Dr Marco Camaiti

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Dr Marco Camaiti

Dr Marco Camaiti

@Scincomancer

Vertebrate morphologist. Science fiction would-be writer. Skink nerd. Currently based at NHM.

London, UK Katılım Nisan 2019
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Dr Marco Camaiti
Dr Marco Camaiti@Scincomancer·
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/doi/10.1098/rs…
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James Mulqueeney
James Mulqueeney@JamesMulqueeney·
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/6/…
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Prof. Anjali Goswami FRS
Prof. Anjali Goswami FRS@anjgoswami·
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.
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James Mulqueeney@JamesMulqueeney

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/6/…

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Prof. Anjali Goswami FRS
Prof. Anjali Goswami FRS@anjgoswami·
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!
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Aniruddha Datta Roy
Aniruddha Datta Roy@skinkomaniac·
Surprise! Kaestlea has a different story to tell—it doesn't share an immediate ancestor with Ristella + Lankascincus. Two independent colonization events unfolded during the late Palaeocene-early Eocene
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Dr James Rule
Dr James Rule@Palaeo_JRule·
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.13…
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Dr Marco Camaiti@Scincomancer·
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/zoolin…
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Dr Marco Camaiti@Scincomancer·
@itsrobotface If you told me it was a species of an Australian Lerista I would have believed you. These genera look almost exactly the same.
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Dr Marco Camaiti@Scincomancer·
@DSRovinsky extra-slow metabolism. If I ate two or three meals a day I would gain weight at breakneck speed.
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Dr Douglass Rovinsky
Dr Douglass Rovinsky@DSRovinsky·
People that don't eat breakfast scare me. From what eldritch source do you draw your powers? I've usually eaten TWICE by 11 am...
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Dr Marco Camaiti@Scincomancer·
@KristaLerista We found this while looking for Leristas during my fieldwork. I feel truly blessed to have seen one with my two eyes.
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Krista Koeller
Krista Koeller@KristaLerista·
The face of a lizard that has seen some things! Aprasia lizards, like other pygopodids have retained back legs, despite 30 million years of opportunities to lose them. Also they’re technically geckos!
Jules Farquhar@FarquharJules

In 1952, the British Government quietly detonated a 25-kiloton atomic bomb (to test it out) in a lagoon in the Montebello archipelago of Western Australia, hence why one of the resident legless lizards (Aprasia rostrata) is sometimes called the Atomic Worm-lizard.

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Krista Koeller
Krista Koeller@KristaLerista·
Them: Why do you study legless lizards? Me to them: they're an ideal system for studying the ecological and phylogenetic constraints that can drive convergent evolution in the vertebrate body plan. In my head: TINY ARMS TINY ARMS! LOOK AT THEM THEY'RE SO SMALL! AAAGHJGH🤯🤣😍!
Tyrone Ping@itsrobotface

Scelotes limpopoensis limpopoensis - Limpopo Dwarf Burrowing Skink. From Mapungubwe National Park, Limpopo. tyroneping.co.za/lizards/scelot…

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