Nick Gladman @drnickgladman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026We've got a new preprint out now with @maja-mielke.bsky.social from @uafunmorph.bsky.social looking at seed processing in songbirds using XROMM and some underlying physiology of the associated muscles! Check it out at doi.org/10.64898/202... @livevobiomech.bsky.social @sdu.dkdoi.org 021
Reposted by Nick GladmanDr Lia Betti @liabetti.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Job opportunity at the Natural History Museum in London! Principal researcher in human evolution. jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...jobs.nhm.ac.ukPrincipal Researcher in Human Evolution:South Kensington 02227
Reposted by Nick GladmanProfessor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026At 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. 95614
Reposted by Nick GladmanProfessor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 25/02/2026New #DAWNDINOS paper! We do predictive simulations of vertical height jumping in the Triassic theropod Coelophysis & extant (tinamou) bird Eudromia. Mainly as sensitivity analysis of what parameters are most important. We show how crucial tail mobility is. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article... 67525
Reposted by Nick GladmanScience News @sciencenews.bsky.social · 21/02/2026When it comes to speech, parrots have the gift of gab. And the way the brains of small parrots known as budgerigars bestow this gift is remarkably similar to human speech, researchers report. www.sciencenews.org/article/parrots…sciencenews.orgParrots and humans share a brain mechanism for speechBrain activity in vocalizing budgerigar parrots showed a pattern that harkened to those found in the brains of people. 1177
Reposted by Nick GladmanLiverpool EMB lab @livevobiomech.bsky.social · 16/02/2026What drives impaired exercise tolerance in type 2 diabetes? James Charles and Roger Kissane use experimental and musculoskeletal modelling data to show that diabetes changes tendon mechanics in a way that makes locomotion more expensive 🦴🐁💪📉 physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/... 034
Reposted by Nick GladmanChester SciBar @chesterscibar.bsky.social · 10/02/2026In March, we welcome Dr Ariel Camp from @livuni-ilcams.bsky.social to @chesterscibar.bsky.social to tell us what all the puff is about pufferfish. See you @StoryhouseLive on Tuesday 10th March at 7.30. #chester 155
Reposted by Nick GladmanProfessor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Summer Workshop in Comparative Biomechanics (phylogenetic methods etc.) in sunny Riverside, California: moenlab.ucr.edu/workshop-pcms/moenlab.ucr.eduWorkshop in phylogenetic comparative methods for early career biomechanists – Moen lab at UCR 053
Reposted by Nick GladmanMark Westneat 🐟 @mwestneat.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Piranha bite force and tooth stress are fantastically high for their size! Check out our new paper on computational modeling of the cranial muscles and bite mechanics of the amazing piranhas. #biomechsky 🐟🧪🌿 link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...link.springer.comBiomechanics, muscle modeling, and the elevated bite force and tooth stress of piranhas 1108
Reposted by Nick GladmanMark Westneat 🐟 @mwestneat.bsky.social · 10/02/2026The new computational model for jaw mechanics in piranhas is called PiranhaLever, available for download on my GitHub github.com/mwestneat/Pi.... Along with various other models for biomechanics and morphometrics. All Mac apps, install the dmg and skirt your security demon 😎github.comGitHub - mwestneat/PiranhaLever: Mac app for jaw biomechanics of piranhasMac app for jaw biomechanics of piranhas. Contribute to mwestneat/PiranhaLever development by creating an account on GitHub. 053
Reposted by Nick GladmanChristina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 07/02/2026 🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 2-year postdoc in canine behaviour at Linköping University, Sweden. #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs liu.se/en/work-at-l... 01823
Reposted by Nick GladmanThomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 02/02/2026www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgBiomechanics of the mandibular middle ear of the cynodont Thrinaxodon and the evolution of mammal hearing | PNASThe middle ear of mammals is a major functional innovation, distinctive in that it is detached from the mandible and has a tympanic membrane suppor... 0247
Reposted by Nick GladmanDrew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 30/01/2026ICYMI 2: Artificially ⬆️basal ganglia activity made birds learn to sing faster! Why? Interestingly, ⬆️activity also caused ⬆️variability. Moreover, the magnitude of ⬆️variability correlated with accelerated rates of learning, suggesting enhanced exploration facilitated learning! 062
Reposted by Nick GladmanRoyal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 30/01/2026#ProcB in @sciam.bsky.social | Acoustic flow velocity manipulations affect the flight velocity of free-ranging pipistrelle bats: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...scientificamerican.com‘Bat accelerator’ unlocks new clues to how these animals navigateBats use echolocation to get around, but it wasn’t clear how these creatures managed to navigate dense environments—until now 0136
Reposted by Nick GladmanLiverpool EMB lab @livevobiomech.bsky.social · 27/01/2026📑‼️ New commentary out today from Roger on the importance of experimental design and best practice for muscle mechanics experiments!link.springer.comAssessing muscle morphology and mechanics: one protocol does not fit all - Journal of Muscle Research and Cell MotilityJournal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility - 015
Reposted by Nick GladmanCharlotte Brassey @cbrassey.bsky.social · 20/12/2025New 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... 0711
Reposted by Nick GladmanDr. Oliver Demuth @oliverdemuth.bsky.social · 28/11/2025🚨 Palaeo jobs alert!! 🚨 Two(!!) postdoc positions available in Cambridge! 1. Human Evolutionary Anatomy: cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... 2. Evolutionary Biomechanics: cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... As part of the @erc.europa.eu funded STEPS project! 01513
Reposted by Nick Gladmandistrustful dinosaurs @distrustful-dinos.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Bonfire night is here! Sending love to those sheltering with animal companions @wascherclaudia.bsky.social and I have new research out about the impacts fireworks have on urban corvids: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... And as video: youtu.be/dCfHEqJfx2A #BonfireNight #birds #crows #urbanwildlife 0225
Reposted by Nick GladmanKelsey 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🧵 19380124
Reposted by Nick GladmanProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 24/10/2025Researchers gave female canaries testosterone, which causes them to sing. Two-photon in vivo imaging reveals that songs emerge due to changes in brain cell function rather than by increasing the size of a key brain region, as was once thought. In PNAS: ow.ly/pn1750XhFL5 02915
Reposted by Nick GladmanbioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 27/10/2025The songbird basal ganglia connectome www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202… 0226
Reposted by Nick GladmanTay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Neophobia compared in 1,439 birds of 136 species Specialised diets and migration are associated with greater fear of new objects. Surprisingly, witnessing such objects in groups is also associated with greater fear. (paper) journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... (blog) phys.org/news/2025-10... 01513
Reposted by Nick GladmanThe Anatomical Record @anatrecord.bsky.social · 12/10/2025🦇 Bat nasal bones (turbinals) reveal how form follows function. Echolocating bats have simpler, plate-like turbinals, while fruit-eating bats show complex, scrolled ones—especially Cynopterus sphinx & Artibeus jamaicensis. King et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 022
Reposted by Nick GladmanUAntwerp FunMorph @uafunmorph.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Fish suck... but species that feed on algae suck differently! 🐟 A new publication in Communications Biology by #UAFunMorph members Jana De Ridder, Peter Aerts, and Sam Van Wassenbergh, demonstrates how head motion patterns for generating suction are finetuned to the species' main diets. 1199
Reposted by Nick GladmanJournal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 15/09/2025We are asking working dogs to help by carrying loads & now @jamescharles90.bsky.social & co have discovered that burdened spaniels trot faster & stride farther, unlike shepherds and Labradors that slow down & are better suited to carry burdens in the long term journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... 144
Reposted by Nick GladmanLiverpool 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) 135
Reposted by Nick GladmanChris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Postdoc advertisement! Hi all, I'm looking to hire a Postdoc in BIOACOUSTICS for work on Owls. Your job would be to collect & analyze bioacoustics data, and write papers. 🦉🦉🦅🐦🦜🦉🦉 37854
Reposted by Nick GladmanRichard 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...media.tenor.coma close up of a fly 's head with a blurred background .ALT: a close up of a fly 's head with a blurred background . 01415
Reposted by Nick GladmanDr Amber Wood-Bailey @apwoodbailey.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Check out our new paper in @journalofanatomy.bsky.social! 🐇💀 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comFactors impacting the complexity of the leporid intracranial jointAnatomy of the intracranial joint and the 2D semi-landmarks used to capture complexity in the intracranial joint. (a) The intracranial joint can be seen here (in red) between the parietal and occipit.... 0206
Reposted by Nick GladmanJuliane Gaviraghi Mussoi @jgmussoi.bsky.social · 06/08/2025New article out: The effects of sleep disturbance on a songbird’s vocal performance royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #science #birds #sleep #birdsong #urbanecology 04218
Reposted by Nick GladmanRobyn Grant @robyngrant.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Harry Gill first PhD paper is out, applying @deeplabcut.bsky.social to dog gait analyses ... and it worked pretty well :) You can access the paper here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lXNEcF2Ow... @cbrassey.bsky.social 122
Reposted by Nick GladmanRoyal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 04/08/2025Review in #ProcB - After the fight: post-contest acoustic signalling #OpenAccess #Behaviour @andyradford.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 033
Reposted by Nick Gladmanorsolars.bsky.social @orsolars.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Our new review on numerical cognition in birds, just out in Nature Reviews Psychology! 🐦🧠 Behavior, neurobiology & field studies across avian species Very fond of the neurobiology part :) 📖 Read it here: rdcu.be/eyErIrdcu.beNumerical cognition in birdsNature Reviews Psychology - Birds demonstrate complex numerical abilities at levels similar to primates. In this Review, Regolin and colleagues describe the contribution of laboratory, field and... 03514
Reposted by Nick GladmanClaudia Wascher @wascherclaudia.bsky.social · 18/07/2025The first papers from our special collection on vocal communication in corvids are now live. Most are still under review, stay tuned for more updates as they’re published! link.springer.com/collections/...link.springer.comVocal communication in corvidsIn the field of vocal communication, research has mostly focussed on birds because of their vocal learning capacity and non-human primates due to their ... 13115
Reposted by Nick Gladmanarielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Nick Gladman @drnickgladman.bsky.social from our own @livevobiomech.bsky.social looked at how singing muscles age (and let me practice drawing birds!) 162
Reposted by Nick GladmanAlana Sharp @acsharp.bsky.social · 28/07/2025📣I’m hiring! Two weeks to apply for an October start. Start date is also flexible. #PhD #Morphology #evolution 077
Reposted by Nick GladmanSusanne Babl @susannebabl.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Are you interested in bat vocalizations and the neural circuits that give rise to their emission?🦇🎶🧠 We reviewed the recent literature on neural activity underlying echolocation and communication calls across multiple bat species in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: doi.org/10.1111/nyas... 13113
Reposted by Nick GladmanProf. Christine Böhmer @vertevo.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Semi-autonomous tracking algorithms: in situ measurements of fiber lengths & orientation in #chicken #embryo. Molnar @crocodilejulia.bsky.social et al 2025 @anatrecord.bsky.social Quantifying #muscle architecture in embryos using diceCT and algorithmic fascicle tracking doi.org/10.1002/ar.7... 054
Reposted by Nick GladmanThe Anatomical Record @anatrecord.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Despite rabbits being common lab models, their vertebral muscles were never fully described. 54 muscles were mapped in wild rabbits & hares, revealing key differences from other mammals & proposing leporid-specific terminology Taewcharoen et al: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 088
Reposted by Nick GladmanKeith Trujillo @neurochicano.bsky.social · 17/07/2025go.bsky.app/8zZNEGV Great resource to connect early career folks with more senior scientists looking to hire postdocs! 🧪 168961
Reposted by Nick GladmanJournal of Avian Biology @avianbiology.bsky.social · 04/07/2025📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 We are happy to announce the third JAB Review Award competition! Submit your mini-review by 30 April 2026 Who: early career researchers up to 8 yrs after completition of doctorate More info: vist.ly/3n8ihr8 @NordicOikos.bsky.social 12113
Reposted by Nick GladmanProf. Christine Böhmer @vertevo.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Feral rabbits exhibit morphologies as seen in domesticated or wild forms, but may also exhibit intermediate ones. Sherratt et al 2025 From wild to domestic and in between: how #domestication and #feralization changed the morphology of #rabbits @royalsocietypublishing.org doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 063
Reposted by Nick GladmanSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/06/2025NONE in Life science?! NONE?! 1620277
Nick Gladman @drnickgladman.bsky.social · 21/06/2025New preprint out for those interested in simulation of muscle performance! ✌️ 000
Reposted by Nick GladmanAnna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Hallooo, are you looking for a really cool MSc project in bioacoustics/evolution of communication/linguistics? Help me process our goldmine of birdsong recordings, and investigate whether and how conformance to various linguistic laws varies in the Anthus genus! 🔊 🐦🎵 docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comMSc projectMSc thesis projects in animal communication Across many human languages, there are several general principles in temporal patterning: most frequent words are shorter (Zipf’s law of brevity), larger c... 02219
Reposted by Nick GladmanNatalie V. Sánchez @natingui.bsky.social · 16/10/2024Our new paper is out in Behavioral Ecology: “Neighbors affect vocal behavior of tropical wrens: a multispeaker density-manipulation experiment” doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arae075 Check out what we found (🧵1/5) 163
Reposted by Nick GladmanDr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Eve Schneider & I wrote a @science.org Perspective on a striking new study by Zhang et al.: Read how a small genetic shift in a taste receptor, led to a big leap in ecological opportunity for birds 🍒🐦 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #evolution #sensorybiology #taste #birdsscience.orgTasting opportunityHow birds retuned sour perception to eat fruits 0368
Reposted by Nick GladmanCedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Insights into the genetics underlying differences between (closely related) domesticated and wild songbirds (known to produce different songs): Work led by Madza Farias-Virgens, Stephanie White, @kazuookanoya.bsky.social, Emilia Huerta-Sanzhez & collaborators www.nature.com/articles/s42...nature.comThe genomics of the domestication syndrome in a songbird model species - Communications BiologyPopulation genomics analyses reveal domestication in Bengalese finches shifts selection, favoring brain circuits for reward sensitivity over aggression and stress. 1125
Reposted by Nick GladmanUniversität Konstanz @uni-konstanz.de · 12/06/2025Capturing the behaviour of animals in their natural habitat with high detail? #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social researchers developed a unique outdoor camera system to measure 3D movements and postures of wild birds: t1p.de/m0kzr 0208