Glad to start this academic year as the new Biology Graduate Director at Northern Michigan University! We had great kickoff in this new year with all new Graduate Assistants. Looking forward to start new endeavors in leading this Graduate cohort with great support from colleagues at Biology & NMU 🤩🥳

Up with the fishermen this morning. An absolutely incredible paddle despite occasionally getting caught in their wake.

The International Hibernation Society is happy to release the Seasonal Hibernation Highlights for the Fall 2025. Enjoy reading the latest research on Torpor & Hibernation as Seasonal Adaptative Strategies and as Biomimicry Inspiration! @sicbjournals.bsky.social @sebiology.bsky.social

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

Check out the last IHS research seminar by Dr Julia Nowack from Liverpool John Moores University. Great insights on adaptive thermoregulation in endotherms facing rapid environmental change. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkIJ... @julianowack.bsky.social @sicbjournals.bsky.social @sebiology.bsky.social

Science on Tap resumes! Save The Date: Science on Tap on Tuesday October 14th @ 7 pm at Blackrocks Brewery! Come to listen to the awesome research from Dr Kim O'Keefe on "Fuel for Thought: Fire Ecology in a Warming World". Sponsored by Biology & EEGs Departments

Northern Michigan University Biology & Chemistry Departments are expanding with the opening of the new Weston Science Wing!! The official opening of the facilities is planned for Thurs this week. The Energetics Lab is moving into this new wing. New science will be conducted at Biology. Stay tuned 😊😁

Science on Tap at Blackrocks Brewery will resume in October with a full schedule of scientific talks for the 2025-2026 academic year. Check on the poster below and stay tuned for further development of the "fun" scientific events!!

Glad to start this academic year as the new Biology Graduate Director at Northern Michigan University! We had great kickoff in this new year with all new Graduate Assistants. Looking forward to start new endeavors in leading this Graduate cohort with great support from colleagues at Biology & NMU 🤩🥳

Quaterly Hibernation Highlights will be available on the IHS Website: hibsoc.com The PDF of the 2025 Summer Hibernation Highlights are accessible from this link : hibsoc.com/wp-content/u... Stay Tuned 😀 🙃 😁

The International Hibernation Society starts to release quaterly Seasonal Highlights on the Topic "Torpor & Hibernation as Seasonal Adaptative Strategies". Here are the first Hibernation Highlights for the Summer 2025. Enjoy reading the latest research from the Torpor & Hibernation field!

The 3-decade-old competition that enabled the emergence and evaluate of AlphaFold has run out of NIH funding. The program will be terminated in weeks. This is terminating success. www.science.org/content/arti...

So glad to be (re)visiting the FIWI & KLIVV in Vienna and delivering a scientific talk at Wilhelminenberg Seminar Series on Wednesday (18.6) last week. I was delighted to see everybody there thriving in new research endeavors. Also good time to catch up with everyone!! #FIWI #KLIVV #NorthMichigan

Glad to have spent two weeks in Strasbourg to work & catch up with colleagues from the Ecology, Physiology & Environment CNRS Lab (IPHC-DEPE). These were great & productive weeks! Also the City of Strasbourg is so beautiful 🤩

Photocredit: « Frederik Markussen »

What a pleasure to expertise Vebjorn Melum’s PhD work « Rheostasis & Timing: A Tanycyte-Mediated Process » at the Arctic University of Norway Trøms (UiT). Congratulations Dr Melum, & thanks to his supervisors: Shona Wood, David Hazelrigg (UiT), & Valérie Simonneaux (CNRS) for the great opportunity!

So nice & proud to see Alexandra Thiel, my shared student with Alina Evans at INN Evenstad, defending her wonderful PhD work on the Effects of Captures in Scandinavian Brown Bears. Well done Alex! You did great facing two international opponents. Gratuliere Frau Doktorin Alexandra Thiel!! 😊😊🤩🤩🥳🥳

Wow - One of my 1st PhD students was just promoted to Full Professor. I guess I am no longer an early career scholar!

What a pleasure to expertise Vebjorn Melum’s PhD work « Rheostasis & Timing: A Tanycyte-Mediated Process » at the Arctic University of Norway Trøms (UiT). Congratulations Dr Melum, & thanks to his supervisors: Shona Wood, David Hazelrigg (UiT), & Valérie Simonneaux (CNRS) for the great opportunity!

So nice & proud to see Alexandra Thiel, my shared student with Alina Evans at INN Evenstad, defending her wonderful PhD work on the Effects of Captures in Scandinavian Brown Bears. Well done Alex! You did great facing two international opponents. Gratuliere Frau Doktorin Alexandra Thiel!! 😊😊🤩🤩🥳🥳

The gut microbiome and multiple sclerosis, using a discordant twin human-mouse transfer model "Our results implicate two Lachnospiraceae members, namely Eisenbergiella tayi and Lachnoclostridium, as likely responsible for an increased incidence of disease." www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Postdoc position with @milocco.bsky.social at @scilifelab.se and @stockholm-uni.bsky.social in predictive modeling in evolution and development. #Evolution #Popgen #Modeling #Postdoc

After 6 long years, lots of ups and downs, and being far from family, I’m defending my PhD thesis on May 6 at 12:00pm CT - just 16 days away! Still a bit to go, but wanted to share. De Puerto Tejada y Cali para el mundo.

The Energetics Lab (Giroud) is proud to announce the official opening of the Squirrels Colony Facility Shed. This facility will enable the cycling under natural temperature & light conditions of thirteen-lined ground squirrels (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus), a small hibernator, for research purposes.

Latest News: Korben Moelter, an undergraduate in my Lab, and myself at the 2025 Students Celebration of Northern Michigan University (NMU). Lots of fun doing research with NMU students with plenty of neat ideas. Cannot wait to go on conferences with everybody. Hopefully soon! #KorbenMoelter

Hopefully this one doesn't hold up in court either.

Unpopular opinion here but I think it’s less appalling that a still-employed scientist might have to clean than that other people lost their jobs or aren’t getting hired. It’s all about solidarity, science types, not horror at being asked to do things out of the norm while getting a paycheck.

The GRFP results just came out! I know a lot of people were bummed out this year. If you or your student got an honorable mention, there’s still a chance you could get some money! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Brown, Columbia, Harvard, Penn, Princeton. Now Cornell and Northwestern. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

Welp www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

Dire wolves were not close relatives of gray wolves. They last shared a common ancestor more than 5 million years ago. What Colossal has done is make something new and slapped a dire wolf sticker on it, as if an organism equals a hypothetical genome.

Next up: Cornell and Northwestern... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

Hey Victoria, BC folks: I'll be visiting this Friday to speak at U Vic. The lecture is open to the public so please come by!

🥁 Ecologist working in mountains: We still have spots in the Mountain Ecology Starter Pack for Scientists working on various aspects of Mountain Ecology ⛰️ 🏞️🌄 👇. Let me know if you would like to be included. 🌎 🧪 🌐 go.bsky.app/V5Ydank

Just to give everyone a reminder: you should never have to get a loan for a graduate program in ecology, evolution, & organismal biology. #🧪

Repost & like, if you stand with President Zelensky!

🧪 The NSF director is lying to you. Let’s fact check 7 claims from yesterday’s letter to the community, while pointing out 3 critical omissions. 🧵

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

Great showing at Missoula's Hands Off rally today! It was an honor to get to speak briefly, and to introduce the folks doing amazing work on the ground here in Missoula.

Wow. #HandsOff rally in St. Paul, Minnesota is massive!

I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

Make sure to not miss Science on Tap at Blackrocks on Tuesday April 8th next week!

3,000 people turned out today in Marquette! This is for a small city where the temp hovered around freezing with the wind whipping off Lake Superior. We put on our coats, hats, and snow pants and got out there.

Buffalo might be one of the more dangerous mammals out there but I will always be team moonrat. Just look at its angry stinky little face!! #2025MMM

Meet IOB's science.sandiegozoo.org/jaelean-carr... co author of doi.org/10.1093/iob/... "Prior to attacking their prey, #shrikes have been observed performing “wing-flashing”...we sought to quantify this behavior." #kinematics #birds #womeninscience

Exciting Job Opportunity! UBC is hiring an Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Transdisciplinary Wildfire Sciences. Accepting applications until April 30. ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfac...

University of California announced a systemwide hiring freeze. This affects not 1 but 10 campuses (including UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, UC San Diego among others) plus 3 national labs with impact on medical and scientific research and local economies. www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...

Speaker Spotlight: Zach Gerhart-Hines @zgerharthines.bsky.social Join us @ #AdiposeBiology Conference in Montreal🇨🇦, Aug 19-20, 2025, to hear about homeostatic control! 🔗Register: adiposebiology.com #ABC2025 @sablesys.bsky.social @beaudrj.bsky.social @mcgill.ca @uoft.bsky.social @cbmr.science

There is still time to apply for this position! Great fit for students interested in combining evolutionary and eco-physiology theory to find solutions that promote pollinators in a warming world. Please distribute in your networks. Details 👇 🐝🦟 ☀️🌡

🚨Postdoc Opportunity🚨 We're hiring a 2 yr postdoc at Ecophy-CEBC (CNRS, France) to study coastal salinization and its impacts on amphibians 🐸🧂 If you have expertise in ecology/ecophysiology, reach out! Feel free to contact François Brischoux with any questions. Please share with your networks 🙏