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SEB 2025 Young Scientist Award Session Finalist in Antwerp. LEFT-RIGHT President Gudrun De Boeck, Garfield Kwan, Patrícia Ferreira, Chandler Tsang and Animal Chair Felix Mark. Three excellent talks!

Virtual access to SEB Annual Conference Antwerp 2025: still time to join the science Virtual registration deadline: Tuesday 8 July 2025 ⏰

🌍 Can’t attend #SEBconference 2025 in Antwerp?
We’ve got you covered!
Join online for selected livestreamed sessions and networking opportunities.

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#VirtualConference #Biology

Two convict cichlids, one in front of the other, swimming above a bed of sand and gravel. Photo credit: Ad Konings.

We can't alter our vision depending on the colour of light around us, but fish can, & now scientists from @NotreDame reveal that fish fine tune their vision throughout life as the colour of the light changes, also depending on their lifestyle and diet

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Patrícia Ferreira @patferreira.bsky.social in the Journal of Experimental Biology (@biologists.bsky.social) Early Career Research Spotlight. Check it out. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Our paper on "Branchial localization of acid (A‐type) and base (B‐type) excreting ionocytes in Amazonian stenohaline freshwater Potamotrygon ray" by Mark Rossi in Journal of Fish Biology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... is out!

Our stomach commentary is now out as part of the "Integrative Biology of the Gut’ special issue guest edited by Carol Bucking, Matt Regan and John Terblanche! Congratulations @patferreira.bsky.social !
A second look at the stomach – a fishy perspective url: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

Postcard saying: Message in a bottle. Shar your story on how how The Company of Biologists has supported you in your career by sending us a virtual message in a bottle

As part of our #biologists100 celebrations, marking 100 years of JEB's publisher @biologists.bsky.social & inspired by the founder G. P. Bidder, we'd love to hear about about your experiences of the Company, from Travelling Fellowships to attending Workshops

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Photo of Ranim Saleem (centre) holding her JEB sponsored Holeton Award certificate at the CSZ annual meeting in Waterloo, Canada. Matt Regan, CPB Section Chair, is on the left and JEB Deputy Editor-in-Chief Pat Wright is on the right.

Congratulations to Ranim Saleem from Graham Scott's lab ‪@mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social‬ winner of this year's JEB sponsored Holeton Award for her poster, Powering life at the top: Mitochondrial adaptations in high-altitude deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) at the CSZ annual meeting in Waterloo

Winner of the best student oral presentation Hoar Award #PatríciaFerreira at CSZ! Congratulations!

Generation of gastric proton pump atp4a knock-outs in Astyanax mexicanus. A fish model for insights into the mechanisms of acidification by oxynticopeptic cells | American Journal of Physiology-Gastro... The gastric proton pump H+/K+-ATPase (HKA) is the highly conserved acid secretory mechanism of the gnathostome stomach. HKA is a heterodimeric pump, composed of α and β subunits. In this study we have...

journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1... Out at last! Congratulations Patrícia on the first of your PhD papers!

64th Canadian Society of Zoologist annual meeting #CSZ in #Waterloo in one week's time. May 12-15 at #WilfridLaurierUniversity co-hosted with the #UniversityofWaterloo. More information at sites.google.com/view/csz-scz...
🐢🦅🦈🐿️🐸🐝🐙

Graduate officer Dr.Jonathan Wilson welcomes everyone to today’s #LaurierBiology MSc research symposium! @wilson-jm.bsky.social

Aftermath of the end of the year lab lunch at the China Bowl in Waterloo. Left to Right: Kyle, Noah, Bhavik (BabaG), Alex, me, Aiden, Najiba and Raunaq. Great end to the term despite the pending ice storm.

CONVERGENT EVOLUTION is the independent development of similar traits or features in distantly related or unrelated organisms, often occurring when they occupy similar ecological niches or face similar environmental pressures 🦉 🍏

The logo of the CSZ 2025 annual meeting in Waterloo, Canada. The illustration is of a standing Canada goose with its right foot slightly raised. The goose is wearing a winter hat with it's wings widespread. The words 'Mai 2025 May' are on the left wing. The words 'CSZ-SCZ Waterloo' are on the right wing. The logo is by Tristan Long

Early-career researchers going to the CSZ-SCZ meeting in Waterloo 12-15 May, make sure you register for this fantastic JEB sponsored SciComm Workshop, run by @this_is_brit & co, to learn how to communicate your research to a wider audience

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Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times As Editors-in-Chief of The Company of Biologists' journals, we have been watching with growing concern the policy changes in the United States of America (USA) and the challenges that these are creati...

Great editorial from the editors-in-chief of all five CoB journals, including @dmmjournal.bsky.social

It was a memorable #OntarioBiologyDay 2025 with Laurier's Magnificent 13! @laurierbiology.bsky.social #HonoursThesis #UndergraduateResearch #OBD2025

Najiba Soudi presented her undergraduate thesis work at #Ontario_Biology_Days hosted by #Carleton_University in #Ottawa this weekend. Great job Najiba!

This is crazy (1 year 6 months). The wait time for #work-visa used to be 6 weeks for US workers coming to #Canada. Sadly bad news for #post-docs.

Apply for The Company of Biologists Workshop on Democratising Microscopy in Latin America - FocalPlane Apply for The Company of Biologists Workshop on Democratising Microscopy in Latin America - Default

Apply for a funded early-career researcher place at @biologists.bsky.social Workshop on Democratising Microscopy in Latin America.
The Workshop will be in Baños de Agua Santa, Ecuador from 12 – 15 October 2025
Application deadline: 14 February
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Development: a journal's journey Summary: Development's publisher, The Company of Biologists, is celebrating its 100th birthday. Commemorating this anniversary, I discuss Development's history since launching as Journal of Embryology...

To know more about the history of @dev-journal.bsky.social since launching as Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology, read this Editorial: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

#RiceLake CPB 34th meeting.

Finishing up at the Rice Lake Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry 34th meeting.

The elusive @snowpanda

Why you feel hungry #NEJM

"This review describes basic and translational research on the complex physiological processes of hunger, which regulate feeding habits and are influenced by socioeconomic, cultural, and behavioral factors."

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Congratulations to Patrícia Ferreira for successfully defending her PhD on "Shutting off stomach acidification. The role of the gastric proton pump in digestion, metabolism and growth
in fish" on 9 January. It was an outstanding accomplishment.😄

YouTube video by Deep Marine Scenes Facts: The Sea Toad (Coffinfish)

Coffinfishes (Family Chaunacidae), from the deep-sea, have two enormous gill chambers on either side of the head that can hold a huge volume of water. The fish inflates by ~30% body volume, and then it holds its breath until it is ready to exhale. #marinelife www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBGt...

JOB ALERT. Teaching focused tenure track faculty position in the Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph . Please share careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

Journal club?

The aftermath of our end of year lab dinner at Agha in Waterloo. Great group of students.

Getting motion sickness watching that. Ugh.