Vertebrate morphologist. Science fiction would-be writer. Skink nerd. Currently based at NHM.

London, UK
Joined April 2019
Our new paper on #AI for evolutionary morphology is out @ICB_journal! This massive team effort covers the history of AI for studying morphology, reviews new tools, provides many case studies & a prospectus for using AI to progress diverse topics in evolutionary morphology.
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How do lizard skeletons adapt to the evolutionary reduction of limbs? ow.ly/rSAw50TFtzj #ProcB #OpenAccess @Scincomancer @chapple_lab @DrTeethAl @EvoMorphoLab_KU
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We got the whole gang together (actually a few gangs) for a 9 hour power session to finish off our new team-written review paper on #AI for evolutionary morphology. 50 pages and 6 case studies later, the preprint is out! doi.org/10.32942/X2S315. Website w/ links to tools up soon!
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WE ARE ONLINE OMG
🪐💫 Universe for Sale is out NOW on PC 📢🫶 From European comics veterans at @tmesis_studio comes an introspective #adventuregame ⛈️ Form universes in the palm of your hand, meet cultists donning detached body parts & uncover personal pasts on acid rain-drenched Jupiter. 🔮
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New paper by my colleagues and I on the reproductive anatomy of a leopard seal 🦭 Leopard seal reproduction is mostly unknown. This note from a @MonashUni dissection discusses the importance of morphology in providing some clues. Open access paper here: doi.org/10.1111/mms.13067
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New paper alert!! We in the Oceania branch of @skinks_IUCN just published a paper in Pacific Conservation Biology @CSIROPublishing on the skinks of Oceania, New Guinea, and Eastern Wallacea publish.csiro.au/PC/PC22034 1/n
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Dramatic evolutionary transitions: Morphological data show that the relationships between limb length and trunk elongation have unique evolutionary patterns across the world's skink clades. doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14547
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Check out this great new research by @P_hazael on the weirdest of weird marsupials!
New paper from @P_hazael, @DSRovinsky, Justin Adams and @DrTeethAl enabled by NIF @Mon_Bio_Imaging: Inferring the palaeobiology of palorchestid marsupials through analysis of mammalian humeral and femoral shape link.springer.com/article/10… @museumsvictoria @EvansEvoMorph
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What does the relationship between body shape and substrate tell us about limb reduction in skinks? Marco Camaiti et al find environmental adaptation, in particular to substrate, is a major driver of body-shape evolution in skinks. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… @chapple_lab @DrTeethAl
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ECR feature: Marco Camaiti @Scincomancer is a herpetologist interested in the evolution of vertebrate diversity. In his ECR, Marco shares his recent work on the morphology and ecology of world skinks 🦎🐾🌏 Read more here: journalofbiogeographynews.or…
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New paper alert! Along with Liat Dror, Glenn Shea @uncshai @chapple_lab @Scincomancer @FarquharJules we published a paper at @sse_evolution looking at how diel activity patterns in skinks evolved: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… So how variable ARE skink activity patterns? A 🧵(1/n)
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A new paper led by SA Museum Honorary Researcher, Mark Hutchinson & @qldmuseum details the findings of two new species of snake-shaped burrowing skinks. bit.ly/3B4EPCq #NationalReptileAwarenessDay
Talk 2 S2 #McClintock #AUSEVO2021 - @Scincomancer talking about the ecomorphology of limb reduction:
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Check out our study on the development of the hidden limb of the limbless skink Brachymeles lukbani, fresh on @JAnatomy And see what hidden limbs might imply for the multiple evolution of limblessness and even reevolution of limbs in lizards🦎w onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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.@MonashUni researchers have solved the missing piece of a 350-year-old puzzle of how animals grow their pointy body parts. bit.ly/3m18TsJ @DrTeethAl @MonashBiol
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