Professor at UC Riverside studying the biomechanics and functional ecology of geckos, fishes, and snakes. Getting into ultramarathons. 🇨🇦 in 🇺🇸
Riverside, CA
Joined May 2014
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Tim Higham retweeted
We are hiring!!!
The Whitney Laboratory invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant or Associate Professor level as part of a broader strategic investment in Technology Driven Discovery in Marine Bioscience.
Details at:
explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/j…
Tim Higham retweeted
Read this year's JEB Special issue, Integrating Biomechanics, Energetics and Ecology in Locomotion, Edited by Andrew Biewener and Alan Wilson breaking down traditional boundaries between the fields of locomotion biomechanics, energetics and ecology
journals.biologists.com/jeb/…
ALT A screenshot of the cover of the 2025 Journal of Experimental Biology Special Issue. The top line of the cover says 'Volume 228 (Suppl 1) February 2025'. The journal title, 'Journal of Experimental Biology' is below. The image (covering the bottom 4/5 of the cover), by Emily Bennitt, University of Botswana, shows a zebra in the Okavango Delta, northern Botswana, wearing a collar developed to capture stride-by-stride mechanics and energetics of predator–prey interactions. The text, 'Special Issue Integrating Biomechanics, energetics and ecology in locomotion' is in the top half of the image. Beneath is the text, 'Guest Editors: Andrew A. Biwener and Alan M. Wilson'. The Company of Biologists 100 logo is in the bottom left-hand corner of the cover image.
Tim Higham retweeted
Excited to share our new paper in press at @SICB_ describing #toepad development in #Hemidactylus #geckos! #GeckoEvoDevo #Embryology #SEM
Collab w: @tony_gamble1, @AshmikaBehere, @HighamLab, & @ThSanger Lab
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Tim Higham retweeted
Interested in palaeo & #ancientDNA. I'm advertising a 3 yr @MarsdenFund postdoc @Zoology_Otago disentangling competing sources of morphological variation in #fossil record of geckos & skinks from #NewZealand & #NewCaledonia. Apply here (otago.taleo.net/careersectio…) #FossilFriday 1/2
Tim Higham retweeted
New study proposes an updated reconstruction of #Megalodon as even longer (but slimmer) than previously thought. This longer body may have also enabled a more efficient digestive system to power this massive icon of #paleontology.
Full #OpenAccess Paper: doi.org/10.26879/1345
Tim Higham retweeted
Please share: I’m recruiting a postdoc (2-years) to start in my lab Fall 2024. My lab studies Functional Morphology and Macroevolution (mostly of fishes).
More info: edwardburress.com/prospectiv…
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Tim Higham retweeted
I'll be looking for an MSc or PhD student to take on some evo-devo research in my lab starting fall 2024. Skull and somite fate mapping, and brain-skull devo, in frogs and salamanders. DM or email me before the end of the calendar year! #MaddinLab
Tim Higham retweeted
#Raptorial appendages of the Cambrian apex predator #Anomalocaris canadensis are built for soft prey and speed #ProcB #OpenAccess ow.ly/K8jV50P4Rz2 #FossilFriday @RussellBicknel1 #palaeontology #paleontology
Tim Higham retweeted
Please share: I'm recruiting 1-2 M.S. or Ph.D. students for fall 2024 at @WSUPullman ! The Corn Lab studies evolution & functional morphology of vertebrates, particularly fishes.
More info: kacorn.github.io/opportuniti…
Tim Higham retweeted
Excited to announce our new paper in @MCZHarvard journal #Breviora! Here, we use #SEM to investigate the diversity of skin mechanoreceptors in gekkonid #geckos!
Collab w/: AM Bauer, TN Dusjebayeva, Z Davis, AP Russell
(1/n)
bioone.org/journals/breviora…
Tim Higham retweeted
I've uploaded my first SICB+ talk! Check it out if you wish to learn more about why fish miss their strikes! @SICB_DCB_DVM @SICB_ @HighamLab
Tim Higham retweeted
New paper! We show that island #TigerSnakes that feast on seabirds have larger gape because of greater #PhenotypicPlasticity (cf mainland snakes), with jaw bones being especially plastic
Journal article (paywall): tinyurl.com/wmk4daav
Free PDF: tinyurl.com/48jkb6cc
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Tim Higham retweeted
Published today in @iobjournal, we explore how fin damage affects feeding kinematics in bluegill sunfish! @oliviahhawkins @Williamrrray @TheKaneLab Read here for open access: academic.oup.com/iob/advance…
Tim Higham retweeted
The amount of space used by animals scales allometrically with body mass for terrestrial taxa, but what about marine species? @VinayUdyawer and colleagues found broadly similar results in marine species. @LetsGetPhysEcol @ASNAmNat journals.uchicago.edu/doi/ep…
Tim Higham retweeted
Hey all, I am recruiting Ph.D. students interested in studying Evolutionary Genomics 🧬 in my lab at UC Riverside 🍊🌴 . Start date is September 2023, and domestic and international students are welcome to apply. Would love to hear from you! More details in 🧵 1/3 (Please RT!)
Tim Higham retweeted
We're sad to announce the passing of Dr. Eric Pianka (1939-2022). He was an evolutionary ecologist of enormous influence who spent his life studying lizards. His obituary is here: biodiversity.utexas.edu/news…
Tim Higham retweeted
Hot off the presses! With our amazing Team TOPS (@rodgers_essie and others) we tested how reduced O2 availability at high elevations impacts organismal performance…for French mountain lizards, of course! 🦎🏔️☀️🍷🥖
Pre-print out now in @FunEcology: doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14…
Tim Higham retweeted
Check out our latest (my 1st postdoc work), an ongoing metadata analysis of structure-function in biological surface wrinkles...they're everywhere (from extinct Spinosaurus to window gnats) & multifunctional!
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#wrinkle #functional_morphology #ecomorphology
Tim Higham retweeted
Great time at #BOPV4! I was able to present some of my research using next generation natural history via accelerometry on rattlesnakes!
