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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 19h

Brilliant #postdoc opportunity on the role of gut microbiomes in bird thermal resilience #HOTGUT project at Lund University (Dept. of Biology)! Supervisor is the awesome @kruthsatz.bsky.social , Andreas Nord as co-supervisor. Please repost Apply here: lu.varbi.com/what:job/job...

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Postdoktor inom ekoevolutionär mikrobiomforskning och termobiologi

Ämnesbeskrivning Tjänsten är en del av forskningsprojektet “From Guts to Growth: Unravelling the Gut Microbiome’s Role in Ontogenetic Trajectories toward Climate Stress Resilience” (HOTGUT).

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Katharina Ruthsatz @kruthsatz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Interested in the role of gut microbiomes in bird thermal resilience? 🥚⚡🐣🌡️🐥🧫 Come join us as a #postdoc in the #HOTGUT project at @biologylu.bsky.social ! Supervisor me, @cyanistesnord.bsky.social as co-supervisor. 💫 Please spread! Apply here 👇: lu.varbi.com/what:job/job...

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SEBiology @sebiology.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

⏰ Just 2 weeks to go! Join @conphysjournal.bsky.social’s "Community Conversations" on 20 October, featuring Dr @madisonearhart.bsky.social on how physiology, molecular biology and community science can support white sturgeon conservation. Book now for this free webinar: urls.fr/iy4_sD

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 06/10/2026

Congratulations!

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 05/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

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Katharina Ruthsatz @kruthsatz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thrilled to share that I got the @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social Starting Grant to lead the #HOTGUT project at @biologylu.bsky.social to explore microbiome-mediated thermal resilience in birds 🐦🦠🌡️ #HOTGUT will be in close collaboration with @cyanistesnord.bsky.social - open #postdoc position soon!

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Katharina Ruthsatz @kruthsatz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Our Special Issue in the @thermal-biology.bsky.social is now complete! 🎉 A great collection on ontogenetic variation in animal thermal biology, edited by a fantastic team: @patricepottier.bsky.social @elisathrl.bsky.social Zara Cowan Flemming Dahlke 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Universität zu Köln @unicologne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🪰🐭🏃‍♂️Ob Fliegenbeinchen, Mäusepfoten oder menschliche Schritte - auf den ersten Blick unterscheiden sich die Fortbewegungsarten stark. Doch eine neue Studie zeigt, dass je weiter ein Gelenk vom Körper entfernt ist, desto schneller bewegt es sich. Mehr dazu ➡️https://uni.koeln/TBN5P Bild: KI generiert

Mann rennt im Freien, verfolgt von einer riesigen Fliege, während vor ihm eine Maus läuft.

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Katharina Ruthsatz @kruthsatz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🐸 Join us online, 16–18 December 2026, for our symposium on Amphibian Ecophysiology and Conservation: Integrative Approaches Across Life Stages! Abstract submissions are closed, but listeners are very welcome to register...and it’s free! 🌍 Register here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Pablo Salmón @pablosalmon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

🔈New study! Microplastics found in 62% of White-throated Dipper broods in Scotland & Basque Country. No body condition effects detected. Led by @cmartin3.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @aranzadiornito.bsky.social 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Ornithology🐦 #Microplastics #Freshwater💧

Left: Adult and nestling White-throated Dipper (Cinclus cinclus; adult on top, chick below). Right: Microscopy images showing microplastics from nestling faecal samples. Birds were handled under license.

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Vicente García-Navas @vgarcianavas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oferta de contrato predoctoral para realizar una Tesis Doctoral en @ebdonana.bsky.social sobre Micro y Macroevolución en 🦗 combinando trabajo de 🧬 y bioacústica 🎧 dentro del proyecto "Severo Ochoa"

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Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠 @jutfelt.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Massive thanks to the excellent opponents Dave McKenzie @afishyonado.bsky.social and Katharina Ruthsatz @kruthsatz.bsky.social, and committee member Sigurd Einum! And thanks to the strong team of supervisors @leeuwisrobin.bsky.social @rasmusern.bsky.social and Christophe Pelabon.

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Katharina Ruthsatz @kruthsatz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Today is officially day one of my Ramón y Cajal fellowship at @ebdonana.bsky.social! 🎉🇪🇸 I still can’t quite believe it. Incredibly proud, incredibly grateful for all the support along my way. And as if that wasn’t enough… there’s another piece of amazing news coming in just over two weeks. ✨

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Nicholas Wu @nicholaswu.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Our IUCN Amphibian Specialist Group FrogLog article is now online: www.iucn-amphibians.org/wp-content/u.... We (@kruthsatz.bsky.social , @patricepottier.bsky.social) discuss the importance of life stage-specific 🐸 vulnerability to climate change based on our preprint: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

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Carmen da Silva @saltydasilva.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Sublethal impacts of climate change on stingless bees, check out our hot off the press publication in @thermal-biology.bsky.social 🔥 How is flight speed impacted by changes in temperature? We tested #TPCs in an arid and subtropical bee 🐝 @pipilika.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Before the brink: considering sublethal impacts of climate change on stingless bee flight performance

Vulnerability to climate change is often predicted using species critical thermal limits (CTMAX), the temperature at which an organism experiences a l…

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Katharina Ruthsatz @kruthsatz.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Three more weeks left to submit your paper to @thermal-biology.bsky.social for our special issue on Ontogenetic variation in thermal biology 🦉🦫☀️❄️

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Shaun Killen @shaunkillen.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Animal brains don’t think in a vacuum, they think in heatwaves & hypoxia, and around predators, parasites, and social groups. Our new review maps mechanisms, timescales, and gaps for understanding animal cognition in changing environments: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lau5Esvgs...

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Katharina Ruthsatz @kruthsatz.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Updated deadline to October 15th for our Special Issue on ontogenetic variation in thermal biology! @thermal-biology.bsky.social

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Katharina Ruthsatz @kruthsatz.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

We have extended the deadline to OCTOBER 15th!!! ...and are looking forward to receiving your submission for our Special Issue in @thermal-biology.bsky.social 🌡️ 🐘🐦🐸🐝🐟🐚🕷️🐍🦈 (all taxa welcome!)

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Katharina Ruthsatz @kruthsatz.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

We a re looking forward to receiving your submission for our Special Issue in @jthermbiol.bsky.social 🌡️ 🐘🐦🐸🐝🐟🐚🕷️🐍🦈 (all taxa welcome!)

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dommccafferty.bsky.social @dommccafferty.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

A highly comprehensive set of papers across the field of thermal biology. Congratulations to Guest Editors, authors and reviewers @sgiroud.bsky.social @julianowack.bsky.social

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Sylvain Giroud @sgiroud.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Great poster on hibernators latitudinal body size gradient (Bergmann rule) from Korben Moelter, student at the NMU Energetics Lab, at the 2025 Michigan Wildlife Society Chapter Meeting. Also first communication of the Lab on some work done at NMU. Glad to see this happy face! Very proud as well 😊🙃

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Andreas Nord @cyanistesnord.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

There is still time to apply for this position! Great fit for students interested in combining evolutionary and eco-physiology theory to find solutions that promote pollinators in a warming world. Please distribute in your networks. Details 👇 🐝🦟 ☀️🌡

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Ecophy CEBC @ecophycebc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

🚨Postdoc Opportunity🚨 We're hiring a 2 yr postdoc at Ecophy-CEBC (CNRS, France) to study coastal salinization and its impacts on amphibians 🐸🧂 If you have expertise in ecology/ecophysiology, reach out! Feel free to contact François Brischoux with any questions. Please share with your networks 🙏

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Nicholas Wu @nicholaswu.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

New paper in @nature.com led by @patricepottier.bsky.social! We demonstrated global vulnerability of amphibians to warming, threatening 10% of >5,000 species examined. How did we do it? See thread🧵 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Jeremy De Bonville @jaydebon.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The deadline to submit abstracts is approaching!!! ⏰ (March 7th) Consider submitting an abstract for a talk or poster in our session (A14) if you study the vulnerability of early life stages to environmental stressors! 🐣 The early bird registration deadline is May 16th.

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Elisa Thoral @elisathrl.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

⏰️ Don't forget to submit an abstract in our session SAB3 in "Science Across Boundaries", that is about cellular metabolism and individual performance in a changing world ! 🦠🐦🐠 #SEB2025 www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...

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SEB Annual Conference Antwerp 2025

Abstract submissions will open from Monday 6th January until Friday 7th March 2025

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Jeremy De Bonville @jaydebon.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Be sure not to miss talks from our stunning selection of invited speakers, with talks spanning multiple taxa! 🦎 🐸 🪰 From Dr. Wei-Guo Du, @kruthsatz.bsky.social and @englishse.bsky.social. More info here : www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...

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Katharina Ruthsatz @kruthsatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The #AMPHISTRESS experiments have started this week with 576 tadpoles moving into their buckets 🐸🪄 @ebdonana.bsky.social @igmestre.bsky.social #MSCAction

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LIB-MorphoLab @lib-morpholab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Robin (@robinslnr.bsky.social) is doing some #CT scans of #Xenopus tadpoles with different contrast stainings to visualize soft tissue and skeletal structures in the developing forelimb. Many thanks to @kruthsatz.bsky.social for providing the specimens! 🐸

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Katharina Ruthsatz @kruthsatz.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

We a re looking forward to receiving your submission for our Special Issue in @jthermbiol.bsky.social 🌡️ 🐘🐦🐸🐝🐟🐚🕷️🐍🦈 (all taxa welcome!)

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Science Magazine @science.org · 25/01/2025

Fear and uncertainty dominated conversations this week among those doing NIH-funded research involving people who are transgender, gender fluid, nonbinary, or otherwise gender minorities. scim.ag/3Ce2Tto

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Trump’s ban on funds to ‘promote gender ideology’ could threaten hundreds of NIH research projects

Sweeping executive order likely to be read broadly, experts predict

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Conservation Physiology @conphysjournal.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Welcome to our newest Associate Editor Erika Eliason! As an ecological physiologist, Erika investigates how environmental stressors impact aquatic ectotherms. Her work informs conservation policy and the management of natural resources.

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George Lauder @georgelauder.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

What is the function of the elongate tail in elasmobranch #rays? A 🧵 and a new hypothesis. A paper with @juliachaumel.bsky.social in @royalsociety.org Proceedings B (shorturl.at/PmfYD) shows that the tail of cownose rays (and a few other species studied so far) has an elaborate lateral line.

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Lisandrina Mari @lisandrinamari.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Very happy to announce we are organizing a session on Animal Cognition at the @sebiology.bsky.social conference this summer! 🧠🐟🕊️🐸🐝 Working on cognition and environmental changes? Submit your abstract now to the Animal session A8 at this link➡️ www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a... 🧪🌍

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Dustin Marshall @djmmeeg.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

We have a few funded spots left for ECRs! Join us if you’re interested in the ecology/evolution of size in unicells!

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Interested doing a postdoc on animal microbiomes in my lab at Uppsala University? The local Birgitta Sintring Foundation gives out 2-year postdoc scholarships to early career researchers who applies with a PI at the department. Deadline Feb 9. www.uu.se/en/departmen...

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The Birgitta Sintring Foundation - Uppsala University

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Xavier Picó @xavierpico.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Our last seminar of the year on next Thursday 19 Dec 2024 at 12:00 CET #EBDseminars ⁦‪@ebdonana.bsky.social Youtube link: youtu.be/Z6dCtBz-8kY

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Seminarios EBD | Malin Pinsky

YouTube video by Estación Biológica de Doñana EBD-CSIC

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Katharina Ruthsatz @kruthsatz.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

@tubraunschweig.bsky.social press release on our article (shorturl.at/jUJjs) on the interactive effect of nitrate pollution and thermal stress on amphibian larvae. 🐸☣️🌡️ Photo: Sven Gippner 👇👇👇 magazin.tu-braunschweig.de/en/pi-post/a... #tubraunschweig

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Katharina Ruthsatz @kruthsatz.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Check out Ingrid's fantastic artwork! It's stunning 🐸🐸🐸

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Andreas Nord @cyanistesnord.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Over the moon to have been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to study the evolvability of avian heat tolerance 🥳🐦 Exciting years ahead uncovering how the interplay between evolution and plasticity shape bird physiology in a warming world! www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/five...

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Five Lund University researchers to receive ERC Consolidator Grants

Lund University. Enrico Ronchi, a researcher in fire safety engineering, is developing new ways to create an inclusive evacuation design for buildings. The research concerns investigating emergency ev...

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Katharina Ruthsatz @kruthsatz.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

🧵(8/8 ) Considering that many surface and groundwaters in Europe reveal nitrate levels surpassing this threshold, this contamination might pose a serious threat to amphibians, particularly in a changing climate.

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