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Dr. Austin M. Garner

@draustingarner.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences @ Florida Atlantic University; Functional morphology, biomechanics, and bio-inspiration of animal adhesion, friction, and locomotion; he/him/his 🏳️‍🌈

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Dr. Austin M. Garner @draustingarner.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Follow the lab's new Bluesky account to keep up with us in South Florida! 🦎🌊🌴🦑🪸🐠 bsky.app/profile/glam...
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Dr. Austin M. Garner @draustingarner.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Follow me and the lab on Instagram to keep up with what we’re up to in South Florida! 🌴🦎🌊🦑🪸 www.instagram.com/dr.austingar... www.instagram.com/glammlabfau
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Dr. Austin M. Garner @draustingarner.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science produced a fantastic video introducing my lab’s research to the University community! Stay tuned for new projects focused on adhesion, friction, and locomotion in terrestrial and aquatic animals🦎🌊🌴🪸 youtu.be/LsXOkvLQvvA
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Getting a Grip: Decoding Nature’s Stickiest Secrets
YouTube video by FAU Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
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Dr. Austin M. Garner @draustingarner.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
We are excited to have @benjamin-wasiljew.bsky.social join us down here in sunny SoFlo soon! Here’s to more cool lizard work, now with fieldwork opportunities built in! 🦎🌴
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 18/02/2026
My department at CSU Northridge is hiring a vertebrate functional morphologist! We've got a great EEB group, and we're looking for someone to carry forward a tradition of enriching organismal courses and community-engaged research. App review starts March 15 csucareers.calstate.edu/mob/cw/en-us...
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Assistant Professor Vertebrate Functional Morphologist #26-24
The Department of Biology at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) is seeking a tenure-track faculty member in Vertebrate Functional Morphology.
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
If you are a student whose NSF GRFP application was returned without review for vague 'eligibility' reasons: 1) Let your department chair & Graduate School know. Encourage them to contact NSF & congress 2) Write to your congressional reps. 3) Write to grfp@nsf.gov to request re-consideration;
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Jonathan Huie, PhD @jmhuie.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Second PhD paper is out! We find: 1) aquatic and terrestrial salamanders have different limb bone adaptations, 2) complex life cycles promote different traits, 3) decoupling of external and internal bone traits increase diversity. Thread (1/8) and FREE link below! 🦎🧪 doi.org/10.1111/joa....
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Habitat and complex life cycles promote morphological diversity in salamander limb bones
We examined the external shape and cross-sectional morphology of limb bones in 133 salamander species spanning the ecological and phylogenetic breadth of Caudata. We find that adaptations for aquatic...
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Mike Moore @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
A plea from an editor: postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍
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Dr. Austin M. Garner @draustingarner.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Proud mentor here!! @benjamin-wasiljew.bsky.social is doing great work in the lab
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Dr. Austin M. Garner @draustingarner.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
As an ICB Assistant Editor, we would love to have you review for us! We had some great symposia this year!
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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Had lots of fun delivering the @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social Carl Gans award lecture yesterday at @sicb.bsky.social #SICB2026! Grateful to have the support of so many incredible colleagues in comparative biomechanics.
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Dr. Austin M. Garner @draustingarner.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Congrats to @armanafzadeh.bsky.social! Your talk was amazing and your work insanely cool!
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Dr. Austin M. Garner @draustingarner.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The Garner Lab for Animal Morphology & Mechanics (GLAMM) is in full force at #SICB2026! Check out some of our work studying adhesion and locomotion in geckos, anoles, and sea urchins @sicb.bsky.social @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social
Conference schedule graphic for SICB 2026 (Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology) held January 3-7 in Portland, Oregon. The image shows the Garner Lab for Animal Morphology & Mechanics logo featuring a gear with a sea urchin, lizard, wave, and leaf inside it, alongside the conference banner with Portland skyline. Below are seven presentation listings with gecko, anole, and sea urchin silhouettes: Sunday 8 AM, B114 - Dr. Benjamin Wasiljew on anole jumping performance; Sunday P1-167 - Nathan Bailey on sea urchin tube feet mechanics under hyposalinity; Monday P2-224 - Dr. Benjamin Wasiljew on gecko claw morphology; Tuesday P3-015 - Andrew Moura on sea urchin tube foot attachment on rough surfaces; Tuesday P3-116 - Sadie Heidemann on gecko tail role in locomotion; Tuesday P3-184 - Aaliyah Roberts on setal field configuration in natural and urban populations of anoles; Tuesday P3-190 - Sarah Juan on regional variation in gecko adhesive microstructures.
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SICB DCB-DVM @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
The countdown begins… ⏰ Sunday at #SICB2026 is already STACKED! 🗂️ Whether you’ve built your itinerary or you’re still deciding, we’ve got you covered with these at-a-glance schedules. 👉 DCB & DVM folks: tag us so we can hype your talks and posters! More at-a-glance posts coming soon 👀
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Off to #SICB2026! Come check out the work from my lab: Sun at 11am (202)- My talk about the evolution of amphibian sperm Tues poster session - two posters about green frog sperm performance in egg water presented by my awesome students! See you there! 🐸 ⚫〰️
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SICB journals @sicbjournals.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
If you're at #SICB2026 , be sure to talk with just a few of ICB's assistant eds, associate eds, & or E.I.C. Ulrike Muller . Here are a few attending SICB @agarner.bsky.social @kassthefish.bsky.social @mayerllab.bsky.social @ajnarivera.bsky.social & more! & read issues academic.oup.com/icb
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Dr. Austin M. Garner @draustingarner.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Happy holidays from me and Miko!
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Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology @sicb.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Not long now til #SICB 's annual meeting! sicb.org/events/upcom... If you're meeting us there, be sure to attend S06: #Behavioral and #environmental monitoring with #open-source and low-cost tools. Organized by: Yash Sondhi & Brett Seymoure & Thomas Franzem #biology #academia #science
Studying animal behavior in the field is often hindered by environmental variability and the high cost or inaccessibility of monitoring equipment. This symposium will highlight the development and application of low-cost, open-source sensing technologies—such as Arduinos, Raspberry Pis, and 3D-printable tools—for automated environmental data collection in both lab and field settings. By bringing together interdisciplinary researchers, we aim to explore how these tools can increase accessibility, enhance replicability, and support large-scale behavioral and ecological studies. Discussions will emphasize their role in monitoring environmental change and biodiversity, as well as their potential to bridge engineering-focused and field-based approaches within the SICB community.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
The new policy also shortens rejection feedback from a page to 3-5 sentences. This will particularly hurt early-career researchers who benefit from detailed guidance to improve proposals. We can't cultivate the next generation of researchers by eliminating the mentorship embedded in thorough review.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
🧵 NSF is reducing external review requirements and eliminating routine expert panels, citing staff shortages that this administration implemented. This change expands program officer authority. But the solution to flawed accountability isn't less public accountability.
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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
In preparation for this upcoming panel at @sicb.bsky.social, I filmed an Editing 101 for scientists looking to make longer form science outreach videos using Premiere Pro. You can check it out here! youtu.be/pBLuY9ScjEI
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Editing Your Science Communication Videos 101
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Dr. Austin M. Garner @draustingarner.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
@sicb.bsky.social’s Public Affairs Committee is running their Student Journalism program again this year and is hosting a cool multimedia science communication workshop with panelists @bigbiology.bsky.social, Sönke Johnsen, @oceanfilly.bsky.social, and @virginiagewin.bsky.social!!
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Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology @sicb.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
#SICB _ MONDAY JOB ALERT!! The Garner Lab for #Animal #Morphology & #Mechanics is looking to recruit an MS student for Fall 2026 to study the functional #morphology and #biomechanics of #adhesion, friction & more. Interested? Reach out to @agarner.bsky.social garnera@fau.edu
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Dr. Austin M. Garner @draustingarner.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
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!
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.
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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
@syracuseu.bsky.social News just published a short piece about a new Shiny-based open-source webapp that I'm working on that is called paleopal! It's still very much a work-in-progress, but you can check out a working prototype here: williamgearty.com/paleopal/. news.syr.edu/2025/10/02/o...
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Open Source, Open Science: New App Leads Data Reproducibility
Open-source app "Paleopal" facilitates replication and sharing of information among researchers using data science tools to create workflows.
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 30/09/2025
We've already got hundreds of students and mentors here, sharing how the sudden policy change has derailed plans. We're looking at formally "delivering" results to NSF leadership tomorrow, please do keep sharing and spreading the word: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
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Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition
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Dr. Austin M. Garner @draustingarner.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The NSF GRFP is one of ever fewer multi-year funding opportunities for graduate students pursuing basic research. Please sign and share this petition to urge NSF to adjust or reverse their recent policy changes to the GRFP!!
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Dr. Austin M. Garner @draustingarner.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Love this!
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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT! Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889
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Jennifer Goff, PhD @jlgoff.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Third, read here to learn more about what we are facing: www.syracuse.com/opinion/2025...
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Union: Austerity threatens SUNY ESF’s mission. NY can’t afford to lose it (Guest Opinion)
"If SUNY’s approach continues, ESF will have fewer programs, fewer students, fewer partnerships and generate fewer jobs in Syracuse and across the state," write UUP leaders.
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Jennifer Goff, PhD @jlgoff.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Second: send a letter to the governor of NY actionnetwork.org/letters/gov-...
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Gov. Hochul: Please invest in the future of SUNY ESF!
Please send this e-letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul urging her to support an $10 million increase to SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, which is needed to financially stabilize this vital ...
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Jennifer Goff, PhD @jlgoff.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
First: share ALL posts that you see about this by ESF faculty, staff, and students. The more attention we can receive, the better. We really need media coverage! This can be hard sometime since we are such a small campus community.
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Dr. Karly E. Cohen @karlycohen.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
New paper is officially out! Ratfish have a second jaw on their foreheads - CT + histology show they’re real teeth, built from the same tissues and signals as oral teeth. www.washington.edu/news/2025/09...
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This common fish has an uncommon feature: forehead teeth, used for mating
New findings call into question one of the core assumptions about teeth. Adult male spotted ratfish, a shark-like species native to the eastern Pacific Ocean, have rows of teeth on top of their heads,...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/08/2025
Of note: they tell you how much it costs for the government to run the free filing system, but they don’t tell you how much it would cost to have a private corporation do it. (Hint: it would cost taxpayers more to have a private corporation do it.)
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Dr. Austin M. Garner @draustingarner.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
See this cool TT position focused on the Sensory Physiology of Sound at Aarhus University in Denmark! www.au.dk/om/stillinge... @sicb.bsky.social @sicb-spdac.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Invertebrate #marinelife #herps 🧪
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Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Bioacoustic Physiology - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet
Ledig stilling ved Institut for Biologi - Zoofysiologi, Aarhus Universitet
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Jen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com · 25/06/2025
Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪
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Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science
These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The 500 additional GRFPs NSF awarded were not very evenly distributed across fields, it seems. www.science.org/content/arti...
Plot showing skewed distribution toward comp science and applied physics
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Canadian Journal of Zoology @canjzoology.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
@canjzoology.bsky.social is seeking #ECRs to join its editorial board as Associate Editors! Gain hands-on experience with #peerreview, contribute to journal development, and connect with leaders in the field. Apply by Aug 15 ▶️ buff.ly/hpVApYd #AcademicSky #SciComm 🧪 #AcWri #PHDSky #ScholComms
Social card featuring bird for the Canadian Journal of Zoology Call for Applications: Early Career Researcher Associate Editor.
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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
CLARIFICATION : The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY So spread this around They can be texted. They can be called.
A screenshot of a website laid out in a two-by-two grid:

Top-left, a line-drawing image of a cartoon woman with braided hair looking at text messages on her smartphone with a smile.

Top-right, "Text us from anywhere, anytime. Standard text messaging rates may apply." "Text 'START' to 678-678" button, "What to expect +" link.

Bottom-left, "Reach out to hear a live voice on the line." "Call us at 1-866-488-7386" button. "What to expect +" link.

Bottom-right, side-by-side line-drawing images of two cartoon people. On the left, a cartoon woman is holding her phone to her ear and looking up at the night sky. On the right, a cartoon phone agent is sitting in front of a laptop with a headset on in front of a bright, sunny sky.
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Dr. Aria Halliday @drariahalliday.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
People keep saying this is a bad day for trans people. No, this is a bad day for all of us. We ALL receive gender-affirming care and it’s absurd that any of us should not receive it. The state making it illegal to get healthcare is bad news for all of us.
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
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Dr. Austin M. Garner @draustingarner.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Taking a much needed R&R after 3 years of #NewPILife. Loving the ocean and breeze today
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 08/06/2025
Donald Trump’s deployment of the military in Los Angeles over the objection of California leaders is an abuse of power and a dangerous escalation. It’s what you would see in authoritarian states and it must stop. Americans have the right to speak out and peacefully protest.
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
A sticker from ohmygollyembroidery on Etsy that says Trans Lives Are More Important Than Harry Potter.
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Kristina Lerman @kristinalerman.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
NSF just cancelled ALL grants to Harvard researchers. That’s right - physics, astronomy, bio, CAREER - ALL. Professors won’t get paid. Postdocs won’t get paid. PhD students won’t get paid. This is insane! If they can do this to Harvard, they can do this to your school.
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Martha W. Alibali @marthaalibali.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
"Imagine the auto industry without 3D printing. NSF funded that. Artificial intelligence? NSF. MRI machines that help doctors diagnose you? NSF. Doppler radar technology that makes aviation safer by conquering wind shear? NSF. Duolingo‘s underlying programming? NSF. The internet itself? NSF."
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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
NSF is one of the most efficient parts of our government! Any cutting is obviously designed to dismantle the organization. This is obvious but still bears emphasis that they aren’t doing this to save money but solely to destroy the most effective parts of our federal government.
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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Friday Harbor Labs has a new marine genomics center! NSF supported facility that is ADA accessible. Great new place to access genomes right where you get the critters. fhl.uw.edu/facilities-r...
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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I support trans rights; I recognise and respect trans people and their right to exist the same as others; I resent and object to the tired lies that bigots promote. Trans rights are human rights.
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