Alexa Wimberly
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Alexa Wimberly
@AlexaWimberly
PhD candidate at the University of Chicago studying mammal locomotion and functional morphology. she/her
Katılım Haziran 2019
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I passed my dissertation defense on Tuesday!! Thank you to all who have supported me along the way!! 🦒🦌🐃🐐🦬
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Huge congrats to Dr. Alexa Wimberly who successfully defended her dissertation this week. There are many good things to come from Alexa, so keep an eye open! We'll miss her @UChicagoPaleo but she'll rock in her post doc at the AMNH!
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@grahamjslater @UChicagoPaleo Aww thank you Graham! I’m so grateful for your guidance!
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"Leveraging postcranial morphology for ecological inference: Novel methods for predicting body mass and habitat use in Ruminantia” - let me know if you’re interested and I can send you the recording!
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Super excited to share that I've been selected as an SJA Fellow! Looking forward to a year of mentorship, community, and exciting research/science communication opportunities! @SJArchive
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Ungulates are often thought of as prey animals but just check out the diversity in forms and ecology.
And chevrotains are in there too! Tiny but have important roles in the ecosystem as seed dispersers and herbivores.
#InternationalUngulateAwarenessDay
Peppermint Narwhal@PepomintNarwhal
#InternationalUngulateAwarenessDay #ungulates #Artiodactyla (Even-Toed) #Perissodactyla (Odd-Toed) Endangered 5 #EnamelPins #Kickstarter tinyurl.com/2n8pe326 #PeppermintNarwhal store peppermintnarwhal.com #InternationalUngulateDay #ungulateawarenessday #UngulateDay
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If you're at #SICB2023, check out @annalwisniewski talking about craniofacial evolutionary allometry in living and fossil horses in Lonestar G at 3.15pm
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What a great collaboration with @EllenCoombs teaching @NMNH visitors about artiodactyl evolution!! 🦌🦛🐋
Dr Ellen Coombs@EllenCoombs
Look who’s walking! Did you know #whales are related to #hippos & #deer?🐋 🦛 🦌Great fun doing outreach & sci comms today with fellow #biologist & #morphologist @AlexaWimberly at @NMNH for ‘An evolutionary tale of deer and dolphins’ #evolution #biology #WomenInSTEM @smithsonian
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Look who’s walking! Did you know #whales are related to #hippos & #deer?🐋 🦛 🦌Great fun doing outreach & sci comms today with fellow #biologist & #morphologist @AlexaWimberly at @NMNH for ‘An evolutionary tale of deer and dolphins’ #evolution #biology #WomenInSTEM @smithsonian
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I’m excited to be giving a seminar at the @MuseumofNature this week on some of my past research on tetrapod walking gaits and current studies on hoofed mammals! 🐂🐃🐏🦌🐐 And it's open to the public - register here! #WalkingWithHoofedMammals
Museum of Nature@MuseumofNature
How do #animals walk, and how does the #environment influence the #evolution of the ways they move? Join @AlexaWimberly from @UChicago for an #analysis across #tetrapods and case studies in #hoofed #mammals on Wed Dec 14 at 12 PM EST. Register here: bit.ly/3VYzA25
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@DimetroDude I have the same questions! I really want to go, but I’m concerned about how to fund it.
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‘The world needs science and science needs women’ 🧬🔬⚗️
An inspirational morning with the @LOrealUSA For #Women in #Science award winners @NMNH followed by a mammals tour & talk by @treeshrew13 🦇 We focused on human interactions with wildlife 🐋🐿 @AlexaWimberly #womeninstem
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“Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?”
“Well, you have to know these things when you’re a grad student, you know" @AlexaWimberly
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Excited that our paper on primate historical biogeography is now out! Key takeaway: fossils are critical to ancestral range inference at deep nodes in primate phylogeny, but their topological position should be critically assessed ! 🐒🦍🦧🦴
Graham Slater@grahamjslater
Congratulations to Slater Lab PhD student @annalwisniewski on her first published paper (w/ me and @GraemeTLloyd). Thread on paper below 👇 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…
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Another Slater Lab preprint, this one led by @AlexaLamprecht along with Rossy Natale and Robert Higgins and me: Choice of 3D morphometric method leads to diverging interpretations of form--function relationships in the carnivoran calcaneus biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
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@DaniBlumstein @MammalMeetings @Mammalogists Hi Dani, are you still looking for a roommate? I’m looking for someone to split a room with at the conference hotel!
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I'm so excited to share my first grad school publication! We found that quadrupedal tetrapods likely used the same limb coordination patterns for over 375 million years and that the presence of unique gaits in mammals suggests release from an ancestral constraint.
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