Only 54% of papers were precisely reproducible, and 72% shared neither data nor code. But journals that required sharing had higher reproducibility rates. When sharing is mandated rather than encouraged, science becomes more verifiable. 📄 doi.org/10.1038/d415...

GREAT PhD opportunity at La Trobe University in Melbourne: domestic Australian student only. Deep-red vision and infrared sensing in jewel beetles. Field and lab studies, inc. electorphys, microscopy, behavioural assays. Team led by Dr Amanda Franklin. PM me for more info!

Animal Sentience Is Not a Belief. It’s an Evidence-Based Scientific Conclusion. medium.com/p/animal-sen...

🚨 4-year PhD 🚨 Study how disgust 🤢 shapes food avoidance 🙅 & immune responses 🩸 through VR 🎮 + lab exp + psychophysiology with @csarabian.bsky.social, Marie Charpentier (@mandrillusproject.bsky.social) & me ⏳ Oct 2026 | ⚠️ Deadline May 20 📍 Univ Montpellier 🇫🇷 --> euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422430

This evening we welcome Claire Spottiswoode as our speaker for the Alfred Newton Lecture. #BOU2026

A new PhD position in Drone-based Terrestrial Snow Monitoring is currently open on Svalbard, offering an exciting opportunity to work on Arctic remote sensing research. Based in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, the position focuses on advancing high-resolution snow monitoring using drone-based approaches.…

this paper on manakins plumage maturation is now typeset so i am going to drink beer and explain what the heck is going on here, because I think manakins and molt are amazing and I fear a lot of the evolutionary wonder runs the risk of getting lost, so to speak, in the sauce doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Have a look at this great #PhD opportunity on Road Ecology at Aarhus University, Denmark 👇 Timely topic, and a great supervisor! 📅DL: 30.04 phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican... (📸: coloradosun.com/2025/12/07/p...)

PhD student wanted! Project focused on synzoochoric seed dispersal (oaks and jays) and its effects on tree recruitment 🌱🦅 More details here: usosirk.amu.edu.pl/en-gb/offer/...

I’m not sure if I ever shared on Bluesky this article we wrote on how almost everyone giving career advice is susceptible to survivorship bias, but I think it was good and you should read it www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“Half of calories produced on croplands are available for people to eat. The calories ‘lost’ to inefficiency of the food system (49.9%) is enough to support 7.2 billion people [pa] Beef production is the largest source of calories lost by converting feed to food” iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

ICYMI, our new paper: Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Post-doc opportunity on comparative cognition and movement dynamics in corvids with the brilliant Prof Debbie Kelly at the University of Manitoba

🥇Poster prize awarded to #AylaWebb at @asab.org #ASABSpring2026 🐝Reproductive hierarchies & queen succession in paper #wasps 🌟CONGRATULATIONS Ayla 🎉 @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social #ProudSupervisors @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @asab-meetings.bsky.social #fieldwork #ECR #PhD #experiments #evolution

It's not just traditional subscriptions. OA factories like MDPI, Scientific Reports, Frontiers etc have subscribe-to-publish agreements with institutions. forbetterscience.com/2026/01/06/s...

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us ❓Quantifying animal #movement patterns & behavioural #interactions in a changing world 👥Joint position in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #MacquarieUniversity 📆19th April deadline tinyurl.com/343acaev #maths #modelling #data #fieldwork #Australia 🙏PLEASE SHARE

🚨NEW SCIENCE ALERT!🚨Read our new, open-access publication in Scientific Reports (@nature.com) describing #biofluorescence in #cassowary casques! Very excited to unveil this after keeping it secret for 5 years⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... NYITCOM @akiopteryx.bsky.social @jonathanberman.bsky.social

📣 Out now in @pnasnexus.org our *NEW PAPER* revamping a long-standing debate: to what extent does causal reasoning aid the cultural evolution of technology? academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...

This is great. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/c... (free link) "Notably, half of the whales attending were not related to the mother." "The calf was rarely left untouched, and it was usually being touched by at least two whales simultaneously."

Bless open peer review

Bonobos and bottlenose dolphins may seem worlds apart, but together they reveal key conditions that foster cooperation beyond group boundaries

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

Insects in the #Amazon could reach their heat thresholds. Rising temperatures already threaten dung beetles. A study conducted by scientists from #Würzburg and #Bremen shows this trend. @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @kimholzmann.bsky.social ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-... 📸 Kim Lea Holzmann

Hope everyone had a great time at the ceilidh last night, and that nobody is too late for the plenary 😉🍻💃🕺 #ASABSpring2026 #ASABAfterDark

If you look closely you can see him blush #ASABSpring2026

Congratulations to @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social for winning the Christopher Barnard Award for Outstanding Contributions by a New Investigator! 🎉 Such an engaging talk on strategic social behaviour – including brinkmanship, blackmail and climatic sabotage at #ASABSpring2026 ! 🐝

The first poster session of #ASABSpring2026 was bustling! There’s no way to have seen every one, so please free to drop your poster below as well ⬇️ 👀

🐦Defining a 'bird' is trickier than you think! Join our very own Strickland Curator of Ornithology, Prof. Daniel Field as he chats about how birds evolved from dinosaurs & more on the Okay, But.....Birds podcast 🦜 @camunivmuseums.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social youtu.be/fVeOAmQspDk?...

🚨PhD position opening in Montpellier (France) on how Quaternary climatic changes and recent anthropogenic pressures impact the genetic make-up, distribution, and demographic dynamics of lemurs in Madagascar 🐒🧬 All the info here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/420224

New research on 100 primate species finds that mild and lethal aggression are evolutionarily decoupled — species that fight often aren’t more likely to kill. Bickering and murder follow different evolutionary paths. #Primatology #HumanEvolution #Aggression @evolletters.bsky.social

I’m advertising two position options (PhD/postdoc) within my lab - take a look below if you’re interested or send me a message ☺️ @uni-konstanz.de

Previously we showed that female budgerigars like to listen to rhythm 🎵 just like we humans do. In a new study, we showed that male budgerigar courtship song actually has similar rhythmic properties to human music. doi.org/10.1111/nyas...

Now that I’m beginning a postdoc about the biology of dance (in birds but also humans), I’ve been learning more about evolutionary anthropology. Book nr. 5 is Shamanism: the timeless religion by Manvir Singh. Very exiting read!

New paper: female birdsong isn’t rare, accidental, or about fighting—so why do females sing? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @univie.ac.at @alperyelimlies.bsky.social @caglarakcay.bsky.social Video: A. Yelimlies

out now in Science: @loganjames.bsky.social collected pairs of sounds in 16 species where we *know* which sound is more attractive (to that species) he played them to ppl on themusiclab.org, asking, in each pair, which was nicer. humans agreed w other animals doi.org/10.1126/science.aea1202

I have a new PhD position available on any topic related to musicality or animal communication that aligns well with our current research programs. Deadline March 31: oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=795a... For more info about my Musicality and Bioacoustics group: oeaw.ac.at/en/ari/resea...

Really happy that a moth made it to the cover of @nature.com! Thanks to my co-author Gunnar Brehm for this great photo 📸 Find our study on thermal limits in this week's issue: www.nature.com/nature/volum... @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

Now with pages @systbiol.bsky.social ! "Social Environment and the Evolution of Delayed Reproduction in Birds" with @pseudacris.bsky.social and Rick Prum Some comparative support for the hypothesis that the evolution of complex social contexts restructure life histories doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

I really enjoyed this paper. I wish more people wrote these kinds of intellectual histories of complex debates quoting both sides in their own words. Bravo! That said, I have two issues I'd love to see discussed in the promised commentaries:

1/ Paul Ehrlich died this week at 93. The takes split into hagiography and dismissal. But the interesting question isn't whether he got it right, he didn't, it's why he got it wrong, and who was asking the right questions instead 🧵

I like my fieldwork. 🙂 elecom project wwtf.at/funding/prog...

So hyped to see the paper out!! 🤩 A great within-lab collab: 2 undergrads, 2 postdocs, 1 PI, cute rainbow darters, and much fun! 🌟 Please read (now-faculty ❤️) Kara's recap to learn more about what we did, she has a real knack for storytelling! ⏬️

In light of the latest news from Colossal Biosciences, now is the perfect time to announce my laboratory's groundbreaking Minion de-extinction project, which depends on state-of-the-art gene editing at 20 key sites in the genome of the common banana.

The biggest conservation win ever for the endangered Palm Cockatoo! On the back of 18 years of my research on this difficult species, People for Wildlife and Indigenous rangers and I were able to make an install an artificial hollow that was immediately used! 💥 capeyorkweekly.com.au/artificial-h...

MDPI is predatory, compromised, and a drag on science publishing. Boycott them!

For decades biologists assumed ravens follow wolves to their kills. Our paper @science.org shows something different: ravens rarely follow wolves far. Instead they remember areas where wolf kills are common and return to them—sometimes from >150 km away. doi.org/10.1126/science.adz9467 📷Dan Stahler

Fun to give a plenary at the annual conference of the Austrian Ethological Society, though a tough act to follow from Rosemary Grant a day earlier!

This could be your dream job! PhD in ecology, and English and Japanese language skills required... working for POKEMON!!! www.ign.com/articles/the...

Last year, J. Endler published an inspiring essay in @behavecol.bsky.social on what we should be doing as behavioral ecologists 👉 doi.org/10.1093/beheco/araf029. According to him, "we need to put Ecology back into Behavioural Ecology: we need to make a lot more use of Natural History" (1/5)

📣 JOBS!!! We're looking for new colleagues in the School of Biology @bioscienceleeds.bsky.social - two associate profs (plant sci and animal biology) and a lecturer (ecology/zoology)... jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...