Comparative anatomist, paleobiologist @NYIT interested in: aquatic amniotes, histology, surface metrology. UF, Howard, and KU alum; vanderhoofius@mastodon.ai
Joined June 2010
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28 Oct 2022
This has been a blast to be part of. After years of projects, grants, and papers, it feels like the culmination of a much bigger collaborative effort. I’m grateful for having such extraordinary colleagues, especially @anjgoswami @Imagotaria @EllenCoombs and @akiopteryx !
27 Oct 2022
Ecstatic to share our new paper on skull evolution in placental mammals, highlighted on the cover of @ScienceMagazine! With a 3d dataset spanning the Cenozoic, we describe a new model of attenuated evolution & identify traits associated w/fast evolution science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… 1/
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Like all the other scientists, I’m outta here and off in the big Bluesky
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31 Jul 2024
Really cool PhD project being advertised by @Te_Papa and Victoria University of Wellington on deep time evolution of marine mammal feeding ecology, check it out!
wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships/curr…
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9 Jun 2024
New from #RSOS: Comparative functional morphology indicates niche partitioning among sympatric marine #reptiles. Read more: ow.ly/SGCX50ROzzu @davfof @SteveBrusatte
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25 May 2024
I couldn’t be prouder of Lionel! He is just amazing to work with!!
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26 Jan 2024
🚨New Pub!🚨A new thin sectioning method for observation of higher resolution images in bone histomorphology 🦴🩻by Nakai & Boyde
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20 Jan 2024
Please share: I’m recruiting a postdoc (2-years) to start in my lab Fall 2024. My lab studies Functional Morphology and Macroevolution (mostly of fishes).
More info: edwardburress.com/prospectiv…
ALT Lab logo design by Amy Cheu (@BasiliskosArt)
ALT Illustrations by Julie Johnson (@jehimes)
ALT Illustrations by Rene Martin (@lampichthys)
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20 Jan 2024
Our paper on forelimb EMG patterns in alligators has been published!
doi.org/10.1111/joa.14011
I thank my coauthor @c_mayerl, @davidmunteanu22, @BioBlobs, and all the individuals who helped us.
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20 Jan 2024
Blue holes in the Bahamas were discovered to be a rich source of well-preserved skeletons of extinct species of tortoises and crocodiles.
Online Exhibit 🐊 Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating
🎧 Read and listen to David Steadman: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/100-ye…
Featured: Crocodylus rhombifer
ALT side view of a small crocodile skull with heavy pits on the surface and irregular conical teeth
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5 Dec 2023
Tooth formation in wild boar & domestic pigs reveals fascinating differences! Dentin apposition rates vary across zones. Root growth spurt timing & rates differ b/w them, hinting at impact of domestication on odontoblast recruitment.
Emken et al.: doi.org/10.1002/ar.25358
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Wrapping up the week by visualizing the crazy axonal growth of dorsal root ganglia neurons in vitro using the SPY650-FastAct probe from @spirochrome! 🤩 Capturing one image every 10 minutes.
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29 Nov 2023
In mice, pregnancy results in new neurons that support the recognition of pups, a new Science study finds. The results highlight the physiological relevance of adult stem cell heterogeneity.
📄: scim.ag/50j
#SciencePerspective: scim.ag/50i
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29 Nov 2023
Cool article in @Nature on the fundamentally geological nature of the global biodiversification:
"...biodiversity is strongly reliant on landscape dynamics, which ...determine the carrying capacity..."
cc: @niles_eldredge @CoelhoPre @Trilolight @svalver
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30 Nov 2023
New paper!
Welcome Diaphorocetus ortegai! Yes... another physeteroid from the Chilcatacy Fm., Pisco basin. How many more sperm whales await to be found/described? More than a dozen 😬😬😬
Open Access paper here:
sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/peri…
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28 Nov 2023
Why are not all whales dead from cancer? A simple calculation reveals that all other things equal, an animal 1000 times larger than us should be a thousand times more prone to develop cancer. This is not the case. Why? Maths suggests an answer @cmaley royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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An intriguing characterization of osteochondrogenic #SmoothMuscleCell in Atherosclerotic lesions
⏬by TXNIP
⏫by BMP2
Contribute to lesion fibrosis, proteoglycan accumulation & calcification
w/o modifying lesion burden
@CircRes 2023
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25 Nov 2023
Paleontology is a multi-faceted field of science and acts as an introduction to understanding the evolution of life. Excellent video by @ICMWriter on why we study paleontology and its importance. #Dinosaurs #Paleontology #Science #STEM
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24 Nov 2023
Opportunity to work with @AlexisLicht on cool Eocene fossils from Balkanatolia! It is such a bizarre island fauna from what is now Turkey and the Balkans.
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24 Nov 2023
#FossilFriday Esther Richards was born November 24, 1895. In 1921, she suggested that microfossils could be used in stratigraphy. Her study was ridiculed by Professor J.J. Galloway: “Gentlemen, you know that it can’t be done.” wp.me/p3ihHu-4DF #WomenInSTEM #histsci
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25 Nov 2023
How do "molecular motors" fold the genome?
A new #SciencePerspective looks at insights that are starting to yield an understanding of the mechanism by which these motors extrude loops of #DNA to structure genomes. scim.ag/4X7
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22 Nov 2023
World map in Nandos sauces. Inaccuracies due to condimental shift
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