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University leads tributes to Scottish professor killed in plane crash Professor Alan Wilson, 62, died on Wednesday, March 4, when a research flight he was travelling on crashed shortly after take-off in the Namib…

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These are extremely sad news. I understand that he was not alone on the flight. A hard loss for the biomechanics and functional morphology communities.

Excellent article about Douglas R. Wilkie, FRS., trainee of AV Hill, and muscle/mechanics connoisseur par excellence. royalsociety.org/blog/2026/02...

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People elsewhere: The whole conference will be broadcast on Zoom. The link opens at 9:00 A.M.: uml.zoom.us/j/97828376506

This event, with food, and parking is FREE! Walk-up registration is fine but organizers would appreciate an email if you will be attending.

Attention musculoskeletal scientists! Only one week to go before the 8th annual student-organized UMOVE research symposium. An exciting day of muscle and movement science in animals including humans across molecular to organism scales @UMassLowell @KCSciences_UML

We are hiring a POSTDOC on an NIH award to measure inertial effects of (in)active muscle. Please share and re-post widely! Please send expressions of interest to my UML email.

Fish alter locomotor and feeding kinematics to capture aerial prey #ProcB #OpenAccess #Biomechanics royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Do you like 🐢🐢? Or ecomorph evolution? I am offering a 36-month PhD position funded by the DFG about ecomorphology and neuroanatomy of turtles. Check out the ad here: www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...

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A new theme issue of #PhilTransB looks at the impacts of #climatechange on #crops and how we can mitigate against these. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

New from #JRSocInterface: Automated analysis of bird head motion in unconstrained settings: a foundational study on semicircular canal evolution in #archosaurs. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #biomechanics

We are staring down a mass extintion event for American science.

If the 2026 budget is enacted, NSF will be slashed in half. Biology funding by ca 75%. The same percentage of species that died at the end-Cretaceous.

For what reason? Nobody campaigned on this. And it's not law yet. So SPEAK UP NOW.

To mark the 360th anniversary of #PhilosophicalTransactions, we're spotlighting 20 landmark papers from the journal. Caroline Herschel's 1787 paper 'An Account of a New Comet' was the first scientific work by a woman to be fully credited in any scientific journal throughout the world buff.ly/RRsaLZ2

Dear editors, your publication delays are damaging our careers Chia-Hsuan Hsu waited 18 months before chasing an editor for a decision on a paper. The answer surprised him.

Apparently not: Dear editors, your publication delays are damaging our careers www.nature.com/articles/d41...

To mark the 360th anniversary of #PhilosophicalTransactions, we're spotlighting 20 landmark papers from the journal. Edward Stone's 1763 paper on willow bark laid the groundwork for aspirin and NSAIDs, revolutionising the treatment of pain and fever: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Am I alone in being put off by monster-long editorial "desk" rejection times at @ScienceAdvances (@HoldenThorpe [51 days]) and @pnas.org‬ (@MaryBerenbaum [61 days]). #DoBetter

Cool paper. Designated Satutday morning coffee reed here.

Complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

Paper alert 🚨
Our 1rst paper with @vivienl.bsky.social and colleagues is out in Functional Ecology! In this paper, we investigated how complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata.Want to know more? Read this👇
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Phylogenomics establishes an Early Miocene reconstruction of reef vertebrate diversity Phylogenomics reveals a younger-than-expected age of reef fish diversification.

New from the Near Lab, a super collaboration led by @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social

Phylogenomics and evolutionary history of the iconic reef fish clade wrasses and parrotfishes (Labridae)

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu6149

I like pie charts that reach beyond 360, coz you can never have too much pie (quote: E. L. Brainerd).

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

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This campaign needs you now Establish a Dedicated Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Research Subgroup Within The Biophysical Society

Here is a great idea: Let's Establish a Dedicated Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Research Subgroup Within The Biophysical Society - Sign the Petition! chng.it/dy4dg7dJq2 via @Change

This is devastating. @nature.com why is this piece behind payroll?

I 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:
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Behavioural biomechanics: leaf-cutter ant cutting behaviour depends on leaf edge geometry royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #ProcB #Behaviour #Biomechanics

🧪 Our Terminated NSF Grant Tracker is live 🧪

🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far

🔴 Cancelled grants focused on

→ Training scientists
→ Misinformation
→ AI
→ Climate change

Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info.

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