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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS

@evoswami.bsky.social
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Evolutionary biologist, Chief Scientific Adviser @ Defra, practitioner of healthy coding-fieldwork balance, human and dog mom, she/her, On-juhlee, not On-jolly

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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Absolutely delighted to have been awarded the Faraday Prize! Scientific research is critical for solving the challenges that humanity and the planet currently faces, but ensuring that diverse communities are engaged in & benefit from science are just as important as the work that happens in the lab.
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Job alert: Director of Science @ Defra! Join my team in a critical science leadership role to ensure robust evidence underpins decisions on nature, climate, pollution, food & more. Apply if you enjoy solving big, complex challenges & want to make a real difference! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs hiring Director of Science in England, United Kingdom | LinkedIn
Posted 1:55:56 PM. LocationThis role can be based at any Defra Group policy hub location which includes Bristol…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Last week I had the privilege to visit the Amazon Free Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) experiment near Manaus, Brazil & speak to the scientists studying climate change impacts on rainforest dynamics. Dangling from a crane over the canopy was an experience I won’t soon forget! www.gov.br/g20/en/news/...
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Thanks for hosting me - I great to see all of the fantastic science happening @pml.ac.uk!
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Kris Crandell @kriscran.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
So stoked that our new @booktrust.org.uk Cymru book is by @evoswami.bsky.social !! How cool! Diolch :)
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 12/02/2026
And @evoswami.bsky.social #DarwinDayLecture in 2023 was a real treat, tackling the question of what allows some species to survive and exploit new opportunities, while others are consigned to the fossil record. We hope you enjoy diving into the Darwin Day Lectures! youtube.com/live/aDmAX2f...
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
On the train back to London from Manchester after an inspiring and packed week at #IPBES12. We aren’t moving fast enough because we aren’t working together. We must break down siloes to speed up action for #nature recovery because: Nature is the economy Nature is national security Nature is health
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 21/01/2026
And @evoswami.bsky.social #DarwinDayLecturein 2023 was a real treat, tackling the question of what allows some species to survive and exploit new opportunities, while others are consigned to the fossil record. We hope you enjoy diving into the Darwin Day Lectures! youtube.com/live/aDmAX2f...
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Great to be back in my very full lab @nhm-london.bsky.social for the first time in 2026 and to welcome new #MarieCurieFellow @haibingwang.bsky.social to the team! Joining from IVPP in Beijing, Haibing will be working on cranial and dental modularity and evolution in Mesozoic mammals.
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
New paper! Led by @knapprew.bsky.social, we show that jaw shape in pelagiarian fishes diversified early in their evolution. Surprisingly, jaw shape is highly correlated with habitat, but not diet & with different optimisations for mechanical advantage during closing. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Quite a jump from #2025SVP in Birmingham to #COP30 in Belém! If I had been asked which of these conferences would feature a dancing TRex presenting the fossil of the day award, I would definitely have guessed wrong (but it has smoothed my transition 🦖🦖🦖)
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Wendy Garland @wendygarland.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
It's #DINOvember! Danny Go is all the rage here. Doing his Dino Dance with this fantastic nonfiction title makes for a super engaging day in prek! buff.ly/0QEby7t @evoswami.bsky.social #TLSky #Skybrarians #SchoolLibraries
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
New paper alert! Worked with an incredible group of scientists across fields on this vision for much needed investment in Indian natural history collections: Linking eras and data: natural history collections as the foundation of India’s biodiversity science url: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...
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Linking eras and data: natural history collections as the foundation of India’s biodiversity science
Abstract. India, one of the world’s most biodiverse countries and now the most populous, stands at a critical intersection of ecological wealth and intense
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JNCC @jncc.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
We were delighted that our Chief Scientist Dave Stone was invited to take part in a Parliamentary Roundtable exploring the latest science on climate & nature. The roundtable was chaired by @evoswami.bsky.social Defra Chief Scientific Adviser & hosted by Minister @marycreagh.bsky.social
image of four people sat at a table in suits. One person is speakingImage of seven people standing in front of a large Defra logo
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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Fun! @evoswami.bsky.social is quoted from the interview on @sciam.bsky.social by @katewong.bsky.social on "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me" from @npr.org! (min 34:50) www.npr.org/2025/05/24/1...
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Ego Nwodim talks Poker Face and how to get an SNL crowd to swear in unison : Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
This week, special guest Ego Nwodim joins panelists Tom Papa, Dulceé Sloan, and Hari Kondabolu
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Can’t believe this interview made it onto Wait, wait. Also can’t believe that my half awake tweet from several years ago (though I stand by it) has gotten this much attention. Definitely regretting using the phrase “yeah, they suck” to describe all other animals…
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Love that this interview is making people laugh! Of course as a scientist, I don’t think perfection is a biologically realistic concept, but, if it were, surely cats are our best example of it. Not least because cats couldn’t care less if we think they are perfect or not & I worship them for it!
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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
“Cats have nailed one thing so well that they all do it and just come up with slightly different sizes. They're not jacks-of-all-trades; they're masters of one.” Evolutionary biologist @evoswami.bsky.social explains why 🐈‍⬛ 🐈 are perfect evolutionarily: buff.ly/qMc1Ql6
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
One fine day in the Los Alamitos Formation!
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Hello from Patagonia and Patagotitan!
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
From balmy Brazil to a much chillier Patagonia…
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Catching up with our Triassic kin in Porto Alegre
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James Mulqueeney @jamesmulqueeney.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Thrilled to share my second PhD paper with @tomezard.bsky.social & @evoswami.bsky.social focused on the application of landmark-free geometric morphometrics! 🎉 Excited to contribute to advancing shape analysis techniques in biology. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1186/s128...
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Assessing the application of landmark-free morphometrics to macroevolutionary analyses - BMC Ecology and Evolution
The study of phenotypic evolution has been transformed in recent decades by methods allowing precise quantification of anatomical shape, in particular 3D geometric morphometrics. While this effectiven...
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I absolutely love that this new article about my appointment as DEFRA chief science adviser managed to squeeze in my obsession with Zelda! 🧝‍♀️🗡️🎮 www.linkedin.com/posts/global...
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#globalindian #anjaligoswami #womeninstem #scienceforchange… | Global Indian
What started with a childhood tiger sighting in India has now led her to the UK govt as Chief Scientific Adviser at Defra. From decoding the past to guiding climate action, she’s bringing deep-time th...
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Exciting times ahead! www.gov.uk/government/n...
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New Chief Scientific Adviser appointed
Professor Anjali Goswami becomes Defra’s new Chief Scientist
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Come join us @linneansociety.bsky.social Monday, April 7 at 6pm for a fascinating talk by world-renowned tiger expert Prof Uma Ramakrishnan from @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social as she tells us about how cutting-edge genomics is helping to save wild tigers in India! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-geneti...
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How Genetics Explain Tigers and Secure Their Future
How cutting edge genomics is being applied to one of the most charismatic carnivores on earth.
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
My single favourite wildlife photo from our trip to Galápagos has to be this marine iguana sneezing out salt - such an elegant and glamorous adaptation to their unusual lifestyle!
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I had the immense privilege to visit the Galápagos Islands last summer and see thousands of marine and land iguanas up close, even swimming with some and watching them feed underwater.
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
We’re micro-CT scanning iguanas today to better understand the evolution of the incredible adaptations of the Galapagos marine iguanas. Some of the specimens in our collection were collected by Darwin himself! 150 years later, they are still contributing new knowledge about the natural world.
A specimen of a Galápagos marine iguana ready to be CT scanned
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
So excited to see this paper finally out! Part of the Paleobiology 50th anniversary issue, we cover the history of the field, morphometrics, morphospaces, new approaches to evolutionary models & disparity, incorporating climate, the importance of fossils & more. Check it out! doi.org/10.1017/pab....
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Morphological evolution in a time of phenomics | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Morphological evolution in a time of phenomics
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Fantastic thread pulling the very standard, well-established mouse science out from behind the PR curtain of mammoth de-extinction.
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
How is my 8yo already cooler than I ever will be?
My so cool kid, immersed in a random sci-fi book plucked off the shelf in a lovely wine and cheese bar in Ghent
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Brussels sure has some pretty impressive climbing gyms
My kid on a climbing wall in an old church
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 07/02/2025
Congratulations to @jimalkhalili.bsky.social for receiving the #DarwinDayLecture Medal! @evoswami.bsky.social awarded Jim for 'Transforming our understanding of unusual atomic nuclei with groundbreaking theoretical models, shedding light on the complex structures of matter...'
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Does anyone know how to abbreviate Uhlenbeck to 5 letters for today’s @nytimes.com mini crossword? #nerdjokes
Nerd joke. Mini crossword with “what U stands for in OU” hint
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 03/02/2025
This Friday evening, join @jimalkhalili.bsky.social and @evoswami.bsky.social for the #DarwinDayLecture 2025, on the 700-million-year story of the human brain – the most remarkable and mysterious object in the cosmos! humanists.uk/events/darwi...
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The story of the human brain, with Jim Al-Khalili | The Darwin Day Lecture 2025
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Learn to Love to Read @l2l2r.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Our inspiring authors roadshow started last week at Southmead Primary School with the incredible palaeontologist and author Anjali Goswami @evoswami.bsky.social This would not be possible without the support of @JuliaRTrust #everychildareader #author #authorvisit #literacy #lovereading #lovebooks
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Stumbled across my favourite fossil, Thylacosmilus atrox, while looking though the collections at the lovely, newly renovated Yale Peabody Museum. I maintain that this animal is the best (stem) marsupial ever! Also arguably the best sabre-toothed animal ever…
Me holding up a cast of the fossil sabre-toothed stem marsupial Thylacosmilus atrox in the Yale Peabody collections
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
At 10:07am local time, Dylan began a marathon that he’s been planning for months and preparing for his whole 8-year long life - to read the entire Dog Man canon in order in a single sitting. Stay tuned for updates as we follow his progress live on this cold and bright January day.
My 8 year old kid Dylan, sat in front of the full Dog Man canon, as he begins reading the first in this epic series
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Job alert! Come help the world’s oldest biological society grow as our new Head of Membership & Development! Work with our amazing fellows, members, and staff, lead efforts to fund our ambitious programmes, and support our mission to cultivate a global community working for nature!
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
We sent @weratedogs.com the cover art for Casper’s solo album after his band (fig. 2) broke up. I think 12/10 means they agree it’s going to go even more platinum than that winter coat that he hates so much.
Our long dog Casper in his raver coat with the wind blowing though his  crimped ear fur as he stares wistfully into your eyesCasper with his former band mates, a bunch of talentless losers who were holding him back
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Have been lazy about posting as #SICB2025 was a whirlwind, but very excited to use my first post of the year to congratulate DR Jack McMinn on successfully passing his PhD viva yesterday! His thesis answered a question about Paleogene mammal dispersal patterns that has been bugging me for decades :)
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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Congratulations to Kory Evans @sternarchella.bsky.social, winner of this year’s @J_Exp_Biol sponsored Carl Gans Award at #SICB2025. His #biomechanics research examines the role of modularity in the evolution of the #fish skull. Don't miss his talk: 7 Jan at 13:30 in Marquis D Please repost
A photo of Kory Evans, winner of the 2025 Carl Gans Award
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
My greatest accomplishment of 2024, completed just in the nick of time! The full model along with a dramatic reconstruction of Quint’s death scene as staged by my somewhat worryingly morbid children.
My awesome Lego model of Jaws eating the back of the Orca, the ship from the movie/book, not the whale Orca, in which case this model would be the other way around, though I guess it was by the end of the movie/book, which is why the boat is called the Orca, and I’m guessing you all already know that. Anyway, I love this Lego set.Close up of jaws attacking the Orca, with the sign reading “you’re gonna need a bigger boat”, which my kids like to sing out when they position the top half of Quint’s body in the shark’s mouth.Dramatic reconstruction of Quint being grabbed by the shark……Quint being taken out to sea and eaten by Jaws, as retold by my dark, dark children with Legos
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
It was a lovely experience working with this team (and the sweet pup on my lap in this photo) & larger LinnSoc staff, trustees, fellows & volunteers to develop our new strategy, ensuring we are using our many assets to their fullest possible extent to better understand, value, and protect nature.
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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
There is public support for nature, as well as awareness and concern that it needs protecting, but there are substantial barriers to action. Our strategy centres around addressing these barriers. Our strategic plan can be read in full on our website, here www.linnean.org/the-...
Text reads, "Diligently implementing our new strategy" above a photograph of people working on laptops around a table, with a dog peeking up in the foreground. Below, text reads, "Our strategy has been put into effect this year, with a focus on our four strategic pillars: Membership, Research, Society and Operations."
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Clear my schedule until the new year!
Awesome Christmas present - the Jaws Lego set!
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
"Women full professors are 19% more likely than men at the same career stage to leave academia, as compared with 6% for women assistant professors and 10% for associates."
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Women faculty feel ‘pushed’ from academia by poor workplace climate
The gender gap in faculty attrition worsens after tenure, according to a new study
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Okay I might have slightly overreacted to how quickly my tweenager goes through shampoo and conditioner…
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Are you a dog lover looking for a PhD? You're in luck, becuase we are advertising a BBSRC-funded project that combines evolution, morphology, and biomechanics, and actually helps #dogs live better lives! Check it out here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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BBSRC NWD CASE: Selective breeding, morphological and functional disparity in domestic dogs: implications for welfare and veterinary healthcare technologies at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - BBSRC NWD CASE: Selective breeding, morphological and functional disparity in domestic dogs: implications for welfare and veterinary healthcare technologies at University of Liverpool, l...
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