A new community-driven lab handbook for reducing conflict and creating more positive and equitable work environments gets strong support from a survey of 200 researchers. buff.ly/K7CGFLV

🌟Huge CONGRATULATIONS to @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social who has won the @asab.org Christopher Barnard Award for Outstanding Contributions by a New Investigator. 🤗 Research on social evolution and what links climate & cooperation in a changing world, using #wasps as models. #worthywinner #ECR #proud

If you’re sad #ASABWinter2025 is over, have no fear! #ASABSpring2025 🌼 is coming soon, from March 23-25 at Bristol University. It’s an especially fantastic meeting for students and ECRs 🤠 Don’t forget travel grants are due Feb 1! www.asab.org/conferences-...

Excited to be part of the amazing team behind our upcoming symposium on Sex Evolution at #SMBE2026! 🔹 Daniel Jeffries 🔹 Paul Jay 🔹 @sphaeromeria.bsky.social 🔹 @astridboehne.bsky.social 🔹 @cbenvenuto.bsky.social Join us in Copenhagen for cutting-edge discussions on #sex #evolution

Proud supervisor time! Well done @iswaryamohan.bsky.social for a lovely poster about her PhD on mosquito oviposition behaviour at #ASABWinter2025

Congratulations @kokkonut.bsky.social!

Starting with a public lecture by Innes Cuthill on camouflage… not only did he come dressed in camo, but a camo kilt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ! #ASABWinter2025

Sad to be missing the #ASABWinter2025 @asab-meetings.bsky.social conference this week, but two postdocs that may interest ASAB members:

Edinburgh at dawn and dusk today. Beautiful city to be in at this time of year - and lots of wonderful sensory information & behaviour talks/posters today at #ASABWinter2025 @asab.org @asab-meetings.bsky.social

A curated global dataset of social contact between diverse language communities www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧬✨ It’s official! EMPSEB31 is coming to Germany, June 2026! Link in Bio 😉 Europe’s friendliest evolution meeting returns, by PhD students, for PhD students. 📍Oberwiesenthal, Germany 📅8–12 June 2026 🚨Save the date & follow us for updates! #EMPSEB31 #EvoBio #PhDLife #ScienceCommunity #EMPSEB

Pre-print and weird repro thread time! I've posted here about scale insects a lot, but ~half of my research is on Lepidoptera. My lab is developing bagworm moths (Psychidae) as models for comparative genomics. You probably know them like you see in the pics below: caterpillars that make cases.

🚨RA/PhD position available in evolutionary neurobiology 🚨 Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social - employment benefits - 4 years funding - 1000% fun Deadline: 14/1/2026 Details: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

This looks very interesting and combines some of my 'evo-passions' too - disease vectors and ageing!

3 year postdoc funded by @ukri.org NERC on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins is now live - please share widely 🙏 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Lovely visit yesterday from EVE lab alumna, Dr Hester Weaving, who gave a seminar about her research on evaluating fitness and environmental impact of gene drive mosquitoes in an ecological context - exciting work! She visited her old mates in the tsetse lab, and a young gull came to say hello too.

New Substack post It's very personal: my story of a 20-year academic career, and the many challenges of theoretical and cross-disciplinary work As I put it in the subtitle: There is a lot of success and a lot of pain here, and no happy ending thomscottphillips.substack.com/p/happy-in-t...

Birds aren’t the only creatures that fly south for the winter.

Friends! It's the feast day of St. Hildegard of Bingen, an abbess, polymath, mystic, & eel truth-teller. Medieval thinkers agreed that eels reproduce asexually. But Hildegard suggested that eels mate at sea, where we can't watch. No one listened to her. But she was right! 1/2 🗃️🧪

🎙️ Job Announcement: Penn State is seeking an ASSISTANT PROFESSOR in MICROBIOLOGY (any subdiscipline) in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Learn more and Join the Microbiome Jubilee: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

We are welcoming applications for a full professorship on Molecular and Evolutionary Zoology at Kiel Univerdity, Northern Germany, with fantastic facilities and infrastructure! @uni-kiel.de @crc1182.bsky.social @transevo.bsky.social www.nature.com/naturecareer...

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species go.nature.com/4mOb5T9

In vitro model of porcine placental development: @crm110.bsky.social &co develop a swine trophoblast #organoid model that mimics in vivo #trophoblast diversity & gene expression, providing a platform for studying #placental biology & #MaternalFetalInteractions @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/47jf3yd

“In the late 1960s, Dr. Rossiter was working on her Ph.D. at Yale, when a comment from one of her male professors puzzled her. Who, she had asked, were the women in science? There were none, he said. Another professor mumbled something about Marie Curie being the exception.”🙃

Sex differences in associations between adversity and biological ageing https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.28.25334645v1

Come join us in the @biology.ox.ac.uk at @ox.ac.uk! New Associate Professor position in Animal Behaviour, with Merton College: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

🧬🦠🌍 What are the big, cross-scale questions shaping the ecology and evolution of emerging viruses? @torrelavelle.bsky.social and I are building a list of 100 questions + want your input. Help map the future of EEID — fill out & share our short survey! 🔗 airtable.com/appTW4ZoSFjR...

📌North-West European IUSSI Winter Meeting 2025 We are happy to announce that our next meeting on the 18–19 December 2025 will be in Leuven, Belgium, hosted by @twenseleers.bsky.social and his team. Plenary speakers: Ido Pen & Rahia Mashoodh @rmash.bsky.social More details to follow 🐝🐜🪳🪲

Excellent thread building on our @elife.bsky.social article about part-time working in academia: thank you for sharing the paper and these additions @professor-dave.bsky.social! I've recently been made aware of another interesting conversation article on this topic, linked shared below.

More on the #HamOrJam #WaspPicnicSurvey, how to dine peacefully with wasps and where to submit your wasp observations at picnics: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/au...

I attended three great talks from the cancer in an evolutionary framework symposium this morning. Cancer therapies from nature, population genomics of Tasmanian devil cancer, and the tug of war of cancer resistance #eseb2025 #eseb #sciart

Thank you #ESEB2025 for a wonderful week of science interactions, symposia, posters, chats with friends old and new. It's such a fantastic conference, the main challenge being choosing among so many wonderful parallel sessions! I loved being in Barcelona and seeing the energy of the organisers.

With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!

Folks going to #ESEB2025 : To help people connect on Bluesky, I've started making starter packs. Here is a first one with the names that were available when I started. Ping me if you want to be included in the next one!

hello to everyone going to #ESEB2025! want to hear about the consequences of age-dependent plasticity in reproducing via sex vs. asex? I will give a talk at 11:15am on Thursday in S15.02. come for the pretty Hydra illustrations, stay for the novel evolutionary insights on facultative sex!

Hey #ESEB2025 folk! I'll be presenting my work on describing evolution in finite populations at 11:30 am on Tuesday in S-03. Drop by to learn how taking ecology and variable population size seriously changes classic pop gen descriptions like the Price eqn, revealing novel directional eco-evo forces.

Have you had sleepless nights wondering about how cockroaches sleep, and if this is different for pregnant cockroach females? And what happens when pesky scientists keep them awake by shaking them? Well, wonder no more! doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... 🧪 #entomology #EntoSky

#HamOrJam? What food type do #Wasps want at YOUR picnic? If you've got a choice of protein and sugar whilst alfresco dining this summer, and a wasp comes visiting, please tell us which she wants! www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/au... @femi-benny.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social

Read the full research by @englishse.bsky.social and @joshuabenoit.bsky.social at journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Pregnant people often struggle to sleep and now it turns out that disrupted sleep extends cockroach pregnancies by reducing the quality of the milk that feeds the developing young so they take longer to grow. Cockroaches need their beauty sleep too! journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

ICYMI : #ASABWinter2025 will take place from December 15-16, once again in lovely Edinburgh! Registration is now open 🎉 Abstract submission deadline for posters and talks is August 29 🏃‍♀️🏃🏃‍♂️ More information here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/

Applications for Winter 2025 conference attendance grants are trickling in, awarding up to £500 with a high success rate (if eligible). Deadline isn't until 1st October, but don't forget to get referee statements in by then too! All the info you need is here: www.asab.org/conference-g... @asab.org

Are you or someone you know an Evolutionary parasitologist? Wanna come work with me? Low cost of living, lots of areas doe outdoor recreation nearby. Please share far and wide! 🧪 🌱 nsuok.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

The registration deadline is rapidly approaching (August 18th). Be sure to register - spaces are limited!! @kokkonut.bsky.social @unimainz.bsky.social

Excited to share that we have just been awarded a NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant to work on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins. We will soon advertise a 3 year post-doc to join the team - drop me an email if you might be interested! Pls share widely 🙏🏻

I feel incredibly proud of my postodc work published on today’s issue of @natureportfolio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... What can 🦟 taste? 👤🌸💧 Are some people "tastier" to 🦟 than others? Here we examined the taste system of mosquitoes 🦟👅. I was astounded by its beautiful complexity!

Sun et al. analyzed 50 cell cycle genes to study trade-offs between body size and cancer resistance in cetaceans, providing molecular support for Peto's paradox (no correlation between body size, lifespan, and cancer risk across species). 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf159 #evobio #molbio #cancer

Nutritional geometry and non-genetic paternal effects 🐭! We show how dietary macronutrients influence the proteome of brown adipose tissue (metabolically important), with a nongenetic paternal effect in daughters www.cell.com/cell-reports...