I am recruiting Ph.D. students this cycle. Students interested in deep-sea fishes and phylogenetic comparative methods are an especially good fit.

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Water & CO2 are prominent greenhouse gases. In his SI Review, Ajinkya Dahake discusses how insects sense H2O & CO2, and use the senses to locate plants, hosts & for navigation, although increasing CO2 could desensitise insects affecting host location journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Fish are at particular risk of climate change as their physiology is finely tuned by the temperature of their surroundings. Suzanne Currie & Julia York discuss how fish sense temperature & how the fish's own physical condition might impact their sensitivity journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

In the 1st article of the #SensoryPerceptionInAChangingWorld SI, Almut Kelber&co propose that scientists study all developmental stages of species & include entire ecosystems to understand how changes to sensory information caused by humans affect animals journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Historian of science Janet Browne, author of the definitive biography of Charles Darwin (Voyaging, 1995; The Power of Place, 2002) will publish an abridged and updated one-volume version this June with @princetonupress.bsky.social: bit.ly/4mS7R0Q #DarwinDay #HPS #histsci

Congratulations to Nicholas Antonson @nickantonson.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 JEB Outstanding Paper Prize, for his research into the neuromuscular coordination of movement and breathing in woodpecker drilling Find out more about Nicholas & his research journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

On #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience, we celebrate all of the great women that contribute to JEB, from our fantastic female Editors to the female ECRs submitting their first ever paper to the journal! #WomeninScience

John Steffensen, titan of the field and extraordinary fish biologist, passed away unexpectedly on 27 September 2025. In their affectionate Obituary, Peter Bushnell, Paolo Domenici, David McKenzie & Robert Shadwick remember John & his remarkable creativity journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

When the original authors and those who find errors in their work, pull together for the sake of correcting the record and moving science forward, it's a beautiful thing Retracted paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Located on the California Coast, Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station has been a home to inspirational research for more than 130 years. In his Perspective, Mark Denny talks about the field station’s august past and current ground-breaking research journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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We are delighted to introduce a new Perspective series highlighting the important role that field stations have played, and continue to play, in comparative physiology and biomechanics To find out about Harvard's Concord Field Station & more go to journals.biologists.com/jeb/collecti...

If you're a JEB author and fish biologist, then the 16th International Congress on the Biology of Fish #ICBF2026 in Vancouver, Canada, 12-16 July 2026, is the perfect meeting for you! Abstract submission and registration are now open: icbf2026.com

Calling all JEB ECRs! It's that time again! The deadline for the next JEB Travelling Fellowship applications is 6 February, so if you've got a burning desire to travel to another lab to answer an extraordinary question get your application ready now! www.biologists.com/grants/trave...

Preprint: our systematic review of hybrids between blue whales and fin whales. There are 46 possible cases, of which 17 have been genetically confirmed (15 from the North Atlantic!) doi.org/10.22541/au....

What do we know about hybrid blue (Balaenoptera musculus) and fin (B. physalus) whales? A comprehensive review across ocean basins

Hybrids between blue (Balaenoptera musculus) and fin (B. physalus) whales have been reported since commercial whaling in the late 1800s. Even while species descriptions were still at their infancy, wh...

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In his recent Conversation, DouglasFudge @fudgelab.bsky.social talks about the remarkable biology of hagfishes, how they release colossal quantities of slime almost instantaneously for protection from shark attack &their ability to wriggle out of tight corners journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...

Postdoctoral position in evolutionary genomics of sex chromosomes in anurans at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Apply by 03/10/2026: https://jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-Postdoctoral-researcher-in-evolutionary-genomics/1285868901/ #postdoc

We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🌲 🌳 🌍 📍Interested in boreal and temperate forest productivity and respiration? 💻 Like to work with large datasets, remote sensing and models? 🏔️ Love an alpine setting in a small town? Come and join us at KIT! Application details: t1p.de/qctj7

Looking for a PhD or Postdoc in marine #invertebrates comparative #morphology, #development, #phylogenetics, #fluid mechanics, #skeletogenesis, or #paleontology? Ping me. sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/funding/o...

Amazing! Way to go Minneapolis!

We escaped the ice and have been science hard for 2 days - four full stations and a big factorial experiment setup! Very tired but very happy to be working. We caught Antarctic krill at one station, and lots of salps at all stations. Love the Green krill guts full of phytoplankton! #oceanography 🌊🇦🇶🦐

NSF just posted their Dear Colleague Letter regarding the restructuring of NCAR. www.nsf.gov/funding/info...

NSF Intent to Restructure Critical Weather Infrastructure

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This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public. We are at Stalinesque levels of propaganda. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

After the recent rare sighting of this deep-sea wonder right off the coast of Monterey Bay, we decided to dig into our archives and share a few more glimpses of this fantastically frilly fish (Trachipterus altivelis).

My child has declared this Elephant Bird Awareness Day and wants me to tell some people. Were you aware of elephant birds? You are now.

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🌊 Last call to all ocean champions! It’s not too late to stand up against offshore drilling by making a public comment and contacting your representatives: mbayaq.co/4qGUORY #MontereyBayAquarium #NoDrilling #SaveOurCoast #StandUpToOffshoreDrilling

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Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers. Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social

US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains

A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.

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The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone. The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets. We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.