Pauline Provini

An illustration of a man in the sky above a town with email addresses around him, with text: When I lost my university email, my identity as a scientist took an unexpected hit

"Losing my institutional email address felt like losing a small but vital piece of the scientist I had become." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/3OGpS67

Join Kelsey (@kelseytstilson.bsky.social) at the #SEBconference in Florence.

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Flyer for the 2026 IMSI Summer Institute: Recruiting research interns. Join our interdisciplinary research training internship and study biomechanics, muscle physiology, biophysics, neurosciences, rehabilitation sciences and engineering. All career stages welcome, undergraduates especially encouraged to apply. Full time paid opportunity. Intensive research experience, practical skills development, supportive mentorship. Learn more at CIMS.uci.edu. One photo show a lab member collecting motion capture data as a person jumps. Another photo shows IMSI researchers setting up a camera for data collection in at a field research location showing a desert landscape in the foreground and a mountain range in the background.

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/
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Join Ariel at the #SEBconference in Florence.

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C’est la Journée internationale des femmes et des filles de science ! 💪

Nous suivrez-vous dans cette aventure ?
La série Savanturières, dès le 8 mars 2026.

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Script/Montage : Léa Barbier
Costume : Bonâme Paris
Figurant : Raphaël Sauvage

#womeninscience #womenofhistory

🚨🦕 New dino paper alert!
My co-authors Ronan Allain @houssayecnrs.bsky.social and I are pleased to inform the community that we’ve just published a new study on the locomotion of the ornithopods Iguanodon, Ouranosaurus and Lurdusaurus in @fr.pensoft.net
We show that… ⬇️

ICB
#Marmosets (Callithrix jacchus), with their notable human-like similarities and practical advantages, represent an ideal #biogerontology model, though their swallowing #physiology remains largely underexplored..."

from
Max Sarmet et al
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

International Master of Bioacoustics Home page of the International Master of Bioacoustics

The International Master of Bioacoustics MoBi , a one year (M2) international training programme opened to
French students with a master's degree (M1)
International students with minimum BSc degree.
Applications for the September 2026 entry are open.
#bioacoustics
www.masterofbioacoustics.com

The Field Station Perspective series logo. The logo shows four images arranged in four quarters of a circle. The top right quarter shows a cartoon of a seal with icy mountains behind. The quadrant is coloured in shades of blue and white. The bottom right quadrant shows a beetle (black), the quadrant is yellow. The bottom left quadrant shows a salmon leaping above a wave; the quadrant is coloured shades of teal. The top left quadrant shows an emu running across savannah with the sun behind in the sky; the quadrant is in shades of red.

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

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Paper alert from @uafunmorph.bsky.social! 💥PhD researcher Cas Jorissen just published a chapter of his #PhD in @jexpbiol.bsky.social on torque–frequency trade-offs in muscle-driven lever systems

A flyer for a fish biomechanics course at the Friday Harbor Labs this summer.

Every other summer we run a fish biomechanics course at Friday Harbor Labs. It is an awesome opportunity to learn the tools of biovisualization while experiencing the rich fish diversity of the Salish Sea. Come join us!
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Welcome back!

SEB Florence will be having an exciting workshop on the new EXN - European XROMM Network! We're collecting information from those interested in attending, participating, and being looped in! Please share and DM me if you'd like to be on our mailing list! www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...

A hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe - Nature New results indicate that rhabdodontids and the previously described Ajkaceratops are actually distinctive European ceratopsians, a group better known from Asia and North America.

Out in @nature.com today, we shake up the ornithischian family tree. Remember those weird Late Cretaceous iguanodontians, the rhabdodontids? Well they're weird because they aren't iguanodontians. They're ceratopsians. Well, at least some of them are... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My lab is seeking a #postdoc for a 3-year project on Pilbara leaf-nosed #bat 🦇 conservation, addressing climate change vulnerability using physiological, ecological, & modelling approaches.

Apply now: murdoch.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/MurdochCaree...

Bird Brains and Behavior: A Synthesis From two avian neurobiologists, a captivating deep dive into the mechanisms that control avian behavior.The last few decades have produced extensive resear

A reminder to anyone interested in #brains #birds or behaviour, our new book is available for FREE as an ebook in addition to print copies.
#neuroethology #neuroskyence #ornithology 🧪🧠🪶

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Fig. 3 Thin sections and tissue maps of volant birds (a–i). Scale bars are as follows: a (50 μm), b (50 μm), c (100 μm), d (250 μm), e (50 μm), f (100 μm), g (200 μm), h (100 μm), and i (100 μm). Images used from Wikimedia Commons and from the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance.

IOB
"This suggests that #ventilatory air sacs and associated diverticula can be present despite the absence of #osteological and #histologic correlates..."
Byrne et al
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...

#archosaurs #birds #avian #science #biology

The ontogeny of vocal identity in carrion crows (Corvus corone) - Animal Cognition For social species, the ability to identify individual group members is crucial. Vocalizations often carry individual signatures that can serve as cues for the caller’s identity. However, it is still ...

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👋 Early Career Researchers #ECR:
looking to expand your writing skills and network?

Apply for the Travelling #Fellowships of @biologists.bsky.social! They're super supportive and offer a lot of opportunities for funding.

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Hier a été révélé le nouveau logo #MECADEV à notre Assemblée Générale

Download our large database of postdoc fellowships in all fields of research.

Database freely available to all; 281 fellowships.

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As always, @arielcamp.bsky.social did a splendid job transcribing @kelseytstilson.bsky.social's oral presentation when he visited her lab as part of the @britishcouncil.bsky.social 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 Springboard program!

The Dodo in Life — Tetrapod Zoology dodo, Dodos, Raphus, Raphus cucullatus, Raphidae, extinct birds, birds, ornithology, pigeons, dodobird, extinct bird, bird extinction, flightless birds, flightless pigeons, Erroll Fuller, Julian Hume,...

Yes, there were early plans to feature the Dodo (and the Solitaire) in Prehistoric Planet Ice Age.... What do we know about the life appearance of this remarkable bird? Actually a surprising amount, check this out... tetzoo.com/blog/2020/7/... #dodo #birds #ornithology

Promoting the use of phylogenetic multinomial generalised mixed-effects model to understand the evolution of discrete traits Abstract. Phylogenetic comparative methods (PCMs) are fundamental tools for understanding trait evolution across species. While linear models are widely us

NEW METHODS ARTICLE: Phylogenetic GLMMs open doors to study evolution of discrete traits. We show how binary models extend to ordinal & nominal traits, using bird data, and provide tutorials to make these methods accessible to evolutionary biologists:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Mizuno et al.

Check out our cover article by @timjanicke.bsky.social and colleagues about the role of sexual selection in animal speciation. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic.... The beautiful illustration is by Katharina Bóth.

Your body has tendons, your robots should too! Our new paper in Advanced Science highlights how adding tendons to muscle-powered “biohybrid” robots makes them 11X stronger. Check out this great MIT News feature of our work:

news.mit.edu/2025/artific...

#biohybrid #robotics #biomaterials

Soft tissue constraints on joint mobility in the avian shoulder Summary: Experimental ex vivo data and in silico simulations shed light on the function of ligaments in the bird (partridge) shoulder joint in maintaining shoulder articulation and constraining joint ...

Joints aren’t just bones 🦴
Ligaments shape how vertebrates move

New study by @oliverdemuth.bsky.social et al in @jexpbiol.bsky.social combines in silico & ex vivo #XROMM of the partridge shoulder to show how ligaments constrain motion 🐦

👉 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

A new step in @cnrs.fr policy in favor of open science to promote open, transparent and responsible alternatives.
#OpenAccess

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R

DAFNEE, a useful database of academic-friendly journals in #Ecology and Evolutionary #Biology

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Kelsey, Rachel, Ariel, Kris and Pauline on the balcony of the comparative anatomy gallery @mnhn.fr.

Kelsey, Rachel, Ariel, Kris and Pauline on the balcony of the comparative anatomy gallery @mnhn.fr. Whales skeletons in the background

Kelsey’s visit follows the September trip of @kriscran.bsky.social, @arielcamp.bsky.social, and @racheltran.bsky.social to @mnhn.fr in Paris, and the October visit of Rachel and Emily Aitken all within the same UK–France 🇬🇧🇫🇷 Springboard Programme.

Great to see the exchange growing across our labs