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 👇🕷️

PLEASE SHARE. PhD advert: Predicting Pollinator Health and Disease Through Molecular and Sensor-Based Surveillance. tinyurl.com/559hjsm4 Rare opportunity at the intersection of molecular ecology, disease surveillance, modelling and precision apiculture. DEADLINE 24th OCTOBER!

⚠️ Please report sightings of dead birds for possible testing for Avian Influenza. ⬇️ 📌 In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/... 📌 In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/... 📌 In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.serv... #UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland

Are you an oceanographer or marine biologist with an interest in marine biodiversity and climate change? Our upcoming scientific meeting will look at #ClimateChange and #BiodiversityLoss linkages in ocean ecosystems: royalsociety.org/science-even...

⭐PhD position available!⭐ Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...

🚨 Are you an alum from one of the 9 universities Trump is attempting to extort right now? ✍️ Sign this petition to defend your university, free speech, and democracy. I signed. This is a time for courage, not capitulation. #JustSayNo #Compact 🧪🧠🧬 (context in thread)

Phidippus cardinalis boys appear to be velvet ant mimics. It works for them. ❤️ #Arachtober

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

Not just an attack on academic freedom and democracy, but on science and knowledge creation, too. The end of the system where experts even nominally decide on research funding and priorities, replaced with a loyalty oath.

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

📢 I've decided to do regular 2-3 mins video updates of latest authoritarian antics of Trump administration on YouTube & TikTok. Have been inspired by reading how many people get their news there and how dominated it is by the right. www.tiktok.com/@profchristi... www.youtube.com/@ProfChristi...

My favourite Jane Goodall quotes....so many, so to the point, so wise. How different the world would be if enough people listened to her.

Today we've lost a true legend and ambassador for nature, biodiversity and animal welfare. RIP Jane Goodall. 💔 You will always be a powerful role model for all of us who study animal behaviour

I think we could all do with a bit of good luck atm

Look at these goons. Theyve gone right from their Proud Boy costumes to their ICE uniforms. Disgusting, disgraceful and shameful. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Although highly topical, kleptoparasitism does not get nearly the attention it deserves! Here, a plant exploits the kleptoparasitic behavior of a fly that likes to snatch ants killed by spiders. 🕷️🐜🪰🌿 So the thief itself gets taken advantage of. Nice going, plants! www.cell.com/current-biol...

📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #languagebarriers

This flew under the radar with all the batshit stuff happening at HHS but this has major implications. This could be used to revoke the use authorization or at least severely restrict it and as a result, severely restrict abortion nationally. abcnews.go.com/US/health-se...

Oxford people - there is another far right demo planned at the asylum hotel near the Kassam. To join a peaceful counter protest go to the Holiday Inn Express, Guelder Rd, at 11.30 on Sunday 5th October. Really important to have good numbers there. Last weekend we outnumbered them 4:1

Super proud of my PhD student @amandabartlett25.bsky.social for winning the Primate Welfare Presentation Award, after presenting (virtually!) her Masters research at a recent conference of the American Society of Primatologists! Fantastic to see how your excellent research is being recognised 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

INTERNATIONAL SURVEY ON TREE OF LIFE My PhD student Jocelyn Cheé-Santiago (Binnizá) is leading an online survey on scientific practices re: biodiversity, biocollections, conservation. If you work in these areas, we'd appreciate your insights. 10-15 mins. Details asu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

2025. #DEI - Language, economic and gender disparities widen the scientific productivity gap journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Nice one, Minecraft! 💪 #equality

www.nickybay.com/ai-abuse-to-... AI abuse on macrophotography and AI generation of incorrect captions. Here are examples compiled by wildlife photographer Nicky Bay.

🚨 🐜 is there a Bluesky starter pack for researchers who don’t study ants but who get lightheaded every time there’s an awesome ant paper? CC @mariusw.bsky.social @jrichardalbert.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌍 What can we do as people to tackle climate change? Too often, the answer is framed narrowly around consumption choices. These choices are crucial for mitigation, but they’re only part of the story. We influence #climate change in many areas of our lives🧵

Before coming to Copenhagen, I saw a few YouTube videos that say the cycling infrastructure is better in Amsterdam. After being in Copenhagen, I say I don’t care because it’s incredible how easy and safe it is to get around everywhere by bike and I wish more cities were like Copenhagen.

Lovely piece about staying in touch with what really matters to you through academic life www.science.org/content/arti...

The updated version of the database of PhD fellowships produced and maintained by my team can be downloaded by anyone here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-... For each of the 187 fellowships, you will find a short description, deadline, $ amount, link, etc. Good luck!

I just made another donation to the Gaza Soup Kitchen, via Jews for Food Aid for People in Gaza. If you can, I hope you'll join me. If you're Jewish, I hope you'll add your name to the now-23,000+ signatories. #SaveGaza

We're recruiting! 🌳Assistant Professor in Ecology, Evolution & Conservation 🌳Postdoctoral Research Associates in Drosophila Connectomics Whole Organism Neuroscience 🌳Research Assistant Environmental impacts of food consumption & policy Find out more: bit.ly/4o028qV

Thrilled to be supported by a GeneWiz grant to assemble the genome of my model #spider Cyrtophora citricola 🕷️

This little beauty emerged from its chrysalis on our front door yesterday. What a lovely encounter 😍

🎟️ DAY PASS for Behaviour 2025 is now live! 🌟 Join us at Biswa Bangla Convention Centre, Kolkata from 25-30 August for world class talks, symposia, workshops & networking with global leaders in animal behaviour! 🚨Hurry up! Day passes are selling fast, Don't miss out! 👉Click on this link below

South Oxfordshire - With #wasps in the media and your garden, it's time for a FREE public talk devoted to them! I'll be talking July 22nd - 7pm. Suitable for 12+ #Cholsey Pavilion #MendTheGap #SpringlineProject Book your free ticket here: cholseyparishcouncil.gov.uk/springline-e... #WaspLove

New 2 year post-doc position on cultural adaptation in complex environmental management.

Happy flying ant day! My garden #spiders thank you for your services ☺️ (I do feel a bit bad for the dude who keeps mating with the lady while she's being consumed, though...) 🐜🕷️

Scientific journals actively encouraging replication studies is definitely a step in the right direction for increased scientific accuracy and integrity