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European XROMM Network@europexn.bsky.social · 4w ago

John Nyakatura from Humboldt University, Berlin, will talk about XROMM and its markerless variant, Scientific Rotoscoping, and how these techniques provide powerful means to visualize and quantify shoulder mechanics during locomotion. EXN Workshop #SEBConference @sebiology.bsky.social

Rebecca Lowes will walk through a real example that she’s been working on.

Peter Falkingham from Liverpool John Moores University will be talking about Blender XROMM tools and the workflow there (introducing that it exists, showing what it can do, and fostering discussion/questions about what people _want_ it to do. EXN Workshop #SEBConference @sebiology.bsky.social

Johannes Tassani-Prell, Leipzig University, Institute of Veterinary Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, will talk about 'The New FluoKin Gait Lab in Leipzig: Past and Future Projects' at the EXN workshop July 9, 9-10:30 #SEBConference @sebiology.bsky.social

Are you guys excited for our @sebiology.bsky.social #SEB2026 workshop tomorrow???

European XROMM Network@europexn.bsky.social · 4w ago

Lukas Hageneder, University of Antwerp, will talk about customizable water flow tracers for x-ray systems at the EXN Workshop at the #SEBConference July 9, 9-10:30. Modulo 1. @sebiology.bsky.social

Kiisa Nishikawa shares a few of her valuable academic lessons in her plenary: anything is more fun than finishing your PhD, and side projects can become your main research focus @sebiology.bsky.social #SEB2026

Interested in learning more about XROMM, x-ray data collection, 3D reconstruction methods and analysis? Don't miss our awesome speaker lineup at the #EXN Workshop this 9th, the last day of the #SEBConference in Florence, Italy! 9-10 AM in Modulo 1. See you there!

We're here and ready! Looking forward to welcoming everyone tomorrow at the #SEBconference. See you soon! More details 👇 underline.io/events/515/reception

WE HAVE AVOCET NEWS!!! An Avocet spotted at RSPB Middleton Lakes has been confirmed as the oldest ever recorded in the UK. At 36 years old, it's lived more than five times longer than the species' average lifespan. First ringed in 1990, it's still out there doing Avocet things. Go on Avocet. 😍

Meet the EXN (European XROMM Network) organizing team #SEBConference @sebiology.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social @kriscran.bsky.social @kelseytstilson.bsky.social @racheltran.bsky.social See you July 9th, 9-10:30m Modulo 1 !

This session brings together the disparate European research groups utilising 3D x-ray motion analysis (XROMM) techniques. It will serve as both an introductory event to the EXN and an opportunity to highlight the amazing XROMM advances and challenges. #SEBConference @sebiology.bsky.social

1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last mo.

Women’s use of AI is perceived as a sign of incompetence, while men’s use of AI is seen as an indication of initiative. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Hey that's my preprint!!! This is the last 3.5 years of my life and research and I'm so excited for it to be out! Hopefully coming to a journal near you soon! 🧪

bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · last mo.

Headbutting goats self-inflict traumatic brain injury https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.26.734585v1

Stoked to be meeting secondary school teachers today for Boosting Science Wales! We’ll be working with our mini wind tunnel today thinking about bird wings 🤩

Hey students: AI might make your emails *look* clever but all you are doing is pushing your work on to me. I can smell it a mile away, and I don’t play that game.

Great work from Simone Videsen. We found sperm whale slow clicks maintain extreme isochrony with inter-click intervals up to ~10s. That's beyond any known neural system for precise interval timing. May be a long-distance communication system. nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

NYAS Publications

In this study, we show that male sperm whales produce low-frequency slow clicks at low repetition rates with extreme source levels > 200 dB re 1 µPa (pp), making them the loudest mammalian communicat...

nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Just signed a work email: ‘Best, thanks’ Brain fog is one hell of a humbler.

So stoked that our new @booktrust.org.uk Cymru book is by @evoswami.bsky.social !! How cool! Diolch :)

The very clever Outlook autofill just tried to end ‘hope you had a nice…’ with ‘Thanksgiving.’ Which WOW. wrong season, wrong continent. But good hustle.

Exciting news! Our website is now available in CYMRAEG! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 www.bangor.ac.uk/cy/ygan/beps...

Ymddygiad, Ecoleg a Ffisioleg ym Mangor

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3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama! Three positions, each including salary & a research budget. Applications due April, 15th. DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us! stri.si.edu/academic-pro...

Never too late! From a hot summer in 2009 spent in the lab molecularly sexing pied flycatchers to a 2026 paper 🐦 Using 2,759 sexed nestlings (1997–2018) tracked through 2023, we show male attractiveness & annual rearing conditions increase the proportion of sons in broods 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

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

Genome Biology and Evolution@genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 5mo 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

What’s the point of deadlines if students just ignore them and apply for SCs. More than half my module just breezed past their deadline.

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!

🐡⁉️Ever wondered how a pufferfish inflates? Very excited to announce that Drs Rachel Tran and Ariel Camp will be giving a FREE TALK/WORKSHOP on this very topic on the 10th March at Storyhouse in Chester with Chester SciBar! (details below)

The process of #PeerReview is vital to contemporary science, but is also under enormous strain. @carlbergstrom.com & Kevin Gross use mathematical models to dissect the threats to the long-term viability of peer review, suggesting ways to stabilize it @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4kR02bo

Month two back at work: short run before the nursery pickup. Am i crushing this work life balance stuff or what? Feels like a what.

I LOVE when science is applied to "toddler questions" like "Why is the sky blue?" or "Why is ice slippery?" Because the answers can be so SUPRISING. Let's dig into recent revelations about how ice skates work & why tires skid across black ice. First, we'll dismiss 3 VERY GOOD hypotheses as wrong.

Jennifer Ouellette@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 6mo ago

What makes ice slippery? Scientists may have finally figured it out www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

Excited to share our new review in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com, coauthored w/allstar postdocs @vale-alaasam.bsky.social @annainthefield.bsky.social @anthonysnead.bsky.social Bridging island biogeography & evolutionary processes, we explore how eco-evo dynamics play out in the urban mosaic rdcu.be/e4tcj

Eco-evolutionary dynamics shaping biodiversity in the urban mosaic

Nature Reviews Biodiversity - The urban mosaic is a complex assimilation of habitats, biotic and abiotic factors with eco-evolutionary influence on local and regional biodiversity. In this Review,...

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