🚨 Palaeo jobs alert!! 🚨

Two(!!) postdoc positions available in Cambridge!

1. Human Evolutionary Anatomy: cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
2. Evolutionary Biomechanics: cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

As part of the @erc.europa.eu funded STEPS project!

Bonfire night is here! Sending love to those sheltering with animal companions

@wascherclaudia.bsky.social and I have new research out about the impacts fireworks have on urban corvids: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

And as video: youtu.be/dCfHEqJfx2A

#BonfireNight #birds #crows #urbanwildlife

🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity!

We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵

Researchers gave female canaries testosterone, which causes them to sing. Two-photon in vivo imaging reveals that songs emerge due to changes in brain cell function rather than by increasing the size of a key brain region, as was once thought. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/pn1750XhFL5

The songbird basal ganglia connectome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.25.684569v1

Neophobia compared in 1,439 birds of 136 species

Specialised diets and migration are associated with greater fear of new objects. Surprisingly, witnessing such objects in groups is also associated with greater fear.

(paper) journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
(blog) phys.org/news/2025-10...

🦇 Bat nasal bones (turbinals) reveal how form follows function. Echolocating bats have simpler, plate-like turbinals, while fruit-eating bats show complex, scrolled ones—especially Cynopterus sphinx & Artibeus jamaicensis.
King et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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.

We are asking working dogs to help by carrying loads & now @jamescharles90.bsky.social & co have discovered that burdened spaniels trot faster & stride farther, unlike shepherds and Labradors that slow down & are better suited to carry burdens in the long term
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

‼️📄 Two new papers out today in @jexpbiol.bsky.social lead by @jamescharles90.bsky.social, all about locomotion and load-carrying across different working dog breeds! ⤵️ 🐕 🏋️‍♂️

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Postdoc advertisement!

Hi all, I'm looking to hire a Postdoc in BIOACOUSTICS for work on Owls. Your job would be to collect & analyze bioacoustics data, and write papers. 🦉🦉🦅🐦🦜🦉🦉

🚨 Hiring! We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in computational fluid dynamics and structural simulations to investigate biomechanics and mechanosensory feedback in insect flight.

Extreme agility ✔️
Morphological computing ✔️
Meshes! ✔️

jobs.rvc.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Check out our new paper in @journalofanatomy.bsky.social!

🐇💀

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New article out:
The effects of sleep disturbance on a songbird’s vocal performance

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

#science #birds #sleep #birdsong #urbanecology

Harry Gill first PhD paper is out, applying @deeplabcut.bsky.social to dog gait analyses ... and it worked pretty well :)
You can access the paper here:
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lXNEcF2Ow...
@cbrassey.bsky.social

Review in #ProcB - After the fight: post-contest acoustic signalling #OpenAccess #Behaviour @andyradford.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Our new review on numerical cognition in birds, just out in Nature Reviews Psychology! 🐦🧠

Behavior, neurobiology & field studies across avian species

Very fond of the neurobiology part :)

📖 Read it here: rdcu.be/eyErI

The first papers from our special collection on vocal communication in corvids are now live. Most are still under review, stay tuned for more updates as they’re published! link.springer.com/collections/...

Nick Gladman @drnickgladman.bsky.social from our own @livevobiomech.bsky.social looked at how singing muscles age (and let me practice drawing birds!)

📣I’m hiring!
Two weeks to apply for an October start.
Start date is also flexible.
#PhD #Morphology #evolution

Are you interested in bat vocalizations and the neural circuits that give rise to their emission?🦇🎶🧠
We reviewed the recent literature on neural activity underlying echolocation and communication calls across multiple bat species in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences:
doi.org/10.1111/nyas...

Semi-autonomous tracking algorithms: in situ measurements of fiber lengths & orientation in #chicken #embryo.

Molnar‪ @crocodilejulia.bsky.social et al 2025 @anatrecord.bsky.social Quantifying #muscle architecture in embryos using diceCT and algorithmic fascicle tracking
doi.org/10.1002/ar.7...

Despite rabbits being common lab models, their vertebral muscles were never fully described. 54 muscles were mapped in wild rabbits & hares, revealing key differences from other mammals & proposing leporid-specific terminology
Taewcharoen et al: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

go.bsky.app/8zZNEGV

Great resource to connect early career folks with more senior scientists looking to hire postdocs! 🧪

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣

We are happy to announce the third JAB Review Award competition!

Submit your mini-review by 30 April 2026

Who: early career researchers up to 8 yrs after completition of doctorate

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