Evolutionary biomechanist & functional morphologist interested in how living and dead things move | Junior Research Fellow - Earth Sciences at Clare College | Professional Scientific Illustrator | PhD Cambridge | MSc Bristol | BA ZHdK | 🇨🇭 in 🇬🇧https://bsky.app/profile/oliverdemuth.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/oliverdemuth.bsky.social/post/3mmfbobzaz22fToday I spent the day at the @royalvetcollege.bsky.social looking at some crocodile forelimbs with @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social! Stay tuned for some exciting science and cool anatomy 🐊21 May 2026 20:39 +0000at://did:plc:ophgxwhcecst33f3lu2udr2c/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmfbobzaz22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/oliverdemuth.bsky.social/post/3mfk24pyfqc23I've released version 1.2 of my SDF simulations! This update further improves the runtimes: - Simple checking for collision between two meshes run at >150 FPS - Full 6DOF ROM simulations optimising the translations for each rotational pose run at >5.6 FPS - Ligament path estimation run at >5.1 FPS23 Feb 2026 16:11 +0000at://did:plc:ophgxwhcecst33f3lu2udr2c/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfk24pyfqc23https://bsky.app/profile/oliverdemuth.bsky.social/post/3mfbqwctd3c2hI had a great day yesterday at the @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social symposium Anatomy: past, present and future! There were some fantastic talks and I also got to presented my current work on bird flight20 Feb 2026 09:05 +0000at://did:plc:ophgxwhcecst33f3lu2udr2c/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfbqwctd3c2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/oliverdemuth.bsky.social/post/3mer3f5hjkk2iMy recent bird shoulder XROMM study got nominated and shortlisted for the @jexpbiol.bsky.social Outstanding Paper Prize! Unfortunately, I did not win but very happy to have been considered!! If you want to learn more about our study see below thread! [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Feb 2026 17:57 +0000at://did:plc:ophgxwhcecst33f3lu2udr2c/app.bsky.feed.post/3mer3f5hjkk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/oliverdemuth.bsky.social/post/3m7codqavcs23Version 1.1 of my SDF simulations are out! This update significantly improves the runtime of all simulations while making the installation a lot easier! ROM simulations used to take days, now they only take a few hours and include physiological accurate soft tissue constraints!06 Dec 2025 09:20 +0000at://did:plc:ophgxwhcecst33f3lu2udr2c/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7codqavcs23https://bsky.app/profile/oliverdemuth.bsky.social/post/3m6xbtbxbmc2dThe final PDF of our XROMM study on bird shoulders w/ @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social & @fieldpalaeo.bsky.social is now available at @jexpbiol.bsky.social!01 Dec 2025 20:37 +0000at://did:plc:ophgxwhcecst33f3lu2udr2c/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6xbtbxbmc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/oliverdemuth.bsky.social/post/3m6osc3bbmc2c🚨 Palaeo jobs alert!! 🚨 Two(!!) postdoc positions available in Cambridge! 1. Human Evolutionary Anatomy: https://cam.ac.uk/jobs/research-associateassistant-in-human-evolutionary-anatomy-fixed-term-jc48080 2. Evolutionary Biomechanics: https://cam.ac.uk/jobs/research-assistantassociate-in-evolutionary-biomechanics-fixed-term-jc48078 As part of the @erc.europa.eu funded STEPS project!28 Nov 2025 11:38 +0000at://did:plc:ophgxwhcecst33f3lu2udr2c/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6osc3bbmc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/oliverdemuth.bsky.social/post/3m63dwwrn7c2f🚨 Job position @cam.ac.uk 🚨 Project Coordinator for 5 years at 0.5 FTE on the ERC Funded STEPS project. Closing date for application 2nd January 2026, interviews ~3 weeks later! Apply here: https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/project-coordinator-part-time-fixed-term-jc47886 @cam-archaeology.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu20 Nov 2025 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:ophgxwhcecst33f3lu2udr2c/app.bsky.feed.post/3m63dwwrn7c2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/oliverdemuth.bsky.social/post/3m22szl6vqk2dLast week our in press manuscript was made available at @jexpbiol.bsky.social with the typeset version following soon. We conducted ex vivo XROMM experiments to determine the joint mobility in Red legged partridges and compared them with in silico simulations: https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.25095230 Sep 2025 15:17 +0000at://did:plc:ophgxwhcecst33f3lu2udr2c/app.bsky.feed.post/3m22szl6vqk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/oliverdemuth.bsky.social/post/3lxyxoaz7s22rVery proud of the amazing Dr. Ashleigh Wiseman! Securing an @erc.europa.eu starting grant is a huge achievement! Keep your eyes open for PostDoc opportunities in her new research group at @cam-archaeology.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk!!04 Sep 2025 10:44 +0000at://did:plc:ophgxwhcecst33f3lu2udr2c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxyxoaz7s22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/oliverdemuth.bsky.social/post/3lw7bwesq4k27Interesting study, however, every scientist should stay as far away as possible from #generativeAI! It is literally just making things up with little to no control over the output. No morphology, soft tissues nor anything else can be "reconstructed" or "augmented" with genAI. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Aug 2025 12:13 +0000at://did:plc:ophgxwhcecst33f3lu2udr2c/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw7bwesq4k27