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NMU Biology @bionmu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Science on Tap on Tuesday October 13th @ 7 pm at Blackrocks Brewery! Come to listen to Dr Ken Luzynski talking about his research on “Mosquitos to Measure Biodiversity and Disease Dynamics in the Saginaw Bay Area". Sponsored by Biology & EEGs Departments.

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NMU Biology @bionmu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Save The Date for Science on Tap on Tuesday September 8th @ 7 pm at Blackrocks Brewery! Come to listen to Dr Lanrong Bi talking about her research on “GPS for Medicine". Sponsored by Biology & EEGs Departments.

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Sylvain Giroud @sgiroud.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A new graduate candidates cohort is starting this fall at Northern Michigan University Biology Department! All faculty are delighted to have all these new creative forces joining the department to teach & do research! Also, I am thrilled to start my second academic year as biology graduate chair 😊

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International Hibernation Society @inthibsoc.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The International Hibernation Society is happy to release the Seasonal Hibernation Highlights for the Summer 2026. Enjoy reading the latest research on Torpor & Hibernation as Seasonal Adaptative Strategies and as Biomimicry Inspiration!

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Carmen da Silva @saltydasilva.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Heading to @sebiology.bsky.social conference in Florence! If you want to learn about how behavioural thermoregulation shapes how heat tolerance evolves please come say hi 👋 🐝 I'm speaking in session A9 "Integrating genomics and ecology to study adaptation to global change" on Thursday @ 12:15pm.

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Sylvain Giroud @sgiroud.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Also stay tune if you want to know more on the long term & intergenerational effects of early-life heterothermic expression with studies about to be submitted and in preparation. So coming out hopefully soon!

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Sylvain Giroud @sgiroud.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

A special thanks to my former graduate student, Laura Charlanne, first author of the study, now lecturer & postdoctoral researcher. Also a huge thanks to all co-authors of the study who made this journey possible.

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Sylvain Giroud @sgiroud.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Excellent visit of my colleague, Jessica LaPrice, at Washington & Lee Univeristy (W&L) at Lexington, VA, before heading up to the American Society of Mammalogists Annual Meeting in Norfolk. Very nice campus of W&L enabling unique students learning experiences!

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Sylvain Giroud @sgiroud.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Our Symposium on Flexible vs. Programmed Responses to Environnemental Extremes in Mammalian Heterotherms at the American Society of Mammalogists Annual Meeting, Norfolk, VA. Some unique memories with Mallory Ballinger (Cornell) Austin Allison (CSU), Malcom Reimer (U. Winnipeg) & Cory Williams (CSU).

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Sylvain Giroud @sgiroud.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Now I am thrilled to announce the publication of the first piece of a long-term study on developmental flexibility of energy saving strategies, namely torpor & huddling, in a small fat storing hibernator. This work happened during my time as senior researcher in Vienna. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

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Huddling and food availability shape seasonal torpor and energetics of juvenile garden dormice

animal physiology; biological sciences; rodent behavior

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

If you are going to comment on the proposed changes to how science is done in the US, please use this guide. The rules specify that you have to mention the number associated with the proposed changes, and this blog has those. Here is where to comment: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

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Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposes to revise the Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance to improve government- wide policies and requirements related to the management of grants, co...

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Sylvain Giroud @sgiroud.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

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Huddling and food availability shape seasonal torpor and energetics of juvenile garden dormice

animal physiology; biological sciences; rodent behavior

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Brooke Kern, PhD @botanist-brooke.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

First postdoc field season ✅ with the amazing Olivia & @picklejarech.bsky.social

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Megathread about responding to new OMB grant funding rules (feel free to add/link more!) I was collecting these for me, but figured I'd round 'em up for everyone 🧪 What's the problem? arstechnica.com/science/2026... elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

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Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time

Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Here's a National Science Foundation paper I worked on that will be impossible under the regime's proposed rules. We study evolution, which happens across the entire globe. We had collaborators in Argentina, in Australia, in Germany. We cannot do our kind of science in one country.

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The beetle tree of life reveals that Coleoptera survived end‐Permian mass extinction to diversify during the Cretaceous terrestrial revolution

Here we present a phylogeny of beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) based on DNA sequence data from eight nuclear genes, including six single-copy nuclear protein-coding genes, for 367 species representing ...

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Sylvain Giroud @sgiroud.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I am delighted to share the first study of the Energetics Lab with my undergraduate, Korben Moelter, as first author published in the Journal of Comparative Physiology B. A neat comparison of Mammalian Thermoregulation Clines Across North America Using Bergman’s Rule. Check: doi.org/10.1007/s003...

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Patrick McKenzie @patrickmckenzie.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I’m starting at Oregon State University this September as Herbarium Director and Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology. An absolute dream job and I am so grateful! Looking to grow the lab soon and will update here. In the meantime please don’t hesitate to reach out!

Picture of a person (me) holding a stuffed beaver toy and a laptop that reads “McKenzie Lab at Oregon State University”

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Sylvain Giroud @sgiroud.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Something I didn't expect to say on May 17th: 'the snow has stopped, at least for now'.

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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Let me introduce myself. I'm a professor @usask.bsky.social at the University of Saskatchewan. My group works on invasive wild pigs, caribou, wolves, and other beasties. I take the responsibility of my academic freedom very seriously and use it and good science to hopefully have some influence.

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Sylvain Giroud @sgiroud.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Very proud of our students cohort for this 2026 Spring Graduation & Commencement at Northern Michigan University (NMU). Some students from the Energetics Lab were graduating. We wish all the best to all of the these new graduates. Congratulation to all new NMU Graduates 🎊🎊🥳🥳🎉🎉

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Mark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

this fall she will be a tenure track assistant professor at @macalestercollege in Minnesota. I’m not a great educator. Certainly not a wonderful researcher. But I AM a great talent scout. And I owe my career to students like Ruth. It’s been an honor. 2/2

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Mark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

As my phase change to becoming an emeritus associate professor approaches, of course I feel many doubts. @ruthlessruth15 wrote me the nicest note for my “retirement memories” file, and included these photos. I knew her as a first year student at the @univpugetsound and 1/2

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Sylvain Giroud @sgiroud.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Very much delighted to share the several contributions of student researchers from the Energetics Lab at the Celebration of Students Scholarship of Northern Michigan University last week. Great success & very good step before the upcoming American Society of Mammalogists Meeting in June at Norfolk 🥳

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Look at all of those counties that contain mid-sized college towns whose universities (mostly flagships / other publics) dominate regional economies

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Sylvain Giroud @sgiroud.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Consider attending the American Society of Mammalogist (ASM) Meeting at Norfolk this summer (June 12-15) and Join the symposium co organized by Jessica LaPrice & myself on flexible and inflexible responses in heterothermic species. This will be a fun symposium! mammalmeetings.org/program/symp...

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Symposia

Flexible vs. Programmed? Responses to Environmental Extremes in Mammalian Heterotherms Date: TBD Time: TBD Location: TBD Speakers: Austin Allison, Mallory Ballinger, Malcolm Reimer, Cory Williams T…

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NMU Biology @bionmu.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Science on Tap on Tuesday April 14th @ 7 pm at Blackrocks Brewery! Come to listen to Dr Hayden McKee-Zech talking about her research on “The Ecology of Death". Sponsored by Biology & EEGs Departments.

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Mark Mandel @markjmandel.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Check out this squid-vibrio postdoc position at Penn State with my colleague Tim Miyashiro, especially if you have a background in proteomics/metabolomics. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

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Postdoctoral Position - BMB

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

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NMU Biology @bionmu.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The Biology Seminar Series is thrilled to announce the seminar of Dr Chloe Fouilloux, a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at UW-Madison, on Seasonal Immune Timing Alters Parasites Growth & Transmission in a Multi-Host System, hold hybrid at NMU Mead Auditorium and via Zoom. uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97861612977

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International Hibernation Society @inthibsoc.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The International Hibernation Society is happy to release the Seasonal Hibernation Highlights for the Spring 2026. Enjoy reading the latest research on Torpor & Hibernation as Seasonal Adaptative Strategies and as Biomimicry Inspiration!

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

A 20% budget cut atop multiyear funding-induced cuts to research and direct terminations of projects underway will further degrade American leadership in science. This is early news & not even a proposal or appropriations - precisely the reason to speak out now. rollcall.com/2026/03/27/s...

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Sources: White House to propose 20 percent cut to NIH funding

The White House is expected to ask Congress to cut National Institutes of Health spending by 20 percent in the president’s fiscal 2027 budget request, according to multiple sources with knowledge of t...

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NMU Biology @bionmu.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Make sure to join Science on Tap on next Tuesday (3/10) to hear about the secret lives of blue spotted salamanders from Dr Jill Leonard!!

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Sylvain Giroud @sgiroud.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

First pilot study of the Northern Michigan University Energetics Lab on black bears across the Michigan Upper Peninsula! The ultimate project’s goal is to study the unique adaptations, e.g. thermoregulation & body protein sparing, during the hibernation fast & inactivity of the American black bear.

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NMU Biology @bionmu.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Save The Date! Science on Tap on Tuesday March 10th @ 7 pm at Blackrocks Brewery. Come to listen to Dr Jill Leonard talking about her latest research on “The Secret Lives of Blue Spotted Salamanders". Sponsored by Biology & EEGs Departments.

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NMU Biology @bionmu.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Science on Tap on Tuesday February 10th @ 7 pm at Blackrocks Brewery! Come to listen to Dr Libby Ives talking about his research on “Advances and Retreat, Rise and Fall: How glaciers reshaped the Upper Peninsula". Sponsored by Biology & EEGs Departments.

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NMU Biology @bionmu.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Unfortunately Science on Tap has to be cancelled this month. Next Date on February 10th. Stay Tune & Happy New Year!

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International Hibernation Society @inthibsoc.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Check out the last IHS research seminar by Dr Roberto Nespolo from Austral University of Chile. Insightful lessons from a South American hibernator on heterothermic adaptations to climate change.

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Roberto Nespolo IHS seminar January 2026

YouTube video by International Hibernation Society

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American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

When rapid environmental change creates fitness valleys, recombination plays an ambiguous role. Wirtz et al. investigate how swift population recovery is possible, and interpret chromosomal fusions in this context. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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International Hibernation Society @inthibsoc.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The International Hibernation Society is happy to release the Seasonal Hibernation Highlights for the Winter 2025-2026. Enjoy reading the latest research on Torpor & Hibernation as Seasonal Adaptative Strategies and as Biomimicry Inspiration! @sicbjournals.bsky.social @sebiology.bsky.social

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Meghan Azad, PhD @meghanazad.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

New research integrates longitudinal multiomic data to show 🤱🏾 how mom shape baby's microbiome 👶🏾 how baby shapes mom's milk ⏩It's a 2-way street!⏪ Proud to be a coauthor on this exciting work, led by @trenton.phd & his amazing student @lishideng.bsky.social - w/ milk data from our #IMiC consortium

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/12/2025

Looking for a faculty job at one of the world's great research stations? We're looking for a marine invertebrate biologist at UW's Friday Harbor Labs. apply.interfolio.com/178804

Assistant Professor without Tenure (WOT), Marine Invertebrate Organismal Biology
University of Washington: Academic Personnel & Faculty: College of the Environment: Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Location
Friday Harbor Labs, WA
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Dec 12, 2025
Description

The School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences (SAFS) and Friday Harbor Labs (FHL) at the University of Washington (UW) invite applications for the Riddiford – Truman Endowed faculty Chair, a position in the Without Tenure (WOT) track at the Assistant rank with specialization in marine invertebrate organismal biology. The successful candidate is expected to develop a collaborative, extramurally-funded and nationally recognized research program based at FHL that leverages FHL’s unique marine research infrastructure and natural setting. We especially welcome candidates whose scholarship in natural systems advances fundamental knowledge and contributes to environmental stewardship. All University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research, and service.

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Sylvain Giroud @sgiroud.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Delighted of having attended for the second time NMU Graduation Ceremony with colleagues. This time wearing my French doctoral gown directly sent from Paris! This events are fancy but at the end mostly meaningful to meet & cheer our newly graduated students. So proud of them all! “You All Did It”

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 08/12/2025

🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines Special interest: AI methodologies 📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026 👥 2-12 years post-PhD Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea... #JobOpportunity #Research

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Creation of new junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur - Call for applications 2026 - Research

The Institut Pasteur is launching an international call to recruit new junior research group leaders leveraging cutting-edge transdisciplinary approaches to exploring infectious diseases, host-microbe...

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Cat Warren @cat-warren.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Friends: please consider adding your name to this @ncaaup.bsky.social petition. UNC System administrators want to create a single, searchable repository of all university and college syllabi -- a move that invites political actors to attack the free inquiry on our campuses.

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Protect Academic Freedom, Our Faculty, Our Communities

Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members: The UNC System is preparing to cave to political pressure from the Heritage Foundation, the Oversight Project, and the James Martin Center by ...

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Circulating a petition against a proposal to force UNC system faculty to share their syllabi publicly, a move that would potentially exposing faculty to bad faith actors without necessarily improving student access to syllabi (which are already accessible in the course catalog) #AcademicFreedom

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Protect Academic Freedom, Our Faculty, Our Communities

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