Propose a new Workshop Propose a new Workshop for 2028 Applications close on Friday 29 May 2026 If you would like to run a fully funded Workshop with The Company of Biologists then please read the details below on how to ap...

Do you work in the Global South? @biologists.bsky.social is seeking Workshop proposals for their 2028 programme from researchers based in Global South countries. The Company is looking for an exciting proposal to bring a Workshop to your region. Find out more at

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Welcome to our new editorial intern @lealorrainsoligon.bsky.social !

Léa’s work focuses on how environmental stressors affect organismal physiology and biodiversity. Her current research investigates the effects of salinity and temperature on amphibians.

Welcome to our new editorial intern Jeremy De Bonville @jaydebon.bsky.social !

Jeremy is a postdoctoral researcher at Trent University, Canda, working on the thermal vulnerability of fish across life stages and seasons.

🚨New publication alert! 🚨

We have published a new method for studying steroid hormones in tiny whale samples 🐳🐋🫍

Great news for conservation - now precious samples can be used for multiple analyses 🧬

OPEN ACCESS in @conphysjournal.bsky.social

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Good to be back in Kruger, with lion + buffalo research teams from 🇺🇸🇦🇺🇿🇦

Abstracts for the 2026 Animal Physiology Conference, Jaboticabal, Brazil are now open. #APCIS

Abstract submission 🔗: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Abstracts due: 30th April 2026

More info 🔗: drive.google.com/file/d/1HJUc...

Students get all the treats! Going flying to search for lions. 🦁

Steroid hormones are useful indicators of health and fitness in marine mammals, but measurements are often limited by sample size. This new #Toolbox article presents a new method for analysing steroid hormones in small blubber samples in four whale species. 🐋

Read it here ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/conp...

The global wildlife trade—especially in illegal and live-animal markets—is fueling the spread of diseases from animals to humans, according to a new study in Science.

The findings show that traded mammals are more than 40% more likely to harbor human-infecting pathogens. https://scim.ag/41SZkSq

Welcome to our new editorial intern Rodolfo Anderson!

Rodolfo researches organismal responses to climate and habitat change with the aim of informing conservation and management decisions.

This study sampled whale baleen from museum specimens to study long term hormone patterns in bowhead whales 🐋 . The results provide clues into whale reproduction and stress over decades, while providing a useful baseline for future research.

Read it here ➡️ academic.oup.com/conphys/arti...

Studying #AnimalBehaviour and #Physiology can help predict species’ responses to environmental change. This #Perspective argues for a broader approach integrating environmental factors and wider context in order to advance conservation science.

Read it here ➡️ academic.oup.com/conphys/arti...

HomoTherm: An Open‐Source Approach to Modelling Heat Exchange in Humans and Other Hominins in Diverse Environments We present ‘HomoTherm’, a human heat budget model for simulating humans and related species with diverse traits in diverse environments. It is part of the NicheMapR package for biophysical modelling ...

You can now model human heat exchange in R (and via a Shiny app). I started work on this with Shane Maloney (Uni of WA) way back in 2014, with Duncan Mitchell (Uni of the Witwatersrand) joining us along the way onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... @globalchangebio.bsky.social @unimelb.edu.au

In this study of body condition in sea lion pups at different latitudes, pups in southern colonies were larger and healthier, showing that local environments strongly shape early survival prospects 🦭🌍

Read it here ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/conp...

New Call for Papers 📢

We’re excited to announce a special issue in @conphysjournal.bsky.social on Applications of Mechanistic Modelling in Biodiversity Conservation.

Submit your research and help shape the future of conservation science 🌍

👉 Learn more:
academic.oup.com/conphys/page...

Plants show remarkable resilience to environmental changes, but how do they cope when exposed to extremes during early life? This #Perspective explores the sensitivity of early life stages to #HeatStress, with the aim of enhancing #Conservation and #Restoration 🌲 🌺

➡️ doi.org/10.1093/conp...

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Evaluating the vulnerability of critical early life stages in plants during heat extremes Abstract. Plants, their seeds and their gametes show remarkable resilience and responsiveness to environmental conditions. However, worsening climate chang

Our new @conphysjournal.bsky.social paper is out now! We discuss the physiology and ecology of vulnerable early and reproductive life stages for enhancing conservation & restoration in the context of extreme heat.
doi.org/10.1093/conp...

Zebra finches in Australia; one of the study organisms for the PhD

Dwarf mongoose staring at a camera in South Africa; one of the PhD study organisms

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us

❓Quantifying animal #movement patterns & behavioural #interactions in a changing world

👥Joint position in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #MacquarieUniversity

📆19th April deadline
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Two PhD Research Fellows in Fish Physiology (298755) | University of Bergen Job title: Two PhD Research Fellows in Fish Physiology (298755), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Friday, April 17, 2026

🐟 Two PhD positions in fish physiology at the University of Bergen 🐟

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

I'm hiring two fully-funded PhD fellows to find out how climate change affects a fish’s vision and how it responds to predators, using VR for fish, respirometry, opsin gene expression, and more!

I really enjoyed reading it! Thanks for your contribution. 😊

I really enjoyed writing something a bit different for this #ConPhysinAction piece and highlighting this cool research!

New study showing that the long-held belief that limitation on oxygen diffusion in insect respiratory system does not constrain the max body size of living or gigantic prehistoric insects 🪰

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Road counts expose widespread declines in South African raptors underestimated by atlas data Checklist-based citizen science surveys are becoming increasingly popular, as they may provide a means to monitor species' distributions and populatio…

NEW PAPER: Using almost 400,000 km of road transects, conducted over 16 years, we reveal declines in 13 species of raptor and other large terrestrial bird species across central South Africa #ornithology #AfricanOrnithology #RaptorResearch
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The trauma of applying for a visa every time I wish to travel to a conference. Documents for everything. Even have to provide a copy of every past visa received. Still need to get printed photos, then spend half of Friday at the application centre. And do biometrics. And pay a small fortune.

Thanks, I am an even older dog but just learnt something new!

✳️ One week to go until our #CommunityConversations webinar with Brian Helmuth ✳️

Brian will discuss his work to remove the "human lens" when conserving marine species 🔬🐠

Sign up here ➡️ shorturl.at/bOGfn

@sebiology.bsky.social #Conservation #MarineBio #ECR

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...