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mecadev.bsky.social @mecadev.bsky.social · 26d

Nouveau livre d'Emmanuelle Pouydebat #MECADEV illustré par Arnaud Rafaelian : Les oiseaux se cachent-ils pour mourir ? publié chez Delachaux & Niestlé !!

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 6d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Alma Mary @amaryfr.bsky.social · Nov 21

Thrilled to share this paper to which I contributed as a 2nd author! 🎉
We found that providing a diggable substrate positively affects the behavior of naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber) in captivity 🐀

Read in Scientific Reports:
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📄

#AnimalBehavior #AnimalWelfare

Positive effect of a diggable substrate on the behaviour of a captive naked mole rat colony - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Positive effect of a diggable substrate on the behaviour of a captive naked mole rat colony

www.nature.com

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Pauline Provini @paulineprovini.bsky.social · 18d

Congrats Myriam Amari and Emmanuelle Pouydebat @mecadev.bsky.social !

mecadev.bsky.social @mecadev.bsky.social · 22d

Details about the previous study led by Myriam Amari and Emmanuelle Pouydebat and with other #MECADEV and
@mnhn.fr members, which could help to improve the welfare of naked mole rats in captivity.

Team Miyagoatea @goatyourtea.bsky.social · 22d

Hi everyone, let's DIG a new topic today. Almost a year ago, we published the results of our study on the enriching opportunity to dig for naked mole rats.

Here is a video for you to see the underGROUND of this affair...

Part #1

#scicomm #animalbehaviour #animals

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Pauline Provini @paulineprovini.bsky.social · 18d

If you missed it (as I did!), check out @jexpbiol.bsky.social special issue:

"Integrating Biomechanics, Energetics, and Ecology Perspectives in Locomotion"

17 commentaries and review papers that break down the traditional boundaries between these fields.

journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...

Volume 228 Issue Suppl_1 | Journal of Experimental Biology | The Company of Biologists

journals.biologists.com

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SEBiology @sebiology.bsky.social · 19d

Call for Session Proposals – SEB #Conference 2026

We invite you to propose a session for our Conference in Florence 7–9 July 2026, themed Resilience.

📌 Submission deadline: 1 October 2025.

📍More information :
www.sebiology.org/events/propose-a-session-or-event/session-proposal-form.html

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Prof. Valentin Fischer @val-fisch.bsky.social · 21d

Are you tired of people constantly overestimating body size of marine reptiles? No longer!

We provide equations to estimate body size in ichthyosaurians, mosasaurids, and thalattosuchians.

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Nature @nature.com · 26d

Is your red the same as my red?

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e-COL+ @e-colplus.bsky.social · Sep 3

Our website www.ecolplus.fr has a brand-new look ✨
Discover:

- the #digitization of French natural history #collections
- the equipment available
- our partner institutions
- a dedicated page for the latest news

👉 And it’s now available in English too!

e-COL+ Numérisation 3D des collections naturalistes.

Projet e-COL+ Numérisation 3D des collections naturalistes a bénéficié d'une aide de l’État PIA3-ANR-21-ESRE-0053

www.ecolplus.fr

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Vincent Debat @vincentdebat.bsky.social · Aug 29

Super nice study by @titouanbouinier.bsky.social‬ on niche partitioning in Morpho butterflies!

Oikos - Wiley Online Library nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Vertical and temporal niche partitioning in Amazonian butterflies: implications for the evolution of thermal tolerance

nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Pauline Provini @paulineprovini.bsky.social · Aug 24

This excellent 3-minute video shows the evolution of a species of lizard playing rock/paper/scissors over the last 15 million years!

youtu.be/rafdHxBwIbQ?...

These Lizards Have Been Playing Rock-Paper-Scissors for 15 Million Years | Deep Look

YouTube video by Deep Look

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e-COL+ @e-colplus.bsky.social · Aug 4

Le @mnhn.fr a organisé les #Journées3D.
2 jours pour discuter des données issues de la numérisation 3D des spécimens naturalistes :
- pour la #recherche
- pour les #collections naturalistes
- pour la gestion de ces données

Retrouver l'intégralité des présentations ici :

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

JOURNEE 3D Produire, analyser, gérer et diffuser les données 3D dans les sciences naturelles : de la conservation des collection naturalistes aux beso - YouTube

Auditorium de la Grande Galerie de l'Evolution, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle – les 29 et 30/01/2025

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houssayecnrs.bsky.social @houssayecnrs.bsky.social · Aug 7

New #GRAVIBONE paper from @camillebader.bsky.social with Rémy Gilardet, Nicolas Rinder, @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social & @toriherridge.bsky.social on the long bone microanatomy of elephants. Well done Camille :)
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

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Chris Richards @frogtronics.bsky.social · Aug 4

Quick introduction

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arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · Aug 1

Yoshinobu Inada on how diving birds mitigate the forces of entering the water at high speed. Not shown here: an awesome catapult system for firing physical models at high speeds!

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arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · Aug 1

Danial Forouhar (from @dadriaens.bsky.social lab) had amazing 3D images of the muscluoskeletal system of seahorse tails, which opened lots of exciting questions about how these body muscles actuate tail prehension.

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arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · Aug 1

Estelle Klein @estelle-kl.bsky.social is studying how the digging mechanisms of moles can be understood and simplified for biomimetic applications

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arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · Aug 1

Peter Kappel @peterkappel.bsky.social from @poppingalab.bsky.social introduced me to the fascinatingly mobile, three-dimensional jaws of leeches with some clever imaging experiments

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arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · Jul 31

Myriam Uhrhan (from htlinlab.com) got me thinking about how insects build their own "strain gauges" to sense how their wings are deforming

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arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · Aug 1

Girish Kumar (www.southerndragon.in) gave a fanstastic instroduction to praying mantis jumps...these sketches don't do justice to his videos!

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Paolo Segre @paolosegre.bsky.social · Aug 1

Our new paper is out in @jzoology.bsky.social! Turning trade-offs: hummingbird power reserves are used to decrease turning radius or increase turning velocity. 🪶🌍

zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · Jul 30

Victor Colognesi vcolognesi.bsky.social from biologylu.bsky.social on wing pitch during flapping flight in birds

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arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · Jul 30

Merel Van Gorp @merelvangorp on the adorable--but no less skillful--swimming of boxfish

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arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · Jul 30

Chris Richards (@frogtronics.bsky.social) got me thinking in new ways about force-velocity curves, muscle-skeleton interactions and how they control motion.

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arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · Jul 31

Nick Gladman @drnickgladman.bsky.social from our own @livevobiomech.bsky.social looked at how singing muscles age (and let me practice drawing birds!)

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