I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

🐾 DOG OWNERS WANTED! 🐾 Help us understand how early life experiences impact adult dog behaviour by filling out the survey below...and tell all dog owners you know to do the same. Swedish: survey.liu.se/Survey/13900 English/EU: survey.liu.se/Survey/14070 English/US: survey.liu.se/Survey/14086 🧪🌍🦊🐶

David Attenborough turned an impressive 100 years yesterday but could we perhaps also talk about how Janis celebrated her 12th birthday on the very same day and that is worth noting as well? #dogsofBlueSky 🐶🐾

We want to thank all our dog participants in Arizona who helped further canine science during our first round of testing. Here is a small selection of the fuzzy data points in our slowly growing dataset. Great collaboration btw the Canid Research Group & the Canine Science Collaboratory #datadogs 🧪

OMG…😅 What’s your academic band name? 🧪🌍 #AcademicSky

What I did for work this week? I spent HOURS searching the internet for the best realistic stuffed dogs for an experiment on conspecific sociability (without comparison the most profound rabbit hole of my career) and then I purchased a couple of candidates... *to be continued* 🧪 🦊 🌍 🐾 #Academia

Check out this thoughtful paper and amazing initiative on replication in the field of behavioral ecology. Will definitely incorporate this into my undergrad courses! 🧪 🌍 🦊

🎉 Celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Join my inaugural lecture Social by Nature — exploring how social worlds shape animal minds 11 Feb 26 • 18:00–19:00 GMT • Cambridge + Online Register: www.aru.ac.uk/events/inaug... #EveryVoiceInScience #WomenInSTEM #LGBTQHistoryMonth

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 2-year postdoc in canine behaviour at Linköping University, Sweden. #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs liu.se/en/work-at-l...

Interested in open, reliable & transparent science in ecology & evolution? Become a member of the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology @sortee.bsky.social! Membership is open to all and it's optional to join at no cost 👉 sortee.org/join/

Some days in canid research are just unbearable… 🧪🦊 🐾 🐶

🚨 PhD position in behavioural evolution 🚨 Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve. Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs liu.se/en/work-at-l...

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“…approximately one in six papers across the natural and life sciences mischaracterize the findings in a paper they cite” 🧪 🌎 #AcademicSky www.science.org/content/arti...

JOB ALERT 🚨 Tenure-track assistant professor in population genetics, comparative genomics and/or bioinformatics applied to biodiversity monitoring and conservation biology at Aarhus University, Denmark. Aarhus is super nice y'all. Apply! 🧪 🌍 🧬 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs tech.au.dk/en/about-the...

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

"Should we really set time and space apart for things that distract us from our jobs? Yes we should, because many of the breakthroughs in science were made by people who were distracted." 🌍 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

JOB OPPORTUNITY in the United Nations Environment Programme! The Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds is hiring and executive officer. Location: Bonn, Germany. 🌍 🧪 🦉 #ScienceJobs

Permanent job in lovely Aarhus, Denmark, as a special consultant in biodiversity and nature conservation. www.au.dk/om/stillinge... 🧪 🌍 🦊 #WomenInSTEM #ScienceJobs

Great piece by Adam Rutherford on the moral and ethical implications of the current woolly mammoth revival hype. Not to mention the colossal (pun very much intended) waste of money this "endeavor" is 🧪 🌍 🦊 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

JOB ALERT! Associate Professor position in Animal Biology available at Linköping University, Sweden. Areas of interest include ecology, physiology, evo-devo and genetics. 🧪 🌍 🦊 🐟 🦉 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM #HigherED #ScienceJobs liu.se/en/work-at-l...

Important paper on Positive Animal Welfare (PAW) for all researchers and other professionals working with animals 🧪 🌍 🦊 🦇 🦉 🐟 🐾 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM #HigherED

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At Stockholm University, we are now starting a 2-year Master’s programme in Evolutionary Genomics! Topics include population genetics, phylogenetics, molecular & genome evolution, DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, and palaeogenetics. Please spread the word! www.su.se/english/sear...

Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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This is a catastrophe. While Finland has downgraded the MDPI and Frontiers journals to level 0 (meaning these publications are not recognized for research evaluation purposes), Germany has signed an agreement to promote publications in MDPI journals.

Clive Wynne and I wrote a review about dogs, and how their great potential as a model species in behavioral ecology and evolution is overlooked. Several misconceptions have likely led to this and I will break them down in a thread...1/6 🧪 🐶 🦊 🌍 #AcademicSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Publishers selling papers to train AIs" was perhaps not the direction I was hoping to see the already questionable scientific publishing scheme take 🧪 🌍 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Brilliant paper demonstrating that dingoes represent a unique canid lineage that contrary to popular belief is not hybridized with dogs. Dingoes should be protected as the unique animals they are, not persecuted. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic... 🧪🌍🦊🐶 #AcademicSky

It’s slim pickings out there alright…😅 🧪 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM

Our husky had surgery this week and the body she needs to wear to prevent her from licking her stitches makes her look like Steve Jobs in his iconic turtleneck sweaters. She would like to talk to you about the latest Apple products… 🐶 🐕 #DogsOfBluesky #Dogs #HouseHusky #JanisDog

Earlier this year, I received news that fake peer reviews were allegedly being submitted impersonating me and approximately six others I shared my story with Science to, hopefully, reduce the chance of this kind of breach happening again www.science.org/content/arti...

I have seen many good, well-argued initiatives by various researchers to rebut this decision and also signed some petitions myself. Hopefully there is still time to revert this degradation of conservation efforts and in turn biodiversity goals. 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky

Harsh! …but here’s to the importance of negative results. 🧪🌍#AcademicSky

Insightful new paper on the evolutionary consequences of indirect genetic effects and how they especially affect behavioural traits. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan... 🧪🌍 #HigherEd #WomenInSTEM #AcademicSky

📢Are you an early career researcher, interested in how science is communicated, reported, & the evolution of the scientific ecosystem? Applications are open for the Royal Society Publishing Early Career Researcher Advisory Panel. Find out more: ow.ly/MaTk50U71W3 #ECRs Please repost!

Serious Timeline Cleanse! Take a minute to look at these stunning wildlife photographs. Hard to pick a favorite, no? www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti... 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky

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Amazing opportunities at Stockholm University, Sweden! Assistant professorships in biodiversity w/focus on processes previously difficult to study, but where recent advances provide new opportunities. su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM #EcoECRcareer #ScienceJobs

Starter packs are genius, but I was surprised there wasn't a list of them for people to find. So I built it: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack... The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database. Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.

Another job opportunity in Europe! 3+3 year position equivalent of Assistant professor at the Department of Animal Behaviour at Bielefeld University, Germany. Experience with genetic and genomic approaches an advantage. 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM #EcoECRcareer #ScienceJobs

Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.

In the light of recent events you might be looking for positions in say...Europe? Here is one on applied animal population ecology in Switzerland that aims to guide biodiversity conservation. www.unine.ch/files/live/s... 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM #EcoECRCareer

When you (finally) get a grant after waiting for a decision for 9 months, reread your long forgotten proposal, and realize what you actually have to do now... 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM

Happiness is when you bring out the hiking doggy backpack and your 10-year old husky bounces off the walls from excitement. We put less weight in her backpack these days (don’t tell her), but she’s still our best adventure buddy. Enjoy your dogs while you can ❤️

Great night at Pint of Science in Stockholm, Sweden! Our colleagues from Stockholm University told us about butterflies, mercury pollution and sexual selection. Oh, and we won the quiz 😀 Yay science! 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM

The brutality of writing 3 different grant applications in 4 weeks, making all the deadlines (barely alive), being super proud of yourself…and then getting the first rejection the day after your last submission. Academia is tough, be kind to one another. 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM

Me thinking about all the exciting ideas I have for research projects vs me actually having to finish them up 2 days before the grant deadlines (yes, plural)... 🌍🧪 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #WomeninSTEM