A card announcing the call for papers stating 'Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of Reproduction Guest Editors: Etya Amsalem, Tony D. Williams and Kathryn Wilsterman. Submission deadline: 30 June 2026' with the Journal of Experimental Biology logo and the logo for the Special Issue containing an egg cell surrounded by eight sperm cells. The eighth sperm, on the top right, is penetrating the egg.

We are calling for Reviews, Commentaries or research papers for our upcoming Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of Reproduction, covering the entire reproductive process, from mate selection, mating and egg-laying or pregnancy through to parental care

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Hydrangea hammock!

Adaptive and non-adaptive convergent evolution in feather reflectance of California Channel Islands songbirds Abstract. Convergent evolution is widely regarded as a signature of adaptation. However, testing the adaptive consequences of convergent phenotypes is chal

On the feather theme, this was paired with a paper describing convergent feather evolution (exploring camouflage and thermal regulation mechanisms) for species on the California Channel Islands. From the lab of @ecophysiology.bsky.social
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Thank you Jeff! So glad you enjoying the paper, it was a really fun (and also strange) dataset to interpret. If you ever have any questions, let me know!

Live birth in lizards: A process-based model for the roles of temperature, behavior, and life-history To mediate trade-offs between survival and fecundity, multiple groups have independently evolved live birth (viviparity), including 70 transitions in lizar

Check our new paper in @evolletters.bsky.social "Live birth in lizards: A process-based model for the roles of temperature, behavior, and life-history"

In this study, we develop and validate a model capable of accurately predicting gestation length in lizards!

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🤝 NEW Meet the Editor: Eric Riddell

✍️Associate Editor Eric Riddell shares his experiences in #ecophysiology, insights into the #editor role and top tips for early career #researchers💡

@ecophysiology.bsky.social

Read it here ➡️ buff.ly/jmnhuR5

Three decades of declines restructure butterfly communities in the Midwestern United States | PNAS Insects are declining worldwide. These declines have been documented across taxonomic groups and are worrisome given ecosystem services provided by...

More bad news for butterflies. Our new paper led by Wendy Leuenberger shows common species are declining even more rapidly than rare ones. @ZipkinLab

Three decades of declines restructure butterfly communities in the Midwestern United States | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501340122

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In case this is helpful to someone out there: I'm moving to Ball State University this August, and I'll have a support for MS students over the next three years (RAs/TAs)

If your lab has talented students graduating this spring, I welcome them to reach out and talk about the opportunities.

The Wind Niche: The Thermal and Hydric Effects of Wind Speed on Terrestrial Organisms Synopsis. Wind can significantly influence heat and water exchange between organisms and their environment, yet microclimatic variation in wind is often ov

Do you think about the effects of wind on plants and animals? Check out a new paper in @sicbjournals.bsky.social that explores the effects of wind on plant and animal physiology: academic.oup.com/icb/advance-...

a close up of a carnivorous plant with a bee inside of it Alt: a close up of a venus fly trap closing around an insect

North Carolina Botanical Garden (Chapel Hill, NC) is recruiting for a Conservation Botanist!

🎓 Relevant post-Bacc degree req'd
⌛ full time, 2.5-year grant funded position contingent upon additional funding
📨 apps due 7/18

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#botanyjobs #plantconservationjobs

I’m a new subject-matter editor at Ecology - send your animal physiology research my way!

Any early career PIs also not hear back about last year’s career proposal yet?

three lizards are dancing together in a row on a yellow background . Alt: three salamanders are dancing together in a row on a yellow background

Now at @asn-amnat.bsky.social, "Genome composition predicts physiological responses to temperature in polyploid salamanders"

A project that @ecophysiology.bsky.social and I talked about since we were both PhD students! Funded by #NSF

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Pause for a minute to appreciate the valiant Program Officers still at NSF, who are doing their utmost to preserve what they can. They’re in the stinking rotting belly of the beast, laboring on our behalf.

❤️❤️❤️❤️ to them

Very happy to highlight a great paper by Owen Edwards et al in J Animal Ecology on changes in niche breadth and dispersal during a recent range shift of treefrogs 🐸!
Paper: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Research Highlight: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
@animalecology.bsky.social @ecophysiology.bsky.social

Hey folks- do you identify as being a member of a systemically minoritized group? Have you also worked, recreated, and/or conducted research in the outdoors? We're looking for more folks to contribute short narratives regarding their experiences. Ping me if interested!
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Crazy we were just talking about him at SICB. I was thinking about watching eraserhead, never seen it.

Lack of thermal acclimation in multiple indices of climate vulnerability in bumblebees | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Indices of climate vulnerability are used to predict species’ vulnerability to climate change based on intrinsic physiological traits, such as thermal tolerance, thermal sensitivity and thermal acclim...

New manuscript from my grad student Colton Poore on lack of acclimation in bumblebee queens! Read more here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Climate change will result in global stilling of wind speeds. @ecophysiology.bsky.social shows potential for super interesting interactions between warming, wind speed, animal coloration, body size and water loss. #SICB2025

Yes, I do need in fact. Nice work, looking forward to exploring!

A time-calibrated salamander phylogeny including 765 species and 503 genes Recent time-calibrated amphibian phylogenies agree on the family-level relationships among extant salamanders but had disparate sampling regimes and i…

Do you need a salamander phylogeny? You're in luck! We put together the largest salamander phylogeny to date based on molecular markers and used more fossil calibrations than any other currently available trees. 765 salamander species! Check it out!
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Soilscapes of Mortality Risk Suggest a Goldilocks Effect for Overwintering Ectotherms | The American Naturalist Abstract Changing climates are driving population declines in diverse animals worldwide. Winter conditions may play an important role in these declines but are often overlooked. Animals must not only ...

Waybright & Dillon combine new data on physiology with continental scale ground temperature data to develop landscapes of mortality risk for overwintering ectotherms, and apply the approach to predict mortality risk for overwintering bumble bee queens.
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NY-SDM | AMNH The New York Regional Species Distribution Modeling Discussion Group (NY-SDM) convenes leading researchers from across the New York Tri-State area to discuss and present research related to species...

We are looking for Spring 2025 speakers for the New York Regional Species Distribution Modeling Discussion Group. If you are local to the NY area and interested in giving an in-person talk at the American Museum of Natural History, please DM me!

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I’m late to the party but just finished season 1 last week. Whoa…blown away by the last episode.

Urban wall lizards are resilient to high levels of blood lead Living in urban environments presents many challenges to wildlife, including exposure to potentially toxic pollutants. For example, the heavy metal le…

Led by undergrad Maya Moore in Eric Gangloff’s lab, resilience to lead contamination in urban wall lizards! #lizards #ecotoxicology
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