I'm excited to share that next fall, I'll be joining the faculty Fairfield University 🦌 as an Asst Prof in Biology! 🦌 I'm deeply grateful for my time American Museum of Natural History and as part of the Bio Anth Lab. I look forward to continuing and expanding on these collaborations in this next chapter! 💀👂🧠

Fully funded PhD position on Hominin Life History Evolution available in my new lab University of Zurich Please retweet! Link: uzh-my.sharepoint.com/my?id=%2Fperso…

🚨 New publication alert! Check out my latest paper in the Bulletin de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris where I review the applications of diffeomorphic deformation techniques to the study of fossil primates 🦴 journals.openedition.org/bmsap/15645

Grateful to Dr. Jasmine Pan and Communications Biology for the opportunity to share my journey of using art as a gateway into science. It was a pleasure to discuss how creativity can shape and enhance scientific exploration! nature.com/articles/s4200…

🎨🧠 New Inspiring Scientific Curiosity & Discovery webinar! Join Jill Gregory on April 23 at noon to explore the legal + ethical sides of using medical illustrations. Don't miss it—sign up now 👉 ow.ly/s8tB50VE9M3 #Anatomy26 #anatomy #science #research #education #AAA

20 years ago, on April 22, 2005, Misha the zoo elephant was moved from Vallejo, CA to Salt Lake City, UT. Her relocation inspired a suite of studies about isotope turnover, including my recent one published in Communications Biology Learn more about the study here: nature.com/articles/s4200…

Check out the latest paper on a weird jawless fossil fish, and this time we were able to recreate a full 3D model! Thank you Lisa Schnetz, IvanS, Sam Giles, Richard Dearden et al. for having me on the paper Science at the Natural History Museum #fossilfish #CTscan #palaeotology

In 2 weeks: American Museum of Natural History , James Arthur Lecture, by Chris Kuzawa. "Food for Thought: How our Energy-Hungry Brains Shaped the Evolution of Human Childhood." See the invitation in the link below: media.wordfly.com/amnhinternal/e…

Now is the time to share your interests and suggestions for programming! The pre-proposal deadline is just one week away 📨 Submit your ideas 🖋️ Gain valuable feedback 🧠 Shape Anatomy Connected 2026 🔗 ow.ly/VhSV50VSGro #Anatomy26 #science #research #education #AAA

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…

Glad to share a new paper led by @yara_haridy and Neil Shubin Lab on the early evolution of teeth! Modern and fossil data point at an ancestrally sensorial function for the earliest dentine nature.com/articles/s4158…

New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team! Open Access Paper: nature.com/articles/s4158… News and Views: nature.com/articles/d4158… Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05-t…

doi.org/10.1038/s41467… A study of infant fossils from Ethiopia and South Africa reveals that facial differences among early Homo species were already present in infancy.

Just wrapped up an amazing few days at Mass Eye and Ear for the International Otopathology Society meeting. Grateful for the insights, connections, and inspiration!

New special issue scrutinizes the roles of cartilage in cranial development. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494/2…

'Embodied cognitive evolution and the limits of convergence' - paper by Louise Barrett and me just out: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…. .

New paper today about the evolution of the wrist along the dinosaur to bird transition: a bird-like configuration appeared in predatory dinosaurs first, as suggested by new exceptionally preserved hands of oviraptors and troodontids nature.com/articles/s4158…

The final chapter of my PhD is finally published today in Nature Ecology and Evolution! Extremely proud of this culmination of years of work on the avian sternum, and grateful to everyone who contributed. Please reach out if you'd like a PDF 🎉 nature.com/articles/s4155…

Excited to be a co-author on our new article “The First Million Years of Technology: The Lomekwian and the Early Oldowan” now published online in the Annual Review of Anthropology. Feel free to DM or email for a copy annualreviews.org/content/journa…