Charlotte Brassey
Senior Lecturer in Zoology at Manchester Met. Biomechanics, comparative anatomy, 3D imaging, palaeontology.
- CLOSING SOON: Join us as Technical Facility Manager of our new digitisation centre @manmetuni.bsky.social. Run our new Neoscan microCT with loading rigs and autochanger. Plus LEICA BLK360 laser scanner, Creaform HandyScan, Olympus DSX microscope, Resonon Hyperspectral camera: tinyurl.com/y8x596hd
- Reposted by Charlotte BrasseyOur job adverts are now live! 🤩 We are hiring a Research Software Engineer and a Community Engagement Coordinator to support @palaeoverse.bsky.social over the next two years, based at UCL. Apply by January 18th 2026, ideally to start in March 2026 🗓️ More info and links below 👇
- Still plenty of time to apply for our new microCT post!
- New microCT job! Come run our new Heritage Science lab at ManMet. 5 year post funded by AHRC. Responsible for the microCT plus terrestrial LiDAR, surface laser scanners and more! Happy to consider any disciplinary background manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...
- Well, we officially quit trying to travel to SICB. 50 hours in Schiphol airport. Total chaos. Now on a ferry(!) to Newcastle just to get home 💀 So gutted to miss the conference and my colleagues!
- New microCT job! Come run our new Heritage Science lab at ManMet. 5 year post funded by AHRC. Responsible for the microCT plus terrestrial LiDAR, surface laser scanners and more! Happy to consider any disciplinary background manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...
- Reposted by Charlotte BrasseyI’ve released a tool to sketch and edit phylogenetic trees! yawak.jp/PhyloWeaver/ Load a Newick file and intuitively add/remove/resize branches. Useful for quick conceptual trees, extracting subtrees, or turning ideas into Newick.
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- Reposted by Charlotte BrasseyScientists discover telephone-cord-like optic nerves in chameleons, which were overlooked by Aristotle, Newton, and everyone else, until now... Story: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/scie... Study: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
- Reposted by Charlotte BrasseyThe Fudge Lab at Chapman University is recruiting a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the biophysics of hagfish defensive slime deployment. Please repost! Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p937dn5
- Reposted by Charlotte Brassey#CrowCoG is hiring🚨MULTIPLE PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS 🚨for our 2026 field season (May - Sep)! Field and aviary-based positions - come help us study the remarkable tool-making New Caledonian crows. Apply here: bit.ly/3WlxxHE
- Reposted by Charlotte Brassey🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity! We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have: (1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs) (2) better hand dexterity (3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
- Evolutionary expansion of the corticospinal system is linked to dexterity in Peromyscus mice biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by Charlotte Brassey#ESHE2025 Rhianna Drummond-Clarke ‘First documentation and quantification of wild chimpanzee rock climbing’ Camera traps, Issa Valley TZ & Moyen Bafing, Guinea chimps Rock vs tree climbing: more dynamic movements, biomech diff locomotor modes, reaching further- role of uneven substrates! Amazing 😍
- Reposted by Charlotte BrasseyWe're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
- Reposted by Charlotte BrasseyPhD 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! DM me for questions!
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- Reposted by Charlotte BrasseyHey you. Wanna apply for a fellowship on collections? the AHRC Early career fellowships in cultural & heritage institutions are open! The Natural History Museum priorities are below. If you wanna talk birds, hit me up. Collectors, colonialism, Canada, Australia & more www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
- Reposted by Charlotte BrasseyVery excited to receive an ERC Starting Grant to study the earliest archaeological and biomolecular evidence of Homo sapiens in NW Europe Watch this space for new positions in Bristol in 2026! 🎉 #HorizonEurope #ERCStG
- 📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out! Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025! ➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh #FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
- Reposted by Charlotte Brassey🚨 Hiring! We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in computational fluid dynamics and structural simulations to investigate biomechanics and mechanosensory feedback in insect flight. Extreme agility ✔️ Morphological computing ✔️ Meshes! ✔️ jobs.rvc.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
- Reposted by Charlotte BrasseyEvolution has produced an incredible array of ways to be male & female. In some tiny cave-dwelling insect species, the female is the one with a penis. She uses it to hook into the male's vagina-like structure (for up to 70hrs) while "voluminous & probably nutritious semen is passed to the female"🧪🧬🪲
- Reposted by Charlotte BrasseyNew Comparative Anatomy Textbook! Completely free to read and open access! doi.org/10.59319/YHF...
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- Reposted by Charlotte BrasseyI know that job situations have likely changed for many in climate research. If you are looking for a new opportunity, maybe consider our current opening for the Chief Editor at Nature Geoscience. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
- Reposted by Charlotte BrasseyIn a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
- Reposted by Charlotte Brassey🚨JOB alert🚨 Full-time Managing Editor role for @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour. Applicants must have animal #behaviour background; previous editorial experience would be ideal. Apply by 31st July 2025. #publishing #editor #job More details: www.asab.org/opportunities PLEASE share widely.
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- Reposted by Charlotte BrasseyAre you looking for a PhD project starting this year? I have a funded (UK rates) project on mammal skull diversity and function, looking at skull allometry and how mammal heads adapt to trade-offs in tissue demands during growth 🦌🦘🐘🦥 Please share and apply: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/buil...
- Reposted by Charlotte BrasseyThe Braasch Lab @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social will soon post a position to replace manager of our *Ancient Fish Facility* at Michigan State. Looking for aquaculturist excited for unusual 🐟 species (gar, bowfin, paddlefish, polypterus) + zebrafish. Pls send candidates our way (DM or braasch@msu.edu)!
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- Reposted by Charlotte BrasseyAre you interested in muscle #biomechanics and looking for #postdoc opportunities? If you have skills in (statistical) shape modelling, advanced data analyses or 3D imaging/model reconstructions, get in touch with me! I will be at #SEB2025 (Antwerp), #CNB2025 (Helsinki), and #ISB2025 (Stockholm).
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- Reposted by Charlotte BrasseyAn evening’s thermal imaging with our visitors from MMU plus @ambresalis.bsky.social. We were lucky enough to spot a Beaver swimming towards us before it finally noticed us and slapped its tail on the water. We also spotted a Coypu browsing, plus huge numbers of bats hunting. @cbrassey.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Charlotte BrasseyPostdoc job alert! I'm hiring a 3-yr postdoc to work on our Social Modifiers of Primate Lifespans grant. Job info and how to apply below. Deadline June 1. Pls share! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
- Reposted by Charlotte BrasseyPhD opportunity in #Ecoacoustics at MMU - come and work with us! 🌍🌎🦗🐦🌱🪶🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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- Reposted by Charlotte BrasseyI am looking for a PhD candidate to work on the morphological and functional evolution of the head shape of limbless squamates. The project will involve evolutionary biology, experimental and computational biomechanics, and a lot of scaly animals!!! More info here: adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...
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- Reposted by Charlotte BrasseyReally happy to see this paper out, using field biomechanics we show that wild chimpanzees don't just randomly select plants materials for termite fishing tools – they use a little “folk physics” choosing materials with specific properties! Study in iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful.... 1/5
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- We’re really excited to have Dani start her PhD with us. And wonderful to have the @dogstrust.bsky.social as partners!
- I’m thrilled to share more about my PhD Research at The Manchester Metropolitan University: KennelNet: A Machine Learning Approach to Postural Estimation and Behavioural Monitoring in Kennelled Dogs, in partnership with @dogstrust.bsky.social 🐕 #AnimalWelfare #AI #MachineLearning #PhD #Dogs
