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Yuting Lin @tinandemu.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I played Jubensha once. It was mind-blowing but very fun.

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Pasha van Bijlert @pashavanb.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

So cool! You can see how the chicken switches to a more columnar posture because it's Centre of mass is pulled closer to the hip!

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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Our work on mammalian hallucal grasping, led by Irene Montañez-Rivera during her time in the @johnnyakatura.bsky.social group, is out now in iScience. A true team effort; thanks to the whole crew for inviting me to contribute a small piece! www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Congratulations to Thomas Cowgill, my MRes student, and @tinandemu.bsky.social , my PhD student, on both winning runner-up best presentations (graphical abstract/poster, and talk respectively) at RVC's postgraduate research day yesterday! I'm proud of them both.

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Yuting Lin @tinandemu.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Honoured to receive the Ruth Bowden Award for my PhD research on the cool biomechanics behind how birds stand up from British Federation of Women Graduates! Grateful to the committee and everyone who supported this journey. #BFWG #BritishFederationofWomenGraduates

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UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Our Annual Symposium 2025 on interdisciplinary aspects of functional morphology was enjoyed by over 70 attendees, incl. 17 speakers, yesterday (20 February). This full-day conference delved into the fascinating and inter-disciplinary world of #anatomy. @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

Group photo of attendees remaining after 5pm at the UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy's annual symposium 2025. A large group of people are standing on a light, parquet floor, looking up at the camera with smiling faces

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The Milinkovitch-Tzika lab @lanevol.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Watch our video to learn how compressive forces sculpt the intricate head scales of #crocodiles! 🎥🐊 And read the full @nature.com article here ⬇️ nature.com/articles/s41... @rorylcooper.bsky.social @genevunige.bsky.social

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The mechanics of crocodile head scales patterning

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Yuting Lin @tinandemu.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

And just for fun, think about how you can stand up like an emu.

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Yuting Lin @tinandemu.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Grateful to London Interdisciplinary Biosciences Consortium Doctoral Training Programme for supporting this work with a research grant!

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Yuting Lin @tinandemu.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Special thanks to Masaya Iijima, Delyle T. Polet, Stacy Ashlyn, and Mauro B.C. Lacerda for their support throughout my first PhD year! Also, many thanks to @pashavanb.bsky.social, Jim R. Usherwood, and Monica A. Daley for their insights into bird biomechanics in this project.

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Yuting Lin @tinandemu.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

This study marks the first chapter of my PhD at Royal Veterinary College and University College London. Huge thanks to my co-authors Jeffery W. Rankin, Luís P. Lamas, @mmoazen.bsky.social, and @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social! I couldn’t have done it without them. 🎊

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Yuting Lin @tinandemu.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

It also has practical applications in fields like robotics 🤖 and animal welfare 🐓 See below a video of Troody created by Peter Dilworth from MIT.

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Yuting Lin @tinandemu.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Understanding how emus and other species stand up will provide important implications for how non-locomotor behaviours shape musculoskeletal form and function and drive evolutionary adaptions.

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Yuting Lin @tinandemu.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

See the cool video of our simulations!

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Yuting Lin @tinandemu.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

SECONDARY FINDING: We further compared dynamic (with compliant tendons) vs static simulations (with rigid tendons), and found that tendons play a major role in reducing excessive muscle fibre length changes and forces.

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Yuting Lin @tinandemu.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

MAIN FINDING: Much as for our prior study with greyhounds (and others' work with people), emus use large muscle fibre length changes, activations and forces; and more so when they go from sitting to walking vs. sitting to standing.

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Yuting Lin @tinandemu.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Measuring muscle activations and forces directly is tough, so we combined experiments with computer simulations of musculoskeletal biomechanics to estimate how emus use their muscles to stand up. 👩‍💻🍗

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Yuting Lin @tinandemu.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

In our study, we focused on emus 🦵, and we collected data from force platforms that the emus used to stand up and motion capture cameras. See below a video of our experiment.

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Yuting Lin @tinandemu.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Unlike humans, animals do not normally have a seat, and they start off from very crouched position, and thus many animals probably have large joint moments which give them a weaker strength-to-weight ratio. They also have diverse sizes, morphology, ecology and so on…

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Yuting Lin @tinandemu.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Terrestrial vertebrates—including humans—often sit to rest and stand to move around. While we've studied how humans stand up extensively, surprisingly little research exists on how other animals transition from sitting to standing.

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Find out more about JEB's new article type, Theory & Modelling, allowing scientists to publish research leveraging modelling and theory to address new biological questions, in Sheila Patek, Monica Daley, Matt McHenry & Sanjay Sane's Editorial journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Screen shot of the top of the first page of the Journal of Experimental Biology Editorial, JEB launches a new article type for theory and modelling studies, written by S. N. Patek, Monica A. Daley, Matthew McHenry and Sanjay Sane. The first sentence of the Editorial reads: JEB recently launched a new article type called Theory & Modelling.

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Oh groovy, our paper on the hindlimb biomechanics of the Triassic dinosauriform Lagosuchus is out! A quick thread for now. We uCT-scanned most of the existing skeletal material for this important outgroup to Dinosauria. We sorted through the elements and chose the best ones to make a 3D model from.

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

London's Centre for Ecology and Evolution is having a 1-day symposium on climate change and (broadly defined) biodiversity, all day, Friday 8 September -- free tickets here: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/centr...

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Centre for Ecology & Evolution: Autumn symposium on 'Climate change…

Speakers from across CEE’s 10 institutions will come together to discuss research on 'Climate change and biodiversity'.

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