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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Our update to the BES Data Management Guide is now live! assets.britishecologicalsociety.org/2026/09/2110... Huge thanks to the incredibly talented ECRs who contributed sections. It's an excellent resource that I've already used with my PhD students. ❤️

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Kris Crandell @kriscran.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am going to show my age with this one but damn do I miss having a phone in my office so I could actually get shit done instead of this interminable email and Teams-hopping.

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Kris Crandell @kriscran.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A genuinely fabulous way to end the week: a former undergraduate just submitted her undergraduate dissertation! 🎉

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Lindsey Swierk @lindseyswierk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🦎*Please share!*🦎 The Swierk Lab is recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 27 / Spr 28 to study Neotropical anole 1) body coloration and visual signals or 2) predator avoidance, diving, and respiration. Please contact only by email. More info and contact details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1TGmC...

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Kris Crandell @kriscran.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Grab your coffees, it’s almost time!

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European XROMM Network @europexn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Rebecca Lowes will walk through a real example that she’s been working on.

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European XROMM Network @europexn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Peter Falkingham from Liverpool John Moores University will be talking about Blender XROMM tools and the workflow there (introducing that it exists, showing what it can do, and fostering discussion/questions about what people _want_ it to do. EXN Workshop #SEBConference @sebiology.bsky.social

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European XROMM Network @europexn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Johannes Tassani-Prell, Leipzig University, Institute of Veterinary Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, will talk about 'The New FluoKin Gait Lab in Leipzig: Past and Future Projects' at the EXN workshop July 9, 9-10:30 #SEBConference @sebiology.bsky.social

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Kris Crandell @kriscran.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Are you guys excited for our @sebiology.bsky.social #SEB2026 workshop tomorrow???

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Kris Crandell @kriscran.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Kiisa Nishikawa shares a few of her valuable academic lessons in her plenary: anything is more fun than finishing your PhD, and side projects can become your main research focus @sebiology.bsky.social #SEB2026

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European XROMM Network @europexn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Interested in learning more about XROMM, x-ray data collection, 3D reconstruction methods and analysis? Don't miss our awesome speaker lineup at the #EXN Workshop this 9th, the last day of the #SEBConference in Florence, Italy! 9-10 AM in Modulo 1. See you there!

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SEBiology @sebiology.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

We're here and ready! Looking forward to welcoming everyone tomorrow at the #SEBconference. See you soon! More details 👇 underline.io/events/515/reception

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

WE HAVE AVOCET NEWS!!! An Avocet spotted at RSPB Middleton Lakes has been confirmed as the oldest ever recorded in the UK. At 36 years old, it's lived more than five times longer than the species' average lifespan. First ringed in 1990, it's still out there doing Avocet things. Go on Avocet. 😍

An Avocet strides across the edge of a wetland, one leg lifted mid-step as if caught in an elegant strut. Its striking black-and-white plumage and long upturned bill stand out against a softly blurred backdrop of green reeds.

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European XROMM Network @europexn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Meet the EXN (European XROMM Network) organizing team #SEBConference @sebiology.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social @kriscran.bsky.social @kelseytstilson.bsky.social @racheltran.bsky.social See you July 9th, 9-10:30m Modulo 1 !

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European XROMM Network @europexn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This session brings together the disparate European research groups utilising 3D x-ray motion analysis (XROMM) techniques. It will serve as both an introductory event to the EXN and an opportunity to highlight the amazing XROMM advances and challenges. #SEBConference @sebiology.bsky.social

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative

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Dr. Headbutt 🌈🧪 @nicoleackermans.com · 02/07/2026

Hey that's my preprint!!! This is the last 3.5 years of my life and research and I'm so excited for it to be out! Hopefully coming to a journal near you soon! 🧪

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Kris Crandell @kriscran.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Stoked to be meeting secondary school teachers today for Boosting Science Wales! We’ll be working with our mini wind tunnel today thinking about bird wings 🤩

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Kris Crandell @kriscran.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Hey students: AI might make your emails *look* clever but all you are doing is pushing your work on to me. I can smell it a mile away, and I don’t play that game.

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Peter Cook @pfcook.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Great work from Simone Videsen. We found sperm whale slow clicks maintain extreme isochrony with inter-click intervals up to ~10s. That's beyond any known neural system for precise interval timing. May be a long-distance communication system. nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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In this study, we show that male sperm whales produce low-frequency slow clicks at low repetition rates with extreme source levels > 200 dB re 1 µPa (pp), making them the loudest mammalian communicat...

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Kris Crandell @kriscran.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Just signed a work email: ‘Best, thanks’ Brain fog is one hell of a humbler.

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Kris Crandell @kriscran.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

So stoked that our new @booktrust.org.uk Cymru book is by @evoswami.bsky.social !! How cool! Diolch :)

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Kris Crandell @kriscran.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

The very clever Outlook autofill just tried to end ‘hope you had a nice…’ with ‘Thanksgiving.’ Which WOW. wrong season, wrong continent. But good hustle.

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Behaviour, Ecology & Physiology at Bangor University @beps-bangor.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Exciting news! Our website is now available in CYMRAEG! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 www.bangor.ac.uk/cy/ygan/beps...

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Ymddygiad, Ecoleg a Ffisioleg ym Mangor

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Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama! Three positions, each including salary & a research budget. Applications due April, 15th. DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us! stri.si.edu/academic-pro...

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3 Year Postdoctoral Fellowships in Animal Behavior

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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Never too late! From a hot summer in 2009 spent in the lab molecularly sexing pied flycatchers to a 2026 paper 🐦 Using 2,759 sexed nestlings (1997–2018) tracked through 2023, we show male attractiveness & annual rearing conditions increase the proportion of sons in broods 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

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Jonathan Huie, PhD @jmhuie.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Check out our new paper on clingfishes led by @fishtide.bsky.social!

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Kris Crandell @kriscran.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

What’s the point of deadlines if students just ignore them and apply for SCs. More than half my module just breezed past their deadline.

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Monica Daley @birdbiomech.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Call for applications to the 2026 Integrative Movement Sciences Summer Institute!   This is a funded research internship, open to all career stages. We especially encourage undergraduates to apply.   Application deadline is March 21.  More details here: cims.uci.edu/imsi-si-2026/ Please share!

Flyer for the 2026 IMSI Summer Institute: Recruiting research interns.
Join our interdisciplinary research training internship and study biomechanics, muscle physiology, biophysics, neurosciences, rehabilitation sciences and engineering. All career stages welcome, undergraduates especially encouraged to apply. Full time paid opportunity. Intensive research experience, practical skills development, supportive mentorship. Learn more at CIMS.uci.edu. One photo show a lab member collecting motion capture data as a person jumps. Another photo shows IMSI researchers setting up a camera for data collection in at a field research location showing a desert landscape in the foreground and a mountain range in the background.

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Liverpool EMB lab @livevobiomech.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

🐡⁉️Ever wondered how a pufferfish inflates? Very excited to announce that Drs Rachel Tran and Ariel Camp will be giving a FREE TALK/WORKSHOP on this very topic on the 10th March at Storyhouse in Chester with Chester SciBar! (details below)

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 25/02/2026

The process of #PeerReview is vital to contemporary science, but is also under enormous strain. @carlbergstrom.com & Kevin Gross use mathematical models to dissect the threats to the long-term viability of peer review, suggesting ways to stabilize it @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4kR02bo

The Vatican Museums' Bramante Staircase provides a striking visual metaphor for a vicious feedback cycle in scholarly publishing: rising paper submissions across an expanding landscape of journals strains the limited supply of volunteer peer review labor, which in turn makes editorial decisions less predictable and encourages authors to submit their work more ambitiously, increasing the burden on peer reviewers further still. Image credit: Carl T. Bergstrom

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Kris Crandell @kriscran.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Month two back at work: short run before the nursery pickup. Am i crushing this work life balance stuff or what? Feels like a what.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I LOVE when science is applied to "toddler questions" like "Why is the sky blue?" or "Why is ice slippery?" Because the answers can be so SUPRISING. Let's dig into recent revelations about how ice skates work & why tires skid across black ice. First, we'll dismiss 3 VERY GOOD hypotheses as wrong.

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Dr Manu Saunders FRES @manusaunders.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

On this day that supports inclusive futures for women and girls in science, let's not forget all the women that were sidelined, ignored, or forced out of science because they: - had children - prioritised family/caring - did science differently - questioned boundaries & norms - fought the patriarchy

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 09/02/2026

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs xkcd.com/3204/

Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]

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Mark Westneat 🐟 @mwestneat.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Piranha bite force and tooth stress are fantastically high for their size! Check out our new paper on computational modeling of the cranial muscles and bite mechanics of the amazing piranhas. #biomechsky 🐟🧪🌿 link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

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Biomechanics, muscle modeling, and the elevated bite force and tooth stress of piranhas

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Kris Crandell @kriscran.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

i got curious why Panopto was called Panopto -- and my computer suggested 'panopticon' (a system of constant surveillance in jail systems) .. and somehow, yeah, checks out. (although, fingers crossed, isn't the name's inspiration)

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Animal Behaviour Collective @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Students still have some days left to aplply for the first round of mcirogrants of 2026 :) Please share

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition. TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’ www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

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How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

We are delighted to introduce a new Perspective series highlighting the important role that field stations have played, and continue to play, in comparative physiology and biomechanics To find out about Harvard's Concord Field Station & more go to journals.biologists.com/jeb/collecti...

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Journal of Avian Biology @avianbiology.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

🚨 Now out: Award Issue, collecting all seven mini-reviews included in the 2025 Review Competition written by early career researchers. Highlighting emerging or less explored topics in avian biology ➡️ vist.ly/4pzxr Cover: pair of female Laysan albatrosses by Bertille Mohring #ornithology

Award issue cover with an illustration by Bertille Mohring of a pair of female Laysan albatrosses.

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Kris Crandell @kriscran.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

return from mat leave, day 12: I have spent several days looking for my stapler. finally went to the supply closet today for another one. immediately found original stapler. two of them.

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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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Mario Vallejo-Marin @nicrodemo.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

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Chris Sharpe @sharpebirder.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Just a few days to go until our next deadline. Apply at the link below. #ornithology

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Kris Crandell @kriscran.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

return from mat leave, day 10(?): said "birdies" in my first lecture back. i suppose being transparent about return to work & lack of sleep extends to transparency around my students, but gosh i would like to feel a bit more competent.

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Kris Crandell @kriscran.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

day 7 back from maternity leave: oh, i'm ill already.

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Paul Dufour @pauldufour80.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

🚨 PhD offer (please share) Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species Deadline: 20 Feb 2026 Starting: June 2026 Supervision: Martins Briedis & me Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh

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Keith McMahon @mcmahok.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

We are hiring at the Wytham Woods for the upcoming field season. 4 roles available. Please share with anyone who might be interested. #UKbirds #birdringing

We are seeking to appoint four full-time field assistants to work on the Wytham Tit Project for 4-8 weeks in spring 2026.
Two 8-week field assistants will join the nest monitoring team; duties for these posts will include (i) collecting standardised data from nest-box breeding populations of blue and great tits, (ii) catching and ringing parent birds, (iii) ringing nestlings, and (iv) inputting data collected in the field. These positions with run from approximately Tuesday 7th April to Monday 1st June. Successful candidates for these positions must have (or be qualified to obtain) a BTO permit to ring adult great tits and blue tits.
A further two field assistants will be hired to support a project collecting behavioural (foraging) data for great tits breeding in the Wytham population. These roles will involve a significant amount of nightwork. Duties will include (i) setting up and calibrating electronic tracking equipment and nest box cameras in the field, (ii) mapping tracking equipment locations using GPS, (iii) helping with catching and ringing parent birds and fitting tracking devices, (iv) assisting with mistnetting to re-trap tagged parents, and (v) inputting data collected in the field. These positions with be approximately 7 and 4 weeks in duration, starting from 13th April and 4th May, respectively. Possession of a BTO ringing permit with misnet endorsement and driving license are highly desirable for these roles.
All fieldwork will take place in Wytham Woods, near Oxford. All Successful candidates must be able to demonstrate skill and enthusiasm for biological research as well as experience of fieldwork under arduous conditions, and both lone work and working as part of a team. Due to the short-term nature of these posts, successsful applicants must already have the right to work in the UK. Salary & Accommodation: Field assistants will be paid at grade 5.2 (£17.37/hour). Contact eleanor.cole@Biology.ox.ac.uk

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