Sophie Regnault

I had such a great time! Thanks for being such a great host!

I’m so excited :-D

Lots of people know that prehistoric sea turtles got big, but it can be easy to underestimate just how huge these things got. The largest verified specimen of a modern Leatherback turtle weighed in at 1,433 lbs, but this Archelon would have been closer to 11,300 lbs. #scicomm #paleosky #paleontology

AI reads text from ancient Herculaneum scroll for the first time Machine-learning technique reveals Greek words in CT scans of rolled-up papyrus. Machine-learning technique reveals Greek words in CT scans of rolled-up papyrus.

Like many, I had an "ancient Rome" phase growing up where I obsessed over ancient myths, traditions, catastrophes (Vesuvius).

Random enthusiasts coming together on Discord to puzzle apart text in charred scrolls from Herculaneum are living out my dream:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Aww yiss Chris @thebadlizard.bsky.social is here! Awesome vet anatomy, biomechanics, giraffes, frogs and more!

Group photo of MorphUpNorth attendees and speakers standing in front of a dinosaur mural

MorphUpNorth was great symposium full of brilliant talks and meeting colleagues older and new! Good job Katrina and the Uni of Manchester team! (Photo credit Katrina Jones)

Screen with MorphUpNorth symposium logo

Ready to talk Morphology in Manchester!

Quantitative Muscle Fascicle Tractography Using Brightness-Mode Ultrasound A muscle’s architecture, defined as the geometric arrangement of its fibers with respect to its mechanical line of action, impacts its abilities to produce force and shorten or lengthen under load. ...

Sharing some science 🧪 here for a change! For anyone interested in muscle imaging - we just published a semi-automated MATLAB workflow for measuring muscle characteristics from ultrasound, in J Applied Biomechanics:
journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal... (Link to GutHub repository in reply⬇️)

I’m looking forward to giving a talk about how I use CT scans for my research on animals, both living and extinct! It’ll be on Zoom next Thursday Oct. 12th 4:30-5:00pm ET and geared towards K-8 students and their families, but all are invited!

RSVP: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/earth-system...

Yay, @kriscran.bsky.social has joined us! Kris is an awesome lecturer, biomechanics, ecomorphology and flight researcher, rock climber and all-round kickass human!

We're excited to be on Blue Sky!
Be sure to follow our EIC
@fishguy.bsky.social & stay tuned for spotlights on our excellent papers and authors in ICB & IOB , SICB's premiere journals.

An underwater still shot of a small shark with equipment nearby

I’ve been very lucky to be peripherally involved with the good work done by Project SIARC, and now you can vote for them as finalists in the National Lottery Awards at lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/awards Read more about the project and vote for them this week using the link above!

Beautiful!

A flyer with the daily schedule of events for the 2023 Black in Natural History Week.

We are officially 2 weeks away from our annual #BlackInNHMs Week! There's a bunch of exciting synchronous & asynchronous activities planned. Stay tuned this week for the in-depth details of each day. In the meantime, follow our page to make sure you don’t miss an update!

I’m Sophie, based in Wales UK. I’m a vet and mostly lecture (anatomy/ physiology) at the moment, but worked on comparative anatomy, biomechanics, musculoskeletal modelling, imaging, and ancestral states reconstruction - and hoping to do more of all that good stuff again soon! Thanks for the thread!

Talking about elephant trunks. #science #anatomy
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Exciting pair of muscle evolution companion papers just out! Bishop & Pierce describe the fossil record of appendicular muscle evolution in Synapsida on the line to mammals in forelimb & hindlimb
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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