Final conference as a postdoc featured lots of bird anatomy with Casey Holliday, Emma Schachner, and Dominique Homberger; green chile everything; and a detour to the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History. Thanks to @crocholliday.bsky.social for the symposium invitation!
Excited to visit UToronto this week for the famous Atwood Symposium!
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Very proud of my incoming PhD student, Joanna Baker, for receiving the NSF GRFP! She worked extremely hard on her application and I'm very much looking forward to her joining my lab @gtsciences.bsky.social this year.
Headshot of Sean Anderson. Text: Sean Anderson, 2026 Society for the Study of Evolution Dobzhansky Prize Honorable Mention.
We are also pleased to announce the Dobzhansky Prize Honorable Mention, Dr. Sean Anderson! Learn more about his work: www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display... @seananderson.bsky.social
Congratulations @seananderson.bsky.social!!! 🥳
We're hiring a *post doc*!
Are you a global change ecologist (broadly defined) and want to work with Jenny McGuire, @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social, me & many others?!🦎🐦🦴⛰️
Come join an amazing, hungry, and very exciting eco-evo group here at GT!
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Join us for our first CNB virtual mini symposium 🐓🏃🏻♀️! future events suited to additional time zones coming soon; join our mailing list on our website (link in flyer) to stay in the loop.
Congrats!! 🥳
Huge congratulations to my mentee, Miranda Margulis-Ohnuma, for winning the @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social D. Dwight Davis Award for Division of Vertebrate Morphology best student talk at this year's @sicb.bsky.social meeting! So pleased to see her creativity recognized 🐍
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At the RVC we are grieving the death of the Structure & Motion Lab's creator, and stalwart comrade, Professor Alan Wilson FRS, from a plane crash in Namibia on Wednesday. He was a giant in comparative biomechanics and an amazing scientist. I'm still reeling. It is utterly shocking and deeply sad.
Reporting the death of Prof Alan M. Wilson FRS in a light plane crash in Namibia, while doing wildlife research. He was 62. He built and flew his own planes but I do not know if he either built or flew this one. He even flew from London to Cromer to meet me for lunch (he brought cake). Devastated.
A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.
NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)
Directorates to follow
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!!! happy, pleased, and generally floored to be a #SloanFellow. this means more getting out into nature to figure out how mountain birds are responding to climate change
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Incredibly cool preprint on empirical fitness seascapes 🌊 by Swathi Nachiar Manivannan & @cbo.bsky.social – if you like thinking about adaptive landscapes, a must-read.
Had a great seminar visit with the crew at Ohio University — thanks to Susan Williams, @witmerlab.bsky.social, and Peishu Li for a very fun start to the week!
Excited to share that our co-edited volume on the Iron Age Philistine cemetery from Ashkelon is now out! This volume presents the bioarchaeological findings from the c. 250 individuals, each with a dedicated catalogue entry that synthesizes their stratigraphic, osteological & artifactual contexts.
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Had lots of fun delivering the @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social Carl Gans award lecture yesterday at @sicb.bsky.social #SICB2026! Grateful to have the support of so many incredible colleagues in comparative biomechanics.
Thanks so much, James!! Can’t wait! 🐓🦎
Thanks so much, Austin!!
The SICB 2026 logo. The text on the left reads: 'SICB 2026. 3-7 January Portland, OR. Oregon Convention Center. The image on the right is a cartoon of downtown Portland, with pine trees and skyscrapers
JEB is proud to be sponsoring the 2026 @sicbjournals.bsky.social Carl Gans Lecture by Armita Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social at 13:30 in Oregon 201, the Oregon Convention Center
Dr Manafzadeh's lecture is entitled 'Joints: form, function, and the future of comparative biomechanics'
🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!
A row of painted 3D printed skulls on a table
A group of painted 3D printed skulls on a table
The Vertebrate Paleontology students did a great job 3D printing and painting skulls—look at that homology!
Congratulations, @caleb-m-gordon.bsky.social et al.! Such creative work; nothing more satisfying than a good cross-field method-repurposing.
Hey everyone! I’m excited to share that one of my thesis projects was just published in @currentbiology.bsky.social and featured on phys.org! In this paper, we use an old statistical approach developed by the US Navy in WW2 to predict the aquatic habits of various dinosaurs and marine reptiles 🦖🐊
Looking forward to joining the @royalsociety.org Proceedings B editorial board in 2026 – send us your papers!
Excited to have the opportunity to share my perspective on comparative biomechanics in a plenary at this year's SICB meeting. Grateful to my mentors/collabs/students for their support along the way, and very honored to receive the Gans Young Investigator Award!
Congratulations!!!!
the word that best captures my feelings about receiving the Duke University 2025 Outstanding Postdoc award is just grateful
grateful to sheila for the opportunity to grow as a scientist and grateful for my students for teaching me more than they know
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