The @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
Annual Meeting #2025SVP was an absolute blast! Great to reconnect with European colleagues this year, and to hang out with EDDy Lab folks again. I presented some of our ongoing work on #teeth #biomechanics. Stay tuned, more toothy madness on the way! 🦷

Had a blast for the first #SVP2025 day yesterday with an amazing carnivora session 🦁🐻🦝🦦
What an amazing way to start the meeting 🤩

Fully funded PhD position available at
@univmalaga.bsky.social 👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 focusing on the evolution of the vertebral column in crocodylomorphs 🐊under the supervision of @bortxaf.bsky.social & @albertomartinserra.bsky.social
Application deadline: Sep 30 🚨

New paper out today lead by @tsengzj.bsky.social where we test the 150-year-old hypothesis that the unique jaw torus in Nimravus is an adaptation to resist bite forces using FEA🦁🔪our results highlight some functional advantage of the torus, which are amplified at larger gape doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

Abstract accepted for a talk at #SVP2025 - #2025SVP in Birmingham 🇬🇧 See y'all there if you wanna learn about fun stuffs we did to learn more about teeth form-function 🦷🥩🌿

Can you spot the Black Sabbath ref in the title? 😎🤘🎸
@societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social

(finally) back in in Liège for a few days after two conference in a row.
Had an amazing time at @eavpalaeo.bsky.social #EAVP2025 and @sebiology.bsky.social #SEBCONFERENCE 🤩

Hey @sebiology.bsky.social attendees! Don't forget the A2 - Experimental palaeo session in Nightingale 1&2 tomorrow morning 🤩🦖🦾 #SEBCONFERENCE #SEB2025

So proud of Nicolas who just won the @eavpalaeo.bsky.social best poster award this year in Kraków 🇵🇱🤩🥟
I had the chance to co-supervise Nicolas for his BSc thesis last semester at @maastrichtu.bsky.social
We looked into the functional anatomy of proboscideans long bones using FEA 🦴🐘🦣

For this #FossilFriday meet Sarkastodon mongoliensis from the Eocene of Inner Mongolia from @natural-history.bsky.social we scanned with PhD student Melvin Vankeslt. First described in 1938 by W. Granger this oxyaenid was absolutely MASSIVE 😱

A bit too late for #FossilFriday but I haven't post anything in a while soooo... In the @natural-history.bsky.social for 2 weeks to scan carnivorous mammals with PhD student Melvin Vankelst and we found some BIG BOIIIS 🐯🐺

Abstract deadline is THIS FRIDAY!! 🚨 Don't forget to submit your abstract for the session "A2: Experimental Palaeobiology - Bringing Fossils Back to Life" 🦖🦴

Interested in the latest advances developed to bring fossils back to life? 🦴 Join us for the A2 - Experimental Palaeobiology session at the #SEBconference in Antwerp, 8-11 July 2025 🦾
🚨 Registration is OPEN
📅 Abstract deadline: March 7
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Something is coming to Antwerp this summer 👀 Stay tuned!

New paper out in @commsbio.bsky.social lead by
Marina Melchionna showing that rapid cortical expansion in the prefrontal region took place early on during the evolution of primates 🐵🧠 nature.com/articles/s42...

New paper led by Tahlia Pollock about the functioning of elongated upper canines 🦁🔪 www.cell.com/current-biol...

One of my student just gave me a personalized card and I'm crying this is way too cute 🥹

Scanning so many salamander burritos this week 🦎🌯☢️