Hooray! This is so useful, thank you!

Sperm can “age” independently of the male, when stored in male or female reproductive tracts. Our meta-analysis finds widespread evidence across animals (including abstinence in men). Important consequences for fertility, sexual selection, haploid selection! doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

A cross-species analysis reveals a shared pattern across many animals: stored sperm deteriorates rapidly - resulting in reduced sperm performance, fertilisation success, and embryo quality New research 👇 https://bit.ly/4uCqEl8 @krishsanghvi11.bsky.social @iremsepil.bsky.social

Great example of how an understanding of social interactions in bacterial infections can inform treatment strategies. (Also a really nice example of how to make a little film to communicate findings.) Congratulations to the team! @scelse.bsky.social @biology-unige.bsky.social

#PhilTransB is open to theme issue proposals in all areas of biology - a great opportunity to create a landmark publication in your field. Find out more: bit.ly/PTBproposals

Only two weeks are left for registering for Annual Conference 2026 in Belfast. Register now to secure your spot: https://microb.io/AC26Register #Microbio26

Last call for applications to the LinneSys research fund! These grants of up to £1,500 support research in the field of systematics and taxonomy. The deadline is midnight on Friday 27 March. If you need any help, contact [email protected]. buff.ly/8eryOMN

🎯April 15 is the last day to: - Save $100 on in-person meeting registration - Submit your virtual or in-person talk - Apply for the SSE Hamilton Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation! We look forward to seeing you online in May and in Cleveland in June! #Evol2026

📢 Last call to submit your abstract! Deadline: 17:00 (GMT), 23 March - TODAY! Register to join the Infection, Immunity & Microbionts SIG at @uniofbath.bsky.social & hear from our great keynote speakers. 📅 16-17 April 🔬 Day 1: Symbionts and Microbiomes 🦠 Day 2: Pathogens and Immunity Register 🔽

Mexico’s monarch butterfly population jumps 64%, offering hope for at-risk species www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Sharing our recent 'Down the Corridor' series today on World Water Day 🌊 An important reminder on all the efforts that are put in to help for a better future for wastewater. #WorldWaterDay #KnockingOutAMR #KOAMR #Microbiology

It’s World Water Day 🌍💧The Microbiology Society is engaging with policymakers to ensure antimicrobial resistance is recognised and addressed in efforts to improve water quality. 🔗 Find out more in our latest policy blog: https://microb.io/4uzEVPB #WorldWaterDay #WaterAction #AMR #KOAMR

Final version just published of our review on the ecological and evolutionary consequences of cooperation www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... @ryosukeiritani.bsky.social @annadewar.bsky.social @asgriffin.bsky.social @lauriebelch.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social

MENI is back! Join us in Dublin this August 2026 for our 3rd Meeting for Microbial Evolution in Ireland. We are delighted to have @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social @drrebeccajhall.bsky.social @jpjhall.bsky.social and @tweethinking.bsky.social join us as keynote speakers this year. miniurl.com/MENI

Join @berasymbionts.bsky.social , @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social and us for a postdoc on the remarkable developmental biology of symbiosis! Applications are due March 25th 🪲🦠 @johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

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)

Here’s a great PhD opportunity in the crossover between humanities and natural history- please repost 🙏 www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

In a return to his former stamping ground, this week's EGI seminar will be given by Prof Innes Cuthill from @bristolbiosci.bsky.social on how to understand defensive coloration - see if you can spot him in this old photo! Seminar in @biology.ox.ac.uk at 3.30 on Friday - joining instructions below ⬇️

Applications are due this Sunday March 15 for the SSE Caregiver Grants, which provide up to $500 USD to help cover caregiving costs for you or someone else while attending virtual or in-person #Evol2026. Apply today! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

With @saramitri.bsky.social, @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social and L. Lehmann we’ve launched the UNIL Center for Theory in Ecology and Evolution @unil.bsky.social🇨🇭 To kick things off, we’re offering short visiting fellowships for theorists in ecology & evolution. Apply & pls RP 😀 tinyurl.com/2wem36zz

This is well-deserved @karenlloyd.bsky.social book Intraterrestrials is absolutely brilliant - made me realise how little I actually knew about biology! 🙃

New paper showing that bacteria with more genes for cooperation can live in a broader range of habitats and that genes for cooperation are more more likely to be in the accessory genome www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @lauriebelch.bsky.social

This week's EGI seminar will be given by Prof Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social from Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz @unimainz.bsky.social on the role of time in avian trade-offs. All welcome in person in LT1 in LaMB @biology.ox.ac.uk 3.30pm on 6 March. Also live-streamed: details available ⬇️

Why and how to study adaptation in invisible things. A follow up from @asgriffin.bsky.social 's talk at the 2024 @isbe2026.bsky.social meeting www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Thank you to Doug Emlen and Matthias Fischer for the wonderful images we used in this figure, illustrating the parallels of studying adaptation across scales of visibility: scarab beetles and giant viruses www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @stuwest.bsky.social

How to study adaptation in organisms that we can’t see, living in environments that we can’t visit? Some thoughts in our perspective piece out today in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @biology.ox.ac.uk @stuwest.bsky.social

🚨JOB alert🚨 We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol. Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology ⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026 🙏Please circulate widely 😊Come join us! Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc

So nice to see this coming out (nearly). It always feels special to publish in @asn-amnat.bsky.social. Such classy formatting.. brings me back to scanning every new paper edition cover-to-cover as soon as it came out when we students. Congratulations again @stuwest.bsky.social on your ASN Award!

Does haplodiploidy - a method of sex determination seen in bees and ants among other animals - promote eusociality? New research from @rbonifacii.bsky.social and @stuwest.bsky.social enters evidence into this long debate that - despite popular belief - this is not the case 👇 bit.ly/4qEoEWm

I'm hiring a technician! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... An 80% role in a 4-yr BBSRC project and hopefully beyond. Looking for someone to support the @socialfluids.bsky.social 🧪our ants 🐜 and our projects. Looking for someone kind + conscientious + reliable who takes pride in a job well done.

Thanks to @ryosukeiritani.bsky.social and iTHEMS @RIKEN for hosting us while we were working on this manuscript. 🙏🏽🇯🇵❤️🇬🇧

Huge thanks to @asn-amnat.bsky.social for inviting our review on the evolutionary and ecological consequences of cooperation. @annadewar.bsky.social @asgriffin.bsky.social @lauriebelch.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Comparative analysis across 5,678 insect species shows that, when you control for phylogenetic bias, eusociality has not evolved at a faster rate in haplodiploid species. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The diversity of nationalities on our Ecology Masterclass field course has captured the imagination of TikTok viewers. This video by Betty – a student from Kenya - has just reached 100k views! vm.tiktok.com/ZMHv36uvSvbX... @britishecologicalsociety.org ; @mpalarc.bsky.social

As proud members of the TBA @biology.ox.ac.uk students are eligible for a discount. Strongly encourage anyone interested in tropical biology and conservation to apply.

Looking forward to seeing it with you!

Strange discovery that an email about inclusive fitness was forwarded to Jeffrey Epstein, with the emailer quoting Jerusalem and comparing themself to Einstein. Are you one of the >100 evolutionary biologists now in the Epstein files? www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Gonna borrow this for my next response to rejection letter.. “127. einstein only got 100. Bring me my bow of burning gold Bring me my arrows of desire Bring me my spear - oh clouds unfold Bring me my chariot of fire”

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards! www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...

Good to know that Martin Nowak was keeping Jeffrey Epstein abreast of developments in our field www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Want to help shape UK policy with your scientific expertise? The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) is growing its College of Experts—a network of independent specialists who inform evidence-based decision-making.

I made this for my interview with Dr. Juliet Turner. Video is out soon!

@natecoevo.nature.com making this free to read in front of the paywall for a month. Thanks guys!

Brings back happy memories of ISBE 2024 where the conversation about this paper began.. great to see it out in @natecoevo.nature.com. Thanks to co-authors and to the organisers of that brilliant conference 🙏🏽. @bbmwong.bsky.social @stuwest.bsky.social, Suzanne Alonzo🫶, Sasha Dall, “Dr Cunningham”

🚨Job claxon 🚨 University College Cork is looking to appoint a lecturer in Medical Microbiology into a permanent, non-clinical post A great opportunity in a microbiology powerhouse For details go to my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... and enter reference number 092153

Kissing evolved at least 21 million years ago. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @matildabrindle.bsky.social

Occurrence of type VI secretion system effector genes in longitudinal isolates of P. aeruginosa from people with cystic fibrosis Microbial Genomics by Antonia Habich from Daniel Unterweger with @asgriffin.bsky.social @sandrabandersen.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Thank you @juliet-turner.bsky.social This is the best possible response. You rock. @biology.ox.ac.uk

Congratulations Juliet! Very well deserved for a brilliant body of research. Thank you to Shigeto Dobata and @timbarra.bsky.social for their time and being a great examiner team. 🥂 @biology.ox.ac.uk @newcollegeoxf.bsky.social