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sidney leedham

@sidneyleedham.bsky.social

PhD student with @livevobiomech.bsky.social and @nhm-london.bsky.social studying the morphology and function of mammal spines 🦥🐆🐿️🐘 !! she/her 📍University of Liverpool

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sidney leedham @sidneyleedham.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

summer conference sillyness!

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 14/05/2026

New research from #ProcB: Range of motion and myology support a digging function for the forelimbs of #alvarezsauroid dinosaurs | doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #Biomechanics #Palaeontology

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sidney leedham @sidneyleedham.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

something that's also fun about this is that the final 'received' date is my birthday 😌

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sidney leedham @sidneyleedham.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

my @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social master's research on alvarezsaur arms is finally out today! we used range of motion and moment arms analysis to show that these weird little dinosaurs probably did use their teeny tiny arms to dig 🦴

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Range of motion and myology support a digging function for the forelimbs of alvarezsauroid dinosaurs

Abstract. Numerous lineages of theropod dinosaurs display notable modification of the forelimb, particularly reduction in size and number of digits. Alvare

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sidney leedham @sidneyleedham.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Not remotely morphology or biomechanics related, but I had a great time working on this and I'm really proud of it as my first paper 🤓

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sidney leedham @sidneyleedham.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

We found that Asian populations show lots of overlap with the niche of the African leopard, suggesting that as leopards moved out of Africa ~400kya, their existing flexibility allowed them to spread far and wide without major ecological changes 🌍

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sidney leedham @sidneyleedham.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

The work I did as an undergrad with @eegcam.bsky.social @mikleonardi.bsky.social is finally out, modelling the ecological niche of leopards to understand how African and Asian populations differ in their climatic distributions! (1/3) 🐆

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sidney leedham @sidneyleedham.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

behold even more of my dubious wisdom in the longer vid:

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Does this mammal really have bones protruding from their limbs? | A closer look at sloth claws

YouTube video by Natural History Museum

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sidney leedham @sidneyleedham.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

got to talk about sloths! at the NHM!

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Liverpool EMB lab @livevobiomech.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Interested in the functional morphology of mammal heads and want to come join us in Liverpool? Apply for this exciting new PhD project with Alana!

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Liverpool EMB lab @livevobiomech.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Posters, talks, medieval manuscripts, getting lost in the NHM and writing about themselves in the third person! It's all here in a new blog post by PhD students Sidney and Harrie!📝 embliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/t...

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The Natural History Museum Student Conference: getting lost in the science

Sidney Leedham and Harrie Williams The iconic entrance of the Natural History Museum, London. In June, the two of us attended the Natural History Museum’s Student Conference in London, as both our …

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