Aide à la #numérisation3D pour #e-COL+ L’équipe Consult.O. (T. Oudoire, H. Bordet) a numérisé plus de 100 types d’ammonites des #collections de l’UCBL (tinyurl.com/ystcv6s2), avec le soutien du labo Biogéosciences (UBE CNRS EPHE), merci Emmanuel Fara ! 🙏 Merci Nicolas Rinder pour la formation !

I'll also be looking to recruit an MS student to study the functional morphology and biomechanics of adhesion, friction, and/or locomotion in sea urchins, geckos, or anoles! Please share! @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social @sicb.bsky.social

🚨 FINAL DEADLINE: 31 October 2025 🚨 Nominate now for the SEB Plenary Lecture Award to be presented at SEB 2026 in Florence 🇮🇹 Recognising exceptional contributions in experimental biology. Don’t miss out: www.sebiology.org/grants/award-listing/seb-plenary-lecture-award.html

"#Biodiversité & #IA" de l’INEE @cnrsecologie.bsky.social a réuni +190 personnes pour explorer les apports de l’IA à la recherche sur la biodiversité. Le projet #eCOL+ était bien représenté 🎤 R. Vignes-Lebbe – IA & Texte 🎤 N. Navarro – IA & Image 🧠 C. Guillaumot – Deep Learning et landmarks 3D

Nice paper showing a major effect of wing morphology on diptera flight by Camille Le Roy, Florian Muijres and collegues! doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

My friend Todd’s paper on cassowary casques was published in @amornith.bsky.social’s journal Ornithology, “Species-specific casque shapes in the genus Casuarius and implications for visual display.” He had me do the scientific illustrations for the paper 😊 academic.oup.com/auk/advance-...

🏅 Nominations are still open for the SEB awards! President’s Medals – celebrating outstanding young scientists: sebiology.org/grants/award... Deadline: 24/10/2025 Plenary Lectures - Apply now: sebiology.org/grants/award... Deadline: 31/10/2025

Fish suck... but species that feed on algae suck differently! 🐟 A new publication in Communications Biology by #UAFunMorph members Jana De Ridder, Peter Aerts, and Sam Van Wassenbergh, demonstrates how head motion patterns for generating suction are finetuned to the species' main diets.

Nouveau livre d'Emmanuelle Pouydebat #MECADEV illustré par Arnaud Rafaelian : Les oiseaux se cachent-ils pour mourir ? publié chez Delachaux & Niestlé !!

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Thrilled to share this paper to which I contributed as a 2nd author! 🎉 We found that providing a diggable substrate positively affects the behavior of naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber) in captivity 🐀 Read in Scientific Reports: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📄 #AnimalBehavior #AnimalWelfare

Congrats Myriam Amari and Emmanuelle Pouydebat @mecadev.bsky.social !

If you missed it (as I did!), check out @jexpbiol.bsky.social special issue: "Integrating Biomechanics, Energetics, and Ecology Perspectives in Locomotion" 17 commentaries and review papers that break down the traditional boundaries between these fields. journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...

Call for Session Proposals – SEB #Conference 2026 We invite you to propose a session for our Conference in Florence 7–9 July 2026, themed Resilience. 📌 Submission deadline: 1 October 2025. 📍More information : www.sebiology.org/events/propose-a-session-or-event/session-proposal-form.html

Are you tired of people constantly overestimating body size of marine reptiles? No longer! We provide equations to estimate body size in ichthyosaurians, mosasaurids, and thalattosuchians. 1/4

Is your red the same as my red?

Our website www.ecolplus.fr has a brand-new look ✨ Discover: - the #digitization of French natural history #collections - the equipment available - our partner institutions - a dedicated page for the latest news 👉 And it’s now available in English too!

Super nice study by @titouanbouinier.bsky.social‬ on niche partitioning in Morpho butterflies! Oikos - Wiley Online Library nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

This excellent 3-minute video shows the evolution of a species of lizard playing rock/paper/scissors over the last 15 million years! youtu.be/rafdHxBwIbQ?...

Le @mnhn.fr a organisé les #Journées3D. 2 jours pour discuter des données issues de la numérisation 3D des spécimens naturalistes : - pour la #recherche - pour les #collections naturalistes - pour la gestion de ces données Retrouver l'intégralité des présentations ici : youtube.com/playlist?lis...

New #GRAVIBONE paper from @camillebader.bsky.social with Rémy Gilardet, Nicolas Rinder, @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social & @toriherridge.bsky.social on the long bone microanatomy of elephants. Well done Camille :) academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

Quick introduction

Yoshinobu Inada on how diving birds mitigate the forces of entering the water at high speed. Not shown here: an awesome catapult system for firing physical models at high speeds!

Danial Forouhar (from @dadriaens.bsky.social lab) had amazing 3D images of the muscluoskeletal system of seahorse tails, which opened lots of exciting questions about how these body muscles actuate tail prehension.

Estelle Klein @estelle-kl.bsky.social is studying how the digging mechanisms of moles can be understood and simplified for biomimetic applications

Peter Kappel @peterkappel.bsky.social from @poppingalab.bsky.social introduced me to the fascinatingly mobile, three-dimensional jaws of leeches with some clever imaging experiments

Myriam Uhrhan (from htlinlab.com) got me thinking about how insects build their own "strain gauges" to sense how their wings are deforming

Girish Kumar (www.southerndragon.in) gave a fanstastic instroduction to praying mantis jumps...these sketches don't do justice to his videos!

Our new paper is out in @jzoology.bsky.social! Turning trade-offs: hummingbird power reserves are used to decrease turning radius or increase turning velocity. 🪶🌍 zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Victor Colognesi vcolognesi.bsky.social from biologylu.bsky.social on wing pitch during flapping flight in birds

Merel Van Gorp @merelvangorp on the adorable--but no less skillful--swimming of boxfish

Chris Richards (@frogtronics.bsky.social) got me thinking in new ways about force-velocity curves, muscle-skeleton interactions and how they control motion.

Nick Gladman @drnickgladman.bsky.social from our own @livevobiomech.bsky.social looked at how singing muscles age (and let me practice drawing birds!)

Charlie Woodrow @charliezoology.bsky.social on why bees buzz at different pitches-- really fun mix of ecology, physiology, and mechanics

Lukas Hageneder from @uafunmorph.bsky.social is studying how the tongue and skeleton of ducks interact to successfully filter food

Helen Gorges helengorges.bsky.social introduced me to the projectile seeds of the spitting cucumber with some amazing videos!

If you attended #SEB2025, this will remind you of the amazing science that took place in Antwerp last July! If you weren't there, @arielcamp.bsky.social is sharing her sketch notes to give you a sneak peek. Enjoy!

Vous savez que des jeunes corneilles sont au sol près de chez vous ? Imprimez cette affiche pour prévenir les voisins (fichier haute définition sur demande)

Come meet the JEB Editors from 1-2pm 8 July in Marble Hall at the @sebiology.bsky.social 2025 conference & learn about all we do for our authors. It's also your first chance to pick up a FREE limited edition 2025 JEB T-shirt. #SEBconference

Who are those sweet slippery noodles with tiny eyes? Caecilians of course! 🥰 I imaged these limbless amphibs for #oVertTCN using #diceCT to enhance the contrast of the soft tissues. You can find the datasets on MorphoSource with the other diceCT amphibians: www.morphosource.org/projects/000... 🧪

Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶 Happy Friday!

FYI for those doing #XROMM, we've now moved everything over to github: github.com/XROMMPackages

I also urge you to check out the re-vamped MorphoSource online 3D viewer! The team has been working on new features for it, including the ability to save annotations, take measurements, new navigation controls, & camera settings. You may not even need to download models to collect data you need!

⏰ Final countdown: You have until 13 June to register for the 2025 #SEBconference in Antwerp! Don’t miss one of the most exciting biology events of the year 🌱🧬🧫 Book now: 🔗 www.sebiology.org/resource/seb... 🧵👇 Here’s why you should be there (view thread)

Are you interested in muscle #biomechanics and looking for #postdoc opportunities? If you have skills in (statistical) shape modelling, advanced data analyses or 3D imaging/model reconstructions, get in touch with me! I will be at #SEB2025 (Antwerp), #CNB2025 (Helsinki), and #ISB2025 (Stockholm).

📣Introducing the new unified global checklist of the world’s birds – AviList! 📝 We've worked with @cornellbirds.bsky.social as part of the Working Group on Avian Checklists for four years to form the final count of 11,131 species.🐧 Find out more here 👉 www.birdlife.org/news/2025/06...

Sulphur-crested cockatoos are waiting in line at public drinking fountains in Sydney to have their daily drinks of water in the latest example of cultural evolution in urban birds

A perspective on bioinspiration in the Palaeo-world out now @biologyinmotion.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)