Who really lives fast and dies young? In Drosophila, females show faster ageing and reproductive senescence than males across social environments, overturning sexual selection predictions and highlighting social effects on ageing. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan... @laurenmharrison.bsky.social

Happy to share our Current Opinion on the 'Neural basis of sexually dimorphic decision-making', written with Megan Day. Many thanks to @jefferis.bsky.social for the invite to be part of this special issue on Sexual Dimorphism in the Brain. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

UK to rejoin Erasmus student mobility programme from 2027. The UK will rejoin the European Union’s flagship mobility programme for students in the 2027-28 academic year, the Cabinet Office has announced. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Every year #ESEB distinguishes a young evolutionary biologist with the John Maynard Smith Prize! 📣Nominations for the 2026 prize are due by January 15th!📣 Find out more here: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...

Please share 📢 We have a Postdoc position available here @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social to develop innovative genetic control strategies for insect agricultural pests in collaboration with @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/19...

Delighted to see our work picked up by @theguardian.com this is a real window of opportunity for us to reduce carbon emissions to give the bears a hope at survival before it really is too late.

Dr Alice Godden from @biouea.bsky.social has been the lead researcher on a study that has found that polar bears may be adapting to climate change. Read more: https://bit.ly/3YmeMVg #PolarBears #ClimateChange #ResearchMatters #ThisIsUEA

POSTDOC recruitment! We’re looking for a post-doc to join us to work on the (epi)genetic basis of inbreeding depression as part of the ANR-funded project FRIDA macrostomum.wordpress.com/the-genetic-... Please share!

BREAKING: Four major publishers agree deals with UK university sector Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wiley meet “sector-agreed thresholds” in long-running talks Free to read www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...

New paper out from our lab today in Biology Letters! This work, led by our former lab tech @avigayillev.bsky.social and lab alum Isabella Martinez, used hemiclonal analysis to show that longer matings with previously mated females are advantageous to males! doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

The UK has regained the top spot for winning European Research Council consolidator grants, with the country taking more mid-career awards than any other country for the first time since Brexit. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports #academicsky https://ow.ly/Trfm50XG7pu

Delighted to publish Forum Article by @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social et al: "Journals run by learned societies or universities have more ethical policies while being cheaper and similarly cited" doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Thank you for choosing JEB - we encourage the support of #societyjournals

We know good research can take time, and that’s why we’re proud to invest for the long term. After 20 years of public investment, BIOMASS, a satellite mission designed to track the health of Earth’s forests, is in space🚀 Find out more: www.ukri.org/who-we-are/h...

New study from @michellebeyer.bsky.social published in Animal Behaviour: Silk of females performing maternal care elicits reduced courtship responses in male spiders.

ESEB's Global Evolutionary Biology Initiative invites project applications supporting local evolutionary research networks. Deadline: March 1, 2026. Max funding: €10,000. Apply: [email protected]. More … https://eseb.org/prizes-funding/global-evolutionary-biology-initiative/events-supported-by-gebi/.

The prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize for Higher and Further Education – part of the UK national Honours system – recognises Leeds’ outstanding, 150-years of textile research. We delve into the history and explore the innovation driving the next chapter 👇 https://www.leeds.ac.uk/qep

Honored to announce the Hamilton Lecture 2026! Leigh Simmons, Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Western Australia has made an outstanding contribution to the field of sexual selection acting from the whole organism to its gametes, and to our Society.

🪰🧪 now out in @evolletters.bsky.social, social environmental effects on Drosophila lifespan and reproductive senescence mean females not males "live fast, die young"! Work led by Lauren Harrison and Tracey Chapman, with @alexeimaklakov.bsky.social, funded by BBSRC @ukri.org doi.org/10.1093/evle...

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.