You're at the club, I'm at the Audubon Nature Center gift shop spending $70 on souvenirs and exploring the hiking trails. We are not the same.

Curious about the role of cranial sutures during headbutting behaviors in bovids? Join me for a discussion today at 2:45 in B110/111 at #SICB2026

#sicb2026: @oceanfilly.bsky.social kicks off by asking the hard questions: Males! What exactly is the point of them?

If you need more headbutting in your life, you don't want to miss Ananth's talk. He's a postdoc in my lab working on the biomechanics of headbutting on skull sutures! 🐐 TODAY 2:45 #SICB2026 @ananthsrinivas.bsky.social

Hey Bluesky, send us your best ducks (Happy #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay to all who celebrate)

Inviting artists to #SICB2026 was such a great idea @sarahmackattack.bsky.social ! I'm glad SICB worked with you to integrate it!

Biologists must display their most marvelous plumage if they are to be accepted by a flock of fellow biologists. We are now witness to this rare yet beautiful phenomenon at the Society of Integrative of Comparative Biology conference in Portland, OR #SICB2026

Only at #SICB2026 Using your own legs as anatomy props @3danatomystudios.com 🦵

More proof that SICB is the best conference

GO PET THAT DAWG! There are therapy dogs for you to pet in the poster room 😍 #SICB2026

Hey that's me!

#SICB2026 PSA. If you downloaded a really cool custom font, it likely won't show up on the presenter computers. Learn from my mistake 🥲

Wow, Portland is really pandering to the crustacean folks at #SICB2026

The only thing better than all the exciting new ideas I get from watching talks about weird critters at #SICB2026, is pyjama time after a long and exciting conference day 😌

My favorite #SICB2026 activity is back 😍. So relaxing

Soon! Come to the Neural Stress and injury session in Oregon 202. There will also be snapping shrimp and woodpecker talks! 🧠 #SICB2026

If you know #SICB2026, you know the fashion is always unmatched. Starting a photo thread (with permission) because people are missing out, and these fits absolutely SLAY 🧵 L to R: Jill Nash, Sonja Huc, Elias Joseph

Brooke is a great scientist and fabulous science communicator and disability advocate. You should hire her.

I don't have time for a new course prep. But... a SciComm course would be extremely badass... #SICB2026 never fails to fill me with new ideas 🧠

I've only been to 30min worth of #SICB2026 talks and I've already learned about cyborg roaches and druids making native seed balls. LFG

Look for the horns! 🐐 This is what I look like today. Please come up and say hi! I'm face blind so I may not recognize you and it's not personal. I have stickers 😁 Let's go #SICB26 day 2! Reminder, my presentation is at 2:15!

I love being a part of the society for integrative and comparative biology @sicb.bsky.social This meeting always meets the moment, never backing down from the society’s values of inclusion and a celebration of diversity- both among scientists and the ecosystems we study.

My talk is tomorrow afternoon! Come for the goats, stay for the medieval memes! #SICB2026

We printed fish! Starting off #SICB2026 with a VERY fun (and a little smelly) workshop

Presentation prep in the Vegas airport comes with unique entertainment #SICB2026

I don't think you non-science people realize what it takes to get a grant funded by NIH. Started experiments in Sept 2021 to generate 3 new mouse mutants to model human disease. Prelim dara shows they have relevant disease phenotypes worthy of study. Need a small grant first to characterize /1

A timely reminder

Last year was my first SICB conference. Everyone was so wonderfully weird and passionate about their research and animal models, I knew I had found my people! I vowed to be more of my weird self at #SICB2026 so here is me testing that out! My talk is Sunday at 2:15! & I'll have stickers

HE'S COMING TO THE COTTAGE!!!!!!!

I am looking for a postdoc position + will be attending #SICB2026! My areas of interest/experience: sexual selection, reproduction, host-parasite interactions, animal behavior, (plus bio ed and disability advocacy in bio). I would be happy to chat with anyone attending who is looking for postdocs!

My new business cards arrived just in time for #SICB2026 The logo peels off as a sticker!!! Plus sparkle stickers, of course ✨

Could Rudolph get dementia? 🦌 Nakayama et al. Found pathological pTau brain aggregation in 12 artiodactyl species (including reindeer). Adding to the long list of non-model species that naturally develop AD like pathology with age 🧪 doi.org/10.1093/jnen...

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We're working on a Goat-ify wrapped, stay posted 😆

Something came up today that made me say "I need to get in touch with my Ibex guy" My job is pretty cool.

Writing my talk for SICB and thought about this again. Hahahaha

🐑 Fauna Boica oder gemeinnützige Naturgeschichte der Thiere Bayerns /. Nürnberg: In der C.H. Zeh'schen Buchhandlung, 1832.. [Source]

By the way I'm working on it

Con-goat-ulations to Emma Bowie, founding member of the CVN lab for graduating with her BSc today! She also received the purple horn award, the highest honor in our lab for counting the most goat headbutts 😆

Ooh nice, my box full of heads just arrived.

I appreciate the people going out of their way to create content for the "what not to do" section of my prion disease lecture. Yum. Prion burger 🦌 (In all seriousness, do not eat deer from CWD positive regions - prion disease is the arguably worst way to die)

For those who weren't able to join our headbutting party live yesterday, you can find the recording here: www.youtube.com/live/SGfaomS...

I'm pretty sure we beat the Guinness World Record of "Longest goat headbutting stream ever". Just sayin'

That's a wrap! 3 goats, 12 hours, 12 lab members, 1218 headbutts, <50 videos, 3 pizzas, <$130 raised for research & a goat-ton of data analyzed! Thank you to all those who tuned in & donated! We had a great time chatting with you all 😍 🐐 🧠 🧪

We're over 1000 headbutts 😍 y'all have been such a great audience! A few more hours to go. Keep the great questions coming and our student hosts will keep answering them 🐐🧠

We just passed 550 headbutts! Yay for our data collection, boo for the goats' brain... 🧪 www.youtube.com/live/SGfaomS...

It's lunch time and we have 8 people counting headbutts. We are at 377 headbutts counted so far!! 🤯 BUT we are hungry and need pizza so if you have disposable income, throw us a buck to keep us streaming! ko-fi.com/cvnlab

Undergrads Emma and Cameron are currently discussing their woodpecker research on our stream 🪶 🧪 And doing an awesome job! Current headbutt count: 263

Why are we counting headbutts on our livestream? First, we want to understand this behavior. But also, we're a neurodegeneration lab, so we want to know if goats give themselves brain injury. We have their brains, and we want to combine that data with behavior... 🧪 NicoleAckermans.com/live

HEADBUTT LIVESTREAM UPDATE! We've counted 23 headbutts so far! We're having a blast. Come hang out in the chat and ask us about our goats! 🧪 Please share widely! 🐐