Emma R Schachner

This was such a cool project to be a part of! I contributed scanning & rendering 3d anatomical models of some specimens, but this international team led by @gayani.bsky.social & @tdcapellini.bsky.social combined many methods to reveal how exactly humans evolved to walk upright on two legs. 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️

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Uncovering the Genes That Let Our Ancestors Walk Upright

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/s...

Really important review of dinosaur physiology out today led by @stephanopteryx.bsky.social & @paleofox.bsky.social w/
Jason Bourke & ‪‪@rockjock80.bsky.social‬‬: bit.ly/43I1gxJ. Cool to see this old ankylosaur friend as Figure 1, from a collab w/ former PhD students Jason Bourke & Ruger Porter.

New #OpenAccess dinosaur physiology paper out as part of the Bio Letters theme issue on 200 years of dinosaurs! 🥳 Led by Stephanie Baumgart 🦖🦕🫁🫀🧠

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

🐊🥳 TT faculty Job alert: The Dept of Physiological Sciences at UF Vet Med is hiring! We have phys, evo anatomy, toxicology, and cell bio in our dept. Come teach pharm & collab with the Florida Museum, Medicine, Bio etc! Apply here by May 20: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

Thanks for having me! Excited for many future evodevo collabs with the Griffin Lab team 🐊🦜🐥🪺

Thanks for sharing our work! #BirdAgenda

Congratulations to PhD student Aracely Martinez! 🥳🫁 Learn about the lungs of Zebra Finches (open access) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Special thank you to @fieldpalaeo.bsky.social for our cover image of a Swainson’s Hawk. Here is the table of contents:

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1920

Pleased to announce the publication of a special theme issue I co-edited with Dr. John Maina of the University of Johannesburg in Philosophical Transactions on avian respiratory biology!! There are three contributions from our team, and all are OA! 🥳 royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

So pleased that our team’s work made the cover of @journalofanatomy.bsky.social for January 2025! This project on African Grey Parrot air sacs and pneumaticity was led by my former PhD student Dr Adam B Lawson (now anatomy faculty at Tulane Med) 🥳🦜🦆🦅🦉#BirdAgenda

Self-organized patterning of crocodile head scales by compressive folding - Nature Crocodile head scales self-organize through purely mechanical compressive skin folding rather than a patterning process controlled by gene interactions.

🚨Hyped to share our new article in @natureportfolio.bsky.social! We show that crocodile head scales develop from compressive folding that arises from constrained skin growth 🐊🔬
Really proud of this one - it's cool 😎
Please read & share! 🧪
@genevunige.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A photo of Wisdom, a 74-year-old Laysan albatross, looking at an egg at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge at the northwestern edge of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Headline reads: "World’s Oldest Known Wild Bird Lays an Egg at 74." Photo credit: Dan Rapp/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Associated Press.

The world’s oldest known wild bird, a 74-year-old Laysan albatross named Wisdom, is expected to welcome another baby chick in the coming months, astonishing scientists who have been tracking her since the Eisenhower administration. nyti.ms/4f7VadN

Brown long-tailed and long-necked bird suns its silvery wings on a wooden post

A long-necked bird emerges from the water with a large silver mullet fish impaled on its bill

Happy Thanksgiving, US folks! It would make sense to share photos of Wild Turkeys but I haven’t taken any good ones recently

However, yesterday I did take a bunch of photos of a friendly Anhinga, also known as a Water Turkey, so here’s a thread of Anhinga facts and photos:

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ecoevojobs.net 2024-25

📣 📣 📣 Still lots of TT jobs being advertised: The 2024-2025 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Do you love talking about tomography as much as I do? I made a starter pack full of people who use CT to do their science!! Let me know if you want to join in on the tomography talk! Other 3D imaging modalities also welcome ☢️🩻👩‍🔬
go.bsky.app/VjBpAAy

Figure showing diverse datasets analysed with SPROUT, including a skink skeleton, aardvark skull, human heart, concrete block, and foraminifera.

New paper! For all of you working with 3d scans (e.g. micro-CT, MRI), check out SPROUT, a rapid open-source tool for generating segmented and parcellated data, meaning your scans are separated into the individual elements without any manual labelling or training. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

X-ray view of an American coot (Fulica americana) getting ready for a CT scan.

Me excavating limb bones a dinosaur in Niger.

Hi everyone who recently joined!! I'm Stephanie, a postdoctoral researcher at UF College of VetMed in @paleofox.bsky.social's lab. My main interests are birds and pterosaurs and their weird lungs, but I also do plenty of CT scanning for other projects. Digging up fossils is fun too. 🧪🪶⚒️

Air sacs reduce energy costs for soaring birds Certain air sacs have evolved in multiple lineages of soaring birds, and it emerges that these probably function to reduce the force required from the major flight muscles as they hold the wings in pl...

With a fantastic accompanying discussion by Bret Tobalske www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The respiratory system influences flight mechanics in soaring birds - Nature An investigation of the subpectoral diverticulum—an inflatable air sac structure between the major flight muscles—in 68 avian species reveals that the respiratory system has a role in the mechani...

Extremely pleased to share our team’s latest #BirdAgenda work in Nature - we found that hawks and other soaring birds use their respiratory system to enhance their flight muscles: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in lung development? Come join the lab!

We have funding for a student in an art program to come to Friday Harbor Labs for the Spring quarter. Travel, room, board, and fees.

If you know #SciArt students let them know.

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