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SICB Divisions of Comparative Biomechanics and Vertebrate Morphology Account run by DVM & DC’s SPDAC Representatives @emily-mcparland.bsky.social & @melodyoungg.bsky.social Instagram: @sicb.dvm.dcb

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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!

07.07.2025 15:06 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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 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 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.

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...

07.07.2025 16:13 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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@invertebabe.bsky.social 's first ever
SICB summer Zoom talk is happening in one week!
www.megmindlin.com
June 26th 7 pm EST
Email sicbmedia@sicb.org to reserve a spot

#science #biology #cephalopods #biologists #oceanlife #WorldOceanMonth

19.06.2025 11:17 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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.

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

16.05.2025 12:56 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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😃 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.

👀 buff.ly/FJVVygy
#BiomechSky

16.05.2025 13:20 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Vaguely dog-like fossil skull with huge saber teeth. It is cracked down the midline and is sitting in a custom cradle.

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

16.05.2025 12:02 — 👍 243    🔁 60    💬 5    📌 3
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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.

16.05.2025 11:00 — 👍 46    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 2
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Going for a spin with our juvenile Lake Sturgeon @garlab.bsky.social!

Now with Fun Facts about sturgeon!

15.05.2025 18:03 — 👍 53    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 2
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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...🧪

lawrencekrauss.substack.com/p/neil-shubi...

09.05.2025 19:35 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
Thompson and Collins

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

09.05.2025 18:24 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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😃 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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#BiomechSky

09.05.2025 20:12 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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... 🧪

08.05.2025 23:03 — 👍 1243    🔁 165    💬 24    📌 11
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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.

08.05.2025 13:53 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
An Open House poster, with the photo showing a boy looking into a microscope.

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...

14.04.2025 15:51 — 👍 7    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 3
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?"

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

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!

06.05.2025 17:41 — 👍 31    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Neuromechanics School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Full-time, fixed-term position for 3 years Base salary will range from $80,448 – $107,104 (Academic Level A) + 17% Superannuation Based at our vibrant St L...

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...

06.05.2025 01:40 — 👍 13    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 0
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🚨 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 👇

06.05.2025 17:58 — 👍 1    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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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....

07.05.2025 07:55 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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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.
doi.org/10.1590/1982...

07.05.2025 11:43 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
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06.05.2025 20:54 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
The box for The Dinosaur Deck showing a Tyrannosaurus and a pterosaur, cards written by Riley Black

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

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.

06.05.2025 19:37 — 👍 233    🔁 58    💬 14    📌 3
My pincushion urchin, Thistle, wearing her 3d printed yellow hard hat.

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

CAUTION: Urchin at work

06.05.2025 19:52 — 👍 23    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

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

06.05.2025 20:16 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG....

16.04.2025 08:47 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

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:
adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...

21.03.2025 09:55 — 👍 16    🔁 23    💬 0    📌 2

Reach out to d.labonte@imperial.ac.uk with any questions regarding this position!

28.03.2025 19:23 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Description Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...

Unlike a lot of other universities right now, we are still hiring for new faculty here at Imperial in London
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If you want to come and run a research group in the theme of bioengineering then apply to be my colleague before the end of April. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

20.03.2025 16:50 — 👍 30    🔁 21    💬 0    📌 2
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Assistant Professor, Organismal Biology Apply now to join FAU on its race to excellence. For more information on everything FAU has to offer, please visit www.fau.edu/jobs. Note: Current FAU employees must apply as an internal applicant by ...

Assistant professors in Organismal Biology and Systems Biology needed!

FAU is hiring two assistant professors, applications are due April 30th. Please find the ads here:
fau.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FAU/de...
(Req 19892)

and here:
fau.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FAU/de...
(Req 19893)

17.03.2025 21:02 — 👍 10    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0
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Like morphometrics, micro-CT scanning, and morphological evolution? Then please consider applying for our 18 month postdoc position at the university of Southampton! Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF402/r...

12.03.2025 17:17 — 👍 49    🔁 44    💬 3    📌 0

Hey Bluesky! @sicb.bsky.social 's Divisions of Comparative Biomechanics and Vertebrate Morphology are here! We're here to share any position opportunities and keep you updated on DCB and DVM activities. Give us a follow and feel free to send any postings our way.

12.03.2025 19:10 — 👍 23    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 1

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