@KonowLab

How animals move to feed and avoid being fed upon. he | him. Views mine; not my employer or funders.

 New England USA
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Joined January 2016
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Replying to @UML_Biology
@UML_Biology Biology Prof. Teresa Lee @snicklclunk just landed a $1.1M NSF CAREER grant to study epigenetics — and part of it goes toward making research accessible to ALL undergrads, not just the few. Congrats, Dr. Lee! 👏 uml.edu/news/stories/2026/te…
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We are deeply saddened by the death of Professor Alan Wilson FRS A member of the RVC community for more than 30 years, Alan's work transformed our understanding of locomotion in animals & humans. Our thoughts are with Alan’s family, friends and colleagues at this difficult time
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Fabien Lafuma@PaleoFab2 Sep 2025
In our latest paper we found that tooth development shaped the evolution of voles for millions of years, leading to highly complex molars. How can we tell? What does it teach us about evolution? A thread 🧵👇 (1/20) #evodevo #ToothyTuesday 📷 Hanna Knutsson / Lafuma et al.
Photograph of a bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) on a moss-covered surface, holding a food item to its mouth with its front paws. Credit: Hanna Knutsson (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

ALT Photograph of a bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) on a moss-covered surface, holding a food item to its mouth with its front paws. Credit: Hanna Knutsson (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

MicroCT-scan of a bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) lower jaw seen in dorsal (top) and lateral view (bottom) showing the animal’s tall, highly complex lower molars. The 3D renders of the jaw are orange-tinted over a black background. Credit: © Élodie Renvoisé, Fabien Lafuma, University of Helsinki

ALT MicroCT-scan of a bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) lower jaw seen in dorsal (top) and lateral view (bottom) showing the animal’s tall, highly complex lower molars. The 3D renders of the jaw are orange-tinted over a black background. Credit: © Élodie Renvoisé, Fabien Lafuma, University of Helsinki

Fabien Lafuma@PaleoFab1 Aug 2025
🚨New PhD research published in PNAS!🚨 Combining fossils and lab experiments, we found that simple changes in tooth #development explain 6 million years of molar #evolution in #voles 🐭🦷 Shoutout to my coauthors @LEHNA_lab @CNRS @BIOTECH_UH @GTK_FI! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…

Six million years of vole dental evolution shaped by tooth development | PNAS

Morphological change occurs over macroevolutionary timescales under the action of natural selection and genetic drift combined with developmental p...

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Please join us in welcoming Anthony Herrel as the new President of the ISVM🎉 Anthony is a CNRS researcher at MNHN (Paris) and leads the FunEvol team. Many thanks to outgoing President John Hutchinson for his leadership 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻. #ISVM
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Nicolai Konow retweeted
Carly Kenkel@DrCarlsHorn16 May 2025
Its that time - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2026 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/2XTHBP6CZGEn3D1t9 Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets… Please share!

Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2026

Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2026 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for...

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Happy birthday Sir David Attenborough 99 years young today! #SirDavidAttenborough #naturalist #EverythingDinosaur
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Liam Revell@phytools_liam28 Apr 2025
I only played a very small role in this @PNASNews article by @AbbyGraceDrake, @JLosos, et al., but it's cool, so please check it out! "Copy-cat evolution: Divergence and convergence within and between cat and dog breeds." doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2413780…
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First record of a living Sulawesi coelacanth (𝐿. 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠) from Indonesia. Arguably one of the most emblematic and evolutionarily important marine vertebrates, this discovery contributes to our understanding of this vulnerable species. nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
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🌸 Save the Date for the Kennedy College of Sciences' Spring into Science 2025! 🌸 Get ready to celebrate the wonders of science! 🔬✨ 📅 When: April 14-18, 2025 👩‍🔬 Stay tuned for more details—you won’t want to miss it! uml.edu/sciences/news-events…
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For those of you around UCL on Tuesday - I'll be speaking about hominin locomotion and biomechanics at the Evolutionary Anthropology Seminar from 3.30pm! 💀 🦴🚶(followed by wine 🍷) @UCLanthropology
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No community celebrates the birth of a newborn baby than elephants!🐘🥰. This trumpeting and elation is far beyond angels can sing in heavenly places. What a heart-melting and awe-inspiring sighting? 🐘🐘🐘❤️
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Replying to @shriver_cassie @locomocn @gtsciences @GTOrigami @jenniferrieser @gregory_sawicki
Station 10: The hidden world of insects. Our final station shows how insects navigate their environments despite tiny brains and bodies. See how well you can track a flower like a moth!
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ZSL Library@ZSLLibrary24 Feb 2025
Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer was born #OTD in 1907. In 1938 she found a very unusual fish in a market - a coelacanth, thought to be #extinct. It was later named after her with the generic name of Latimeria. 📷#Sketch by Courtenay-Latimer in "Old four-legs"/ JLB Smith, publ. 1956
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Knifefishes of the upper Amazon Basin
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Donald Miles@LizardProf16 Jan 2025
Climate change and the cost-of-living squeeze in desert lizards | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

Climate change and the cost-of-living squeeze in desert lizards

Climate warming can induce a cost-of-living “squeeze” in ectotherms by increasing energetic expenditures while reducing foraging gains. We used biophysical models (validated by 2685 field observati...

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See you tomorrow. youtu.be/Ru51yI8zOcs?si=Y4iQ…
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Yes. @ExxonMobil's own scientists DID predict how much the planet would warm given continued fossil fuel burning. And they DID warn us about the "potentially catastrophic events" that would result from that warming in their 1982 internal memo. #NewClimateWar #CaliforniaFires
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We are recruiting an Editorial Administrator to work across our portfolio of five life-science journals, with a particular focus on @J_Cell_Sci Find out more and apply by 17 January at biologists.com/wp-content/up…
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Sarah@heyaimsarah20 Dec 2024
Today for #garweek we’re giving love to other underrated ancient fish species so I have to shout out an Oklahoma favorite, THE PADDLEFISHHHHH 😤🔥💯💪
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We'll be at the SICB conference this January in Atlanta! Visit our booth to see a prototype of our *next product*, test how fast you can assemble a magnetic shark skull, or just stop by to say 'Hi'! #SICB2025
Photo of person at conference booth with the text visit us at SICB 2025 Atlanta

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