My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com

Interested in thermal biology? Please join our new and growing grass roots initiative, the Thermal Ecology Alliance, initiated by @patricepottier.bsky.social. 🧪🐟🦑🌡️ Sign up here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org#participation Check who already signed up: www.thermalecologyalliance.org#community

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term www.gov.uk/government/p...

We had two papers out in Science and Scientific Reports in the past week - I couldn't be happier! Science paper on architectural immunity: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Scientific Reports paper on the synergistic interaction between new-generation pesticide and disease: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Have your say on BBSRC’s applicant-led mode funding. The consultation will assess its effectiveness, reach and impact - your views will help shape how we support world-class bioscience. Find out more and get involved: www.ukri.org/news/bbsrc-s... #BBSRC

doi.org/10.1126/scie... This seems rad: overexpressing FruM in a set of proboscis-motorneuron-projecting neurons makes melanogaster males add food-sharing to their courtship repertoire. It is fascinating to see evolutionary shifts in behavior be tied so concretely to shifts in brain development!

Social relationships are powerful predictors of fitness across social animals. But *why*? In our new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper, we outline testable predictions for why relationship quality and quantity adaptively vary across socio-ecological contexts. tinyurl.com/55dnkeh7

Thank you to everyone for their support over the past 100 years, and for helping us celebrate this year. You can catch up with all our 100-year content on our special anniversary page bit.ly/4naj8Jr

Out now - female fruit flies cluster their eggs together depending on their social environment 🪰🧪 Just wish they'd let us know why... led by @emilyrosech.bsky.social Emily Fowler, Lucy Friend and Tracey Chapman. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📣 @asab.org grants BOOSTED! 📣 We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026. Check out what we offer here: www.asab.org/grant-overview

Girls' use of parks drops after the age of 11. At a time when they should be gaining independence, many girls start to avoid parks. Why? They feel that parks aren’t for them - there is nothing to do. Also, many state they don’t feel safe.

How should ejaculate ejection behaviour by females be measured? And does it correlate with female pre-mating preference? Find out in our new paper! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🧬 Our latest paper out in Scientific Reports! We explored how Gum Arabic (a dietary fibre) affects the microbiota–gut–brain axis and whole-organism fitness in zebrafish. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @immler.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social What we found ⬇️

🚨 Postdoc in evolutionary genomics of heat stress adaptation position at @ucddublin.bsky.social. 📍 Dublin, Ireland Closes: 15th Oct 2025 🔗 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOV094/u...

#ISBE2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your abstract by 15 December 2025 on www.isbe2026.com @behavecol.bsky.social

How do insects respond to changing climates? Our new review and analysis in @annualreviews.bsky.social suggests that phenological adaptation trumps thermal adaptation. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

🧵 New study alert! How does 🌡️ room temperature relate to how our body reacts to 😰 psychosocial stress? We looked at everyday indoor temperature variation (17–28 °C) and measured stress markers in the body.

New out in Molecular Ecology! In which we show that small males try harder when it comes to seminal fluid proteins. w/ @ju-morimoto.bsky.social @iremsepil.bsky.social @becks-seascience.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The training is based on the 5Ds of bystander intervention, designed to promote safety and not escalate the situation: 🗣️ Distract 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Delegate 📱 Document 💙 Delay ✋ Direct More here 👇 bit.ly/4ntiTtg #saferparks #StandUpAgainstStreetHarassment

Spiders have personalities—and in Pisaura mirabilis, opposites might attract: adventurous males and cautious females mate longer, revealing hidden personality-driven patterns in romance. Lead by @cristinatuni.bsky.social Read more here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New paper in @funecology.bsky.social led by @felixpleiva.bsky.social. We present ShareTrait, a community-driven platform for standardising & sharing individual-level trait data in ectotherms to improve data reuse across studies. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365... #OpenScience #FAIRdata

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We’re offering a fully funded 4 yr PhD position to work on Sexual selection in complex environments at the @uv.es. Co-supervised by @dbergerbiol.bsky.social. Find details below 👇

The Royal Society's Francis Crick Medal and Lecture 2026 is awarded to Professor Kayla King for contributions to the fields of evolutionary biology and genetics of infectious disease. #RSMedals https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/francis-crick-lecture/

Repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking "Long-term study suggests that the more heatwaves people are exposed to, the more it accelerates body ageing." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

✨ It’s published! ✨ 🕷️ Social spiders have bigger brains… but only in the right places! Our new study shows that in social huntsman spiders, regions for memory & vision processing are proportionally larger, supporting group living. Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Visit our website and learn more about the @behavecol.bsky.social conference venue, host city and schedule! www.isbe2026.com

Dear [email protected], dear [email protected], to learn more about the importance of #Drosophila and crucial role of @flybase.bsky.social, and how it gave rise to at least 9 Nobel laureates in Physiology and Medicine, please see this link: droso4schools.wordpress.com/why-fly/

Well done @tonigabaldon.bsky.social and all the @eseb2025.bsky.social team for not just surviving but producing a #eseb2025 conference of such high fitness 😁

Aurelien Tellier presenting the details of #eseb2027 which will be a hub meeting, with connected and local sessions in 4 hubs (Gothenburg, Munich, London, Istanbul) eseb2027.org #eseb2025

Whoever heard of birds splitting up? A new study from @biology.ox.ac.uk and Leeds researcher Dr Josh Firth reveals wild great tits show signs of 'divorce' months before breeding season. 🔎 Vital clues to social relationships in not just birds, but other species too. bit.ly/4fLH3Nb @ox.ac.uk

Incredible presentation from Sophia EO prize winner #eseb2025. Let’s hear her call for our evolutionary biology community to support trans colleagues facing such challenges.

Thanks to all those that attended the @sortee.bsky.social led symposium at #ESEB2025 and for those that met up on Wednesday!! If you’re interested in joining SORTEE and supporting open science in EcoEvo, consider becoming a member! sortee.org/join/

My hotel setting up the last day of #eseb2025 to start with a bang (I resisted)…

Cracking posters from the team #eseb2025 …@emilyrosech.bsky.social on nutrient sensing mediating lifespan effects of the social environment…

Tracey Chapman giving a taste of our work on Drosophila social environments, here that mothers somehow transmit social plasticity to daughters, led by Emily Fowler 🪰 #eseb2025

So our symposium is over. Thank you to all our speakers and poster presenters, it’s been awesome to see the variety of research happening in this burgeoning area. Thanks also to @eseb2025.bsky.social for giving us the opportunity.

Our last paper is finally out!🧬🦎 Very happy to share this part of my thesis project. Thank you to all my lab group and collaborators for their hard work on it! If you want to find out more about how temperature affects spermatogenesis, check out our paper!👇 journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

Our second #eseb2025 symposium session is off to a flying start with @bvanheerwaarden.bsky.social exploring the potential for plasticity in Thermal Fertility Limits in Drosophila 🪰

**Postdoc opportunities**👇👇 Find me at poster 302 today between 17:30-18:00 for a chat. 🦡🦠🔬🧬 #eseb2025

How do fungi manipulate ant behaviour? A beautiful story unfolding through multiple elegant approaches from @zombieantdoc.bsky.social in today’s plenary #eseb2025

Perfectly timed to coincide with our Thermal Fertility Limit Special Topic Network meeting we’ve received a further 2 years of funding, thank you @eseb.bsky.social! And great work fellow leads @rhondasnook.bsky.social, @liamdougherty.bsky.social and Claudia Fricke.

Happy to see this out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social Are you new to CTmax tests (or CTmin)? Are you experienced, but unsure on what to report in your Methods?🤔 Then this practical guide is for you! It even includes a fillable table! 😎 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) is a pan-European community initiative to coordinate the generation of reference genomes representing European eukaryotic biodiversity @ergabiodiv.bsky.social #eseb2025

@mattkoski.bsky.social and @bvanheerwaarden.bsky.social change of dinner location, Rhonda will email 😁

A great first session, thanks to all our speakers and Nuria for support with timing and questions. See you tomorrow morning for more #eseb2025 @eseb2025.bsky.social

And @rhondasnook.bsky.social starts us off highlighting the ESEB TFL STN…#eseb2025

See you at 10.30! #eseb2025

As expected, the scientific content of the meeting is being truly outstanding, we will have over 600 talks and over 1000 posters on display. Plenty to choose from and many opportunities for unexpected eye-opening discoveries for anyone. #eseb2025

The symposium was brilliantly closed by Dr. David Berger with his talk on "Strong Selection, but low repeatability: Temperature-specific effects on genomic predictions of adaptation" #ESEB2025