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Need to quantify color similarity across images? Check out our new methods paper on colordistance (CRAN.R-project.org/package=colord…), our R package for doing just that, out today in PeerJ Publishing! Mark Westneat 🐟 even managed to get some parrotfish in there: peerj.com/articles/6398/

It was a nice surprise to see our study featured on the cover of Journal of Anatomy! The image shows reconstructed brain (blue) in #chicken using diceCT and endocast (orange) of #alligator from µCT scanning. You can check out the #OpenAccess paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

New Random Act of Anatomy showcasing the 3D-printed krazy-straw nasal cavity of the ankylosaur Euoplocephalus. We 3D printed it for my OHIO Science Cafes last night (& published on it in Dec: bit.ly/2EwOzMO). Full 3-min. vid: youtu.be/rO9BWaRJNqo. Thanks @NSF_BIO!

On this #FossilFriday, @JaclynMrich and Katie McEvoy are unpacking more boxes of specimens from the McAbee Fossil Beds! Still lots of leaves, insects, and fish to catalogue and identify!

#AcademicTwitter Just read this depressing report about black female professors in the UK. Some points were surprising, including a common issue of passive aggressive bullying, exclusion & resentment by white female colleagues who claim to be feminists! ucu.org.uk/media/10075/st…

Check it out! New PLOS Biology paper on teeth by lab member Alexa Sadier (Alexa Sadier). The take-home? Overwriting previously established patterns during development might be common because developmental programs are modified incrementally during evolution. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

Really awesome campaign out of Cornell addressing disability-in-diversity. Particularly important for academic science, where disability often remains a poorly addressed aspect of diversity awareness efforts accessibility.cornell.edu/diversity-incl…

Our new paper on the evolution of skull shape in #bats is out in Nature Communications! With Jessica Arbour and Abigail Curtis (she/her), we show that echolocation drove the early evolution of bat skull shape, followed by more recent diet specialization in phyllostomids nature.com/articles/s4146…

Press release for my article with Abigail Curtis (she/her) and Sharlene Santana washington.edu/news/2019/05/0…

In Oct 2017 I lost my UW health insurance plan because I received an external postdoc fellowship. A month later I got sick. This UW policy has cost me $$$ and places too high a burden on chronically ill postdocs. You can read the full story here: link.medium.com/Gh2Svc7vlW

Our newest paper is out!

#SeriemaSunday Shot this video recently at the Columbus Zoo. This red-legged seriema displays the natural downward thrashing behavior they use to subdue prey...similar to the sagittal striking behavior we inferred for their extinct "terror bird" cousins: bit.ly/2ViMhK8

1st chapter is out! We found that a complex trait that improves biting efficiency has evolved at least 7 times over the last 65 million years.

New paper in [email protected] with Jessica Arbour, Abigail Curtis (she/her) and Katie Stanchak! We explore differences in macroevolutionary trends and bite force estimates when 2D vs. 3D data are used. We also provide a handy R code to estimate bite force from stls: doi.org/10.1093/icb/ic…

Made it to Phuket and ready for #IBRC2019! I’m particularly excited to learn more about current bat research in SE Asia. Hope you can join us for our talks on skull and calcar diversity across Chiroptera (Monday, 13:45 and 14:45, Tongkah 1)

Alyson Brokaw, PhD demonstrating that olfaction is important for frugivorous #bats to locate fruit! Lots of variation among individuals and olfaction appears to be more important than echolocation. #IBRC2019

Beyond thrilled to announce the start of a new U.S. National Science Foundation funded project with Tim Smith, Abigail Curtis (she/her) and Tom Eiting! 🥳🦇 1/4 👉nsf.gov/awardsearch/sh…

Exploring microanatomy of the bat snout, with Sharlene Santana , Thomas Eiting, Abigail Curtis (she/her) . Pictured is a stained section of the pteropodid Eonycteris spalaea, revealing olfactory turbinals and a maxillary recess entirely filled will a compound gland.

Ecstatic to share our new paper on skull evolution in placental mammals, highlighted on the cover of Science Magazine! With a 3d dataset spanning the Cenozoic, we describe a new model of attenuated evolution & identify traits associated w/fast evolution science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 1/