Phew! It has been a busy week at #JMIH2025. I gave a talk on mako vertebral column mechanics, attended a board meeting, a speed networking event, and repped a committee for the meritorious teaching award. Thanks to everyone for making it an amazing meeting.

Ready for my AES talk, all about how ocean science and conservation professionals can (and should) adapt to a changing social media landscape! #SciComm #AES25 #JMIH25 🧪🦑🌎🦈🐠

Have you checked out the candidates for Program Officer elect? The program officer helps with the programming for the entire meeting and helps to drive the vision for the society. Read about them & be sure to vote! sicb.burkclients.com/elections/20... sicb.burkclients.com/wp/?page_id=...

It's that time of year! Read about the Members at Large Candidates and be sure to vote. sicb.burkclients.com/elections/20... sicb.burkclients.com/wp/?page_id=... @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social @sicb-dab.bsky.social @sicb-spdac.bsky.social @sicb-dedb.bsky.social @sicb-pui.bsky.social

Check your email or see sicb.burkclients.com/wp/?page_id=... to see our latest newsletter and meet some of the team @marianneporter.bsky.social @shwilliams.bsky.social @jcsplants.bsky.social & more!

Here's part two of my series with @brettfavaro.bsky.social on tips for speaking to journalists as a scientist, this week focusing on things every scientist should know about how interviews work (and do not work). Please read and share! www.southernfriedscience.com/advice-for-t... 🧪#SciComm

Assistant professors in Organismal Biology and Systems Biology needed! FAU is hiring two assistant professors, applications are due April 30th. Please find the ads here: fau.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FAU/de... (Req 19892) and here: fau.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FAU/de... (Req 19893)

Sitting at home catching up on email looking at palm trees and I get the auto reply from @kmkocot.bsky.social who is off doing amazing #IcyInvert research in Antartica. Send me a penguin picture, please!

Help SICB member @jmhuie.bsky.social celebrate his defense! You've got this, Jonathan! & see his phenomenal photos & work via jonathanhuie.com #herpetology #science #morphology #biomechanics #adaptations #Phd

🐠🧪🎓 New position alert: I am looking for a full-time research technician to work on my NSF CAREER project. Perks: ✅ SCUBA-based fieldwork in Belize 🤿 ✅ Chemistry labwork 🧪 ✅ Lots of fish and fun(ctions) 🐠📈😀 Deadline: Feb 21st utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/... Please share widely.

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

Without congressional approval or constitutional authority, the richest man in the world has taken over payroll of the US government. How is this not a coup?

National Science Foundation freezes grant review in response to Trump executive orders : Shots - Health News : NPR 🚨This is extremely bad 🚨

The National Science Foundation cancelled over 60 grant review panels today, effectively grinding funding of new projects to a halt. The so-far indefinite pause comes as NSF grapples with the impact Trump's executive orders will have on their grantmaking process. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Whether you get voicemail or staff, be polite and brief: - This is [name] from [city], zip code [NN] - I'm an [NSF/NIH] supported researcher - I'm very concerned about disruptions to grant review and research at NSF and NIH - NSF and NIH help fund [students, research benefits, health security ...]

If you want to go deep I'd suggest jotting down specifics on that last talking point about how grant funding supports education and scientific discovery at your institution or in your community, but it really doesn't have to be a lot — the signal that their constituents are worried is the key

Reiterating my call to fellow federally-funded scientists: Call your reps, tell them how this hurts science and everything good that comes from science (Also non-scientists, and scientists without federal funding! But the more of us who can directly speak to the impacts of these freezes the better)

The U.S. has one of the best scientific research ecosystems in the world. Freezing NSF panels is how you dismantle that. Slowly, painfully, and catastrophically. Science is not a luxury—it’s our backbone

Yeay @altmetric.com you have formally made Bluesky a good space for academics.

📣 📣 📣 Still lots of TT jobs being advertised: The 2024-2025 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...

Hi @sicb-dedb.bsky.social @sicb-dab.bsky.social please remember our #SICBElections close tonight. Please vote! sicb.burkclients.com/elections/20...

Reminder to new users here: Greenland sharks, which can live to be over 400 years old and aren’t considered reproductively mature adults until they’re in their 160s, eat polar bears. 🧪🦑🐡🦈

Bluesky isn't great at threading, so I'm using my favorite article from the last month as a chance to re-up the thread: A good joint is built to last: archaeologists uncover evidence for the earliest structural use of wood. 🧪 www.southernfriedscience.com/a-good-joint...

Want to know some scientists to follow? Check out the replies to my post below

Friends, I wrote up a quick guide to getting started on Bluesky for folks who are used to old Science Twitter. Please share it with your folks who are joining. And please let me know if I missed anything or got anything wrong. 🧪 www.southernfriedscience.com/bluesky-is-n...

🧪🐙 Grant Writing workshop held by the Minorities in Shark Sciences with @fishguy.bsky.social, Lauren Eve Simonitis and @marianneporter.bsky.social #SICB2024 @sicbjournals.bsky.social

I am delighted to announce that the Department of Biology at the University of Washington is advertising for a tenure-track assistant professor position on the quantitative understanding of collective behavior. I will be chairing the search; details are here: apply.interfolio.com/130336

American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Fellowship Dissertation Fellowship: $25,000 Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship: $50,000 Short-Term Research Publication Grant: $8,000 Deadline: Nov 15 www.aauw.org/resources/pr... #neuroscience #neurogrants

Two weeks left to apply for a graduate student position (oyster reef ecosystems or coral reef ecology) or research technician/lab manager position in my lab! fishandfunctions.com/join Please spread the word & email me for any questions.

I am pretty excited about #Squidtember!

Basil, sage, rosemary, and oregano doesn't quite have the same ring to it. But still all tasty.

Botany job opportunity! Put those plant id skills to work! 🌲

The chaos of this semester means a lot of weekend work. I did take Saturday off. I have high hopes that I will have the additional stuff thrown my way under control by the end of Sept. this is 100% how burnout happens.

Classes start in 12 days. My teaching schedule was just juggled... and so it begins!

There are so many conferences right now. I am having major FOMO because I am not at #JMIH2023 🧪🧪

🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪 Apparently I need to use the test tube to get into science blue sky. Here is goes. Hi science friends. :)

I'm here! Big thanks to @hormiga.bsky.social! Talk to me about all the things.