If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS ebook is currently 99p in Amazon UK and will be for the next twelve days! It will also be $2.99 on Amazon US on Dec 31st, which obviously I will remind you about in a week, but just letting you know early. Happy holidays!

Caroline Bird So good! A masterclass, really, in efficiency: the essence of a sonnet in 14 words, including volta; the destabilizing yet utterly apt image; the kite string of the poem letting the title soar...

📢 Join us, the Haberkern lab, @uni-wuerzburg.de for a postdoc studying neural circuit mechanisms of navigation. You’ll spearheading neurophysiology experiments on our brand new 2P! ⏳ Apply by 28th February 2026 Details: www.haberkernlab.de/docs/ENPostd... #neuroscience #academicjobs #postdoc

Merry Christmas @gamesam.bsky.social! Thanks for all the puzzles 😊 I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Dec 25th 2025 (Tricky), in less than 8 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die awoke one Christmas morning from uneasy dreams to found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous insect

Previously had two south Indian coworkers one named William George and the other George William. People were consistently, openly confused that they weren’t white and weren’t each other.

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

Take note! 📝 There are a lot of important dates coming up for #ASABSpring2026 and #ECBB2026 🗓️ More information here: www.asab.org/conferences-...

Registration for #ASABSpring2026 is now open! asab-spring-conference2026.github.io Don't forget the travel grant AND abstract deadlines are Feb 1!

'We are so cold 💔😭 We are so cold 💔😭 We are so cold 💔😭 Because of donations... I need to buy a tent for my family 💔 Any donation, no matter how small, could save a life my family 🙏💔 @mommunism.bsky.social'

'🚨Urgent🚨 We are in northern Gaza. Our tent was flooded & destroyed by the storm🥶 We are now homeless & without a tent😭 📍 We appeal to you to donate & support us so we can buy a tent that costs $100 Your donation will save us🤲 Plz Help urgently⬇️ @mommunism.bsky.social ✅'

'Look at us! The world celebrates the New Year while we celebrate with our tents flooded We can't find a safe warm place to take refuge from the winter cold Please help us and support us with your kind donations so we can survive even if it's just a little Please don't abandon us🙏😭'

Started reading Robert Macfarlane’s “Is a River Alive?” y’day and it has sucked me in like few physical books have in recent years. This quote from Ursula K Le Guin stopped me in my tracks just now, for I have really struggled with being a prof in a college of natural resources for quite a while:

“Northerner from Yorkshire's Northernness trumped by Northerner from Newcastle” 😂

Congratulations to Gayathri Kondakath on winning the 2025 #BiologyLetters Early Career Researcher Competition! Read her prize winning research article "Caterpillars suppress nocifensive behaviours during the quiescent ‘sphinx’ state": doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... #ECR

I did not know of the link between pork eating in Spain and Spanish Inquisition 🤯

Plumbing the depths of awfulness while showing exactly who they are. I can only hope every story like this drags those soaring polls down!

Ok yall, LATEST PROGRESS on rent deadlines 🩷 Two deadlines met, two to go!! Find both listed at the very top here: linktr.ee/divyamp

A good day after the bruising time I had two days ago :) I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Dec 23rd 2025 (Medium), in 04:17 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

NEW: We show and replicate socioeconomic gradients in heuristics for decision-making under uncertainty, possibly reflecting adaptations varying levels of scarcity and competition for resources 🫰 Shoutout and thanks to @danielnettle.bsky.social & @coraliechevallier.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥 tinyurl.com/mu7rzz6k

Heated Rivalry is great, but we seem to keep skipping any queer story in media that happens between 1995-2005. Its either AIDS crisis/death/etc or (mostly)post-liberation/everone-just-getting-on-with-it.

I suppose I am an elder millenial/xennial queer then. not that marriage equality is anywhere on the horizon in India. Some day!

I'm honored to have won the 2025 Sushila Devi Award for LOKA! 🙏 Very grateful to the Bhopal Literature & Art Festival and Shri Ratanlal Foundation for the award, and to the jurors for their kind words. 💙 to the team at Hachette India and to Cameron McClure for supporting the book! #sciencefiction

🚨 Postdoctoral Opportunity for Female Scientists🚨 The University of Vienna is awarding at least 20 fully funded 4 year postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists Interested? Get in touch via direct message careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... #MicroSky 🧪 #PostDoc @univie.ac.at

Very proud of this new paper from the lab! Work by the magnificent Andrea Adden and many brilliant collaborators illuminate how moth and butterfly brains have evolved in light of different ecologies. Freely available here: rdcu.be/eVR3B; @lundvision.bsky.social @biologylu.bsky.social

What do you think is the greatest ever TV news clip? For me this can never be beaten...

Resharing & please pass it on! ACCE+ PhD project on the molecular evolution of insectivorous mammals that eat toxic amphibians 🦔🐸. Jointly supervised with brilliant colleagues in @livuni-ismib.bsky.social & @mpi-ce.bsky.social & open to UK & international students. @shabmohammadi.bsky.social

🌟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

We're open for abstract submission, and look forward to welcoming you all to Bristol in March! asab-spring-conference2026.github.io @asab-meetings.bsky.social #ASABSpring2026

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 Need to #camouflage on the move? Easy - simply seek out something that's coloured like you and move along with it! 🐠 Read the latest #trumpetfish instalment here: tinyurl.com/4tb5h5hk @royalsociety.org #shadowing #predator #experiment #marine #movement

It's 20 December and here in London we have 17 hours of darkness. so, as I do, I commend to you Sing For The Coming of the Longest Night, co-written by me & my bff @krfabian.bsky.social: a solstice poly romance, complete with jolly vicars, haunted theremins, & deep, sweet, weird-ancient magic. ❄️🎄🏳️‍🌈

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar Window 20 ‘Winter Sunrise’ Artist: SR Badmin

Very enjoyable puzzle today. If you haven't given it a go, get started playing :) I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Dec 20th 2025 (Hard), in less than 10 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

There is no hope for us

🚨 Tenure-track professorship at Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany, with a focus on evolutionary ecology of social hymenoptera 🐝🐜 Initially for 6 years: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/pr...

It’s the time of year for film lists. So here’s mine… The films that probably engaged me the most in 2025 were my first time watches of classic films. See 🧵 for my top 10. All come strongly recommended. In no particular order:

ICYMI, I get royalties for this, if you want to help out a freelancing writer in the heat death of online promo.

Nominations for the Royal Society's medals and awards are still open. Help us celebrate excellence across the sciences and across the world, with nominations open to both individuals and teams. Find out more: #RSMedals https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/nominations/

A quantified explanation for why women make up more than 50% of biomedical graduate student cohorts but occupy only about 1/3 of faculty positions 🧪

Wherever I’m With You (Putnam 2027), a co-created graphic novel by Suzanne Samin and me, follows two former best friends from the Bronx: Aran, a Syrian American teen, grappling with his mother’s death, and Tao, a college basketball star, who have to face life and old feelings once Tao moves back.

Multiple anthropogenic stressors can negatively impact species but can a single stressor also have multiple, concurrent impacts? Here we show that light pollution creates several simultaneous impacts to the nocturnal movement ecology of a moth and a spider: tinyurl.com/5eku5bff (1/5)

Ever wanted to know how the visual system of a long distance migratory moth looks like? Then you'll find your answers in our new paper. Finally out, after about a decade of collecting data by a group af amazing co-authors. Find it here, open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🌍🔍 Would you like to do your PhD with us? We are an eligible host institution for the INPhINIT Doctoral Fellowships from Fundación ”la Caixa”. 👉 Open to researchers of any nationality wishing to pursue a PhD at centres of excellence in Spain or Portugal. 🔗 lacaixafoundation.org/en/doctoral-...

Reposting this with alt text. Delete your Twitter. Now.

Can you guess the theme of #ASABWinter2025 from this video? Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram (@asab_org) as well!

Ready to meet our third plenary speaker? We are delighted to announce it's.... 🥁 🥁 🥁 The extraordinary @mherberstein.bsky.social

Love this approach to confirming overconfidence is a real thing some people have!

Join us for the @ecbb2026.bsky.social at @angliaruskin.bsky.social in September! @asab.org meeting secretary @viveknityananda.bsky.social advertising our conference at #asabwinter2025