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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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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.

Sylvain Giroud @sgiroud.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

So proud of my three students - Courtney, Ceirighen, & Camden, for having presented successfully their posters at the ASM Meeting last week. Unique studies & awesome results in a small obligate fat-storing hibernator, the Thirteen-Lined Ground Squirrel (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus) 🐿️🐿️ 🐿️

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Great & awesome week at Norfolk, VA, for the American Society of Mammalogists Annual Meeting! Was amazed to meet a very nice community of scientists with so much opportunities to share unique experiences and scientific knowledge. Definitely a meeting recommended to attend for all.

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!

Thank you to my colleague, Jessica LaPrice, from Washington & Lee University, VA for co organizing this symposium. Also many thanks to all four speakers for their awesome contributions to this event. Always nice to hear the latest advances on torpor, hibernation, and metabolic adaptations.

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

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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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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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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Sylvain Giroud @sgiroud.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This is clear but this step and the ones of this week for more control of academia constitute major turns toward fascism. I believe either things settle soon, obviously without improvements nor further degradation, or they worsen if nothing/nobody stop them from sliding further away from democracy.

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Sylvain Giroud @sgiroud.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This is horrifying and how fascism starts …

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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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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.

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

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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

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

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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!!

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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Sylvain Giroud @sgiroud.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Come to Science on Tap to see the blue spotted salamanders!!

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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.

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

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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.