Minnesota Schools: “The 5th graders are signing their names on this card, and asked us if we wanted to sign too. It’s to stop the bad ICE. They might even send it to the president!” ~my first grade daughter last night at dinner; we try to shield our kids, but they know something’s not right 😢

New @jexpbiol.bsky.social paper alert! The grips of hawks and owls on their often struggling prey are strong! Check out our new paper led by Alex Clark and with @linnealungstrom.bsky.social. Alex with the cover photo 🧪🌿🦉 #Biomechanics #AerialFishes journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

So excited that this paper is out!! Very proud of my molecular biology roots and incredibly thankful for the mentors I share authorship with! This represents some of my very first scientific contributions, and I couldn’t be happier for my younger self and this amazing team! doi.org/10.1038/s414...

No better reason to join Bluesky then to say the first chapter of my PhD is out as a preprint! New surgeonfish phylogeny, ecomorphological relationships, evolutionary shape correlations-with NEW method to accurately account for phylogenetic covariation among shapes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...