This week's #SICB student awardee spotlight is on Steven Vogel Award for best poster: Chloe Kaelin for work on Lake Malawi #cichlids outperform #neotropical #species in benthic feeding & see evescholars.wordpress.com/2025-cohort/... #science #fish #biology

​​We will be featuring our #SICB student awardees over the next several weeks at least once a week. This week's spotlight is on Division of Comparative #Physiology and Biochemistry @sicb-dcpb.bsky.social Caroline Terry of labs.wsu.edu/dowd/ labs.wsu.edu/dowd/ #copepod #metabolic #science

‼️🚨 Job Alert ‼️ 🚨 Two Post Doc Opportunities: PDRA in Macroecology / Paleobiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... PDRA in Extinction & Conservation / Paleobiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Any questions, please get in touch! Closing date May 1st.

Did you know it costs us $64 a month to host Biology PhD stipends? Excited for this upgrade which takes our hosting costs to $0! mlgaynor.com/BiologyPhDSt...

Hey y'all. I'm a month late to this, but I wanted to share that one of my PhD chapters was published in Systematic Biology with my advisor, Frank Burbrink. Here, we explore how ecological opportunity influences phenotypic evolution in North American natricid snakes. 🧵/8

NeurodivergNet is a grassroots network founded by and for neurodivergent employees of the Max Planck Society. A place where people can connect & support one another, as well as a platform for collaboration on raising awareness and advocating for accessibility in the field of #neurodiversity.

Neurodivergnet | A network by and for neurodivergent scientists

A grassroots network created by and for neurodivergent scientists in academia.

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SICB's April lunch zoom is coming up with @biologycarly.bsky.social ! carlyanneyork.wixsite.com/website on April 6th 12 noon est join us by emailing sicbmedia@sicb.org to receive a link Carly will be interviewed by #scientist & #writer @rchoover.bsky.social of www.kassandraford.com/people

Check out our new paper on clingfishes led by @fishtide.bsky.social!

Genome Biology and Evolution@genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Wagner et al. combined phenotypic and genomic data to study convergence in Mediterranean gravel beach clingfishes, revealing convergence at the level of individual genes, variants, and biological pathways, but not across genomes. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag031 #genome #evolution

Tuesday at #SICB2026 is packed 🐾🌊 A full day of talks and posters that we close out with the SICB Member Meeting and a DCB/DVM/DEDB social 🎉 📣 Presenting today? Tag us so we can hype your work!

🦦 If you're attending SICB 2026, don't miss my team’s presentations exploring how the cranial morphology of otters and other mustelids reflects how they move, sense, and survive in their environment. #SICB2026

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 👀

NSF PDs will be @sicb.bsky.social. Stop by booth 308 if you would like to sign up to chat with us or catch us in the conference center. Informal workshop and Q and A session, Sunday Jan 4th from 12:15 to 1:15 in B110/111. #SICB2026.

Tomorrow at 11am is my #SICB2026 talk on early ray-finned fishes! Come by and see all the cool fossils we've CT scanned. Track me down during the rest of the conference to see some 3D printed jaws.....

DIZ rep Will starting us out with the Student and First Timers Orientation! @sicbjournals.bsky.social #SICB2026

Welcome to SICB 2026! Come see us in Oregon 201 for the first ever Student Postdoc Affairs Committee Members Meeting from 5:45-6:30PM! @sicb.bsky.social #SICB2026

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

ICB Student awardee paper Investigating Best Practices for Applying a Quantitative #Tooth Complexity Metric to #Fishes Williams & Price doi.org/10.1093/icb/... "Although fishes constitute nearly half of all known vertebrate diversity, their dentitions remain remarkably understudied..." #science

JOB ALERT! Collection Manager job going in Palaeontology at the Australian Museum in Sydney, Australia iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/collecti...

If you're going to #SICB Portland 2026, be sure to stop by and purchase see the fantastic #art of @noahwithfish.bsky.social Long time SICBer and @sicbjournals.bsky.social co author) Noah is our featured SICB Journals booth #artist !🙌 See Noah's site noahbressman.wixsite.com/noah and stop by.

Preview of my #SICB2026 talk on early fish jaws. Paleozoic ray-finned fish systematics is a mess. Someone should really work on that😅

New paper out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org Biology Letters, led by undergrad superstar Laina Weiss! An experimental test of theory on the effects of temperature and resources on carrying capacity. So proud 🥹 tinyurl.com/yvmzmt9a @integrativebiology.bsky.social

Hey SICB, this is a great time to remind you about an open position at Loyola University Chicago that combines the biology of sex with the humanities and social sciences. If you are interested and have questions, please let me know. The app. deadline is Jan. 1. www.careers.luc.edu/postings/34131

Biology and Women’s Studies and Gender Studies, Lecturer (Gender, Sexuality, and the Biology of Sex ), Non-Tenure track

Salary Range: $65,000 - $75,000Benefits Information: https://www.luc.edu/hr/benefits/The Department of Biology and the Women’s Studies and Gender Studies (WSGS) Program in the College of Arts and Scie...

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If you signed up to participate in SICB's mentor/mentee programs for the meeting in January. Check your email from Chair.SPDAC@sicb.org. Please fill out the form link in the email before this Sunday, December 21!!

Had so much fun making this with Ryan! Almost all of the species are Oregon natives! :) Penstemon ovatus, Bombus huntii, Melanerpes formicivorus - Acorn woodpecker, Umeces skiltonianus - Western skink, and Megalodacne heros - native oregon The rest are special to us :)

SICB Student Postdoc Affairs Committee (SPDAC)@sicb-spdac.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Our 3rd place winners are... Rebecca Beneroff (@botanicalbecks.bsky.social) and Ryan Fisk with this beautiful design! Please come see our booth in Portland to get this sticker! SPDAC representatives will be there during morning and afternoon breaks and during poster sessions. @sicb.bsky.social

And finally, our 1st place winner is... Eliyah Stern with this amazing design! Please come see our booth in Portland to get this sticker! SPDAC representatives will be there during morning and afternoon breaks and during poster sessions. @sicb.bsky.social

Our 2nd place winner is... Hanna Chow with this awesome design! Please come see our booth in Portland to get this sticker! SPDAC representatives will be there during morning and afternoon breaks and during poster sessions. @sicb.bsky.social

Our 3rd place winners are... Rebecca Beneroff (@botanicalbecks.bsky.social) and Ryan Fisk with this beautiful design! Please come see our booth in Portland to get this sticker! SPDAC representatives will be there during morning and afternoon breaks and during poster sessions. @sicb.bsky.social

Results are in for SPDAC's 2026 SICB sticker competition... Follow along to see who won and which stickers you'll find at SPDAC's booth at the annual meeting!

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...

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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...