The International Hibernation Society is happy to release the Seasonal Hibernation Highlights for the Summer 2026. Enjoy reading the latest research on Torpor & Hibernation as Seasonal Adaptative Strategies and as Biomimicry Inspiration!
Sylvain Giroud
@sgiroud.bsky.social
Professor of Wildlife Animal Physiology
Heading to @sebiology.bsky.social conference in Florence! If you want to learn about how behavioural thermoregulation shapes how heat tolerance evolves please come say hi 👋 🐝 I'm speaking in session A9 "Integrating genomics and ecology to study adaptation to global change" on Thursday @ 12:15pm.
Also stay tune if you want to know more on the long term & intergenerational effects of early-life heterothermic expression with studies about to be submitted and in preparation. So coming out hopefully soon!
A special thanks to my former graduate student, Laura Charlanne, first author of the study, now lecturer & postdoctoral researcher. Also a huge thanks to all co-authors of the study who made this journey possible.
Excellent visit of my colleague, Jessica LaPrice, at Washington & Lee Univeristy (W&L) at Lexington, VA, before heading up to the American Society of Mammalogists Annual Meeting in Norfolk. Very nice campus of W&L enabling unique students learning experiences!
Our Symposium on Flexible vs. Programmed Responses to Environnemental Extremes in Mammalian Heterotherms at the American Society of Mammalogists Annual Meeting, Norfolk, VA. Some unique memories with Mallory Ballinger (Cornell) Austin Allison (CSU), Malcom Reimer (U. Winnipeg) & Cory Williams (CSU).
Now I am thrilled to announce the publication of the first piece of a long-term study on developmental flexibility of energy saving strategies, namely torpor & huddling, in a small fat storing hibernator. This work happened during my time as senior researcher in Vienna. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Huddling and food availability shape seasonal torpor and energetics of juvenile garden dormice
animal physiology; biological sciences; rodent behavior
cell.com
If you are going to comment on the proposed changes to how science is done in the US, please use this guide. The rules specify that you have to mention the number associated with the proposed changes, and this blog has those. Here is where to comment: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposes to revise the Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance to improve government- wide policies and requirements related to the management of grants, co...
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Susana Wadgymar🌿🔬@smwadgymar.bsky.social · 2mo agoHere's a summary of what is being proposed: elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
Now I am thrilled to announce the publication of the first piece of a long-term study on developmental flexibility of energy saving strategies, namely torpor & huddling, in a small fat storing hibernator. This work happened during my time as senior researcher in Vienna. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Huddling and food availability shape seasonal torpor and energetics of juvenile garden dormice
animal physiology; biological sciences; rodent behavior
cell.com
Megathread about responding to new OMB grant funding rules (feel free to add/link more!) I was collecting these for me, but figured I'd round 'em up for everyone 🧪 What's the problem? arstechnica.com/science/2026... elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time
Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.
arstechnica.com
Here's a National Science Foundation paper I worked on that will be impossible under the regime's proposed rules. We study evolution, which happens across the entire globe. We had collaborators in Argentina, in Australia, in Germany. We cannot do our kind of science in one country.
The beetle tree of life reveals that Coleoptera survived end‐Permian mass extinction to diversify during the Cretaceous terrestrial revolution
Here we present a phylogeny of beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) based on DNA sequence data from eight nuclear genes, including six single-copy nuclear protein-coding genes, for 367 species representing ...
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I am delighted to share the first study of the Energetics Lab with my undergraduate, Korben Moelter, as first author published in the Journal of Comparative Physiology B. A neat comparison of Mammalian Thermoregulation Clines Across North America Using Bergman’s Rule. Check: doi.org/10.1007/s003...
doi.org
I’m starting at Oregon State University this September as Herbarium Director and Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology. An absolute dream job and I am so grateful! Looking to grow the lab soon and will update here. In the meantime please don’t hesitate to reach out!
I am delighted to share the first study of the Energetics Lab with my undergraduate, Korben Moelter, as first author published in the Journal of Comparative Physiology B. A neat comparison of Mammalian Thermoregulation Clines Across North America Using Bergman’s Rule. Check: doi.org/10.1007/s003...
doi.org
Something I didn't expect to say on May 17th: 'the snow has stopped, at least for now'.
Let me introduce myself. I'm a professor @usask.bsky.social at the University of Saskatchewan. My group works on invasive wild pigs, caribou, wolves, and other beasties. I take the responsibility of my academic freedom very seriously and use it and good science to hopefully have some influence.
Very proud of our students cohort for this 2026 Spring Graduation & Commencement at Northern Michigan University (NMU). Some students from the Energetics Lab were graduating. We wish all the best to all of the these new graduates. Congratulation to all new NMU Graduates 🎊🎊🥳🥳🎉🎉
Hiring 3 postdocs in ecological resilience @biology.ox.ac.uk for my @erc.europa.eu CoG ResIntegrate project. Deadline May 29th. Details below. Pls share @salgoteam.bsky.social @evoldir.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @ecolsocaus.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Ecology at University of Oxford
An academic position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Ecology is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
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this fall she will be a tenure track assistant professor at @macalestercollege in Minnesota. I’m not a great educator. Certainly not a wonderful researcher. But I AM a great talent scout. And I owe my career to students like Ruth. It’s been an honor. 2/2
As my phase change to becoming an emeritus associate professor approaches, of course I feel many doubts. @ruthlessruth15 wrote me the nicest note for my “retirement memories” file, and included these photos. I knew her as a first year student at the @univpugetsound and 1/2
Very much delighted to share the several contributions of student researchers from the Energetics Lab at the Celebration of Students Scholarship of Northern Michigan University last week. Great success & very good step before the upcoming American Society of Mammalogists Meeting in June at Norfolk 🥳
Look at all of those counties that contain mid-sized college towns whose universities (mostly flagships / other publics) dominate regional economies
Todd Jones@toddrjones.bsky.social · 4mo agoPercentage of adults with a Ph.D.
Consider attending the American Society of Mammalogist (ASM) Meeting at Norfolk this summer (June 12-15) and Join the symposium co organized by Jessica LaPrice & myself on flexible and inflexible responses in heterothermic species. This will be a fun symposium! mammalmeetings.org/program/symp...
Symposia
Flexible vs. Programmed? Responses to Environmental Extremes in Mammalian Heterotherms Date: TBD Time: TBD Location: TBD Speakers: Austin Allison, Mallory Ballinger, Malcolm Reimer, Cory Williams T…
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Science on Tap on Tuesday April 14th @ 7 pm at Blackrocks Brewery! Come to listen to Dr Hayden McKee-Zech talking about her research on “The Ecology of Death". Sponsored by Biology & EEGs Departments.
Check out this squid-vibrio postdoc position at Penn State with my colleague Tim Miyashiro, especially if you have a background in proteomics/metabolomics. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
Postdoctoral Position - BMB
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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The Biology Seminar Series is thrilled to announce the seminar of Dr Chloe Fouilloux, a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at UW-Madison, on Seasonal Immune Timing Alters Parasites Growth & Transmission in a Multi-Host System, hold hybrid at NMU Mead Auditorium and via Zoom. uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97861612977
The International Hibernation Society is happy to release the Seasonal Hibernation Highlights for the Spring 2026. Enjoy reading the latest research on Torpor & Hibernation as Seasonal Adaptative Strategies and as Biomimicry Inspiration!
