Postdoc ronin. I study skull shape and feeding biomechanics ππ¦ππ¨ππππ π @Flinders @WeisbeckerLab tinyurl.com/ykvymwmw
Adelaide, South Australia
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D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
Ahoy there Skullywags!
In the latest episode of Skullywag Chats, I team up with @NarimaneChatar from @UCBerkeley to discuss an evolutionary pattern she and her team discovered in the molars of meat-munching mammals #skull #science #π piped.video/6TmKAKhag7w?si=td2nβ¦ via @YouTube
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D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
So happy to have been invited by @DRexMitchell for this little chat about our recent tooth paper in @ScienceMagazine (doi.org/10.1126/science.aee3β¦) for his YouTube channel, The Skullywag Lab, check it out π€©:
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#SciComm #ScienceCommunication #AcademicChatter
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D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
A new model of skull function just dropped!
It describes the skull as an arch-bridge like structure that uses tensile elements to guide arcs of compressive stress between the biting teeth and jaw joints.
Written by me! πππ
#skull #science
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D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
A video covering our new published research on the tiny marsupial with an unusual talent π #skull #science piped.video/8H1rFsjgc38?si=raWgβ¦ via @YouTube
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D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
Our lab just published a cool paper on seed-cracking bettongs. Not just any seeds, but some of the hardest seeds out there! Two species in the same genus showing different adaptatiosn to hard biting. Very cool πππ€π€ #skull #science academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/β¦
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D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
This was a fun little side project I worked on while doing placoderm biomechanics analysis with the Flinders Gogo team. To be presented at @CAVEPS_Palaeo ππ€
#Devonian #fossil #placoderm #paleontology
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D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
I only played a very small role in this @PNASNews article by @AbbyGraceDrake, @JLosos, et al., but it's cool, so please check it out! "Copy-cat evolution: Divergence and convergence within and between cat and dog breeds." doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2413780β¦
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D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
What if the Rancor in @starwars was a domesticated breed similar to a pug or a bulldog? In the latest video from The Skullywag Lab, I "un-pug" the Rancor to see what a wild, undomesticated Rancor ancestor might look like!
#skull #science #starwars
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D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
New episode on ant and termite-eating animal skulls πππ
The feeding anatomy of these species is pretty bonkers tbh. Happy to finally explore it a bit
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D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
Just made this for The Skullywag Lab website I'm building
Come sit by the fire and enjoy some skulls ππ€
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D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
A new episode of Monster ID just dropped! This time, the lab identifies the Beast of Tenby π
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D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
Knowing what an animal eats can help biologists find it β especially when a species is as elusive as this one. @KarlVernes @DRexMitchell @WeisbeckerLab @FlindersUniNews @uninewengland theconversation.com/presumedβ¦
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Some interesting findings from our new methods paper. We used the skull of the extinct desert rat-kangaroo as a case study and discovered some important details about its feeding habits @WeisbeckerLab @TheSkullywagLab
theconversation.com/presumed⦠via @ConversationEDU
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For any researchers that study skull function using comparative finite element analysis, our new paper presenting a framework for scaling muscle forces to adequately represent the hypothesis is extremely important
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D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
@gessiejomez @DRexMitchell @CookeSiobhan
Questions on socioecology? Rare behaviors? Skeletal lesion analysis helps! #primates #primatology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/β¦
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D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
New study!
Measaurements of deer skulls from 38 species (300 individuals) show that larger species have more diverse skull ecomorphology.
Author concludes that size imposes ecological constraints ππ€
mdpi.com/2948940 #mdpifossstud via @FossilsMDPI
#skull #science
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D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
New video dropped, where I turn myself into a giant - for science! π€π
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D. Rex Mitchell retweeted
The latest video just dropped (link in bio).
We take a look at how missing teeth in the ancestors of the marsupial lion made evolution produce one of the most weird and powerful skulls known to science! π€π
Artwork by Rudolph Hima,
Music by Max Brhon
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