Vertebrate morphologist. Science fiction would-be writer. Skink nerd. Currently based at NHM.
Joined April 2019
- Tweets 169
- Following 323
- Followers 314
- Likes 690
31 Photos and videos
Pinned Tweet
4 Oct 2024
What happens to a lizard's skeleton when it reduces or loses it legs?
In our latest paper, we examine the evolution of girdle shapes in limb-reduced skinks, uncovering surprising and bizarre skeletal changes.
Check it out here: royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
5
12
1,373
Dr Marco Camaiti retweeted
26 Oct 2024
New review paper on using AI to analyse Evolutionary Morphology is officially out! Was great to part of a large collaborative team writing this.
academic.oup.com/iob/article…
7
21
70
14,293
Dr Marco Camaiti retweeted
26 Oct 2024
Our new paper on #AI for evolutionary morphology is out @ICB_journal! This massive team effort covers the history of AI for studying morphology, reviews new tools, provides many case studies & a prospectus for using AI to progress diverse topics in evolutionary morphology.
26 Oct 2024
New review paper on using AI to analyse Evolutionary Morphology is officially out! Was great to part of a large collaborative team writing this.
academic.oup.com/iob/article…
2
23
86
6,707
Dr Marco Camaiti retweeted
7 Oct 2024
How do lizard skeletons adapt to the evolutionary reduction of limbs? ow.ly/rSAw50TFtzj
#ProcB #OpenAccess @Scincomancer @chapple_lab @DrTeethAl @EvoMorphoLab_KU
63
194
13,858
Dr Marco Camaiti retweeted
21 Jan 2024
We got the whole gang together (actually a few gangs) for a 9 hour power session to finish off our new team-written review paper on #AI for evolutionary morphology. 50 pages and 6 case studies later, the preprint is out! doi.org/10.32942/X2S315. Website w/ links to tools up soon!
1
27
136
11,816
Dr Marco Camaiti retweeted
This months #EditorsChoice describes the ecomorphological correlates of the inner ear labyrinth of #Australian skinks! Find out more below 👇🦎
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/…
@LinneanSociety @OxfordJournals @Scincomancer
4
14
788
Dr Marco Camaiti retweeted
13 Dec 2023
🚨🦎Have you been wondering what a skink is? Check out our new paper🦎 🚨
We’re certain that the term “kebabs to noodles continuum” will be widely used by scientists in no time 😂
doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10791 @chapple_lab @skinks_IUCN @AlexSlavenko @Scincomancer @uncshai @r_tingley
1
17
60
2,698
Dr Marco Camaiti retweeted
16 Nov 2023
WE ARE ONLINE OMG
16 Nov 2023
🪐💫 Universe for Sale is out NOW on PC 📢🫶
From European comics veterans at @tmesis_studio comes an introspective #adventuregame ⛈️
Form universes in the palm of your hand, meet cultists donning detached body parts & uncover personal pasts on acid rain-drenched Jupiter. 🔮
1
5
17
1,613
Dr Marco Camaiti retweeted
4 Sep 2023
New paper by my colleagues and I on the reproductive anatomy of a leopard seal 🦭
Leopard seal reproduction is mostly unknown. This note from a @MonashUni dissection discusses the importance of morphology in providing some clues.
Open access paper here: doi.org/10.1111/mms.13067
1
22
63
7,002
10 Aug 2023
Interested in the hidden sensory superpowers of limb-reduced skinks? Look no further than our new publication on the inner ears of these critters! doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/z…
1
15
41
3,090
20 Feb 2023
More journals should do these ECR features. They're a nice way to publicise research, and researchers!
20 Feb 2023
ECR feature: Marco Camaiti @Scincomancer shares his recent study on biogeographic patterns of limb reduction in the world's skinks.
Read more here: journalofbiogeographynews.or…
#biogeography #skinks #lizards
1
3
25
1,704
Dr Marco Camaiti retweeted
6 Jan 2023
New paper alert!! We in the Oceania branch of @skinks_IUCN just published a paper in Pacific Conservation Biology @CSIROPublishing on the skinks of Oceania, New Guinea, and Eastern Wallacea
publish.csiro.au/PC/PC22034
1/n
1
13
25
3,378
Dr Marco Camaiti retweeted
23 Dec 2022
Dramatic evolutionary transitions: Morphological data show that the relationships between limb length and trunk elongation have unique evolutionary patterns across the world's skink clades.
doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14547
1
8
32
3,520
Dr Marco Camaiti retweeted
3 Jan 2023
Check out this great new research by @P_hazael on the weirdest of weird marsupials!
3 Jan 2023
New paper from @P_hazael, @DSRovinsky, Justin Adams and @DrTeethAl enabled by NIF @Mon_Bio_Imaging: Inferring the palaeobiology of palorchestid marsupials through analysis of mammalian humeral and femoral shape link.springer.com/article/10… @museumsvictoria @EvansEvoMorph
1
8
36
5,102
Dr Marco Camaiti retweeted
19 Dec 2022
What does the relationship between body shape and substrate tell us about limb reduction in skinks? Marco Camaiti et al find environmental adaptation, in particular to substrate, is a major driver of body-shape evolution in skinks. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… @chapple_lab @DrTeethAl
5
20
1,379
8 Dec 2022
It’s nubbin’ time! Our new paper on skink limb reduction and its environmental associations is out: doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14547. Thanks to @DrTeethAl @chapple_lab Christy Hipsley @uncshai @MarkHutchos @AlexSlavenko @rco_anderson.
Check out our graphical abstract [thread]:
7
18
51
8 Dec 2022
[6/7 – two approaches to explore the drivers and associations of skink limb reduction]
1
1
5