PhD position available at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin on avialan ontogeny (birds and their closest non-avian dinosaur relatives)! jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/edf…

The below video is in realtime! Dynamic ROM simulations run at >7 FPS. Static ROM simulations run at >130 FPS(!). Each simulation setup can also be parallelised (across multiple Maya instances; i.e., diferrent Maya scenes) and run from the terminal/command prompt!

RVC XROMM at work again! (with cadavers, not live birds)

✅ Michael Heseltine draws a direct line between the fascist movements of 1930s and today’s far-right surge across Europe and the UK. He reminds readers that post-war peace and prosperity were built through European cooperation, not isolation. Heseltine calls Farage’s rhetoric

I’m now happy to share my first postdoc work in its final, peer-reviewed version published in Functional Ecology ! A huge thank-you again to Field Palaeobiology Research Group Lizzy Steell Dr. Oliver Demuth Anne-Claire Fabre and to Swiss National Science Foundation besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

🦎 New collaborative research from the RVC, the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, and Clemson University has revealed how more upright limb postures helped ancient reptiles overcome the biomechanical constraints of body size. ➡️rvc.uk.com/ancient-reptil…

New work on crocodylian locomotor evolution led by Masaya Iijima, w/Richard Blob! More erect hindlimb postures help extant gators support their weight (esp. at ankle), & how these mechanics constrained giant Deinosuchus to a slow walk at best! The paper-- science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Our new paper on Alligator hindlimb biomechanics and its implications for the evolution of limb posture and body size has been published in Sci Adv. Huge thanks to my mentors Profs. John Hutchinson and Rick Blob, and everyone who contributed. Paper: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

We at Royal Ontario Museum are looking for a contract curator in Vertebrate Palaeontology to help me develop a major exhibition on ‘raptor’ dinosaurs. Please spread the word. Apply here: royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/UFdMVz28…

Elon Musk is deliberately using his platform to poison our politics and divide our country. It's time for the government to wake up to the threat he poses to our democracy

Announcing at the beginning of your talk that you will not stick to your allocated time and you just gonna overrun (probably by quite a bit) is arrogant and disrespectful to others who manage (or try) to keep within their slot