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Michael Berthaume

@mberthaume.bsky.social
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Reader at Kings, NMES, inaugural member of the UKYoungAcademy. Anthroengineer, prosthetics, biomech, paleoanth, weird bones. Swimmer, cats. Bi and proud 🏳️‍🌈. Twitter: MBerthaume. he/him

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 14/08/2025
Watch #ProcB authors Nelly Fragoso Vargas and Michael Berthaume talk about the #evolution of the knee sesamoid bones in Primates: cassyni.com/events/4o6j6... #phylogenetics
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 14/08/2025
A study of 150,000 people with ADHD in Sweden confirms that drugs taken to manage the condition have wider benefits beyond improving immediate symptoms
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ADHD drugs reduce risk of criminal behaviour, drug abuse and accidents
A study of 150,000 people with ADHD in Sweden confirms that drugs taken to manage the condition have wider benefits beyond improving immediate symptoms
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Michael Berthaume @mberthaume.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Lovely to see the #prosthetic work in #SriLanka getting some local press in the country 🥰 www.themorning.lk/articles/quI...
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Limb-loss in SL and the North’s amputees
A research studies-based programme is ongoing at present in Sri Lanka to create culturally relevant, sustainable prosthetics for low- or middle-income countries
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 16/05/2025
Easy to gain but hard to lose: the #evolution of the knee sesamoid bones in Primates—a systematic review and phylogenetic meta-analysis: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #ProcB #phylogenetics
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Michael Berthaume @mberthaume.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Exacerbated sonic hedgehog signalling promotes a transition from chemical pre-patterning of chicken reticulate scales to mechanical skin folding doi.org/10.1098/rsob...
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Exacerbated sonic hedgehog signalling promotes a transition from chemical pre-patterning of chicken reticulate scales to mechanical skin folding | Open Biology
Many examples of self-organized embryonic patterning can be attributed to chemically mediated systems comprising interacting morphogens. However, mechanical patterning also contributes to the emergenc...
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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Here’s the last version I’ve done…
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Edward R. Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Call for proposals! 🎉 We are inviting proposals for our cross-journal special feature (between @funecology.bsky.social and @animalecology.bsky.social): "Energy trade-offs under changing environments" Guest edited by myself, @amandapettersen.bsky.social, and @nealdawson.bsky.social!
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Queer Britain Museum @queerbritain.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
STATEMENT FROM QUEER BRITAIN – Images from Queer Britain
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Science News @sciencenews.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Legacies of colonialism can stifle science. But there are ways to rein it in.
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How ‘parachute science’ in paleontology plays out in 3 countries
When researchers study fossils from lower-income countries, they often engage in dubious or illegal practices that can stifle science.
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David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Head of Human Rights Commission on #r4today confirms trans women cannot access women's public toilets. She says trans people 'should advocate for sex-neutral third spaces'. And in the meantime? How are they supposed to have a wee when they are out and about? How does that not infringe their rights??
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Michael Berthaume @mberthaume.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
UK Supreme Court just defined what it means to be a "woman," would love to know what it means to be born "biologically female." Are we going to test all ovaries to ensure they are not internal testes? Transgender ppl are still protected, but what about intersex ppl? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...
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UK Supreme Court rules legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex - live updates
Judges say the
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Michael Berthaume @mberthaume.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Genomic basis of non-human-primate diversity and adaptation www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Genomic basis of non-human-primate diversity and adaptation - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
This Review explores the genetic basis of diversification and adaptation in non-human primates, including their responses to ecological and environmental changes.
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Michael Berthaume @mberthaume.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Sharing this paper I worked on with one of my PhD students, Matt, last year. Grasshoppers have "teeth" and it is possible to quantify their shape like in mammals using dental topographic analysis! ...odd choice of picture here, but oh well! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
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Interspecific and intraspecific variation in grasshopper (Orthoptera: Acrididea) molar form: implications for dietary ecology | Royal Society Open Science
Like many mammals, grasshoppers (infraorder Acrididea) chew using molariform structures. Despite decades of research on mammals, little is known about grasshopper molar form and how it relates to grasshopper feeding biomechanics, diet, dietary ecology ...
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Michael Berthaume @mberthaume.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
If I randomly followed you and you don't know who I am, this is why! I've discovered 584 Bluesky users from my Twitter/X network using the Sky Follower Bridge.✨ Check it out: share.sky-follower-bridge.dev?q=584 #skyfollowerbridge
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Sky Follower Bridge
Bridge your Twitter/X followers to Bluesky. Detected Users: 584
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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Western Europe’s oldest face adds new wrinkles to human evolution The face fossils date to as early as 1.4 million years ago www.sciencenews.org/article/west...
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Western Europe’s oldest face adds new wrinkles to human evolution
Face bones unearthed in a cave suggest that members of our genus, Homo, reached northern Spain as early as 1.4 million years ago.
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Michael Berthaume @mberthaume.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Worse days to end my workweek when staying in a city and country the #WHO declared and #Ebola outbreak in
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Michael Berthaume @mberthaume.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
… I landed in Kampala m, Uganda today… someone also died of Ebola in Kampala today…
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a man in a yellow hazmat suit is walking down a street with a group of people .
ALT: a man in a yellow hazmat suit is walking down a street with a group of people .
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Michael Berthaume @mberthaume.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Today’s fun thing… finding out I have an IMDB page for work I did as a talking head years ago 😆 “Known for: Massive Engineering Mistakes” 😆😆😆 context is key here!! m.imdb.com/name/nm15608...
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Michael Berthaume
Known for: Massive Engineering Mistakes
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Michael Berthaume @mberthaume.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
***Job opportunity!!!*** Nicky Bailey, Elena Seminati, and I are looking to hire a 1-year Postdoc to create an interface for @blender3d.bsky.social to help with prosthetic limb provision in low-resource settings. Message for Q's - Please RT/share 😁 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLG491/r...
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Research Associate at King's College London
An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Associate is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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Stefaan Verbruggen @docbruggsbunny.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Myself and @mberthaume.bsky.social celebrating our #BlueSkyBirthday! 🥳 🥂
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