Professor Anjali Goswami FRS
@evoswami.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist, President @linneansociety.bluesky.social, practitioner of healthy coding-fieldwork balance, human and dog mom, she/her, On-juhlee, not On-jolly
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It's #DINOvember! Danny Go is all the rage here. Doing his Dino Dance with this fantastic nonfiction title makes for a super engaging day in prek! buff.ly/0QEby7t @evoswami.bsky.social
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November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's #DINOvember! Danny Go is all the rage here. Doing his Dino Dance with this fantastic nonfiction title makes for a super engaging day in prek! buff.ly/0QEby7t @evoswami.bsky.social
#TLSky
#Skybrarians
#SchoolLibraries
#TLSky
#Skybrarians
#SchoolLibraries
New paper alert! Worked with an incredible group of scientists across fields on this vision for much needed investment in Indian natural history collections:
Linking eras and data: natural history collections as the foundation of India’s biodiversity science url: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...
Linking eras and data: natural history collections as the foundation of India’s biodiversity science url: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...
Linking eras and data: natural history collections as the foundation of India’s biodiversity science
Abstract. India, one of the world’s most biodiverse countries and now the most populous, stands at a critical intersection of ecological wealth and intense
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November 5, 2025 at 6:17 AM
New paper alert! Worked with an incredible group of scientists across fields on this vision for much needed investment in Indian natural history collections:
Linking eras and data: natural history collections as the foundation of India’s biodiversity science url: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...
Linking eras and data: natural history collections as the foundation of India’s biodiversity science url: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...
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We were delighted that our Chief Scientist Dave Stone was invited to take part in a Parliamentary Roundtable exploring the latest science on climate & nature.
The roundtable was chaired by @evoswami.bsky.social Defra Chief Scientific Adviser & hosted by Minister @marycreagh.bsky.social
The roundtable was chaired by @evoswami.bsky.social Defra Chief Scientific Adviser & hosted by Minister @marycreagh.bsky.social
July 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
We were delighted that our Chief Scientist Dave Stone was invited to take part in a Parliamentary Roundtable exploring the latest science on climate & nature.
The roundtable was chaired by @evoswami.bsky.social Defra Chief Scientific Adviser & hosted by Minister @marycreagh.bsky.social
The roundtable was chaired by @evoswami.bsky.social Defra Chief Scientific Adviser & hosted by Minister @marycreagh.bsky.social
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Fun! @evoswami.bsky.social is quoted from the interview on @sciam.bsky.social by @katewong.bsky.social on "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me" from @npr.org! (min 34:50)
www.npr.org/2025/05/24/1...
www.npr.org/2025/05/24/1...
Ego Nwodim talks Poker Face and how to get an SNL crowd to swear in unison : Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
This week, special guest Ego Nwodim joins panelists Tom Papa, Dulceé Sloan, and Hari Kondabolu
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May 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Fun! @evoswami.bsky.social is quoted from the interview on @sciam.bsky.social by @katewong.bsky.social on "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me" from @npr.org! (min 34:50)
www.npr.org/2025/05/24/1...
www.npr.org/2025/05/24/1...
Can’t believe this interview made it onto Wait, wait. Also can’t believe that my half awake tweet from several years ago (though I stand by it) has gotten this much attention. Definitely regretting using the phrase “yeah, they suck” to describe all other animals…
Fun! @evoswami.bsky.social is quoted from the interview on @sciam.bsky.social by @katewong.bsky.social on "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me" from @npr.org! (min 34:50)
www.npr.org/2025/05/24/1...
www.npr.org/2025/05/24/1...
Ego Nwodim talks Poker Face and how to get an SNL crowd to swear in unison : Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
This week, special guest Ego Nwodim joins panelists Tom Papa, Dulceé Sloan, and Hari Kondabolu
www.npr.org
May 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Can’t believe this interview made it onto Wait, wait. Also can’t believe that my half awake tweet from several years ago (though I stand by it) has gotten this much attention. Definitely regretting using the phrase “yeah, they suck” to describe all other animals…
Love that this interview is making people laugh! Of course as a scientist, I don’t think perfection is a biologically realistic concept, but, if it were, surely cats are our best example of it. Not least because cats couldn’t care less if we think they are perfect or not & I worship them for it!
This is the funniest science writeup I've seen in a long time. It's about why cats are so perfectly evolved 🧪
Apparently lots of other animals have "tried to be cats" and the fact that other species have so much more variation is "because they suck" 😆
www.scientificamerican.com/article/cats...
Apparently lots of other animals have "tried to be cats" and the fact that other species have so much more variation is "because they suck" 😆
www.scientificamerican.com/article/cats...
May 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Love that this interview is making people laugh! Of course as a scientist, I don’t think perfection is a biologically realistic concept, but, if it were, surely cats are our best example of it. Not least because cats couldn’t care less if we think they are perfect or not & I worship them for it!
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“Cats have nailed one thing so well that they all do it and just come up with slightly different sizes. They're not jacks-of-all-trades; they're masters of one.”
Evolutionary biologist @evoswami.bsky.social explains why 🐈⬛ 🐈 are perfect evolutionarily:
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Evolutionary biologist @evoswami.bsky.social explains why 🐈⬛ 🐈 are perfect evolutionarily:
buff.ly/qMc1Ql6
May 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
“Cats have nailed one thing so well that they all do it and just come up with slightly different sizes. They're not jacks-of-all-trades; they're masters of one.”
Evolutionary biologist @evoswami.bsky.social explains why 🐈⬛ 🐈 are perfect evolutionarily:
buff.ly/qMc1Ql6
Evolutionary biologist @evoswami.bsky.social explains why 🐈⬛ 🐈 are perfect evolutionarily:
buff.ly/qMc1Ql6
One fine day in the Los Alamitos Formation!
May 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
One fine day in the Los Alamitos Formation!
Hello from Patagonia and Patagotitan!
May 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Hello from Patagonia and Patagotitan!
From balmy Brazil to a much chillier Patagonia…
May 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
From balmy Brazil to a much chillier Patagonia…
Catching up with our Triassic kin in Porto Alegre
May 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Catching up with our Triassic kin in Porto Alegre
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Thrilled to share my second PhD paper with @tomezard.bsky.social & @evoswami.bsky.social focused on the application of landmark-free geometric morphometrics! 🎉 Excited to contribute to advancing shape analysis techniques in biology. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1186/s128...
Assessing the application of landmark-free morphometrics to macroevolutionary analyses - BMC Ecology and Evolution
The study of phenotypic evolution has been transformed in recent decades by methods allowing precise quantification of anatomical shape, in particular 3D geometric morphometrics. While this effectiven...
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April 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Thrilled to share my second PhD paper with @tomezard.bsky.social & @evoswami.bsky.social focused on the application of landmark-free geometric morphometrics! 🎉 Excited to contribute to advancing shape analysis techniques in biology. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1186/s128...
I absolutely love that this new article about my appointment as DEFRA chief science adviser managed to squeeze in my obsession with Zelda! 🧝♀️🗡️🎮
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#globalindian #anjaligoswami #womeninstem #scienceforchange… | Global Indian
What started with a childhood tiger sighting in India has now led her to the UK govt as Chief Scientific Adviser at Defra. From decoding the past to guiding climate action, she’s bringing deep-time th...
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April 24, 2025 at 6:57 AM
I absolutely love that this new article about my appointment as DEFRA chief science adviser managed to squeeze in my obsession with Zelda! 🧝♀️🗡️🎮
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Come join us @linneansociety.bsky.social Monday, April 7 at 6pm for a fascinating talk by world-renowned tiger expert Prof Uma Ramakrishnan from @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social as she tells us about how cutting-edge genomics is helping to save wild tigers in India!
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How Genetics Explain Tigers and Secure Their Future
How cutting edge genomics is being applied to one of the most charismatic carnivores on earth.
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April 4, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Come join us @linneansociety.bsky.social Monday, April 7 at 6pm for a fascinating talk by world-renowned tiger expert Prof Uma Ramakrishnan from @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social as she tells us about how cutting-edge genomics is helping to save wild tigers in India!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-geneti...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-geneti...
My single favourite wildlife photo from our trip to Galápagos has to be this marine iguana sneezing out salt - such an elegant and glamorous adaptation to their unusual lifestyle!
March 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
My single favourite wildlife photo from our trip to Galápagos has to be this marine iguana sneezing out salt - such an elegant and glamorous adaptation to their unusual lifestyle!
I had the immense privilege to visit the Galápagos Islands last summer and see thousands of marine and land iguanas up close, even swimming with some and watching them feed underwater.
March 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I had the immense privilege to visit the Galápagos Islands last summer and see thousands of marine and land iguanas up close, even swimming with some and watching them feed underwater.
We’re micro-CT scanning iguanas today to better understand the evolution of the incredible adaptations of the Galapagos marine iguanas. Some of the specimens in our collection were collected by Darwin himself! 150 years later, they are still contributing new knowledge about the natural world.
March 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
We’re micro-CT scanning iguanas today to better understand the evolution of the incredible adaptations of the Galapagos marine iguanas. Some of the specimens in our collection were collected by Darwin himself! 150 years later, they are still contributing new knowledge about the natural world.
So excited to see this paper finally out! Part of the Paleobiology 50th anniversary issue, we cover the history of the field, morphometrics, morphospaces, new approaches to evolutionary models & disparity, incorporating climate, the importance of fossils & more. Check it out! doi.org/10.1017/pab....
Morphological evolution in a time of phenomics | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Morphological evolution in a time of phenomics
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March 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
So excited to see this paper finally out! Part of the Paleobiology 50th anniversary issue, we cover the history of the field, morphometrics, morphospaces, new approaches to evolutionary models & disparity, incorporating climate, the importance of fossils & more. Check it out! doi.org/10.1017/pab....
Fantastic thread pulling the very standard, well-established mouse science out from behind the PR curtain of mammoth de-extinction.
Once upon a time, in the late 1800s, people in Japan got really into breeding mice.
Coloured mice. Patterned mice. Even mice that danced.
They became known as Japanese Fancy Mice, and that caught the attention of researchers in Europe and America, who imported them for study.
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Coloured mice. Patterned mice. Even mice that danced.
They became known as Japanese Fancy Mice, and that caught the attention of researchers in Europe and America, who imported them for study.
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March 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Fantastic thread pulling the very standard, well-established mouse science out from behind the PR curtain of mammoth de-extinction.
How is my 8yo already cooler than I ever will be?
February 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
How is my 8yo already cooler than I ever will be?
Brussels sure has some pretty impressive climbing gyms
February 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Brussels sure has some pretty impressive climbing gyms
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Congratulations to @jimalkhalili.bsky.social for receiving the #DarwinDayLecture Medal! @evoswami.bsky.social awarded Jim for 'Transforming our understanding of unusual atomic nuclei with groundbreaking theoretical models, shedding light on the complex structures of matter...'
February 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Congratulations to @jimalkhalili.bsky.social for receiving the #DarwinDayLecture Medal! @evoswami.bsky.social awarded Jim for 'Transforming our understanding of unusual atomic nuclei with groundbreaking theoretical models, shedding light on the complex structures of matter...'
Does anyone know how to abbreviate Uhlenbeck to 5 letters for today’s @nytimes.com mini crossword?
#nerdjokes
#nerdjokes
February 7, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Does anyone know how to abbreviate Uhlenbeck to 5 letters for today’s @nytimes.com mini crossword?
#nerdjokes
#nerdjokes
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This Friday evening, join @jimalkhalili.bsky.social and
@evoswami.bsky.social for the #DarwinDayLecture 2025, on the 700-million-year story of the human brain – the most remarkable and mysterious object in the cosmos! humanists.uk/events/darwi...
@evoswami.bsky.social for the #DarwinDayLecture 2025, on the 700-million-year story of the human brain – the most remarkable and mysterious object in the cosmos! humanists.uk/events/darwi...
The story of the human brain, with Jim Al-Khalili | The Darwin Day Lecture 2025
humanists.uk
February 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This Friday evening, join @jimalkhalili.bsky.social and
@evoswami.bsky.social for the #DarwinDayLecture 2025, on the 700-million-year story of the human brain – the most remarkable and mysterious object in the cosmos! humanists.uk/events/darwi...
@evoswami.bsky.social for the #DarwinDayLecture 2025, on the 700-million-year story of the human brain – the most remarkable and mysterious object in the cosmos! humanists.uk/events/darwi...