Fabio Alfieri

Our paper on primate fibula trabecular structure, published on @JournalofAnat with @AmsonEli @AlessVeneziano Damiano Marchi, Daniele Panetta and Piero Salvadori is finally out! Enjoy ;) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jo…

New paper today about the evolution of the wrist along the dinosaur to bird transition: a bird-like configuration appeared in predatory dinosaurs first, as suggested by new exceptionally preserved hands of oviraptors and troodontids nature.com/articles/s4158…

Being close to submit my first postdoc results, I am glad to present further preliminary data on extant and extinct Strisores birds at #EAVP2025 in Krakow @grumpyDrFabre @fieldpalaeo @snsf_ch

🚨 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.

It's finally out! Together with Allison Yi Hsiang and @fieldpalaeo, we explored relative homoplasy in a range of bird matrices and introduce a new parsimony measure, the relative homoplasy index (RHI) (1/n) academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/art…

Finally! Congrats to all the authors and specially @smnebreda for persevering so much and probably the longest paper birth in human history

🦴✨ New publication alert! ✨🦴 A new study explores the ulnar morphology of 𝑃𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑎𝑒, a small-bodied primate from the Miocene of Can Mata (NE Iberian Peninsula). What does its forearm reveal about catarrhine locomotion? 🧐 🧵👇

New paper co-led by @MadlenLang and myself, providing the most comprehensive analysis of the evolution of olfactory bulb size in living and fossil euarchontoglirans. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar…

PhD position alert: join a diverse team of palaeontologists to study the evolution of temnospondyls! The PhD project @SMNStuttgart will focus on bone microanatomy: lots of fun with thin-sections and CT-data in perspective. tinyurl.com/msvntnd9

When did our ancestors start to run? New musculoskeletal simulations of Lucy indicate that she was capable of running! Read the dispatch by @ArchaeoAshleigh here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.… and the paper by Bates et al. here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

It was great presenting in Erlangen at #PalAss24. I talked about first results from my @snsf_ch postdoc on bird wing bone structure, hopefully published soon. Stay tuned 😉 @grumpyDrFabre @fieldpalaeo @OliverDemuth @LizzySteell

Our paper on the vocal system of birds is finally out! 🐦 With @PaulineProvini, Rachel Olson and Sam Van Wassenbergh. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-ab…

Huge congrats to @gnavalon—it’s brilliant to see our new 80-million-year-old bird on the cover of @nature! Navaornis hestiae provides the clearest insight yet into how and when the distinctive brains of modern birds evolved. Paper open access: nature.com/articles/s4158…

AVOTREX is out: an open-access companion to AVONET containing morphological traits for ~600 extinct bird species and a phylogeny grafting these taxa onto the global bird tree to support future research on Anthropogenic extinctions. Hat-tip to many co-authors; led by @FerranSayol

It was an enormous pleasure to visit the wonderful people of the @iphes in the lovely Tarragona to present my recent research outcomes. Thanks to @LabCerca and @AntoniettaDelB2 for the invitation. Looking forward coming back soon!

Morphometric analysis of #elephants reveals #allometry in #limb #bones: bone robustness increases with weight Bader et al @HoussayeCnrs 2023 @JAnatomy Shape variation in the limb long bones of modern elephants reveals adaptations to body mass and habitat doi.org/10.1111/joa.13…

Our new paper is out in @NatureComms We used predictive musculoskeletal simulations based on @OpenSimSU models, scaled in size from mice to elephants, and reveal mechanistic links between speed, posture and energetics rdcu.be/dVZIy @cclemente4 @FriedlDeGroote @UQ_News

Very glad that our new paper testing for bone microanatomy form-function relationships is now published. Great collaborative work with @CyrilEtienne1, J. Viot, P. Watson & M. Fagan about bone strength under compressive load. doi.org/10.1111/joa.14…

It was a great pleasure and experience to attend the first Symposium of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution of @unibern in the very nice environment of the @NMBern and to presente preliminary results of my @snsf_ch post-doc

Glad to share my results on Madagascar subfossil lemurs trabecular structure (hopefully published soon) at the first wonderful congress of @GIGA_antrop (@JAriasMartorell Carla Argilés Esturgó Damiano Marchi)