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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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SEBiology @sebiology.bsky.social · Jun 24

🌍 Can’t attend #SEBconference 2025 in Antwerp?
We’ve got you covered!
Join online for selected livestreamed sessions and networking opportunities.

👉 www.sebiology.org/resource/vir...

#VirtualConference #Biology

Virtual access to SEB Annual Conference Antwerp 2025: still time to join the science

Virtual registration deadline: Tuesday 8 July 2025 ⏰

www.sebiology.org

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · Jul 2

We can't alter our vision depending on the colour of light around us, but fish can, & now scientists from @NotreDame reveal that fish fine tune their vision throughout life as the colour of the light changes, also depending on their lifestyle and diet

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

Two convict cichlids, one in front of the other, swimming above a bed of sand and gravel. Photo credit: Ad Konings.

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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 paper on "Branchial localization of acid (A‐type) and base (B‐type) excreting ionocytes in Amazonian stenohaline freshwater Potamotrygon ray" by Mark Rossi in Journal of Fish Biology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... is out!

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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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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · Jul 1

As part of our #biologists100 celebrations, marking 100 years of JEB's publisher @biologists.bsky.social & inspired by the founder G. P. Bidder, we'd love to hear about about your experiences of the Company, from Travelling Fellowships to attending Workshops

biologists.com/100-years/me...

Postcard saying: Message in a bottle. Shar your story on how how The Company of Biologists has supported you in your career by sending us a virtual message in a bottle

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

Congratulations to Ranim Saleem from Graham Scott's lab ‪@mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social‬ winner of this year's JEB sponsored Holeton Award for her poster, Powering life at the top: Mitochondrial adaptations in high-altitude deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) at the CSZ annual meeting in Waterloo

Photo of Ranim Saleem (centre) holding her JEB sponsored Holeton Award certificate at the CSZ annual meeting in Waterloo, Canada. Matt Regan, CPB Section Chair, is on the left and JEB Deputy Editor-in-Chief Pat Wright is on the right.

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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 15

journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1... Out at last! Congratulations Patrícia on the first of your PhD papers!

Generation of gastric proton pump atp4a knock-outs in Astyanax mexicanus. A fish model for insights into the mechanisms of acidification by oxynticopeptic cells | American Journal of Physiology-Gastro...

The gastric proton pump H+/K+-ATPase (HKA) is the highly conserved acid secretory mechanism of the gnathostome stomach. HKA is a heterodimeric pump, composed of α and β subunits. In this study we have...

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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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LaurierBiology @laurierbiology.bsky.social · Apr 11

Graduate officer Dr.Jonathan Wilson welcomes everyone to today’s #LaurierBiology MSc research symposium! @wilson-jm.bsky.social

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · Apr 2

Aftermath of the end of the year lab lunch at the China Bowl in Waterloo. Left to Right: Kyle, Noah, Bhavik (BabaG), Alex, me, Aiden, Najiba and Raunaq. Great end to the term despite the pending ice storm.

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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · Mar 29

CONVERGENT EVOLUTION is the independent development of similar traits or features in distantly related or unrelated organisms, often occurring when they occupy similar ecological niches or face similar environmental pressures 🦉 🍏

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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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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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Danve Castroverde @danvec.bsky.social · Mar 23

It was a memorable #OntarioBiologyDay 2025 with Laurier's Magnificent 13! @laurierbiology.bsky.social #HonoursThesis #UndergraduateResearch #OBD2025

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · Mar 25

Najiba Soudi presented her undergraduate thesis work at #Ontario_Biology_Days hosted by #Carleton_University in #Ottawa this weekend. Great job Najiba!

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · Mar 25

This is crazy (1 year 6 months). The wait time for #work-visa used to be 6 weeks for US workers coming to #Canada. Sadly bad news for #post-docs.

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · Feb 11

Apply for a funded early-career researcher place at @biologists.bsky.social Workshop on Democratising Microscopy in Latin America.
The Workshop will be in Baños de Agua Santa, Ecuador from 12 – 15 October 2025
Application deadline: 14 February
focalplane.biologists.com/2025/02/11/a...

Apply for The Company of Biologists Workshop on Democratising Microscopy in Latin America - FocalPlane

Apply for The Company of Biologists Workshop on Democratising Microscopy in Latin America - Default

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · Feb 13

To know more about the history of @dev-journal.bsky.social since launching as Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology, read this Editorial: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Development: a journal's journey

Summary: Development's publisher, The Company of Biologists, is celebrating its 100th birthday. Commemorating this anniversary, I discuss Development's history since launching as Journal of Embryology...

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · Feb 9

Finishing up at the Rice Lake Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry 34th meeting.

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · Jan 24

The elusive @snowpanda

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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · Jan 23

Why you feel hungry #NEJM

"This review describes basic and translational research on the complex physiological processes of hunger, which regulate feeding habits and are influenced by socioeconomic, cultural, and behavioral factors."

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · Jan 23

Congratulations to Patrícia Ferreira for successfully defending her PhD on "Shutting off stomach acidification. The role of the gastric proton pump in digestion, metabolism and growth
in fish" on 9 January. It was an outstanding accomplishment.😄

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