This week's #SICB student awardee spotlight is on
Steven Vogel Award for best poster:
Chloe Kaelin
for work on
Lake Malawi #cichlids outperform #neotropical #species in benthic feeding
& see
evescholars.wordpress.com/2025-cohort/...
#science #fish #biology
We will be featuring our #SICB student awardees over the next several weeks at least once a week.
This week's spotlight is on
Division of Comparative #Physiology and Biochemistry
@sicb-dcpb.bsky.social
Caroline Terry of labs.wsu.edu/dowd/
labs.wsu.edu/dowd/
#copepod #metabolic #science
‼️🚨 Job Alert ‼️ 🚨
Two Post Doc Opportunities:
PDRA in Macroecology / Paleobiology
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
PDRA in Extinction & Conservation / Paleobiology
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Any questions, please get in touch! Closing date May 1st.
Did you know it costs us $64 a month to host Biology PhD stipends?
Excited for this upgrade which takes our hosting costs to $0!
mlgaynor.com/BiologyPhDSt...
Hey y'all. I'm a month late to this, but I wanted to share that one of my PhD chapters was published in Systematic Biology with my advisor, Frank Burbrink. Here, we explore how ecological opportunity influences phenotypic evolution in North American natricid snakes. 🧵/8
NeurodivergNet is a grassroots network founded by and for neurodivergent employees of the Max Planck Society. A place where people can connect & support one another, as well as a platform for collaboration on raising awareness and advocating for accessibility in the field of #neurodiversity.
https://integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/carly-anne-york-bravely-following-her-curiosity-a-book-review/
SICB's April lunch zoom is coming up with @biologycarly.bsky.social !
carlyanneyork.wixsite.com/website
on April 6th 12 noon est join us by emailing sicbmedia@sicb.org
to receive a link
Carly will be interviewed by #scientist & #writer @rchoover.bsky.social of
www.kassandraford.com/people
Check out our new paper on clingfishes led by @fishtide.bsky.social!
Tuesday at #SICB2026 is packed 🐾🌊
A full day of talks and posters that we close out with the SICB Member Meeting and a DCB/DVM/DEDB social 🎉
📣 Presenting today? Tag us so we can hype your work!
🦦 If you're attending SICB 2026, don't miss my team’s presentations exploring how the cranial morphology of otters and other mustelids reflects how they move, sense, and survive in their environment.
#SICB2026
The countdown begins… ⏰
Sunday at #SICB2026 is already STACKED!
🗂️ Whether you’ve built your itinerary or you’re still deciding, we’ve got you covered with these at-a-glance schedules.
👉 DCB & DVM folks: tag us so we can hype your talks and posters!
More at-a-glance posts coming soon 👀
NSF PDs will be @sicb.bsky.social.
Stop by booth 308 if you would like to sign up to chat with us or catch us in the conference center.
Informal workshop and Q and A session, Sunday Jan 4th from 12:15 to 1:15 in B110/111. #SICB2026.
A powerpoint slide entitled "Radiation in jaw morphology of early ray-finned fishes after the Late Devonian extinction".
Tomorrow at 11am is my #SICB2026 talk on early ray-finned fishes! Come by and see all the cool fossils we've CT scanned. Track me down during the rest of the conference to see some 3D printed jaws.....
DIZ rep Will starting us out with the Student and First Timers Orientation!
@sicbjournals.bsky.social #SICB2026
Welcome to SICB 2026! Come see us in Oregon 201 for the first ever Student Postdoc Affairs Committee Members Meeting from 5:45-6:30PM!
@sicb.bsky.social #SICB2026
Studying animal behavior in the field is often hindered by environmental variability and the high cost or inaccessibility of monitoring equipment. This symposium will highlight the development and application of low-cost, open-source sensing technologies—such as Arduinos, Raspberry Pis, and 3D-printable tools—for automated environmental data collection in both lab and field settings. By bringing together interdisciplinary researchers, we aim to explore how these tools can increase accessibility, enhance replicability, and support large-scale behavioral and ecological studies. Discussions will emphasize their role in monitoring environmental change and biodiversity, as well as their potential to bridge engineering-focused and field-based approaches within the SICB community.
Not long now til #SICB 's annual meeting!
sicb.org/events/upcom...
If you're meeting us there, be sure to attend
S06: #Behavioral and #environmental monitoring with #open-source and low-cost tools.
Organized by:
Yash Sondhi & Brett Seymoure & Thomas Franzem
#biology #academia #science
ICB Student awardee paper
Investigating Best Practices for Applying a Quantitative #Tooth Complexity Metric to #Fishes
Williams & Price
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
"Although fishes constitute nearly half of all known vertebrate diversity, their dentitions remain remarkably understudied..."
#science
JOB ALERT! Collection Manager job going in Palaeontology at the Australian Museum in Sydney, Australia iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/collecti...
If you're going to #SICB Portland 2026,
be sure to stop by and purchase see the fantastic #art of @noahwithfish.bsky.social
Long time SICBer and @sicbjournals.bsky.social co author)
Noah is our featured SICB Journals booth #artist !🙌
See Noah's site
noahbressman.wixsite.com/noah and stop by.
Slide with a very bad phylogeny of Paleozoic fishes. Its basically a rake.
Preview of my #SICB2026 talk on early fish jaws. Paleozoic ray-finned fish systematics is a mess. Someone should really work on that😅
New paper out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org Biology Letters, led by undergrad superstar Laina Weiss! An experimental test of theory on the effects of temperature and resources on carrying capacity. So proud 🥹 tinyurl.com/yvmzmt9a @integrativebiology.bsky.social
Hey SICB, this is a great time to remind you about an open position at Loyola University Chicago that combines the biology of sex with the humanities and social sciences. If you are interested and have questions, please let me know. The app. deadline is Jan. 1.
www.careers.luc.edu/postings/34131
@sicbjournals.bsky.social @sicb.bsky.social
If you signed up to participate in SICB's mentor/mentee programs for the meeting in January. Check your email from Chair.SPDAC@sicb.org.
Please fill out the form link in the email before this Sunday, December 21!!
Had so much fun making this with Ryan! Almost all of the species are Oregon natives! :)
Penstemon ovatus, Bombus huntii, Melanerpes formicivorus - Acorn woodpecker, Umeces skiltonianus - Western skink, and Megalodacne heros - native oregon
The rest are special to us :)
And finally, our 1st place winner is...
Eliyah Stern with this amazing design!
Please come see our booth in Portland to get this sticker! SPDAC representatives will be there during morning and afternoon breaks and during poster sessions.
@sicb.bsky.social
Our 2nd place winner is...
Hanna Chow with this awesome design!
Please come see our booth in Portland to get this sticker! SPDAC representatives will be there during morning and afternoon breaks and during poster sessions.
@sicb.bsky.social
Our 3rd place winners are...
Rebecca Beneroff (@botanicalbecks.bsky.social) and Ryan Fisk with this beautiful design!
Please come see our booth in Portland to get this sticker! SPDAC representatives will be there during morning and afternoon breaks and during poster sessions.
@sicb.bsky.social
Results are in for SPDAC's 2026 SICB sticker competition...
Follow along to see who won and which stickers you'll find at SPDAC's booth at the annual meeting!
No better reason to join Bluesky then to say the first chapter of my PhD is out as a preprint! New surgeonfish phylogeny, ecomorphological relationships, evolutionary shape correlations-with NEW method to accurately account for phylogenetic covariation among shapes!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...