Follow the lab's new Bluesky account to keep up with us in South Florida! 🦎🌊🌴🦑🪸🐠 bsky.app/profile/glam...

Follow me and the lab on Instagram to keep up with what we’re up to in South Florida! 🌴🦎🌊🦑🪸 www.instagram.com/dr.austingar... www.instagram.com/glammlabfau

FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science produced a fantastic video introducing my lab’s research to the University community! Stay tuned for new projects focused on adhesion, friction, and locomotion in terrestrial and aquatic animals🦎🌊🌴🪸 youtu.be/LsXOkvLQvvA

Getting a Grip: Decoding Nature’s Stickiest Secrets

YouTube video by FAU Charles E. Schmidt College of Science

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We are excited to have @benjamin-wasiljew.bsky.social join us down here in sunny SoFlo soon! Here’s to more cool lizard work, now with fieldwork opportunities built in! 🦎🌴

Dr. Benjamin D. Wasiljew@benjamin-wasiljew.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I am happy to share that, after two years at Syracuse University in upstate New York, I will continue my academic journey in the US as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Florida Atlantic University 🤗. Thank you to @agarner.bsky.social for the opportunity and your trust in me!

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...

If you are a student whose NSF GRFP application was returned without review for vague 'eligibility' reasons: 1) Let your department chair & Graduate School know. Encourage them to contact NSF & congress 2) Write to your congressional reps. 3) Write to grfp@nsf.gov to request re-consideration;

Second PhD paper is out! We find: 1) aquatic and terrestrial salamanders have different limb bone adaptations, 2) complex life cycles promote different traits, 3) decoupling of external and internal bone traits increase diversity. Thread (1/8) and FREE link below! 🦎🧪 doi.org/10.1111/joa....

Habitat and complex life cycles promote morphological diversity in salamander limb bones

We examined the external shape and cross-sectional morphology of limb bones in 133 salamander species spanning the ecological and phylogenetic breadth of Caudata. We find that adaptations for aquatic...

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A plea from an editor: postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍

Proud mentor here!! @benjamin-wasiljew.bsky.social is doing great work in the lab

Dr. Benjamin D. Wasiljew@benjamin-wasiljew.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New years time is SICB time! For this years meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) I decided to present a poster and a talk 😱. Although it was challenging, I am very grateful for the opportunity to present our work on geckos and anoles at such a prestigious conference!

As an ICB Assistant Editor, we would love to have you review for us! We had some great symposia this year!

SICB journals@sicbjournals.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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

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!

Journal of Experimental Biology@jexpbiol.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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

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

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 👀

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! 🐸 ⚫〰️

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

Happy holidays from me and Miko!

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

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.

🧵 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.

Jeffrey Mervis@policyhound.bsky.social · 8mo ago

NSF plans to streamline merit review to heal self-inflicted staffing wound www.science.org/content/arti...

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

Editing Your Science Communication Videos 101

YouTube video by Brooke Fitzwater, PhD

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Dr. Austin M. Garner@draustingarner.bsky.social · 9mo ago

@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!!

@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!!

Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology@sicb.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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.

#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

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!

@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...

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.

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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/

Jeremy Yoder says no war@jbyoder.org · 10mo ago

New today: We're petitioning NSF to revert GRFP eligibility criteria to last year's terms, to avoid pulling the rug out from under the earliest of early-career scientists who had every reason to think they'd be able to apply this year. Sign and spread 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!!

Daniel Bolnick@danielbolnick.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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!!!

Love this!

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Today is “drag and tag,” tagging sharks with drag queens while raising money for LGBQT+ youth organizations in Florida! www.scientificamerican.com/article/drag...

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

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.

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