A nice summary of where lactate comes from, and where it goes. Lactate definitely doesn't "burn off" endureiq.com/blog/lactate-f…

Experimental hyperoxia (O2 supersaturation) reveals a gill diffusion limitation of maximum aerobic performance in fish | Biology Letters royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

New review: Chretien, De Bonville et al. screened 680 papers studying animal performance, looking for traces of parasites. 22% included parasites and 8% controlled for infected individuals. Check it out to know how to include parasites in your design : doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

Pretty happy to finally have this one out in Journal of Physiology We sought to observe the effect of sex and ageing on the respiratory muscle metaboreflex. Shalaya Kipp Jenna Benbaruj Glen Foster, Ph.D. Nisha Charkoudian Michael Koehle ^^^Thank you for the incredible support^^^ doi.org/10.1113/JP2838…

Fish parasites in Puget Sound are declining, according to a study of 699 natural history specimens dating back to 1880. Parasites requiring three or more hosts to complete their life cycle declined by more than 10% per decade. In PNAS: ow.ly/ms9950Mn0RK

A thread re: response to our paper. I am glad that this paper has gotten so much attention. I’m happy to discuss the article academically and thoughtfully. 1/14 🧵 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

I can't believe I received so few inquiries about this PhD position! Come to Tasmania and work with me and amazing Size Ecology Lab team. Work with global fish datasets, size based models and help find new ways to use citizen science data for conservation. utas.edu.au/research/degre…

Recovery of a marine keystone predator transforms terrestrial predator–prey dynamics | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Issue 2 has closed and issue 3 is open. The front cover shows a bigeye thresher #shark returning to the deep after being caught and released during experimental fishing trials Phillip Morrison (he/him) UBC Zoology. journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/226/2

In response to Philip Munday, @biolumiJEFFence @Josefin_Sundin Timothy Clark Fredrik Jutfelt @jutfelt.bsky.social contend that extreme data reported in #OceanAcidification studies by Dixson & Munday indeed result in an “extreme” #DeclineEffect in this field #PLOSBiology plos.io/3HCqF0z

The word 'doctor' derives from the Latin verb "docere"—to teach. The first doctors were scholars who'd been awarded their PhDs. Literally "doctorates." #doctor #PhD Medical schools co-opted the term in the 17th century because they wanted the prestige. 🔓doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.6…

Whom should we really call a “doctor”? cmaj.ca/content/190/21…

All knowledge (science) is culturally-situated. Western-trained scientists who ignore this in favor of imperialism and a false sense of objectivity are at risk of misinterpreting data and causing harm. This rhetoric is embarrassing, so inaccurate as to be absurdist, and harmful

Mike Scully wrote "See My Vest", which was a parody of the song "Be Our Guest" from the 1991 film Beauty and the Beast. Mirkin loved Scully's work on the parody song, commenting, "The rhymes are really clever. It's one of our very best songs [on The Simpsons]."

New 3-year postdoc position available in #shark movement ecology & climate change, incl novel bio-logging in deoxygenating environments MBA - Marine Biological Association MOVE OceanEarthUniSoton European Research Council (ERC) mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/postdoctor…