Brings back happy memories of ISBE 2024 where the conversation about this paper began.. great to see it out in @natecoevo.nature.com. Thanks to co-authors and to the organisers of that brilliant conference 🙏🏽. @bbmwong.bsky.social @stuwest.bsky.social, Suzanne Alonzo🫶, Sasha Dall, “Dr Cunningham”

I was interviewed by Newsweek about the backlash to my DPhil announcement. You can read it here: www.newsweek.com/gen-z-woman-...

Behavioural ecology in the 21st century..... www.nature.com/articles/s41... @asgriffin.bsky.social

Strong response to the pathetic trolling of Juliet. www.thepoke.com/2025/11/19/t...

New research shows that kissing evolved in the common ancestor of humans and other large apes around 21 million years ago, and Neanderthals likely engaged in kissing too 💋 New study from @matildabrindle.bsky.social @stuwest.bsky.social 👇

Kissing evolved at least 21 million years ago. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @matildabrindle.bsky.social

So cool to see ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada) -- my native language in @asn-amnat.bsky.social 😍

Congratulations Juliet! Very well deserved for a brilliant body of research. Thank you to Shigeto Dobata and @timbarra.bsky.social for their time and being a great examiner team. 🥂 @biology.ox.ac.uk @newcollegeoxf.bsky.social

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

I passed my viva! 🎊 I’m very happy to share that yesterday, after ~4 years of research, I successfully defended my DPhil thesis and will be awarded the title of doctor 😎 Thank you to my examiners, supervisors, and collaborators for all the advice and support given along the way.

Leaf? 🍃 Or katydid? 🦗 Our new @plosbiology.org paper sheds light on how these incredible mimics evolved their disguises, and what this reveals about how complex adaptations arise. We find that coordinated evolution between traits might be the answer… plos.io/4oUE741 1/n

Amazing leaf camouflage experiments paired up with phylogeny showing how they got there. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @benitoexplains.bsky.social

LGBTQ+ Journal Club is turning 1! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈To celebrate, here's a bit about what we've been up to over the past year: a thread of interesting papers in queer biology (1/n) ⬇️🧵

The evolutionary and ecological consequences of cooperation -in American Naturalist by @stuwest.bsky.social, @annadewar.bsky.social, @ryosukeiritani.bsky.social, Laurence Belcher, and @asgriffin.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

A pictorial guide to parasitoids (10/11). Parasitoids can be studied in a parasitoid workshop. Silwood Park, 1992.

Join us! Oxford is advertising an Associate Professorship in Animal Behaviour. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Mike Ritchie emphasising the huge importance of supporting society journals like JEB in his ESEB presidential address, Barcelona. @eseb.bsky.social @eseb2025.bsky.social

Evidence that lifestyle drives genome fluidity from @annadewar.bsky.social today. Keeping everyone going on last day of @eseb2025.bsky.social! Great talk Anna!

When can replicating experiments lead to misleading conclusions? An example from human public goods games. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Exciting looking meeting at the Linnean Society London on organismal resilience. November 20th 2025 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hybrid-day...

what is environmental variability and how can you measure it? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @mingpapilio.bsky.social

Where are mycorrhizal fungi and are the protected? (spoiler alert - no, they aren't) www.nature.com/articles/s41... @tobykiers.bsky.social

Who lives underground? Find out now in our new paper published in @nature.com. Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas. Read here: buff.ly/WmDqAP3 🧵

A pictorial guide to parasitoids (9/11). Parasitoids may mediate competition between different host species (apparent competition). Silwood Park, 1992.

Thank you to everyone attending the "Writing and DEI Workshop" at RIKENS, organized by @ryosukeiritani.bsky.social. Gender equality in STEM is a global issue and we need to share our experiences and learn from one another. Thank you for sharing your stories and enthusiasm! 🙏 and @ITHEms, @JSPS 🇯🇵❤️

1/3 I was just lucky enough to get to do a couple of sessions on scientific writing in a DEI & Writing Workshop at Riken, Tokyo. Huge thank you to @ryosukeiritani.bsky.social for organising such an open and supportive workshop, and all the attendees for being so engaged and interactive.

@annadewar.bsky.social now giving the fourth @asn-amnat.bsky.social Early Career Scientist Award lectures at #Evol2025 about bacterial pangenomes, cooperation, and gene transfer

Anna Dewar @annadewar.bsky.social asks what types of genes get horizontally transferred in bacteria 🦠🧬➡️🧬🦠 Contrary to previous thinking, plasmids didn't carry more cooperation genes than the core genome. #Evol2025 #Evol25

Amazing comparative analysis using 163 ant genomes to look at many aspects of ant evolution www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Family field trip with Jun Abe 🫶to trap parasitoids and wolbachia-infected butterflies on Kyushu Island. Hard to imagine science being more fun. Big thank you to Kanagawa University and JSPS Kakenhai for supporting the trip; Ethan and Olive for doing most of the catching! 👐💛 @stuwest.bsky.social

Winners of the @asn-amnat.bsky.social Early Career Scientist Award this year. A great honor to get to talk with these four brilliant scientists over dinner tonight.

In his #ParentCarerScientist case study, Professor Ben Sheldon FRS talks about navigating crises at home and at work, and why it's important for leaders to set an example when it comes to balancing work with caring responsibilities: #CarersWeek #AndAScientist royalsociety.org/about-us/who...

🐠💥2 year postdoc in fish sensory ecology!! 💥🐟 If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...

Thank you to our host, Hisashi Ohtsuki at the Research Centre for Integrative Evolutionary Science, SOKENDAI, for hosting us this week. We felt so welcome and loved hearing about your work. (And learning to make okonomiyaki!) @stuwest.bsky.social

Always and in all ways ❤️

In relation to positive futures, I would add: ✅ Join learned societies ✅ Publish in their journals #SocietyJournals #SciPub

A pictorial guide to parasitoids (8/11). Some parasitoids are solitary with only wasp developing per host. Silwood Park, 1992.

Great paper on the misappropriation of evolutionary theory. The first paragraph in the "Interdisciplinary Science" section reminded me a lot about things you see written about inclusive fitness. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

And a commentary on the Baumard & André cultural evolution paper with Ryo! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Superb paper that clears up the confusion around cultural evolution with a single clear framework (and the help of Notre Dame) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... ‪@jbaptistandre.bsky.social‬

📍 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐲. Get ready for #ESEB2025 in Barcelona: a city of innovation, culture, and Mediterranean charm.  🔗 Check more info here: https://eseb2025.com/welco

A pictorial guide to parasitoids (7/11). There are many types of parasitoid. Some parasitoids lay male and female eggs in different types of host (autoparasitism). Silwood Park, 1992.

Nice evidence from a study across 569 papers that links to editors help you publish lower quality papers (in experimental economics; by @hannesrusch.bsky.social) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 ONE WEEK LEFT for abstract submission! Don’t miss the chance to tell #Barcelona and the field of #EvolutionaryBiology all about your amazing work!  📝 Select from 51 approved symposia to submit your #Abstract: https://eseb2025.com/call-for-abstracts/

A pictorial guide to parasitoids (6/11). There are many types of parasitoid. Some parasitoids attack leaf miners. Silwood Park, 1992.

🚨Interested in the origins of life and experimental evolutionary biology interface?🚨 Join us! Our lab is leading the ESEB 2025 symposium: "The future meets the beginning: Synthetic biology, evolution and the origins of life". 🧬 Submit abstracts by April 25. See you in Barcelona! @eseb.bsky.social

A pictorial guide to parasitoids (5/11). There are many types of parasitoid. Some parasitoids attack mealy bugs on potatoes. Silwood Park, 1992.

Really honoured to be among the recipients of the ASN Early Career Investigator Award! Thank you so much @asn-amnat.bsky.social!

Congratulations to all the ASN Early Career Award recipients toda. So delighted to see our very own, and completely awesome @annadewar.bsky.social among them. Well done Anna 🫶 @biology.ox.ac.uk

The ASN Distinguished Naturalist Award is given to a mid-career scientist who has made significant contributions to the knowledge of a particular ecosystem or group of organisms. This year’s award goes to Dr. Andrew Suarez (Univ Indiana) app.sib.illinois.edu/suarez/?page... 10/N