Dr. Austin M. Garner
@agarner.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences @ Florida Atlantic University; Functional morphology, biomechanics, and bio-inspiration of animal adhesion, friction, and locomotion; he/him/his 🏳️🌈
As an ICB Assistant Editor, we would love to have you review for us! We had some great symposia this year!
ICB is our annual meeting proceedings journal.
Did you attend #SICB2026 or
even if you were unable to attend in person, we'd love for you to go to our program and #review ICB works from our speakers that interest you.
www.xcdsystem.com/sicb/program...
#biologists #SICB #science
Did you attend #SICB2026 or
even if you were unable to attend in person, we'd love for you to go to our program and #review ICB works from our speakers that interest you.
www.xcdsystem.com/sicb/program...
#biologists #SICB #science
January 9, 2026 at 1:06 PM
As an ICB Assistant Editor, we would love to have you review for us! We had some great symposia this year!
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Had lots of fun delivering the @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social Carl Gans award lecture yesterday at @sicb.bsky.social #SICB2026! Grateful to have the support of so many incredible colleagues in comparative biomechanics.
January 8, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Had lots of fun delivering the @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social Carl Gans award lecture yesterday at @sicb.bsky.social #SICB2026! Grateful to have the support of so many incredible colleagues in comparative biomechanics.
Congrats to @armanafzadeh.bsky.social! Your talk was amazing and your work insanely cool!
JEB Editor, Monica Daley, presents the JEB-sponsored 2026 Carl Gans Award to Armita Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social #SICB2026 for her lecture, Joints: form, function, and the future of comparative biomechanics
January 8, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Congrats to @armanafzadeh.bsky.social! Your talk was amazing and your work insanely cool!
The Garner Lab for Animal Morphology & Mechanics (GLAMM) is in full force at #SICB2026! Check out some of our work studying adhesion and locomotion in geckos, anoles, and sea urchins @sicb.bsky.social @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social
January 4, 2026 at 9:11 AM
The Garner Lab for Animal Morphology & Mechanics (GLAMM) is in full force at #SICB2026! Check out some of our work studying adhesion and locomotion in geckos, anoles, and sea urchins @sicb.bsky.social @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social
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The countdown begins… ⏰
Sunday at #SICB2026 is already STACKED!
🗂️ Whether you’ve built your itinerary or you’re still deciding, we’ve got you covered with these at-a-glance schedules.
👉 DCB & DVM folks: tag us so we can hype your talks and posters!
More at-a-glance posts coming soon 👀
Sunday at #SICB2026 is already STACKED!
🗂️ Whether you’ve built your itinerary or you’re still deciding, we’ve got you covered with these at-a-glance schedules.
👉 DCB & DVM folks: tag us so we can hype your talks and posters!
More at-a-glance posts coming soon 👀
December 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The countdown begins… ⏰
Sunday at #SICB2026 is already STACKED!
🗂️ Whether you’ve built your itinerary or you’re still deciding, we’ve got you covered with these at-a-glance schedules.
👉 DCB & DVM folks: tag us so we can hype your talks and posters!
More at-a-glance posts coming soon 👀
Sunday at #SICB2026 is already STACKED!
🗂️ Whether you’ve built your itinerary or you’re still deciding, we’ve got you covered with these at-a-glance schedules.
👉 DCB & DVM folks: tag us so we can hype your talks and posters!
More at-a-glance posts coming soon 👀
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Off to #SICB2026! Come check out the work from my lab:
Sun at 11am (202)- My talk about the evolution of amphibian sperm
Tues poster session - two posters about green frog sperm performance in egg water presented by my awesome students!
See you there! 🐸 ⚫〰️
Sun at 11am (202)- My talk about the evolution of amphibian sperm
Tues poster session - two posters about green frog sperm performance in egg water presented by my awesome students!
See you there! 🐸 ⚫〰️
January 3, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Off to #SICB2026! Come check out the work from my lab:
Sun at 11am (202)- My talk about the evolution of amphibian sperm
Tues poster session - two posters about green frog sperm performance in egg water presented by my awesome students!
See you there! 🐸 ⚫〰️
Sun at 11am (202)- My talk about the evolution of amphibian sperm
Tues poster session - two posters about green frog sperm performance in egg water presented by my awesome students!
See you there! 🐸 ⚫〰️
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If you're at #SICB2026 , be sure to talk with just a few of ICB's assistant eds, associate eds, & or E.I.C. Ulrike Muller .
Here are a few attending SICB
@agarner.bsky.social
@kassthefish.bsky.social
@mayerllab.bsky.social
@ajnarivera.bsky.social
& more!
& read issues
academic.oup.com/icb
Here are a few attending SICB
@agarner.bsky.social
@kassthefish.bsky.social
@mayerllab.bsky.social
@ajnarivera.bsky.social
& more!
& read issues
academic.oup.com/icb
January 3, 2026 at 12:15 PM
If you're at #SICB2026 , be sure to talk with just a few of ICB's assistant eds, associate eds, & or E.I.C. Ulrike Muller .
Here are a few attending SICB
@agarner.bsky.social
@kassthefish.bsky.social
@mayerllab.bsky.social
@ajnarivera.bsky.social
& more!
& read issues
academic.oup.com/icb
Here are a few attending SICB
@agarner.bsky.social
@kassthefish.bsky.social
@mayerllab.bsky.social
@ajnarivera.bsky.social
& more!
& read issues
academic.oup.com/icb
Happy holidays from me and Miko!
December 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Happy holidays from me and Miko!
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Not long now til #SICB 's annual meeting!
sicb.org/events/upcom...
If you're meeting us there, be sure to attend
S06: #Behavioral and #environmental monitoring with #open-source and low-cost tools.
Organized by:
Yash Sondhi & Brett Seymoure & Thomas Franzem
#biology #academia #science
sicb.org/events/upcom...
If you're meeting us there, be sure to attend
S06: #Behavioral and #environmental monitoring with #open-source and low-cost tools.
Organized by:
Yash Sondhi & Brett Seymoure & Thomas Franzem
#biology #academia #science
December 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Not long now til #SICB 's annual meeting!
sicb.org/events/upcom...
If you're meeting us there, be sure to attend
S06: #Behavioral and #environmental monitoring with #open-source and low-cost tools.
Organized by:
Yash Sondhi & Brett Seymoure & Thomas Franzem
#biology #academia #science
sicb.org/events/upcom...
If you're meeting us there, be sure to attend
S06: #Behavioral and #environmental monitoring with #open-source and low-cost tools.
Organized by:
Yash Sondhi & Brett Seymoure & Thomas Franzem
#biology #academia #science
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The new policy also shortens rejection feedback from a page to 3-5 sentences. This will particularly hurt early-career researchers who benefit from detailed guidance to improve proposals. We can't cultivate the next generation of researchers by eliminating the mentorship embedded in thorough review.
December 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
The new policy also shortens rejection feedback from a page to 3-5 sentences. This will particularly hurt early-career researchers who benefit from detailed guidance to improve proposals. We can't cultivate the next generation of researchers by eliminating the mentorship embedded in thorough review.
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🧵 NSF is reducing external review requirements and eliminating routine expert panels, citing staff shortages that this administration implemented. This change expands program officer authority. But the solution to flawed accountability isn't less public accountability.
NSF plans to streamline merit review to heal self-inflicted staffing wound www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF pares down grant-review process, reducing influence of outside scientists
Memo cites overburdened staff, but some say move also aims to elevate White House priorities
www.science.org
December 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
🧵 NSF is reducing external review requirements and eliminating routine expert panels, citing staff shortages that this administration implemented. This change expands program officer authority. But the solution to flawed accountability isn't less public accountability.
Reposted by Dr. Austin M. Garner
In preparation for this upcoming panel at @sicb.bsky.social, I filmed an Editing 101 for scientists looking to make longer form science outreach videos using Premiere Pro. You can check it out here! youtu.be/pBLuY9ScjEI
November 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
In preparation for this upcoming panel at @sicb.bsky.social, I filmed an Editing 101 for scientists looking to make longer form science outreach videos using Premiere Pro. You can check it out here! youtu.be/pBLuY9ScjEI
@sicb.bsky.social’s Public Affairs Committee is running their Student Journalism program again this year and is hosting a cool multimedia science communication workshop with panelists @bigbiology.bsky.social, Sönke Johnsen, @oceanfilly.bsky.social, and @virginiagewin.bsky.social!!
Be sure to read our latest #SICB newsletter and meet the
Public Affairs Committee chair
Phoebe Edwards
sicb.burkclients.com/wp/?page_id=...
The PAC wants to highlight two upcoming #science #communication opportunities at the 2026 annual meeting.
Public Affairs Committee chair
Phoebe Edwards
sicb.burkclients.com/wp/?page_id=...
The PAC wants to highlight two upcoming #science #communication opportunities at the 2026 annual meeting.
November 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
@sicb.bsky.social’s Public Affairs Committee is running their Student Journalism program again this year and is hosting a cool multimedia science communication workshop with panelists @bigbiology.bsky.social, Sönke Johnsen, @oceanfilly.bsky.social, and @virginiagewin.bsky.social!!
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#SICB _ MONDAY JOB ALERT!!
The Garner Lab for #Animal #Morphology & #Mechanics is looking to recruit an MS student for Fall 2026 to study the functional #morphology and #biomechanics of #adhesion, friction & more.
Interested? Reach out to @agarner.bsky.social
garnera@fau.edu
The Garner Lab for #Animal #Morphology & #Mechanics is looking to recruit an MS student for Fall 2026 to study the functional #morphology and #biomechanics of #adhesion, friction & more.
Interested? Reach out to @agarner.bsky.social
garnera@fau.edu
November 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
#SICB _ MONDAY JOB ALERT!!
The Garner Lab for #Animal #Morphology & #Mechanics is looking to recruit an MS student for Fall 2026 to study the functional #morphology and #biomechanics of #adhesion, friction & more.
Interested? Reach out to @agarner.bsky.social
garnera@fau.edu
The Garner Lab for #Animal #Morphology & #Mechanics is looking to recruit an MS student for Fall 2026 to study the functional #morphology and #biomechanics of #adhesion, friction & more.
Interested? Reach out to @agarner.bsky.social
garnera@fau.edu
I'm excited to announce that my lab is moving to the Department of Biological Sciences at Florida Atlantic University in January next year! Can't wait to join amazing new colleagues and be able to run outside year round to work with lizards on campus and sea urchins at the FAU Marine Lab!
November 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I'm excited to announce that my lab is moving to the Department of Biological Sciences at Florida Atlantic University in January next year! Can't wait to join amazing new colleagues and be able to run outside year round to work with lizards on campus and sea urchins at the FAU Marine Lab!
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@syracuseu.bsky.social News just published a short piece about a new Shiny-based open-source webapp that I'm working on that is called paleopal!
It's still very much a work-in-progress, but you can check out a working prototype here: williamgearty.com/paleopal/.
news.syr.edu/2025/10/02/o...
It's still very much a work-in-progress, but you can check out a working prototype here: williamgearty.com/paleopal/.
news.syr.edu/2025/10/02/o...
Open Source, Open Science: New App Leads Data Reproducibility
Open-source app "Paleopal" facilitates replication and sharing of information among researchers using data science tools to create workflows.
news.syr.edu
October 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
@syracuseu.bsky.social News just published a short piece about a new Shiny-based open-source webapp that I'm working on that is called paleopal!
It's still very much a work-in-progress, but you can check out a working prototype here: williamgearty.com/paleopal/.
news.syr.edu/2025/10/02/o...
It's still very much a work-in-progress, but you can check out a working prototype here: williamgearty.com/paleopal/.
news.syr.edu/2025/10/02/o...
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We've already got hundreds of students and mentors here, sharing how the sudden policy change has derailed plans. We're looking at formally "delivering" results to NSF leadership tomorrow, please do keep sharing and spreading the word: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
September 29, 2025 at 11:18 PM
We've already got hundreds of students and mentors here, sharing how the sudden policy change has derailed plans. We're looking at formally "delivering" results to NSF leadership tomorrow, please do keep sharing and spreading the word: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
The NSF GRFP is one of ever fewer multi-year funding opportunities for graduate students pursuing basic research. Please sign and share this petition to urge NSF to adjust or reverse their recent policy changes to the GRFP!!
We've got hundreds of signatures in five hours... but if we can cross 1000 by morning when I send this to NSF that'd be great. The stories from past, current, and future applicants in the comments section are hearbreaking. Keep up the pressure, and please please sign!!!
NSF unexpectedly changed (at the last minute) who is eligible to apply for the Grad Research Fellowship, dropping 2nd year students. We started a petition to reverse this unfair change, Sign here:
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
and please spread the word!!!!
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
and please spread the word!!!!
September 30, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The NSF GRFP is one of ever fewer multi-year funding opportunities for graduate students pursuing basic research. Please sign and share this petition to urge NSF to adjust or reverse their recent policy changes to the GRFP!!
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Today is “drag and tag,” tagging sharks with drag queens while raising money for LGBQT+ youth organizations in Florida!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/drag...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/drag...
Drag Queens Tag Sharks in Annual Florida Science Celebration
The annual “Drag ’n Tag” expedition takes place amid a wave of antitransgender legislation
www.scientificamerican.com
September 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT!
Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889
Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889
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September 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT!
Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889
Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889
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Third, read here to learn more about what we are facing: www.syracuse.com/opinion/2025...
Union: Austerity threatens SUNY ESF’s mission. NY can’t afford to lose it (Guest Opinion)
"If SUNY’s approach continues, ESF will have fewer programs, fewer students, fewer partnerships and generate fewer jobs in Syracuse and across the state," write UUP leaders.
www.syracuse.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Third, read here to learn more about what we are facing: www.syracuse.com/opinion/2025...
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Second: send a letter to the governor of NY actionnetwork.org/letters/gov-...
Gov. Hochul: Please invest in the future of SUNY ESF!
Please send this e-letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul urging her to support an $10 million increase to SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, which is needed to financially stabilize this vital ...
actionnetwork.org
September 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Second: send a letter to the governor of NY actionnetwork.org/letters/gov-...
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First: share ALL posts that you see about this by ESF faculty, staff, and students. The more attention we can receive, the better. We really need media coverage! This can be hard sometime since we are such a small campus community.
September 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
First: share ALL posts that you see about this by ESF faculty, staff, and students. The more attention we can receive, the better. We really need media coverage! This can be hard sometime since we are such a small campus community.
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New paper is officially out!
Ratfish have a second jaw on their foreheads - CT + histology show they’re real teeth, built from the same tissues and signals as oral teeth.
www.washington.edu/news/2025/09...
Ratfish have a second jaw on their foreheads - CT + histology show they’re real teeth, built from the same tissues and signals as oral teeth.
www.washington.edu/news/2025/09...
This common fish has an uncommon feature: forehead teeth, used for mating
New findings call into question one of the core assumptions about teeth. Adult male spotted ratfish, a shark-like species native to the eastern Pacific Ocean, have rows of teeth on top of their heads,...
www.washington.edu
September 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
New paper is officially out!
Ratfish have a second jaw on their foreheads - CT + histology show they’re real teeth, built from the same tissues and signals as oral teeth.
www.washington.edu/news/2025/09...
Ratfish have a second jaw on their foreheads - CT + histology show they’re real teeth, built from the same tissues and signals as oral teeth.
www.washington.edu/news/2025/09...