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Shona Wood

@woodlab-arctic.bsky.social
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Chronobiologist and hibernation researcher based in the Arctic. Torpor arousal cycling. Photoperiodism. Circaunnual rhythms.

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Marie K Holt @mkbholt.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Postdoc job alert! Come work with me on my MRC-funded fellowship on stress and appetite 🧠🌭 at @warwicklifesci.bsky.social 5 years of behaviour, circuit manipulations, neuroanatomy, electrophysiology and transcriptomics👨‍🔬🤓 Oh and Warwick is beautiful😍 Info here: tinyurl.com/yzmf24r3 Please share.
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British Society for Neuroendocrinology @bsneuroendo.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Attend #ICN2026 in Japan with our new grant covering: 💷 Registration fee 💷 Abstract submission fee 💷 Up to £1k for travel Apply by 30 Jan 26: www.neuroendo.org.uk...
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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I'm never going to be okay with the idea that I'm supposed to sit politely while people talk about using ChatGPT to do their research! I actually do this science stuff because I enjoy it, and I think if you hate writing your own papers or parsing your own data THAT much you should do something else!
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Just to simplify what we think happens: Blue light hits pigments in the retina of migratory birds that become 'little magnets' that respond to magnetic fields as light & dark patterns on their visual field. In gamer terms, it's a 'compass on their HUD', merged in with visual data.
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Magnetic sensitivity of cryptochrome 4 from a migratory songbird - Nature
Cryptochrome 4 from the night-migratory European robin displays magnetically sensitive photochemistry in vitro, in which four successive flavin–tryptophan radical pairs generate magnetic-field effects...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Repetitive Hibernation-Like State Suppresses the Progression of Amyloid Pathology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Arctic Seasonal Timekeeping Initiative @arcticseasonal.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Photoperiodic time measurement in birds relies on deep brain photoreceptors. VAopsin has been suggested to be important, but in the arctic svalbard ptarmigan VAopsin is non functional in the hypothalamus: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Differential expression of VA opsin transcript variants in tissues linked to photoperiodic time measurement in Svalbard rock ptarmigan
Photoperiodic time measurement is the process through which annual changes in daylength are integrated to synchronize seasonal physiological and behav…
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Shona Wood @woodlab-arctic.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Check out my perspective piece on tanycytes and hibernation
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in silico Plants @insilicoplants.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Choosing which models best explain photoperiodic time measurement mechanisms in plants by Takato Imaizumi doi.org/10.1038/s443... via npj Biol Timing Sleep #PlantScience
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Sylvain Giroud @sgiroud.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Interested in a Graduate Assistantship? The Energetics Lab (Giroud) at Northern Michigan University is now accepting applications for a motivated individual to obtain a Master in Biology and work on seasonal changes of the cardiac proteome & heart function in hibernating species.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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International Hibernation Society @inthibsoc.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
The International Hibernation Society is happy to release the Seasonal Hibernation Highlights for the Fall 2025. 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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International Hibernation Society @inthibsoc.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The International Hibernation Society starts to release quaterly Seasonal Highlights on the Topic "Torpor & Hibernation as Seasonal Adaptative Strategies". Here are the first Hibernation Highlights for the Summer 2025. Enjoy reading the latest research from the Torpor & Hibernation field!
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International Hibernation Society @inthibsoc.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Check out the last IHS research seminar by Dr Julia Nowack from Liverpool John Moores University. Great insights on adaptive thermoregulation in endotherms facing rapid environmental change. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkIJ... @julianowack.bsky.social @sicbjournals.bsky.social @sebiology.bsky.social
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Juila Nowack IHS seminar
YouTube video by International Hibernation Society
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 09/08/2025
Something that I have been thinking about with attribution of "PhD level intelligence" or "PhD level expertise" to a machine is that it reflects an increasing trend among these AI bros and their sycophants to want the products of highly skilled training without actually doing any of the work.
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Andreas Nord @cyanistesnord.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I am looking for a postdoc wanting to use functional genomics to understand why birds 🐦 struggle with climate warming in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Ideal candidate is a molecular evolutionarybiologist. Join us at @biologylu.bsky.social. Details 👇 shorturl.at/wijEq Would appreciate a re-post!
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Post-doctoral fellow in functional genomics and ecophysiology
Subject description The goal of the project is to uncover the mechanisms explaining why global warming and heatwaves reduce reproductive success and cause excess mortality in wild and domesticated war
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Oliver Bosch @olibosch.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
👇 👇 👇 👇 THIS 👇 👇 👇 👇
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Chiara Ciccone @chiaracic.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The second paper from my PhD thesis is out in Frontiers in Neuroanatomy!🤩🤩 I can finally stop having nightmares on primary cell cultures 😅 🧫 www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...
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Frontiers | Potential for flexible lactate shuttling between astrocytes and neurons to mitigate against diving-induced hypoxia
For most non-diving mammals, lack of O2 (hypoxia) has detrimental effects on brain function. Seals, however, display a series of systemic, cellular, and mole...
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Sylvain Giroud @sgiroud.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
What a pleasure to expertise Vebjorn Melum’s PhD work « Rheostasis & Timing: A Tanycyte-Mediated Process » at the Arctic University of Norway Trøms (UiT). Congratulations Dr Melum, & thanks to his supervisors: Shona Wood, David Hazelrigg (UiT), & Valérie Simonneaux (CNRS) for the great opportunity!
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BioClocks UK @bioclocksuk.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
New PhD and Postdoc Roles in #chronobiology! Areas of Research include: The Biological Clock in Diabetic Retinopathy, Plant Proteomics, Bioinformatics See the forum for new roles available: www.bioclocks.uk/forum/_jobs #AcademicSky
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Jobs | Bioclocks Uk
Advertise job opportunities here!
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Shona Wood @woodlab-arctic.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Want to write an MSCA fellowship with support to study hibernation with me? Apply by 16th February. See this link euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/309304
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Call for postdoc candidates interested in applying for an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship in Hibernation, Torpor, Tanycytes, Seasonal biology
UiT The Arctic University of Norway has established «The Arctic MSCA-PF program» (uit.no/project/arcticmsca) to recruit excellent young researchers planning to apply for a Marie Skƚodowsk
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Mike Lehman @mikelehman.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Thank you @rebeccadumbell.bsky.social for giving me a chance to explain why JNE and other society-based journals are so important for the advancement of science and the careers of scientists! And thanks to former JNE EiC, Gareth Leng, for the quote! @bsneuroendo.bsky.social @infneuroendo.bsky.social
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Andreas Nord @cyanistesnord.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
We are searching broadly for a PhD candidate interested in the evolvability of heat tolerance and the interaction between evolution and plasticity in 🐦🐣, based at @biologylu.bsky.social. Be great if you could re-post. Details 👇 #ERC #HotLife @ercresearch.bsky.social
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Arctic Seasonal Timekeeping Initiative @arcticseasonal.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Interested in Chronobiology and olfactory imprinting? UiT has a scheme to help you write a MSCA fellowship to work with us in Tromsø euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/309754
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Call for postdoc candidates interested in applying for an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chronobiology, sensory biology
UiT The Arctic University of Norway has established «The Arctic MSCA-PF program» (uit.no/project/arcticmsca) to recruit excellent young researchers planning to apply for a Marie Skƚodowsk
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Arctic Seasonal Timekeeping Initiative @arcticseasonal.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Interested in Arctic Chronobiology? UiT has a scheme to help you write a MSCA fellowship to work with us in Tromsø euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/309746
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
Call for postdoc candidates interested in applying for an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chronobiology, sensory biology
UiT The Arctic University of Norway has established «The Arctic MSCA-PF program» (uit.no/project/arcticmsca) to recruit excellent young researchers planning to apply for a Marie Skƚodowsk
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Malcolm von Schantz @mvonschantz.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
This is interesting not least because it points to another potential route through which obstructive sleep apnoea can cause mischief. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Resetting of the Human Circadian Melatonin Rhythm by Ambient Hypoxia
Circadian clocks in the body drive daily cycles in physiology and behavior. A master clock in the brain maintains synchrony with the environmental day–night cycle and uses internal signals to keep cl...
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Shona Wood @woodlab-arctic.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Why not apply to write a MSCA fellowship with me on hibernation, tanycytes and seasonality: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/309304
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
Call for postdoc candidates interested in applying for an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship in Hibernation, Torpor, Tanycytes, Seasonal biology
UiT The Arctic University of Norway has established «The Arctic MSCA-PF program» (uit.no/project/arcticmsca) to recruit excellent young researchers planning to apply for a Marie Skƚodowsk
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Martha Merrow @marthamerrow.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Here a short reminder that the closing date is approaching (30 January) - for this pretty exciting position (!) to work as a PostDoc on the B. subtilis circadian clock. shorturl.at/LKjWz
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Paul Frankland @franklandlab.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Just bumping this up for those who may have missed earlier announcements-- we have a new PI position in the Neuroscience & Mental Health program here at SickKids. Neural and glial mechanisms in cognition.
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Scientist/Senior Scientist – Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto – Canadian Association for Neuroscience
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Antony Dodd @antdodd.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Great opportunity! First post doc position within ERC Synergy “MicroClock” open for applications! Join our vision to understand the Bacillus subtilis #circadian clock. More opportunities soon at LMU, Leiden University and the John Innes Centre @microclockerc.bsky.social #chronobiology
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Barbara M. Tomotani @babimt.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Hello everyone (and sorry for the low activity here). We are looking for a technician to help us with the tit project. So if you are a bird fanatic, and maybe also have some skills to work with devices in the field and/or with field experiments, please consider applying. 🥰
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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The deadline to apply for a Group Leader position at the Centre is extended, send your application by January 6, 2025 🌊 An incredible opportunity to lead innovative marine science in beautiful Bergen! 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬🧪 Reposts appreciated 🙏 tinyurl.com/4bwn8u3n
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Group Leader Positions (Researcher I, code 1110) (270380) | University of Bergen
Job title: Group Leader Positions (Researcher I, code 1110) (270380), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Monday, January 6, 2025
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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/12/2024
Can you explain your doctoral research through interpretive dance? The 17th annual #DanceYourPhD competition is open! Submit by 28 March for a chance to win $2000: scim.ag/3BcKi0e
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Science’s ‘Dance Your Ph.D.’ contest is open again!
This year’s competition has a special category on artificial intelligence research or quantum science—no Ph.D. needed
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International Behavioral Neuroscience Society @ibnsconnect.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Karen Bales, Ph.D. will give the IBNS Presidential Lecture: Comparative and developmental neurobiology of pair-bonding. June 24-29, 2025 in Tromsø, Norway.
Karen Bales, Ph.D. will give the IBNS Presidential Lecture:  Comparative and developmental neurobiology of pair-bonding. June 24-29, 2025 in Tromso, Norway.
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Arctic Seasonal Timekeeping Initiative @arcticseasonal.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Want to work in the field with great tits? We have a 3yr technical position available with @babimt.bsky.social : www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Staff Engineer affiliated with the project EvoLight (270892) | UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Job title: Staff Engineer affiliated with the project EvoLight (270892), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Sunday, January 12, 2025
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Shona Wood @woodlab-arctic.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I had the pleasure of co-supervising this talented student on a project involving seals, diving, hypoxia, astrocytes, neurons and the circadian clock!
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Arctic Seasonal Timekeeping Initiative @arcticseasonal.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
ASTI's Chiara Ciccone successfully defended her PhD today! We are so proud 👏 Find her thesis here: munin.uit.no/handle/10037...
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Munin: Molecular adaptations to diving-induced hypoxia. Diurnal variations in cellular and mitochondrial hypoxia tolerance in the hooded seal (Cystophora cristata)
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Shona Wood @woodlab-arctic.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Took the plunge and deleted the twitter/X account....all in with bluesky
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Andreas Nord @cyanistesnord.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
We are just 10 days away from the Lund Thermal Biology meeting, covering everything temperature in across the tree of life 🌞❄️🐸🐦🐟. ALL talks will be live-streamed on Zoom and registration is not needed. Check out the conference website for the final program 👉 shorturl.at/rKqeY
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Changing animals in a changing world 25–27 November 2024
Lund University.
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Nicholas Per Huffeldt @nphuffeldt.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Interested in chronobiology and biological rhythm research? Here’s some folks to follow! Want to be added? Reply here go.bsky.app/Sw8L4aS 🧪 🌍 🦑 #EvoBio
Starter pack image for chronobiology
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Shona Wood @woodlab-arctic.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
I am lucky enough to feature in a popular science article about the future of hibernation research: www.thetransmitter.org/physiology/r...
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Rousing a ‘new era’ of hibernation research
Novel applications of neuroscience tools have enabled researchers to uncover the neural controls of an extreme biological trait.
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Arctic Seasonal Timekeeping Initiative @arcticseasonal.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Guess what? Reindeer do have a functional molecular circadian clock! It's just the coupling that isn't great. Check out ASTI's latest work in JBR: tinyurl.com/4ks4sac3
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Eelke Snoeren @eelkesnoeren.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
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Eelke Snoeren @eelkesnoeren.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
Time to consider joining IBNS in June 2025. Besides the exotic location in Norway above the polar circle, and thus the experience of midnight sun, we also have a wonderful program with exciting keynote speakers! 👇#neuroskyence #Tromsø
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Shona Wood @woodlab-arctic.bsky.social · 23/05/2024
Our latest work on the earliest events in the brain of an hibernator: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
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c-fos induction in the choroid plexus, tanycytes and pars tuberalis is an early indicator of spontaneous arousal from torpor in a deep hibernator
Highlighted Article: Three non-neuronal sites previously linked to control of metabolic physiology over seasonal and daily time scales show a peak in c-fos expression at the initiation of arousal from...
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Barbara M. Tomotani @babimt.bsky.social · 11/04/2024
I am talking at #BOU2024 about biological rhythms and clocks of urban and forest birds. I show that city birds may be less sensitive to ALAN than forest birds. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1... But our new common garden results suggest this is not related to genetic clock differences.
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Arctic Seasonal Timekeeping Initiative @arcticseasonal.bsky.social · 08/04/2024
Inside JEB feature on our work: In hooded seals, the circadian clock tells them when to wake up & when to sleep. Ciccone &co show that the clock also tells their mitochondria when to be more efficient at making energy, allowing for deeper dives during the day. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
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Arctic Seasonal Timekeeping Initiative @arcticseasonal.bsky.social · 08/04/2024
Original paper here: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
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Shona Wood @woodlab-arctic.bsky.social · 06/04/2024
First post intro: I work on seasonal rhythms. Working and living above the arctic circle I have a strong appreciation of seasonality! Currently I have an ERC consolidator award to research hibernation in the golden hamster. I also work with hooded seals, reindeer and ptarmigan!
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