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...

Hey #Science @bsky.app! Need a recommendation- A couple years ago, my lab discovered parasitic vines attacking insect galls on their shared host. I am looking to learn more about the parasitic plant - Cassytha filiformis? Do you or anyone you know study this plant? Need info on general life history.

This time with the 🧪!

How do heatwaves affect different components of parental care? We find negative effects of heat stress in burying beetles when there is a heatwave during both pre- and post-hatching care, but not when the heatwave only affects one period. With the Sun Lab royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

I am searching for a PhD candidate interested in investigating how knowledge of thermal physiology and ecology of wild pollinators can help promote biodiversity conservation 🐝 Dynamic thermal team at @biologylu.bsky.social. Apply by March 20 👇 I would appreciate a re-post!

We’re recruiting for a #PhD opportunity funded by NERC Envision DTP, investigating the impact of climate change on chytrid disease dynamics in Appalachian salamanders. Full details here: findaphd.com?pj=182328

Our new paper shows that plasticity that has evolved to deal with one stressful situation, can help plants to adapt rapidly to new stressful situations. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @meebangor.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @ukri.org @pnas.org

Welcome to RES Publications on Bluesky! 📖 https://buff.ly/4hatyX9 Join us here for the latest in our seven #entomology journals, details of every new article & each new issue, as they are published Follow also for new RES book & handbook series titles, & peeks into the members' magazine #Antenna

If you're a non-UK scientist who wants to come to the UK for a postdoc, this year's Newton Fellowships are now open. You'll need a lab to host you (which could be me, but truly, could be any PI, so get in touch with someone you'd like to work with!) royalsociety.org/grants/newto...

We are searching broadly for a PhD candidate interested in the evolvability of heat tolerance and the interaction between evolution and plasticity in 🐦🐣, based at @biologylu.bsky.social. Be great if you could re-post. Details 👇 #ERC #HotLife @ercresearch.bsky.social

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y'all i have the coolest project lined up on cacti and succulents with a plant biologist and Bangor's biocomposites research centre - interdisciplinary, employable skills, cool science AND succulents? hit me up. 🌵🌵🌵

Today we are releasing 64 (!) adverts for Masters by Research projects at the College of Science & Engineering. All are self-funded. Spanning 18 themes/disciplines this is the richest offering we’ve had in years. Check out the projects now and get in touch: tinyurl.com/4bw29ucv

Looking for a research-based Masters degree? We at @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social are advertising 60+ projects across a huge range of topics (many in ecology/evolution/behaviour). Web-link to come but I am happy to email the booklet in the meantime