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Trap-jaw ants could tear themselves apart when they fire off their mandibles but @patek_lab @RFFL_UB @dukebiology show how the ants push and pull the mandibles using energy stored in a tendon and their exoskeleton to drive the jaws in a perfect arc journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…

Last to register for a symposium bringing together biologists, material scientists and roboticist who are trying to understand the mechanics behind the fastest movements on the planet. Please join us! sites.duke.edu/symposium2022/

Nature research paper: Engineered jumpers overcome biological limits via work multiplication go.nature.com/3voFsaA

Register now for a symposium bringing together biologists, material scientists and roboticist who are trying to understand the mechanics behind the fastest movements on the planet. impulsivemuri.com/symposium2022.…

Plasticity of the gastrocnemius elastic system in response to decreased work and power demand during growth | Now out in the Journal of Experimental Biology | The Company of Biologists journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/do…

sciencefriday.com/articles/chari… My Patek labmate @TheJasonDinh was on Science Friday! Listen here.

The angled sunbeam is a butterfly Its larvae have a pair of sclerotized cylinders at the back end of its body, containing tentacle organs When threatened, it unsheathes this structure with a “brush” its end that it whirls... to startle a predator

Thanks everyone who attended our @ISB_2021 Tutorial. It was certainly a treat to work with @JohnRHutchinson @JonasRubenson @cox_zanne co-organizing and thanks @darione581 for the invitation. If we didn't get the chance to answer your questions, don't hesitate to contact us!

When trying to diversify your faculty, do not underestimate the value of socioeconomic diversity. "Our results suggest that the professoriate is, and has remained, accessible mainly to the socioeconomically privileged." osf.io/preprints/soca…

If you are interested in imaging and models. Come join myself, @JohnRHutchinson @cox_zanne @JonasRubenson for our tutorial at #ISB2021 !! @ISBiomechanics @CNBiomechanics

H.C. Bennet-Clark JEB 1975 The energetics of the jump of the loust schistocerca gregaria

"Animals [were] stimulated to jump... from an electrified platorm...Despite the strong stimulus, some older female insects were not readily induced to jump but walked off the platform or found a position where they could lift their feet off the electrified parts of the platform."

A postdoctoral position in evolutionary analyses of origins, transitions, and diversification rates is available at the Patek Lab in the Biology department at Duke University. Looking for a great addition to the lab. Please apply! pateklab.biology.duke.edu/news/postdoc-p…

While trying to put markers on a squirming pecking squawking bird, I realized how useful those hours really were holding one kid on my hip while the other wove between my legs and they both were screaming at the top of their lungs. #productivityInChaos Nothing phases me now.

We we PLEASE put more money into the IT folks who design the FAFSA web site - because it really really sucks!

This is a snail moving upside-down.

In a recent job interview I was asked why my research is important. Next time, this'll be my answer.

"Science reveals to us a planet that is beautifully and insistently not human....[it] shows us that we are living in an exquisitely complicated world that is not all about us. It does not belong to us alone. It never has done." -Helen McDonald Vesper Flights

One reason I'm excited about the non-synchronous format for SICB this year is that it allows people to share talk suggestions with each other when they watch a talk that inspires them.