With over 400,000 described species, Coleoptera represent one of the most diverse groups of organisms on Earth, necessitating a global, integrative approach to understanding their evolutionary history. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg47...

📣🐦This is a reminder that early bird registration for the CSEE 2026 Conference ends tomorrow, January 30! Register here: event.fourwaves.com/csee2026/reg...

We're advertising a PhD project on how social isolation influences aggression in flies. Based at Durham, co-supervised by @clarahowcroft.bsky.social . Despite what the ad says, this is also open to international applicants! Any questions, shoot me a msg! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The hazards of failing first-year biology: you invade the wrong pole. 🇦🇶 🐧 🇬🇱 🐻‍❄️

Come work on the beautiful east coast! Our department has a 9 month teaching-focused position advertised. Happy to chat! @stfx-university.bsky.social recruiting.ultipro.ca/GOV5000GOVE/...

We had fun talking to Alex Guye from the CBC about Yaseen's work on overwintering ladybugs 🐞 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

New post doc funding opportunity: Are you outside Canada & interested in a post doc on insects & environment/climate? Our lab studies insect evol & ecol, esp reproduction/sexual selection. Our university seeks a nominee. Let's chat! nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...

Got my first student report with a fully hallucinated reference list! Just in time for the holidays 🎄

Shipping insect specimens in ethanol from Canada to Europe: has anyone found an easy solution? We're a 2 h drive from the nearest DHL service point

The Entomological Society of Canada is a fantastic supporter of grad students. Congrats Yaseen 🎉 @canentomologist.bsky.social www.stfx.ca/news/Yaseen-...

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...

Who wants to come to a bug conference on the east coast? Save the date for the Acadian Entomological Society's 2026 meeting, June 18-20, to be held right here in Antigonish @stfx-university.bsky.social @davidawde.bsky.social

Probably a long-shot, but is anyone aware of open-source image stacking software that would work with microscope images? Ideally to do 3D topology but even just high-res images with a wide depth of field would be useful.

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

What better way to get into the festive season than with the Coleopterists Society’s 2025 Annual Virtual Symposium, happening Friday and FREE to all (incl non-members) www.coleopsoc.org/society-info... @coleopsoc.bsky.social

Anyone know what this is? Popped out of a water strider in Nova Scotia. Observation by @jennyperry.bsky.social. 🌿🪱 #gerridae #hemiptera #parasite #inaturalist www.inaturalist.org/observations...

If you have a student, anywhere in the world, who would like and entomological society membership please have them come on over to our entopoc.org website to sign up for up to three free memberships per student!

EEB Postdoctoral Fellowship @ U.Toronto app deadline Jan 15 2026. Opportunity for independent research, encourages collab across labs/disciplines. Lots of great folks to interact with, Come join us! eeb.utoronto.ca/employment-2/

The perfect news story doesn't exi- oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...

So. . .will Canadian universities change their reliance on MS Teams?

@asab.org Spring, aimed at ECRs, is coming to Bristol! Conference grant DEADLINE for Developing Country Applicants (<£2500) or anyone needing an early decision for visas (<£750) is in ONE WEEK, 1st December. www.asab.org/conference-g... Referee statement also needed by then! 🐝🐜🦟🦂🐠🐟🐬🦎🐸🦆🐿️🦓

Join us! 🧬🪰🎉🔬 We are currently advertising two #PhD projects to study the #evolution, #development and #genomics of sexual traits in stalk-eyed flies. Deadline for applying is Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Get in touch for more info!

Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on. (Please repost to reach a broad audience.)

Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... Get in touch if you want to chat!

#StFX is coming to Halifax! 🌟 Join us on Nov 27 for an exclusive event for future Xaverians. Learn about programs, scholarships, and campus life — plus a chance to win great prizes! 📍 Diman Lebanese Centre | 🕕 Nov. 27, 6:30–9 PM

The Canadian government has seemingly never read a single one of its own commissioned reports on what Canadian science needs. (It's not more people.)

We should be paying more attention to this situation. An online letter has been put together and is being circulated to stop this data from being disclosed. Please sign the online letter here, if you are comfortable: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Has anyone had students write a project report/essay during class time? Thinking of switching to this with my 4th year class so I don't get a pile of AI from them

The Hopkins Lab (hopkins-lab.com) at the University of Florida is looking to recruit a postdoc to work on the genetics of organ function and evolution across Drosophila and beyond. Please visit tinyurl.com/vcsjpmzz or email me for more info. And please RT or send to anyone who might be interested!

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...

Oh hey it's me!

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/...

Join us for our 2nd 5KM #Solidarity Run/Walk Invitation! When: Wednesday, September 17 at 9:00 AM. Where: Meet at the front entrance of the SUB. The route will pass all picket lines. Pace: All paces welcome. Keep Dal Strong @dalfaculty.bsky.social #InSolidarity #keepdalstrong

MSc position in my lab. Come study the evolutionary & behavioural ecology of insects! @stfx-university.bsky.social

Come study forest pests with Jantina & me on the east coast! @stfx-university.bsky.social

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 👇

Ever heard of the Nous Group? A consulting firm that desperate universities hire to help with cost-saving and restructuring? Turns out they are actually vampires who parasitize tertiary education: drive.google.com/file/d/1_1Fk...

I gave a symposium talk at the European Society for Evolutionary Biology 2025 (#eseb2025) meeting last week and this was my title slide showcasing how I was speaking as an independent scientist because @dalhousieu.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social has locked us out.

Thanks @adriatica.bsky.social !

This is a cool study!

Come see Soumya's poster at #eseb2025 ! P02.361: Does temperature affect the adaptive value of male harm in Drosophila melanogaster?

Interested in joining the lab? The Killam Postdoctoral Fellowships are designed to bring outstanding scholars from around the world to UBC. I can nominate one person, and help with application materials. More information at www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam... DM if you are interested!

Good morning to you, conference app giving me orders in all caps #eseb2025

if you're a teacher who wants to bring science to life in the classroom, @skypeascientist.bsky.social brings scientists to your class. Sign up at: www.skypeascientist.com

🚨 Exciting news for #ESEB2025! Join us in Barcelona for our symposium: Cooperation, Conflict & the Evolution of Socially Transferred Materials (S08) 📅 Thursday, 21 Aug 2025 🕥 10:30–12:30 | 🕔 17:00–19:00 (Poster Session)

Ecologist friends: we want to measure the rate of decomposition of animals (fish & insects) on the water surface. Tips & tricks welcome ! Can measure mass loss, but tricky with soggy things

Field season winding down

Looks like irreproducibility is not reproducible