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No better reason to join Bluesky then to say the first chapter of my PhD is out as a preprint! New surgeonfish phylogeny, ecomorphological relationships, evolutionary shape correlations-with NEW method to accurately account for phylogenetic covariation among shapes!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Phylogenetic relationships and the evolution of fin and body shape in the surgeonfishes
Patterns of evolutionary change in the fin and body shapes of fishes are strongly related to dietary ecology and locomotor mechanisms, and associations between shapes affects ecomorphological relation...
www.biorxiv.org
October 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Submit a design to SICB SPDAC's sticker competition by November 3! Win up to $100 in Visa giftcard!

Details in thread.

Submit your designs here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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October 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Enter the 2026 @sicb-spdac.bsky.social sticker contest! Stickers will be available at the SPDAC booth at the #SICB2026 meeting. Enter submissions by November 3 as PDF or PNG files (>600 dpi; no AI designs). 1st, 2nd, & 3rd place will receive Visa gift card prizes: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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September 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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@sicb-spdac.bsky.social competition!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
& to help
From Hypothesis to Holographic: How to Turn Your Scientific Research into Stickers
integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/f...
see @invertebabe.bsky.social & @noahwithfish.bsky.social art as #stickers
September 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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One final push for the survey before we close it! Are you (or were you) a neurodivergent faculty member? If so, please see below and consider helping with our study on neurodivergence in academia!
Please share! For Disability Pride Month, we are seeking neurodivergent academic faculty, instructors, & researchers at all levels to participate in a brief anonymous survey about their work experiences, coping strategies, & well-being. For info, go to: salisbury.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
September 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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I wrote a new blog post about being an #AuDHD academic and what life is like with and without wearing a mask...I hope to post blogs more regularly going forward!
An Autistic Academic — Mask Off
Experiencing a day at work with and without masking as an autistic academic has made me realize how much energy it takes to keep that…
medium.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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October 1 deadline for @nhm.org Student Collections Study Award. Get some $$ to spend time collecting data in our collections, including @tarpits.org
Open to:
- current undergraduate and grad students
- *not* local to Los Angeles (international applicants welcome)
More:
nhm.org/student-coll...
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Student Collections Study Award
The NHM Collections Study Awards provide funding for undergraduate and graduate students to visit and study the collections of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the La Brea Tar Pits & ...
nhm.org
September 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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We are hiring! The #PlantBio department at UIUC is looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in Plant-Fungal interactions. Application deadline is October 31st @dallingjim.bsky.social see the link below for more details:
illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Assistant Professor- Department of Plant Biology
Duties & Responsibilities
illinois.csod.com
September 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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UC Berkeley's Martin Fish Speciation Lab seeks a part-time lab manager for pupfish research. Requires a biology degree and some lab experience. Flexible hours, multi-year position. Apply: chmartin@berkeley.edu. More info at https://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/martin/ #job
Martin Lab
Martin Lab
ib.berkeley.edu
September 7, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Come and be our new Chair of Biology at @gtsciences.bsky.social! We are growing an incredibly exciting ecology and evolution group here at GT and would love a visionary eco-evo minded person at the helm to help us do that. Please spread the word!

biosciences.gatech.edu/chair-search
Chair Search
Chair, School of Biological Sciences Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta The School of Biological Sciences of the Georgia Institute of Technology (“Georgia Tech”) invites applications for the pos...
biosciences.gatech.edu
September 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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While full solicitation isn’t up, looks like we have 2025 proposal deadlines for the GRFP: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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I'm recruiting a PhD student to join the lab at @gtsciences.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Broad taxonomic and topical freedom under the umbrella of vertebrate joint form and function. Information here: www.manafzadeh.com – please share 🦴🩻
✨Some news✨: after finishing my postdoc, I’ll be starting my lab as an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. Join us in Atlanta to study how joints work and where they come from!
September 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Meet ICB’s
Anna Fagre, co-author on
Understanding #climate change threats to #vertebrate #wildlife by studying #ecoimmunology across #biological scales

by Anna Fagre
youtube.com/shorts/8O4RO...
& by
Becker , Pulscher , @mollysimonis.bsky.social ,Duncan

academic.oup.com/icb/advance-...
August 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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See this cool TT position focused on the Sensory Physiology of Sound at Aarhus University in Denmark! www.au.dk/om/stillinge... @sicb.bsky.social @sicb-spdac.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Invertebrate #marinelife #herps 🧪
Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Bioacoustic Physiology - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet
Ledig stilling ved Institut for Biologi - Zoofysiologi, Aarhus Universitet
www.au.dk
August 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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With many postdoc grants like the NSF PRFB, Ford Fellowship, and Hanna H. Gray fellowships disappearing, I am currently looking for grants that could fund incoming postdoctoral scholars. Here is a thread of some of them 🧵
July 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior
Job no: R-0000002388 Position Title: Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior Work Type: Faculty Full time In-Person Start Date: 07/01/2026 Job Description: The Department of Neuroscience and ...
mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
July 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Experiences like these are exactly why we love doing what we do. 💙

Inspiring the next generation of shark scientists is a privilege, but it's a privilege that we are only able to do because of you.

Learn more about our Defend the Deep campaign below.

donate.misselasmo.org/campaign/def...
July 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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In @fishguy.bsky.social’s lab we have done many studies on the suction cups of dead clingfish. In this new paper, @fishyologist.bsky.social et al and I found that clingfish can control their suction and stick harder than dead ones! @sicbjournals.bsky.social 🐟 🧪

DM for PDF

doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
July 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Our Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route is now open for applications, providing a fast-track option for attracting mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK from overseas, providing up to £4m over a five-year period.

#RSGrants
July 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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If you're teaching Scientific Writing this fall (especially if it's new to you!) and are getting worried about just how close the fall is getting: reminder that I share my syllabus and all my course materials. Here: scientistseessquirre...
Steal this (updated) syllabus for Scientific Writing
I’ve just finished the 3rd go-around of my Scientific Writing course.  When I first signed up to teach it, I was very scared, but now that I’ve been through it a few times, I’m quite pleased with h…
scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com
July 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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SICB media summer ZOOM talks!
See
www.linkedin.com/posts/sicb-a...
for details on @invertebabe.bsky.social , Tucker Hepinstall, and Drew Harvell talks and make plans to join us!
June 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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give us a follow on all our social media platforms !
instagram: @sicb.dcb.dvm

www.instagram.com/sicb.dcb.dvm

www.linkedin.com/groups/12952...
May 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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We have updated our database of funding opportunities for Early-Career Researchers (private foundations, federal, international)

We have 456 entries, for which we provide $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria, etc.

Download this massive database here for free: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM