Kris Crandell

Thrilled to share that my second child was born in January happy and healthy. Maternity leave is flying by and I’m so grateful for this chance to embrace my children at this tiny stage of their lives.

Hey, I think one of y’all put my name up for something and I dont know who, but I just want to say thanks. It means a lot. (Sorry for being cryptic.)

We are hiring! 🧪 Tenure-track position in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Great colleagues, nearby mountains, and of course a certain lake... Application info: nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNR-external... www.unr.edu/biology #evolution #EEB #ecoevo #evolsky #academicjobs

Petition for review invitations to give you a word count or page count in the invite. Nothing worse than discovering you’ve agreed to review a behemoth.

Our update to the BES Data Management Guide is now live! assets.britishecologicalsociety.org/2026/09/2110... Huge thanks to the incredibly talented ECRs who contributed sections. It's an excellent resource that I've already used with my PhD students. ❤️

I am going to show my age with this one but damn do I miss having a phone in my office so I could actually get shit done instead of this interminable email and Teams-hopping.

A genuinely fabulous way to end the week: a former undergraduate just submitted her undergraduate dissertation! 🎉

🦎*Please share!*🦎 The Swierk Lab is recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 27 / Spr 28 to study Neotropical anole 1) body coloration and visual signals or 2) predator avoidance, diving, and respiration. Please contact only by email. More info and contact details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1TGmC...

Grab your coffees, it’s almost time!

Rebecca Lowes will walk through a real example that she’s been working on.

Peter Falkingham from Liverpool John Moores University will be talking about Blender XROMM tools and the workflow there (introducing that it exists, showing what it can do, and fostering discussion/questions about what people _want_ it to do. EXN Workshop #SEBConference @sebiology.bsky.social

Johannes Tassani-Prell, Leipzig University, Institute of Veterinary Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, will talk about 'The New FluoKin Gait Lab in Leipzig: Past and Future Projects' at the EXN workshop July 9, 9-10:30 #SEBConference @sebiology.bsky.social

Are you guys excited for our @sebiology.bsky.social #SEB2026 workshop tomorrow???

Kiisa Nishikawa shares a few of her valuable academic lessons in her plenary: anything is more fun than finishing your PhD, and side projects can become your main research focus @sebiology.bsky.social #SEB2026

Interested in learning more about XROMM, x-ray data collection, 3D reconstruction methods and analysis? Don't miss our awesome speaker lineup at the #EXN Workshop this 9th, the last day of the #SEBConference in Florence, Italy! 9-10 AM in Modulo 1. See you there!

We're here and ready! Looking forward to welcoming everyone tomorrow at the #SEBconference. See you soon! More details 👇 underline.io/events/515/reception

WE HAVE AVOCET NEWS!!! An Avocet spotted at RSPB Middleton Lakes has been confirmed as the oldest ever recorded in the UK. At 36 years old, it's lived more than five times longer than the species' average lifespan. First ringed in 1990, it's still out there doing Avocet things. Go on Avocet. 😍

Meet the EXN (European XROMM Network) organizing team #SEBConference @sebiology.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social @kriscran.bsky.social @kelseytstilson.bsky.social @racheltran.bsky.social See you July 9th, 9-10:30m Modulo 1 !

This session brings together the disparate European research groups utilising 3D x-ray motion analysis (XROMM) techniques. It will serve as both an introductory event to the EXN and an opportunity to highlight the amazing XROMM advances and challenges. #SEBConference @sebiology.bsky.social

1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative

Hey that's my preprint!!! This is the last 3.5 years of my life and research and I'm so excited for it to be out! Hopefully coming to a journal near you soon! 🧪

Stoked to be meeting secondary school teachers today for Boosting Science Wales! We’ll be working with our mini wind tunnel today thinking about bird wings 🤩

Hey students: AI might make your emails *look* clever but all you are doing is pushing your work on to me. I can smell it a mile away, and I don’t play that game.

Great work from Simone Videsen. We found sperm whale slow clicks maintain extreme isochrony with inter-click intervals up to ~10s. That's beyond any known neural system for precise interval timing. May be a long-distance communication system. nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Just signed a work email: ‘Best, thanks’ Brain fog is one hell of a humbler.

So stoked that our new @booktrust.org.uk Cymru book is by @evoswami.bsky.social !! How cool! Diolch :)

The very clever Outlook autofill just tried to end ‘hope you had a nice…’ with ‘Thanksgiving.’ Which WOW. wrong season, wrong continent. But good hustle.

Exciting news! Our website is now available in CYMRAEG! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 www.bangor.ac.uk/cy/ygan/beps...

3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama! Three positions, each including salary & a research budget. Applications due April, 15th. DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us! stri.si.edu/academic-pro...

Never too late! From a hot summer in 2009 spent in the lab molecularly sexing pied flycatchers to a 2026 paper 🐦 Using 2,759 sexed nestlings (1997–2018) tracked through 2023, we show male attractiveness & annual rearing conditions increase the proportion of sons in broods 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

Check out our new paper on clingfishes led by @fishtide.bsky.social!

What’s the point of deadlines if students just ignore them and apply for SCs. More than half my module just breezed past their deadline.

🐡⁉️Ever wondered how a pufferfish inflates? Very excited to announce that Drs Rachel Tran and Ariel Camp will be giving a FREE TALK/WORKSHOP on this very topic on the 10th March at Storyhouse in Chester with Chester SciBar! (details below)

The process of #PeerReview is vital to contemporary science, but is also under enormous strain. @carlbergstrom.com & Kevin Gross use mathematical models to dissect the threats to the long-term viability of peer review, suggesting ways to stabilize it @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4kR02bo

Month two back at work: short run before the nursery pickup. Am i crushing this work life balance stuff or what? Feels like a what.

I LOVE when science is applied to "toddler questions" like "Why is the sky blue?" or "Why is ice slippery?" Because the answers can be so SUPRISING. Let's dig into recent revelations about how ice skates work & why tires skid across black ice. First, we'll dismiss 3 VERY GOOD hypotheses as wrong.

Excited to share our new review in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com, coauthored w/allstar postdocs @vale-alaasam.bsky.social @annainthefield.bsky.social @anthonysnead.bsky.social Bridging island biogeography & evolutionary processes, we explore how eco-evo dynamics play out in the urban mosaic rdcu.be/e4tcj

On this day that supports inclusive futures for women and girls in science, let's not forget all the women that were sidelined, ignored, or forced out of science because they: - had children - prioritised family/caring - did science differently - questioned boundaries & norms - fought the patriarchy

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs xkcd.com/3204/

Piranha bite force and tooth stress are fantastically high for their size! Check out our new paper on computational modeling of the cranial muscles and bite mechanics of the amazing piranhas. #biomechsky 🐟🧪🌿 link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

i got curious why Panopto was called Panopto -- and my computer suggested 'panopticon' (a system of constant surveillance in jail systems) .. and somehow, yeah, checks out. (although, fingers crossed, isn't the name's inspiration)

Students still have some days left to aplply for the first round of mcirogrants of 2026 :) Please share

Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition. TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’ www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

We are delighted to introduce a new Perspective series highlighting the important role that field stations have played, and continue to play, in comparative physiology and biomechanics To find out about Harvard's Concord Field Station & more go to journals.biologists.com/jeb/collecti...

🚨 Now out: Award Issue, collecting all seven mini-reviews included in the 2025 Review Competition written by early career researchers. Highlighting emerging or less explored topics in avian biology ➡️ vist.ly/4pzxr Cover: pair of female Laysan albatrosses by Bertille Mohring #ornithology

return from mat leave, day 12: I have spent several days looking for my stapler. finally went to the supply closet today for another one. immediately found original stapler. two of them.

Second PhD paper is out! We find: 1) aquatic and terrestrial salamanders have different limb bone adaptations, 2) complex life cycles promote different traits, 3) decoupling of external and internal bone traits increase diversity. Thread (1/8) and FREE link below! 🦎🧪 doi.org/10.1111/joa....

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Just a few days to go until our next deadline. Apply at the link below. #ornithology

return from mat leave, day 10(?): said "birdies" in my first lecture back. i suppose being transparent about return to work & lack of sleep extends to transparency around my students, but gosh i would like to feel a bit more competent.