"Ectotherms"
September 21, 2026 at 4:03 AM
"Ectotherms"
big coats like drink koozies for lizards? good for both extremes? they're ectotherms...
September 1, 2025 at 7:18 AM
big coats like drink koozies for lizards? good for both extremes? they're ectotherms...
this weather is so unfair, lousy ectotherms bustling about
December 7, 2024 at 4:12 AM
this weather is so unfair, lousy ectotherms bustling about
Cool... a global focus on three core traits of ectotherms: metabolic rate, development time and fecundity. ShareTrait: Towards interoperable and reusable individual trait-based data in ectotherms #OpenTraits #FunctionalTraits besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 🧪🌐
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September 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Cool... a global focus on three core traits of ectotherms: metabolic rate, development time and fecundity. ShareTrait: Towards interoperable and reusable individual trait-based data in ectotherms #OpenTraits #FunctionalTraits besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 🧪🌐
entwined ectotherms’
icily hostile gazes
stealing bodyheat
icily hostile gazes
stealing bodyheat
tightly coiled bodies,
tail-weft bones, absconded wait—
the hunger resumes
tail-weft bones, absconded wait—
the hunger resumes
June 13, 2026 at 11:59 AM
entwined ectotherms’
icily hostile gazes
stealing bodyheat
icily hostile gazes
stealing bodyheat
🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT
We got a new paper finally published @funecology.bsky.social, lead by @felixpleiva.bsky.social, and presenting Share Trait platform for interoperable and reusable use of individual-level trait data in ectotherms.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We got a new paper finally published @funecology.bsky.social, lead by @felixpleiva.bsky.social, and presenting Share Trait platform for interoperable and reusable use of individual-level trait data in ectotherms.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
September 15, 2025 at 7:26 AM
🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT
We got a new paper finally published @funecology.bsky.social, lead by @felixpleiva.bsky.social, and presenting Share Trait platform for interoperable and reusable use of individual-level trait data in ectotherms.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We got a new paper finally published @funecology.bsky.social, lead by @felixpleiva.bsky.social, and presenting Share Trait platform for interoperable and reusable use of individual-level trait data in ectotherms.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
📰Published📰ShareTrait: Towards interoperable and reusable individual trait‐based data in ectotherms💻
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ShareTrait: Towards interoperable and reusable individual trait‐based data in ectotherms
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September 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
📰Published📰ShareTrait: Towards interoperable and reusable individual trait‐based data in ectotherms💻
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New paper in @funecology.bsky.social led by @felixpleiva.bsky.social. We present ShareTrait, a community-driven platform for standardising & sharing individual-level trait data in ectotherms to improve data reuse across studies.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
#OpenScience #FAIRdata
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
#OpenScience #FAIRdata
September 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM
New paper in @funecology.bsky.social led by @felixpleiva.bsky.social. We present ShareTrait, a community-driven platform for standardising & sharing individual-level trait data in ectotherms to improve data reuse across studies.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
#OpenScience #FAIRdata
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
#OpenScience #FAIRdata
Got distracted by biology videos and now I am curious if people that have Au Ra ocs/wols write/roleplay them as endotherms or ectotherms for the plot
January 8, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Got distracted by biology videos and now I am curious if people that have Au Ra ocs/wols write/roleplay them as endotherms or ectotherms for the plot
🔥 New paper out now!
Do ectotherms actually adjust their physiology to cope with daily temperature swings? Our latest meta-analysis suggests… not really. Check it out now: doi.org/10.1098/rstb... and the other great studies in this special issues on #EmbracingVariability #PhilTransB#ThermalBiology
Do ectotherms actually adjust their physiology to cope with daily temperature swings? Our latest meta-analysis suggests… not really. Check it out now: doi.org/10.1098/rstb... and the other great studies in this special issues on #EmbracingVariability #PhilTransB#ThermalBiology
March 20, 2026 at 2:37 AM
🔥 New paper out now!
Do ectotherms actually adjust their physiology to cope with daily temperature swings? Our latest meta-analysis suggests… not really. Check it out now: doi.org/10.1098/rstb... and the other great studies in this special issues on #EmbracingVariability #PhilTransB#ThermalBiology
Do ectotherms actually adjust their physiology to cope with daily temperature swings? Our latest meta-analysis suggests… not really. Check it out now: doi.org/10.1098/rstb... and the other great studies in this special issues on #EmbracingVariability #PhilTransB#ThermalBiology
Love how being sprawling-legged ectotherms does absolutely nothing to stop lizards from sometimes doing this:
September 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Love how being sprawling-legged ectotherms does absolutely nothing to stop lizards from sometimes doing this:
I also don’t think we give Komodo dragons - sprawling legged ectotherms mind you - enough credit for routinely preying on cursorial ungulates (esp. rusa deer) that could so, SO easily outrun them. They didn’t even originally evolve to hunt this kind of prey!
March 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I also don’t think we give Komodo dragons - sprawling legged ectotherms mind you - enough credit for routinely preying on cursorial ungulates (esp. rusa deer) that could so, SO easily outrun them. They didn’t even originally evolve to hunt this kind of prey!
In ectotherms, temperature-species richness relationships matched predictions of metabolic theory 🧪🌐 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Consistent energy-diversity relationships in terrestrial vertebrates
Ecologists have long proposed that environments providing more energy can support more species, yet empirical evidence frequently contradicts this expectation. We argue that such inconsistencies resul...
www.science.org
July 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
In ectotherms, temperature-species richness relationships matched predictions of metabolic theory 🧪🌐 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Frogs, you see, are ectotherms (i.e. cold-blooded). They can't regulate their internal temperature, which means that as soon as they get too hot or too cold, they instinctively try to move. This behaviour is essential to their survival.
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November 12, 2024 at 6:08 PM
Frogs, you see, are ectotherms (i.e. cold-blooded). They can't regulate their internal temperature, which means that as soon as they get too hot or too cold, they instinctively try to move. This behaviour is essential to their survival.
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September 27, 2026 at 2:21 PM
his baby chuckwalla has plans for world domination! 😏🔥 Photo by Innovative Ectotherms. TRR is made possible by Redline Shipping
May 16, 2025 at 5:22 AM
his baby chuckwalla has plans for world domination! 😏🔥 Photo by Innovative Ectotherms. TRR is made possible by Redline Shipping
September 27, 2026 at 11:10 AM
www.popsci.com/environment/...
Why turtles do the Superman pose
#ClimateEducation
#SaveOurWildlife
#BlueEarth
#TTDS
Why turtles do the Superman pose
#ClimateEducation
#SaveOurWildlife
#BlueEarth
#TTDS
Why do turtles do the ‘Superman pose’?
Basking in sunlight has numerous benefits for these ectotherms.
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June 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
www.popsci.com/environment/...
Why turtles do the Superman pose
#ClimateEducation
#SaveOurWildlife
#BlueEarth
#TTDS
Why turtles do the Superman pose
#ClimateEducation
#SaveOurWildlife
#BlueEarth
#TTDS
If a mammal loses its head, it will die almost immediately. But snakes and other ectotherms don't need as much oxygen to fuel the brain and can probably live on for minutes or even hours. Hence this zombie-like scene.
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September 23, 2026 at 9:09 AM
If a mammal loses its head, it will die almost immediately. But snakes and other ectotherms don't need as much oxygen to fuel the brain and can probably live on for minutes or even hours. Hence this zombie-like scene.
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Ever wonder why high latitude ectotherms don’t consistently evolve greater thermal plasticity than those in the tropics? @ggcostoya.bsky.social, Mike Logan and I have an idea why, and we explore it in this theoretical analysis
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Climate variability and the paradox of plasticity
Adaptive phenotypic plasticity is expected to evolve when environmental conditions change predictably over time. This has led to the hypothesis that ectotherms in environments with low temperature sea...
www.biorxiv.org
September 2, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Ever wonder why high latitude ectotherms don’t consistently evolve greater thermal plasticity than those in the tropics? @ggcostoya.bsky.social, Mike Logan and I have an idea why, and we explore it in this theoretical analysis
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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