Here’s a little update on our ‘not so little’ girl. This week, Aurora, the hippo calf, topped the scales at 67 kg. She has improved her bottle feeding, grown confidence in her pool and can now get in and out of her pool all by herself (kind of) Our keepers couldn't be happier!

The Call for Hosting for Measuring Behavior 2026 #MB2026 closes one month from today, on 15 August. measuringbehavior.org/call-for-hosti…

I enjoyed presenting my work on theoretical Morphospace in collaboration with Robyn Grant at ISEA Loughborough University hosted by SportsTechLboro

#metamaterials feature on ⁦THE BOYS⁩ 🤓⁦UK Metamaterials Network⁩

We had a lovely time visiting Manchester Poetry Library Landscapes of Change exhibition featuring MMU's Department of Natural Sciences Kathryn Adamson Iestyn Barr 's amazing research in Greenland. Ace stuff!

PhD positions in Behavioural ecology Universität Bern. Deadline approaching ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jobs…

🚨*Please Retweet*🚨We're looking for #applicants for a fully-funded #PhD on the #welfare impacts of #urbanisation on #wild #fox and #hedgehog #cognition and #health with me, Carl Soulsbury 🇺🇦 and Simon Clegg. Deadline 15th September, details below. 🦊🦔🧩🧠🏙️ #BritishCarnivoreProject

Happy to announce our "Digital methods in palaeobiology" workshop supported by the The PalAss and the Lapworth Museum of Geology Hosted the at Lapworth Museum from 14.-16. October and aimed at early career researchers. Apply here: forms.gle/hbkDqtgALvMAdW… and see below for more info.

A huge congratulations to Ugne Simanaviciute who passed her PhD viva with minor corrections today! Amazing work, well done! 😃🎈🐀🐁

Grey seals, like many Phocids, have amazingly undulating whiskers! I am admiring my new CAD model of whisker F001, from a specimen I received a couple of years ago from National Museums Scotland What beautiful bumps!

Have you seen our latest paper in Mammal Society #MammalCommunications? A study led and designed by our MMU's Department of Natural Sciences student Anna McMillan, with me and Michal Zatrak We developed a new body condition scoring system for young harbour seals. mammal.org.uk/mammal-communi…

Excited to share my first publication! We’ve developed a body condition score system for juvenile harbour seals in rehab centres. 🦭 Huge thanks to the brilliant Robyn Grant, Michal Zatrak , Richard Ilderton , & TynemouthSealHospital hospital! Check it out: mammal.org.uk/mammal-communi…

We need your help! #MovementForGood's environmental prize fund is open until Friday 16/08!🌍🌊 Your nomination could help us secure £5k for our marine #conservation & #education work to protect Scotland's amazing marine wildlife. Nominate us↙️ ow.ly/ZGh150SXolP

We recently had a lab move. It may not look like much, but having somewhere to put my legs under, a chair and a nice bright window makes doing whisker science so much comfier and easier 😃😃

4-year postdoc job now advertised in my lab to study the 3D neck motions in salamander feeding!#biomechanics #XROMM #vertebrae – see job link and thread below for details jobs.ac.uk/job/DJJ517/pos… Applications close 27 September. Please contact me with any questions!

just over two weeks left to apply for this post-doc with me: jobs.ljmu.ac.uk/vacancy/resear… #Biomechanics, #XROMM, #DEM, #opensim, #dinosaurs #birds #evolution #palaeontology, #paleontology etc...

📣Attention Welsh engineers! I'm recruiting 15 engineers in South Wales for a new Royal Academy of Engineering storytelling programme celebrating the past, present and future of Welsh engineering. Apply here: shorturl.at/1Djzj DEADLINE: 22nd Sept (Plz share!)

Amazing new paper by Amandine Gillet & colleagues on cetacean vertebrae 🐬🐳 nature.com/articles/s4146…

When did feathers evolve? Are bird feathers homologous with pterosaur tufts? Check out our new preprint, lead by the fantastic Pierre Cockx. We use different models, outgroups and coding strategies to clarify feather evolution. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Calling All Seal Enthusiasts! Following my presentation at WILDLABS Variety Hour last week, I'm now excited to announce that our paper has been published. Interested in the deep-sea behaviors of northern elephant seals? 🦭 Dive in: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… WILDLABS Community