@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

#CSEEinFocus The Perry lab fieldwork chronicles! 1 - Charlotte, disappointedly looking into a net full of mud. 2 - Cody, disappointedly pulling his boot out of the mud. 3 - Emillie, not disappointed at all, very happy about this water sample.

Do you fish in freshwater? Please share or/and complete our survey gathering data on observations of insects for our study on aquatic insect population declines! The link to our survey is here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/VXLMY89. Please share if you know anyone who might be interested in participating!

Who knows their internal parasites? This crawled out of a water strider yesterday 😱

We had fun at the Acadian Entomological Society meeting last week. Big congratulations to people's choice talk award winner Charlotte 🎉🎉 @stfx-university.bsky.social

Niche question about ring lights on Leica dissecting microscopes. Does anyone have an LED2000 stand? Do you like the built-in illumination? Seems like less flexible lighting than with the separate ring light where you can control each segment of the ring light?

Field season 💚

Last day to register for the Acadian Entomological Society's annual meeting, happening in Moncton June 11-12. A mere $40! I'll be there. www.acadianes.ca

Well that's not great. time.com/7280114/dona...

Big week for our lab! Another new paper, led by lab alum Isabella Martinez. We used hemiclonal analysis in #Drosophila to investigate the fitness consequences of variation in mating duration. Longer matings increased male fitness but were costly to females! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Why publish in JEB? ✅ Society-owned and not-for-profit model ✅ Dedicated submission support - in-house Managing Editor ✅ Range of article types ✅ Modern Open Science policies - our own Data Editor ✅ Large editorial board with wide-range of expertise #societyjournal @eseb.bsky.social

We are excited to announce the release of our fourth year of data for the #openscience #dogagingproject. The latest release, available to scientists around the world, includes over 80 million data points on 50,000 dogs! 🧵 1/n

Come join us at beautiful UBC! The King Lab is recruiting a Post-doc Fellow to develop mathematical theory on infectious disease evolution and emergence, together with Ben Ashby (SFU) #zoonoses #biodiversity www.zoology.ubc.ca/kinglab/join...

The logical endpoint of the arguments, promoted by the "heterodox" crowd, that peer review is "censorship" & academic freedom is equivalent to freedom of speech 👇 Science dies, because science depends on evaluation of evidence (peer review) & criticism of bad ideas (not counter to academic freedom)

Post a warning

This is super important. I volunteer with a local riding association. A big part of election success is getting out the vote. Volunteers make that happen. You can make a real difference!

A question for my 🇨🇦 🧪 colleagues. Were about to have an election in 🇨🇦. We know that recent elections have had consequences for our colleagues elsewhere. So, 🧪folks, what are you doing to help elect a candidate in your riding who shares your values?

Mononucleotide repeats

Do you run a journal club in your 3rd or 4th year class? I'd love to hear your top tips

Jaw-dropping revelations in The New York Times on the most recent Trudeau-Trump calls. Report says that Trump, alongside rehearsing familiar list of grievances against Canada, told Trudeau he wanted to revise the US/Canadian border. He offered no justification.

We’re growing the network of voting researchers in Canada. 🍁 Join us. Follow us. Share the message. On grandit le réseau de chercheur.e.s qui votent au Canada. 🗳️ Rejoignez-nous. Suivez-nous. Partagez le message. core-coeur.ca #VotonsRecherche #ResearchersVote

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...