Nicole M. Webb (PUSH@IT)

Check out our latest paper on chimpanzee birth that shows us how great apes can help shed light on the evolution of our own complex birth mechanism 🐵 nature.com/articles/s4155…

@johnhawks Thank you! We are very excited to finally share it :)

@Coley_Webb Congratulations, this is such a nice piece of work!

Check out our latest paper on chimpanzee birth that shows us how great apes can help shed light on the evolution of our own complex birth mechanism 🐵 nature.com/articles/s4155…

🐒#Birth is a tight squeeze for #chimpanzees too! A new study in @NatureEcoEvo shows that the 'obstetrical dilemma' evolved gradually over the course of primate evolution, rather than suddenly in humans as originally argued. 👉 sgn.one/sj9 📸 P. Rolands/Adobe Stock

@geobiodiversity @NatureEcoEvo Full paper available here: nature.com/articles/s4155…

Chimpanzees, like humans, must contend with a confined bony birth canal when giving birth. In humans, the problem was exacerbated by our unique form of upright walking since this led to a twisting of the bony birth canal. The “obstetrical dilemma” therefore evolved gradually over the course of primate evolution. news.uzh.ch/en/articles/me… @evmed_ch @Senckenberg

nature.com/articles/s4155… it's publication day! Check out our most recent work 🐵

Wonderful Leibniz Mentoring retreat in Schwanenwerder ❤️ Excited to apply what I’ve learned to PUSH@IT in 2024!

Super excited to get started with exploring our remarkable birth process with the latest addition to Team Pelvis—Laura Watson! 😁

There’s been some Twitter buzz about it lately, but I encourage anyone who’s interested in the #obstetrical #dilemma or #obstetric #conundrum to read our new paper for themselves: doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.2…. @Coley_Webb @drbfischer @LiaBetti @krosencek et al. @stem_univie

It was an honor to be interviewed for the @nytimes on the #obstetrical #dilemma. It's difficult to capture the complexity of the debate and move it forward in a short article, so interested readers should definitely check out our recent pub doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.2… and...

Anna Warrener's forthcoming article in @evanthro. I can't wait to read it.

Last opportunity to be a part of the ESHE board! Share your background with a short bio and photo for the ESHE elections by tomorrow. Visit eshe.eu/meetings for further details. #ESHE2023 #BoardElections #HumanEvolution

Reminder: Deadline approaching! Don't miss out on applying for our ESHE childcare vouchers by July 1st. For more info : eshe.eu/meetings #Childcaresupport #ESHE2023

New PhD Position!🚨Please RT🚨 We are looking for an enthusiastic student interested in conducting birth simulations for our recently funded @LeibnizWGL Collaborative Excellence project. See announcement for further details and more info on how to apply. Deadline July 1🤰

🚨Hot off the press @ScienceMagazine — Oldowan tools, butchered hippos, and Paranthropus (oh my!) 2.9 million-year-old artifacts and fossils from Nyayanga, Kenya shed light on the dawn of technology & raise questions about who made the first stone tools science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

@markwgrabowski I had lots of thoughts but only my response to whether there were implications for the work outside of paleoanthropology made it in there! Would love to discuss more the next time we chat!

''The emerging understanding could also help scientists devise treatments for hip joint disorders or predict complications in childbirth, says Nicole Webb (@Coley_Webb), a paleoanthropologist who studies pelvic anatomy at the University of Tübingen.'' 😃 @ScienceMagazine

I wrote about human childbirth and why it’s so brutal. is there an evolutionary dilemma acting on hips that causes a tight fetal fit? or is childbirth better explained by metabolic demands? my latest for @DiscoverMag: discovermagazine.com/health/scienti…

How can your research @uni_tue benefit from machine learning? Join us all day July 6th for our 2nd workshop on setting up an ML project from scratch. We’ll cover the basics & discuss your application too. Sign up by June 29th at forms.office.com/Pages/Response…! @ml4science