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Giulia Rossi @giuliarossi.bsky.social · 11d

🚨 Call for Nominations: @csz-sczofficial.bsky.social PDF Chair 🚨

Interested in standing for election? Send me a short blurb (~200 words) about yourself and why you'd like to be elected! Deadline is Sept 30.

Don’t miss the chance to get involved!

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Hugo Flávio @hugoflavio.com · 17d

At @patferreira.bsky.social's request, a box to incubate slides during immunostaining.

Might be useful to other folks out there :)

Slide incubation box by hugoflavio.com | Download free STL model | Printables.com

www.printables.com

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · Jul 23

In their Commentary, Ferreira & co explore the repeated evolutionary loss of the stomach in fishes, describe how this affects their digestion, discuss our current understanding of how the stomach helps digest proteins and highlight unresolved questions

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

A part of a figure from the Commentary with the heading 'Intraspecies comparison of gastric and agastric gene-edited fish'. On the left is the subheading 'WT atp4a +/+ with a depiction of a fish called Astyanax mexicanus beneath the subheading. Below this is the subheading 'WT atp4a -/- with the same a depiction an Astyanax mexicanus beneath the subheading. In the middle is a bracket connecting the two fish depictions leading to the words 'Reduced confounding factors' showing that there are advantages to using gene editing rather than comparing different species.

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Patrícia Ferreira @patferreira.bsky.social · Jul 14

And congratulations to my fellow Animal section finalists and friends Chandler Tsz To Tsang and Garfield Kwan!
And a big thank you to @wilson-jm.bsky.social !

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Patrícia Ferreira @patferreira.bsky.social · Jul 14

I am very happy and grateful!!! 😊🐟🐡
Thank you so much for the opportunity to present this work and for the award! @sebiology.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social

Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · Jul 14

Congratulations to Patricia Ferreira, the winner of this year's JEB sponsored YSAS award at the 2025 #SEBconference for their talk titled 'Will you miss me when I am gone? Gastric proton pump knockout and the importance of gastric acid in digestion, metabolism & growth in fish'

On the left, SEB President Gudrun de Boeck, in the middle, Patricia Ferreira holding her JEB sponsored YSAS award, on the right, Journal of Experimental Biology editor Katie Gilmour

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Patrícia Ferreira @patferreira.bsky.social · Jul 14

Thank you, Thomas!!!

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · Jul 10

SEB 2025 Young Scientist Award Session Finalist in Antwerp. LEFT-RIGHT President Gudrun De Boeck, Garfield Kwan, Patrícia Ferreira, Chandler Tsang and Animal Chair Felix Mark. Three excellent talks!

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Patrícia Ferreira @patferreira.bsky.social · Jul 8

#seb2025
Here we go!

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · Jul 1

Patrícia Ferreira @patferreira.bsky.social in the Journal of Experimental Biology (@biologists.bsky.social) Early Career Research Spotlight. Check it out. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · Jul 1

Our stomach commentary is now out as part of the "Integrative Biology of the Gut’ special issue guest edited by Carol Bucking, Matt Regan and John Terblanche! Congratulations @patferreira.bsky.social !
A second look at the stomach – a fishy perspective url: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

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Patrícia Ferreira @patferreira.bsky.social · Jul 1

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · Jun 27

Come meet the JEB Editors from 1-2pm 8 July in Marble Hall at the @sebiology.bsky.social 2025 conference & learn about all we do for our authors. It's also your first chance to pick up a FREE limited edition 2025 JEB T-shirt.

#SEBconference

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · May 16

Winner of the best student oral presentation Hoar Award #PatríciaFerreira at CSZ! Congratulations!

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · May 6

64th Canadian Society of Zoologist annual meeting #CSZ in #Waterloo in one week's time. May 12-15 at #WilfridLaurierUniversity co-hosted with the #UniversityofWaterloo. More information at sites.google.com/view/csz-scz...
🐢🦅🦈🐿️🐸🐝🐙

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Maike Morrison @maikemorrison.bsky.social · Mar 14

1/ Hey y'all, I'm excited to share my latest paper, which is out now in PNAS! We introduce FAVA, a statistical framework to measure compositional variability across microbiome samples. If you want to measure variability across a stacked bar plot, FAVA is for you! Paper: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

5 relative abundance plots arranged to have increasing compositional variability (variability across relative abundance samples, here vertical bars)

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David Tobin @tobinlab.bsky.social · Mar 13

Great editorial from the editors-in-chief of all five CoB journals, including @dmmjournal.bsky.social

Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times

As Editors-in-Chief of The Company of Biologists' journals, we have been watching with growing concern the policy changes in the United States of America (USA) and the challenges that these are creati...

journals.biologists.com

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kathychasler.bsky.social @kathychasler.bsky.social · Feb 22

Goosebump producing news this week out of Oregon Health and Science University in the diagnosis of pancreatic CA.
They developed a groundbreaking blood test, called PAC-MANN. This new test can find pancreatic cancer in just 45 minutes, even in its earliest stages.

New blood test identifies hard-to-detect pancreatic cancer with 85% accuracy

A new blood test could help doctors detect pancreatic cancer earlier, potentially improving survival rates for one of the deadliest cancers.

www.eurekalert.org

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · Feb 19

Exiting the microscopy room

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · Feb 19

Early-career researchers going to the CSZ-SCZ meeting in Waterloo 12-15 May, make sure you register for this fantastic JEB sponsored SciComm Workshop, run by @this_is_brit & co, to learn how to communicate your research to a wider audience

bit.ly/4gR2N94

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Patrícia Ferreira @patferreira.bsky.social · Jan 23

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Thank you!

Patrícia Ferreira @patferreira.bsky.social · Dec 11

Awesome group 😁
@aidenseguin.bsky.social

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Kenn Papadopoulo @elasmopoulo.bsky.social · Dec 4

Acoustic telemetry reveals the small spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula) is most active at night and relies on inshore waters, especially females. Small MPAs may not fully protect them. Larger MPAs and nighttime fishing bans could improve conservation. 🦈🌊

doi.org/10.1002/aqc....
#sharks

Drivers of behaviour and spatial ecology of the small spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula)

Shark populations have suffered dramatic declines across the world as a result of overfishing. Marine protected areas (MPAs) can help restore overfished populations; however, their effectiveness la...

doi.org

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Patrícia Ferreira @patferreira.bsky.social · Dec 4

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Fish in the News @fishinthenews.bsky.social · Dec 2

go.bsky.app/LXwgsEZ

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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · Dec 1

Pharyngeal jaws in fishes not a "key innovation" in this new comparative phylogenomics study.

"The macroevolutionary dynamics of pharyngognathy in fishes fail to support the key innovation hypothesis" Borstein et al. 2024

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The macroevolutionary dynamics of pharyngognathy in fishes fail to support the key innovation hypothesis - Nature Communications

Key innovations are traits that trigger the rapid evolution of new species occupying novel niches. Fresh genetic evidence reveals that the modified throat jaws of some fishes, thought to be a textbook...

www.nature.com

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