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A card announcing the call for papers stating 'Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of Exercise Guest Editors: Erika Eliason, Christopher Guglielmo, Natalie Holt and Monica Daley Submission deadline: 27 June 2025' with the Journal of Experimental Biology logo and the logo for the Special Issue containing a fish on the bottom left, a flying goose on the top and a dumbbell on the bottom right.

We are inviting submissions to our upcoming Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of Exercise.
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The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Holly Shiels to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Holly Shiels Cardiac physiologist Holly Shiels (University of Manchester, UK) is a Company Director and Organisation Committee Chair for the Biologists @ 100 conference. Holly published her first paper in Journal Experimental Biology and received a Travelling Fellowship. Today, her students are also Travelling Fellowship recipients. #100biologists #biologists100

Our first extraordinary biologist this week is Holly Shiels, cardiac physiologist at the @official-uom.bsky.social , who is a Director of @biologists.bsky.social and Organisation Committee Chair for the Biologists @ 100 conference.
#100biologists

The sandcastle worm, *Phragmatopoma californica*, builds elaborate, honeycomb-resembling structures in the intertidal zone that are composed of sand grains cemented together with a protein “glue.”

Bioengineering? Sculpted tubes of the sandcastle worm. #WormWednesday #MarineLife #Invertebrate 🦑🌊

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.

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Gene editing technology began by people studying salt marshes. Ozempic began by folks studying the venom of Gila Monsters. Support for basic science has empowered us to understand our world. Tethering it to applications health has transformed and saved countless lives.

Our new paper is out as OA! shorturl.at/BueUy

Tuna keels aren't just for hydrodynamics—they're mechanosensory! 🐟 They contain a modified lateral line, possibly adapted to detect stimuli in high-noise environments

@georgelauder.bsky.social @jackiew8.bsky.social + Dylan Wainwright + Connor White

YouTube video by Zhanchi Wang SpiRobs: Logarithmic spiral-shaped robots for versatile grasping across scales

🌀 Meet SpiRobs – soft robots shaped by the logarithmic spiral for adaptable grasping! Inspired by octopus arms, these scalable, 3D-printed robots use simple cable actuation to grip objects across sizes. Applications from drones to multi-robot arrays! #Robotics #SoftRobotics #Bioinspired

Airbnb Offers Temporary Housing to People Impacted by Los Angeles Wildfires Airbnb is offering temporary housing to people impacted by the Los Angeles wildfires. Here's how to host or find housing on Airbnb.

Airbnb offers temporary housing to people impacted by Los Angeles wildfires

Happy New Year from The Company of Biologists! 🎉

In 2025 we will be celebrating our 100th anniversary. Follow us on social media or visit biologists.com/100-years to find out more about our activities throughout the year.

#biologists100

Screen shot of the top of the first page of the Journal of Experimental Biology Editorial, JEB launches a new article type for theory and modelling studies, written by S. N. Patek, Monica A. Daley, Matthew McHenry and Sanjay Sane. The first sentence of the Editorial reads: JEB recently launched a new article type called Theory & Modelling.

Find out more about JEB's new article type, Theory & Modelling, allowing scientists to publish research leveraging modelling and theory to address new biological questions, in Sheila Patek, Monica Daley, Matt McHenry & Sanjay Sane's Editorial

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A banner stating 'Meet the Editors at #SICB2025, Saturday 4 January, 12.15-1.15pm, Marquis D' with photos of Craig Franklin Monica Daley, Matt McHenry and Sheila Patek . The logos for Journal of Experimental Biology and SICB 2025 are at the bottom of the banner.

If you’re coming to #SICB2025, make sure you visit the JEB exhibition stand (booths 23/24) to pick up JEB goodies and find out what we do for our authors that makes @J_Exp_Biol the best place to publish your #comparativephysiology and #biomechanics research.

The MARTA subway system has a direct route to the hotel for #sicb2026 attendees. Cheap and easy. Follow the signs from baggage claim at ATL.

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#SICB is looking for nominees to important society-wide positions: #SICBSecretary #SICBProgramOfficer #SICBMemberAtLarge. As one of this year's #NominationsCommittee I'm interested in your ideas! Please DM, email, or find me in Atlanta #SICB2025

I'll be joining my colleagues from NSF's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems at #sicb2025. Stop by the #NSF booth if you have questions about funding programs, grad or postdoc fellowships, or just to say hi!

Getting excited for #SICB2025! We have a jam-packed line up of talks from ourIntegrative Movement Sciences Institute (IMSI) students and faculty! See the full schedule here: cims.uci.edu/imsi-faculty...

🥳 We got our Christmas present - our paper was accepted in PNAS!! @pnas.org 😀🎄🎅

Congrats to my student Shubham Sinha, collabs. Rieko Asai, Takashi Mikawa 😀

We showed that cellular flows initiate L-R patterning prior to laterality gene expression in amniotes! 🐣
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Testing out a new feed for @sicb-spdac.bsky.social #SICB2025

Jimmy Liao Wins 2024 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics! - Biology Congratulations to Whitney Laboratory and Department of Biology Professor Dr. James Liao for winning the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics at a ceremony at MIT! Ten new Ig Nobel […]

"A dead fish does live fish things."
wonderful biomechanics Ig Nobel!
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A banner advertising the JEB Meet the Editors session at SICB 2025 which states 'Meet the Editors at #SICB2025, Saturday 4 January, 12.15-1.15pm, Marquis D.' Underneath this are photos of (from left to right) Craig Franklin, Monica Daley, Matt McHenry and Sheila Patek, the editors attending the session. On the bottom left is the JEB logo and the SICB 2025 logo is on the bottom right.

Are you going to SICB 2025? If so, visit the JEB and Company of Biologists stand (booths 23/24) to pick up JEB goodies and find out what we do for our authors that makes Journal of Experimental Biology the best place to publish your comparative physiology and biomechanics research

YouTube video by MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) Some of our favorite deep-sea moments of the year—in stunning 4K

🧪🌎🦑🦈🌊 Some of our favorite deep-sea moments of the year—in stunning 4K! 📹👏

WATCH: youtu.be/ZlzRgvaGGGE

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POSTDOC announcement! I am hiring a postdoc to study owl flight biomechanics. I will be at SICB. Please email me for the full advertisement, screenshot below. Please retweet!

Ideal candidate has research experience with wild birds, 3D kinematics and acoustics.

#SICB2025

A fantastic program run by two dedicated mentors and housed on our beautiful Coral Gables campus 👇🏼👇🏼

Just launching the APS CEPS Bluesky account. Hopefully, our friends at @jexpbiol.bsky.social and @sebiology.bsky.social can connect us with the community!

If a journal wants to thinker with a new model, it would be a good idea to retain some standards for publishing. Impact factor aside, it doesn’t mean much to have a paper published in eLife any more.

Now that we’re on Bluesky, it’s a good time to bring back #badsciencedrawings – a collection of figures that prove that science is more science than art.
Before Biorender, all we had was MS Paint and a dream. But ovals, lines, and lightning bolts were all we needed

Morales-Botello et al., 2012

Fast ground-to-air transition with avian-inspired multifunctional legs - Nature A bird-inspired robot that can jump into flight, walk on the ground and hop over obstacles shows that jumping for take-off is more energy efficient than taking off without the jump.

A fun collaborative paper out in Nature on RAVEN: a bird-inspired robot that uses it’s legs to propel flight take off. An example of how robots can test ideas about integrated function in animals. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just to give everyone a reminder: you should never have to get a loan for a graduate program in ecology, evolution, & organismal biology.

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Are you interested in learning about how engineering and physics can be applied to study the motions of #plants, #invertebrates, and #animals? Here's a non-exhaustive list of Comparative Biomechanists to get started! 🦋 🐟 🦎 🌿 🧪
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Apologies for any that I may have been missed.

Postcard saying: JEB Symposium, Sensory perception in a changing world. Organised by Kathleen Gilmour, Almut Kelber and Sanjay Sane. Part of Biologists @ 100 24-27 March 2025, ACC Liverpool, UK. Register now. Early-bird deadline: 17 January 2025 The Company of Biologists 100 logo is in the bottom left corner. On the right side is an photo of a moth visiting a flower.

The deadline for abstract submission to present a poster at the JEB symposium, Sensory perception in a changing world #Biologists100 is 13 December.

Don't miss the chance to tell us about your research

100yearsconference.biologists.com/abstracts/

Why do seahorses, goatfishes, dragonets and flying gurnards evolve differently across oceans? 🌏🐟 A new study led by Scripps researchers reveals that colonization dynamics drive the decoupling of species richness and morphological diversity. Dive in: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...