An infraslow physiological rhythm governs the sleep of reptiles. Researchers analysed brain, physiological and behavioural variations during sleep in reptiles, birds, and mammals, in a bid to elucidate the evolution of sleep, and some of its mysteries. 💤🌙

🍁ICVM2027 Logo Competition🍁 We are excited to launch the logo competition for ICVM2027, 20–24 July 2027, in Halifax, Canada. Members of the ICVM community are invited to submit logo designs inspired by vertebrate morphology and the spirit of Atlantic Canada. 🖌️ Details: www.isvm-icvm.org/icvm-2027

📢 ICVM2027 Call for Proposals! ICVM2027 (Halifax, Canada; 20–24 July 2027) is now accepting: 🔹 Symposium proposals www.xcdsystem.com/icvm/abstrac... 🔹 Workshop proposals www.xcdsystem.com/icvm/abstrac... 📅 Deadline: 30 June 2026

Paper Alert🚨🦎 Ever wondered how variation in life cycles fosters the feeding musculature in Caudata? Check out the first paper by Morgane Taillades! Many thanks to @morganefo.bsky.social @vivienl.bsky.social @anthony-herrel.bsky.social I.Toussaint-Lardé, M. Mandica academic.oup.com/icb/advance-...

And the local tree frog Hyla arborea sarda

And another endemic from Corsica and Sardinia… Podarcis tiliguerta

Very happy to see this little guy again in Corsica … Algyroides fitzingeri

Merci a Sarah-Lou Lepers du podcast Tangram de @psl-univ.bsky.social d'etre venue nous interroger au @mnhn.fr avec @anthony-herrel.bsky.social pour parler de respiration et du sommeil des reptiles🦎 !! Lien vers l'episode: podcast.ausha.co/tangram/ce-q...

Had a project meeting in London but had time to quickly visit Dana Fiona Armour’s installation at Somerset house in London.. snakes, climate change and art.

Feel privileged to have been working with these amazing animals at Butantan Thanks to Carlos Jared !!

🦎 Funded 4-year PhD position on Lizard Evolutionary Ecology in our lab at UCLouvain (Belgium)! Apply before 9 March! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...

By integrating evidence from #mammals 🦁, #fish 🐟, #amphibians 🐸, #reptiles 🦎, and #birds 🐦, this paper highlights broader evolutionary patterns and provides a clearer comparative framework that facilitates interpretation of future results. Read more here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Exciting news! 🚨🎉 On February 5th, 2026, I will defend my PhD thesis on insect bite force - the method, the data, and its evolutionary implications - seasoned with some anecdotes from the field! 🐜🐝🐞 📈📉📊

Are Darwin's finches affected by climate change? Time-series analyses of beak and body traits, precipitation and temperature show finches are a resilient system, responding mainly to short-term weather variation rather than to long-term climate change: Carrión et al. (2025) doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

CLOSING SOON: Join us as Technical Facility Manager of our new digitisation centre @manmetuni.bsky.social. Run our new Neoscan microCT with loading rigs and autochanger. Plus LEICA BLK360 laser scanner, Creaform HandyScan, Olympus DSX microscope, Resonon Hyperspectral camera: tinyurl.com/y8x596hd

The Royal Society's Newton International Fellowships are now open for applications, aimed at non-UK early career scientists who wish to conduct research in the UK. Find out more and apply by 11 March: #RSGrants https://royalsociety.org/grants/newton-international/

Please RT to share the word! 🧪

Stiff and different - Lizard osteoderm papers from a collaboration with @henrikbirkedal.bsky.social's group led by Adrian. We show a capping tissue from Heloderma that is enamel-like in mechanical properties but highly disordered in crystal pattern doi.org/10.1016/j.ac... doi.org/10.1002/adfm...

The Nishikawa lab at Northern Arizona University and the NSF-funded Integrative Movement Sciences Institute are hiring a postdoc to help develop multiscale muscle models - please apply and share widely! careers.nau.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Full chameleon cranial atlas article out now in @anatrecord.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1002/ar.7... 🦎✨️

#Temperature effects on compensatory responses in an early spring-breeding #amphibian - #OpenAccess zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #climatechange #phenology #frogs @anthony-herrel.bsky.social @uhl-lab.bsky.social @elissazcameron.bsky.social @amcell.bsky.social

A 164.7 cm #rhino horn from #Yakutia sheds light on woolly rhinoceros morphology, longevity, and sexual dimorphism zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #permafrost #palaeoecology @davehone.bsky.social @amcell.bsky.social @elissazcameron.bsky.social @conservresearch.bsky.social

How do we capture fast and furious snake bites? High-speed video with 3D reconstruction, all at 1000 frames per second! @monashbiol.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social

Extreme climate events can catalyze rapid evolutionary change! in our new Current Biology (@currentbiology.bsky.social) piece, Colin and I argue it’s time to study their evolutionary consequences systematically — beyond opportunistic observations. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Ce matin, j'étais la grande invitée de l'émission CQFD sur RTS. Merci encore à Lucia Silling, Stéphane Gabioud et Cécile Guérin pour leur invitation ! Une fois de plus, ce fut un grand plaisir de participer à votre émission ! #scienceisFUN; #RTS; #CQD www.rts.ch/audio-podcas...

The #evolution of sexual dimorphism in semi-fossorial #lizards: a case study with Ablepharus kitaibelii zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #morphometrics #skink

#ICVM2025 abstracts are now published! (1 pdf to rule them all) Remember that, whatever format you're doing, the recorded presentation must be submitted by 20 July! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10974687...

Great paper by the amazing @priscilarothier.bsky.social Check it out!

Really cool paper by my collaborators!

🚨🚨PhD position alert!🚨🚨 Do you like 🐢🐢? Or ecomorph evolution? I am offering a 36-month PhD position funded by the DFG about ecomorphology and neuroanatomy of turtles. Check out the ad here: www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc... Please share and if you have questions, send me a message 😉

Deadline for abstracts today

Great paper by Yuri Simone @scorpyuri.bsky.social on trade offs in scorpions.

Vertebrate morphology writ large is welcome for abstracts: anatomy of various body systems: absolutely! biomechanics: yes! development/evo-devo: indeed! palaeontology: please! morphometrics: yes! methods-focused: sure! morphology-related science (genetics, ecology, behaviour, etc.): affirmative!

Again, we're running the 1st ever virtual international conference on vertebrate morphology (ICVM) this August 7-10: www.isvm-icvm.org/icvm-2025 Abstracts are due 26 May (12 days)! Of course you can just register and not submit abstract(s). ~3 days of great talks, posters, keynotes and more!

Scientific illustrators, palaeo-artists, etc.: you're damn right you're welcome to attend! Palaeo/physical anthology: you'd better believe you're welcome!

We are hiring. The Natural History Museum Denmark seeks a Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator in Vertebrate Paleontology. Duties are collection-based research, curation of collections, teaching and public engagement. Deadline: 18 May 2025. View full job posting: bit.ly/3XPIQcg

Paper alert 🚨 Our 1rst paper with @vivienl.bsky.social and colleagues is out in Functional Ecology! In this paper, we investigated how complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata.Want to know more? Read this👇 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Dans un article de #Sciences_et_Avenir paru le 11/04/2025, @audelalis.bsky.social @isyeb.mnhn.fr et Anthony Herrel @mecadev.bsky.social sont interviewés sur les stratégies adaptatives des organismes vivants. "Survivre dans le désert ...." ▶️ www.sciencesetavenir.fr/archeo-paleo...

#Parasite load, throat colors, and cellular immune response in a high-altitude #gecko endemic to #Morocco zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #coloration

Two #fox species in NE #Argentina show high dietary overlap despite varied habitats, revealing a noncompetitive coexistence zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Canidae #mesocarnivore #sympatry

When I saw this awesome study by @tajbakhshlab.bsky.social, @chrmosimann.bsky.social, & colleagues a few months ago, I just knew I had to write about it for HWTAS! Check out our non-scientist friendly coverage of their work below. 🧪 #scicomm

Journal of Zoology is now on Bluesky! Follow us to discover what we've published recently in our scientific journal covering all areas of #zoology - and find out more about us at zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1469... @zslscience.bsky.social

Looks like my animals are doing ok.

I am looking for a PhD candidate to work on the morphological and functional evolution of the head shape of limbless squamates. The project will involve evolutionary biology, experimental and computational biomechanics, and a lot of scaly animals!!! More info here: adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...

We are recruiting a PhD (2025-2028) in our laboratory GPM in Rouen (Normandy, France) on study of fish teeth structure, pigmentation and mechanical properties. More infos in the link below. gpm.univ-rouen.fr/fr/node/356

L'exposition "Déserts" ouvre ses portes aujourd'hui au @mnhn.fr Découvrez les milieux les + extrêmes de notre planète et les incroyables stratégies d’adaptation du vivant. @audelalis.bsky.social et Denis Larpin @isyeb.mnhn.fr commissaires scientifiques de cette expo www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEMl...

👋 Looking forward to the 117th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society. Please like and share 🤩

#RésultatScientifique🔎 Une étude publiée dans l'American Journal of Primatology, menée par l'ISEM et le MECADEV, documente les déplacements nocturnes du kinkajou dans les arbres yayamadou en Guyane, comparés à ceux de deux primates diurnes. ▶️ www.inee.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

Just published ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....