Anti-racist interventions to transform ecology, evolution and conservation biology departments.

Racial and ethnic discrimination persist in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, including ecology, evolution and conservation biology (EECB) and related disciplines. Marginalization and oppression as a result of institutional and structural racism continue to create barriers to inclusion for Black people, Indigenous people and people of colour (BIPOC), and remnants of historic racist policies and pseudoscientific theories continue to plague these fields. Many academic EECB departments seek concrete ways to improve the climate and implement anti-racist policies in their teaching, training and research activities.

Burrowing fishes: Kinematics, morphology and phylogeny of sand-diving wrasses (Labridae).

Burrowing through the substrate is a common behaviour in many organisms, both invertebrate and vertebrate. Sand-diving, a burrowing behaviour in the fish family Labridae, consists of a quick and forceful headfirst plunge into the sediment followed by undulatory axial body movements until the fish is completely concealed beneath the surface. This study determined that sand-diving of the slippery dick wrasse Halichoeres bivittatus is composed of two distinct phases of undulatory axial body movements.