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Catherine Williams
@cjaw.bsky.social
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Vet, Assistant Prof, Artist, Mum.
Comparative physiologist with interests in anaesthesia, analgesia ❤️ 🫁 🧠 and bone. Currently studying these in the context of 🐔 keel bone fracture.
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Stiff and different - Lizard osteoderm papers from a collaboration with @henrikbirkedal.bsky.social's group led by Adrian. We show a capping tissue from Heloderma that is enamel-like in mechanical properties but highly disordered in crystal pattern
doi.org/10.1016/j.ac...
doi.org/10.1002/adfm...
A microCT of a Heloderma osteroderm paired with xray diffraction and xray fluorescence data showing the superficial capping tissue and underlying transition zone and bone.
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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What is #IUPS2025 ? - the conference bringing physiologists from across the world,with @physoc.bsky.social , SPS and DPG, -
The 2 Nobel prize lectures, on low oxygen and high resolution respectively from Peter Radcliffe and Stefan Hell. 🔬
Peter Radcliffe discussing hypoxia sensing, oxygen from history, publishing and future perspectives Stefan Hell discussing limits and non limits to light microscopy
September 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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6 (!!!!) tenure track or Associate Prof jobs across fields in #veterinary medicine at my current workplace @au.dk
Denmark. Come join! Deadline August details in link....
anivet.au.dk/en/about-the...
#Blusci #VetSci
Tenure track assistant professor/Associate professors positions in veterinary medicine - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Aarhus University
anivet.au.dk
June 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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jexpbiol.bsky.social
If you're a new PI within 5 years of your first faculty position, here are two fantastic grants to help develop your research: the Kickstart Travel Grant and ECR Visiting Fellowships Find out more at biologists.com/grants/#jeb The next application deadline is 6 June

Please repost
Social media postcard that says: Are you an early-career researcher within five years of your first appointment to a faculty position? You could be eligible for our new grants for junior faculty staff The Journal of Experimental Biology logo is in the bottom left corner. The Kickstart grant logo, two hands shaking, is in the bottom right corner.
May 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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jexpbiol.bsky.social
If you're a new PI within 5 years of your first faculty position, here are two fantastic grants to help develop your research: the Kickstart Travel Grant & ECR Visiting Fellowships

Find out more at biologists.com/grants/#jeb

The next application deadline is 6 June

Please repost to spread the word
Social media postcard that says: Are you an early-career researcher within five years of your first appointment to a faculty position? You could be eligible for our new grants for junior faculty staff The Journal of Experimental Biology logo is in the bottom left corner. The Kickstart grant logo, two hands shaking, is in the bottom right corner.
April 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Fun game
wilespaleo.bsky.social Jeremy Wiles @wilespaleo.bsky.social · Apr 16
🦅 Animal #625 🐈
I figured it out in 8 guesses!
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🔥 56 | Avg. Guesses: 6.3

metazooa.com
#metazooa
Metazooa
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
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April 16, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Hi! We're Skype a Scientist! We're a free program that matches scientists with classrooms, scout troops, libraries, & other groups for Q&As all about science.

Get matched with a scientist for a virtual conversation! We have 30+ types of scientist & match weekly.
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
A blue infographic gives a step by step guide on how to Skype a scientist. The steps are: 1) sign up on skypeascientist.com 2) pick a category of science your group would like to talk about (e.g. marine biology, chemistry, astronomy) 3) get a match via email 4) connect with your scientist, discuss your ur group’s needs and pick a time to chat 5) talk to your scientist!
February 26, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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vincentab.bsky.social
📚😅🎉

Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher!

Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies.

Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com

#RStats #PyData
Model to Meaning: How to interpret statistical models with marginaleffects for R and Python
April 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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@markscherz.bsky.social talking miniaturisation in 🐸 🦎 🐦 and mammals, in terms of the potential for evolutionary novelty as well as constraints... to the Zoophysiology Friday seminar @au.dk #Frog #Sciart from his @erc.europa.eu funded project
Sketch of a scientist and two frogs... one much bigger than the other. And notes on cell number vs cell size, with the latter constrained by genome size and the former potentially by organ function The same scientist and this time a tiny frog (Mini mum?) Facing forwards and walking in a way favoured by the very small The physical limits of miniaturisation?
April 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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🚀 Apply now 🚀

The new Max Planck #Postdoc Program offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops.

postdocprogram.mpg.de
#ScienceCareer #PostdocProgram
Early-career reseachers at one of our Max Planck Institutes.
April 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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bioacousticsau.bsky.social
📢Exciting news 1: We just launched our new Center for Active Sensing with Sound 🎧🥳
📢Exciting news 2: We are looking for 2 new PhD students 👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 in “Echolocation in bats🦇 and toothed whales 🐬” – read more here:
Echolocation in bats and toothed whales
phd.nat.au.dk
April 2, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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This was an excellent 🐕 session @anatomyorg.bsky.social covering canine behaviour and brains, stress and welfare and anatomy of the African wild dog. 3 brilliant talks by Profs Erin Hecht, Ana Jimenez and @heatherfsmith.bsky.social.
Erin Hecht summarising work on behaviour and brains over canine evolution from wolf ancestors, commensal dogs and domestic dogs accross breeds. Ana Jimenez on oxidative stress /reactive oxygen species and stress in dogs. The relationship of lifespan and ROS in dogs over size ranges and between wolves, dogs and wolf-dogs. Heather Smith presenting work on muscles of facial expression, mastication and running in the African wild dog.
April 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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anatrecord.bsky.social
Many thanks to the excellent speakers in our joint sponsored journal master class on the integumentary system with @devdynamics.bsky.social & @asejournal.bsky.social at @anatomyorg.bsky.social #Anatomy2025! #anatomy25
March 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Pleasure to speak in this session (sketches of speakers- thanks to Sam Payne for doing me). Talking lizard 🦎 osteoderms: work @hfspo.bsky.social @maxivlaboratory.bsky.social from a large group including @mmoazen.bsky.social @henrikbirkedal.bsky.social- thank you @anatrecord.bsky.social for invite!
A sketch of me by Sam Payne talking lizard osteoderms especially their capping tissue. From work in Matt Vickaryous' lab at Guelph and in collaboration with many international authors, most recently Henrik Birkedal's lab at Aarhus as well as an HSFP funded group led by Mehran Moazen at UCL. Highlighted papers included those led by Loïc Kèver, Arsalan Marghoub, Anastasiia Maliuk, and unpublished work led by Adrian Roderiguez Palamo and Gabriella Willan. Sketches of session chair Jessica Dennis and introducing editor Jason Organ Masterful overview of skin development, anatomy and histology by Prof Tamara Franz-Odendaal Technological revelations from Prof Paul Dalton covering materials for basic research, clinical use and animal use replacement in research: electrowriting structures to mimic skin from basement membrane to superficial layers and dermis
April 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Greatly appreciated the plenary speech by @carlzimmer.com @anatomyorg.bsky.social drawing on material from 'she has her mother's laugh' to discuss Anatomy and its relationship to heredity, its history, mis use and the necessity of communicating current science.
A sketch of Carl Zimmer delivering a plenary speech for the American Association of Anatomists, drawing on material on heredity, on the history of modern (18th-21st centuary) anatomy, including its mis use in eugenics and the necessity of confronting this history and communicating current science.
April 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Sketches from the @aiasdk.bsky.social workshop on cellular plasticity at the crossroads of ❤️ and 🧠 aias.au.dk/events/cellu...

#BlueSci #SciArt
A sketch of me discussing the heart of the leopard gecko and its response to cryo injury Christian Damsgaard on the avian eye Leif Ostergaard on capillary responses to neuronal activity Tobias Wang on the plasticity of the snake intestine.... and the cost of protein synthesis
March 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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aiasdk.bsky.social
‪🩺 ✏️ 🧫 ⚖️Happy International Women's Day. 30 curious & clever women scientists are hosted in the #diverse community of AIAS. They put their intellect & skills into research in evolutionary biology, labour economics, cardiovascular disease & much more for the benefit of us all🙏
🎨by @cjaw.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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aiasdk.bsky.social
Interested in cell plasticity? JOIN the interdisciplinary meeting on an underexplored area: the circulatory & nervous systems w/great potential in treating age-related diseases
📆7 March at 9-16:00
🔗https://aias.au.dk/events/cellular-plasticity-at-the-crossroads-of-the-nervous-and-circulatory-systems
February 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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aiasdk.bsky.social
Fellowship opportunity at AIAS. The Artist-in-Residence Tandem Fellowship invites an artist from any discipline to team up with an @au.dk researcher on a research project.
📆APPLY by: 18 March 2025 at 12.00 (noon) CET.
🔗https://aias.au.dk/opportunities-at-aias/artist-in-residence-tandem-fellowship
February 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Going to be talking about the 🦎 ❤️ - regenerating lizard hearts - at this meeting @aiasdk.bsky.social, presenting work led by Kathy Jacyniak at Guelph, please have a look at the fantastic talks that are on the program after mine, on 🐦, 🐍, humans, mice and others.
#BluSci
aiasdk.bsky.social Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS) @aiasdk.bsky.social · Feb 28
Interested in cell plasticity? JOIN the interdisciplinary meeting on an underexplored area: the circulatory & nervous systems w/great potential in treating age-related diseases
📆7 March at 9-16:00
🔗https://aias.au.dk/events/cellular-plasticity-at-the-crossroads-of-the-nervous-and-circulatory-systems
February 28, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Classroom/Library enrollment was down pretty bad in February. National chaos and uncertainly likely has something to do with it.

Can you help me make sure that all the educators on bluesky know Skype a Scientist exists and is ready to connect them with scientists? Every RT helps!

#EduSky #STEMEd
skypeascientist.bsky.social Skype a Scientist @skypeascientist.bsky.social · Feb 26
Hi! We're Skype a Scientist! We're a free program that matches scientists with classrooms, scout troops, libraries, & other groups for Q&As all about science.

Get matched with a scientist for a virtual conversation! We have 30+ types of scientist & match weekly.
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
A blue infographic gives a step by step guide on how to Skype a scientist. The steps are: 1) sign up on skypeascientist.com 2) pick a category of science your group would like to talk about (e.g. marine biology, chemistry, astronomy) 3) get a match via email 4) connect with your scientist, discuss your ur group’s needs and pick a time to chat 5) talk to your scientist!
February 26, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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#VetSci a #PhD in Denmark @au.dk on a potential novel treatment for mastitis in 🐄. on barn on site physiology, on farm comparison with standard treatment. Epidemiology, physiology, welfare and bacteriology all possible avenues for exploration. See and apply phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...
Novel treatment for mastitis in cattle – experimental and on-farm study of low-level laser technology
phd.tech.au.dk
February 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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What 🐎 parasites are there? What have we done historically & presently to 'treat' them as vets, what resistance to anti-parasite drugs are we now seeing? What can we do differently in the future... seminar @ AU from Prof Martin Nielsen #VetSci 🧪 #Parasitology 🐡 doi.org/10.1016/j.vetpar.2011.10.012
A sketch from a talk by Professor Martin Krarup Nielsen on equine parasitology, the normality of parasites, talking about what anti-helmintic (anti-worm) drugs have been previously used in horses, the development of resistance, and the importance of control mechanisms that do not depend on drugs.
February 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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@lbejder1971.bsky.social at @aiasdk.bsky.social seminar - Humpback 🐋: how their migration & body condition score is studied, what this can tell us about population, calf size & how this affected by changes to the climate. Can charismatic mammals be used to bring about human change? #Sciart #Blusci
Sketch of Prof Lars Bejder giving the seminar of the week on body condition scores (how much blubber) of humpback whales on their migrations back and forth from Hawa'i (giving birth) to Alaska (feeding), and how this feeds into numbers and size of whales born. Also the cross over with other organisms (e.g. krill), methods (e.g. drone measurements and non invasive tags and samples, and how we as humans think about both whales and the general environment.
January 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Artists, I have some questions for you.

Let's say, hypothetically, there was a science conference coming to your city, all about animals. The scientists are looking for artists to come to the meeting, sit in on the talks, & live-Illustrate what you learn about. This would be paid.

My questions...
January 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM