Samar Syeda 🇵🇰

👋🏽👋🏽👋🏽 Some more of my PhD research is out! This time we explore the cortical structure of great ape intermediate phalanges 🦴🦧 @ZewdiT @CazenaveMarine1 @DrMattSkinner @TracyKivell onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

slowly but surely pumping out the chapters from my dissertation.... ⭐️ in our new study featured on the cover of @J_Exp_Biol 's latest issue, we discover that climbing force profiles are remarkably stereotyped across humans regardless of experience! journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…

Different ways of ‘getting a grip’. How ancient human relatives in South Africa used their #hands reveals varying levels of dexterity & climbing ability. Study @ScienceAdvances led by @Samar__Syeda & Tracy Kivell. #hominins @AMNH tinyurl.com/mwk5eb63 & doi.org/10.1126/sciadv…

Excited for our work exploring behavioural diversity in South African hominins to be out today! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Thrilled to announce our new paper on the evolution of the human inner ear otolithic system! We find evolutionary divergences of the otolithic inner ear in humans and apes, with possible links to the evolution of postural behavior 👇👇 rdcu.be/dVM7Q

Yesterday I did a thing and got a pretty cool hat 👩🏽‍🎓

🚨New Publication!🚨 We deep dive into the positional behaviour of the Issa Valley chimpanzees, to investigate the selective pressures acting on ape behaviour in an open habitat 🐵🌳 (a 🧵) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj…

New paper on Sahelanthropus, finding femur shaft could be consistent with forms of locomotion beyond bipedality. 50-days free access at JHE: authors.elsevier.com/c/1jJp6AlZXXroE Collaboration led by my recent postdoc @CazenaveMarine1, including some data from my PhD student @Osteoficionado

Want to study Neanderthal teeth? In collaboration with Dr. Gregory Abrams @Grego_Abrams and Espace museal d'Andenne, MicroCT scans of Neanderthal fossils from Scladina Cave, Belgium can now be requested through human-fossil-record.org

Our paper on dental morphology in Homo habilis is out in @NatureComms! We looked at the internal structure of H. habilis teeth, and found that most, including OH 7, are remarkably similar to Australopithecus @MPI_EVA_Leipzig nature.com/articles/s4146…

I passed my viva yesterday!! 🥳 Possibly one of the most enjoyable days of my academic journey. Grateful for my upper isles and the supportive lab group they’ve fostered over the years!! 🥰🥰

📢Don't miss next ESB webinar on "Automated Execution of Python Scripts for Medical Image Processing and Bone FEA" - by Prof. Dr. Dieter Pahr 🗓️November 14, 2023 5-6pm register here: esbiomech.org/student-sectio…

(1/5) Excited to share our new insights into primate shoulder range-of-motion (ROM), now available #OpenAccess in #ProcB! @nate_m_young @RainbowBiomech We introduce an in silico model to explore the relationship among morphology, ROM, and behaviour doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…

VCWAP Call For Abstracts! Are you an early-career woman researcher and/or paleoartist? Do you want to share your work? See the details in the post below ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

Paranthropus skeleton or not? You decide. "Taxonomic attribution of the KNM-ER 1500 partial skeleton from the Burgi Member of the Koobi Fora Formation, Kenya" by Ward et al. 50 days free access here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1hpvpAlZXU1lX

Great talk by @AmelineBardo on hand asymmetry @ESHE_society

All ready for #ESHE2023 ! Come see me present on a whole lot of fossil hands tomorrow 👋🏽🦍💀

Edwin Dickinson & colleagues present a functional framework for interpreting the proportions of suspensory animals, raptorial birds, and vertical clinging birds: ow.ly/ablH50PBkGh #JRSocInterface @NYITAnatomy