Ed Stanley

Associate Scientist @FloridaMuseum & Co-PI on the #oVertTCN. I use CT scans to study evolution, systematics & comparative morphology of reptiles & amphibians.

[Ed Stanley @DrScanley]

The @NoCTURNetwork is working to compile a comprehensive list of CT scanning labs in academic institutions around the world. If you work at, or know of, a lab that you think should be included in this list, please fill out this form! https://t.co/MtGakz1hSJ

[Graham Slater @grahamjslater]

The Field Museum is establishing a CT scanning facility and is looking for a lab manager to run it.

https://t.co/5So8jvZcXT

[Ed Stanley @DrScanley]

@jaimiAgray @ArtPorto Thanks Jaimi! You and @RoseBryson2 did a phenomenal job!

[Ed Stanley @DrScanley]

Happy Easter Monday! Just a reminder to squeeze peeps before biting into them to check that they have been fully marshmallified, otherwise they can be a bit crunchy.

[Ed Stanley @DrScanley]

Disappointed to see the Broadley’s flat lizard go out in the first round of #2024MMM , transported not only across the continent, but up into an arboreal environment. Drop that gaudy monkey off at the Augrabies falls and we’d see what’s up!

[Tiago R. Simões @paleoTsimoes]

Research Tech position available in our lab @Princeton! 🚨 Come work with us and develop new skill sets on morphometrics, CT data, and squamate evolution.
Great opportunity for college/MSc graduates to gain pre-doctoral reserach experience. Please RT: https://t.co/34UvfWlzfk

[Ed Stanley @DrScanley]

@phaneritic And you see out setup here https://t.co/dr7G3vsNTK

[Ed Stanley @DrScanley]

7 years of #overtTCN digitization efforts has produced > 25K datasets from >13K vertebrate specimens. It's been an incredible experience with amazing collaborators. While the project is oVer(t), it's just the beginning of an amazing shift in accessibility of musuem collections.

[Ed Stanley @DrScanley]

Delighted to receive my @BizarreBeasts spiny mouse pins. I really love the video they made that talked about the tail osteoderms in these rodents, and am tickled that the armored, Eocene hedgehog thing, Pholidocercus, gets a shout out too!

[Ed Stanley @DrScanley]

@Machado_DSc I remember scanning a cleared and stained frog years ago- it was a pain to scan as it was so slippery, but I don’t remember it becoming darkened- we scanned it in a ziplock bag so it didn’t dry out at all.

[Nic Rawlence @nic_rawlence_nz]

Interested in palaeo & #ancientDNA. I'm advertising a 3 yr @MarsdenFund postdoc @Zoology_Otago disentangling competing sources of morphological variation in #fossil record of geckos & skinks from #NewZealand & #NewCaledonia. Apply here (https://t.co/io5qJ9hXJy) #FossilFriday 1/2

[Ed Stanley @DrScanley]

@JohnRHutchinson If scientific funding is still alive…

[Florida Museum @FloridaMuseum]

We're hiring! 🔬 Scientific Lab Manager 🧑‍🔬
New full-time position here at the Florida Museum. Application deadline: Jan. 5, 2024 👇 Links:

🧪 Position info: https://t.co/8oCcq4lBne

🧪 Apply via @UF: https://t.co/Q9r5xrU8dc
Share this info!

[Ed Stanley @DrScanley]

@NYCuratrix Sprite on a light?

[Ed Stanley @DrScanley]

A tale of discovery about a tail of deglovery! The good folk over @BizarreBeasts have just released an excellent new video about spiny mice and their armored tails! I’ll wear my Acomys pin with pride! https://t.co/TZxBbWlzRK

[Ed Stanley @DrScanley]

Delighted to be a part of this fun collaboration with the @floridaMuseum's Jason Bourque and Richard Hulbert, using #microCT to identify the latest occurrence of the aquatic salamander family, Batrachosauroides, in the Eastern US. https://t.co/PiMvyArIgu

[Ed Stanley @DrScanley]

“If you get gotten by a platypus, you’ll know about it” -Jaimi Gray, 2023

[Ed Stanley @DrScanley]

Happy Halloween! Here’s Dave and I getting in the mood for @jaimiAgray’s monster mash lecture @UFVetMed this afternoon!

[Ed Stanley @DrScanley]

Hot off the presses, a new paper that applies Geometric Morphometrics to CT scanned cacao flowers to identify potential pollinators. This was a really fun project led by Katie Wolcott, & one of the first studies to use of the new @UFRSC Versa 620 CT. https://t.co/HBK27LlBag

[U.S. National Science Foundation @NSF]

It's officially #spookyseason 😱

A toad & salamander were the last meal for an eastern hognose snake in this CT image from the #NSFfunded project oVert, which is scanning 20,000 vertebrate specimens from the @FloridaMuseum.

📷: Edward Stanley/David Blackburn/ Florida Museum

[Ed Stanley @DrScanley]

@anjgoswami @sciam Great story Anjali! Reminded me of the BBC doc from the early 90’s— the velvet claw— that looked at the lineages of carnivorans, and also juxtaposed specialist cats /generalist bears. It’s a little old and out of date now but still a favorite of mine!

https://t.co/kyfV5tFlC7