Andrea Fuller

🏅 Nominations are still open for the SEB awards!

🌟 President’s Medals – celebrating outstanding young scientists
www.sebiology.org/grants/award...
🗓 Deadline: 24/10/2025

🎓 Annual Lecture Awards – honouring leading scientists across biology
www.sebiology.org/grants/award...
🗓 Deadline: 31/10/2025

Welcome to our new #AssociateEditor João Silva!

João will bring his expertise in #Marine #PlantEcology to this role 🌊🌿 He is based at the Centre of Marine Sciences in Portugal, and is also a member of the Euromarine Steering Committee.

Community Conversations: Webinars for building a career in conservation physiology. Speaker Dr Steven Cooke presents his "Reflections on Co-production and Impact in Conservation Physiology". The webinar is online and takes place on 5 November 2025 14:00-15:00 GMT

We're excited to announce Community Conversations, a new #webinar series in partnership with @sebiology.bsky.social 🤝 This is geared towards #EarlyCareer researchers. Our first speaker is @sjcfishy.bsky.social

Sign up here: buff.ly/MTC7R6B

#ConPhys #SEBcareers #ECR #PhD #conservation

From the field to the lab - working out the water and energy content of meerkat prey items!

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

The #IPCC is now hireing ‘chapter scientists’ to support the author teams for the upcoming IPCC Report.

If you are an early career scientist with strong synthesis and organisational skills, and from a developing country or a country in transition, do check this out!

www.ictp.it/opportunity/...

🚀 Calling early-career biologists!

The @biologists.bsky.social Travel Grant gives you up to £800 to attend conferences, workshops, or lab visits.

🗓️ This round closes 30 September — don’t miss it!

✅ Apply here:
www.sebiology.org/grants/grant...

#ScienceFunding #TravelGrant #Biology

New #MarineBiology research on #Endangered green sea turtles 🐢 creates crucial haematology and biochemical reference points. This data, comparing captive vs. wild individuals, can help #Conservationists prepare animals for a successful release!

Check it out here: doi.org/10.1093/conp...

Cheetahs naturally turned into mummies in caves in Saudi Arabia The constant temperature and low humidity of a cave network in Saudi Arabia turned cheetahs, some of which died thousands of years ago, into mummies

This is a very cool one. The scientific report on the first naturally mummified big cats ever found - seven mummified cheetahs, some dating back thousands of years, discovered in caves in Saudi Arabia #science #caves #mummification #mummies #zoology #history 🧪
www.newscientist.com/article/2497...

Nothing more pleasing than seeing a previous postdoc signing for his first permanent job in academia. Congrats Vinicius Fonseca - Professor at the Instituto Federal Baiano, Brazil.

For the #ungulates crowd! 🧪🌍 #wildlife

Nothing makes field research easier than a superb set of wheels! Thanks Suzuki South Africa for the support. #Jimny

Call for Session Proposals – SEB #Conference 2026

We invite you to propose a session for our Conference in Florence 7–9 July 2026, themed Resilience.

📌 Submission deadline: 1 October 2025.

📍More information :
www.sebiology.org/events/propose-a-session-or-event/session-proposal-form.html

New research on #CriticallyEndangered blue sharks 🦈 has measured parameters of their blood, creating a physiological baseline for conservation efforts to monitor sharks’ health.

More details here: doi.org/10.1093/conp...

The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Tshepiso Majelantle to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Tshepiso Majelantle Tshepiso Majelantle is an early-career researcher and postdoc at Witwatersrand University, South Africa, who attended The Company of Biologists' first Global South Workshop, How Global South Research Can Shape the Future of Comparative Physiology, and is joining the team of Outside JEB writers in 2026. #100biologists #biologists100

Our next extraordinary biologist is Tshepiso Majelantle, early-career researcher and postdoc at Witwatersrand University, South Africa, who attended @biologists.bsky.social's first Global South Workshop in 2024. #100biologists #NPAW2025

Photo of yawning lion cub

Photo of several lion cubs lying under a bush.

Went for a morning drive in Kruger National Park (South Africa) with @andreafuller.bsky.social Found a few lion cubs soaking up the morning rays of sunlight.

Association between wearable sensor signals and expected hormonal changes in pregnancy These findings suggest that wearable sensors provide a non-invasive method to monitor pregnancy-related physiological and behavioural changes, which align with hormonal shifts. This study provides population-level insights in live birth pregnancies, and an exploratory analysis of adverse outcomes reflecting the feasibility of recruiting and capturing physiological signals also in these cases. This approach may enable early risk assessment for adverse pregnancy outcomes, including miscarriage and preterm birth.

Wearable devices could revolutionize pregnancy monitoring and detect abnormalities

Scripps Research study shows how smartwatch and fitness tracker data align with hormonal changes, offering the potential for early detection of complications.

www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...

When is the best time to nest? For Franklin’s Gulls, nesting time is a predictor of chicks’ survival outcomes and must be precisely timed with migration. So why do some parent gulls nest later than others?

@invasivemm.bsky.social explains more in this #ConPhysInAction paper: doi.org/10.1093/conp...

🐋 Just got my hands on some incredible humpback whale footage captured through CATS tags from this 2025 season! 📹 These underwater cameras give us a whale’s-eye view of their world like never before.
🧵 Thread 1/5👇 The best clips below!
#MarineLife 🦑 #Whales #Biologging #Conservation #Madagascar

How nesting time affects the health and survival of migratory birds Franklin’s Gulls (Leucophaeus pipixcan), charismatic long-distance migrants of the Northern Great Plains of Canada and the USA, may appear to be synchroniz

Another Conservation Physiology in Action article out, this time by Mobassher Hossain, featuring work by Shawn Weissenfluh and colleagues - academic.oup.com/conphys/arti...

🚨Deadline extension for our #BioLogging Special Issue 💻🐆

You now have until the end of the year to submit your work!

Full info here ➡️ academic.oup.com/conphys/page...

African white rhino numbers fall in 2024, with startling 15% decline in SA – report A couple of things come to mind from this state of affairs. The first is that some provincial governments did not do their jobs. The second is that there are concerns about past overestimates.

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Title, authors’ names, and abstract from a paper about the advantages and challenges of laboratory-based and field-based conservation physiology research for informing policy and practice

Laboratory and field studies are often presented as “either-or approaches” with distinct advantages and challenges. Binning et al. argue for “working across the lab-field continuum” to conduct research that can “better inform #policy and practice” @conphysjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/conp...

fig.1 from the paper showing the relationship between control and realism in conservation physiology

Conservation physiology researchers typically use lab or field-based approaches, which are often seen as polar and distinct. This review advocates for an integrative approach across the lab-field continuum, to better inform conservation policy and practice.

doi.org/10.1093/conp...

The lab-field continuum in conservation physiology research: leveraging multiple approaches to inform policy and practice Abstract. In the field of conservation physiology, there is often a trade off between conducting research in controlled laboratory settings or in inherentl

lab-field continuum in conservation physiology research: leveraging multiple approaches to inform policy and practice url: academic.oup.com/conphys/arti...

Donovan Kirkwood, protector of South Africa’s rarest plants, dies aged 51 in search for one of the world’s most endangered species In late August, high in South Africa’s Jonkershoek Mountains, a small group of botanists picked their way across steep ground in search of one of the world’s rarest plants. They were surveying Penaea…

[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social]

Donovan Kirkwood, curator of the Stellenbosch University Botanical Garden, turned a tiny garden of 1.7 hectares into a force in plant conservation, advancing methods to propagate species on the very brink of disappearance.

Managed to get some of our lab members, usually spread far and wide, together today for a very enjoyable braai (South African barbecue).

Social card saying: Are you an early-career researcher within five years of your first appointment to a faculty position? You could be eligible for our new grants for junior faculty staff. The Journal of Experimental Biology logo is in the bottom left hand corner and the junior faculty grant logo (two hands shaking) is in the bottom right corner

Time flies, so if you're an early-career researcher that is eligible to apply for one of our junior faculty grants, start thinking about your application now because the next deadline is 28 November

@biologists.bsky.social

www.biologists.com/grants/kicks...
www.biologists.com/grants/ecr-v...

How humans became upright: key changes to our pelvis found Genetic and anatomical data reveal how the human pelvis acquired its unique shape, enabling our ancestors to walk on two legs.

Researchers have mapped the key structural changes in the pelvis that enabled early humans to first walk on two legs and accommodate giving birth to a big-brained baby

go.nature.com/4lMH1pm

Check out our latest review paper: “How hot is too hot for people?”