So…about AI’s energy use…

“…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”

Rattlesnake social behavior is infinitely more complicated than we once believed. We recently witnessed a female rattlesnake exhibiting apparent courtship behavior to another female, something none of us have ever seen before.

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🚨🚨PhD position alert!🚨🚨
Do you like 🐢🐢? Or ecomorph evolution? I am offering a 36-month PhD position funded by the DFG about ecomorphology and neuroanatomy of turtles. Check out the ad here: www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...

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New from #JRSocInterface: Automated analysis of bird head motion in unconstrained settings: a foundational study on semicircular canal evolution in #archosaurs. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #biomechanics

Connaissez vous les noms féminins des animaux...?
L'imagier des femelles est là pour vous, pour les grand.e.s et les petit.e.s!
Ravie d'avoir apporté ma contribution à cette belle initiative!

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🚨New publication alert!🚨 A big one! It might just be my *biggest* one: doi.org/10.1093/iob/... IMPORTANT THREAD! From the moment Dave Blackburn set me loose at the Florida Museum, I had a marvelous time using diffusible iodine-based contrast-enhanced CT (diceCT) to create anatomical datasets 🧪1/6

Blocking mobile internet on smartphones improves sustained attention, mental health, and subjective well-being

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Journal of Zoology is now on Bluesky! Follow us to discover what we've published recently in our scientific journal covering all areas of #zoology - and find out more about us at zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1469... @zslscience.bsky.social

ICB free read
Show Me Your #Teeth And I Will Tell You What You Eat: Differences in Tooth Enamel in #Snakes with Different Diets

by Dumont, Milgram, Herrel, Shahar, Shacham, Houssin, Delapré, Cornette, @marionsegall.bsky.social

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#morphology #ecology #science #biology

Pour participer au projet @e-colplus.bsky.social de numérisation en 3D des collections naturalistes françaises, envoyer votre candidature avant le 30 avril.

I am looking for a PhD candidate to work on the morphological and functional evolution of the head shape of limbless squamates. The project will involve evolutionary biology, experimental and computational biomechanics, and a lot of scaly animals!!! More info here:
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PhD alert: Je cherche un candidat pour travailler sur l'évolution morphologique et fonctionnelle de la tête des squamates apodes. Le projet implique de la biologie évolutive, des expériences et simulations mécaniques et des bestioles à écailles! @mnhn.fr @mecadev.bsky.social
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Come work with us on squamate brain evolution! 🐍🧠🦎
@draliceclement.bsky.social @michael-s-y-lee.bsky.social

Scolecophidians are so weird...

We CT scanned thousands of vertebrates from US natural history collections and made them freely available. Countless people have used the data for research (>200 pubs) and to learn anatomy/morphology.

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Full-time academic position - Faculty of Sciences - Field: Biomimicry

University of Liège (ULiège)

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Full-time academic position in tropical ecosystems and conservation biology
Faculty of sciences - Department of organism biology -
Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

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