Vertebrate morphologist. Science fiction would-be writer. Skink nerd. Currently based at NHM.
London, UK
Joined April 2019
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What happens to a lizard's skeleton when it reduces or loses it legs?
In our latest paper, we examine the evolution of girdle shapes in limb-reduced skinks, uncovering surprising and bizarre skeletal changes.
Check it out here: royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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New review paper on using AI to analyse Evolutionary Morphology is officially out! Was great to part of a large collaborative team writing this.
academic.oup.com/iob/article…
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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.
New review paper on using AI to analyse Evolutionary Morphology is officially out! Was great to part of a large collaborative team writing this.
academic.oup.com/iob/article…
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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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This months #EditorsChoice describes the ecomorphological correlates of the inner ear labyrinth of #Australian skinks! Find out more below 👇🦎
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/…
@LinneanSociety @OxfordJournals @Scincomancer
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🚨🦎Have you been wondering what a skink is? Check out our new paper🦎 🚨
We’re certain that the term “kebabs to noodles continuum” will be widely used by scientists in no time 😂
doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10791 @chapple_lab @skinks_IUCN @AlexSlavenko @Scincomancer @uncshai @r_tingley
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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
Interested in the hidden sensory superpowers of limb-reduced skinks? Look no further than our new publication on the inner ears of these critters! doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/z…
More journals should do these ECR features. They're a nice way to publicise research, and researchers!
ECR feature: Marco Camaiti @Scincomancer shares his recent study on biogeographic patterns of limb reduction in the world's skinks.
Read more here: journalofbiogeographynews.or…
#biogeography #skinks #lizards
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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
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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
It’s nubbin’ time! Our new paper on skink limb reduction and its environmental associations is out: doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14547. Thanks to @DrTeethAl @chapple_lab Christy Hipsley @uncshai @MarkHutchos @AlexSlavenko @rco_anderson.
Check out our graphical abstract [thread]:
