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Ryan N. Felice

@rnf.bsky.social

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Associate professor of evolutionary biology at UCL felicelab.com

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

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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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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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