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Conference season continues! Last week we were thrilled to present our Ozboneviz poster to the #AAA46 conference and chat with the AustArchAssoc community about how they can use our virtual 3D databases of vertebrate skeletons.

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In a review of how mammalian heads evolve, scientists from Flinders University and Uni of Adelaide found that adaptations to feeding explain why large species of mammals often have much longer faces compared to smaller closely related species D. Rex Mitchell Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land)

So there’s this one tattoo design that’s pretty popular. A wolf face on one side and a skull on the other side. I love this tattoo design because the message behind it is just so unintentionally GREAT....🧵

Fresh ink! We look at how the skulls of rock-wallabies change with size and how size influences jaw anatomy and biting ability The tiniest species seem to be particularly good at biting Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) Meg Martin royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Fresh ink! We show that size-correlated shape variation can contain information relating to skull function Something to consider before removing size variation to look at size-independent residuals for functional patterns royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

D. Rex Mitchell shows that the littlest rock wallabies pack a punch when it comes to biting hard. We call it the "Little Wallaby Syndrome". Rock wallabies are awesome to study skull adaptation because they are a recent radiation yet found across Australia. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Thanks Royal Society Publishing Cassyni for the opportunity to give this seminar 🙏

HUGE paper on carnivore skull trade-offs by Gabriele Sansalone Marie Attard CarmeloFruciano Geoff Coates and Steve Wroe Nice work on the gazillion models! rdcu.be/dEW4C

Very happy to see our new paper on functional trade-off and cranial shape evolution in carnivore mammals out in Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146… led by Gabriele Sansalone and including contributions from Steve Wroe, Geoff Coates and Marie Attard

Our recent paper made the cover of the latest issue of Biology Letters. Pretty chuffed 😊 Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

One for puppy Tinder. Our boy has serious rizz 🕺

Another new paper looking at how both the size of an animal and its diet together influence skull shape - this time in rodents! 🐭💀 Well done team! Vera Weisbecker (she/her on Kaurna land) Ariel Marcy 🏳️‍🌈 Thomas Guillerme onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

The boxthorn bed and breakfast? Our new paper, published in CSIRO wildlife research shows that Stick nest rats preferentially eat invasive boxthorn rather than native vegetation on Australia’s Reevesby Island publish.csiro.au/wr/Fulltext/WR…

No luck on the DECRA. Moving on 🕺