Avalon Feiler

This week I’m giving thanks for the Sling-Jaw Wrasse, and it’s amazing jaw #biomechanics!
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Colourful drawings of five fishes on a blue-green background.

And done. I feel people would appreciate fishes more if they could see them face to face more often. Such beautiful creatures.

From top to bottom: European perch (Perca fluviatilis), dace (Leuciscus leuciscus), northern pike (Esox lucius), roach (Rutilus rutilus) and gudgeon (Gobio gobio). #Sciart

If you're not good at making art and you want art, your options are 1: make bad art 2: work with a good artist to get good art. The end. You'll notice that AI generation is not on this list. That's because it's not art, but a method of plagiarism that kills the Earth. Hope this helps.

YouTube video by Stonemaier Games Finspan announcement trailer

It’s FINally happening!!!
FINSPAN!!! youtu.be/Fuvsx5Hd3iE

Second harmonic generation imaging reveals entanglement of collagen fibers in the elephant trunk skin dermis - Communications Biology Advanced microscopy shows that the skin along the elephant’s trunk is anisotropic; elephant skin has an armor thicker than an Armadillo shell, with entangled protein fibers that provide additional sti...

New paper is up! Elephant skin collagen is all tangled up! Theead coming up in a few hours! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

New species of vegetarian piranha named after Lord of the Rings villain Sauron The newly described Myloplus sauron highlights how little we know about South America’s biodiversity.

#FishADay Myloplus sauron, a species of myleus just described in 2024 and only known from the Xingu River in Brazil. Yep, the specific epithet refers to the Eye of Sauron. This fish has a vertical black bar that reminded the authors of a slit pupil. www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

Really great quote from the bio-inspired engineering session: ⏩"biology comes up with really good solutions, but it never optimizes them".⏪

YES this is what I am always trying to tell people about headbutting and woodpecking. It works but it ain't perfect!
#SICB2025

Taco night
#isoxys #paleoart #SciArt

YouTube video by Kannon Pearson Herpetology and queer internet culture

If you want to watch a presentation of this talk from a few months ago, Kannon has a youtube channel where the talk is posted! Thank you to the people who pointed that out.

(may the record show there was even more screaming/woo-ing/general carrying on today)

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if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
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We are so excited for our symposium, From Evolution to Innovation at #SICB2025! Talks will be Jan 5 from 8am-3:30pm in Marquis C. We have 11 great presentations from biologists and engineers working in the field of bioinspired design! #SICBioinspired

I’ve heard of two-buck chuck, maybe you can also get two chucks for a buck?

For anyone still without power after the bomb cyclone: stay warm, use any community resources available, and please always assume any power line is dangerous. Just because your power is out does not necessarily mean the lines are fully de-energized.

I fly out to my hometown of Issaquah, WA early tomorrow morning, headed back for Thanksgiving. As of now both of my parents homes are still without power, for over 65hrs now. I’m incredibly lucky that I can head to my brother’s place in Seattle if power still isn’t back on when I get in tomorrow