And finally in our countdown of the year's most popular @royalsocietypublishing.org papers, the most popular paper of 2025 takes a look at why men's height and weight have increased almost twice as fast as women's over the past hundred years. bit.ly/3Yx8emT

We present: The Art of #InverteFest - December 2025 Edition A digital art book showcasing the work of 100 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna. Thank you to the artists who contributed to our book! Download: drive.google.com/file/d/1JCXz... #Art #SciArt

The third most popular @royalsocietypublishing.org paper of 2025 covers a viral sensation - the so-called 'Chicago Rat Hole'. The research reveals that in fact, this rodent-shaped indentation is most likely a case of mistaken identity: https://bit.ly/3XX0URp

📢 I'm hiring! 3-year postdoc in theoretical evolutionary ecology at University of Helsinki 🇫🇮 Apply: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Theoretical-Evolutionary-Biology/1348955157/ #AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter

Did you know you can publish your paper #OpenAccess for free? Check if your institution is signed up to our Read & Publish initiative: www.biologists.com/library-hub/...

As our 100-year celebrations come to a close, a final reminder that we would love to hear from you on how The Company of Biologists has impacted your career. Share your story at biologists.com/100-years/me...

Submit a Brief Report to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences or PNAS Nexus to share concise, interdisciplinary findings—published open access and designed for rapid impact. Learn more: PNAS: https://ow.ly/EzJx50XPnrr PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/R0rg50XPnqe

🚨 Alarm!!! 🚨 AI/ML course for microscopy image analysis!!! 🧐 In 2026 at Janelia (@hhmijanelia.bsky.social), no tuition, housing and meals provided! Isn’t that borderline unbelievable?!? 20 students, ~14 TAs and lecturers 🗓️ June 4-18 2026 ✍️ Jan 15 2026 ✍️ 🔁 pls!! www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...

Our next extraordinary biologist is Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, a Nobel Prize winner and Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany. #100biologists

Happy Christmas to everyone from the VegPlotter team. We hope you have a peaceful and restful day!

"I was thrilled to be on an exchange semester overseas, but I saw it as just a detour from my imagined career path. I didn’t realize I was already pedaling toward a different life ..." Check out one of our top #ScienceWorkingLife essays of 2025: https://scim.ag/3Y573en

A powerful and unbiased way to identify links between genetic variants and biological traits has changed scientists’ understanding of complex diseases and how to treat them go.nature.com/4s1lL3M

Researchers in #ScienceAdvances have discovered a genetic footprint that helps explain herding dogs’ mental acuity and keen social skills. https://scim.ag/3KKA5Nr

A single genetic factor has been identified as key to the food-begging behavior of male bees, highlighting the genetic basis of complex social interactions in these insects.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Peaceful New Year from everyone in the School of Biological Sciences. Have a wonderful break. 🎄🥳

A blood DNA methylation test reveals how quickly each organ system is aging www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Effects of Future Climate Extreme Heat Events and Land Use Changes on Land Vertebrates 🔗 buff.ly/WcAczPd @robinheinennl.bsky.social

We believe that, as our future leaders in biology, it is vital to provide #ECRs with the right support during the early stages of your academic career. We offer a number of practical ways to help you meet the unique needs and challenges you may encounter: www.biologists.com/about-us/ear...

Great work! #UEAScience

One of my favourite projects to be involved with - love the combination of cool natural history and the ability to run field #experiments in natural #marine environments. Great work @sammatchette.bsky.social on leading the latest work. 🐟 #trumpetfish #colour #predation @royalsocietypublishing.org

#PhilJobs 2x 3-year #Postdoc Fellowships in Geneva Symmetry Group (part of Philosophy Dept) @ University of Geneva. Candidates must have a track record in independent research in philosophy of physics #philsci Dossier sent to Prof. Christian Wüthrich @ [email protected] by 20 January 2026

🌊 🐟🦭🐋🐧 I have a PhD position available (4 years, start Mid-2026) at NRM Stockholm to work on the macrogenomics of sea warming. Apply here: recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a... #PhD #MarineGenomics #ClimateChange #EvolutionaryBiology #PopGen #Bioinformatics #conservationgenomics

Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity. Apply here no later than February 11 2026: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1

#evolution: Staying home changes the social dynamic — in ants! CurrentBiology

#TigerBeetles — the #Christmas lights of the #insect world! #biodiversity (Fig. 1 from Duran et al. 2020) doi.org/10.3390/genes1…

A bit late, but really happy to see my first PhD paper out! We studied trait-elevation relationships in multiple traits spanning growth, size (both above and belowground) and leaf economics to understand whether these align at within- and among-species scales. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

academic.oup.com/evlett/advan... So exciting to see a new method to model the evolution of G (and P) matrices on phylogenies. Another step in the direction of trying to bridge micro and macroevolution

Maternal age matters beyond early survival. This study shows persistent effects on male—but not female—offspring fitness in a wild mammal population. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...

Surprisingly, sperm length is not linked to sperm storage traits. Instead, vagina length emerges as a key—yet overlooked—player in post-copulatory sexual selection in birds. academic.oup.com/evlett/article/9/6/686/8271462

We are continuously reviewing our AI policy as tools and capabilities evolve. This editorial outlines broad guidelines: accountability for content, preserving author voice, and maintaining trust in peer review. We welcome questions from authors, reviewers and readers academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...

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Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscopic slide. 🫧🐻🧪

"Productivity, I’ve come to see, is not measured only by research papers and grants. It is also sustained by presence, rest, and the relationships that give meaning to the work." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/3KNJ1Bm

Absolutely thrilled to share the latest work from my lab focused on the variation and evolution of human centromeres among global populations! We assembled 2,110 human centromeres, identifying 226 new major haplotypes and 1,870 α-satellite HOR variants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Regal jumping #spider can jump 50x their body length. They see in high definition which allows them land on their prey precisely! Look it up in Caribbean in #gaiaeco #PhidippusRegius #spiders #ecology #biology #maps #biodiversity #illuminum #DataForGood #natureTech #nature

So excited to share our new work out in @evolletters.bsky.social today! doi.org/10.1093/evle... Sexual signals and preferences for them often differ across groups, contributing to reproductive isolation. But how do new signals evolve if females already have preferences for existing ones? (1/4)

Please share 📢 We have a Postdoc position available here @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social to develop innovative genetic control strategies for insect agricultural pests in collaboration with @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/19...

Join me Tuesday with authors J. Arvid Agren and Manus M. Patten for the launch of their book The Paradox of the Organism: Adaptation and Internal Conflict.

We are also featuring developmental biologist K. Vijayraghavan, a @dev-journal.bsky.social Advisory Board member and a Development and @biologyopen.bsky.social author, as an extraordinary biologist this week. #100biologists @kvijayraghavan.bsky.social

1/6 New preprint! Do changes to insulin/IGF-1 signalling (IIS) that extend lifespan also protect the germline, or do they come with a mutational cost? led by @eduxbury.bsky.social with @alicegodden.bsky.social @immler.bsky.social Johnny de Coriolis Hanne Carlsson www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We're hiring! Seasonal Research Assistant and Senior Research Assistant positions for 2026 🪶 Deadline: 11th Jan 26 Apply here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

Males of the fruit fly (Drosophila prolongata) engage in territorial contests, using their elongated forelegs as weapons to fend off rivals and secure access to females and food. Read 'Social plasticity and individuality shape variation in contest behaviour': doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... #BiologyLetters

🐻‍❄️❄️ New paper alert! From me Ben & @immler.bsky.social “Diverging transposon activity among polar bear sub-populations inhabiting different climate zones” (Godden, Rix & Immler, 2025). 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1... A thread 🧵. #climate #transposons #TESky #polarbear #ursus @biouea.bsky.social

Check out our cover article by @timjanicke.bsky.social and colleagues about the role of sexual selection in animal speciation. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic.... The beautiful illustration is by Katharina Bóth.

POSTDOC recruitment! We’re looking for a post-doc to join us to work on the (epi)genetic basis of inbreeding depression as part of the ANR-funded project FRIDA macrostomum.wordpress.com/the-genetic-... Please share!

Now out! How important is social experience in male mating behavior? @corrallopeza.bsky.social found that experienced males were more likely to coerce non-receptive females, but did not change overall preference onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... w/ @vdbijl.bsky.social @idarolti.bsky.social

What are the causes & consequences of behavioural diversity loss in a changing world? And how do we harness this knowledge for conservation? New open access paper led by @odedberger-tal.bsky.social with David Saltz and @mrmic1.bsky.social #BobWongLab royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Spood time! I believe this is Carrhotus sannio. It’s from Thailand and has snagged something tasty for dinner. #Spiders #Invertebrates #Thailand

Team fish - we need your help! We are trying to build a database of all the fish chromosome-scale genomes where sex chromosomes have been identified. Have you build one or some? Do you know someone who has? Can you post the link in the comments? Please spread the word and repost! Thank you!

Delighted to publish Forum Article by @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social et al: "Journals run by learned societies or universities have more ethical policies while being cheaper and similarly cited" doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Thank you for choosing JEB - we encourage the support of #societyjournals