Laurier contingent to Ontario Biology Days #OBD at Laurentian University this year. Great couple of days of student presentations! #Laurier #Laurentian #Biology

Charity Blackburn presented her undergraduate thesis work on Mexican tetra pseudobranch at Ontario biology days at Laurentian University today. #laurier #obd #laurentian

A. mexicanus are a promising model to study nutritional control of development as cavefish larvae yolks are larger & appear more yellow compared to surface fish suggesting differences in nutritional content. Reciprocal crosses show how maternally-provided nutrients impact development. #TeleostTalk 🧪

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

Our penultimate Lonely Fish for #25DaysOfFishmas is another quite cute one. This is Triodon macropterus, the threetooth puffer. The only member of the family Triodontidae, this species is found around the Indo-Pacific at depths between ~30 and 300m.

MERRY #FISHMAS! It was on this day in 1938 that Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer made a discovery which would change the world — the first (non-fossil) coelacanth ever brought to the attention of science

It's Explore Your Archives week! This #EYA we are starting with Jonathan Couch's manuscript 'A Natural History of the Fishes' (MS/407): one of many items to benefit from #Conservation as part of the Society's AdoptLinn scheme. #EYAConservation buff.ly/kKRJ9oY

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!

🌍 Can’t attend #SEBconference 2025 in Antwerp? We’ve got you covered! Join online for selected livestreamed sessions and networking opportunities. 👉 www.sebiology.org/resource/vir... #VirtualConference #Biology

We can't alter our vision depending on the colour of light around us, but fish can, & now scientists from @NotreDame reveal that fish fine tune their vision throughout life as the colour of the light changes, also depending on their lifestyle and diet journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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 paper on "Branchial localization of acid (A‐type) and base (B‐type) excreting ionocytes in Amazonian stenohaline freshwater Potamotrygon ray" by Mark Rossi in Journal of Fish Biology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... is out!

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-...

As part of our #biologists100 celebrations, marking 100 years of JEB's publisher @biologists.bsky.social & inspired by the founder G. P. Bidder, we'd love to hear about about your experiences of the Company, from Travelling Fellowships to attending Workshops biologists.com/100-years/me...

Congratulations to Ranim Saleem from Graham Scott's lab ‪@mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social‬ winner of this year's JEB sponsored Holeton Award for her poster, Powering life at the top: Mitochondrial adaptations in high-altitude deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) at the CSZ annual meeting in Waterloo

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

journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1... Out at last! Congratulations Patrícia on the first of your PhD papers!

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... 🐢🦅🦈🐿️🐸🐝🐙

Graduate officer Dr.Jonathan Wilson welcomes everyone to today’s #LaurierBiology MSc research symposium! @wilson-jm.bsky.social

Aftermath of the end of the year lab lunch at the China Bowl in Waterloo. Left to Right: Kyle, Noah, Bhavik (BabaG), Alex, me, Aiden, Najiba and Raunaq. Great end to the term despite the pending ice storm.

CONVERGENT EVOLUTION is the independent development of similar traits or features in distantly related or unrelated organisms, often occurring when they occupy similar ecological niches or face similar environmental pressures 🦉 🍏

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

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

It was a memorable #OntarioBiologyDay 2025 with Laurier's Magnificent 13! @laurierbiology.bsky.social #HonoursThesis #UndergraduateResearch #OBD2025

Najiba Soudi presented her undergraduate thesis work at #Ontario_Biology_Days hosted by #Carleton_University in #Ottawa this weekend. Great job Najiba!

This is crazy (1 year 6 months). The wait time for #work-visa used to be 6 weeks for US workers coming to #Canada. Sadly bad news for #post-docs.

Apply for a funded early-career researcher place at @biologists.bsky.social Workshop on Democratising Microscopy in Latin America. The Workshop will be in Baños de Agua Santa, Ecuador from 12 – 15 October 2025 Application deadline: 14 February focalplane.biologists.com/2025/02/11/a...

To know more about the history of @dev-journal.bsky.social since launching as Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology, read this Editorial: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Finishing up at the Rice Lake Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry 34th meeting.

The elusive @snowpanda

Why you feel hungry #NEJM "This review describes basic and translational research on the complex physiological processes of hunger, which regulate feeding habits and are influenced by socioeconomic, cultural, and behavioral factors." www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to Patrícia Ferreira for successfully defending her PhD on "Shutting off stomach acidification. The role of the gastric proton pump in digestion, metabolism and growth in fish" on 9 January. It was an outstanding accomplishment.😄

Coffinfishes (Family Chaunacidae), from the deep-sea, have two enormous gill chambers on either side of the head that can hold a huge volume of water. The fish inflates by ~30% body volume, and then it holds its breath until it is ready to exhale. #marinelife www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBGt...

JOB ALERT. Teaching focused tenure track faculty position in the Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph . Please share careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

Journal club?

The aftermath of our end of year lab dinner at Agha in Waterloo. Great group of students.