Ryan N. Felice

Parental Age, Inbreeding and Incubation Method Influence Extremely Low Hatching Success in the Ex‐Situ Population of the Extinct in the Wild Sihek Reproductive success rates are a key parameter determining the recovery potential of ex-situ managed threatened species, with high rates often being required to produce offspring for wild releases wh...

So happy to share that after years of hard work our paper on low hatching success in the #ExtinctInTheWild #Sihek has now been published in Animal Conservation! Read more here: zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Ornithology #ConservationScience 🌍 🦤 🧪

POST-DOC #JOB ADVERT – DEADLINE 20th Aug 2025
@ucl.ac.uk @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social @moazenlab.bsky.social
To work on a #HFSP funded project that aims to understand the musculoskeletal system of head-first burrowers; leading computer simulation aspects of the project see moazenlab.com/vacancies/

Are you looking for a PhD project starting this year?

I have a funded (UK rates) project on mammal skull diversity and function, looking at skull allometry and how mammal heads adapt to trade-offs in tissue demands during growth 🦌🦘🐘🦥

Please share and apply: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/buil...

Do you like 3d imaging and invertebrate development? apply for this postdoc with @echinerd.bsky.social and me!

Post Doctoral Research Associate in Evolutionary PalaeobiologySchool of Natural Sciences at University of Lincoln Discover Post Doctoral Research Associate in Evolutionary PalaeobiologySchool of Natural Sciences jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

New post-doc opportunity working with Dr Marcello Ruta at the University of Lincoln.

3 year position titled “Key Innovations as Evolutionary Drivers of the Fish-Tetrapod Transition” and working on resolving phylogenetic patterns near the ancestral roots of amniotes.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS325/p...

Unsecured penguin caused helicopter crash in South Africa Pilot lost control after bird in cardboard box slid off a passenger's knee and knocked controls, aviation authority finds.

yes, penguins are flightless birds, but this is taking it too far

New Chief Scientific Adviser appointed Professor Anjali Goswami becomes Defra’s new Chief Scientist

Exciting times ahead!

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check out @m-j-mitchell.bsky.social 's research on extinct in the wild birds ⬇️

check out this new paper from @devinhoffman.bsky.social using bone histology to uncover growth rates in a fossil gator 🐊

A cartoon owl with a graduation cap on- clearly a big-brained bird

What good is a big brain? In our new preprint, @jwoyston.bsky.social, Mike May, and I show that birds with bigger brains have lower extinction rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

there is no "defensible use case" for chatgpt. do your own work and use your own brain or fuck off

Save The Prince Charles Cinema The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...

#SaveThePCC

Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.

For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;

you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...

a 3d rendering of the skull and cranial muscles of the Eurasian oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)

turns out you can do some pretty cool stuff with the power of diceCT, SPROUT (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...), and the SmARTR pipeline (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...)

Three students in lab coats dissecting bird specimens

More anatomical research happening in the UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy

The skinned head of a Eurasian Oystercatcher

Took some time away from R today to do some dissecting. I feel like a real biologist.

Labelling my scientific supervisor: A genuine leader or just a big jerk? Thank you for taking part in this survey. The aim of this survey is to understand which characteristics make a scientific supervisor supportive and constructive or, conversely, detrimental to the grow...

📢Calling all researchers! We are studying what makes a great (or not-so-great) supervisor from the perspective of PhD students and postdocs. Our goal? To improve academic mentorship and research environments. Got 5-10 minutes? Take the survey!✍️
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