#sicb2023 — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sicb2023, aggregated by home.social.
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I'm super excited to say that I am the new SICB Division of Phylogenetics & Comparative Biology Student/Postdoc Rep!
I'll be working with the division & @SICB to put on ECR-focused programming & be a resource for ECRs.
My job in this role is to support YOU: feel free to reach out w/ what the division & I can do for you!
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If you missed talks at #SICB2023 just head over to @eringiglio. She live tweets every talk she goes to and it’s honestly The Best Thing
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If you missed talks at #SICB2023 just head over to @eringiglio. She live tweets every talk she goes to and it’s honestly The Best Thing
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Ondi Crino at #SICB2023:what are the mechanisms by which development perturbations wind up impacting adult phenotype? Well, things like growth, body condition, cognitive performance, etc are all expensive, so: consider the humble powerhouse of the cell?
Lots of pathways through which development perturbations might affect variation in mitochondria fxn. These can be short term (mitochondria prodxn, regulation of gene factors, or hormonal signaling) or even longer term epigenetic modifications.
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#SICB2023: Shayne Halter finds that torpor allows hummingbirds to save energy and reduce body mass loss, ESPECIALLY for smaller birds. Smaller birds are more likely to go into torpor. Torpor frequency vanished as birds got larger within a species.
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Seminatural deer mice were born in the lab and acclimated in the enclosures for 6mo before measurements were taken.
"We wanted to capture wild mice and introduce them into the semi natural enclosures, but we couldn't get IACUC approval for that because they are very, very dirty."
There were so many memorable quotes at #SICB2023 this year...
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#SICB2023: Kaylene Yamada discusses strengths and weaknesses of studying behavior in lab and field. Useful examples of phenotypes that are not visible in the lab, but immediately become apparent in natural or seminatural environments! Focus: Peromyscus. Love this kind of work!
Holy crap she took SO MANY msrs of condition, metabolism and energy balance from mice in three populations in her enclosures. What a data set!
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#SICB2023: from @MollySimonis (Twitter), big brown bats are an interesting case study for torpidity research because they are prone to long term (>10 yrs!) infections with invasive pathogenic fungus Pd. Pre-Pd msrs with continuous ambient temperatures already in the lit.
After Pd infection, metabolic savings with torpidity vary considerably with ambient temperatures. If minimal temperature the bats can tolerate has shifted to be warmer, that puts them right in the middle of Pd sweet spot! 😬😬😬
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#SICB2023 talk from @_stans96 (Twitter): because birds usually manage synchronous hatching by not brooding until full clutch is laid, climate change can throw wrenches into the mix. Higher ambient temperatures can start incubating first laid eggs well ahead of schedule!
Well, if you have a bunch of siblings that are suddenly developing at different rates, that introduces a new chance based axis of variation. What happens if we use heat packs to do that on purpose?
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OKAY! Now that my friends are asleep and we are , it's time to start crossposting my #SICB2023 blogs/tweets/whatever they are between platforms.
....Idly, does anyone know if there's a decent mastodon-to-twitter crossposter or something? because I'd really like to make this my main home, but for specifically conference uses it's still unfortunately easier to reach people over at the birdsite.
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Leaving Austin today, after yet another great #SICB2023 meeting! I love how wildly diverse this meeting is, in case you need a break from your research area, you may end up at a talk about hemipenes in snakes, elephant trunks being modeled via knitting, or applying #queer #feminist language and ideas to biological research. A crocheted vampire squid was sold for student travel funds. Had such a blast with everyone and it was so wonderful to be back in person.
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Leaving Austin today, after yet another great #SICB2023 meeting! I love how wildly diverse this meeting is, in case you need a break from your research area, you may end up at a talk about hemipenes in snakes, elephant trunks being modeled via knitting, or applying #queer #feminist language and ideas to biological research. A crocheted vampire squid was sold for student travel funds. Had such a blast with everyone and it was so wonderful to be back in person.
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‘The structure of a classroom gets you different function.’ K.Tanner #SICB2023
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As #SICB2023 ends, I wanted to thank the Executive Officers and Burk Inc for organizing an incredible meeting. This was my first in-person meeting since pandemic shut-down and I am returning after a few days of hard-core nerding-out feeling more scientifically excited and energized than I have in years!
Thrilled to continue being scientifically inspired via #SICB+ in the coming days!
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Last of the #SICB2023 invited talks: @jennhoutz (Twitter)! For seasonal breeders, breeding timing is CRUCIAL for determining organismal fitness. Mistiming breeding can be fatal--but climate change is changing all the cues. How are birds responding?
Well, tree swallows at least are breeding earlier. Earlier birds have greater lifetime breeding success, BUT early lay dates put birds at risk of unpredictable cold snaps. Snow found INSIDE the nest box in late spring!
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Jennifer Uehling ( @juehlz on Twitter) at #SICB2023: Do glucocorticoids predict movement? Movements are really important to the ways in which animals exert control over an often unpredictable environment.
Awww yeah it's a grocery store metaphor! Some people are very organized; some people tend to circle around through a grocery store when foraging; there's also people like me who get overwhelmed and move along a roughly similar pattern visit to visit but at wildly different speeds....
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Next up at #SICB2023 , @wolf_SarahE (Twitter) is interested on the effects of stress on female ovulation and provisioning. Females often compete quite strenuously and this has all kinds of impact on ovulation and egg providing. How do telomere dynamics play into this?
That is, how does social competition interact with age related gene expression in tree swallow ovaries? Female aggression is very important in this spp; unattached female "floaters" often evict nesting females from nest sites!
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Next at #SICB2023 , @sewestrick (from Eva Fischer's lab) looks at GCs in dart frogs. Generally we assume that dominant GC in amphibians is corticosterone, not cortisol... but as in all biology, exceptions abound! Hellbenders for ex actually have much more stress responsive cortisol levels than corticosterone levels.
Dart frogs have some interestingly stressful behaviors. Cortisol only is elevated during tadpole transport (dad frogs carry tadpoles from bromeliad to bromeliad during development).
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Anyway, Morgan Benowitz-Fredricks kicks off this #SICB2023 by asking what the relationship between cort and behavior is: can behaviors elevate cort, and can cort changes alter behavior? We are carefully avoiding the word "stress" for clarity reasons here.
I actually remember this work from #SICB2020--the kittiwakes are a really neat system and the video footage design and especially the ability to handle and interact with the chicks by using a hidden door made of one way glass is so elegant.
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I feel like starting the #SICB2023 Stress Impacts series by suddenly realizing that my earbuds charging case had fallen out of my pockets is an experience ENTIRELY too on the nose.
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And @EllenCoombs presenting her super cool work with toothed whales & their mandibular shape! #SICB2023
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#SICB2023, Marcelle Gray: if a bear wandered into YOUR house, what would you do? Yell? Hide? Run for it? (Well, I'm going to be thinking about that all day now...)
Birds also have to grapple with this problem, even if their predators are a little smaller. Here focusing on house sparrows, Eastern bluebirds, swallows in a variety of neighborhoods.
How does predation frequency tie into this?
Oh god I was wrong they totally do have to deal with bears
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Bumblebees are able to eat all kinds of stuff (they’re “generalist foragers”) and are often faced with lots of options for food.
@felicity_muth is working to understand how they choose which spots to visit.
She’s sharing her work at #SICB2023
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Bumblebees are able to eat all kinds of stuff (they’re “generalist foragers”) and are often faced with lots of options for food.
@felicity_muth is working to understand how they choose which spots to visit.
She’s sharing her work at #SICB2023
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#SICB2023 : "There's tons of advice about parenting. Sometimes it seems that the only consistent thread for humans is that you're definitely doing it wrong." Sarah Foltz bringing the tradeoffs that parents struggle with to the forefront.
In altricial songbirds, questions: how does offspring value influence parental nest defense? Assumption that nest defense investment should correspond to increased fledge success... At least where ND necessary, possible, and effective.
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Thanks #SICB2023 for an excellent first national meeting for my undergrad research team. Also thankful to see old friends and colleagues!
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Thanks #SICB2023 for an excellent first national meeting for my undergrad research team. Also thankful to see old friends and colleagues!
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Goddamn I meant to go to bed early so I could be up to see the #SICB2023 talks tomorrow but the politics are just too fuckin entertaining 🍿
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I'm having some serious #SICB2023 FOMO. Keep your posts/pics coming!! <or call/text me reminding me what I'm missing out on 😉>
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Okay, #SICB2023, @MartineBotany talking about sex in plants and partitioning sex in Australian bush tomatoes.
Cosexuality: flowers with both male and female functions (1 spp).
Andromonoecy: 14spp, base of cluster has a cosexual flower with several male flowers without any female functions at the top.
Functional dioecy: 13spp. Plants either have clusters of male flowers that produce pollen or cosexual flowers that have all the anatomy for both sexes.... but produce only dud pollen.
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Back to #SICB2023: @Andersonevolve with the ancestral modulation hypothesis!
First observation: there are no universal male or female characters. Really nice illustration of potential distributions of traits by sex complete with at least one ART style; then we point out that each of those traits is a mosaic that won't necessarily occupy the same position in a distribution between one trait and another.
I'm already making a note to share this one with my home lab; hope it will be on SICB+!
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Get froggy tomorrow (Wednesday, 1/4) at #SICB2023 with a couple of talks featured in society press releases:
(1) How poison dart frogs don't poison themselves (Room 203-204, 11:30) by Aurora Alvarez-Buylla; and
(2) Communicating disease ecology using graphic novels (Room 402-403, 2:30-2:45) by Kyra Ricci!
Read these and other press releases here:
https://www.newswise.com/articles/list?category=institution&search[institution]=3490 -
Our lab presentations at #SICB2023
Ranny’s talk: Comparative transcriptomics reveals sex-specific differences in #Platynereis dumerilii (Tomorrow, Jan 4th)Bria’s talk: The cost or payout of #regeneration on growth and sexual maturation in Platynereis dumerilii (Tomorrow, 4th)
Duygu’s talk: Single-cell transcriptomics reveal specific gut regions in a freshwater #annelid (Thursday, 5th)
Ryan’s poster: Automating design of #fluorescent in situ probes for big data sets (Friday, 6th)
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Super excited for the new #sicb2023 Science and Society special lecture from Beronda Montgomery!
"Biggest lesson from plants: environments matter. Equal aptitude routinely results in different outcomes depending on environment."
YES YES YES YES THIS. I keep wanting to scream at the behavior geneticists in my life because there is this terrible attitude that you can understand the genetics of behavior if you only sample so many humans that environmental variation is washed out as noise.
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Traveling to Austin for #SICB2023 with a mini poster tube in my backpack, but not because I’m presenting a poster…
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For anyone attending the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (#SICB2023) meeting in Austin this week, I will sadly not be there, but we have two talks from the lab!
On 1/7 (8 AM), Dr. Sweta Agrawal (lab alumnus as of 2 days ago, as she just left to start her own lab at Virginia Tech) will be presenting on a comprehensive (and comprehensible) analysis of the synaptic connectivity of neural circuits downstream of fly leg proprioceptors.
On 1/6 (11:30 AM), Dr. Chris Dallmann (post-doc) will be presenting on behavioral state-dependent presynaptic inhibition of proprioceptor axons in walking flies.
#SICB (at Disney World) was the first scientific meeting I attended as an undergraduate and it holds a special place in my heart. I love the diversity of animals represented: consecutive talks and neighboring posters are often about the same scientific topic, but almost never studied in the same species.
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Hashtag to watch, maybe: #SICB2023, a big biology conference starting tomorrow! A bunch of zoology/eco-evo bio folks will be going (and hopefully tooting). https://www.xcdsystem.com/sicb/program/5X9OIbU/index.cfm?pgid=381
As a non-scientist, I find conference hashtags are a fun way to learn about current research, without having to leave the house or catch COVID.
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Excited to head to #SICB2023 tomorrow! Come hear Liz Tucker's talk on hopping robots on sand (Fri, 1/6, 8AM in Brazos), and/or see our posters (Thurs, 1/5) on bioinspired foot intrusions into sand (P1-204) and spotted lanternfly trap negotiations (P1-020 & P1-157)!
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So is there a large group of people attending #SICB2023 here? Wondering if I should add my tweeting of talks here in addition to the bad place.
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I donated two #SciArt #pottery pieces for the Libbie Hyman Memorial Scholarship Auction at SICB 2023. My plates feature diatoms and invertebrates.
The auction will have science/invertebrate-themed books, artwork, hand-crafted items, and more, to support the Libbie Hyman Scholarship for students. All SICB members are invited to attend and bid. #SICB2023
