Anne-Claire Fabre

🚨sounds to be a really neat paper to read👇 congrats @osteosophia.bsky.social @eloygl.bsky.social et al. 🎉

Better late than never! If you haven’t yet read Isabelle’s latest paper on the impact of tweezers on table manners in salamanders, now’s the time. Check out her blog and the full paper at the link below👇 that’s an order 😉
metamorphosis-project.org/publications...

How are ballistic tongues in plethodonts and chameleons similar and different? Zeng et al. (2025) explore this in this week's #AWNews. Visit AmphibiaWeb.org to read more.

🦎 Funded 4-year PhD position on Lizard Evolutionary Ecology in our lab at UCLouvain (Belgium)! Apply before 9 March! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...

Beyond excited to announce that as of today I officially started a Ramón y Cajal 5-year senior fellowship (tenure-track) at University of Alcalá in Madrid, if you are interested in birds & vertebrate macroevolution & you like sun & good food, hit me up to explore postdoc or PhD opportunities!

#SICB2026
Day 1 begins!
1: Host- #microbe interactions across #biological scales in a changing world

2: #Dinosaurs to #drones: comparative approaches to understanding flight

3: The #evolutionary consequences of metamorphosis in #metazoans
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Cool review to read! 🦇

Well deserved @quentinwildlife.bsky.social , such an amazing picture again!

Thank you to you Fabio for including me in this great project!

New in @science.org, meet Acronichthys maccagnoi, a new species from Late Creatacous Canada that changes what we know about the origins and evolution of one of the most successful fish groups on Earth.

Seasonal size change and aging in shrews

PhD Alert! 😍 Our lab is hiring a PhD student to study how shrews shrink in winter and grow in spring. Yes, you read that right!
tinyurl.com/shrinkingshr...
Join us at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, study a super cool animal, and join the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social community!

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Congrats @selfishmeme.bsky.social and colleagues! Really neat study! 🐜 (Ameise-ing as we would say in German)

‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species

go.nature.com/4mOb5T9

Body mass evolution as a driver of morphological and ecological diversity in terrestrial mammals - BMC Ecology and Evolution Body mass plays a fundamental role in the macroevolutionary dynamics of morphological, ecological, and phylogenetic diversification. Given biomechanical principles, large body masses in terrestrial ve...

Thrilled to share our new paper out in BMC, part of my postdoc at @cornellvet.bsky.social! 🐘🐀
We found that larger mammals evolve more diverse morphologies, while smaller ones can explore many locomotor strategies without much change to their forelimbs.
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Congrats @jmhuie.bsky.social ! Really neat paper!

Phylogeny of Aneides and Plethodon with animal photos

Phylomorphospace showing body shape variation

Morphospace of toe bones and box lots showing estimated gripping force

Representative SEM images of salamander feet

Excited to share the first paper from my PhD!

We looked at what traits help Aneides salamanders excel at climbing using museum specimens, CT scans, SEM, and more! No claws or toe pads, so how do they do it? In short, with long limbs, big feet and grippy toes! 🦎🧪

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Des chauves-souris et Anne-Claire Fabre, conservatrice des mammifères Le swarming : quand les chauves-souris femelles choisissent leur partenaire Les brèves du jour  Grande invitée : Anne-Claire Fabre, conservatrice des mammifères au Muséum dʹhistoire naturelle

Ce matin, j'étais la grande invitée de l'émission CQFD sur RTS. Merci encore à Lucia Silling, Stéphane Gabioud et Cécile Guérin pour leur invitation ! Une fois de plus, ce fut un grand plaisir de participer à votre émission ! #scienceisFUN; #RTS; #CQD www.rts.ch/audio-podcas...

Fig from Porto-Hannes et al. 2025 showing a mudpuppy with its bright red exposed gills. There are little spots on the gills, each of which is a little sluglike mussel glochidium only a couple mm in size

Freshwater mussels mostly use fish as a host to move upstream. The salamander mussel is unique in latching on to aquatic salamanders! Its larvae encyst in the gills of mudpuppies, possibly staying with their hosts over the winter! (204)

Thanks a lot @k4tj4.bsky.social ! I really enjoyed your talk on Monday too! It was soooo inspiring ❄️ and soooo impressive ! In addition it was really nice to put a face on a name that I am following since years! I really like your work!

🚨Paper Alert🚨Wanna know how a climate crisis 56 million years ago shaped the current diversity of salamandrids? Check the the paper led by the amazing Loredana Macaluso and a fantastic team of collaborators@robertorozzi.bsky.social, A. Villa & B. Mennecart. I am truly delighted to be part of it!!!🦎👇

Title slide of our ICVM 2025 presentation

Attending the virtual #ICVM2025 conference? Check out our lightning talk on the imaging and articulation techniques we used to make our physical model of a dogfish skull and how physical models give new insights in research & education. icvm.econference.io/public/3JC8E... (registration req to view)

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The impact of size and ontogeny on suction feeding kinematics in the axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) Summary: In Ambystoma mexicanum larvae, juveniles and adults all use suction feeding. In this research, kinematic analysis reveals shifts in the speed and acceleration of jaw and hyoid movements betwe...

Curious about the answer? Dive into her paper (journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...) and check out her blog post (metamorphosis-project.org/publications...) to learn more!

Huge congratulations to Isabelle Toussaint-Lardé on publishing the first paper of her PhD! 🎉

Ever wondered whether paedomorphic species change their feeding strategies from larval to adult stages? Is adulthood in axolotls just an illusion? 🧠👀

You can be proud! They were all amazing!!! 🤩

Critics of de-extinction research hit by mystery smear campaign Several researchers who have been critical of Colossal Biosciences’ plans to revive extinct animals say they have been targeted by online articles trying to discredit them

Critics of Colossal's de-extinction ideas and projects are being hit by online, apparently (mostly) AI-generated, smear campaigns. It's dodgy as hell. This is anti-science; anti-free-speech; vile shenanigans. It needs to stop.
www.newscientist.com/article/2490...

Paper alert!!! 🐒🦍🦧🚨🚨🚨Must read this summer! Check out the amazing paper of @euarchont.bsky.social ! Many thanks again for including me in this study! 👇👇👇

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🚨 I'm looking for #Postdoc opportunities starting this September! 🧑‍🔬🔍
I'm a highly motivated researcher with experience in R, network analysis, and multivariate statistics. My focus is on the evolution of ecosystems and biodiversity over deep time.

Early Permian synapsid impressions illuminate the origin of epidermal scales and aggregation behavior Marchetti et al. describe Bromackerichnus, the first definite body impression of early synapsids and, more specifically, sphenacodontids. Bromackerichnus includes the earliest fossil evidence of epide...

Really glad to share with you what would be the oldest evidence of the epidermal skin of early synapsids, with the description of sphenacodont body impressions, likeky belonging to Dimetrodon teutonis, from the early Permian of BROMACKER! Behold Bromackerichnus!

www.cell.com/current-biol...