@anthony-herrel.bsky.social
Researcher, anatomist and animal enthusiast
A microCT of a Heloderma osteroderm paired with xray diffraction and xray fluorescence data showing the superficial capping tissue and underlying transition zone and bone.
Stiff and different - Lizard osteoderm papers from a collaboration with @henrikbirkedal.bsky.social's group led by Adrian. We show a capping tissue from Heloderma that is enamel-like in mechanical properties but highly disordered in crystal pattern
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The Nishikawa lab at Northern Arizona University and the NSF-funded Integrative Movement Sciences Institute are hiring a postdoc to help develop multiscale muscle models - please apply and share widely! careers.nau.edu/cw/en-us/job...
20.11.2025 23:11 — 👍 18 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 3
Full chameleon cranial atlas article out now in @anatrecord.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1002/ar.7... 🦎✨️
15.11.2025 09:28 — 👍 30 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 2
#Temperature effects on compensatory responses in an early spring-breeding #amphibian - #OpenAccess zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #climatechange #phenology #frogs @anthony-herrel.bsky.social @uhl-lab.bsky.social @elissazcameron.bsky.social @amcell.bsky.social
03.11.2025 11:33 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A 164.7 cm #rhino horn from #Yakutia sheds light on woolly rhinoceros morphology, longevity, and sexual dimorphism zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #permafrost #palaeoecology @davehone.bsky.social @amcell.bsky.social @elissazcameron.bsky.social @conservresearch.bsky.social
30.10.2025 12:05 — 👍 107 🔁 38 💬 1 📌 5How do we capture fast and furious snake bites? High-speed video with 3D reconstruction, all at 1000 frames per second! @monashbiol.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social
23.10.2025 22:50 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Extreme climate events can catalyze rapid evolutionary change! in our new Current Biology (@currentbiology.bsky.social) piece, Colin and I argue it’s time to study their evolutionary consequences systematically — beyond opportunistic observations. www.cell.com/current-biol...
08.09.2025 19:17 — 👍 49 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 1
Ce matin, j'étais la grande invitée de l'émission CQFD sur RTS. Merci encore à Lucia Silling, Stéphane Gabioud et Cécile Guérin pour leur invitation ! Une fois de plus, ce fut un grand plaisir de participer à votre émission ! #scienceisFUN; #RTS; #CQD www.rts.ch/audio-podcas...
29.08.2025 12:20 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The #evolution of sexual dimorphism in semi-fossorial #lizards: a case study with Ablepharus kitaibelii zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #morphometrics #skink
16.07.2025 13:57 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0#ICVM2025 abstracts are now published! (1 pdf to rule them all)
Remember that, whatever format you're doing, the recorded presentation must be submitted by 20 July!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10974687...
Great paper by the amazing @priscilarothier.bsky.social
Check it out!
Really cool paper by my collaborators!
23.06.2025 15:13 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🚨🚨PhD position alert!🚨🚨
Do you like 🐢🐢? Or ecomorph evolution? I am offering a 36-month PhD position funded by the DFG about ecomorphology and neuroanatomy of turtles. Check out the ad here: www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...
Please share and if you have questions, send me a message 😉
Deadline for abstracts today
26.05.2025 12:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great paper by Yuri Simone @scorpyuri.bsky.social on trade offs in scorpions.
21.05.2025 12:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Vertebrate morphology writ large is welcome for abstracts:
anatomy of various body systems: absolutely!
biomechanics: yes!
development/evo-devo: indeed!
palaeontology: please!
morphometrics: yes!
methods-focused: sure!
morphology-related science (genetics, ecology, behaviour, etc.): affirmative!
Again, we're running the 1st ever virtual international conference on vertebrate morphology (ICVM) this August 7-10: www.isvm-icvm.org/icvm-2025
Abstracts are due 26 May (12 days)!
Of course you can just register and not submit abstract(s).
~3 days of great talks, posters, keynotes and more!
Scientific illustrators, palaeo-artists, etc.: you're damn right you're welcome to attend!
Palaeo/physical anthology: you'd better believe you're welcome!
Natural History Museum Denmark
We are hiring. The Natural History Museum Denmark seeks a Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator in Vertebrate Paleontology.
Duties are collection-based research, curation of collections, teaching and public engagement.
Deadline: 18 May 2025. View full job posting: bit.ly/3XPIQcg
Paper alert 🚨
Our 1rst paper with @vivienl.bsky.social and colleagues is out in Functional Ecology! In this paper, we investigated how complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata.Want to know more? Read this👇
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Dans un article de #Sciences_et_Avenir paru le 11/04/2025,
@audelalis.bsky.social @isyeb.mnhn.fr et Anthony Herrel @mecadev.bsky.social sont interviewés sur les stratégies adaptatives des organismes vivants.
"Survivre dans le désert ...."
▶️ www.sciencesetavenir.fr/archeo-paleo...
#Parasite load, throat colors, and cellular immune response in a high-altitude #gecko endemic to #Morocco zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #coloration
14.04.2025 16:35 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Two #fox species in NE #Argentina show high dietary overlap despite varied habitats, revealing a noncompetitive coexistence zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Canidae #mesocarnivore #sympatry
14.04.2025 16:48 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0When I saw this awesome study by @tajbakhshlab.bsky.social, @chrmosimann.bsky.social, & colleagues a few months ago, I just knew I had to write about it for HWTAS! Check out our non-scientist friendly coverage of their work below. 🧪 #scicomm
13.04.2025 15:31 — 👍 39 🔁 7 💬 4 📌 1
Journal of Zoology is now on Bluesky! Follow us to discover what we've published recently in our scientific journal covering all areas of #zoology - and find out more about us at zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1469... @zslscience.bsky.social
09.04.2025 11:54 — 👍 37 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 3
Pair of Pipa parva in amplexus.
Looks like my animals are doing ok.
07.04.2025 08:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I am looking for a PhD candidate to work on the morphological and functional evolution of the head shape of limbless squamates. The project will involve evolutionary biology, experimental and computational biomechanics, and a lot of scaly animals!!! More info here:
adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...
We are recruiting a PhD (2025-2028) in our laboratory GPM in Rouen (Normandy, France) on study of fish teeth structure, pigmentation and mechanical properties. More infos in the link below. gpm.univ-rouen.fr/fr/node/356
05.04.2025 12:30 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
L'exposition "Déserts" ouvre ses portes aujourd'hui au @mnhn.fr
Découvrez les milieux les + extrêmes de notre planète et les incroyables stratégies d’adaptation du vivant.
@audelalis.bsky.social et Denis Larpin @isyeb.mnhn.fr commissaires scientifiques de cette expo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEMl...
👋 Looking forward to the 117th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society. Please like and share 🤩
31.03.2025 09:49 — 👍 29 🔁 33 💬 1 📌 6
