Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

Do you know the origins of #SICB 's Bart award?
It was made in honor of
George A. Bartholomew (known as Bart by his colleagues and students)
www.eeb.ucla.edu/dr-george-ba...
read more
sicb.org/awards/georg...
2026's candidate to be announced soon

#science #physiology #biology

Be sure to see @hippieherper.bsky.social ‘s award winning paper on SICB’s OA journal - IOB home page 🙌 congrats Tucker !

#SICB2026
Each year
student volunteer to take pictures of
the annual SICB meeting
Thanks to just a few of them-
Kyla Pollack
Olivia Burleigh
Chelsi Marolf
for giving us a glimpse of #SICB
out and about in #Portland!

A pile of valentines, including a gulper eel saying "you make my jaw drop", a grimalditeuthis saying "I find you a-LURE-ing" a whale skeleton at the bottom of the ocean with snailfish and two octopuses making heart arms under the words "I've whale-fallen for you", and an anglerfish saying "You're my light in the darkness", and then two packs of cards that are all nice and tied up

It's Valentine Packing time at Skype a Scientist HQ.

Get your pack at SquidFacts.net

(These support science education nonprofit @skypeascientist.bsky.social !)

Sunday #book review by IOB author @arielkahrl.bsky.social

The Book of Frogs, second edition” by O’Shea & Halliday is a perfect resource for someone who wants an up-to-date, detailed, & engaging introduction to the natural history, #taxonomy, & diversity of #frogs..."

iobopen.com/2026/01/25/t...

Be sure to watch #SICB 's January zoom with Stanton Belford of the University of Tennessee Southern.
Stanton is a B.I.M.S. member & ICB author.
He shares with us the inspiration for his Marine Nostalgia- science through #storytelling, his #science turned activism & more!
youtu.be/vfEKDCbJKz8?...

We are sorry we missed this post the 1st time
Be sure to read
@chijing-leow.bsky.social
Life History-Dependent Brain #Transcriptomic Signatures in Nothobranchids: Insights into Aging, #Neurogenesis, and Life History #Evolution

in IOB (SICB’s OA journal)
Leow , et al , doi.org/10.1093/iob/...

It was an honor and great learning experience to be a reviewer for Integrative Organismal Biology! @sicbjournals.bsky.social

Wildlife groups were concerned about whether fishing for hatchery steelhead posed a danger to the species’ wild populations in Idaho. Fortunately, scientists at the Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit are finding those answers.

Read the blog to learn more 📲: https://ow.ly/huug50Y0Vsz

#SICB2026 s12 presenter Andrew Schultz spoke on

Animals for All – creating accessible bio-inspired tactile #art and fidgets across length scales

"Can #bio-inspired structures provide a more effective fidget for #neurodivergent individuals?"

get to know Andrew
www.schulzscience.com

Proud mentor here!! @benjamin-wasiljew.bsky.social is doing great work in the lab

S12 #SICB2026 - connect with
@noahwithfish.bsky.social noahbressman.wixsite.com/noah
&
Jess Marquardt
www.jmu.edu/biology/peop...

#biology #science #neurodivergent #academia

Thanks for sharing your adventures! & looks like your fabulous knitting could be good for the student auction too next year 😊🙌just a little plug there.

Min-vlog from #SICB2026! @sicb.bsky.social @sarahmackattack.bsky.social @taorminalepore.bsky.social @noahwithfish.bsky.social

Just a few more days to sign up for our #SICB lunch zoom on January 20th with @stan_b_phd (ICB author /@bimscience author & member) He will be sharing more about his Marine Nostalgia stories and his #scientific journey https://our.tennessee.edu/2025/stanton-belford-marine-biology-mentorship/ & join our other upcoming talks in Feb and March with @miss_elasmo 's Buddhi Pathirana Toby Daly-Engel, in Feb & Emma Rhodes @rogue.bander in March https://mobilebaykeeper.org/blog/how-emma-rhodes-promotes-habitat-conservation-through-bird-banding/ #SICB2026 #birds #marineresearch #sharks #ornithology #oceanlife #conservation #science

Just a few more days to sign up for our #SICB January
zoom talk on 1-20-26 with Dr. Stanton Belford
(ICB /Black in Marine #Science author & member)
He will be sharing more about his Marine Nostalgia stories and his #scientific journey

our.tennessee.edu/2025/stanton...

#research #oceanlife

Bad Art for Good · Luma Join Ologies Host Alie Ward and squid biologist Sarah McAnulty to make some art to make things better. How can art make things better? Creating makes us feel…

Getting ready for tonight's West Coast edition of Bad Art for Good with @ologies.bsky.social tonight!

We got art supplies, beer, snacks and COMMUNITY.
Getting together is so much better than being isolated.

We still have some spots left if anybody wants to come luma.com/fp919u5x

We sure hope you can join us in Pittsburgh! 😀👍

RC Hoover Oral and pharyngeal Jaw shape across diets and ontogeny in prickleback fishes (Stichaeidae) RC Hoover- RC is a PhD candidate examining head, skull, and tooth shape in a group of elongate fishes from the Pacific Northwest. His work uses CT scans, geometric morphometrics, and diet to explore the evolution of morphology.@rc_hoover https://www.kassandraford.com/people

#SICB2026 spotlights-
meet
@rchoover.bsky.social
who presented on
Oral and pharyngeal Jaw shape across diets & ontogeny
in prickleback fishes (Stichaeidae)

RC's work uses #CT scans, geometric #morphometrics, and diet to explore the #evolution of #morphology
www.kassandraford.com/people

Kassandra Ford presented at #SICB2026 "To bit or not to bite An investigation into the tongue-bite-aparatus in mormyrid #fishes(Osteoglossiformes)" by Dr. Kassandra Ford and Dr. Luz Patricia Hernandez (Past president of SICB) Kassandra has been a long time SICBer and an author for both of our journals, ICB and IOB. This year Kassandra will also be an ICB assistant editor 👏 Be sure you have read this free read ICB work co authored by Kassandra Is the Medium the Message? Functional Diversity Across #Abiotic Gradients in #Freshwater Electric Fishes Kassandra L Ford , James S Albert https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icac010 & this IOB work coauthored by Kassandra #Convergence is Only Skin Deep: #Craniofacial #Evolution in Electric Fishes from South America and Africa (Apteronotidae and Mormyridae) Open Access Kassandra L Ford , Rose Peterson , Maxwell Bernt , James S Albert https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obac022 read more about Kassandra here https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/mcvmagazine/issues/2025/mar-apr/qa.html

@kassthefish.bsky.social
presented at #SICB2026

"To bit or not to bite - An investigation into the tongue-bite-aparatus in mormyrid #fishes(Osteoglossiformes)"

by Dr. Kassandra Ford and Dr. Luz Patricia Hernandez (Past president of SICB)
read more
www.dnr.state.mn.us/mcvmagazine/...

SK in a blue dress shirt but also a ballcap, grinning nervously in front of a blackboard.

First day of classes, and the first time I’ve ever been an Instructor of Record (versus a Graduate Teaching Assistant)

Simply wonderful!🙌

More sketches from the SICB conference in Portland.

@sicb.bsky.social #SICB2026 #SICB
#art #draw #science

connect with Kyla via Instagram: @kylapolack

We'll be posting many photos taken at #SICB2026
Meet one of SICB's #Photojournalists
Kyla Polack
At the 2026 SICB conference, Kyla presented a poster showcasing her #research with the Chan Lab at UW!"
www.ocean.washington.edu/home/Karen_C...

Thanks for taking time to take pics for #SICB , Kyla!

Home from another wonderful #SICB2026! A special thanks to all the symposium hosts and contributors who spoke with me for the SICB/ICB blog. I learned so much this meeting! ❤️

As an ICB Assistant Editor, we would love to have you review for us! We had some great symposia this year!

The American Dipper is NA’s only aquatic songbird, and happens to be in my top 2 birds🐦! Here’s one I happened to see at Multnomah Falls just outside a Portland for #SICB2026 doing its namesake “dipping” behavior! They will all walk around underwater looking for 🐛 and lil 🐟 to eat

Caecilians are the next big thing... Another whimsical and enlightening #SICB2026

A cute sticker saying "I love DPCB". There is a sad bird looking out.

Got this beautiful sticker at #SICB2026 and he is how we all feel @sicb-dpcb.bsky.social

A woman (me) in a red shirt standing in front of a scientific poster.

Five women (Emily, Holland, Rachel, Liv, Alexa) standing in front of the SICB 2026 Annual Meeting banner.

My PI Britt and I standing in front of my scientific poster on the effects of heated nests boxes on house sparrow parental behavior.

From left to right: Me, Liv, Alexa, and Emily standing around a shopping cart with our SICB snacks and breakfast food. Observing a conference tradition.

I had a wonderful time at #SICB2026 this past week! I loved getting to reconnect with other scientists and mentors, hear about some cool research, presenting my own work, & introducing some new people to the SICB community!
#science #scicom #birds