Freedom of Sneetch!

"Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let's see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face." — Donald Trump, October 31, 2024 ( ht: @luiszanger.bsky.social )

"Let's put [Liz Cheney] with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let's see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face." — Donald Trump, October 31, 2024

MSc position in my lab. Come study the evolutionary & behavioural ecology of insects! @stfx-university.bsky.social

In the new book Labwork to Leadership, chemist Jen Heemstra offers actionable leadership advice to principal investigators. Check out the #ScienceBooks Review on #ReadABookDay: https://scim.ag/46l2X6y

🕷️ 🚨 Are you at the #DZG in Berlin next week? @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social my PhD @nadjageiger.bsky.social and I are very excited to tell you the latest about our spider sleep 💤 work! Come check out our talks on Friday and ask all your questions! :) 🚨 🕷️

Ant reproduction is getting weirder and weirder. Here’s the latest: queens of a Mediterranean harvester ant mate with males from a different species and then lay eggs that clonally inherit those males’ genome. I.e., they lay eggs that develop into a different species. 🤯

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...

I wrote (ranted) on experimental design as I was frustrated as an editor at how little guidance students were getting. I underestimated the interest in the issue: it has been downloaded 10,000+ times! Clearly it’s something we need to be talking about more. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Looking for a #postdoc in evolutionary biology? Come join the Budke Lab! Read more about the lab jmbudke.github.io & apply at this link fa-ewlq-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... This is the last weekend to apply before applications will be evaluated and zoom interviews scheduled.

Please help us spread the word! Please amplify! We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝 Applications are due October 6 2025. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C... #AcademicJobs #EvoBio

ISBE26-the 20th International Society for Behavioral Ecology Conference will take place in Turin, Italy, from 20-24th of July 2026. We invite you to join us to enjoy a 5-day meeting rich in top-notch science and ample networking opportunities, in our beautiful city. Website out soon! #ISBE26

And I had an awesome time hanging with these folks at ABS!

This is unfortunately reminiscent of early camps in Nazi Germany, which were also widely lauded by politicians (they were by no means a secret), treated as tourist curiosities, and featured in glossy magazine spreads. It’s unfathomable to me how so many people can take such joy in human suffering.

Let me put on my surprise face…😳

Do you have expertise in Animal Behavior & in Editorial work? Open position below👇🏼

the journal Animal Behaviour, which is run by @asab.org, is looking to hire a new Managing Editor. Please share advert with folks with a Life Sciences degree (ideally postgrad) who might be interested www.asab.org/opportunities

We are seeking a full-time Managing Editor for our journal Animal Behaviour. This editor will be involved in all stages of the publication process & must have a general understanding of the topics covered. Position starts Oct 1, application deadline July 31. More details: www.asab.org/opportunities

The current leader who best epitomizes the spirit of the Declaration of Independence is Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Pursued relentlessly by the government of Vladimir Putin, the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in prison. He left behind an account of his final years—and an admonition to his country and the world.

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

Great (but sobering) piece on the work by the team led by my U of Winnipeg colleague Craig Willis on the bats of Manitoba. White-nose syndrome (a fungal disease) and to a lesser extent wind farms, have taken a heavy toll on bat populations. #Bats #Wildlife 🦇 www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

Something spicy & delicious as a taco has gotten under Trumplestiltkin's thin tangerine skin. Seems the master of mean, juvenile nicknames can dish them out but when directed towards him, he can't take it, angrily calling it "nasty."🤣 Good to know. (you know what to do!) 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮

I missed this speech from Mark Carney: Canada will no longer try to grow closer to the US. youtu.be/fh24RFzA20U?... And now Canada will join the EU military so it doesn't have to spend 75 cents to the dollar of military spending in the US anymore. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

Early this morning: recording bird biodiversity in four green spaces in the Town of Lasalle. Lasalle is contributing many parcels of land to become part of the Ojibway National Urban Park. Our recordings will help us to understand which migratory and nonmigratory birds occupy these green spaces.

Breaking News: Germany classified the right-wing Alternative for Germany party as an extremist group, giving intelligence officials more tools to monitor it.

Liang Li and team have developed a VR system for fish to decipher how they school. The team uncovered the natural ‘control law’ used by zebrafish to coordinate behavior with others. @icouzin.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de @cbehav.bsky.social Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Dear god let this man cook.

To bob or not to bob: context-dependence of an antipredator response in neotropical harvestmen #AntiPredatorBehavior #Invertebrate doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Classic Fox News.

Americans will destroy themselves with an unnecessary trade war and a potential depression because they can't stand seeing people of color and women moving up a bit and getting a small piece of the pie. Same as it ever was.

Lovely film about Tim Birkhead's long-term study of Guillemots on Skomer. More than half a century of study of this population: this kind of continuity critical for understanding vitality of these important populations. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... vimeo.com/1063680641/2...

NEW PAPER OUT 📃: My first ever paper, which reports on my Master’s research, is now out in Animal Behaviour. Can blue tit nestlings sense their relatedness to their nestmates through smell? 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #OpenAccess #OpenScience #Preregistration #AcademicSky🧪

We've hit the masked and hoodie-wearing "federal agents" detain legal US resident grad students on the streets because they co-authored opinion articles stage of fascism: www.youtube.com/watch?v=417i...

New Primer on Bumblebees now out in Current Biology (with Guillaume Ghisbain & Denis Michez): www.cell.com/current-biol...

Long-COVID affects millions of US adults. Pretending Long-COVID does not exist and ending all NIH funding into this critical area of research because "the pandemic has ended" is one 'strategy.' If you don't think a problem exists, you don't have to spend money solving it. What's next? Diabetes?

Had a wonderful time yesterday at the Bumblebee Working Group meeting in Cambridge and really enjoyed presenting the debut of my first chapter results! Thanks to all who came and listened, and to @sofiadartnell.bsky.social, Lynn Dicks, and @camzoology.bsky.social for hosting- great job

Pete Buttigieg has entered the chat.

Looks like I've made an embarrassing public mistake. Time to do what alpha males like me do in these situations: whine and avoid accountability

I'm not saying anything novel here but it really is just truly despicable to watch them use THEIR OWN COLOSSAL SCREW UP to slander the reporter THEY INCLUDED ON THEIR CLASSIFIED GROUP CHAT

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

This is super important. I volunteer with a local riding association. A big part of election success is getting out the vote. Volunteers make that happen. You can make a real difference!

Building a stronger Canada can only happen in full partnership with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis. Thank you to the leaders of the National Indigenous Organizations for a productive and wide-ranging discussion today. It is the first of many.