WOOOOOOO! Huge thank you to SICB and all of my collaborators on this project!

ICB spotlight for #SICB2026 on one of last year's student awardee papers: The Effects of Proportional Processing and Multiple Opponents on Contest Assessment in Male Green Swordtail #Fish (Xiphophorus hellerii) Green , Kelley , Caves doi.org/10.1093/icb/... #science #biology #fish

Congrats Tucker Heptinstall - 1st ever winner of the IOB Best Student Paper winner! @doc-brock.bsky.social lab see his science & amazing photos via tuckerheptinstall.weebly.com & read his co authored paper doi.org/10.1093/iob/... & watch his thank you YouTube youtu.be/n6sszCzChuA #herpetology

Great to see you’re at #SICB2026 @egprileson.bsky.social 👍!! & we also hope no one misses your co authored ICB work: Trait Correlations Shift in Sign and Magnitude in Response to Urbanization Eric G Prileson , Ryan A Martin, doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

#SICB2026 is starting soon! Join us on Jan 4th at 10:00 AM in A105 to hear about adaptive coupling across distinct life stages in insects!

Last but not least, #SICB2026 come see my poster! 🧬 *PAX6 evolution in Gnathostomes relative to life history* — Jan 6, 3:30–5:30 PM, P3-252. Authors: Lynch, Sofia Barajas, & Phillips. Links PAX6 evolution with life-history traits. #SQuEACsLab #Neuroanatomy #Evolution #Genes

Great to see @princetonvaughn.bsky.social is going to be at #SICB2026!! & don’t miss his co authored IOB work with 1 of our greatest covers! Climbing and Clinging of Urban #Lizards are Differentially Affected by #Morphology, Temperature, and Substrate P L Vaughn et al doi.org/10.1093/iob/...

This year at #SICB2026, @taorminalepore.bsky.social and I are co-organizing a symposium "Disabled and neurodivergent perception, community, and identity in the biosciences" on Weds, Jan. 7th in A105! Pretty sure our workshops are already closed but you can be added to the waitlist.

Want to learn about grooming behavior and feather corticosterone in American kestrels? Stop by my #SICB2026 poster, P1-034, at the Division of Comparative Endocrinology student poster presentations!

Who else is going to SICB this year? Would love to meet some of my parasocial Bluesky friends in real life! #SICB2026

Some cool urban lizard research presented by wonderful Brock Lab grad students at #SICB2026! Check them out on Tuesday 🦎 🌆

We printed fish! Starting off #SICB2026 with a VERY fun (and a little smelly) workshop

So glad to see @wildanimalinitv.bsky.social 🙌 at #SICB2026! ICB will be partnering with them in 2027 for a collaborative collection of papers. Be sure to check them out www.wildanimalinitiative.org

DIZ rep Will starting us out with the Student and First Timers Orientation! @sicbjournals.bsky.social #SICB2026

Wonderful @denyellekilgour.bsky.social ! & we hope no one misses IOB’s Activation of the sympathetic-adrenal-medullary system increases #DNA damage during the transition to captivity Kilgour et al , doi.org/10.1093/iob/... & #SICB student fund merch sicb-artinbiology.pixels.com/featured/1-w...

Join us at the Low-Cost & Open-Source Science Hybrid Symposium at #SICB2026 🗓️ Jan 5, 2026 | 📍 Portland, OR 🎤 8 keynote talks ⚡ Lightning talks (register below for discord & zoom links) 🧾 Special issue in @sicbjournals.bsky.social More details 🔗 linktr.ee/tfranzem #OpenSource #OpenScience #SICB

#SICB2026 attendees, did you know our society’s #journals have a Fine #Art America account that raises $ for #SICB #student #scholarships? Check them out! fineartamerica.com/featured/oct...

If you’re looking for a science packed conference with research on all the things, #SICB2026 in Portland, OR is the place for you! Planty people, come join the fun! 🪻🤠🪻

Preview of my #SICB2026 talk on early fish jaws. Paleozoic ray-finned fish systematics is a mess. Someone should really work on that😅

Who’s going to #SICB2026? Hope to see many of you there!

If you're at #SICB2026 , be sure to talk with just a few of ICB's assistant eds, associate eds, & or E.I.C. Ulrike Muller . Here are a few attending SICB @agarner.bsky.social @kassthefish.bsky.social @mayerllab.bsky.social @ajnarivera.bsky.social & more! & read issues academic.oup.com/icb

Headed to #SICB2026 ? Be sure to say hello to just a few of our IOB AEs when you see them. They'd love to hear about your work! Learn more about SICB's O.A. journal. We're now going into our 8th year See the link for more info and our discount for SICB members. academic.oup.com/iob #science

Api New Year! 🎉 For anyone attending SICB next week, I will be presenting my work on marine apicomplexans in SYM-1A (Host-microbe interactions) on Sunday at 8:45 AM! 🪸🐟🪱 #SICB2026 #Protists

ICB Trunk Tip Wear in Wild African Savanna #Elephants doi.org/10.1093/icb/... Heise et al "These findings suggest that wild elephants experience feeding-related trunk abrasion, leading to significant alterations in both vibrissa structure and skin texture..." #science #animals #biology

This IOB co author of Why not both? A case study in measuring cortisol and #corticosterone S E Westrick et al doi.org/10.1093/iob/... has out of this world posters! read the work and see her posters sewestrick.mystrikingly.com#posters #physiology #frogs #hormones #science

I'll be presenting on a very different topic than usual for #SICB2026... "Strengths, challenges, & experiences of neurodivergent faculty in academia" at 8:45am on Jan. 7th in Room A105 as part of Symposium 12: Disabled & Neurodivergent perception, community, & identity in the biosciences (1/2)

Celebrate 2026 by planning to attend: PAC's Multi-Media #Science #Communication Workshop This workshop features #panelists with expertise in a variety of types of science communication: #podcasters, popular #science #writers, #journalists, & short form video creators. youtube.com/shorts/KAHgi...

It's almost #SICB2026! Who do I know that's going to be there? Hit me up! And if you don't know me & want to be friends, let me know! And of course: grad student Tabby Moul [Sun @10:30pm], undergrad Oscar Peterson [Sun @ 1:45pm], and I [Wed @ 9am] are presenting talks! @sicb.bsky.social

"We analyzed trunk tip #morphology in wild (n = 6) and captive (n = 6) adult #African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana)..." from Trunk Tip Wear in Wild African Savanna #Elephants Heise et al doi.org/10.1093/icb/... #science #biology #anatomy #biologists

"We originally set out to validate non-invasive waterborne hormone measurements in our focal species..." from Why not both? A case study in measuring cortisol and #corticosterone By Westrick , Paitz , Fischer doi.org/10.1093/iob/... #hormones #frogs #glucocorticoid #science #physiology #biology

ICB blog SICB 2026 - Fostering Meaningful Conversations About #Accessibility, Identity, and #Inclusion Within #STEM by Stephanie Amaya on s12 for SICB 2026 with @oceanfilly.bsky.social & @taorminalepore.bsky.social & Kevin Neumann integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/s...

Get to know, Sarah Westrick, IOB co author of doi.org/10.1093/iob/... Having never grown out of her “obsessed with #animals” phase, Sarah is fascinated by all things animal #behavior - from #neuroendocrine mechanisms to #evolutionary trends. read more sewestrick.mystrikingly.com #science

New Ant Lab video today about pincer wasps and a new research project. This one has some really cool, newly-filmed insect behavior in it! youtu.be/9osTBzQ0zbk

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 👀

ICB Trunk Tip Wear in Wild #African Savanna #Elephants Olivia Heise et al doi.org/10.1093/icb/... The anatomy and function of tactile structures, such as vibrissae, are typically studied in captive animals, but we know little about how tactile structures compare between captive and wild #animals.

IOB Why not both? A case study in measuring #cortisol and #corticosterone by S. E. Westrick et al doi.org/10.1093/iob/... "A general tenet in stress physiology is that the #hypothalamic- #pituitary-adrenal axis predominantly produces one #glucocorticoid (GC) in response to stressors..." #frogs

ICB's issue 6 has this amazing #octopus from photographers/ICB co authors- Janina Rockner & Letizia Zullo. of #Proprioception in #Muscle #Hydrostats Zullo , Röckner , Pistolato doi.org/10.1093/icb/... & see the cover on our student fund account fineartamerica.com/featured/oct... #science

IOB "Furthermore, the loss of invading #respiratory diverticula and pneumatic #osteological characters in the postcranial #skeleton of pursuit diving #birds serves as a reminder that adaptation to specific #ecologies..." Byrne et al doi.org/10.1093/iob/...

IOB "This suggests that #ventilatory air sacs and associated diverticula can be present despite the absence of #osteological and #histologic correlates..." Byrne et al doi.org/10.1093/iob/... #archosaurs #birds #avian #science #biology

ICB blog Thinking about what to read in 2026? Rónán Gissler has found your next book- Supercommunicators "On the eve of the SICB annual meeting, there’s no better time to consider more deeply how we converse with others..." integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/w...

IOB "Here, we test whether fine anchoring fibers on the endosteal bone of #bird and non- #avian #dinosaur #ertebrae—termed “pneumosteum”—are absent in taxa lacking pneumatic openings..." by Byrne et al doi.org/10.1093/iob/... #archosaurs #biology #science #fossils

Have you read ICB's issue 6 yet? with Applied #ecoimmunology in #wildlife health and #conservation & authors @schulzscience.bsky.social @karlycohen.bsky.social Cohen @thomsanger.bsky.social Sanger @cmdonatelli.bsky.social Donatelli Stacy Farina and more! academic.oup.com/icb/issue/65/6

Bridging the Gap- with IOB co-author Paul J. Byrne "IOB co-author Paul J. Byrne aims to illuminate the processes that underlie the #phenotypic and developmental changes within #vertebrates and their resulting influence on #physiology with his #research." iobopen.com/2025/12/22/b... #science

Be sure to catch the symposium: Needle in the haystack: Finding tools to study puncture and injection mechanisms across biology on Wednesday Jan 7! As SICB 2026 is getting closer, tune into DCB/DVM social media (here and @sicb.dcb.dvm on Instagram). @sicbjournals.bsky.social @sicb.bsky.social

ICB student awardee spotlight on Hotter Nights, Hidden Consequences: An Overlooked Dimension of #Climate Change doi.org/10.1093/icb/... by Carter& www.amandawilsoncarter.com & Fleming eeb.utk.edu/people/morga... #science #research #scientists #phenology #ecological #biodiversity.

Watch this interview with the lead author on Wing #Morphology, Foraging Strategies, and Flight Performance in Six Sympatric Species of Molossid #Bats from Argentina M A Argoitia et al doi.org/10.1093/iob/... Argoitia's YouTube youtube.com/shorts/czTvH... #science #biology

ICB Student awardee publication spotlight: The Role of Mobility in #Intertidal #Invertebrates’ Responses to #Thermal #Stress L C McIntire and L P Miller doi.org/10.1093/icb/... #science #biology #biologists #ectotherms #climatechange

Get to know IOB author M. A. Argoitia Musio Argentino www.researchgate.net/profile/Mari... co author on doi.org/10.1093/iob/... (@)antoargoitia on Insta ri.conicet.gov.ar/author/93114 #morphology #bats #ecology #biology #science #Molossid #species #scientists

ICB #Student Awardee paper spotlight: Early developmental exposure to sodium perchlorate disrupts #thyroid, liver, and testicular development in #mice by Kyle Bouten et al doi.org/10.1093/icb/... #biology #PhD #academia #science #hormone #mammals

IOB "Considering that wing shape and size are good indicators of #ecological and #behavioral traits, we analyze the #morphological variation using #geometric #morphometric tools..." M A Argoitia et al doi.org/10.1093/iob/... #bats #morphology