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Merry Christmas! 🎄🎅 ❄️ ⛄️ 🎁 🍗🥂🥳 #MerryChristmas

Prof Michael Pittman of #CUHKLifeSciences has worked w/an int'l team of researchers to discover the secret behind flight capability lying in tail vane of earliest flying vertebrates. Details: tinyurl.com/4vy5r4nj #ScienceEmpowersYourDreams #LearnSciencetoBettertheWorld #CUHK

Thrilled to announce that #HongKong will host the #2025 Annual Meeting of The Willi Hennig Society The Chinese University of Hong Kong - CUHK from July 22-25. Bookmark the date 🗓️ 🖊️ and see you there! 🇭🇰🌲 🖥️ #HennigMeeting2025 Faculty of Science, CUHK

⚠️#𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁 🖥️ Pre-#HennigMeeting2025 workshop in #HongKong next July! 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗵𝘆𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘆 #PabloGoloboff, Santiago Catalano, Michael Pittman + info soon in: cladistics.org/xlii-annual-me…

Our PNASNews paper introduces #LSF imaging to ancient tattoo analysis. In uncovering fine lines 0.1 -0.2mm thick, we reveal greater detail among thousand-year old tattoos on #Chancay mummies discovered in coastal #Peru. Faculty of Science, CUHK The Chinese University of Hong Kong - CUHK #TattooTuesday #archaeology

Scientists have found that fluorescent laser imaging can return 1200-year-old tattoos—in this case, etched into the mummified skin of ancient Peruvian people—to their original, highly intricate glory. scim.ag/42dxUbb

The intricate details of tattoos inked more than 1200 years ago have been made visible by scanning South American mummies with lasers. newscientist.com/article/246355…

A pioneering study led by #CUHK Dr Michael Pittman and Thomas G. Kaye of the Foundation for Scientific Advancement in Sierra Vista, the United States, has uncovered intricate #tattoo designs on 1,200-year-old mummified human remains from Peru’s Chancay culture using

Registration & abstract submission is now open for The Willi Hennig Society Annual Meeting in #HongKong Faculty of Science, CUHK in July 2025! #FossilFriday #HennigMeeting2025 The Chinese University of Hong Kong - CUHK

Lasers created high-contrast images of tattoos featuring geometric and zoomorphic patterns on 1,200-year-old mummies from the Chancay culture, in what is now coastal Peru, were likely created using a cactus needle or sharpened animal bone. In PNAS: ow.ly/mZJg50ULeXc

🌍✈️ Travel Award Deadline Extended! ✈️🌍 Great news! More time to apply for the Travel Awards to attend the #HennigMeeting2025!🚀🔬 🗓️ New Deadline: 14 February 2025 📢 Results Announced: 21 February 2025 Don’t miss this opportunity! Apply now! 👉 cladistics.org/awards/

Delighted to share 2nd Special Issue Cladistics Journal Alert on ‘Analysing Datasets in Palaeontology’ guested edited by me, #SantiCatalano & Society President Diego Pol From theory to plants to dinosaurs. Enjoy! 🧮🌳🦖🦕Faculty of Science, CUHK The Chinese University of Hong Kong - CUHK

📢 #WorkshopUpdate Spots still available for our post-#HennigMeeting2025 workshop in #HongKong this July. Areas of Endemism: Methods and Theory, a Critical Review Instructors: #ClaudiaSzumik & #DoloresCasagranda. Secure your spot! More info: cladistics.org/xlii-annual-me…

Congrats Matthieu Chotard! Monograph of #Microraptor hindlimb feathering for his 1st paper as lead author ✍️🥇 Well done! #FossilFriday #thesismilestones Faculty of Science, CUHK The Chinese University of Hong Kong - CUHK BMC BMC Series

In a study published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, Matthieu Chotard and colleagues suggest that the metatarsal feathers in the well-known ‘four-winged’ dinosaur Microraptor, resemble a bird forewing rather than a leg, thus revealing its ability to adapt to both trees and the

Come join us in #HongKong on July 23rd for #publichealth symposium The Willi Hennig Society Annual Meeting! Nice talks on a key topic. #HennigMeeting2025 Faculty of Science, CUHK The Chinese University of Hong Kong - CUHK

🧬🦠🌍 How can #Phylogenetics help us fight #pandemics like #SARSCoV2 and respond to emerging threats? Join us for the #symposium "PHYLOGENETICS & PUBLIC HEALTH" at the #HennigMeeting2025 in #HongKong! Info: cladistics.org/xlii-annual-me… #PublicHealth #Virology #Pandemics #Cladistics

Congrats Maxime and the team on another Microraptor monograph in the BMC E&E flight evolution collection: adding the forelimb to Matthieu’s hindlimb work. Stay tuned for more collection papers and other flight work this year.