Armita R. Manafzadeh

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NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)

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!!! happy, pleased, and generally floored to be a #SloanFellow. this means more getting out into nature to figure out how mountain birds are responding to climate change

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Incredibly cool preprint on empirical fitness seascapes 🌊 by Swathi Nachiar Manivannan & @cbo.bsky.social – if you like thinking about adaptive landscapes, a must-read.

Had a great seminar visit with the crew at Ohio University — thanks to Susan Williams, @witmerlab.bsky.social, and Peishu Li for a very fun start to the week!

Excited to share that our co-edited volume on the Iron Age Philistine cemetery from Ashkelon is now out! This volume presents the bioarchaeological findings from the c. 250 individuals, each with a dedicated catalogue entry that synthesizes their stratigraphic, osteological & artifactual contexts.

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Had lots of fun delivering the @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social Carl Gans award lecture yesterday at @sicb.bsky.social #SICB2026! Grateful to have the support of so many incredible colleagues in comparative biomechanics.

Thanks so much, James!! Can’t wait! 🐓🦎

Thanks so much, Austin!!

The SICB 2026 logo. The text on the left reads: 'SICB 2026. 3-7 January Portland, OR. Oregon Convention Center. The image on the right is a cartoon of downtown Portland, with pine trees and skyscrapers

JEB is proud to be sponsoring the 2026 @sicbjournals.bsky.social Carl Gans Lecture by Armita Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social at 13:30 in Oregon 201, the Oregon Convention Center

Dr Manafzadeh's lecture is entitled 'Joints: form, function, and the future of comparative biomechanics'

🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!

A row of painted 3D printed skulls on a table

A group of painted 3D printed skulls on a table

The Vertebrate Paleontology students did a great job 3D printing and painting skulls—look at that homology!

Congratulations, @caleb-m-gordon.bsky.social et al.! Such creative work; nothing more satisfying than a good cross-field method-repurposing.

Hey everyone! I’m excited to share that one of my thesis projects was just published in @currentbiology.bsky.social and featured on phys.org! In this paper, we use an old statistical approach developed by the US Navy in WW2 to predict the aquatic habits of various dinosaurs and marine reptiles 🦖🐊

Looking forward to joining the @royalsociety.org Proceedings B editorial board in 2026 – send us your papers!

Excited to have the opportunity to share my perspective on comparative biomechanics in a plenary at this year's SICB meeting. Grateful to my mentors/collabs/students for their support along the way, and very honored to receive the Gans Young Investigator Award!

Congratulations!!!!

the word that best captures my feelings about receiving the Duke University 2025 Outstanding Postdoc award is just grateful

grateful to sheila for the opportunity to grow as a scientist and grateful for my students for teaching me more than they know

@dukepostdocs.bsky.social
@snpatek.bsky.social

Congratulations!!

Happy to share 2 more patellofemoral papers out of Fulkerson group:
(1) On the importance of studying TTTG in 3-D to personalize treatment www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
(2) Dr. Fulkerson sharing his updated perspective on surgical planning for TTOs journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

An exciting update on the human joint side – we found that lateral patellar tracking and malalignment are correlated with progressive cartilage damage, and that the 3D metrics we've been developing to describe PF morphology can be used to quantify the risk.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Come and be our new Chair of Biology at @gtsciences.bsky.social! We are growing an incredibly exciting ecology and evolution group here at GT and would love a visionary eco-evo minded person at the helm to help us do that. Please spread the word!

biosciences.gatech.edu/chair-search

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I'm recruiting a PhD student to join the lab at @gtsciences.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Broad taxonomic and topical freedom under the umbrella of vertebrate joint form and function. Information here: www.manafzadeh.com – please share 🦴🩻

I'm recruiting a PhD student to join the lab at @gtsciences.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Broad taxonomic and topical freedom under the umbrella of vertebrate joint form and function. Information here: www.manafzadeh.com – please share 🦴🩻

Amazing, congrats to the whole team! Can’t wait to teach with this.