new paper out today in PRSB from Slater lab grad student @AlexaLamprecht along with me and Michael Granatosky on the evolution of walking gaits in vertebrates, showing that mammalian locomotor diversity results from release of a deeply conserved constraint royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Awesome collaboration with @AlexaLamprecht and Graham Slater! Highlights include evidence for a constraint in symmetrical gait patterns, rapid evolutionary rate shifts in mammalian locomotion, and plenty of avenues for future research. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.109…

I just realized that this illustration in my office depicts a Thyla-scene. #animalpuns

Another Slater Lab preprint, this one led by @AlexaLamprecht along with Rossy Natale and Robert Higgins and me: Choice of 3D morphometric method leads to diverging interpretations of form--function relationships in the carnivoran calcaneus biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited that our paper on primate historical biogeography is now out! Key takeaway: fossils are critical to ancestral range inference at deep nodes in primate phylogeny, but their topological position should be critically assessed ! 🐒🦍🦧🦴

“Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?” “Well, you have to know these things when you’re a grad student, you know" Alexa Wimberly

‘The world needs science and science needs women’ 🧬🔬⚗️ An inspirational morning with the L'Oréal USA For #Women in #Science award winners Smithsonian NMNH followed by a mammals tour & talk by melissa hawkins 🦇 We focused on human interactions with wildlife 🐋🐿 Alexa Wimberly #womeninstem

I’m excited to be giving a seminar at the Museum of Nature this week on some of my past research on tetrapod walking gaits and current studies on hoofed mammals! 🐂🐃🐏🦌🐐 And it's open to the public - register here! #WalkingWithHoofedMammals

Look who’s walking! Did you know #whales are related to #hippos & #deer?🐋 🦛 🦌Great fun doing outreach & sci comms today with fellow #biologist & #morphologist Alexa Wimberly at Smithsonian NMNH for ‘An evolutionary tale of deer and dolphins’ #evolution #biology #WomenInSTEM Smithsonian

What a great collaboration with Dr Ellen Coombs teaching Smithsonian NMNH visitors about artiodactyl evolution!! 🦌🦛🐋

If you're at #SICB2023, check out @annalwisniewski talking about craniofacial evolutionary allometry in living and fossil horses in Lonestar G at 3.15pm

Ungulates are often thought of as prey animals but just check out the diversity in forms and ecology. And chevrotains are in there too! Tiny but have important roles in the ecosystem as seed dispersers and herbivores. #InternationalUngulateAwarenessDay

Super excited to share that I've been selected as an SJA Fellow! Looking forward to a year of mentorship, community, and exciting research/science communication opportunities! Steve Jobs Archive

Huge congrats to Dr. Alexa Wimberly who successfully defended her dissertation this week. There are many good things to come from Alexa, so keep an eye open! We'll miss her UChicago Paleobiology but she'll rock in her post doc at the AMNH!