Ananth Srinivas
@ananth_srinivas
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Paleontologist | Postdoc @UofAlabama | PhD @Penn | @BristolPalaeo masters | Cranial biomechanics, technology and iOS/macOS App Development 🦖🐊🐐👨🏾💻
Joined February 2012
Our new paper in @RSocPublishing is out now We show that modern crocodiles evolved flatter and weaker skulls from domed ancestors to adapt to life in water, trading skull strength for streamlining 🐊 Read here: https://t.co/Acr5tvxP6U
#Paleontology #Crocodiles #Evolution
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Excited to share that our Comment paper with @jemilyr on the usefulness (or not) of model organisms in evolutionary morphology was published yesterday! #evolution #morphology #biomechanics
New online! More model organisms are needed to understand the evolution of animal morphology and function
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Thanks to my supervisors @jemilyr, @BeekGeak, and John Cunningham for being patient with me in getting this out, and to my co-authors Sandra Tavares, Ismar de Souza Carvalho, Fabiano Iori and Fresia Ricardi-Branco. Many thanks to @PaleoVidal for the paleo art @BristolPalaeo
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Day 16 of #Croctober For today lets all just take a moment to appreciate the treasure trove that is Miocene South America, a true hotspot of croc evolution thanks to its warm climate and expansive wetlands. Of particular note is the Urumaco Fm. of Venezuela Art by Gabriel Ugueto
Day 15 of #Croctober Despite looking deceptively like a gharial, Euthecodon was actually more closely related to today's dwarf and slender-snouted crocodiles. This genus first appeared in the Miocene and only went extinct during the Pleistocene.
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Constraints and adaptations in crocodyliform skull evolution https://t.co/e065XtjVdm
#biorxiv_paleo
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Crocodyliformes display a diverse range of skull morphologies though their evolutionary history. Extant crocodilians possess platyrostral (broad and flat) snouts, thought to be sub-optimal for...
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I'm recruiting a PhD student to join the lab at @GeorgiaTech in Fall 2026! Broad taxonomic and topical freedom under the umbrella of vertebrate joint form and function. Information here: https://t.co/9OcmKYrOLe – please share 🦴🩻
manafzadeh.com
Homepage for The Manafzadeh Lab at Georgia Tech
✨Some news✨: after finishing my postdoc, I’ll be starting my lab as an Assistant Professor at @GeorgiaTech. Join us in Atlanta to study how joints work and where they come from!
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MyoGeneratorRemix is a reimplementation of MyoGenerator (Herbst et al., 2022), a tool for muscle reconstruction and parameter estimation—essential for downstream analyses like FEA. Our version brings major upgrades, including full compatibility with Blender 4.5.2.
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Want to do a PhD on White Sharks using high-powered imaging to analyse form and function of their teeth and jaws? 🦈🦷🦴 You will work with me and the dream team, @HuveneersSSEG, @Meyer_Sci, @WeisbeckerLab & #SARDI & @ANSTO at Flinders University. Interested? Get in touch!
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From Director James Cameron, watch the trailer for Avatar: Fire and Ash. Experience the film only in theaters December 19.
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From towering giants to baby sloths, it doesn’t get cooler than this. #PrehistoricPlanet: Ice Age — Streaming November 26
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‘Real’ #LiquidGlass wallpaper anyone? Beach wave #ShotoniPhone 13 Pro Max using @halidecamera
#WWDC2025 #iOS26
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All interactions of Apple's new Liquid Glass UI in one video:
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The latest project I’ve been working on is the design of Liquid Glass, alongside an army of designers and engineers. We're designing it to bend and shape light while feeling like an elastic, flexible material that can dynamically shape shift, to make apps feel fluid and organic.
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Late post, but I’m happy to announce that I started a postdoc in Jan at the CVN lab with @AckermansNicole at UA, studying the biomechanics of headbutting in goat skulls to understand how they dissipate stress from repeated impact and its link to neurodegeneration.
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BFEX was just published yesterday, and today, it received the first update: A renowned User Interface that make it much easier to use. Building FEA never was as easier as today 😁 Download BFEX 2.0 from https://t.co/k4QBwLYOCZ
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My jaw just DROPPED. Rork lets you create entire iOS apps just by describing them! Zero. Code. Required. This changes everything for app development. Rork blows Bolt out of the water (and yes, I invested immediately after trying it). Watch this — it's crazy:
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Full article: The internal braincase anatomy of Thalattosuchus superciliosus – with implications for the endocranial evolution of metriorhynchid crocodylomorphs
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Thalattosuchian crocodylomorphs underwent a major evolutionary transition, evolving from semiaquatic forms reminiscent of extant crocodylians, into pelagic marine forms with flippers, a tail fin an...
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Crocodylomorphs were once far more diverse than they are today. 🐊 Fossils from Brazil’s Late Cretaceous Bauru Group include terrestrial notosuchians w/varied ecology. New analysis of Barreirosuchus franciscoi reveals semiaquatic abilities Fachini et al.: https://t.co/kUyheqsqCV
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