{"id":698,"date":"2022-08-03T09:35:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T09:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mechecolab.blogs.bristol.ac.uk\/?p=698"},"modified":"2022-08-03T09:35:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T09:35:03","slug":"finally-a-proper-research-paper-out-again-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"Finally, a proper research paper out again today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like most (experimental) labs, we struggled to keep up with publishing through the pandemic, with lockdowns and university closures making it challenging to keep the research going smoothly. As a result, we published more review papers and commentaries, and fewer research papers than we would like (and normally do). Today, the first proper data paper in quite a while was finally published &#8211; can&#8217;t say how good that feels! And it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mechecolab.blogs.bristol.ac.uk\/people\/anne-kristin-lenz\/\">Anne<\/a>&#8216;s first research paper from her PhD &#8211; even better! Her study on the mechanics underlying the springboard prey capture mechanisms of tropical <em>Nepenthes gracilis<\/em> pitcher plants already won her a poster prize at the <a href=\"https:\/\/mechecolab.blogs.bristol.ac.uk\/2022\/07\/14\/mechanical-ecology-at-the-2022-seb-conference-a-full-success\/\">SEB conference<\/a> in Montpellier last month, and now it&#8217;s also out as a shiny <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1098\/rsbl.2022.0106\">research paper<\/a>. For this study, Anne stuck\u00a0<em>N. gracilis<\/em> pitchers in a micro-CT scanner and imaged them with different lid positions &#8211; thereby visualizing the deformation of the pitcher during a drop impact-induced &#8216;strike&#8217;. Surprisingly, the spring turned out to be far more complex than we had thought &#8211; and it&#8217;s direction-dependent as well!\u00a0 Published open access in Biology Letters, you should not miss giving it a read!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-699 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanical-ecology-lab.onyx-sites.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/PressRelease-1024x461.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/PressRelease-1024x461.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/PressRelease-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/PressRelease-768x346.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/PressRelease-1536x691.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/PressRelease.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most (experimental) labs, we struggled to keep up with publishing through the pandemic, with lockdowns and university closures making&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/?p=698\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finally, a proper research paper out again today!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}