HUGE congratulations to @MerinJoji for her award as a Writing-Up Fellow in Morphometrics in Evolutionary Biology at the Konrad Lorenz Institute @KLIAustria in Austria. She will spend 6 months there finalising her PhD thesis, with guidance from top researchers in the field.

We got the @Nature cover 🎉! Read our article to learn how compressive forces sculpt the intricate head scales of crocodiles 🐊 @LANEVOL @genevunige @UNIGEnews https://t.co/vnCSl7xNsq

Danish readers can find the article here

Thank you to the wonderful magazine Dyrefondet for featuring my research on the origins of dogs. It's such a pleasure to reach the larger community of animal lovers who may wonder how their beloved pets evolved

I could not be prouder of EvoMorphoLab student Anne Hansen, who was selected to present her dodo work at the prestigious Videnskabsgalla https://t.co/neILqgZtFC. Anne is a natural storyteller, captivating the audience with her reconstructions of dodo foraging ecology

Yesterday our group had the pleasure of hearing @HortaQuentin's research on lacertid lizards - the group I studied for my PhD over 12 years ago! This just shows that lacertids never go out of style...🦎🦎🦎

New insights into the inner ears of my favourite limbless burrowing reptiles - amphisbaenians, or "beanies" as we lovingly call them. See here for more https://t.co/XQ77W7r4b5

Last week I attended my old school Lund University's architecture student vernissage, based on a course I taught in called 'Gestaltningsprocess och prototyp'. This year's theme was DJUR, for which they designed furniture or objects related to our interactions with other animals

MSc student Mohammed Naushad Khumri engaging the public at Copenhagen's Kulturnat with his project on the impacts of ice loss on Arctic marine mammal neurobiology. Kids 🩷 skulls!

I never get tired of @Scincomancer's gorgeous lizard drawings! See our new paper to find out what happens to lizard pectoral and pelvic girdles when they lose their limbs and start swimming in sand.

How do lizard skeletons adapt to the evolutionary reduction of limbs? https://t.co/Dx2hK05mkf #ProcB #OpenAccess @Scincomancer @chapple_lab @DrTeethAl @EvoMorphoLab_KU

Happy to report that MSc student Christoffer Hviid got the highest mark for his thesis on wolf recolonisation of northwestern Europe, synthesising nearly 100 papers on wolf ecology & management. Wolves are back and here to stay, and he has lots of ideas to promote our coexistence

PhD student @BlomStine presented a poster at this year's @ESHE_society conference in Croatia, introducing her original CT dataset of hominid bones. Glasses hanging down on the sides let people see a hand and scapula in 3D!

PhD student @Michael_Lind_S presented his research applying an upwards LDDMM framework to model phenotypic changes along branches of the butterfly phylogeny at the International Congress of Entomology @ice2024kyoto_jp. Nevermind the typhoon that followed...(he is home safe;)

Geometric Morphometrics in R course completed! 24 students learned and demonstrated landmark-based methods for quantifying and comparing biological shapes. Thanks to Dean Adams & Mike Collyer, GBIF, and KU for their support:)

A blurry bbq night for the EvoMorphoLab! Thanks @BlomStine @MerinJoji @SarahduPlessi16 @RicardoAranda44 for the great picture!

Kicking off Geometric Morphometrics workshop at @UCPH_Research and @domibujnak teaching 3D landmarking!!! 🐺

We welcome our new postdoc @RicardoAranda44, cosupervised with @ras_nielsen as part of our @VILLUMFONDEN project Stochastic Morphometry. Ricardo will study bird beak evolution (like in this kākāpō) using methods developed by our @CCEM_ucph team.

Calling all Indian nature lovers! We're looking for locals to help with a Citizen Science project on Indian freshwater turtles, where students collect water samples for turtle eDNA, microbial diversity, and water quality. Contact @MerinJoji for more information!

Amazing specimens from Jurassica museum