Mason Dean
@MasonDeanLab
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Joined November 2018
Come work with us! Applications are open for an Assistant. Prof. In Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation
@tcddublin in the Discipline of Botany! https://t.co/8KeMU2QmCh Deadline: November 14th. #academicjobs #universityjobs #environmentalscience
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Lamprey 'teeth'? Check out this awesome new paper by @MadleenGrohganz in the Journal of Morphology - Investigating the Morphogenesis and Replacement of Lamprey Toothlets Using Synchrotron Imaging. @WileyEcolEvol @glpcjd
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Toothlet replacement is a conserved feature in lampreys. We describe the mechanism at tissue level and quantify the determining factors, thus providing the basis for studies into a deep homology of...
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Thrilled! 🎉 @CroucherHK highlights my #SharkScience postdoc research: blue shark coloration & unique color dynamics! 📷📷 New possibilities for #biomimicry! Thanks @MasonDeanLab & valued collaborators! Read more: https://t.co/4FxYDwxHFB
#StructuralColor
croucher.org.hk
The chameleon shark?
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Iridescence is more common in mammals than thought, and always produced by the same mechanism! New from EON, led by PhD student Jessica Dobson https://t.co/WUVndL5ujQ
royalsocietypublishing.org
Iridescent coloration is a vibrant structural colour that is widespread in nature, but in mammals is thought to be limited. Although multiple rodent and Eulipotyphlan species have been anecdotally...
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Thanks so much, we couldn't have done it without your support!
We were pleased to support this summer's Comparative Cartilage & Bone Biology conference with a Scientific Meeting Grant. Learn more about the meeting and how the funding facilitated attendance by early-career researchers from organiser @MasonDeanLab
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Our new paper is out today @PNASNews describing how the ghost shark tenaculum forms with a formidable set of teeth! 'Teeth outside the jaw: Evolution and development of the toothed head clasper in chimaeras' @Karly_Cohen and artwork by Ray Troll. 👻🦈🦷 https://t.co/mGs2o4bhN5
pnas.org
Chimaeras (Holocephali) are an understudied group of mostly deep-ocean cartilaginous fishes (Chondrichthyes) with unique characteristics that disti...
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Excited to have this new #OA article out in @FossilsMDPI ( https://t.co/QUIeUbIINZ), documenting the loss of cranial kinesis in phorusrhacid terror birds in connection with their remarkable hatchet-like feeding style. Dino Degrange ably led the project & we've got more on the way!
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Sharks don’t have eyelids like ours to protect their eyes, so they’ve evolved other methods. Some species have a nictitating membrane which is a third inner eyelid, the same as snakes, cats, and birds use. Other species roll their eyes back when feeding to protect them. There
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It’s a big pleasure to announce @the_anatomist1’s successful dissertation defense! Khizar wrangled huge research —with Michael Doube at @CityUHongKong and Aimee Colbath @cornellvet— recognized by a @BoneResearchSoc award, multiple grants, and bushels of publications. We’ll miss
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It’s a big pleasure to announce @MajoMalagamba90’s successful dissertation defense! In her short time with us, she organized a massive study and international collaboration on dolphin reproductive anatomy, wrote papers like a champion, won piles of honors, and actually made me
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🥳 Exciting news! 🦈💠 Our blue shark skin color research, which I presented at #SEB2025 in Antwerp, got featured in: 🔹 EurekAlert: https://t.co/Idoof5EwO1 🔹 ScienceAlert: https://t.co/KHYFU6vhn3 🔹 Science Daily: https://t.co/j4VX1Ft09s 🔹 Morgenpost: https://t.co/MaphxonrEu
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The first chapter of my dissertation is out! Repeated and widespread evolution of biofluorescence in marine fishes @Karly_Cohen @Lampichthys @FintasticFishes @jmhuiee
https://t.co/VWz2N9n20a
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Had an excellent opportunity to present my research paper on "Oyster larval biomineralisation - insights from Electron BackScatter Diffraction" at @Faraday_D Edinburgh, May 14-16. Thanks to @MasonDeanLab @CityUHongKong for making this trip possible. (1/3)
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The @IUCNShark is trying to identify 'Important Shark & Ray Areas' (ISRA's) in Irish waters... Can you help? 🦈 You can submit sightings of sharks, skates, rays or live in-situ egg cases to @BioDataCentre 👉 https://t.co/hIMf8rWsGD More at @IrishElasmos
#FairSeas
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New #TrinityResearch led by Prof. @jdrodriguezTCD and Kristina Petra Zubovic from @TCD_NatSci shows that PET-based #glitter #microplastics can influence biomineralisation processes in marine environments. Read more at: https://t.co/UGrtwseIxC
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Dr Martyn Linnie, curator of @TCDZooMuseum, has just launched a new book, The Unnatural History of Animals – Tales from a Zoological Museum, bringing to life the many tales of the museum’s history and that of its permanent residents. @TCDZoology
https://t.co/kdFNu8ksPX
tcd.ie
Dr Martyn Linnie, curator of Trinity College Dublin’s Zoological Museum, has just launched a new book, bringing to life the many tales of the museum’s history and that of its permanent residents.
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We're hiring! Could you help us nurture & develop botanical skills across Northern Ireland & grow participation in the National Plant Monitoring Scheme? Apply by 13 April for this great new part-time post: https://t.co/y8jThD0oEC
@theNPMS
@BSBI_Ireland
@UKCEH_training
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🚨 Calling all early-career scientists! The #HFSP Fellowships call is now OPEN. 🚀 High-risk, high-reward #LifeScience projects 🌍 International mobility & #interdisciplinarity 💡 Deadline to initiate LOI: 7 May 2025 🔗 Apply now: https://t.co/ZDUW1kWUoo 🧪 #sts #Fellowships
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Not just a talented runner-musician-photographer + obsessive shorts-wearer, my brother Derek + his lab discovered purpleoid, a classic Drosophila eye color trait noted by Calvin Bridges way back in 1916, is due to mutation in the SNARE complex gene SNAP29 https://t.co/Ra3gkspX0Y
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