So strange to see Glenn Northcutt's an iconic comparative vertebrate brains so twisted. Very disappointing to see AI stolen art on the cover of Royal Society 😔

Investment in R&D in Australia is at a historic low. If this recent / current trend continues, within five years Australia will be among the lowest of OECD countries.... www.science.org.au/news-and-eve...

A paper in Scientific Reports shows that chameleons have evolved a longer, coiled optic nerve that is likely to provide “slack” to reduce tension on the optic nerve during the extensive rotations characteristic of the chameleon eye. go.nature.com/3JTSgQ1 #evosky 🧪

Applications are open for the free NERC short course "Integrative biodiversity discovery" at the Natural History Museum, London from 2-6 March 2026. Deadline: 1 December 2025. More info: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/study/training/integrative-biodiversity-discovery.html #course

ANSTO’s neutron and synchrotron facilities are among the best-run and most productive parts of Australia’s research system... It would be a grave mistake to allow short-term accounting to jeopardise long-term national capability. theconversation.com/cuts-to-key-...

This got to me. Haunting and beautifully written. news.mongabay.com/2025/10/in-m...

It’s POTS awareness day—a blood flow problem common after Covid. POTS can be subtle—I often wonder how many people who feel rundown, anxious or distracted have this treatable condition. Main criteria is heart rate going up >30bpm when going from laying down to standing—smthg you can check at home!

👻 G-g-ghost? Nope, s-s-snailfish! 🤍 Meet the mesmerizing new addition to our Into the Deep/En lo Profundo exhibit, rough snailfish! These ethereal charmers live in the benthic zone, a scientific term for the seafloor.

The Australian Government makes more money from HECS repayments than it does from the PRRT. ‘Norway taxes its fossil fuel industry and gives their kids free higher education… we subsidise our fossil fuel industry and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni.’ @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

🦎THREAD: We just published something wild in @asn-amnat.bsky.social - lizards missing entire limbs not only survive, but some appear to actually thrive in the wild?! Let me tell you about the "three-legged pirate" lizards 🏴‍☠️ [Paper: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... ] (1/n)

Happy World Anatomy Day! 🦎 What better way to celebrate than announcing our veiled chameleon head atlas! This includes an awesome collection of 3D models - skull (with sutures!), jaw and tongue muscles, and the brain - plus lesson plans for your next anatomy practical! ✨️ Links below ✨️

Data available upon request

Opportunity to manage one of the world's great herpetology collections and join the outstanding community of museum folks here at U-M! 🐍🦎🐢🐊🐸

A new Jurassic fossil from Scotland, Breugnathair elgolensis, shows a combination of snake-like jaws and teeth with a lizard-like body and limbs, providing direct evidence of diverse squamate traits early in their history. #Paleontology #Evolution #Fossils 🧪🐍🦴⚒️ Paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Phoresis is the name for when one organism attaches to another for the purpose of travel, and pea clams (Sphaeriidae) are masters of it. They attach to birds, fish, salamanders, and even aquatic insects like dragonflies or water boatmen to get a ride upstream. Ride on, little clams! (293)

Mulla Mulla in Exmouth, WA

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New paper is officially out! Ratfish have a second jaw on their foreheads - CT + histology show they’re real teeth, built from the same tissues and signals as oral teeth. www.washington.edu/news/2025/09...

Born #OnThisDay in 1907 was geologist and palaeontologist Professor Dorothy Hill FRS. She was the first female professor at an Australian university, the first female president of the Australian Academy of Science, and the first Australian woman to become Fellow of the Royal Society. #WomenInSTEM

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The first detailed observation of the bathroom habits of Streaked Shearwaters at sea leave scientists with a surprising load of questions

Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job

This is an uninterrupted minute of Maruay the rescued tiger with his beloved ball..🥰😇 #bluesky

A rare job opportunity for Invertebrate Zoology: fieldmuseum.hrmdirect.com/employment/j...

Drosera whittakeri at Belair National Park (Photo by Vhon Garcia)

The @albomp.bsky.social gov is very aware of the massive marine heatwave & its impacts on marine ecosystems—they just don't care Labor refuses funds to fight SA toxic bloom "the call for funding was rejected, as was a request for a meeting with the minister" 📰 via @quentindempster.bsky.social 🙏

Now for something completely different...scanning subterranean beetle brains at the Australian Synchrotron 🪲🧠🚦

🚨🚨PhD position alert!🚨🚨 Do you like 🐢🐢? Or ecomorph evolution? I am offering a 36-month PhD position funded by the DFG about ecomorphology and neuroanatomy of turtles. Check out the ad here: www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc... Please share and if you have questions, send me a message 😉

ABC news online piece about how our snake-handling course and education efforts are debunking persistent snake myths and combating snake misinformation. #SnakesOfOz #VenomousSnakes #Snakes #SnakeEducation #HumanSnakeConflict www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Hakea laurina at Wittunga Botanic Gardens 🤩

Pigeon Party 🕊 #illustration #pigeons #animalart #artsky

New Pre-Print Alert! "Teeth Outside the Jaw: Evolution and Development of the Toothed Head Clasper in Chimaeras." We use fossil evidence, development and CT scans through ghost shark ontogeny to describe the emergence of the tenaculum! 👻🦈🦷 @karlycohen.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Mossy leaf-tailed gecko, Uroplatus sikorae, Madagascar. These lizards have some of the most amazing camouflage in nature. I especially love the fractal fringing on the bottom jaw, feet, and body, which helps break up the lizard's outline. 🦎🌿 #herps

Big day for weird art girls who are not afraid of bugs and snakes.

Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions. Authors, search your name here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

Absolutely superb and important piece by Professors @stevelevitsky.bsky.social and @ryanenos.bsky.social The only way to fight authoritarianism is to fight together. Strongest institutions in the front. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Two steps forward, one step back. For #LongCOVID awareness day today I had the honor of joining thousands of other New Yorkers in a peaceful protest to stand against many of the current administration’s recent damaging and thoughtless policies and executive orders. Let there 1/

Like morphometrics, micro-CT scanning, and morphological evolution? Then please consider applying for our 18 month postdoc position at the university of Southampton! Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF402/r...

Come work with us on squamate brain evolution! 🐍🧠🦎 @draliceclement.bsky.social @michael-s-y-lee.bsky.social

Postdoc position at the University of Adelaide for research on reptilian brain evolution in changing environments. Applications due by March 25, 2025. Learn more: https://careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/515720/arc-grantfunded-researcher-a. #postdoc

Job announcement - we're hiring! Postdoctoral Fellow, 2 yrs, Adelaide Uni Plastic brains: Neural adaptations to changing environments in reptiles Team led by @jcroweriddell.bsky.social with @draliceclement.bsky.social‬ Shaun Collin & myself. Details here: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

Come work with me on reptile brain evolution! 🦎🧠🐍

We are hiring!! 🦎🧠🐍 2 year postdoc to work on on the evolution of brains in snakes and lizards (on our current ARC Discovery project). Applications close 25th March 2025! careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

On the cutting room floor is the bit where the host introduced their interview series, The Interview, and I asked how long it took to come up with the name. Anyway, here’s me talking about birds and science and burnout and moving through the world. The photo’s nice! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.

#DarwinDay What is evolution and how does it work? A project of the UC Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) Evolution 101 provides the nuts-and-bolts on the patterns and mechanisms of evolution. Understanding Evolution 🧪 evolution.berkeley.edu/evolution-101/

From reddit: a letter from a postdoc who survived the Bolsonaro years. This is helpful framing for how to science in this administration. 🧪 www.reddit.com/r/labrats/s/...

This! Ever had a snake removed & assumed it was good for the snake? As in, a conservation tool? Prof Gavin Smith et al’s tracking research shows the snakes ⬇️ weight, become disoriented, move more, & sometimes die. An important service, but perhaps just use sparingly. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...