Has US spelling over British spelling become the default in the Oxford English Dictionary?? I just had proofs come back from the Royal Society with all my 's' changed to 'z' etc... and when I asked them, they said it's because they use the OED spelling

Sperm carry unexpected genetic messages | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Super early bird 🐦 rego now open!

Really excited to share that one part of my PhD research is now publicly accessible on preprint servers! Here is a thread explaining our (@kokkonut.bsky.social and I) work on ageing and stochastic damage/failure accumulation, available as a preprint at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Planning a meta-analysis for the summer, or helping a student navigate a project❓ Don’t start without a plan, here are 12 tasks to help boost feasibility and topic knowledge! 🧪 #phd youtu.be/iU0DK-8kwoI?...

A meta-analysis is not a ‘easy’ publication. Search strategy development, screening, more screening, data extraction, requesting additional data, risk of bias assessments, the actual synthesis, write up—it all takes time. Many people heavily underestimate the resources required to complete one

🚨 Perhaps the most alarming finding: effect size estimates varied dramatically depending on where they came from. Estimates from correlations & mean comparisons told a very different story to those derived from inferential statistics (t, F, χ²), raising serious concerns. 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

A new version (1.6-0) of the metadat package (wviechtb.github.io/metadat/) has been released on CRAN (cran.r-project.org/package=meta...). The package provides over 100 meta-analytic datasets, which are useful for teaching and testing purposes. #RStats #MetaAnalysis

Just got my first ethics application approved as CI 🥳! Now to start leading my first vertebrate project 🐭 watch this space for some cool seminal fluid and intergenerational effects research 👀

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Penguins in zoo environments live longer but show signs of accelerated aging, offering insights into how abundant resources and reduced physical activity impact longevity and health. doi.org/hbtmqk

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

If you missed my talk today about how to make your R code more reproducible and why it's good for science, the recording is already online! Apologies for the internet issues, I hope you can forgive me, they do go away after a few minutes 😅 #rstats 🧪🌏 @sortee.bsky.social youtu.be/2_Aum45rYlU

Why are we still spending tens of thousands of $$$ on APC for non-society journals like Nature? Wouldn’t that money be better spent at society journals at least? We are doing ourselves a disservice by continuing to participate in this madness. You don’t need a paper in these journals to succeed.

✨ SAVE THE DATE ✨ This year's AES Conference will be held jointly with our friends at the Society of Australian Systematic Biologists 🧬 📍 University of Wollongong 📆 2-4 December Mark it in your calendars ✏️ more information to come soon!

If you currently do not have a reproducible workflow where you can share data and code where possible, I expect you will soon not be able to publish in good journals. Beyond being best practice, journals will use this to identify papers written by AI. Plan a new project accordingly.

🐝 POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY 🐜 @sydney.edu.au has an available position for an Aola Richards Postdoctoral Fellow in Entomology 🕷️ ⌚ Full-time, fixed 2 year term 🪰 Independent research programme 💵 AUD$113k + 17% superannuation Info and how to apply in the link below 👇 www.sydney.edu.au/science/scho...

A massive bloom of rimu berries fueled a mating surge among the world’s heaviest (and strangest) parrots

🌠 Meet Our Exec Committee for 2026 🌠 @erinmacartney.bsky.social is an post-doctoral research associate at the University of Sydney, where she is particularly interested in how the environment impacts post-copulatory traits including male-male and male-female reproductive interactions ✍️

New paper out with @tahliafulton.bsky.social and Alistair Senior! A complementary meta-analysis of Ivimey-Cook, Sultanova & Maklakov (2025) where we find that lifespan extending treatments dont square the survival curve. Longer life ≠ compressed mortality. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

Sneak peak at our new paper where we ask if lifespan extending mimetics of dietary restriction benefit all equally (ie square the survival curve) 📈 @tahliafulton.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

Absolute insanity

My Ecoli colonies busy making seminal fluid proteins for me 😍

🚨 Attention! DO NOT confuse the archaic hominin species Denisovans with the darts player Denis Ovens!

Hello! Does anyone know of any 'seed' type grants/awards within Australia (or potentially abroad if they fund research internationally) that contribute toward research only costs (not salary)??

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

What a terrible year for me to give my first and last shot at a DECRA 😭. I knew it was going to be low, but still

ARC says they’ll announce DECRA and LIEF outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 25th Nov). In recent times these announcements have been around 11am Canberra time. With 2 schemes on the same day, I assume they’ll announce one of them later in the day (probably DECRA first).

Anyone looking for a Australia-based postdoc? Like animal behaviour / coding / birds? My fantastic collaborator, Iliana Medina, is advertising a position researching bird nests: unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...

🚨 New preprint alert! Our latest work from @immler.bsky.social lab 🐟🧬 Sex-specific responses of small RNAs and transposable elements to thermal stress in zebrafish germ cells #TESky #TE #piRNA #miRNA #zebrafish #DanioDigest 🔗 Read here www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A thread 🧵...

First successful detection of oestrogen, progesterone and testosterone in multiple human hard tissues, and their use as potential biomarkers of pregnancy

What is sexual selection all about... definitionally and mathematically? A super talented PI, Jussi Lehtonen, is looking for a postdoc to work it all out! Deadline end of this month. ats.talentadore.com/apply/postdo...

The findings of a study in Nature shed light on germline selection dynamics and highlight a broader increased disease risk for children born to fathers of advanced age than previously appreciated. go.nature.com/4h5BglX 🧬 🧪

Very excited to have joined the Editorial Board of @evoecology.bsky.social as an Associate Editor! Send your sexual selection papers this way 🤓

I think all science should include a Lovecraftian summary

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...