonites des #collections de l’UCBL (tinyurl.com/ystcv6s2), avec le soutien du labo Biogéosciences (UBE CNRS EPHE), merci Emmanuel Fara !
🙏 Merci Nicolas Rinder pour la formation !
Reposted by Pauline Provini
I'll also be looking to recruit an MS student to study the functional morphology and biomechanics of adhesion, friction, and/or locomotion in sea urchins, geckos, or anoles! Please share! @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social @sicb.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I'll also be looking to recruit an MS student to study the functional morphology and biomechanics of adhesion, friction, and/or locomotion in sea urchins, geckos, or anoles! Please share! @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social @sicb.bsky.social
Reposted by Pauline Provini
🚨 FINAL DEADLINE: 31 October 2025 🚨
Nominate now for the SEB Plenary Lecture Award to be presented at SEB 2026 in Florence 🇮🇹
Recognising exceptional contributions in experimental biology.
Don’t miss out:
www.sebiology.org/grants/award-listing/seb-plenary-lecture-award.html
Nominate now for the SEB Plenary Lecture Award to be presented at SEB 2026 in Florence 🇮🇹
Recognising exceptional contributions in experimental biology.
Don’t miss out:
www.sebiology.org/grants/award-listing/seb-plenary-lecture-award.html
October 28, 2025 at 9:45 AM
🚨 FINAL DEADLINE: 31 October 2025 🚨
Nominate now for the SEB Plenary Lecture Award to be presented at SEB 2026 in Florence 🇮🇹
Recognising exceptional contributions in experimental biology.
Don’t miss out:
www.sebiology.org/grants/award-listing/seb-plenary-lecture-award.html
Nominate now for the SEB Plenary Lecture Award to be presented at SEB 2026 in Florence 🇮🇹
Recognising exceptional contributions in experimental biology.
Don’t miss out:
www.sebiology.org/grants/award-listing/seb-plenary-lecture-award.html
Reposted by Pauline Provini
"#Biodiversité & #IA" de l’INEE @cnrsecologie.bsky.social a réuni +190 personnes pour explorer les apports de l’IA à la recherche sur la biodiversité.
Le projet #eCOL+ était bien représenté
🎤 R. Vignes-Lebbe – IA & Texte
🎤 N. Navarro – IA & Image
🧠 C. Guillaumot – Deep Learning et landmarks 3D
Le projet #eCOL+ était bien représenté
🎤 R. Vignes-Lebbe – IA & Texte
🎤 N. Navarro – IA & Image
🧠 C. Guillaumot – Deep Learning et landmarks 3D
October 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
"#Biodiversité & #IA" de l’INEE @cnrsecologie.bsky.social a réuni +190 personnes pour explorer les apports de l’IA à la recherche sur la biodiversité.
Le projet #eCOL+ était bien représenté
🎤 R. Vignes-Lebbe – IA & Texte
🎤 N. Navarro – IA & Image
🧠 C. Guillaumot – Deep Learning et landmarks 3D
Le projet #eCOL+ était bien représenté
🎤 R. Vignes-Lebbe – IA & Texte
🎤 N. Navarro – IA & Image
🧠 C. Guillaumot – Deep Learning et landmarks 3D
Reposted by Pauline Provini
Nice paper showing a major effect of wing morphology on diptera flight by Camille Le Roy, Florian Muijres and collegues!
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
October 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Nice paper showing a major effect of wing morphology on diptera flight by Camille Le Roy, Florian Muijres and collegues!
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Reposted by Pauline Provini
My friend Todd’s paper on cassowary casques was published in @amornith.bsky.social’s journal Ornithology, “Species-specific casque shapes in the genus Casuarius and implications for visual display.” He had me do the scientific illustrations for the paper 😊
academic.oup.com/auk/advance-...
academic.oup.com/auk/advance-...
October 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
My friend Todd’s paper on cassowary casques was published in @amornith.bsky.social’s journal Ornithology, “Species-specific casque shapes in the genus Casuarius and implications for visual display.” He had me do the scientific illustrations for the paper 😊
academic.oup.com/auk/advance-...
academic.oup.com/auk/advance-...
Reposted by Pauline Provini
🏅 Nominations are still open for the SEB awards!
President’s Medals – celebrating outstanding young scientists:
sebiology.org/grants/award...
Deadline: 24/10/2025
Plenary Lectures - Apply now:
sebiology.org/grants/award...
Deadline: 31/10/2025
President’s Medals – celebrating outstanding young scientists:
sebiology.org/grants/award...
Deadline: 24/10/2025
Plenary Lectures - Apply now:
sebiology.org/grants/award...
Deadline: 31/10/2025
October 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
🏅 Nominations are still open for the SEB awards!
President’s Medals – celebrating outstanding young scientists:
sebiology.org/grants/award...
Deadline: 24/10/2025
Plenary Lectures - Apply now:
sebiology.org/grants/award...
Deadline: 31/10/2025
President’s Medals – celebrating outstanding young scientists:
sebiology.org/grants/award...
Deadline: 24/10/2025
Plenary Lectures - Apply now:
sebiology.org/grants/award...
Deadline: 31/10/2025
Reposted by Pauline Provini
Fish suck... but species that feed on algae suck differently! 🐟 A new publication in Communications Biology by #UAFunMorph members Jana De Ridder, Peter Aerts, and Sam Van Wassenbergh, demonstrates how head motion patterns for generating suction are finetuned to the species' main diets.
October 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Fish suck... but species that feed on algae suck differently! 🐟 A new publication in Communications Biology by #UAFunMorph members Jana De Ridder, Peter Aerts, and Sam Van Wassenbergh, demonstrates how head motion patterns for generating suction are finetuned to the species' main diets.
Reposted by Pauline Provini
Nouveau livre d'Emmanuelle Pouydebat #MECADEV illustré par Arnaud Rafaelian : Les oiseaux se cachent-ils pour mourir ? publié chez Delachaux & Niestlé !!
September 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Nouveau livre d'Emmanuelle Pouydebat #MECADEV illustré par Arnaud Rafaelian : Les oiseaux se cachent-ils pour mourir ? publié chez Delachaux & Niestlé !!
Reposted by Pauline Provini
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
October 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
Reposted by Pauline Provini
Thrilled to share this paper to which I contributed as a 2nd author! 🎉
We found that providing a diggable substrate positively affects the behavior of naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber) in captivity 🐀
Read in Scientific Reports:
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📄
#AnimalBehavior #AnimalWelfare
We found that providing a diggable substrate positively affects the behavior of naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber) in captivity 🐀
Read in Scientific Reports:
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📄
#AnimalBehavior #AnimalWelfare
Positive effect of a diggable substrate on the behaviour of a captive naked mole rat colony - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Positive effect of a diggable substrate on the behaviour of a captive naked mole rat colony
www.nature.com
November 21, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Thrilled to share this paper to which I contributed as a 2nd author! 🎉
We found that providing a diggable substrate positively affects the behavior of naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber) in captivity 🐀
Read in Scientific Reports:
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📄
#AnimalBehavior #AnimalWelfare
We found that providing a diggable substrate positively affects the behavior of naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber) in captivity 🐀
Read in Scientific Reports:
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📄
#AnimalBehavior #AnimalWelfare
Congrats Myriam Amari and Emmanuelle Pouydebat @mecadev.bsky.social !
Details about the previous study led by Myriam Amari and Emmanuelle Pouydebat and with other #MECADEV and
@mnhn.fr members, which could help to improve the welfare of naked mole rats in captivity.
@mnhn.fr members, which could help to improve the welfare of naked mole rats in captivity.
Hi everyone, let's DIG a new topic today. Almost a year ago, we published the results of our study on the enriching opportunity to dig for naked mole rats.
Here is a video for you to see the underGROUND of this affair...
Part #1
#scicomm #animalbehaviour #animals
Here is a video for you to see the underGROUND of this affair...
Part #1
#scicomm #animalbehaviour #animals
September 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Congrats Myriam Amari and Emmanuelle Pouydebat @mecadev.bsky.social !
If you missed it (as I did!), check out @jexpbiol.bsky.social special issue:
"Integrating Biomechanics, Energetics, and Ecology Perspectives in Locomotion"
17 commentaries and review papers that break down the traditional boundaries between these fields.
journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...
"Integrating Biomechanics, Energetics, and Ecology Perspectives in Locomotion"
17 commentaries and review papers that break down the traditional boundaries between these fields.
journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...
Volume 228 Issue Suppl_1 | Journal of Experimental Biology | The Company of Biologists
journals.biologists.com
September 20, 2025 at 7:42 AM
If you missed it (as I did!), check out @jexpbiol.bsky.social special issue:
"Integrating Biomechanics, Energetics, and Ecology Perspectives in Locomotion"
17 commentaries and review papers that break down the traditional boundaries between these fields.
journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...
"Integrating Biomechanics, Energetics, and Ecology Perspectives in Locomotion"
17 commentaries and review papers that break down the traditional boundaries between these fields.
journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...
Reposted by Pauline Provini
Call for Session Proposals – SEB #Conference 2026
We invite you to propose a session for our Conference in Florence 7–9 July 2026, themed Resilience.
📌 Submission deadline: 1 October 2025.
📍More information :
www.sebiology.org/events/propose-a-session-or-event/session-proposal-form.html
We invite you to propose a session for our Conference in Florence 7–9 July 2026, themed Resilience.
📌 Submission deadline: 1 October 2025.
📍More information :
www.sebiology.org/events/propose-a-session-or-event/session-proposal-form.html
September 19, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Call for Session Proposals – SEB #Conference 2026
We invite you to propose a session for our Conference in Florence 7–9 July 2026, themed Resilience.
📌 Submission deadline: 1 October 2025.
📍More information :
www.sebiology.org/events/propose-a-session-or-event/session-proposal-form.html
We invite you to propose a session for our Conference in Florence 7–9 July 2026, themed Resilience.
📌 Submission deadline: 1 October 2025.
📍More information :
www.sebiology.org/events/propose-a-session-or-event/session-proposal-form.html
Reposted by Pauline Provini
Are you tired of people constantly overestimating body size of marine reptiles? No longer!
We provide equations to estimate body size in ichthyosaurians, mosasaurids, and thalattosuchians.
1/4
We provide equations to estimate body size in ichthyosaurians, mosasaurids, and thalattosuchians.
1/4
September 17, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Are you tired of people constantly overestimating body size of marine reptiles? No longer!
We provide equations to estimate body size in ichthyosaurians, mosasaurids, and thalattosuchians.
1/4
We provide equations to estimate body size in ichthyosaurians, mosasaurids, and thalattosuchians.
1/4
Reposted by Pauline Provini
Is your red the same as my red?
September 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Is your red the same as my red?
Reposted by Pauline Provini
Our website www.ecolplus.fr has a brand-new look ✨
Discover:
- the #digitization of French natural history #collections
- the equipment available
- our partner institutions
- a dedicated page for the latest news
👉 And it’s now available in English too!
Discover:
- the #digitization of French natural history #collections
- the equipment available
- our partner institutions
- a dedicated page for the latest news
👉 And it’s now available in English too!
e-COL+ Numérisation 3D des collections naturalistes.
Projet e-COL+ Numérisation 3D des collections naturalistes a bénéficié d'une aide de l’État PIA3-ANR-21-ESRE-0053
www.ecolplus.fr
September 3, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Our website www.ecolplus.fr has a brand-new look ✨
Discover:
- the #digitization of French natural history #collections
- the equipment available
- our partner institutions
- a dedicated page for the latest news
👉 And it’s now available in English too!
Discover:
- the #digitization of French natural history #collections
- the equipment available
- our partner institutions
- a dedicated page for the latest news
👉 And it’s now available in English too!
Reposted by Pauline Provini
Super nice study by @titouanbouinier.bsky.social on niche partitioning in Morpho butterflies!
Oikos - Wiley Online Library nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Oikos - Wiley Online Library nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Vertical and temporal niche partitioning in Amazonian butterflies: implications for the evolution of thermal tolerance
Closely related species living in sympatry are often partitioned into divergent ecological niches. Such specialization can be enabled by the evolution of divergent traits enhancing adaptation to diff...
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Super nice study by @titouanbouinier.bsky.social on niche partitioning in Morpho butterflies!
Oikos - Wiley Online Library nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Oikos - Wiley Online Library nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
This excellent 3-minute video shows the evolution of a species of lizard playing rock/paper/scissors over the last 15 million years!
youtu.be/rafdHxBwIbQ?...
youtu.be/rafdHxBwIbQ?...
These Lizards Have Been Playing Rock-Paper-Scissors for 15 Million Years | Deep Look
YouTube video by Deep Look
youtu.be
August 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
This excellent 3-minute video shows the evolution of a species of lizard playing rock/paper/scissors over the last 15 million years!
youtu.be/rafdHxBwIbQ?...
youtu.be/rafdHxBwIbQ?...
Reposted by Pauline Provini
Le @mnhn.fr a organisé les #Journées3D.
2 jours pour discuter des données issues de la numérisation 3D des spécimens naturalistes :
- pour la #recherche
- pour les #collections naturalistes
- pour la gestion de ces données
Retrouver l'intégralité des présentations ici :
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
2 jours pour discuter des données issues de la numérisation 3D des spécimens naturalistes :
- pour la #recherche
- pour les #collections naturalistes
- pour la gestion de ces données
Retrouver l'intégralité des présentations ici :
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
JOURNEE 3D Produire, analyser, gérer et diffuser les données 3D dans les sciences naturelles : de la conservation des collection naturalistes aux beso - YouTube
Auditorium de la Grande Galerie de l'Evolution, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle – les 29 et 30/01/2025
youtube.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Le @mnhn.fr a organisé les #Journées3D.
2 jours pour discuter des données issues de la numérisation 3D des spécimens naturalistes :
- pour la #recherche
- pour les #collections naturalistes
- pour la gestion de ces données
Retrouver l'intégralité des présentations ici :
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
2 jours pour discuter des données issues de la numérisation 3D des spécimens naturalistes :
- pour la #recherche
- pour les #collections naturalistes
- pour la gestion de ces données
Retrouver l'intégralité des présentations ici :
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Reposted by Pauline Provini
New #GRAVIBONE paper from @camillebader.bsky.social with Rémy Gilardet, Nicolas Rinder, @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social & @toriherridge.bsky.social on the long bone microanatomy of elephants. Well done Camille :)
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
August 7, 2025 at 8:17 AM
New #GRAVIBONE paper from @camillebader.bsky.social with Rémy Gilardet, Nicolas Rinder, @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social & @toriherridge.bsky.social on the long bone microanatomy of elephants. Well done Camille :)
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
Reposted by Pauline Provini
Quick introduction
August 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Quick introduction
Reposted by Pauline Provini
Yoshinobu Inada on how diving birds mitigate the forces of entering the water at high speed. Not shown here: an awesome catapult system for firing physical models at high speeds!
August 1, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Yoshinobu Inada on how diving birds mitigate the forces of entering the water at high speed. Not shown here: an awesome catapult system for firing physical models at high speeds!
Reposted by Pauline Provini
Danial Forouhar (from @dadriaens.bsky.social lab) had amazing 3D images of the muscluoskeletal system of seahorse tails, which opened lots of exciting questions about how these body muscles actuate tail prehension.
August 1, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Danial Forouhar (from @dadriaens.bsky.social lab) had amazing 3D images of the muscluoskeletal system of seahorse tails, which opened lots of exciting questions about how these body muscles actuate tail prehension.
Reposted by Pauline Provini
Estelle Klein @estelle-kl.bsky.social is studying how the digging mechanisms of moles can be understood and simplified for biomimetic applications
August 1, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Estelle Klein @estelle-kl.bsky.social is studying how the digging mechanisms of moles can be understood and simplified for biomimetic applications