Edwin Dickinson & colleagues present a functional framework for interpreting the proportions of suspensory animals, raptorial birds, and vertical clinging birds: ow.ly/ablH50PBkGh #JRSocInterface @NYITAnatomy

All ready for #ESHE2023 ! Come see me present on a whole lot of fossil hands tomorrow 👋🏽🦍💀

Great talk by @AmelineBardo on hand asymmetry ESHE

Paranthropus skeleton or not? You decide. "Taxonomic attribution of the KNM-ER 1500 partial skeleton from the Burgi Member of the Koobi Fora Formation, Kenya" by Ward et al. 50 days free access here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1hpvpAlZXU1lX

VCWAP Call For Abstracts! Are you an early-career woman researcher and/or paleoartist? Do you want to share your work? See the details in the post below ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

(1/5) Excited to share our new insights into primate shoulder range-of-motion (ROM), now available #OpenAccess in #ProcB! Nathan Young Michael We introduce an in silico model to explore the relationship among morphology, ROM, and behaviour doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…

📢Don't miss next ESB webinar on "Automated Execution of Python Scripts for Medical Image Processing and Bone FEA" - by Prof. Dr. Dieter Pahr 🗓️November 14, 2023 5-6pm register here: esbiomech.org/student-sectio…

I passed my viva yesterday!! 🥳 Possibly one of the most enjoyable days of my academic journey. Grateful for my upper isles and the supportive lab group they’ve fostered over the years!! 🥰🥰

Our paper on dental morphology in Homo habilis is out in Nature Communications! We looked at the internal structure of H. habilis teeth, and found that most, including OH 7, are remarkably similar to Australopithecus MPI-EVA Leipzig nature.com/articles/s4146…

Want to study Neanderthal teeth? In collaboration with Dr. Gregory Abrams @Grego_Abrams and Espace museal d'Andenne, MicroCT scans of Neanderthal fossils from Scladina Cave, Belgium can now be requested through human-fossil-record.org

slowly but surely pumping out the chapters from my dissertation.... ⭐️ in our new study featured on the cover of Journal of Experimental Biology 's latest issue, we discover that climbing force profiles are remarkably stereotyped across humans regardless of experience! journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…

New paper on Sahelanthropus, finding femur shaft could be consistent with forms of locomotion beyond bipedality. 50-days free access at JHE: authors.elsevier.com/c/1jJp6AlZXXroE Collaboration led by my recent postdoc Cazenave Marine, including some data from my PhD student Aless

🚨New Publication!🚨 We deep dive into the positional behaviour of the Issa Valley chimpanzees, to investigate the selective pressures acting on ape behaviour in an open habitat 🐵🌳 (a 🧵) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj…

Yesterday I did a thing and got a pretty cool hat 👩🏽‍🎓

Thrilled to announce our new paper on the evolution of the human inner ear otolithic system! We find evolutionary divergences of the otolithic inner ear in humans and apes, with possible links to the evolution of postural behavior 👇👇 rdcu.be/dVM7Q

Different ways of ‘getting a grip’. How ancient human relatives in South Africa used their #hands reveals varying levels of dexterity & climbing ability. Study Science Advances led by Samar Syeda 🇵🇰 & Tracy Kivell. #hominins American Museum of Natural History tinyurl.com/mwk5eb63 & doi.org/10.1126/sciadv…

Excited for our work exploring behavioural diversity in South African hominins to be out today! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…