One reason I'm excited about the non-synchronous format for SICB this year is that it allows people to share talk suggestions with each other when they watch a talk that inspires them.

This is a snail moving upside-down.

We we PLEASE put more money into the IT folks who design the FAFSA web site - because it really really sucks!

While trying to put markers on a squirming pecking squawking bird, I realized how useful those hours really were holding one kid on my hip while the other wove between my legs and they both were screaming at the top of their lungs. #productivityInChaos Nothing phases me now.

A postdoctoral position in evolutionary analyses of origins, transitions, and diversification rates is available at the Patek Lab in the Biology department at Duke University. Looking for a great addition to the lab. Please apply! pateklab.biology.duke.edu/news/postdoc-p…

If you are interested in imaging and models. Come join myself, Professor John R. Hutchinson zanne cox @JonasRubenson for our tutorial at #ISB2021 !! IntSoc Biomechanics Comparative Neuromuscular Biomechanics

When trying to diversify your faculty, do not underestimate the value of socioeconomic diversity. "Our results suggest that the professoriate is, and has remained, accessible mainly to the socioeconomically privileged." osf.io/preprints/soca…

Thanks everyone who attended our @ISB_2021 Tutorial. It was certainly a treat to work with Professor John R. Hutchinson @JonasRubenson zanne cox co-organizing and thanks Dario Cazzola for the invitation. If we didn't get the chance to answer your questions, don't hesitate to contact us!

The angled sunbeam is a butterfly Its larvae have a pair of sclerotized cylinders at the back end of its body, containing tentacle organs When threatened, it unsheathes this structure with a “brush” its end that it whirls... to startle a predator

sciencefriday.com/articles/chari… My Patek labmate @TheJasonDinh was on Science Friday! Listen here.

Plasticity of the gastrocnemius elastic system in response to decreased work and power demand during growth | Now out in the Journal of Experimental Biology | The Company of Biologists journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/do…

Register now for a symposium bringing together biologists, material scientists and roboticist who are trying to understand the mechanics behind the fastest movements on the planet. impulsivemuri.com/symposium2022.…

Nature research paper: Engineered jumpers overcome biological limits via work multiplication go.nature.com/3voFsaA

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Last to register for a symposium bringing together biologists, material scientists and roboticist who are trying to understand the mechanics behind the fastest movements on the planet. Please join us! sites.duke.edu/symposium2022/

Trap-jaw ants could tear themselves apart when they fire off their mandibles but The Patek Lab Robot Form and Function Lab @dukebiology show how the ants push and pull the mandibles using energy stored in a tendon and their exoskeleton to drive the jaws in a perfect arc journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…