📖Published📖 Check out MEE's new review article 👉 Full decomposition of phenotypic variance in dichotomous traits: New methods and key implications for behaviour, demography and evolutionary ecology 🌍 🧪 buff.ly/IMsl7eL

New paper today in Proc B @royalsociety.org. We explored nest architecture in 3,685 species of birds, modelling the multivariate nature of nests, i.e. how shape, location or attachment co-occur. Then we explored how the environment affected nest architecture evolution. Spoilers in the title! 🪺🐦🌍

📚 We just launched a guide on starting code clubs—born from #SORTEE (un)conference! Real tips, real experiences, from the community to the community! Read it, use it, adapt it, and most importantly, help us make it better! Open science communities for the win! 💙💚 sortee.github.io/start-your-c...

Happy to announce the next edition of the @sortee.bsky.social Workshop & Webinar series on October 27 at 16:00UTC, ‘The Risks and Rewards of Large Language Models in (open) Scientific Research’ with @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social !! Sign up here: events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...

📢4-year fully funded #PhD on seasonal timing of egg overwintering insects 🦋🦗🪳 🔬Identify universal mechanisms underlying #insect egg developmental time under #ClimateChange 📌@niooknaw.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social ℹ️ vacatures.knaw.nl/job-invite/2... ❗Application deadline: 7 December 2025

Does anyone know of a nice guide for students (bachelor and master's level) on how to lead group paper discussions that they could share with me? What would be especially great are examples of the types of questions they should ask the group.

🌍 Join SORTEE – A worldwide Open Science community for ecology and evolution! 🌱🧬 🌐 Join trainings, code clubs & our annual online conference 🚀 Help shape the future of Open Science Membership is inclusive and flexible. 👉 Learn more: www.sortee.org/join/ #OpenScience #Ecology #Evolution

Do you run or participate in a code club at your institution, or are you interested in starting one but don’t know where to begin? @cecibaldoni.bsky.social and I are leading an ‘unconference’ discussion at @sortee.bsky.social’s virtual conference on October 16 - come share some tips and ideas!

#ISBE2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your abstract by 15 December 2025 on www.isbe2026.com @behavecol.bsky.social

PhD Alert! 😍 Our lab is hiring a PhD student to study how shrews shrink in winter and grow in spring. Yes, you read that right! tinyurl.com/shrinkingshr... Join us at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, study a super cool animal, and join the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social community! DM me for questions!

New in #ProcB - From policy to practice: Progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @eivimeycook.bsky.social tell us more in our blog royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...

Register now for #SORTEE2025 conference! We thank our sponsors (@asn-amnat.bsky.social, @cdnsciencepub.com, @datadryad.bsky.social, @peercommunityin.bsky.social, @royalsociety.org, @sse-evolution.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social) who are eligible for free registration.

Interested in simulating the kind of data that you might commonly find in evolutionary and ecological studies? Then we have the R package for you - squidSim!! Check our new preprint: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

New preprint out from the lab, including @rroyaute.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... In this we test what we refer to as the "standard model" of behavioral variation. This was inspired by recent work identifying intra-genotypic variation as a major contributor to "individuality". 1/

🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24... Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵

My first solo author paper is now available in early view at Methods in Ecology and Evolution! I develop a covariance reaction norm (CRN) model for estimating continuous, multivariate, and nonlinear environmental effects on G and P matrices. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If you're attending the Ecology & Behaviour 2025 conference and want to learn about how researchers can reappropriate the publication system, come have a chat tomorrow!

I'm very excited to share the central paper from my PhD out now in Science Advances. We investigated how social effects among neighbors shape the evolution of reproductive cooperation and the pace of adaptive population growth among the Indigenous Tsimane of Bolivia. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We have a new paper out on the genetic vs. environmental drivers of cognition along an urban gradient: doi.org/10.1007/s100... @lauragervais.bsky.social @dhanyabharath.bsky.social @annecharmantier.bsky.social @denisreale.bsky.social #inhibitorycontrol #greattits #animalcognition

The Local Organizing Commitee welcomes behavioral ecologists from across the world and of all career stages to enjoy a five-day meeting rich in top-notch science and ample networking opportunities in Turin (Italy), 20-24 July 2026.

PhD position open with Dr. Jutta Schneider and @mherberstein.bsky.social in Hamburg, on sub-social behavior in crab spiders 🕷️ It even includes field work in Australia! Application deadline is 15 July, more info at the link: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

Big congrats to Dr. @cdegroot.bsky.social for a wonderful PhD defence @lmumuenchen.bsky.social. A big thanks to all collaborators and partner in crime @roriwijnhorst.bsky.social, and @rivers-disguise.bsky.social for producing wonderful artwork. Time to celebrate!

Introducing our new SORTEE blog series: ‘ECR Asks’, in which ECRs interview experienced SORTEE members This month, @oakleigh-wilson.bsky.social spoke to Tim Parker about incentive structures in #openscience & how ECRs can make their own commitment to best practices buff.ly/tZORNmK

Hi all, was out for a year but now back and very happy to findi all my sciency friends here at blue sky 😊

Looking for a PhD project on sexual selection? Join us at UZH! Application deadline: 9 June 2025. jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Our paper on disentangling assortative mating and indirect genetic effects in empirical datasets has just been accepted in @jevbio.bsky.social ! It has been a long process (5 years in the making!) and I am very proud of the result 🥳 academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

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...

Do you have a project that exemplifies open science in ecology and evolution? If so nominate the project for a SORTEE Commendation Award! More details about the SORTEE Commendation Award:

Next SORTEE Code Club will be on March 18, 15-16h UTC! Join us for a hands-on session where we tackle messy code together! Looking to sharpen your coding and problem-solving skills? This session is for you! 🔗 Details and Zoom link on SORTEE's Slack (sortee.org/join)

Would you like to promote & support Open Science in Ecology & Evolution? Become SORTEE's In-person Socials Manager to promote & support local open science meet-ups at conferences Examples here: buff.ly/7ipduY5 Interested? Email [email protected] for more info

📣 New preprint! We identified 40 species with evidence of wild populations genetically adapting to climate change 🧬🌡️ We call for the field to make better use of these systems to determine *when* and *how* genetic adaptation to climate change can take place🔎👩‍🔬 doi.org/10.32942/X2S...

I have a PhD position open to start fall semester 2025! The position will include investigations of the structure of both phenotypic (behavioral) plasticity and genetic variation in behavior as well as lots of opportunity to develop your own project. #Evolution #evobio #evolsky #Ecology 🧪

The number of people in this Starter Pack has tripled since last week 😲 Check out/revisit to find ecologists & biologists who care about doing open, robust & transparent science @sortee.bsky.social 🧪🌏🌱🌳🐝🐞🦑🐟🦊🦘 DM if you're a member & want to be added 😀 #ecology #evolution go.bsky.app/44PpngU

What better way to start on 🦋 than by sharing our new publication? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Join us! 🚀 Our lab at the University of Bonn is looking for a PhD student to explore the genetic basis of variation in wing pigmentation #EvoDevo #PopulationGenetics

For a first 'real' post on Bluesky, I'm delighted to share my new paper that just came out in Insectes Sociaux: sex differences in parenting in burying beetles. 📸 @ashwhiffin.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Since I haven't posted it on here, I want to share that I published a new #PROWandCow paper last month! We wanted to find if larger, male cowbird nestlings are more virulent towards their host nestmates than smaller females. Surprisingly, the answer is no! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I haven't seen any starter packs made for behavioral ecology yet, so I decided to create one! If you are a behavioral ecologist (any career stage), please reply so I can add you to the list so we can more easily find each other. go.bsky.app/9mAuB6x

Our updated EcoEvoRxiv preprint "Estimating (non)linear selection on reaction norms: A general framework for labile traits" is now live. Work done in collaboration with Yimen Araya-Ajoy, Niels Dingemanse, @ali--wilson.bsky.social, and David Westneat. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...