PhD candidate at @smns 🇩🇪 | HERper 🦎 | Mex I Can 🇲🇽 | Morphology | Evolution | 3D imaging | Trophic ecology | Island ecology | Squamates 🦎💚🐍
Ilse K. Barraza-Soltero
In case you needed a reminder of the importance of basic science! 🤩
Thrilled to be part of this amazing work! 🎉
Olfaction written in bones 🦴👃🏽🧠🧬
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Study on archosaurs (albatross & alligator embryos) reveals complexity in nasal gland evolution. Distinct gland structures, timing & development patterns challenge traditional terminology & highlight overlooked evolutionary story
Rehorek et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's landmark book 'On the Origin of Species' was first published. The work is one of the foundations of evolutionary biology, and one of the most important scientific works of the 19th century. #HistoryOfScience
In the brain of a sabertooth: First neuroanatomical description and ethological insights on Megantereon cultridens (Felidae, Machairodontinae).
Study by Ilaria Meli et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Artwork by Simone Zoccante
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Fully funded 4-year PhD in Avian Evolutionary Physiology in Czechia! 🇨🇿🇪🇺
Join IVB CAS to study the evolutionary ecology of avian energetics (glucose/fatty acids).
🐦 Fieldwork (Barn swallows, passerines)
🧪 Metabolomics
💻 Adv. stats in R
Apply by March 16! 👇
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#EcoEvo #PhD
A new phD position in my lab about amphibian, infection diseases in a global changing world. Check it out! And spread the word ;)
Our big squamate origins and early evolution review is now fully published as open access! with @marcanthonytollis.bsky.social and F. Burbrink
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
The trump administration has dreamed of ways it can steal from the American people. They’ve believed they could get away with it, and since he’s taken office, they’ve been acting on it.
I ask you, why not us?
Ilse K. Barraza-Soltero
The Anatomical Record
The Royal Society
Bibiana Rojas
The Anatomical Record
Tiago Simões
María cortazar-chinarro
Dr. Earyn McGee
We have a new exiting PhD position in our program on the skin microbiome of amphibians, supervised by @cortazar-chinarro.bsky.social! Follow the link to read more and apply: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/.... Deadline the 8th of May.
Olfaction written in bones 👃🧠🦴🧬
Thrilled to see our latest study showing that the olfactory bulb endocast is a reliable proxy for mammalian olfaction, now published in @pnas.org
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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An engineer wanted to make a quiet high-speed train. “The question then occurred to me — is there some living thing that manages sudden changes in air resistance as a part of daily life?” The answer: the kingfisher. See my story today for more tales of bioinspiration. Gift link: nyti.ms/4otNQyl
PhD in Evolutionary Ecology and genomics, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University
Squamates (lizards, including snakes) are the most diverse group of terrestrial vertebrates on Earth today and have an evolutionary history dating back to at least the Middle Triassic (ca. 242 Mya). D...
