👀 for postdoc? Come work with my colleague on an exciting project at the intersection of ecological genetics, invasion biology, and plant-insect interactions 🐛 🧬 ☘️ (not on clover, but plant emojis are limited)

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I am hiring a postdoc for a project on herbivory of Rhododendron by insects in North Wales! Genomics expertise required, field experience preferred. Hoping to hire quickly! Bangor is awesome! Get in touch if you want any more details! jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....

🚨Job claxon🚨 4-year #Postdoc available in our lab in @camzoology.bsky.social developing molecular and anatomical approaches to mapping evolutionary changes in the brain, using #Heliconiini butterflies. Come join us, we are nice. 🧪 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Some lovely talks from BEPs colleagues and others today to mark Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday! Reflections on his huge contributions to natural history scicomm with particular reference to primatology from @alexvgeorgiev.bsky.social and entomology from @bjmjarrett.bsky.social 🐵 🐞

The UK is sizzling towards a big Friday next week. David Attenborough’s 100. Uni colleagues what are you doing to mark the day??

I’m looking to hire a postdoc. We’re interested in the evolution of organs and cell types, and evolutionary and developmental genetics more broadly. Please reach out if you’re interested and please pass on to any folks that you know who might be! 🪰🧬

Excited to share a new article written with fantastic co-authors Towards an Integrated Understanding of Animal Weapons www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We have made it to Sun Moon Lake for the Species on the Move conference @sotm2026.bsky.social. Beautiful location!

I’m visiting my friend and collaborator Dr Syuan-Jyun Sun at National Taiwan University in Taipei at the moment. He has built a wonderful supportive lab here and it is brilliant to see. Cool science already done and much more to come @beps-bangor.bsky.social @meebangor.bsky.social

Thrilled that the Women in Ecology & Evolution podcast is listed here! So many of the topics we've discussed are still so timely, so hope this generates some new listeners. I would love to revive this someday soon...

For the ornithological golfer... what Jason Day is wearing at the Masters next week.

📢 We're delighted to announce the launch of a new journal! 🎉 Approaches in Entomology will publish innovative & exciting advances to methods & techniques, including ethics and philosophies, across the breadth of entomology. 🔬 Learn more on this development here! ⬇️ buff.ly/tNTmujq #EntoMethods

We're advertising a PhD project on how social isolation influences aggression in flies. Based at Durham, co-supervised by @clarahowcroft.bsky.social . Despite what the ad says, this is also open to international applicants! Any questions, shoot me a msg! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Just because you can do something in cowplot doesn't mean you should....

We're looking for a new colleague at Asssoc Prof level! Come join us in the Zoology Department at Stockholm University. A teaching profile in ecology, faunistics and/or physiology is beneficial. Find the full job advertisemnt here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Our new paper! Led by @miaryras.bsky.social with @wolfgangwuster.bsky.social and others 🦎

⚠️Please share: Deadline 2 Dec⚠️ Funded PhD in my group: 🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation? 🐾Find out by studying meerkats! This PhD combines: 🧪Epigenetic clocks ✨Bioinformatics 📊Ecological data 🌍African fieldwork 💡Big evolutionary questions ⏬APPLY⏬ www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

New paper out now in @jexpbiol.bsky.social! Led by star PhD student @miaryras.bsky.social, we tested the effects of winter warming (a constant increase as well as fluctuating temps - see pic) on common wall lizard behaviour and physiology. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

🎉 Exciting milestone … my first PhD paper has been accepted in the Journal of Experimental Biology! 🥳 Not all winter warming is equal: steady, mild winters increase activity and can cause molecular damage, but short, warm spells have little effect on wall lizards 🦎

I am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇 shorturl.at/WA1Qa Would appreciate a re-post! @evoldir.bsky.social

Look at her go! #invertebrates 🌿

New paper! Does associating with their mother in the early postnatal period buffer offspring from the consequences of prenatal stress (glucocorticoids) in a facultatively social lizard? No! Instead, maternal CORT altered offspring social phenotype: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In honour of "Postdoc Appreciation Week", a plug for a paper I was involved in 5 years ago (w/ @bjmjarrett.bsky.social, @muriellealund.bsky.social and others) in which we highlighted how academia could better support postdocs. There is much here that remains relevant! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📌North-West European IUSSI Winter Meeting 2025 We are happy to announce that our next meeting on the 18–19 December 2025 will be in Leuven, Belgium, hosted by @twenseleers.bsky.social and his team. Plenary speakers: Ido Pen & Rahia Mashoodh @rmash.bsky.social More details to follow 🐝🐜🪳🪲

I presented my poster at the #ESEB2025 ! 📢 Call for entomologists🐝 We are looking for Vespula germanica from Europe to further our understanding of the invasion dynamics of the species. Please get in touch!

New from @aaronc-research.bsky.social - drosophilid flies harbor a diverse microbiome! #drosophila www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2025-07...

Many congratulations to Molly Allum! She studied the crop foraging behaviour of the Zanzibar red colobus here in Jozani last year for her third year dissertation at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @beps-bangor.bsky.social ! Great dissertation - currently working on making it into a journal article!

In about a week we (Biological Sciences @ Monash Uni in Melbourne, Australia) will be opening a search for 3 (!!!) permanent academic positions (40% research, 40% teaching, 20% service) at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer. 1 Genomics, 2 Ecology. Please share, email me, DM, follow, send carrier pigeons…

New paper! "Rapamycin, Not Metformin, Mirrors Dietary Restriction-Driven Lifespan Extension in Vertebrates: A Meta-Analysis" tinyurl.com/yc6pkmbe Using meta-analysis, we examined the average lifespan extension conferred by dietary restriction (DR), Metformin, and Rapamycin.

🎉We are delighted to announce that Professor Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social‬ will be the 3rd Prince Philip Professor of Ecology and Evolution. We look forward to welcoming him next year!

Happy to share the first paper from my PhD! We report the discovery of a new insect-plant interaction from Borneo, where one ant-plant has evolved sharp hooked trichomes to pierce and kill lycaenid caterpillars. However, one specialist can survive and has a counter-defence! doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

🚨Anyone want a job?🚨 We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪 - cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo - bioinformatics and molecular biology Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n

Our newest #RESPhysEnt paper reveals plant silicon defence disrupts cryptic colouration in an insect herbivore by restricting carotenoid sequestration into the haemolymph Read the article🔽 doi.org/10.1111/phen.12492 @wybouw.bsky.social @tbuescher.bsky.social @tobybruce.bsky.social @wiley.com

Really enjoyed chatting with @jimalkhalili.bsky.social on the Life Scientific episode that was broadcast this morning. Thank you for having me on. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

🎉 Our new paper is out in Evolution! We show how sexual selection shapes heat tolerance in Drosophila prolongata. Males evolved under sperm competition suffer more under heat stress. Led by @adenardo.bsky.social with @StefanLupold lab members. academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... #sexualSelectio

Are you seeking a postdoc opportunity? The Natural History Museum in Oslo is on the lookout for candidates who want to create their own projects. If you're interested in brainstorming project ideas, feel free to reach out! More information here:👇 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

🏆Our hearty congratulations to Prof Claire Spottiswoode on being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society! Read more on the Zoology website: bit.ly/3H4rCCk @royalsociety.org @africanornithology.bsky.social

Has anyone here reared thrips in the lab before? I would appreciate a bit of advice. 🌱 #Entomology #Evolution 🌏

I'm reviewing applicants later this week and will continue to accept new applications until the position is filled

Philip is an awesome coauthor and his lego creation perfectly summarises our paper on the emergence (evolution but also plasticity) of reproductive isolation at the very beginning of speciation!

Divergent selection and plasticity increases reproductive isolation early during incipient speciation. Find our new meta-analysis on experimental speciation studies here: rdcu.be/ek019 🧪 @EvolOdonata.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy @pipdowning.bsky.social

Really excited that our DFG grant on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size variation in *Heliconius* has been funded :) In the next weeks, I will post an advert for a PhD, but if you know of good students, please suggest they get in touch. Please repost.

ISBE26-the 20th International Society for Behavioral Ecology Conference will take place in Turin, Italy, from 20-24th of July 2026. We invite you to join us to enjoy a 5-day meeting rich in top-notch science and ample networking opportunities, in our beautiful city. Website out soon! #ISBE26

And we're off! Our first blue tit egg was laid on 3 April 2025 - making this, by some margin, the earliest start to a season in the 12 years of our project! 🪺 #phenology #ukbirding #ornithology 🪶

In our new preprint lead by @pietropollo.bsky.social we show how to use meta-analysis to compare not sample means but also kurtosis & skewness, as well as within-group covariance between multiple groups. The era of meta-analyzing whole distributions is here ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Really excited to see this work, led by Mike Grundler, published! It's a new method for inferring the geographic locations of shared genetic ancestors. In the paper, we and use it to infer the geographic history of human genetic ancestry www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🐳 UPCOMING BOOK ALERT 🐬 The Evolution of Cetacean Societies Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @andrewfoote.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social and myself Preorder available now press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... #whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour

looking for ECRs to join the ProcB preprint team! You'll gain editorial/review training by screening BioRxiv submissions for suitable work, and help broaden the journal’s content and author diversity more info in the thread below and via royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/preprints 🧪 #EcoECRcareer

I’m finding it very hard to understand the stance of the Royal Society here. Science is part of society, not separate from it, existing in some strange metaphysical bubble. I look across the Atlantic, aghast at the damage being done to science and scientists. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...