We need to focus on academia-friendly journals! I will definitely use this as a guide to my next submissions. doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Happy to end the year sharing my thoughts on this paper: "Body size and litter size as predictors of pouch presence in marsupials", by Casali et al. (2025). Digest available at doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, darting among the roots and leaf litter of a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. Australia’s only shrew, Crocidura trichura, has been declared extinct. Touching obituary by @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social 🧪🌏🦊 www.butlernature.com/2025/10/24/r...

Everything you know about vampire bats is a lie! Okay, well they do drink blood, but who hasn’t? Let’s look at their good qualities. 🩸 cute 🩸 great friends 🩸 wonderful mothers 🩸 regurgitate blood for each other

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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 findings in Science suggest that rodents owe much of their evolutionary success to their thumb-nail (the first digit, D1), an adaptation that gave them dexterous hands for cracking seeds and nuts. Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/46caVho

Thrilled to see Missagia et al. on the cover of Science! Who else would have thought to look into rodents’ thumbnails?