Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social et al. From policy to practice: progress towards data- and code-sharing in ecology and evolution royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... #OpenScience #OpenData

Female fruit flies possess two visually identical sperm storage organs that differ in origin, sperm storage, and release rates, highlighting functional asymmetry in paired biological structures. doi.org/g93t23

Researchers found that fruit fly sperm push against one another and align in orderly bundles, preventing knots that could block reproduction.

🚨 Proceedings B is recruiting new Data Editors! Join our editorial board to help ensure data/code transparency across biology. 🗓 Term: 3 yrs from Jan 2026 📩 Apply by 30 Sep 2025 with a 2-page CV + cover letter: [email protected] 🔗 Info: [email protected] /[email protected]

Male Reproductive Senescence in Mammals Is Pervasive and Aligned With the Slow-Fast Continuum onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Wow! Just when you thought social insects (or biology in general) couldn't get any weirder

We’ve got seven places left! Sadly, this is the last Evolution of Ageing workshop to be held with the Gutenberg series. It won’t be continuing next year!

Calling all evolutionary biologists! 🧬 AES 2025 | UQ Brisbane | 1–3 Oct Early-bird registration close 1 Sept aes.corsizio.com/event/685405... #AES2025 #Evolution #ECR #AusSci

I've had a crazy amount of bots on my academic website in the last few days... I have no idea what they do, but if anyone sees anything weird coming from me, can you please let me know 😳

Just completed my 50th peer review! I’m starting to have to say “no” more often, but I actually really enjoy it and learning what people are doing. Hopefully I haven’t been reviewer 2 too often ☺️

Aging selectively impairs the production of crucial DNA- and RNA-binding proteins, which contributes to hallmarks of aging in the brains of killifish. The findings in Science advance our understanding of the relationship between aging and the risk of pathologies. scim.ag/4owxo0O

This is devastating. In addition to the obvious harm to the FlyBase staff, SO many of us rely on this resource!

AES 2025 ECR Awards – Apply Now! Submit your best paper (preprints welcome!) for a chance to give a 30-min plenary at AES 2025 in Brisbane. Two categories: PhD and Postdoc Winners get $500 travel support + free rego ausevo.com/2025_researc...

This is a great opportunity! If you're an ECR with some cool work that you want to share with the AES community, don't miss out on applying!

Don't forget to register for the best part of the academic year! Hope to see you in Brissy! 🥳🤓

Check out our latest preprint 📣 TADA guidelines 📣 TADA (Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated) helps researchers across disciplines share code, with the ultimate goal of increasing code availability & its quality. Brilliantly led by @eivimeycook.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X2D...

We are looking for a Postdoc (up to 5 years) who wants to study neural mechanisms of spatial memory in honeybees. This includes tetrode recordings in behaving honeybees. Application Deadline is 1st of October 2025. More details: www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/services/...

Like the old-growth coastal redwoods that host whole other ecosystems in their spires, these extraordinary Australian stick insects reveal not only the richness and mystery of mature forest canopies but how vital their protection is for countless forms of life. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thrilled to share our new paper out in BMC, part of my postdoc at @cornellvet.bsky.social! 🐘🐀 We found that larger mammals evolve more diverse morphologies, while smaller ones can explore many locomotor strategies without much change to their forelimbs. bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job

We are looking for a postdoc to join our group to work on an ERC funded project on avian reproductive microbiomes. nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies... Please RT! #microbes #microbiomes #sparrows #postdoc

Nutritional geometry and non-genetic paternal effects 🐭! We show how dietary macronutrients influence the proteome of brown adipose tissue (metabolically important), with a nongenetic paternal effect in daughters www.cell.com/cell-reports...

My office magpie is back for another year of covering the ledge in wires and cableties. Apparently there is little evidence of magpies caching nest materials(?)… I hope this is a friendly stare and I’m going to be safe this swooping season🤞🏻

What a way to sign off an amazing first @humboldt-foundation.de visit as a Kokkonut @kokkonut.bsky.social! Lab retreat in the Swiss Alps = lots of hiking, good food, relaxing (and DECRA rejoinders), and laughs. Can’t wait to come back and get cracking on some super cool projects! 😍

MassLive.com recently interviewed several Harvard FlyBase people and wrote this news article about the importance of FlyBase: tinyurl.com/4chpts9f

6 years ago I got to do a research visit thanks to the @eseb.bsky.social Godfrey Hewitt Mobility Award. I’m so happy to reunite with the lab I visited in Zurich and my adoptive Swiss parents who took me in 🥰

Found this on my street in Germany 😍 how lucky am I to now own a beautiful piece of home from a closed down woodwork shop where my mum grew up 💛

Spontaneous field trip to Leiden, Netherlands to collect Cardiocondyla obscurior 🐜. We hit the jackpot with >20 colonies in the botanic gardens 😍. Also this cool frog! @jaimesnino.bsky.social @mlitto.bsky.social

FlyBase, a crucial resource for drosophila research, has lost its funding because its grant is awarded to Harvard. The team is scrambling to find other sources of funds, including donations from labs. Read more: www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl... @flybase.bsky.social

The biggest "meta-analysis" ever? - 17 million effect sizes - elifesciences.org/articles/95857 With wonderful @coreytcallaghan.bsky.social and Will Cornwell We question the abundance-occupancy relationships using ebird data - we find ~ zero correlation

An ingenious technique reveals how stressed cells divide to produce progeny that have different traits — a phenomenon that can initiate cancer https://go.nature.com/4jfDhf0

This is what I needed to read this morning after spending an hr lying in bed thinking about an experiment and feeling unproductive but justifying it to myself as "thinking time"

Massive piece of work by @pietropollo.bsky.social and colleagues! Really encouraging paper showing that many EcoEvo meta-analyses are largely reproducible and replicable! doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

#Ecology and #Evolution bluesky, a question: Do you think our field has famous open problems that essentially everyone in the field agrees are fundamental and important? If we had to come up with something like the Millennium Problems (www.claymath.org/millennium-p... ), are there clear candidates?

A new paper from our lab onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... All meta-analysts can use this to get extra insights

I will forever be haunted by this footage. Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity. What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives. 🌎🦑🧪

This is getting lots of attention - check the thread. I want to emphasize the basic problem: Just because you have randomized (or pseudo-randmized) a treatment, that doesn't mean you can reliably estimate interactions with that treatment. Which means post-strat prediction for population not possible

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