One of the highlights of a short trip to Yunnan last week – the Spot-breasted Parrotbill: an icon for functional morphologists, an insectivore with the 'wrong' beak (stubby like a seed-eater) which nonetheless makes ecophysical sense because it uses bite-force to snip through grass/bamboo stems
November 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
One of the highlights of a short trip to Yunnan last week – the Spot-breasted Parrotbill: an icon for functional morphologists, an insectivore with the 'wrong' beak (stubby like a seed-eater) which nonetheless makes ecophysical sense because it uses bite-force to snip through grass/bamboo stems
One interesting tweak to Montréal being a fake planned grid city is that the best conceptual framework for describing the morphogenesis of the city's layout is the one developed by Italian "processual typo-morphologists" to understand the built form of pre-modern Italian cities.
September 29, 2026 at 5:27 PM
One interesting tweak to Montréal being a fake planned grid city is that the best conceptual framework for describing the morphogenesis of the city's layout is the one developed by Italian "processual typo-morphologists" to understand the built form of pre-modern Italian cities.
It is amazing to see so many #Morphologists attending #Morpho25 in Kiel. The renaissance of #Morphology is continuing
February 21, 2025 at 7:24 AM
It is amazing to see so many #Morphologists attending #Morpho25 in Kiel. The renaissance of #Morphology is continuing
Of interest to functional morphologists: Bird morphology inspiring development of new multi-modal (walking, jumping & flying) robots www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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December 5, 2024 at 12:01 PM
Of interest to functional morphologists: Bird morphology inspiring development of new multi-modal (walking, jumping & flying) robots www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Calling scientists whose research falls under the big umbrella of vertebrate morphology: ISVM (and ICVM conferences) has a Bluesky account! Please follow, share, & it's a great account via which to follow other morphologists you might not yet follow!
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April 29, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Calling scientists whose research falls under the big umbrella of vertebrate morphology: ISVM (and ICVM conferences) has a Bluesky account! Please follow, share, & it's a great account via which to follow other morphologists you might not yet follow!
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Taking requests for songs to be sung by a crowd of morphologists at a Montreal karaoke bar.
May 3, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Taking requests for songs to be sung by a crowd of morphologists at a Montreal karaoke bar.
We need a compound word to describe this👇🏽. I dunno, seems like a useful combination.
Can we have some German morphologists working on that please? Danke schön.
Can we have some German morphologists working on that please? Danke schön.
I need a benzodiazepine, a nap, some tea, a bath, and a weighted blanket all at once
September 17, 2026 at 5:53 AM
We need a compound word to describe this👇🏽. I dunno, seems like a useful combination.
Can we have some German morphologists working on that please? Danke schön.
Can we have some German morphologists working on that please? Danke schön.
Vert morphologists today:
February 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Vert morphologists today:
Evident : All psycho morphologists, even amateurs, knew that since he was appointed !
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Evident : All psycho morphologists, even amateurs, knew that since he was appointed !
eat yer heart out, morphologists
March 20, 2024 at 12:53 AM
eat yer heart out, morphologists
Calling vertebrate morphologists around the globe!
Call for 2025 online ICVM Symposia Proposals!
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🗓 Deadline: Dec 9, 2024, 5 PM CET
📧 Send proposals to Nadia Fröbisch: Nadia.froebisch@hu-berlin.de
Call for 2025 online ICVM Symposia Proposals!
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🗓 Deadline: Dec 9, 2024, 5 PM CET
📧 Send proposals to Nadia Fröbisch: Nadia.froebisch@hu-berlin.de
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November 16, 2024 at 3:11 PM
Calling vertebrate morphologists around the globe!
Call for 2025 online ICVM Symposia Proposals!
📋 Symposium proposal guidelines: isvm-icvm.org/proposal-gui...
🗓 Deadline: Dec 9, 2024, 5 PM CET
📧 Send proposals to Nadia Fröbisch: Nadia.froebisch@hu-berlin.de
Call for 2025 online ICVM Symposia Proposals!
📋 Symposium proposal guidelines: isvm-icvm.org/proposal-gui...
🗓 Deadline: Dec 9, 2024, 5 PM CET
📧 Send proposals to Nadia Fröbisch: Nadia.froebisch@hu-berlin.de
Oh yeah, triresmos!
And Fay 1920 is not terribly impressed.
And Fay 1920 is not terribly impressed.
December 31, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Oh yeah, triresmos!
And Fay 1920 is not terribly impressed.
And Fay 1920 is not terribly impressed.
And the morphologists are working on the smurfification constraint
July 21, 2026 at 2:31 PM
And the morphologists are working on the smurfification constraint
In these days, I am again reminded that embryologists and functional morphologists have substantially different minds and viewpoints to confer an explanation of "how morphotraits evolutionarily change" to us.
April 6, 2024 at 6:29 AM
In these days, I am again reminded that embryologists and functional morphologists have substantially different minds and viewpoints to confer an explanation of "how morphotraits evolutionarily change" to us.
Inclined to agree but distributed morphologists among others might beg to differ
August 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Inclined to agree but distributed morphologists among others might beg to differ
I'm sure the geneticists and the morphologists would argue over it either way!
January 6, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I'm sure the geneticists and the morphologists would argue over it either way!
guys i think it's time to computational morphologists to stop being so fixated on morfessor
July 31, 2026 at 5:20 PM
guys i think it's time to computational morphologists to stop being so fixated on morfessor
I def see your point. The traditional morphologists' perspective supports the sponge-sister hypothesis, and data matrices of morphological data analyzed under today's highfalutin statistical methods continue to support the sponge-sister hypothesis
November 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I def see your point. The traditional morphologists' perspective supports the sponge-sister hypothesis, and data matrices of morphological data analyzed under today's highfalutin statistical methods continue to support the sponge-sister hypothesis
One of the great vertebrate morphologists working, Dean talks about mineralization in giant placoid scales (bucklers) in cartilaginous fishes. Bucklers anchored by Sharpey's fibers and muscle. Denticles cusp looks normal, the base is very unusual.
#ICVM2023
#ICVM2023
July 30, 2023 at 11:28 PM
One of the great vertebrate morphologists working, Dean talks about mineralization in giant placoid scales (bucklers) in cartilaginous fishes. Bucklers anchored by Sharpey's fibers and muscle. Denticles cusp looks normal, the base is very unusual.
#ICVM2023
#ICVM2023
IOB fresh Ink!
Wing #Morphology, #Foraging Strategies, and Flight Performance in Six Sympatric #Species of Molossid #Bats (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from #Argentina
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Wing #Morphology, #Foraging Strategies, and Flight Performance in Six Sympatric #Species of Molossid #Bats (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from #Argentina
M A Argoitia et al
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December 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
IOB fresh Ink!
Wing #Morphology, #Foraging Strategies, and Flight Performance in Six Sympatric #Species of Molossid #Bats (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from #Argentina
M A Argoitia et al
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Wing #Morphology, #Foraging Strategies, and Flight Performance in Six Sympatric #Species of Molossid #Bats (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from #Argentina
M A Argoitia et al
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Dysfunctional and/or spineless morphologists need not apply /j
My department at CSU Northridge is hiring a vertebrate functional morphologist! We've got a great EEB group, and we're looking for someone to carry forward a tradition of enriching organismal courses and community-engaged research. App review starts March 15
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Assistant Professor Vertebrate Functional Morphologist #26-24
The Department of Biology at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) is seeking
a tenure-track faculty member in Vertebrate Functional Morphology.
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March 1, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Dysfunctional and/or spineless morphologists need not apply /j
Love it that more and more international ecologists, hydro-morphologists and water afficinados flood my blueskyline 🤗🤗🤗
October 10, 2023 at 6:28 PM
Love it that more and more international ecologists, hydro-morphologists and water afficinados flood my blueskyline 🤗🤗🤗
We are in the middle of this year's Morphology Meeting #MM26 in Jena and are thrilled about the amazing talks of our #morphologists and the wonderful organisation and lovely care and tremendous efforts of the organisers.
February 27, 2026 at 8:39 AM
We are in the middle of this year's Morphology Meeting #MM26 in Jena and are thrilled about the amazing talks of our #morphologists and the wonderful organisation and lovely care and tremendous efforts of the organisers.