Hannah Oliver 🐒
@hannah-ollies.bsky.social
PhD Student in Biological Anthropology
Interested in non-human primate skeletal variation
Interested in non-human primate skeletal variation
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Which animals do you co-construct behaviours with? Read our new paper and get inspired! @anthrofuentes.bsky.social Thank you to @carlsbergfondet.dk, @aiasdk.bsky.social and the John F. Templeton Foundation
Great new paper by @mfhansen.bsky.social and Agustin Fuentes on human-macaque co-existence link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Human-macaque Co-construction of Behaviours: Sharing Spaces, Sharing Food, Sharing Lives - International Journal of Primatology
Humans and other-than-human-animals (animals) share spaces, food, and lives. This gives rise to possibilities of interspecific learning, social facilitation and interspecific communication, and the po...
link.springer.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Which animals do you co-construct behaviours with? Read our new paper and get inspired! @anthrofuentes.bsky.social Thank you to @carlsbergfondet.dk, @aiasdk.bsky.social and the John F. Templeton Foundation
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#NewBook alert: A Visual Atlas of Skeletal Growth and Development by Kyra Stull & Heather Garvin. Just look at the number of ages in this image!
www.amazon.com/Visual-Atlas...
#BiologicalAnthropology #Paleoanthropology #ForensicAnthropology #Bioarchaeology #GrowthAndDevelopment #TeamPelvis
www.amazon.com/Visual-Atlas...
#BiologicalAnthropology #Paleoanthropology #ForensicAnthropology #Bioarchaeology #GrowthAndDevelopment #TeamPelvis
September 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
#NewBook alert: A Visual Atlas of Skeletal Growth and Development by Kyra Stull & Heather Garvin. Just look at the number of ages in this image!
www.amazon.com/Visual-Atlas...
#BiologicalAnthropology #Paleoanthropology #ForensicAnthropology #Bioarchaeology #GrowthAndDevelopment #TeamPelvis
www.amazon.com/Visual-Atlas...
#BiologicalAnthropology #Paleoanthropology #ForensicAnthropology #Bioarchaeology #GrowthAndDevelopment #TeamPelvis
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Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.
August 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.
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PhD-level, y'all.
Just in case there was any doubt, ChatGPT 5.0 still makes up completely random citations that don't exist and should not be used for literature search.
August 16, 2025 at 7:03 AM
PhD-level, y'all.
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The skull according to ChatGPT: Mandible mandible mandible!
August 15, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The skull according to ChatGPT: Mandible mandible mandible!
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Yesterday I discovered that ChatGPT's PhD-level expertise didn't extend to bird anatomy. This morning I thought, perhaps I was being too hard on the half-trillion-dollar company. Birds are a little weird, anatomically speaking. Let's try something more familiar. A mammal. Behold.
August 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Yesterday I discovered that ChatGPT's PhD-level expertise didn't extend to bird anatomy. This morning I thought, perhaps I was being too hard on the half-trillion-dollar company. Birds are a little weird, anatomically speaking. Let's try something more familiar. A mammal. Behold.
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The team of Ph.D. level experts in ChatGPT apparently doesn't include any anatomists.
August 13, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The team of Ph.D. level experts in ChatGPT apparently doesn't include any anatomists.
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Testing the movement for the Shark Cranial Kinesis model. Think this is pretty close?
Shark/marine/anatomy people, I'd love your feedback! Intended for outreach for "general public". In the final version the parts will each be a different color.
#SciArt #SciComm #SharkWeek
Shark/marine/anatomy people, I'd love your feedback! Intended for outreach for "general public". In the final version the parts will each be a different color.
#SciArt #SciComm #SharkWeek
July 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Testing the movement for the Shark Cranial Kinesis model. Think this is pretty close?
Shark/marine/anatomy people, I'd love your feedback! Intended for outreach for "general public". In the final version the parts will each be a different color.
#SciArt #SciComm #SharkWeek
Shark/marine/anatomy people, I'd love your feedback! Intended for outreach for "general public". In the final version the parts will each be a different color.
#SciArt #SciComm #SharkWeek
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Climbing into my #ColorsOfSkullAnatomy collection: a veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) 🦎 this large male was getting up there in age when he was collected, as shown by his worn down teeth and bone pathologies.
Find the model here:
www.graysvertebrateanatomy.com/veiled-chame...
Find the model here:
www.graysvertebrateanatomy.com/veiled-chame...
August 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Climbing into my #ColorsOfSkullAnatomy collection: a veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) 🦎 this large male was getting up there in age when he was collected, as shown by his worn down teeth and bone pathologies.
Find the model here:
www.graysvertebrateanatomy.com/veiled-chame...
Find the model here:
www.graysvertebrateanatomy.com/veiled-chame...
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New paper by Guilherme Hermanson & me out: we explore ontogenetic shell shape change in turtles to check if there is a size threshold at which turtles reach adult shapes. This started for a different (in prep) study & was a fun little project w preliminary data
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
PG-18: turtles reach adult shell shapes at about 65% maximum carapace length - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology
Ontogenetic shell shape changes of turtles are often only documented for individual species. It is currently unclear how shell shape changes during ontogeny across species, if there are common trends,...
link.springer.com
August 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
New paper by Guilherme Hermanson & me out: we explore ontogenetic shell shape change in turtles to check if there is a size threshold at which turtles reach adult shapes. This started for a different (in prep) study & was a fun little project w preliminary data
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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July 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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With many postdoc grants like the NSF PRFB, Ford Fellowship, and Hanna H. Gray fellowships disappearing, I am currently looking for grants that could fund incoming postdoctoral scholars. Here is a thread of some of them 🧵
July 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
With many postdoc grants like the NSF PRFB, Ford Fellowship, and Hanna H. Gray fellowships disappearing, I am currently looking for grants that could fund incoming postdoctoral scholars. Here is a thread of some of them 🧵
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After 11 months in review, grateful to learn that my NSF proposal examining the ecomorphology and evolution of mammalian skull dimorphism was awarded!
Stay tuned for research on intraspecific effects on maroevolution and more undergrad-led projects! @uwbiology.bsky.social
Stay tuned for research on intraspecific effects on maroevolution and more undergrad-led projects! @uwbiology.bsky.social
July 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
After 11 months in review, grateful to learn that my NSF proposal examining the ecomorphology and evolution of mammalian skull dimorphism was awarded!
Stay tuned for research on intraspecific effects on maroevolution and more undergrad-led projects! @uwbiology.bsky.social
Stay tuned for research on intraspecific effects on maroevolution and more undergrad-led projects! @uwbiology.bsky.social
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cemas.osu.edu/news/2025/07... our work featured in Ohio State’s On Campus Newsletter
MicroCT for bone density discoveries
Professor Habiba Chirchir uses CEMAS' Heliscan to get a closer look at mammal and primate bones
cemas.osu.edu
July 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
cemas.osu.edu/news/2025/07... our work featured in Ohio State’s On Campus Newsletter
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Dragon Man was a Denisovan! DNA and proteins both confirm it, giving this mysterious human lineage a face at long last. Here’s my story. [Gift link] nyti.ms/44nQq1i
June 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Dragon Man was a Denisovan! DNA and proteins both confirm it, giving this mysterious human lineage a face at long last. Here’s my story. [Gift link] nyti.ms/44nQq1i
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🚨New publication alert!🚨 A big one! It might just be my *biggest* one: doi.org/10.1093/iob/... IMPORTANT THREAD! From the moment Dave Blackburn set me loose at the Florida Museum, I had a marvelous time using diffusible iodine-based contrast-enhanced CT (diceCT) to create anatomical datasets 🧪1/6
April 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
🚨New publication alert!🚨 A big one! It might just be my *biggest* one: doi.org/10.1093/iob/... IMPORTANT THREAD! From the moment Dave Blackburn set me loose at the Florida Museum, I had a marvelous time using diffusible iodine-based contrast-enhanced CT (diceCT) to create anatomical datasets 🧪1/6
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That's my lab! I'd like to think we do some pretty cool work!
Our Dr. Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel was interviewed alongside others to investigate the human love of crunchy food for BBC podcast series, The Food Chain. Tune in to hear her discuss how the transition from foraging to farming impacted the way our jaws develop and grow!
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Food Chain - Crunch! - BBC Sounds
Why we like crunchy foods, and what benefits they might have
www.bbc.co.uk
February 18, 2025 at 2:43 AM
That's my lab! I'd like to think we do some pretty cool work!
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Gonna click on all 7000 data points again today. Wish me luck.
I need to commiserate with my fellow 3D data users, because today I individually selected over 7000 mesh faces over the course of 5 hours, only for the analysis to go "No thank you!"
February 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Gonna click on all 7000 data points again today. Wish me luck.
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A touching article by an anthropologist who returns a skull, held for 100 years by the University of Illinois, to the home island of the individual for reburial.
www.sapiens.org/culture/inte...
www.sapiens.org/culture/inte...
Home-Carrying—A Repatriation Trip to Vanuatu 100 Years in the Making
An anthropologist and poet reflects on a journey about human connection, acts of Indigenous solidarity, and the potential for repair.
www.sapiens.org
January 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
A touching article by an anthropologist who returns a skull, held for 100 years by the University of Illinois, to the home island of the individual for reburial.
www.sapiens.org/culture/inte...
www.sapiens.org/culture/inte...
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If you would like to teach your students useful data skills, the entire PsyTeachR suite is available with a creative commons licence to reuse and adapt. We teach stats but our focus is on working with real data, wrangling, visualisation and reproducibility using R
psyteachr.github.io
#AcademicSky
psyteachr.github.io
#AcademicSky
December 15, 2024 at 2:41 PM
If you would like to teach your students useful data skills, the entire PsyTeachR suite is available with a creative commons licence to reuse and adapt. We teach stats but our focus is on working with real data, wrangling, visualisation and reproducibility using R
psyteachr.github.io
#AcademicSky
psyteachr.github.io
#AcademicSky
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The last paper coming from my #PhD thesis has just been published in the Journal of Morphology! 🐸 We use #diceCT and @fountainscholar.bsky.social 's GoodFibes package to examine how muscle fibre architecture varies across #frogs specialising in jumping, walking and swimming:
doi.org/10.1002/jmor...
doi.org/10.1002/jmor...
Frog Fibres: What Muscle Architecture Can Tell Us About Anuran Locomotor Function
Our study utilises a new, automated approach to digitally extracting muscle fibres from μCT data, allowing us to present the first digital analysis of muscle fibre architecture in frogs, including so...
doi.org
December 18, 2024 at 8:26 AM
The last paper coming from my #PhD thesis has just been published in the Journal of Morphology! 🐸 We use #diceCT and @fountainscholar.bsky.social 's GoodFibes package to examine how muscle fibre architecture varies across #frogs specialising in jumping, walking and swimming:
doi.org/10.1002/jmor...
doi.org/10.1002/jmor...