@mdshawkey

Hoogleraar (Professor) & Baas (Chief), EON group @ugent, studying (mostly) non-pigmentary colors in birds and other dinosaurs.

 Gent, 🇧🇪
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Joined July 2013
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I'm Hüngariye for Türkiye
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Department chair: we urgently need someone to teach a course on Animal Biology at our campus in South Korea Me:🙋
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Solo half marathon before a 12 hour flight 😴
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Amazingly preserved fossil feather in dinosaur poop! Happy to comment on this copro-tastic discovery nationalgeographic.com/scien…

A Tyrannosaur Ate a Feathery Meal—and It Was Frozen in Time

Dinosaur poop—possibly from a juvenile T. rex or Nanotyrannus—containing feathers, bone fragments, and fish scales provides a look at a Cretaceous-era food web.

nationalgeographic.com
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Thought I would never see Beherit live..
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Congratulations to EON co-founder Liliana D'Alba, who starts her new position as tenure-track prof of Animal Evo-Devo @ugent today! 🥚🪶
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🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️ gepromoveerd tot hoogleraar promoted to full professor 🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️
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More melanin! This time some more applied work showing the potential for porous melanin to help detoxify nerve gas. Glad to play a small role in this work led by Sofia Aman from the Gianneschi group.pubs.acs.org/ancac3/article/…

Catalytic Porous Metallized Melanin for the Remediation of Organophosphorus Agents

Abstract. Hydrolytic detoxification of organophosphorus agents remains a central challenge in the design of protective and environmental materials, requiri

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Melanin protects against UV damage not only by absorbing UV, but also by scavenging free radicals. New research from our group, led by @WanjieX, shows that light triggers this activity in melanin via enhanced absorption following photon excitation 🤯advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley…
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when I took the job at @ugent, everyone said good things about it, but one esteemed colleague warned me that "the politics there are crazy"
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What makes this parrot look green? It's more than just a pigment! We found that the color comes from the interaction of pigments, nano- and even microstructures of the feather itself. @mdshawkey @MichalNicola1 @JesssDob @WybouwLab @SICB_
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De oogst van een week vakantie aan de Nederlandse kust: veel botfragmenten (waaronder ribben en wervels), maar geen tanden
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Als Amerikan-Belg ben ik er klaar voor en in staat om mijn mening te delen over de aankomende voetbalwedstrijd Ready and able to share my opinion on the upcoming football match as an American-Belgian🇺🇸🇧🇪 @Nieuwsblad_be @destandaard @demorgen @DagAllemaal @DeGentenaar
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Missing (as far as I can see) from the current US-Europe discourse is the relative prevalence of head lice in children
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Spending more time in the lab than at any other point in the last 10 years (it is air conditioned)
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Ik ben Belg 🇧🇪
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My first 5k race since high school (?) and I have slowed down a bit but still happy with my result and second in my age group!
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fun to play live music again
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Taking synesthesia to the next level: EON PhD student Huimin Liu has developed a cool new method to visualise ultrasound absorption and reflection by small objects such as earplugs and, more relevantly to our work on acoustic camouflage, moths! authors.elsevier.com/c/1n4vO…
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