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#FossilFriday New lumbar vertebrae of Issa, skeleton MH2 of Australopithecus sediba, presented this week. Credit: Thierra Nalley / +info: wp.me/p4Bi9E-2k0

Do dental microstructure variables distinguish between primate groups and are they appropriate for use in phylogenetic analysis? Find out in the latest from Chrisandra Kufeldt and Bernard Wood, just published in JHE. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New PhD Position!🚨Please RT🚨 We are looking for an enthusiastic student interested in conducting birth simulations for our recently funded Leibniz-Gemeinschaft Collaborative Excellence project. See announcement for further details and more info on how to apply. Deadline July 1🤰

From our own @P_Tkaczynski, out now in Nature Communications Biology.

Summary of reviewer comments on multiple grants and manuscripts for the last ~6 years: The grant/paper is not technically sound because the approach relies on the use of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) model, ...

Looking for potential PhD students in Dinosaur footprints. As always, funding is competitive. If interested, send me an email with up to date CV and expression of interest. (Note that my replies are on the slow side right now) findaphd.com/phds/project/d…

Wrapping up a great specialist course on dental anthropology here Archeologie UGent with Prof Irish from RCEAP at Liverpool John Moores University with a lecture on Nubia. With the support of the Flemish Government.

Interested in paleobiology? Dinosaur footprints? Biomechanics and/or extinct species diversity? And looking for a PhD? See below - supervised by Peter Falkingham with myself as co-supervisor.

RCEAP researcher Rui Martiniano and colleagues have generated the first ancient genomes from Arabia, producing insights about the human population history of the region and adaptation against malaria. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We hope so, which is why we've made it easy to contribute your own phenotypic time series to PETS, aiming for a dynamic, community-driven database. Please help spread the word about PETS within the community. If you'd like to help with PETS, please reach out. End of 🧵

Our own Mark Grabowski joins a great team focused on one of the classic biological questions of the role of constraints vs. adaptation - the antlers of the Irish Elk.

... and a nice writeup of our Irish Elk Evolution article, out today. Thomas Hansen in the news! institutions.newscientist.com/article/241571…

Apply now - headed by programme leaders Matt Grove (UoL) and Mark Grabowski (LJMU)

What's role does body breadth have on core body temperature during running? Find out in the latest publication from a team that includes our own Mark Grabowski

What are the many benefits to taking a Bayesian approach to phylogenetic comparative methods? Find out in the new pub from our own Mark Grabowski, along with a new R package for Phylogenetic Comparative Methods. Open access now in Systematic Biology: academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance…