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This is a multigenerational sin that isn’t really reparable

Interested in automating lab experiments or tasks with camera-trackable animals? We (@vivekhsridhar.bsky.social, @domroche.bsky.social, @iplanass.bsky.social) are launching TracktorLive, a real-time #python package for tracking and response. Video below by @iplanass.bsky.social [1/4]

"Fans face intrusive surveillance, with proposals to force visitors to make their social media accounts available for vetting, and screening for "anti-Americanism"

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ

AI fuelled delusions - seriously scary www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... @mhfaengland.bsky.social

Wildlife traffickers selling protected animals on Facebook use coded language to evade moderation. Research by Bellingcat and @mongabay.com has identified nine groups, with more than 70,000 members combined, leading back to six profiles and one broker in Indonesia. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

With just over a month to go until #CityNatureChallenge 2026, great to see evidence that it does actually help! We are entering Exeter for the first time so anyone who would like to help with either species recording over the weekend or IDs across the following 2 weeks would be much appreciated! 🎉

The SUSTAIN scheme is still open for applications until 8 April. This programme supports women in research to develop leadership and career potential, and is open to award-holders from eligible Royal Society, @raeng.org.uk and @acmedsci.bsky.social schemes. https://royalsociety.org/grants/sustain/

Meanwhile, senior management teams are hellbent on asserting (not testing, asserting) the overwhelming virtues of generative AI for students and “the student experience”. If we vacate this dispute without pragmatic pedagogic and ethical research, universities are sunk.

As an academic writing coach, here are the 7 mistakes I see supervisors and PIs make in the process of co-writing a paper with their PhD students or mentees. A thread. 🧵 #AcWri #PhDchat #Academia

Reminder that the abstract and travel grant deadlines for #ASABSpring2026 are due in less than 2 weeks! This is an especially fantastic conference for students and ECRs 🌼 Hope you can join us in beautiful Bristol asab-spring-conference2026.github.io

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

PhD position in fish ecology at the university of Gothenburg @naturvetenskap.bsky.social with fieldwork at Kristineberg marine station @kristinebergcenter.bsky.social Apply here: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Being faculty in the US in 2026 means your meetings with students about their grad school apps also includes checking in to make sure none of their family has been kidnapped by ICE and wtaf is this world we've made

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Why does Denmark recommend so few childhood vaccines? A Danish scientist explains | Science | AAAS share.google/dXIUYSK9lzUb...

Great to see this work presented at the #ASABWinter2025 meeting!! 💚🐾 If you want to know more, check out our paper that was recently published! www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

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

There is still time to submit your abstract and apply for a travel award! @behavecol.bsky.social @isbe2026.bsky.social

Holy CRAP. Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle. Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it. And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪

Interested in doing a PhD in biodiversity predictions 📈🐦🌸🪲📈? The Ciaxa Foundation has launched a call for PhD fellowships in 🇪🇸 Excellence Research Centers. @ebdonana.bsky.social is one of them: lacaixafoundation.org/en/doctoral-... 🧪🌎

⏰ 1 month left to apply for these fully-funded #PhD opportunities with us investigating social monitoring & manipulation. #bioacoustics #mammals UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6 NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp DM or email me if you have questions. Please spread the word. ☺️

Are you a UK national/resident and identify as Black, Asian, or a minoritised ethnic community? You can apply for a PhD with me and colleagues at Swansea as part of our NERC CROCUS doctoral training programme... and we develop the topic together. Please get in touch if eligible and interested!

🕷️🌍🕸️ Spiders aren't creepy crawlies—they're ecosystem heroes! From pest control to biotech inspiration to key figures in our collective culture, a new review reveals the many services spiders provide: 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/brv.... (drawing by @jmalumbresolarte.bsky.social)

🕷️🕸️ New Reference genome available: Leviellus thorelli, a orb-weaving spider - a key resource for comparative studies of the #genomic basis of orb web and silk #evolution. 🔗https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-365 #Spider #genomics #genomes for #biodiversity @cnag-eu.bsky.social

An all-too-common interaction I've had: Scientist: Our research can help shape policy to protect this endangered animal. Me: Neat! How? What policy? What is it now, and what should it be instead? Scientist: Uhhhhh..... Our new paper can help! www.southernfriedscience.com/shark-scient... 🧪🦑🌍🦈

🚨 PhD position 🚨

🚨Two funded PhDs on the evolutionary ecology of antipredator colouration 🦋 with myself and Iliana Medina. One in Swansea tinyurl.com/4thtbph6 deadline Jan 12th @crocus-dla.bsky.social The other in Melbourne - deadline Jan 1st Please share among potential students!

First PhD position is on the evolutionary basis of empathy using infrared thermography in Barbary macaques at Affenberg Salem, southern Germany 👉 tinyurl.com/2e8wzkfz ⏰ deadline 20 Dec 2025

second PhD position is on social and ecological cognition in wild Assamese macaques at our long-term field site in the beautiful Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand 👉 tinyurl.com/ypefnbxp ⏰ deadline 20 Dec 2025

and finally, we offer a field assistant opportunity at our Assamese Macaque Project at Phu Khieo WS in Thailand 👉 tinyurl.com/5n77797r ⏰ deadline 18 Dec 2025

Harmony in the hive? Think again! 🐝⚔️ Insect societies are famous for cooperation, but beneath the surface lies a brutal conflict over who gets to wear the crown! Our new review in Biological Reviews explores the evolutionary battleground caused by such caste fate conflict. 🧵

This Perspective discusses how the field of behavioural ecology has contributed to fundamental science and global challenges, ranging from understanding how natural selection leads to adaptation to optimizing biocontrol of pest species www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free to read: rdcu.be/eRKbv

PLEASE SHARE 🚨🚨 6-month RA position available at the Univ. of St Andrews to work with Sue Healy (@cogwild.bsky.social), Simone Meddle (@simonemeddle.bsky.social) and I on the behavioural neuroendocrinology of early reproduction in zebra finches. tinyurl.com/577cx9tj Deadline: 03/12/2025 ⬇️

Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

The conference is next week!✨ Join us on 13–14 November for a rich two-day schedule of fascinating talks on animal behaviour 🦋🐟🐆 💻 Free, online & open to all worldwide 👉 Explore the program and register 🔗 ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

When the suspects appear to be white guys, it’s not a bombing — it’s an intentional explosion.

Years ago, I attempted a self-assessment of my potential gender biases in an academic research setting: ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2016/04/subt... Today, I happened on a very nice summary of how to avoid such biases in letters of recommendation, which provides an comprehensive outline. Check it out

Best time of year to be an arachnologist 🕷️ Although the finer morphological details seem to be missing on this fine specimen drawing, preventing ID at species level

We’re thrilled to announce the ABC's fourth mentorship-matching event!! 📣📣 This is a unique opportunity for you to meet and connect with experienced mentors. The mentorship match event - more of an informal "vibe check" - will be on Nov 6 2025 at 14:00 GMT 🐝🐝 Help us spread the word!! #mentorship

In his only interview before next month’s Cop30 climate summit, UN secretary-general António Guterres acknowledged it is now “inevitable” that humanity will overshoot the target in the Paris climate agreement, with “devastating consequences” for the world. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

My lab is hiring a 2-yr hummingbird evolution and genomics postdoc and a 1-yr salaried research and lab tech. Both with full U. Wyoming benefits. Please spread the word! Info below. Best consideration date Nov 1, start dates early Spring 2026.

📣 @asab.org grants BOOSTED! 📣 We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026. Check out what we offer here: www.asab.org/grant-overview

You like card games & social insects? Then check out the amazing new Social Insects Trump cards game developed by @elvarobinson.bsky.social and her group. It's the perfect 🐜🐝🪳-themed gift and you'll support the IUSSI widening participation & inclusion initiative: www.iussi-nweurope.org/edi

🧵 ARACHNOPHOBIA GREATEST HITS A thread of my favorite arachnophobia papers dedicated to my friends @humanbyweight.bsky.social and @entobiologist.bsky.social, with increasingly unserious character limited summaries. Is this the science version of making somebody a mixtape? Okay, here we go 👇🕷️