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NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)
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Screenshot of the first page of the PDF of the Review, The CO2 and humidity senses of insects in a changing world, in the Sensory Perception in a Changing World Special Issue. The Review is by Ajinkya Dahake. The publishing information states: © 2026. Published by The Company of Biologists | Journal of Experimental Biology (2026) 229, jeb251089. doi:10.1242/jeb.251089. The first sentence of the Abstract states: 'The ability to detect carbon dioxide and water vapor is essential for insect survival. Insects possess specialized receptors and anatomical structures that confer remarkable sensitivity to these environmental factors'.
Water & CO2 are prominent greenhouse gases. In his SI Review, Ajinkya Dahake discusses how insects sense H2O & CO2, and use the senses to locate plants, hosts & for navigation, although increasing CO2 could desensitise insects affecting host location
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Screenshot of the first page of the PDF of the Commentary, Temperature sensing in fishes: mechanisms and modulation in a warming world, in the Sensory Perception in a Changing World Special Issue. The Commentary is by Suzanne Currie and Julia York. The publishing information states: © 2026. Published by The Company of Biologists | Journal of Experimental Biology (2026) 229, jeb250889. doi:10.1242/jeb.250889. The first sentence of the Abstract states: 'Climate change is threatening global biodiversity as a result of increasing temperature and climate variability outpacing adaptation rates'.
Fish are at particular risk of climate change as their physiology is finely tuned by the temperature of their surroundings. Suzanne Currie & Julia York discuss how fish sense temperature & how the fish's own physical condition might impact their sensitivity
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Sensory Perception in a Changing World graphic. The graphic has a black background. The text in the top right says: Special Issue. Next line: Sensory Perception in a Changing World Next line: Guest Editors: Almut Kelber, Kathleen M. Gilmour and Sanjay Sane Next line: the Journal of Experimental Biology logo Left of graphic: image showing a moth drinking nectar from cluster of white flowers against two circular green leaves
In the 1st article of the #SensoryPerceptionInAChangingWorld SI, Almut Kelber&co propose that scientists study all developmental stages of species & include entire ecosystems to understand how changes to sensory information caused by humans affect animals
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Historian of science Janet Browne, author of the definitive biography of Charles Darwin (Voyaging, 1995; The Power of Place, 2002) will publish an abridged and updated one-volume version this June with @princetonupress.bsky.social: bit.ly/4mS7R0Q
#DarwinDay #HPS #histsci
Photo of Nicholas Antonson, wearing a red, white and grey checked shirt
Congratulations to Nicholas Antonson @nickantonson.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 JEB Outstanding Paper Prize, for his research into the neuromuscular coordination of movement and breathing in woodpecker drilling
Find out more about Nicholas & his research
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Photos of the six female JEB Editors. Top row: Almut Kelber, Monica Daley and Emily Baird. Bottom row: Katie Gilmour, Trish Schulte and Sheila Patek
On #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience, we celebrate all of the great women that contribute to JEB, from our fantastic female Editors to the female ECRs submitting their first ever paper to the journal!
#WomeninScience
John Fleng Steffensen, smiling in Antarctica, 2007. John is on a boat in a sea inlet, wearing an orange waterproof coat with land behind. Photo credit: Peter Bushnell
John Steffensen, titan of the field and extraordinary fish biologist, passed away unexpectedly on 27 September 2025. In their affectionate Obituary, Peter Bushnell, Paolo Domenici, David McKenzie & Robert Shadwick remember John & his remarkable creativity
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When the original authors and those who find errors in their work, pull together for the sake of correcting the record and moving science forward, it's a beautiful thing
Retracted paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The fish icon for the JEB field station Perspective series. The icon shows a cartoon of a salmon leaping out of wave. The icon is in shades of teal.
Located on the California Coast, Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station has been a home to inspirational research for more than 130 years. In his Perspective, Mark Denny talks about the field station’s august past and current ground-breaking research
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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
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The 16th International Congress of the Biology of Fish logo. The circular logo includes a sketch of a salmon (top left), a sketch of a sturgeon (bottom right) with a sketch of Vancouver landmarks across the middle. The text, 'ICBF 2026' is positioned in the middle right of the circular logo.
If you're a JEB author and fish biologist, then the 16th International Congress on the Biology of Fish #ICBF2026 in Vancouver, Canada, 12-16 July 2026, is the perfect meeting for you!
Abstract submission and registration are now open:
icbf2026.com
Postcard advertising the JEB Travelling Fellowships. The Company of Biologists logo is in the top left corner. The top right corner shows a photo of an an ECR standing in water bending over black dustbins used to collect aquatic animals. In a teal-colour band across the centre of the postcard is the message, 'Are you an early-career researcher planning to do a collaborative visit to another lab?'. The answer to that question is in the bottom left corner, stating, 'You could be eligible for funding from us'. A statement in a teal-colour box in the bottom right corner states 'Find out more'.
Calling all JEB ECRs! It's that time again! The deadline for the next JEB Travelling Fellowship applications is 6 February, so if you've got a burning desire to travel to another lab to answer an extraordinary question get your application ready now!
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Preprint: our systematic review of hybrids between blue whales and fin whales. There are 46 possible cases, of which 17 have been genetically confirmed (15 from the North Atlantic!)
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A purple hagfish, Eptatretus okinoseanus. Photo credit: Tim Winegard.
In his recent Conversation, DouglasFudge @fudgelab.bsky.social talks about the remarkable biology of hagfishes, how they release colossal quantities of slime almost instantaneously for protection from shark attack &their ability to wriggle out of tight corners
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IMAGE SHOWS GRAPHIC OF CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY PHYLOGENY EXPLORER TOOL.
MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...
Postdoctoral position in evolutionary genomics of sex chromosomes in anurans at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Apply by 03/10/2026: jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-Postdoctoral-... #postdoc
We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🌲 🌳 🌍
📍Interested in boreal and temperate forest productivity and respiration?
💻 Like to work with large datasets, remote sensing and models?
🏔️ Love an alpine setting in a small town?
Come and join us at KIT!
Application details: t1p.de/qctj7
Looking for a PhD or Postdoc in marine #invertebrates comparative #morphology, #development, #phylogenetics, #fluid mechanics, #skeletogenesis, or #paleontology? Ping me.
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Amazing! Way to go Minneapolis!
We escaped the ice and have been science hard for 2 days - four full stations and a big factorial experiment setup! Very tired but very happy to be working. We caught Antarctic krill at one station, and lots of salps at all stations. Love the Green krill guts full of phytoplankton! #oceanography 🌊🇦🇶🦐
NSF just posted their Dear Colleague Letter regarding the restructuring of NCAR. www.nsf.gov/funding/info...
two images of an arrest, one digitally altered by the White House to make it look like the arrestee is crying
This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public. We are at Stalinesque levels of propaganda.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
After the recent rare sighting of this deep-sea wonder right off the coast of Monterey Bay, we decided to dig into our archives and share a few more glimpses of this fantastically frilly fish (Trachipterus altivelis).
My child has declared this Elephant Bird Awareness Day and wants me to tell some people.
Were you aware of elephant birds? You are now.
🌊 Last call to all ocean champions!
It’s not too late to stand up against offshore drilling by making a public comment and contacting your representatives: mbayaq.co/4qGUORY
#MontereyBayAquarium #NoDrilling #SaveOurCoast #StandUpToOffshoreDrilling
Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers.
Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social
Where will postdocs get training in coming up with clever pun titles? My favorite: Sticky Feats (for a piece on adhesive pads on fly feet)
NSF building on Eisenhower Av. HUD now owns.
Destroying the NSF mural in the foyer. Of the Eisenhower building.
The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone.
The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets.
We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.
