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Charlotte Brassey

@cbrassey.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Zoology at Manchester Met. Biomechanics, comparative anatomy, 3D imaging, palaeontology.

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Charlotte Brassey @cbrassey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Very excited to be kicking off our new NERC AI4ES project! Working with @chesterzoosci.bsky.social & Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, we’ll be exploring monocular depth estimation + single-image 3D reconstruction to extract animal size, shape & body condition from camera trap images.
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
ONE WEEK LEFT to apply 2 UKRI-funded Senior Research Associates; intersection of behaviour, conservation + AI (coral reefs/UK waters) 1x2yr9mth; 1x2yrs. TWO WEEKS LEFT for the 3rd position on behavioural ecology (2yrs9mth) More info here sallykeith.weebly.com/team.html @lec-reefs.bsky.social
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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/09/2026
“Some of the biggest names in Hollywood are in the running, but a dark horse contender from Petco is making a big impression” — anonymous source
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Amazon MGM Narrows List Of James Bond Candidates To 6 Actors, 1 Extremely Suave Ferret
CULVER CITY, CA—Amidst intense speculation over who would next portray the iconic secret agent, a source within Amazon MGM Studios revealed Wednesday that producers had narrowed down their list of Jam...
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Joe Keating @evopalaeo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
⚠️Please repost!⚠️ Over 99% of species that ever lived are extinct. Without palaeontology, the new Natural History GCSE will only cover a snapshot of life's history. We're making the case for fossils in the new GCSE 🦴🐚🌿 teach.ocr.org.uk/palaeontolog... The consultation is open now! Have your say👇
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GCSE Natural History - Palaeontology - Joseph Keating
Joseph Keating puts forward a case for including palaeontology in the new GCSE Natural History curriculum due to its unique deep-time perspective.
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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
📢 JOB ALERT! 📢 I am recruiting a 30-month postdoc to work on modelling the vision of trilobites @hfspo.bsky.social ! If you like 3D data, fossils, and functional morphology, this is the one for you! 📆Deadline 27. Aug Pls contact me with any Qs and share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
🚨 #MUSEUMJOBS KLAXON🚨 We're looking for a Senior Digitiser and two Digitisers to work across @zoologymuseum.bsky.social & @camplantsci.bsky.social to help create biodiversity data for the researchers who need it, through #DiSSCoUK. 1. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/senior-... 2. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/digitis...
A pinned moth is positioned within a light box, with a camera positioned aboveA museum drawer containing tens of pinned tiger and emerald moths lined up in rows
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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
We will have a 23 month research associate role opening to support our work on mammal fossils from the Isle of Skye. Open to candidates with substantial CT-segmentation experience with Masters or PhD qualifications. Advert should be out next week - will post soon but do get in touch if of interest.
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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We're looking for a CV/ML Engineer to help us improve the machine learning systems that power iNaturalist's species identification and geographic range modeling. If you're excited to help build tools that help millions of people engage with nature, we'd love to hear from you! Apply: buff.ly/YZqaW6c
Image of flowers with text overlaid saying: "iNaturalist: We're hiring! Computer vision/machine learning engineer. Full time, remote in the United States."
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Charlotte Brassey @cbrassey.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
We’re having an amazing time on our MMU field trip to Northern Tanzania. We’ve visited Tarangire and Lake Manyara NPs and visited with the Hadzabe. We’re off to the Serengeti tomorrow. Students have been exceptional 👍
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drphilcox.bsky.social @drphilcox.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
JOB ALERT! We are recruiting at @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social - a lecturer (Grade 8) or associate professor (Grade 9) in primate or human evolutionary anatomy (research and teaching). Contact Susan Evans or myself for further details. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRZ412/l...
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Lecturer / Associate Professor in Primate or Human Evolutionary Anatomy at UCL
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Lecturer / Associate Professor in Primate or Human Evolutionary Anatomy opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Looking for a cool MRes degree project in a great 5-faculty biomechanics lab in the UK? I've still got one open, on the biomechanics of locomotion in chickens. Great for people wanting a biomechanics background, anatomy, evolution, animal welfare/veterinary, etc.! www.rvc.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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MRes - How broiler chickens walk: an experimental and computational study of locomotor biomechanics across growth - Master of Research (MRes) - Postgraduate - Study - Royal Veterinary College, RVC
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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
CT technician position available at the U-M Museum of Zoology/Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
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Research Laboratory Tech Sr - Rabosky Lab | U-M Careers
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
RVC needs a Lecturer in Anatomy (Maternity Cover) to join our department for 12 months (very well could include joining Structure & Motion Lab)! jobs.rvc.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Deadline 22 June
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Job Opportunity at the RVC: Lecturer in Anatomy (Maternity Cover)
We have an exciting opportunity for a Lecturer in Anatomy to join the Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences for a maternity cover (12 months) position. The post is suitable for academics with ...
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Dorien de Vries @paleodorien.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Can you tell what an animal eats just by looking at its teeth - even if it evolved on the other side of the mammal family tree?🐒🦘 We studied primate and marsupial teeth and found that, in general, 'yes, we can'! Using dental topography, we reached a dietary classification accuracy of ~70%. 1/6
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Maria Heikkilä @mariaheikkila.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
New opening for a postdoctoral researcher in PhenoBees project (Finnish Museum of Natural History) jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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Postdoctoral researcher in insect morphology and evolution
Postdoctoral researcher in insect morphology and evolution
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 15/04/2026
Happy Wednesday
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Nic Rawlence @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Want to do a PhD @universityofotago.bsky.social on climate impacts on #NZ vertebrates w/ Michael Knapp, @plubbe.bsky.social, @atennyson.bsky.social & me? Comes w/ fully funded scholarship & will investigate climate extinction risks using genomics & niche modelling evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
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Pauline Provini @paulineprovini.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
🚨 Job alert! #PhD in #Biomechanics × #Neuroscience to study birdsong 🎵🐤 @mecadev.bsky.social and @neuropsi.bsky.social We are pre-selecting a candidate by April 15 to compete to InLife & IPV 2026 doctoral program (interview: May 20) 🔗 Full offer: sites.google.com/site/pauline... Please share!
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a small white bird is standing on one leg on a beach .
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
1-year MRes projects at the RVC are open for application! I've got 2; 1 on combining experimental data with musculoskeletal simulations to understand how broiler chickens walk while growing, & 1 #DAWNDINOS choice of fossil critters to simulate: www.rvc.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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Master of Research (MRes) - Master of Research (MRes) - Postgraduate - Study - Royal Veterinary College, RVC
RVC's MRes enables students to undertake a sizeable research project and gain advanced research skills, without committing to completing a PhD. The course equips graduates with the skills needed to enter a PhD programme or move on to careers where advanced research experience is relevant.
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drphilcox.bsky.social @drphilcox.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Postdoc advert now live! Come and work with me at the UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social on the Mediterranean Neogene insular giant fauna. You'll also get to work with a great team: @toriherridge.bsky.social @nannonstevens.bsky.social and Jesse Hennekam
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Erin E. Saupe @eesaupe.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
‼️🚨 Job Alert ‼️ 🚨 Two Post Doc Opportunities: PDRA in Macroecology / Paleobiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... PDRA in Extinction & Conservation / Paleobiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Any questions, please get in touch! Closing date May 1st.
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Job Details
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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
JOB CLAXON: Imaging Assistant @nhm-london.bsky.social . Permanent role. Would be good for someone with CT experience! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Imaging Assistant:South Kensington
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This could be your dream job! PhD in ecology, and English and Japanese language skills required... working for POKEMON!!! www.ign.com/articles/the...
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The Pokémon Company Is Actively Recruiting PhD Holders With Backgrounds in Ecology to Work in Tokyo - IGN
The Pokémon Company is actively recruiting PhD holders with backgrounds in ecology to work in Tokyo. This is perhaps the closest chance Pokémon fans have to channel their inner Professor Oak in real l...
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Charlotte Brassey @cbrassey.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Our PhD opportunity is still open. A match-funded project with @chesterzoo.bsky.social, where the student will also be a Conservation Scholar. An exciting interdisciplinary project that can be tailored to the student. Even the pigeons are interested in our LiDAR scanner!
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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
This #FossilFriday we have a fantastic post as part of our 5 year project on Understanding selection in the early animals of the #Ediacaran. This research technician post will process our #Ediacaran laser scan data - DM/email: ek338@cam.ac.uk, deadline 12th April 2026 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
laser scan showing a Fractofusus Laser scanning Johnson surface
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Charlotte Brassey @cbrassey.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
We’re interested in folks applying from all manner of disciplinary backgrounds. Biology, zoology of course. But also computer science, remote sensing, architecture. If you’re keen to work with LiDAR and point clouds, we’d like to hear from you!
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Monica Daley @birdbiomech.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Call for applications to the 2026 Integrative Movement Sciences Summer Institute!

 This is a funded research internship, open to all career stages. We especially encourage undergraduates to apply. 
 Application deadline is March 21.
 More details here: cims.uci.edu/imsi-si-2026/ Please share!
Flyer for the 2026 IMSI Summer Institute: Recruiting research interns.   
Join our interdisciplinary research training internship and study biomechanics, muscle physiology, biophysics, neurosciences, rehabilitation sciences and engineering.  All career stages welcome, undergraduates especially encouraged to apply.  Full time paid opportunity. Intensive research experience, practical skills development, supportive mentorship.  Learn more at CIMS.uci.edu.  One photo show a lab member collecting motion capture data as a person jumps.  Another photo shows IMSI researchers setting up a camera for data collection in at a field research location showing a desert landscape in the foreground and a mountain range in the background.
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BirdLife Marine @birdlifemarine.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We are looking for an emerging scientist with an interest in #seabirds and #conservation for a 🌟new scholarship position🌟 ⏱️Deadline: 13/03/2026 🐧Fixed term 12 months, 35 hrs/pw 📌Cambridge/ Hybird Come join our fantastic team! Full #job details ➡️ tinyurl.com/BLIemergings...
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BirdLife Emerging Scientist Scholarship - BirdLife International
Are you seeking a career in conservation science and have a particular interest in seabirds or understanding species extinction risk? The BirdLife Emerging Scientist Scholarship could be for you.
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Adam van Casteren @adamvanc.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
My post-doc Charlotte King will be starting her own Minerva research group in September and is looking for PhD students. Click here if you are into experimental biomechanics, apes and hominin evolution. www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
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Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
New role! 📢 We're looking for a dynamic and experienced Science Manager to join us at BTO. Apply now ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs #Ornithology 📆 Full time, Permanent. 📝 £46,344 per annum. 📍 Hybrid working. Deadline for applications: Monday 9 March.
A Cuckoo perches on a post. Wording over the image reads: We're hiring. Science Manager. www.bto.org/jobs. BTO logo top right of the image. Image credit bottom left reads: Cuckoo by Edmund Fellowes / BTO.
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Charlotte Brassey @cbrassey.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
CLOSING SOON: Join us as Technical Facility Manager of our new digitisation centre @manmetuni.bsky.social. Run our new Neoscan microCT with loading rigs and autochanger. Plus LEICA BLK360 laser scanner, Creaform HandyScan, Olympus DSX microscope, Resonon Hyperspectral camera: tinyurl.com/y8x596hd
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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Our job adverts are now live! 🤩 We are hiring a Research Software Engineer and a Community Engagement Coordinator to support @palaeoverse.bsky.social over the next two years, based at UCL. Apply by January 18th 2026, ideally to start in March 2026 🗓️ More info and links below 👇
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Charlotte Brassey @cbrassey.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Still plenty of time to apply for our new microCT post!
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Charlotte Brassey @cbrassey.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Well, we officially quit trying to travel to SICB. 50 hours in Schiphol airport. Total chaos. Now on a ferry(!) to Newcastle just to get home 💀 So gutted to miss the conference and my colleagues!
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Charlotte Brassey @cbrassey.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
New microCT job! Come run our new Heritage Science lab at ManMet. 5 year post funded by AHRC. Responsible for the microCT plus terrestrial LiDAR, surface laser scanners and more! Happy to consider any disciplinary background manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...
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Charlotte Brassey @cbrassey.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
New microCT job! Come run our new Heritage Science lab at ManMet. 5 year post funded by AHRC. Responsible for the microCT plus terrestrial LiDAR, surface laser scanners and more! Happy to consider any disciplinary background manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...
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Yawako @yawaguchi.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I’ve released a tool to sketch and edit phylogenetic trees! yawak.jp/PhyloWeaver/ Load a Newick file and intuitively add/remove/resize branches. Useful for quick conceptual trees, extracting subtrees, or turning ideas into Newick.
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PhyloWeaver – Interactive phylogenetic tree editor
Edit and visualize phylogenetic trees directly in your browser. PhyloWeaver lets you interactively rearrange tree topologies and export high-quality figures for publications and presentations.
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drphilcox.bsky.social @drphilcox.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
New paper out! From @livevobiomech.bsky.social with small contributions from me @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social , all ably led by Alice Maher - a very comprehensive look at scaling in the head and neck across tetrapods. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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New perspectives on head and neck allometry and ecomorphology in tetrapods
The skull and neck are vital parts of the body, influencing feeding ecology, habitat exploitation and locomotion. Numerous studies have therefore sought to understand how the size of these segments v...
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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Scientists discover telephone-cord-like optic nerves in chameleons, which were overlooked by Aristotle, Newton, and everyone else, until now... Story: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/scie... Study: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
six frames of the same pale green chameleon from the front show its bulbous eyes facing in many different directionsa digital scan of a lizard skull with a large triangular fin at the top nearly the same size as he skull itself and highlighted in purple are several blobs and tubes that seem to gather behind where the eye is and run off down the jaw and back towards the spine
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Fudge Lab @fudgelab.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The Fudge Lab at Chapman University is recruiting a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the biophysics of hagfish defensive slime deployment. Please repost! Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p937dn5
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Alexis Breen @alexisjbreen.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
#CrowCoG is hiring🚨MULTIPLE PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS 🚨for our 2026 field season (May - Sep)! Field and aviary-based positions - come help us study the remarkable tool-making New Caledonian crows. Apply here: bit.ly/3WlxxHE
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Kelsey Tyssowski @kelseytea.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
🧠🌟🐭 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🧵
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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
#ESHE2025 Rhianna Drummond-Clarke ‘First documentation and quantification of wild chimpanzee rock climbing’ Camera traps, Issa Valley TZ & Moyen Bafing, Guinea chimps Rock vs tree climbing: more dynamic movements, biomech diff locomotor modes, reaching further- role of uneven substrates! Amazing 😍
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Steve Portugal @sjportugal.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Cecilia Baldoni @cecibaldoni.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
PhD Alert! 😍 Our lab is hiring a PhD student to study how shrews shrink in winter and grow in spring. Yes, you read that right! tinyurl.com/shrinkingshr... Join us at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, study a super cool animal, and join the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social community! DM me for questions!
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Seasonal size change and aging in shrews
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Liverpool EMB lab @livevobiomech.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
‼️📄 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! ⤵️ 🐕 🏋️‍♂️ 🦮 (1/4)
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Hey you. Wanna apply for a fellowship on collections? the AHRC Early career fellowships in cultural & heritage institutions are open! The Natural History Museum priorities are below. If you wanna talk birds, hit me up. Collectors, colonialism, Canada, Australia & more www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
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Helen Fewlass @helenfewlass.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Very excited to receive an ERC Starting Grant to study the earliest archaeological and biomolecular evidence of Homo sapiens in NW Europe Watch this space for new positions in Bristol in 2026! 🎉 #HorizonEurope #ERCStG
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Richard Bomphrey @richardbomphrey.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
🚨 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...
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Hannah Thomasy @hannahthomasy.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Evolution has produced an incredible array of ways to be male & female. In some tiny cave-dwelling insect species, the female is the one with a penis. She uses it to hook into the male's vagina-like structure (for up to 70hrs) while "voluminous & probably nutritious semen is passed to the female"🧪🧬🪲
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