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Armita R. Manafzadeh

@armanafzadeh.bsky.social
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Man-off-ZAH-deh. PhD. Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. How do joints work and where do they come from? manafzadeh.com

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Grant agreement signed! Advertising 4 new jobs (3 year contracts w/potential to extend +2 years) on ERC #CROCOLOCOEVO grant next week-- stay tuned for details. 2 postdocs 1 technician 1 research administrator who can do science communication Start date flexible but could be as soon as 1 November!
Picture of right hindlimbs and pelvis of Terrestrisuchus (long skinny legs) and Crocodylus (modern croc; beefy and stubby), from 3D computer models
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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
So beyond lucky to get to do my dream* job 👩🏻‍🏫🐝 *minus that one year I wanted to be a fashion designer
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Review of CH Waddington's influence on developmental biology and evo-devo: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... includes supp info with his 50th birthday songs!
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C.H. Waddington's lasting achievements in development and evolution
ABSTRACT. C.H. Waddington (1905-1975) was a British biologist and perhaps the major figure in developmental biology between the 1940s and 1960s. He is one of the few pre-molecular-age developmental bi...
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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Our print copies have arrived in the mail! This has been fun/humbling/ridiculous/exciting all at once. Little me would think I’m pretty cool today. Big me thinks I still have a lot of work to do — can’t wait to start my lab at @gtsciences.bsky.social this fall. #SciAmYoungScientists
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Georgia Tech College of Sciences @gtsciences.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
🎉 @armanafzadeh.bsky.social has been named to @sciam.bsky.social’s inaugural class of Young American Scientists for her innovative research. Manafzadeh will join Georgia Tech this fall as an assistant professor in the School of Biological Sciences. Learn more: biosciences.gatech.edu/news/fossils...
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Jackie Flynn Mogensen @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
SciAm just announced its inaugural list of Young American Scientists—a group of extraordinary young people changing science for the better. I had the joy of chatting with @armanafzadeh.bsky.social, who studies the evolution of animal joints! #SciAmYoungScientists @sciam.bsky.social 🧪
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Investigating the shape and evolution of animal joints
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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The secret's out – thrilled to share I’ve been selected as a member of the inaugural class of @sciam.bsky.social's Young American Scientists! It's been so fun to learn about the work of the other 27 awardees from around the country. www.scientificamerican.com/issue/sa/202...
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James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Two new preprints from my lab, both putting computer science approaches to work for ecology & evolution 🦎 Each tackles the same old bottleneck — turning huge piles of digital images into usable data — and each is a free, open-source web tool you can actually use 🎉 Quick threads on both below 🧵
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Benjamin Freeman @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I think a lot about how mountain species are responding to warming temperatures so it was great to team up with @suzetteflantua.bsky.social @kjfeeley.bsky.social Christi McCain & Jenny McGuire to write a review of sp responses to both modern AND Quaternary warming www.nature.com/articles/doi...
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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Our work on mammalian hallucal grasping, led by Irene Montañez-Rivera during her time in the @johnnyakatura.bsky.social group, is out now in iScience. A true team effort; thanks to the whole crew for inviting me to contribute a small piece! www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Our special issue of the @journalofanatomy.bsky.social (co-edited by Virginia Abdala and me) on the evolution of joints in vertebrates is out now — check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14697580...
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Caleb M. Gordon @caleb-m-gordon.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
So glad to have been interviewed for this story! I stand by it ⚰️🔨 See the article below and the original paper by Ned Snelling and colleagues for more info on the increasingly dubious connection between high oxygen and griffenfly size 😎
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Caleb M. Gordon @caleb-m-gordon.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐭𝐡𝐲𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐬? Well, we’ve always assumed they did (and for good reason), but there’s been surprisingly little direct evidence to support this assumption. In a new paper, we describe an unassuming little Jurassic fossil that directly confirms it: doi.org/10.3374/014....
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a whale is swimming in the ocean and has white spots on its back
ALT: a whale is swimming in the ocean and has white spots on its back
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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
PhD candidate!! Congratulations to Miranda Margulis-Ohnuma 🤩🐟🐍 working with her has been the best part of my four years at Yale.
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Benjamin Freeman @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
we did 3177 playback experiments on 264 species of birds to learn why males alone defend territories in some species while pairs team up to cooperatively defend home turf in others. and now you can read about it with writing that is fun theconversation.com/its-a-sing-o...
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It’s a sing-off! Myth-busting about birds and sex when it comes to defending the nest
Males aren’t the only angry birds defending their territory. A clever test finds which songbirds step up to fight off intruders and the role monogamy plays.
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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Final conference as a postdoc featured lots of bird anatomy with Casey Holliday, Emma Schachner, and Dominique Homberger; green chile everything; and a detour to the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History. Thanks to @crocholliday.bsky.social for the symposium invitation!
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James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Excited to visit UToronto this week for the famous Atwood Symposium! 🦎🦎🦎
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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Very proud of my incoming PhD student, Joanna Baker, for receiving the NSF GRFP! She worked extremely hard on her application and I'm very much looking forward to her joining my lab @gtsciences.bsky.social this year.
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
We are also pleased to announce the Dobzhansky Prize Honorable Mention, Dr. Sean Anderson! Learn more about his work: www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display... @seananderson.bsky.social
Headshot of Sean Anderson. Text: Sean Anderson, 2026 Society for the Study of Evolution Dobzhansky Prize Honorable Mention.
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James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
We're hiring a *post doc*! Are you a global change ecologist (broadly defined) and want to work with Jenny McGuire, @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social, me & many others?!🦎🐦🦴⛰️ Come join an amazing, hungry, and very exciting eco-evo group here at GT! careers.hprod.onehcm.usg.edu/psc/careers/...
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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Join us for our first CNB virtual mini symposium 🐓🏃🏻‍♀️! future events suited to additional time zones coming soon; join our mailing list on our website (link in flyer) to stay in the loop.
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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Huge congratulations to my mentee, Miranda Margulis-Ohnuma, for winning the @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social D. Dwight Davis Award for Division of Vertebrate Morphology best student talk at this year's @sicb.bsky.social meeting! So pleased to see her creativity recognized 🐍 sicb.org/sicb-news/co...
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
At the RVC we are grieving the death of the Structure & Motion Lab's creator, and stalwart comrade, Professor Alan Wilson FRS, from a plane crash in Namibia on Wednesday. He was a giant in comparative biomechanics and an amazing scientist. I'm still reeling. It is utterly shocking and deeply sad.
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Henry Gee 亨利·纪 @endofthepier.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Reporting the death of Prof Alan M. Wilson FRS in a light plane crash in Namibia, while doing wildlife research. He was 62. He built and flew his own planes but I do not know if he either built or flew this one. He even flew from London to Cromer to meet me for lunch (he brought cake). Devastated.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26) Directorates to follow 1/10
A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.
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Benjamin Freeman @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
!!! happy, pleased, and generally floored to be a #SloanFellow. this means more getting out into nature to figure out how mountain birds are responding to climate change
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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Incredibly cool preprint on empirical fitness seascapes 🌊 by Swathi Nachiar Manivannan & @cbo.bsky.social – if you like thinking about adaptive landscapes, a must-read.
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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Had a great seminar visit with the crew at Ohio University — thanks to Susan Williams, @witmerlab.bsky.social, and Peishu Li for a very fun start to the week!
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Rachel Kalisher @rachelkalisher.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Excited to share that our co-edited volume on the Iron Age Philistine cemetery from Ashkelon is now out! This volume presents the bioarchaeological findings from the c. 250 individuals, each with a dedicated catalogue entry that synthesizes their stratigraphic, osteological & artifactual contexts.
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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Had lots of fun delivering the @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social Carl Gans award lecture yesterday at @sicb.bsky.social #SICB2026! Grateful to have the support of so many incredible colleagues in comparative biomechanics.
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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
JEB is proud to be sponsoring the 2026 @sicbjournals.bsky.social Carl Gans Lecture by Armita Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social at 13:30 in Oregon 201, the Oregon Convention Center Dr Manafzadeh's lecture is entitled 'Joints: form, function, and the future of comparative biomechanics'
The SICB 2026 logo. The text on the left reads: 'SICB 2026. 3-7 January Portland, OR. Oregon Convention Center. The image on the right is a cartoon of downtown Portland, with pine trees and skyscrapers
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Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!
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Griffin Lab @griffinlabpaleo.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
The Vertebrate Paleontology students did a great job 3D printing and painting skulls—look at that homology!
A row of painted 3D printed skulls on a table A group of painted 3D printed skulls on a table
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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Congratulations, @caleb-m-gordon.bsky.social et al.! Such creative work; nothing more satisfying than a good cross-field method-repurposing.
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Caleb M. Gordon @caleb-m-gordon.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Hey everyone! I’m excited to share that one of my thesis projects was just published in @currentbiology.bsky.social and featured on phys.org! In this paper, we use an old statistical approach developed by the US Navy in WW2 to predict the aquatic habits of various dinosaurs and marine reptiles 🦖🐊
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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Looking forward to joining the @royalsociety.org Proceedings B editorial board in 2026 – send us your papers!
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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Excited to have the opportunity to share my perspective on comparative biomechanics in a plenary at this year's SICB meeting. Grateful to my mentors/collabs/students for their support along the way, and very honored to receive the Gans Young Investigator Award!
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melody w young @melodyoungg.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
the word that best captures my feelings about receiving the Duke University 2025 Outstanding Postdoc award is just grateful grateful to sheila for the opportunity to grow as a scientist and grateful for my students for teaching me more than they know @dukepostdocs.bsky.social @snpatek.bsky.social
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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy to share 2 more patellofemoral papers out of Fulkerson group: (1) On the importance of studying TTTG in 3-D to personalize treatment www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (2) Dr. Fulkerson sharing his updated perspective on surgical planning for TTOs journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
An exciting update on the human joint side – we found that lateral patellar tracking and malalignment are correlated with progressive cartilage damage, and that the 3D metrics we've been developing to describe PF morphology can be used to quantify the risk. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Come and be our new Chair of Biology at @gtsciences.bsky.social! We are growing an incredibly exciting ecology and evolution group here at GT and would love a visionary eco-evo minded person at the helm to help us do that. Please spread the word! biosciences.gatech.edu/chair-search
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Chair Search
Chair, School of Biological Sciences Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta The School of Biological Sciences of the Georgia Institute of Technology (“Georgia Tech”) invites applications for the pos...
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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I'm recruiting a PhD student to join the lab at @gtsciences.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Broad taxonomic and topical freedom under the umbrella of vertebrate joint form and function. Information here: www.manafzadeh.com – please share 🦴🩻
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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I'm recruiting a PhD student to join the lab at @gtsciences.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Broad taxonomic and topical freedom under the umbrella of vertebrate joint form and function. Information here: www.manafzadeh.com – please share 🦴🩻
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Bill Ryerson @billryerson.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
New Comparative Anatomy Textbook! Completely free to read and open access! doi.org/10.59319/YHF...
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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
✨Some news✨: after finishing my postdoc, I’ll be starting my lab as an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. Join us in Atlanta to study how joints work and where they come from!
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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Our paper on entry point-transition point angle elevation in patellofemoral instability patients, led by PhD student Johannes Sieberer and featuring his awesome Python/C# 3D curvature visualization tool (zenodo.org/records/1121...), is out now in OJSM: doi.org/10.1177/2325...
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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
✨Some news✨: after finishing my postdoc, I’ll be starting my lab as an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. Join us in Atlanta to study how joints work and where they come from!
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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Great writeup by @caleb-m-gordon.bsky.social! 🐢
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