Great work from Simone Videsen. We found sperm whale slow clicks maintain extreme isochrony with inter-click intervals up to ~10s. That's beyond any known neural system for precise interval timing. May be a long-distance communication system. nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Just signed a work email: ‘Best, thanks’ Brain fog is one hell of a humbler.

So stoked that our new @booktrust.org.uk Cymru book is by @evoswami.bsky.social !! How cool! Diolch :)

The very clever Outlook autofill just tried to end ‘hope you had a nice…’ with ‘Thanksgiving.’ Which WOW. wrong season, wrong continent. But good hustle.

Exciting news! Our website is now available in CYMRAEG! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 www.bangor.ac.uk/cy/ygan/beps...

3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama! Three positions, each including salary & a research budget. Applications due April, 15th. DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us! stri.si.edu/academic-pro...

Never too late! From a hot summer in 2009 spent in the lab molecularly sexing pied flycatchers to a 2026 paper 🐦 Using 2,759 sexed nestlings (1997–2018) tracked through 2023, we show male attractiveness & annual rearing conditions increase the proportion of sons in broods 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

Check out our new paper on clingfishes led by @fishtide.bsky.social!

What’s the point of deadlines if students just ignore them and apply for SCs. More than half my module just breezed past their deadline.

Call for applications to the 2026 Integrative Movement Sciences Summer Institute!

 This is a funded research internship, open to all career stages. We especially encourage undergraduates to apply. 
 Application deadline is March 21.
 More details here: cims.uci.edu/imsi-si-2026/ Please share!

🐡⁉️Ever wondered how a pufferfish inflates? Very excited to announce that Drs Rachel Tran and Ariel Camp will be giving a FREE TALK/WORKSHOP on this very topic on the 10th March at Storyhouse in Chester with Chester SciBar! (details below)

The process of #PeerReview is vital to contemporary science, but is also under enormous strain. @carlbergstrom.com & Kevin Gross use mathematical models to dissect the threats to the long-term viability of peer review, suggesting ways to stabilize it @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4kR02bo

Month two back at work: short run before the nursery pickup. Am i crushing this work life balance stuff or what? Feels like a what.

I LOVE when science is applied to "toddler questions" like "Why is the sky blue?" or "Why is ice slippery?" Because the answers can be so SUPRISING. Let's dig into recent revelations about how ice skates work & why tires skid across black ice. First, we'll dismiss 3 VERY GOOD hypotheses as wrong.

Excited to share our new review in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com, coauthored w/allstar postdocs @vale-alaasam.bsky.social @annainthefield.bsky.social @anthonysnead.bsky.social Bridging island biogeography & evolutionary processes, we explore how eco-evo dynamics play out in the urban mosaic rdcu.be/e4tcj

On this day that supports inclusive futures for women and girls in science, let's not forget all the women that were sidelined, ignored, or forced out of science because they: - had children - prioritised family/caring - did science differently - questioned boundaries & norms - fought the patriarchy

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs xkcd.com/3204/

Piranha bite force and tooth stress are fantastically high for their size! Check out our new paper on computational modeling of the cranial muscles and bite mechanics of the amazing piranhas. #biomechsky 🐟🧪🌿 link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

i got curious why Panopto was called Panopto -- and my computer suggested 'panopticon' (a system of constant surveillance in jail systems) .. and somehow, yeah, checks out. (although, fingers crossed, isn't the name's inspiration)

Students still have some days left to aplply for the first round of mcirogrants of 2026 :) Please share

Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition. TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’ www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

We are delighted to introduce a new Perspective series highlighting the important role that field stations have played, and continue to play, in comparative physiology and biomechanics To find out about Harvard's Concord Field Station & more go to journals.biologists.com/jeb/collecti...

🚨 Now out: Award Issue, collecting all seven mini-reviews included in the 2025 Review Competition written by early career researchers. Highlighting emerging or less explored topics in avian biology ➡️ vist.ly/4pzxr Cover: pair of female Laysan albatrosses by Bertille Mohring #ornithology

return from mat leave, day 12: I have spent several days looking for my stapler. finally went to the supply closet today for another one. immediately found original stapler. two of them.

Second PhD paper is out! We find: 1) aquatic and terrestrial salamanders have different limb bone adaptations, 2) complex life cycles promote different traits, 3) decoupling of external and internal bone traits increase diversity. Thread (1/8) and FREE link below! 🦎🧪 doi.org/10.1111/joa....

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Just a few days to go until our next deadline. Apply at the link below. #ornithology

return from mat leave, day 10(?): said "birdies" in my first lecture back. i suppose being transparent about return to work & lack of sleep extends to transparency around my students, but gosh i would like to feel a bit more competent.

day 7 back from maternity leave: oh, i'm ill already.

🚨 PhD offer (please share) Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species Deadline: 20 Feb 2026 Starting: June 2026 Supervision: Martins Briedis & me Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh

We are hiring at the Wytham Woods for the upcoming field season. 4 roles available. Please share with anyone who might be interested. #UKbirds #birdringing

Love this from @stephenbheard.bsky.social on how to prioritize learning and useful discussion over tearing apart papers, and look forward to using some of these question prompts in future lab meetings: scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/h...

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

Day 5 back from maternity leave, some positives: ate fruit without having to share. coffees and lunch with good friends. running over lunch without the running pram (it acts as a sail). sitting quietly in the sunshine. supportive colleagues.

Day 4 back from maternity leave: I want to scream. Is it cognitive overload as meeting requests start to pour in? Is it a hormonal crash, am I weaning too abruptly? Is it lack of sleep w teething baby? Is it a dramatic crash in base activity levels as I sit at a desk again? I don’t scream. I run.

SEB Florence will be having an exciting workshop on the new EXN - European XROMM Network! We're collecting information from those interested in attending, participating, and being looped in! Please share and DM me if you'd like to be on our mailing list! www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...

Out of curiosity, I tried to use ChatGPT to make R code a few times. Once it worked great, solving the problem with more elegant code than I’d have used. Twice it worked fine, clunky but it got there. Twice it generated cuckoo-bananapants nonsense- but I’d only know that if I knew how to code.

day 2 back from maternity leave: excitement of return to work has worn off. i am ready to pick up my baby now. but it's only 1 pm. i miss her.

It’s day one back after 13 months of maternity leave. Started strong with not remembering how to make a new email. It’s going to take me a while to get back up to functional. but I want to be transparent and open for any other parents returning to work. This is hard.

In about a week we (Biological Sciences @ Monash Uni in Melbourne, Australia) will be opening a search for 3 (!!!) permanent academic positions (40% research, 40% teaching, 20% service) at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer. 1 Genomics, 2 Ecology. Please share, email me, DM, follow, send carrier pigeons…

LOOKING BACK in IBIS Evaluation of tag attachment techniques for plunge-diving terns | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Ruben C. Fijn et al | #ornithology 🪶

🧪 PRACTICAL tip for NSF PIs with terminated grants: You're entitled to recover more closeout costs than a DOGE-fueled NSF may lead you to believe. ➡️ Do this NOW: Send fed reg 2 CFR 200.472 on allowable "termination costs" to your sponsored research office: www.ecfr.gov/current/titl... 1/8 🧵

Heard from a former (undergrad) student who just defended her PhD. Students: tell your old profs about your successes and achievements. It's not bragging, and we love to hear about it. It's one of the best parts of being an educator. #academicsky

Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival. www.ourhealthroi.com

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

“From April 14-18, select UBC graduate programs at UBC Vancouver will re-open their applications for US citizens to be considered for Sept 2025 or Jan 2026 entry - they are ready to provide quick admissions decisions for these applicants“ #gradstudent #gradschool www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o... Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

Chilling report from Brown University. Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities. Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.