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Ryan N. Felice

@rnf.bsky.social
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Associate professor of evolutionary biology at UCL felicelab.com

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Dr Cecily Nicholl @piginatutu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
After a nasty post-festival flu, it’s very nice to come back online and see that our paper: “Osteohistological evidence for terrestrial adaptation and an extended growth period in mekosuchine crocodylians and its potential role in their extinction”, is out now in The Anatomical Record!
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This led to the Butlerian Jihad, after Samuel Butler, author of the 1863 letter 'Darwin among the machines', which concludes: 'war to the death should be instantly proclaimed against them. Every machine of every sort should be destroyed by the well-wisher of his species.' Worth reading!
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Darwin among the Machines - Wikisource, the free online library
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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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Ryan N. Felice @rnf.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Big awesome job opportunity!
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Ryan N. Felice @rnf.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
New paper out today! @sternarchella.bsky.social and I review how modularity and integration influence adaptive radiations and diversification. Read it here: rdcu.be/fpcSX
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Ryan N. Felice @rnf.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Hey look: A job! @echinerd.bsky.social and I are looking for a research technician to work on sea urchin development. If you are good at segmenting CT scans and want a chance to work on some super cool organisms, this job here at UCL is for you! apply now: bit.ly/4o2qccY
CT scan of a juvenile sea urchin
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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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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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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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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/02/2026
The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...
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Evan Johnson-Ransom @ejrpaleo.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
For #FossilFriday I’m pleased to announce our new paper on investigating the cranial performance and evolution of feeding behavior in tyrannosauroids and other theropods. Here’s a thread on some of our major findings. #Dinosaurs #Paleontology #Tyrannosaurus #Theropods
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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
JOB KLAXON! The @nhm-london.bsky.social is recruiting a micro-CT specialist! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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CT Data and Micro CT Specialist :South Kensington
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sicb-dpcb.bsky.social @sicb-dpcb.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
📣 Welcome to DPCB! We’re SICB’s Division of Phylogenetics & Comparative Biology — the home for tree-thinking, evolutionary relationships, and comparative approaches across organisms. #DPCB #SICB2026 #Phylogenetics
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Ryan N. Felice @rnf.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Check out our new paper on the evolution of morphological variation in the avian head, led by @knapprew.bsky.social and out now in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proc B
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UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Save the date: 19Feb2026. Our all-day #symposium, celebrating #UCL200, is now bookable, FREE: tinyurl.com/UCL200Anatom... Topic: #Anatomy: Past, Present & Future - 14+ speakers, plenty of discussion/networking opportunities; refreshments & lunch included @ucl.ac.uk @uclnews.bsky.social
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Centre for Integrative Anatomy Symposium - Anatomy: Past, Present & Future
Dive, in-person, into the fascinating world of anatomy and explore its journey from past discoveries to present and future innovations!
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
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Andrew Christopher Knapp @knapprew.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
It's #caturday so here's Emile, the star of my talk today at #svp2025.
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Kat Gregory @morpho-kat.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
If you're at #SVP2025 please stop by my poster and say hi! I'd love to talk to you about bird head evolution!
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Ryan N. Felice @rnf.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Good morning #SVP2025! Big day for the Felice Lab- three talks this morning from postdocs @jwoyston.bsky.social, Ryan Marek, and @knapprew.bsky.social, on bird diversity, theropod necks, and mammal brains, and the PhD student Kat Gregory presenting a poster on tradeoffs in the head of birds!
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Matthew Mitchell @m-j-mitchell.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
So happy to share that after years of hard work our paper on low hatching success in the #ExtinctInTheWild #Sihek has now been published in Animal Conservation! Read more here: zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Ornithology #ConservationScience 🌍 🦤 🧪
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Parental Age, Inbreeding and Incubation Method Influence Extremely Low Hatching Success in the Ex‐Situ Population of the Extinct in the Wild Sihek
Reproductive success rates are a key parameter determining the recovery potential of ex-situ managed threatened species, with high rates often being required to produce offspring for wild releases wh...
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Mehran Moazen @mmoazen.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
POST-DOC #JOB ADVERT – DEADLINE 20th Aug 2025 @ucl.ac.uk @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social @moazenlab.bsky.social To work on a #HFSP funded project that aims to understand the musculoskeletal system of head-first burrowers; leading computer simulation aspects of the project see moazenlab.com/vacancies/
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Moazen Lab – to advance understanding & repair of bones & joints
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Alana Sharp @acsharp.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Are you looking for a PhD project starting this year? I have a funded (UK rates) project on mammal skull diversity and function, looking at skull allometry and how mammal heads adapt to trade-offs in tissue demands during growth 🦌🦘🐘🦥 Please share and apply: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/buil...
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Building giants: tissue relationships during skull growth in large mammals | Courses | University of Liverpool
From elephants to rhinos to bison, enormous increases in body mass have repeatedly evolved within Mammalia over relatively short timescales, leading to a diversity of size and shape. In this project, ...
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Ryan N. Felice @rnf.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Do you like 3d imaging and invertebrate development? apply for this postdoc with @echinerd.bsky.social and me!
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Joe Rees @joerees.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
New post-doc opportunity working with Dr Marcello Ruta at the University of Lincoln. 3 year position titled “Key Innovations as Evolutionary Drivers of the Fish-Tetrapod Transition” and working on resolving phylogenetic patterns near the ancestral roots of amniotes. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS325/p...
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Post Doctoral Research Associate in Evolutionary PalaeobiologySchool of Natural Sciences at University of Lincoln
Discover Post Doctoral Research Associate in Evolutionary PalaeobiologySchool of Natural Sciences jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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Ryan N. Felice @rnf.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
yes, penguins are flightless birds, but this is taking it too far
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Unsecured penguin caused helicopter crash in South Africa
Pilot lost control after bird in cardboard box slid off a passenger's knee and knocked controls, aviation authority finds.
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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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Ryan N. Felice @rnf.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
check out @m-j-mitchell.bsky.social 's research on extinct in the wild birds ⬇️
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Ryan N. Felice @rnf.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
check out this new paper from @devinhoffman.bsky.social using bone histology to uncover growth rates in a fossil gator 🐊
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Ryan N. Felice @rnf.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
What good is a big brain? In our new preprint, @jwoyston.bsky.social, Mike May, and I show that birds with bigger brains have lower extinction rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A cartoon owl with a graduation cap on- clearly a big-brained bird
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
there is no "defensible use case" for chatgpt. do your own work and use your own brain or fuck off
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Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com · 28/01/2025
#SaveThePCC Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease. For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
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Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...
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Ryan N. Felice @rnf.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
turns out you can do some pretty cool stuff with the power of diceCT, SPROUT (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...), and the SmARTR pipeline (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...)
a 3d rendering of the skull and cranial muscles of the Eurasian oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)
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Ryan N. Felice @rnf.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
More anatomical research happening in the UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy
Three students in lab coats dissecting bird specimens
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Ryan N. Felice @rnf.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Took some time away from R today to do some dissecting. I feel like a real biologist.
The skinned head of a Eurasian Oystercatcher
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Xabier Simón Martínez de Goñi @martinezgonixs.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
📢Calling all researchers! We are studying what makes a great (or not-so-great) supervisor from the perspective of PhD students and postdocs. Our goal? To improve academic mentorship and research environments. Got 5-10 minutes? Take the survey!✍️ forms.gle/WT9GoiaHxypX...
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Labelling my scientific supervisor: A genuine leader or just a big jerk?
Thank you for taking part in this survey. The aim of this survey is to understand which characteristics make a scientific supervisor supportive and constructive or, conversely, detrimental to the grow...
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