Just one week to get your abstracts in for A12 - "Digital Resilience: Immortalising biodiversity through 3D anatomical models"! You'll present alongside our keynote speaker @jaimiagray.bsky.social who will talk about how making CT data and derivatives FAIR can level the playing field for biologists.
Are you a student who wants to visit the NHMLA for your research? Do you advise or know a student who would benefit from visiting our collections? Well, there are three weeks left to apply for the NHMLA Student Collections Award. Help spread the word!
Want to do a postdoc at Friday Harbor Labs? We have two positions open. Apply by March 1st. I am happy to discuss potential projects with fish people.
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Priority deadline (Feb 16) for this years Fish Class at Friday Harbor is coming up quick! Get your applications in for what will be an amazing summer filled with great science, people, and tools!
Financial aid is available!!
@cmdonatelli.bsky.social @fishguy.bsky.social @karlycohen.bsky.social
This Thursday's IOB cover spotlight is on
The Diffusion Diaries: Diffusible Iodine-Based Contrast-Enhanced Computed #Tomography for #Vertebrate Natural History #Specimens
@jaimiagray.bsky.social Gray , et al
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
#morphology #science #biology #vertebrates
In the 1960s this species (Podocnemis unifilis) was heavily exploited by the pet trade. It's now listed at "vulnerable" by the IUCN red list.
This is one of my most popular #oVertTCN #diceCT scans in MorphoSource. Download it here: www.morphosource.org/concern/medi... (2/2)
The Pacific spiny lumpsucker, an inefficient swimmer but a highly efficient suction cup. The pelvic fins have evolved into a strong suction disk on the belly, giving it the ability to anchor itself to substrates. Plate-like structures called "tubercles" provide defense against predators.
Bonus content 🐡: jaimigray.github.io/lumpsucker-v... play with the model using an online 3D viewer I built.
Special thanks to my bud @karlycohen.bsky.social for catching this little lady straight out of Friday Harbor 🩵
This yellow spotted river turtle from the Florida Museum of Natural History was collected in Colombia in 1957. It's likely it was exploited by the pet trade, as it was once common for people to drill holes in the marginal scutes of the shell to tether the turtle & stop it from wandering away (1/2)
New paper out in @devdynamics.bsky.social on lizard lung development!
Project co-led w/ Kaleb Hill and also w/ @tonygamble.bsky.social @shylonatasha.bsky.social @aussiebiologist.bsky.social @bezbez.bsky.social @celestemnelson.bsky.social
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
📣 Abstract submissions are now open for the #SEBconference 2026!
Share your cutting-edge biology research and present in Florence, Italy 🇮🇹 this July.
🗓️ Deadline: 6 March 2026 (Midnight GMT)
www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
Submit your work and be part of an amazing scientific programme!
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Abstract submissions is open from Thursday 8th January until Friday 6th March 2026
April 1 deadline for @nhm.org Student Collections Study Award. Get $$ to spend time collecting data in our collections, including @tarpits.org
Open to:
- current undergraduate and grad students
- *not* local to Los Angeles (international applicants welcome)
More: nhm.org/student-coll...
