Yesterday, I had the pleasure of chairing the final examination/defense of our PhD program in Earth and Environmental Sciences Unict. Hopefully, at least some of our freshly minted PhDs can go on to a great career and further contribute to human knowledge #biology

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Delighted to have been a co-author in this. Thanks particularly to Rishi De-Kayne for pushing the manuscript through...

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A free online two-weeks crash course in evolutionary biology for students who did not have much exposure to evolutionary biology yet. Ideal for applying for a PhD or Master. evobiocrashcourse.github.io. Run by an excellent team of grad students on 10-21 of June. Register by 4 June.

Yesterday seminar for lay audiences Unict. I was happy to share my journey from a childhood fascination with aquariums to working on questions in evolutionary biology. It’s amazing how personal interests can intersect with scientific research! #evolution #aquarium #zoology

Sansalone et al. examine morphological trade-offs between bite force & speed in 132 carnivore species, finding that velocity optimisation can be obtained in more ways than force optimisation.
@G_Sansalone CarmeloFruciano
nature.com/articles/s4146…

A story just dropped on Nature Portfolio about our most recent publication on carnivores morphological evolution CarmeloFruciano communities.springernature.com/posts/bite-har…