So stoked that our new @booktrust.org.uk Cymru book is by @evoswami.bsky.social !! How cool! Diolch :)

The very clever Outlook autofill just tried to end ‘hope you had a nice…’ with ‘Thanksgiving.’ Which WOW. wrong season, wrong continent. But good hustle.

Ymddygiad, Ecoleg a Ffisioleg ym Mangor

Exciting news! Our website is now available in CYMRAEG! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 www.bangor.ac.uk/cy/ygan/beps...

3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama!

Three positions, each including salary & a research budget.

Applications due April, 15th.

DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us!

stri.si.edu/academic-pro...

Never too late! From a hot summer in 2009 spent in the lab molecularly sexing pied flycatchers to a 2026 paper 🐦

Using 2,759 sexed nestlings (1997–2018) tracked through 2023, we show male attractiveness & annual rearing conditions increase the proportion of sons in broods

🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

Check out our new paper on clingfishes led by @fishtide.bsky.social!

What’s the point of deadlines if students just ignore them and apply for SCs. More than half my module just breezed past their deadline.

Flyer for the 2026 IMSI Summer Institute: Recruiting research interns. Join our interdisciplinary research training internship and study biomechanics, muscle physiology, biophysics, neurosciences, rehabilitation sciences and engineering. All career stages welcome, undergraduates especially encouraged to apply. Full time paid opportunity. Intensive research experience, practical skills development, supportive mentorship. Learn more at CIMS.uci.edu. One photo show a lab member collecting motion capture data as a person jumps. Another photo shows IMSI researchers setting up a camera for data collection in at a field research location showing a desert landscape in the foreground and a mountain range in the background.

Call for applications to the 2026 Integrative Movement Sciences Summer Institute!

 This is a funded research internship, open to all career stages.
We especially encourage undergraduates to apply. 

Application deadline is March 21.

More details here: cims.uci.edu/imsi-si-2026/
Please share!

🐡⁉️Ever wondered how a pufferfish inflates? Very excited to announce that Drs Rachel Tran and Ariel Camp will be giving a FREE TALK/WORKSHOP on this very topic on the 10th March at Storyhouse in Chester with Chester SciBar!

(details below)

The Vatican Museums' Bramante Staircase provides a striking visual metaphor for a vicious feedback cycle in scholarly publishing: rising paper submissions across an expanding landscape of journals strains the limited supply of volunteer peer review labor, which in turn makes editorial decisions less predictable and encourages authors to submit their work more ambitiously, increasing the burden on peer reviewers further still. Image credit: Carl T. Bergstrom

The process of #PeerReview is vital to contemporary science, but is also under enormous strain. @carlbergstrom.com & Kevin Gross use mathematical models to dissect the threats to the long-term viability of peer review, suggesting ways to stabilize it @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4kR02bo

Month two back at work: short run before the nursery pickup. Am i crushing this work life balance stuff or what? Feels like a what.

I LOVE when science is applied to "toddler questions" like "Why is the sky blue?" or "Why is ice slippery?"

Because the answers can be so SUPRISING.

Let's dig into recent revelations about how ice skates work & why tires skid across black ice.

First, we'll dismiss 3 VERY GOOD hypotheses as wrong.

Eco-evolutionary dynamics shaping biodiversity in the urban mosaic Nature Reviews Biodiversity - The urban mosaic is a complex assimilation of habitats, biotic and abiotic factors with eco-evolutionary influence on local and regional biodiversity. In this Review,...

Excited to share our new review in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com, coauthored w/allstar postdocs @vale-alaasam.bsky.social @annainthefield.bsky.social @anthonysnead.bsky.social Bridging island biogeography & evolutionary processes, we explore how eco-evo dynamics play out in the urban mosaic rdcu.be/e4tcj

On this day that supports inclusive futures for women and girls in science, let's not forget all the women that were sidelined, ignored, or forced out of science because they:
- had children
- prioritised family/caring
- did science differently
- questioned boundaries & norms
- fought the patriarchy

Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

xkcd.com/3204/

Piranha bite force and tooth stress are fantastically high for their size! Check out our new paper on computational modeling of the cranial muscles and bite mechanics of the amazing piranhas. #biomechsky 🐟🧪🌿

link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

i got curious why Panopto was called Panopto -- and my computer suggested 'panopticon' (a system of constant surveillance in jail systems) .. and somehow, yeah, checks out. (although, fingers crossed, isn't the name's inspiration)

Students still have some days left to aplply for the first round of mcirogrants of 2026 :) Please share

Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition.

TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

The Field Station Perspective series logo. The logo shows four images arranged in four quarters of a circle. The top right quarter shows a cartoon of a seal with icy mountains behind. The quadrant is coloured in shades of blue and white. The bottom right quadrant shows a beetle (black), the quadrant is yellow. The bottom left quadrant shows a salmon leaping above a wave; the quadrant is coloured shades of teal. The top left quadrant shows an emu running across savannah with the sun behind in the sky; the quadrant is in shades of red.

We are delighted to introduce a new Perspective series highlighting the important role that field stations have played, and continue to play, in comparative physiology and biomechanics

To find out about Harvard's Concord Field Station & more go to

journals.biologists.com/jeb/collecti...

Award issue cover with an illustration by Bertille Mohring of a pair of female Laysan albatrosses.

🚨 Now out: Award Issue, collecting all seven mini-reviews included in the 2025 Review Competition written by early career researchers. Highlighting emerging or less explored topics in avian biology

➡️ vist.ly/4pzxr

Cover: pair of female Laysan albatrosses by Bertille Mohring

#ornithology

:)
unrelated, know anybody who needs a stapler?

You mean the staplers you left out in the open at eye level which couldn’t have been more obvious? Totally.

return from mat leave, day 12: I have spent several days looking for my stapler. finally went to the supply closet today for another one. immediately found original stapler. two of them.

Habitat and complex life cycles promote morphological diversity in salamander limb bones We examined the external shape and cross-sectional morphology of limb bones in 133 salamander species spanning the ecological and phylogenetic breadth of Caudata. We find that adaptations for aquatic...

Second PhD paper is out! We find: 1) aquatic and terrestrial salamanders have different limb bone adaptations, 2) complex life cycles promote different traits, 3) decoupling of external and internal bone traits increase diversity.

Thread (1/8) and FREE link below! 🦎🧪

doi.org/10.1111/joa....

Uppsala in late autumn

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Just a few days to go until our next deadline. Apply at the link below. #ornithology

i exude adorable and relatable energy. competency, maybe less so :)

return from mat leave, day 10(?): said "birdies" in my first lecture back.

i suppose being transparent about return to work & lack of sleep extends to transparency around my students, but gosh i would like to feel a bit more competent.

day 7 back from maternity leave: oh, i'm ill already.