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#SICB 's March Zoom
#Ornithologist Emma Rhodes of the Banding Coalition of the Americas ( BCA ), will share with us about her research & the effort of the
www.bandingcoalition.org
& email sicbmedia@sicb.org to receive a link to join us Monday March 9th at 12 noon est
& note other upcoming talks
🦈 New paper in @sicbjournals.bsky.social:
We found that the whip-tail in pelagic rays restores stability during gliding locomotion, acting as a key passive stabilizer.
Open access: shorturl.at/gqzzd
Thanks to Sawyer Cooper, Connor White & @georgelauder.bsky.social
#MarineBiology #Elasmobranchs
A flyer advertising an open PhD position titled "Evolutionary Ecology of Avian Energetics" at the Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno. It is funded by the Czech Science Foundation (GACR). The text outlines a project investigating avian energy metabolites using fieldwork, macroevolutionary analyses, metabolomics, and advanced statistics. It lists essential qualifications including an MSc degree, and offers a fully funded position with guaranteed income and student housing. Applications require a CV, a max 400-word motivation letter, and references, submitted via a provided link. Review begins March 16, 2026. The flyer features photos of field researchers, a bird being measured with a blood glucose meter, and a research team working together around a table.
Fully funded 4-year PhD in Avian Evolutionary Physiology in Czechia! 🇨🇿🇪🇺
Join IVB CAS to study the evolutionary ecology of avian energetics (glucose/fatty acids).
🐦 Fieldwork (Barn swallows, passerines)
🧪 Metabolomics
💻 Adv. stats in R
Apply by March 16! 👇
forms.gle/AFkpt4foeV5i...
#EcoEvo #PhD
My department (Anatomical Sciences & Neurobiology, University of Louisville School of Medicine) is hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor to teach gross anatomy! Apply below to join our team of lovely anatomists (including a few paleontologists):
uofl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UofLCa...
Catch #SICB's Feb lunch with
M.I.S.S. - Sara Asadi
youtu.be/B6dJC3jFhnQ?...
where she shares how those in the Persian Gulf may be able to lead the way in other parts of the world for them to know how to preserve #ecosystems and species.
Sara is the author on
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
#sharks
Welcome new follower & past #SICB journals-
ICB author @cephagus.bsky.social 🙌
If you haven't read his co authored read,
don't miss it
Atlantic #Oceanic #Squids in the “Grey Speciation Zone”
Fernández-Álvarez , Sanchez ,Deville , Taite , Villanueva , A Louise Allcock
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
Toby Daly-Engel is on the latest ICB /Minorities in Shark Sciences
February lunch zoom for #SICB, now house on our YouTube
youtu.be/2gMKEHPNUUk?...
Toby is a friend of M.I.S.S. and co author on
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
Read more about Toby and her team
research.fit.edu/dalyengellab....
My department at CSU Northridge is hiring a vertebrate functional morphologist! We've got a great EEB group, and we're looking for someone to carry forward a tradition of enriching organismal courses and community-engaged research. App review starts March 15
csucareers.calstate.edu/mob/cw/en-us...
Today is #InternationalPolarBearDay 🐻❄️❄️
Did you know polar bears are considered marine mammals and can only be found in the Arctic? Check out NWF’s "Polar Bear Fun" guide for kids and families to learn more. ⏬
Download the guide 📲: https://ow.ly/bAQa50Ym2TY
Flyer for the 2026 IMSI Summer Institute: Recruiting research interns. Join our interdisciplinary research training internship and study biomechanics, muscle physiology, biophysics, neurosciences, rehabilitation sciences and engineering. All career stages welcome, undergraduates especially encouraged to apply. Full time paid opportunity. Intensive research experience, practical skills development, supportive mentorship. Learn more at CIMS.uci.edu. One photo show a lab member collecting motion capture data as a person jumps. Another photo shows IMSI researchers setting up a camera for data collection in at a field research location showing a desert landscape in the foreground and a mountain range in the background.
Call for applications to the 2026 Integrative Movement Sciences Summer Institute!
This is a funded research internship, open to all career stages.
We especially encourage undergraduates to apply.
Application deadline is March 21.
More details here: cims.uci.edu/imsi-si-2026/
Please share!
We are so thrilled about this for you also! Thanks to you both for sharing your talks with us🙌CONGRATS!
An expo participant thanks to Plush, for joining us at #SICB2026 Portland.
Such an incredible group of #tattoo #artists who came to draw henna tatts of species on SICB attendees & they were a big hit🙌 Check out:
integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/inked-in-sci...
to show us your ink!
integrativebio.utexas.edu/directory/ju...
is also a great choice
When we host our annual #SICB meeting at a location, we love to locate, support & incorporate a local effort who is doing great work in their #community.
Thanks for visiting us and keep up your great work PACT!
Check out all they do
www.dovelewis.org/community/po...
#dogs #selfcare
#SICB is making sure we thank our sponsors by spotlighting those who came to #SICB2026 Portland:
Have you see the work of
@3danatomystudios.com ?
They are a #scientist -run business and we appreciated them joining us this year and be sure to see what they're up to :
3danatomystudios.com
Animal defenses with Dr. @tedstankowich.bsky.social.
Get into it:
alieward.com/ologies/zooh...
#SICB2026 expo
ICB EIC , Ulrike Muller who headed up Leapfrogging for change - doing #science in 2026.
The booth focused on building a network of #Biologists willing to help elevate the public perception of science in 2026.
contact Ulrike to find out more
csm.fresnostate.edu/about/direct...
Spotlight on booth exhibitors at #SICB2026
if you missed @biologycarly.bsky.social in Portland, be sure to see her site and buy her latest #book:
carlyanneyork.wixsite.com/website
Carly is an #animal #behaviorist and #physiologist who studies how #animals interact with their environments.
If you're looking for some fun weekend reading, check out our recent review on marine apicomplexans, out now in ICB (@sicbjournals.bsky.social)! #ProtistsOnSky
Congrats on publication, Anthony and as luck would have it, @sicbjournals.bsky.social is promoting your paper on Monday🙌
Watch footage from the site of this year's #SICB2026
Carl Gans awardee
& lecturer, @armanafzadeh.bsky.social
www.manafzadeh.com/research
to learn how joints work & where they come from #evolutionarily as well as where joints come from developmentally.
#biomechanics #science #biology
Look at the foot on this guy! This bivalve juvenile is old enough to have a fabulous appendage, called the foot, which it will use to move about and find somewhere to settle. You can also see the gills in the shell (the rib-looking things).
#marineplankton 🦑
@armanafzadeh.bsky.social
gave the #SICB2026 Gans lecture and
@flammanglab.bsky.social
introduced her.
Armita lectured on
Joints: form, function, and the future of comparative #biomechanics
read more about her incredible work!
mvlab.yale.edu/armita-manaf...
&
www.manafzadeh.com
This week we are spotlighting #SICB2026 Carl Gans Awardee/Lecturer-
@armanafzadeh.bsky.social & be sure you don't miss her episode of
#Dinosaur Dynamics Unveiled: Dr. Armita Manafzadeh Revolutionizes Ancient Joint Movement
youtu.be/JGWnKjUuowM?...
#biomechanics #dinos #fossils #bioinspired
That’s great footage of you two 🙌!
Hope you didn’t miss out on
@drfishsg.bsky.social ‘s fantastic #fish #art in the fall 👍
integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/s...
Gans Lecturer https://sicb.org/awards/the-carl-gans-award/
Congrats to
@armanafzadeh.bsky.social
who was awarded the #SICB2026 Gans Award and spoke on
- Joints: form , function and the future of comparative #biomechanics
read more about her work:
mvlab.yale.edu/armita-manaf...
&
www.manafzadeh.com
#science #biology #Yale #bioinspired #anatomy
is of a #prickleback - a long and eel-like, monkeyface and pricklebacks sport a bluntly rounded snout, large fleshy lips and two black lines that radiate from behind their eyes. They have a dorsal fin that runs along the pricklebacks' backs and a lumpy ridge appears on adult monkeyface pricklebacks' heads.
Watch the last installment of
great footage shared from #SICB2026 's
#CannonBeach Tide pool excursion by the
Convergence lab ( @rchoover.bsky.social , @kassthefish.bsky.social , & more)
www.kassandraford.com
- see this amazing
#prickleback !
youtu.be/Ik8wGZRRNWI
#fish #oceanlife #science
