Catch my new lecture at the Collège de France entitled “The Origin of Walking.” Thanks to @denisduboule.bsky.social for hosting! 💙🧪 m.youtube.com/watch?v=fNim...

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

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...

🧪 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... 🧪 🐟

Apply for the Scripps Postdoctoral Fellowship! I'm looking to support a strong candidate in fish physiology and/or biomechanics. Deadline: Oct 9, 2025. Eligibility: PhD by Nov 30, 2026 with ≤3 years postdoc experience. 2 years, $74K salary, $6K research allowance 👉 apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04348 🧪 🐟

UC Berkeley's Martin Fish Speciation Lab seeks a part-time lab manager for pupfish research. Requires a biology degree and some lab experience. Flexible hours, multi-year position. Apply: [email protected]. More info at https://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/martin/ #job

Something exciting just left the gym -- meet Arnold the first generalist musculoskeletal control policy! The human body has 600+ muscles, yet we seamlessly coordinate them for everything from whispering a syllable to felling a forrest. How? www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.18066

New paper from my postdoc, Francesco Masnadi (co-advised with Agnes Karlson), in Harmful Algae. 🧪 🐟 We looked at how sticklebacks cope with cyanobacterial 🦠 blooms, from toxin accumulation and detox enzyme activity to predator escape responses. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A bit late to sharing, but this amazing study from @vdisanto.bsky.social @scrippsocean.bsky.social is too good not to share🐟✨ Read about the amazing 6th sense that help blind fish navigate underwater caves in my Outside @jexpbiol.bsky.social 🌌🔦 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Hovering—maintaining a fixed position in the water—is energetically expensive for fish. A study finds hovering is twice as metabolically expensive as resting. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Our research is on the cover of @pnas.org this week! Proud of what we accomplished and grateful for an amazing team (and some truly memorable fishes). 🐟 Link to the paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Some personal news…

Fluttuare nell’acqua? Non è affatto riposo: i pesci consumano il doppio dell’energia I pesci quando stanno "sospesi" in acqua, non stanno riposando: anzi! Consumano pure di più!

Hovering in fish is surprisingly hard work 🧪 🐟

Fish hovering = not so chill 🐟💨 New research led by Scripps Oceanography's @vdisanto.bsky.social found fish use nearly 2X more energy hovering than resting, overturning old assumptions and offering insight for underwater robot design. Dive in to learn more about the study published by @pnas.org. ⬇️

1/8 For years, it’s been assumed that when fishes hover in open water, they’re just resting. Our new @pnas.org paper shows otherwise: hovering can double metabolic costs compared to true rest in near-neutrally buoyant fishes. Here’s what we found: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... a 🧪 🧵..

Just saw that @jexpbiol.bsky.social wrote a highlight on our recent cavefish paper! Turns out, when blind fish lose their lateral line, they go from careful explorers to reckless daredevils. Here’s the paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.cb... The highlight is here: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

TT Assistant prof in biological sciences -- elasmobranch biology 🦈 🧪 @calstate.bsky.social #academicjobs csucareers.calstate.edu/en-us/job/54...

The Rainbow wrasse 🌈 Coris melanura I love this fish! 🧪🐟

My dream job @scrippsocean.bsky.social 🧪

New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team! Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05... Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Super happy #xCEBRA was presented as a peer-reviewed proceedings paper today at #AISTATS2025 by @stes.io et al! This extends #CEBRA with the ability to attribute specific inputs to latents over time 🙌 📝: openreview.net/forum?id=aGr... Code: github.com/AdaptiveMoto... Demo: cebra.ai/docs/demo_no...

I am looking for a postdoc position! I have experience in host-parasite interactions, animal behavior, sexual selection, science outreach, and science education. Plus, I'm a photographer and illustrator which could come in handy! Please reach out if you have any positions open or know someone.

Assistant Professor, Global Change Ecology at Yale 🧪 apply.interfolio.com/164677

Congratulations to Ray Huey on his induction to the US National Academy of Sciences in Evolutionary Biology! #NAS162

Hello Community! Are you a postdoc/grad student preparing to launch a faculty search? Do you have a track record of excellence in research, leadership, mentorship & community engagement? Apply to the 2025 Next Generation Faculty Symposium: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com! Pls repost! (1/3)

For every published paper or review, @biologists.bsky.social plants a tree in a UK forest. Here is my tree: Tree no. 9225 Wild cherry (Prunus avium) 🧪 🌱 Read the paper here: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

New publication led by my MS student, Sonia Marketaki: We tested how blind cavefish navigate a novel 3D obstacle course after lateral line ablation. Despite losing their primary mechanosensory input, the fish altered their behavior to complete the task. 🧪 🐟 🔗 authors.elsevier.com/a/1kx-E3v7jN...

“Mothers sleep about the same amount as fathers do, researchers told me, but they report higher levels of fatigue.” @olgakhazan.bsky.social —also a tired mom—examines the mystery of mom exhaustion:

🚨New shark paper🚨 on the iconic Scyliorhinus canicula! 🦈 We quantified swimming kinematics across different speeds ⏩ and I'm grateful to my co-authors Camille Morerod and @vdisanto.bsky.social for their amazing work on these challenging experiments! Read the paper here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/jfb....

#Hagfish acidifies its gut using #V-ATPAse. This is more similar to invertebrates than vertebrates with implications for food digestion, immunology and #symbiosis. Led by Alyssa Weinrauch w/ Greg Goss @garfieldkwan.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Richard Lewontin was born OTD in 1929. In scientific research we devote “exquisite attention … to methodological problems that can be solved, while the pretense is made that the ones that cannot be solved are really nothing to worry about." 🌱🐋🦋🦫🧪#PhilSci #EvoBio #HistSTM

In Arizona, just wrapped up an incredible first meeting of #Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems! Grateful to have been part of such an inspiring group of researchers. A huge thank you to RCSA. Excited to continue these conversations and see where they lead. See you all next year! 🧪 🧠 🌡️

We read this paper that analyzed spiny ray development in acanthomorpha in a lab meeting. The ontogenetic processes are a bit different between spines and rays ! Great study by Miyamoto et al. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

💰🍀It's not a pot of gold, but we'll always argue that our ocean is a million times better than a pot of gold. 🌊 🌈 This stunning rainbow over #ScrippsPier was captured this morning by Brian Woodward, a research and development engineer with the Scripps Oceanography Coastal Processes Group.

We are recruiting trainees for the Integrative Movement Sciences Summer Institute. Students will gain research experience in dynamic muscular control of movement across organizational scales from molecular mechanisms to whole-body movement in complex environments. Learn more: tinyurl.com/5n7w6pey

Fellows have been selected for Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems, a new #Scialog series that aims to spark innovative science exploring neurobiological response to rapid and extensive human-caused environmental changes.

Early-career researchers going to the CSZ-SCZ meeting in Waterloo 12-15 May, make sure you register for this fantastic JEB sponsored SciComm Workshop, run by @brittneyphd.bsky.social & co, to learn how to communicate your research to a wider audience bit.ly/4gR2N94

Read this year's JEB Special issue, Integrating Biomechanics, Energetics and Ecology in Locomotion, Edited by Andrew Biewener and Alan Wilson breaking down traditional boundaries between the fields of locomotion biomechanics, energetics and ecology journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...

New paper led by @neelimasharma.bsky.social on the lab! The evolutionary origin of highly mobile joints!

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Very excited for our new review paper (with Tony Russell) on gecko adhesion, locomotion, and ecomechanics. This stemmed from the JEB symposium last year. @jexpbiol.bsky.social @ucriverside.bsky.social #gecko #ecomechanics #adhesion journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Fishes don’t just swim harder—they swim smarter. 🐟⚡ In our latest paper in @jexpbiol.bsky.social, Elsa Goerig and I show how fishes use habitat complexity to reduce the energetic cost of swimming. 🧵 🧪 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

We are inviting submissions to our upcoming Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of Exercise. 🧵1/3 journals.biologists.com/jeb/pages/ex...

Snakelocks sea anemones point their tentacles, packed with symbiotic algae, toward the sun so their lodgers can photosynthesize and now @venky-vnm.bsky.social & co have discovered that photosynthesis by the algae guides their host's tentacles towards the sun journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

The darkness makes some animals bolder, but artificially illuminating our nights makes animals more visible and venture out less. Recently Dissegna & Chiandetti showed that brighter nights make even tiny animals like woodlice hesitate before moving about journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Gene editing technology began by people studying salt marshes. Ozempic began by folks studying the venom of Gila Monsters. Support for basic science has empowered us to understand our world. Tethering it to applications health has transformed and saved countless lives.