For those working on #tracks / #footprints / #ichnology, I've made a neat little addon for #blender that aligns a mesh to the horizontal at z=0 based on a few points. Open and up on github:
github.com/pfalkingham/...
Group of seven stand in front of meteorological station at UKCEH Wallingford, plus text detailing 2026 summer student internship information
📣 2026 Student Summer Internships are OPEN for applications!
We’re recruiting SEVEN interns across our National Capability programmes at our Bangor, Lancaster & Wallingford sites.
Superb opportunity for hands-on experience in environmental science & applied research.
Details ⬇️
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3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama!
Three positions, each including salary & a research budget.
Applications due April, 15th.
DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us!
stri.si.edu/academic-pro...
What’s fucking enraging about this is that every lovely turn of phrase the AI churns out is human-authored. Google each fragment of the below - “forged in dying stars,” “created in stellar furnaces,” “the universe is not indifferent to us,” “implicated in something vast” - and you’ll find a source.
Yesterday I passed my PhD viva! What a journey it's been - I've learned A LOT, about mammal shoulders and about myself. Huge thank you to my primary supervisors @drphilcox.bsky.social & @eloygl.bsky.social, and to all my friends in ACCE DTP, for the support, guidance and laughs along the way! 🥂🦴
Science reporter/journalist/writer job alert at Nature!
springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/es/SpringerN...
#journalism #jobs #science #naturemag #dc #nyc
Our PhD opportunity is still open. A match-funded project with @chesterzoo.bsky.social, where the student will also be a Conservation Scholar. An exciting interdisciplinary project that can be tailored to the student. Even the pigeons are interested in our LiDAR scanner!
Echoing my massive congrats to Dr @osteosophia.bsky.social on passing her viva!
I also wanted to say how great it has been seeing her grow throughout her PhD. Very proud of being her cosupervisor! 😊
Cool new insights into some weird fossil mammals from Madagascar 😎
locomotor behaviour of subfossil Malagasy sloth-lemurs (Strepsirrhini: Indriidae) and koala-lemurs (Strepsirrhini: Megaladapidae): new insights from limb trabecular bone url: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
I’m very happy to share that our work on bone inner structure of Madagascar’s subfossil sloth- and koala-lemurs is finally out 🦴🐒 on @zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social
A big thank you to co-authors @julsam.bsky.social Carla Argilés Esturgó and Damiano Marchi!
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laser scan showing a Fractofusus
Laser scanning Johnson surface
This #FossilFriday we have a fantastic post as part of our 5 year project on Understanding selection in the early animals of the #Ediacaran. This research technician post will process our #Ediacaran laser scan data - DM/email: ek338@cam.ac.uk, deadline 12th April 2026
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
This is by far the kookiest thing I've read in a long while...
Hivemind: I have signed up to read to my 10’year old daughter’s class & am now experiencing massive & total selfdoubt!
My shortlist variously contain bombs, socialist activism and refs to alcohol so eek maybe a bit much. What opening chapters or short story should I read?
So I pleased to announce the conceptual spawn of FigTree: PearTree (acronym still to be finalised). If you want to dive right in it is hosted as a web app here: artic-network.github.io/peartree (click the “Example...” button for immediate candy and then click every button you can find).
We’re interested in folks applying from all manner of disciplinary backgrounds. Biology, zoology of course. But also computer science, remote sensing, architecture. If you’re keen to work with LiDAR and point clouds, we’d like to hear from you!
Last week, amidst the hoopla over a new Speen, @fishfetisher.bsky.social suggested a review of naming papers in fancy journals in response to a post by @daveyfwright.bsky.social - I got bored after work and now I have (some) data!
🧵👇
#FossilFriday
#CharismaticTaxaAreOverrated
We are advertising a Sensory Ecology, Zoo Biology funded PhD opportunity, led by @cbrassey.bsky.social in partnership with Chester Zoo. Using some super-cool 3D scanning techniques and thinking about visual fields and enclosure design. Send round all your friends!
www.mmu.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Just one week to get your abstracts in for A12 - "Digital Resilience: Immortalising biodiversity through 3D anatomical models"! You'll present alongside our keynote speaker @jaimiagray.bsky.social who will talk about how making CT data and derivatives FAIR can level the playing field for biologists.
NERC Independence Fellowships open- come join us!
www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
🐡⁉️Ever wondered how a pufferfish inflates? Very excited to announce that Drs Rachel Tran and Ariel Camp will be giving a FREE TALK/WORKSHOP on this very topic on the 10th March at Storyhouse in Chester with Chester SciBar!
(details below)
🦎 Funded 4-year PhD position on Lizard Evolutionary Ecology in our lab at UCLouvain (Belgium)! Apply before 9 March! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...
Absolutely thrilled that this novel method is now published! It's been a long time coming, but this method is instrumental in my PhD work and I hope it will prove as useful to others' research!
Thanks Anne-Claire! 😊
Besides how invested I personally am in our new method, this is also my first paper as senior author, so extra happy for seeing out 🥰
So happy it's finally out!
Traditional locomotor categories have their issues. We all know it but keep using them.
Our new method allows for a deeper and more nuanced look at how observed variability relates to locomotor behavior.
Great work by soon-to-be-doctor @osteosophia.bsky.social!
New #DAWNDINOS paper!
We do predictive simulations of vertical height jumping in the Triassic theropod Coelophysis & extant (tinamou) bird Eudromia. Mainly as sensitivity analysis of what parameters are most important. We show how crucial tail mobility is.
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...
🚨JOB ALERT🚨
We are looking for an emerging scientist with an interest in #seabirds and #conservation for a 🌟new scholarship position🌟
⏱️Deadline: 13/03/2026
🐧Fixed term 12 months, 35 hrs/pw
📌Cambridge/ Hybird
Come join our fantastic team!
Full #job details ➡️ tinyurl.com/BLIemergings...
M. anhuiensis – Anhui musk deer M. berezovskii – Dwarf musk deer M. chrysogaster – Alpine musk deer M. cupreus – Kashmir musk deer M. fuscus – Black musk deer M. leucogaster – White-bellied musk deer
Do any mammal researchers or museum folks have images of mandibles in lateral view from these little dudes they wouldn't mind sharing or providing a source for? Photos, illustrations and 3D models are all valid
I've released version 1.2 of my SDF simulations! This update further improves the runtimes:
- Simple checking for collision between two meshes run at >150 FPS
- Full 6DOF ROM simulations optimising the translations for each rotational pose run at >5.6 FPS
- Ligament path estimation run at >5.1 FPS
let's go back to publishing every weird little thing we see an organism do as a natural history note. i love a good kitchen sink paper that gets into the nitty gritty of a whole-ass system, but when you're trying to research something less well-known, you really need people writing "so one time..."
