Dr Ellen Coombs

Tea guzzler, nature lover. Crackers about whales. Buck Research Fellow @NMNH 🐋🇺🇸 PhD: whale ecol+evo @UCL @NHM_London🐬@Stemettes mentor. Own views

[Dr Ellen Coombs @EllenCoombs]

Whale skulls are wonderfully weird. When did they get so whacky and why? Our new paper on the tempo of #whale skull #evolution is out now in @CurrentBiology! https://t.co/Gn6D2hvWPm. A big thank you to the @London_NERC_DTP, @ucl, and @NHM_London for supporting my Ph.D. research🐳

[Dr Ellen Coombs @EllenCoombs]

@KnappRew Thanks Andy lad! 🦕🌱

[Dr Ellen Coombs @EllenCoombs]

I 3D surface-scanned #Dippy back in 2021 with @NHM_Digitise and @AmyScottMurray 🦕 It was a mammoth task and I’m delighted to see those hours and hours of scanning and digitising realised in the beautiful, life-sized sculpture ‘Fern’. Go see it! 👇🏼@NHM_Science @NHM_London 🦕 🌱

[Dr Ellen Coombs @EllenCoombs]

@anjgoswami @royalsociety @NHM_London @uclbiosciences @ES_UCL @UChicagoPaleo @UMichPaleo Absolutely brilliant and so well deserved 🤩 Huge well done Anjali!!

[Ryan Felice @rfelice]

I've got a 4-year fully-funded PhD studentship (including home fees) opportunity in my lab! Come study morphological evolution of bird heads, jaw muscles, and Darwin's finches. Plus learn some human anatomy along the way! apply now at: https://t.co/C8rKPzaZeQ

[Dr Ellen Coombs @EllenCoombs]

@RoyalMailHelp @JoetteSmar41034 Thank you, the payment worked in the link you sent. Not sure why it doesn’t work through the same process on your website 🤔 @JoetteSmar41034 if you click on the link sent by RM and go to the ‘how can I pay my fee?’ and click the ‘online’ hyperlink that should work! 👍🏼

[Dr Ellen Coombs @EllenCoombs]

@RoyalMail Hello, I have a customs charge due on a package. I’ve tried paying online using the barcode number and also just by entering the address - both options give me this below. Please help!

[Dr Ellen Coombs @EllenCoombs]

@JoetteSmar41034 @RoyalMail That is so frustrating. Tagging @RoyalMailHelp. Please help us pay you the customs fees you’re asking for!!

[Dr Ellen Coombs @EllenCoombs]

@RoyalMail @RoyalMailHelp can you help me please? Please see thread above.

[Dr Ellen Coombs @EllenCoombs]

@RoyalMail My sister (in the U.K.) has also tried using the details on the postal card you left at her house and gets the same screen shot above :(

[Dr Ellen Coombs @EllenCoombs]

@Palaeo_JRule Thanks James! 🐬

[Dr James Rule @Palaeo_JRule]

New paper in @royalsociety ProcB! An unexpectedly large baleen whale fossil from the early Miocene of South Australia.

Analysis of the baleen whale fossil record reveals that larger mysticetes first appeared in the Southern Hemisphere. @museumsvictoria

https://t.co/HfCjVfanMT

[Dr Ellen Coombs @EllenCoombs]

@emgfitzgerald @Palaeo_JRule @Inxcetus @TIPollock @DrTeethAl Great work Erich and team! 🐋

[Ben Rathe @benrathe]

My wife is smart, and has done all of this while successfully raising a two-month old because she is amazing.

[Travis Park @Blogozoic]

Our new paper is now out! My contribution to this began as a chapter in my PhD so it’s lovely to see the data finally being used. Massive congrats to Ellen who managed to lead this whilst becoming a mother for the first time! Have a read for some whale jaw fun! 🐋🐬

[Dr Ellen Coombs @EllenCoombs]

Our new paper on toothed #whale jaws is out today in @CurrentBiology. The jaw of toothed whales is unique in that it is used for both #hearing & #feeding. We investigate what’s happened to the shape of the #jaw over 50 million years🐬

https://t.co/6j9smxk1Fb

[Prof. Valentin Fischer @Val_Fisch]

New lab paper on cetacean mandibles by @CalymeneBlue , lead by @EllenCoombs. Congrats to all!

https://t.co/c0N6y3w7HG