🚨 Call for Nominations: @csz-sczofficial.bsky.social PDF Chair 🚨 Interested in standing for election? Send me a short blurb (~200 words) about yourself and why you'd like to be elected! Deadline is Sept 30. Don’t miss the chance to get involved!

At @patferreira.bsky.social's request, a box to incubate slides during immunostaining. Might be useful to other folks out there :)

In their Commentary, Ferreira & co explore the repeated evolutionary loss of the stomach in fishes, describe how this affects their digestion, discuss our current understanding of how the stomach helps digest proteins and highlight unresolved questions journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

I am very happy and grateful!!! 😊🐟🐡 Thank you so much for the opportunity to present this work and for the award! @sebiology.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social

SEB 2025 Young Scientist Award Session Finalist in Antwerp. LEFT-RIGHT President Gudrun De Boeck, Garfield Kwan, Patrícia Ferreira, Chandler Tsang and Animal Chair Felix Mark. Three excellent talks!

#seb2025 Here we go!

Patrícia Ferreira @patferreira.bsky.social in the Journal of Experimental Biology (@biologists.bsky.social) Early Career Research Spotlight. Check it out. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Our stomach commentary is now out as part of the "Integrative Biology of the Gut’ special issue guest edited by Carol Bucking, Matt Regan and John Terblanche! Congratulations @patferreira.bsky.social ! A second look at the stomach – a fishy perspective url: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

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

Winner of the best student oral presentation Hoar Award #PatríciaFerreira at CSZ! Congratulations!

64th Canadian Society of Zoologist annual meeting #CSZ in #Waterloo in one week's time. May 12-15 at #WilfridLaurierUniversity co-hosted with the #UniversityofWaterloo. More information at sites.google.com/view/csz-scz... 🐢🦅🦈🐿️🐸🐝🐙

1/ Hey y'all, I'm excited to share my latest paper, which is out now in PNAS! We introduce FAVA, a statistical framework to measure compositional variability across microbiome samples. If you want to measure variability across a stacked bar plot, FAVA is for you! Paper: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Great editorial from the editors-in-chief of all five CoB journals, including @dmmjournal.bsky.social

Goosebump producing news this week out of Oregon Health and Science University in the diagnosis of pancreatic CA. They developed a groundbreaking blood test, called PAC-MANN. This new test can find pancreatic cancer in just 45 minutes, even in its earliest stages.

Exiting the microscopy room

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 @this_is_brit & co, to learn how to communicate your research to a wider audience bit.ly/4gR2N94

Acoustic telemetry reveals the small spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula) is most active at night and relies on inshore waters, especially females. Small MPAs may not fully protect them. Larger MPAs and nighttime fishing bans could improve conservation. 🦈🌊 doi.org/10.1002/aqc.... #sharks

Pharyngeal jaws in fishes not a "key innovation" in this new comparative phylogenomics study. "The macroevolutionary dynamics of pharyngognathy in fishes fail to support the key innovation hypothesis" Borstein et al. 2024 www.nature.com/articles/s41...