Screenshot of PDF of the Special Issue Commentary, 'Six questions in fish locomotor biology and the technical approaches needed to address them', by George V. Lauder, Connor F. White, Divya Ramesh, YuPan, Julia Chaumel and Yangfan Zhang. The publishing information states: © 2026. Published by The Company of Biologists | Journal of Experimental Biology (2026) 229, jeb251375. doi:10.1242/jeb.251375. The first sentence reads: 'For nearly a century, fish have served as a model experimental system to understand how major organ systems both allow and respond to exercise'.

Fish have served as models to understand how organ systems both allow and respond to exercise for almost a century. In their SI Commentary, Lauder & co suggest 6 outstanding questions that remain unanswered in fish locomotion

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The Ocean Legacy of National Geographic Explorer Dr. Tierney Thys In Memoriam

Tierney Thys was truly an amazing advocate for the oceans and for the wonderful ocean sunfish, Mola mola, and its relatives. A grad school friend in the Wainwright lab at Duke, truly saddened to hear that she is gone. Great tribute by her sister. 🐟🧪🌿🦑
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Thank you!

Four UC San Diego Faculty Earn Prestigious 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships UC San Diego faculty members Valentina Di Santo, Fleur Ferguson, Mattia Serra and Hao Zhang have been named 2026 Sloan Research Fellows. The four scientists represent UC San Diego’s Halıcıoğlu Data Sc...

🏅Congratulations to Scripps marine biologist @vdisanto.bsky.social on being named a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow! Her research explores how fish move through changing oceans. Meet other @ucsandiego.bsky.social scientists who earned the @sloanfoundation.bsky.social honor. ⤵️

Fish use more energy to stay still than previously thought Fish that appear to hang motionless in water are working harder than expected.

Fish use more energy to stay still than previously thought
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Four UC San Diego Faculty Earn Prestigious 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships UC San Diego faculty members Valentina Di Santo, Fleur Ferguson, Mattia Serra and Hao Zhang have been named 2026 Sloan Research Fellows. The four scientists represent UC San Diego’s Halıcıoğlu Data Sc...

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Thank you, Dan!

Thank you!

Honored to be named a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow @sloanfoundation.bsky.social. Grateful to my students, collaborators, and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social community as we work to understand the mechanics and energetics of animal locomotion. #SloanFellow

Congrats, Neil! @neilshubin.bsky.social

Academic siblings reunited at #SICB2026

Hello #SICB2026
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Chabad rabbis, Holocaust survivor, 10-year-old among victims of Sydney terror attack At least 15 people were killed when two gunmen opened fire on 'Chanukah by the Sea' event at Bondi Beach. These are some of their stories

"Alex Kleytman, an 87-year-old Ukrainian Holocaust survivor, was celebrating Hanukkah with his wife of 57 years, Larisa Kleytman, also a Holocaust survivor, when the attack began. He was killed while shielding Larisa from the bullets with his own body."

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The Keeling Curve The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

426.40 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 14-Dec-2025
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60 Years of Research on Tunas — and Not Done Yet! Dr. Bruce Collette, Retired Research Associate YouTube video by Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History

Bruce Collette is a national treasure!🐟

Finally!

This work was led by postdocs Yuchen Gong and Fidji Berio, former student Xuewei Qi, and collaborator Otar Akanyeti with his student Robert Sterling.

The finding suggests that bioinspired robotic swarms may sustain coordination under energy limitation if each agent adjust its locomotion locally rather than relying on changes in formation.

Cohesion was preserved because each fish adjusted its swimming mechanics in a way that kept propulsive efficiency. Collective coordination was maintained through individual kinematic compensation, not through changes in school structure.

As oxygen dropped, tail-beat frequency fell, amplitude increased, and swimming efficiency remained stable. The school held together because each fish adjusted its kinematics rather than its position.

We reduced oxygen stepwise from 95% to 20% while fish swam at the same speed. If hypoxia disrupts collective behavior, we would expect spacing or alignment to shift early. They didn’t. The school remained cohesive until oxygen reached the point where individual fish could no longer sustain swimming.

When oxygen becomes very low, do schools fall apart, or do fish change how they swim to maintain the formation? We tested this in a new project just published in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics:
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Neil Shubin (2) - Denis Duboule (2025-2026) YouTube video by Sciences de la vie - Collège de France

Catch my new lecture at the Collège de France entitled “The Origin of Walking.” Thanks to @denisduboule.bsky.social for hosting!

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“What Grant Reviewers Actually Look For (and What They Ignore)” A close colleague of mine at a major US research university begins the process of preparing a grant proposal by creating something he calls a “storyboard”.  When I was growing up in LA, the concept…

"What Grant Reviewers Actually Look For (and What They Ignore)" jim-olds.org/2025/10/23/w...

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ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The University of California leads the nation in academic research, new ranking finds UC San Diego and UC Berkeley lead the way for public university research, with eight UC campuses total among the top 30 influential and impactful public research institutions.

🧪 University of California leads the nation in academic research www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/univers...

The NSF GRFP is back. Students interested in applying to work in my lab at SIO can email me directly with a CV and a letter to outline how their interests and research experience might align with the work we do. I'm recruiting students interested in biomechanics. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... 🧪 🐟

To be considered for mentorship in my lab, please email me a CV and a letter outlining your interests and fit with our work.
Lab website: www.valentinadisanto.com/join-the-team