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Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15

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😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Roy et al. demonstrate that the Harmonic Shear Wave Elastography framework provides accurate measurements of group and phase velocities, comparable to those obtained using the PSWE method.

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Deadline this week!
Charlotte Mangum #Student Support Program
This #SICB award offers financial support to help defray the cost of either housing or registration at the annual meetings.
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Logo for the Garner Lab for Animal Morphology & Mechanics which includes a crashing wave, a sea urchin, a leaf, and gecko above the logo for Florida Atlantic University which features a burrowing owl graphic. The two logos are surrounded by a day gecko, a green sea urchin, and a brown anole lizard.

I'm excited to announce that my lab is moving to the Department of Biological Sciences at Florida Atlantic University in January next year! Can't wait to join amazing new colleagues and be able to run outside year round to work with lizards on campus and sea urchins at the FAU Marine Lab!

I'll also be looking to recruit an MS student to study the functional morphology and biomechanics of adhesion, friction, and/or locomotion in sea urchins, geckos, or anoles! Please share! @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social @sicb.bsky.social

I am excited to share that I will be joining Morehouse College as an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department. I am incredibly honored to join the esteemed faculty and researchers at Morehouse! I'm excited to build an invertebrate biomechanics lab with the phenomenal undergrads at the AUC!

The periotic or inner ear bone of an allodelphinid dolphin. The bone looks like it has two lobes, the anterior process and the dome-like pars cochlearis, and perforated by a number of foramina. The posterior process is not developed. It is about 3 cm long.

The periotic or inner ear bone of a lipotid dolphin. The bone looks like it has three lobes, the anterior process, posterior process, and the dome-like pars cochlearis, and perforated by a number of foramina. It is about 2.5 cm long.

The periotics or inner ear bones of phocoenid porpoises. The bone looks like it has three lobes, the anterior process, posterior process, and the dome-like pars cochlearis, and perforated by a number of foramina. They are about 2-3 cm long.

#whaleontology At some point I'll finish this, but: a few years ago I wrote a reasonably exhaustive guide for amateurs and professionals for the identification of dolphin/toothed whale inner ear bones (periotics) in the fossil record. Check it out here: coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2023/01/bobb...

@invertebabe.bsky.social 's first ever
SICB summer Zoom talk is happening in one week!
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June 26th 7 pm EST
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#science #biology #cephalopods #biologists #oceanlife #WorldOceanMonth

Social media postcard that says: 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 corner. The Kickstart grant logo, two hands shaking, is in the bottom right corner.

If you're a new PI within 5 years of your first faculty position, here are two fantastic grants to help develop your research: the Kickstart Travel Grant and ECR Visiting Fellowships

Find out more at biologists.com/grants/#jeb

The next application deadline is 6 June

😃 A new article published in J Biomech by Williams et al. found that dancers use a landing strategy with more knee flexion, less knee abduction, lower ground reaction force, reduced in-phase motion, and increased exclusive thigh movement compared to controls.

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Vaguely dog-like fossil skull with huge saber teeth. It is cracked down the midline and is sitting in a custom cradle.

A huge and awesome Dinogorgon skull for #FossilFriday

For #FossilFriday, we're sharing a favourite fossil of our editor-in-chief, Mark Young.

Below is a photograph of a Dodo skeleton (Raphus cucullatus), specimen number: NHMUK S/1988.50.1 (PV A 3302). A famous extinct flightless bird from Mauritius, this is a mounted composite skeleton.

Going for a spin with our juvenile Lake Sturgeon @garlab.bsky.social!

Now with Fun Facts about sturgeon!

Neil Shubin: Science, Exploration, Patience, and Survival at the Ends of the Earth Doing science in some of the most extreme environments on the planet, and about the life and career of a scientist who discovered one of the most important missing links in biology.

Here is my conversation with @LKrauss1 on the Origins Podcast. We talk finding a career in science, evolution, Tiktaalik, polar science, and more...🧪

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Thompson and Collins

Congratulations to Madison Thompson, who advanced to MS Candidacy today! Her project is "Everything GUD happens after dark: The effects of moonlight and artificial light on risk
management in kangaroo rats." Shoutout to the Integrative Movement Science Institute (IMSI) @birdbiomech.bsky.social

😃 A new article published in J Biomech by Nijmeijer et al. critically evaluates and summarizes the effects of implicit and explicit motor learning on selected biomechanical variables while executing sport-specific tasks.

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People sometimes say hello by raising an arm—cuttlefish may raise a pair or two (which kind of makes sense, given they have so many). That story and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Applications are now open for our Z-SCHOLARSHIPS!

MarAlliance offers #scholarships for dedicated students in Mexico, Honduras, Belize, and Panama, especially focused on traditional fishers and their children, who are studying or want to study marine science, conservation, or environmental fields.

An Open House poster, with the photo showing a boy looking into a microscope.

📢Save the date! UW Aquatic Sciences Open House returns on Sat 17 May to bring science to life.

🐋Wondered where narwhals swim?
🐦What does a seabird feel like?
🪸How do corals react to warming oceans?

↪️See you 🔜 for a fun, free day for the family at the #SEASOpenHouse fish.uw.edu/aquatic-scie...

PowerPoint cover slide screenshot: the entire screen is an image of two northern gannets (white birds with black wing tips and yellow heads and long grey beaks) facing each other with their bills touching up in the air. The background is a green and grey rocky cliff. Underneath the gannets is a white text bar, with green words reading "What are seabirds and why do we study them?"

A yellow background with a white sign that has the words "Welcome, Rowan!" ("Welcome" in dark blue, "Rowan" in lighter blue), with a blue bar underneath that says "Animal Scientist" in black letters. Under that it says "Guest Speaker" in blue, and at the bottom is a Clipart design of a flock of seagulls, and an ocean wave

Had SO much fun presenting to five classrooms of enthusiastic second graders about seabirds today for @skypeascientist.bsky.social ! They asked such great questions and it made my heart happy to see how keen they were after to keep learning about seabirds and how we can protect them!

We are recruiting a postdoc for an exciting multi-disciplinary project that explores the use of quantum sensors to measure muscle behaviour - looking for someone with skills in ultrasound, mocap, and EMG - funded by QLD Government's Quantum 2032 Challenge uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcare...

🚨 Now recruiting 2 PhD students @ MSU!

Join a funded study investigating early arthritis after knee surgery using:

– 🖥️ Ultrasound imaging
– 🦵 Movement biomechanics
– 🧠 Psychological & hormonal factors

📍: East Lansing, MI
📩: harkeym1@msu.edu | hartharv@msu.edu
📸 Flyer below 👇

Egyptian fruit bat flight muscles - 3D model by Alana Sharp (@asharp) This model shows 3D volumes of muscles of the forelimb in the Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus), based on physical and digital dissection. The bat was stained with Lugol’s iodine and CT sca...

The groups findings of Egyptian fruit bat flight muscles can be viewed in #3D, #VR or #AR at skfb.ly/p7QZV, with the full @journalofanatomy.bsky.social paper at doi.org/10.1111/joa....

Two exquisite new species of <i>Hoplisoma</i> (Siluriformes: Callichthyidae) from the rio Tapajós basin, Brazil, with a discussion on the morphology of the mesethmoid within Corydoradinae Abstract A crowdfunding initiative carried out by aquarists allowed us to sample tributaries of...

#FishADay Hoplisoma noxium, Noxium Armored Catfish. Newly described species from Amazon Basin. Under stress, releases a powerful toxin that can kill it or other fish kept in same container during transport (known in aquarium trade as "cory transport toxin")--hence the name.
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The box for The Dinosaur Deck showing a Tyrannosaurus and a pterosaur, cards written by Riley Black

Three cards from The Dinosaur Deck, showing the horned dinosaur Wendiceratops, the sauropod Bajadasaurus, and the back of the card for Allosaurus showing stats and fun facts

When I was a young fossil fan, I loved dinosaur fact cards. Imagine my joy at being asked to write a set of my own!

The Dinosaur Deck is out now, featuring 52 dinosaurs and other prehistoric reptiles that span the Mesozoic, including some new friends in addition to classic creatures.

My pincushion urchin, Thistle, wearing her 3d printed yellow hard hat.

CAUTION: Urchin at work

These specimens all come from the Pragian-Emsian Beartooth Butte Formation of the western US. This deposit captures the flora and fauna of an early fluvial ecosystem, wonderfully reconstructed in this diorama in Prehistoric Journey at @denvermuseumns.bsky.social

Our in-depth review article on the functional #morphology and mechanics of #sloth suspensory locomotion out as a preprint. The manuscript will appear as a book chapter in forthcoming book on #arboreal #locomotion.
BIG thanks to all the contributors to this piece.

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I am looking for a PhD candidate to work on the morphological and functional evolution of the head shape of limbless squamates. The project will involve evolutionary biology, experimental and computational biomechanics, and a lot of scaly animals!!! More info here:
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