Pei-Chen Kuo really smashing it on our palaeojournal club talking everything avian quadrates, excellent jokes too!

Very happy to announce that my masters thesis has finally been published! We looked at the wing anatomy of a tinamou in 3D, which will useful for understanding the evolution of modern bird flight muscles. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jo…

Thanks for coming to listen my talk. I survived!!! #EAVP2023

Okay, let’s pull up to the after party this weekend with the capybara! Weighing ~174 lbs (79 kg), this highly social species is the world’s largest rodent. Thanks to an abundance of fatty tissue, it is buoyant in water— making it perfectly suited to a semi-aquatic life.

Congrats to Pei-Chen Kuo on the publication of his second thesis chapter! This is a massive investigation of morphological evolution in the avian quadrate across the diversity of living birds. Check it out in Proceedings B, open access! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Evolutionary drivers of morphological disparity in the avian quadrate: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… Congrats to Pei-Chen Kuo and Guillermo Navalón! #birds #dinosaurs

Very happy to have contributed to Pei-Chen Kuo's PhD work! Turns out shape of the avian quadrate seems to be not very related with ecology at broad phylo. scales. Integration with other bones in the skull suggests quadrate evolved as part of a functionally integrated system!

The Empire State Building will light up New York’s skyline in blue and yellow to celebrate #PokemonDay! Keep an eye out on the evening of 02/27 between sunset and 2 am ET.

My second PhD chapter with Field Palaeobiology Research Group and Guillermo Navalón is out now! Read all about the nearly complete endocast of Lithornis vulturinus, and what it can tell us about the neuroanatomy of early crown birds 🐦 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

Juan Benito and Roc Olivé's Birds of the #Mesozoic is an illustrated guide to the marvelously diverse bird life of the #dinosaur age. Now available! Learn more about this comprehensive and up-to-date illustrated field guide: hubs.ly/Q02X7jdT0 #Birds

The American version of our book "Birds of the Mesozoic" with Princeton Nature is finally out! So happy our book will be more easily available for US & Canadian-based ornithology and paleontology enthusiasts! Lynx Nature Books

Tired of flattened early bird fossils? Today is your lucky day. Very happy to finally welcome 'Navaornis hestiae' to the world! It allowed us to see for the first time a (near)complete enantiornithine brain. Today in nature: nature.com/articles/s4158… #spinningskull

Super excited to see this first chapter of my PhD published ! Huge thank you to my supervisor Field Palaeobiology Research Group and co-authors, and to Emma R Schachner PhD for inviting us to contribute to this theme issue on the avian respiratory system!

It's finally out! Together with Allison Yi Hsiang and Field Palaeobiology Research Group, we explored relative homoplasy in a range of bird matrices and introduce a new parsimony measure, the relative homoplasy index (RHI) (1/n) academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/art…

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