Could the newborn warty birch caterpillar be one of the world's smallest, and youngest, territorial critters, and how do impaired arachnids cope when suddenly relieved of a couple of limbs?
Find the answers to these and many other fascinating questions in the JEB 2025 highlights collection
As our #JEB100 Centenary year comes to a close, the Journal of Experimental Biology editors have come together, looking ahead to the challenges and opportunities that await during the next 100 years of #experimentalbiology
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/24/jeb246921/336526
Summary: Bringing JEB's Centenary year to a close, in this Commentary, the editors of JEB discuss their views of the most pressing challenges and exciting opportunities for the future of experimental biology.
In his #JEB100 ECR Spotlight Cristian Riveros-Matthey describes his scientific journey, how people choose which speeds to cycle at and his belief that AI will revolutionize #experimentalbiology
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/13/jeb246348/323496
Read his full research
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/13/jeb245600/323495
#Science #Biology #biomechanics
ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career researchers (ECRs) working in experimental biology during our centenary year but also the huge variety of animals and physiological systems that are essential for the ‘comparative’ approach. Cristian Riveros-Matthey is an author on ‘ The effects of crank power and cadence on muscle fascicle shortening velocity, muscle activation and joint-specific power during cycling’, published in JEB. Cristian is a PhD student in the lab of Timothy J. Carroll at The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia, investigating self-selected movement patterns under optimal control theory.
@koalaslament
🎶When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid From a Clamp, That’s a Moray🎶
from #NYT, paywalled article continues: "Moray eels can hunt on land, and footage from a recent study highlights how they accomplish this feat with a sneaky second set of jaws."
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/science/moray-eels-eat-land.html
A good #OA article is https://oceanbites.org/moray-eels-eerie-jaws-provide-unique-advantage/
with credits to image above, & link to original study. Fascinating, as well as 🎵 inspiration!
@Co_Biologists
Journal of Exp Biol
grateful wolf
Claire Barnes