One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

It’s official. My university who told me for all of the years I have been a faculty person they it valued diversity all of a sudden decided it no longer does without even attempting to resist a legally questionable executive order. www.thedp.com/article/2025...

NEW RESEARCH: Seamounts are a HUB for sharks! New research on seamounts off Ascension Island has found that there are 41 TIMES the amount of sharks there than in the open ocean, despite no increase in primary productivity. Read the full paper here - doi.org/10.1371/jour... 🦑🌊🦤🌍🌐🧪 #AcademicSky

🎉CONGRATULATIONS🥂 to Lucy Westover on publishing her 🥇 paper in @royalsocietypublishing.org. Celebrating #ECR success is GREAT. @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #fieldwork #experiment #predation #noise #mongooses #vigilance #behaviour #ECR #Masters #OpenAccess so please share: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

An amazing resource from @asabeducation.bsky.social ! These worksheets are fantastic way to acknowledge and celebrate #WomenAndGirlsInScience #WomenInSTEM 👩‍🔬

It’s never been more important to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩‍🔬 Here’s a collection of posts from last year about some of the remarkable historical #WomenInSTEM in the animal field:

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New paper out today from our lab. doi.org/10.1098/rsob... We unpick the morphological 🧑‍🧒, physiological 🔬, behavioural 📟 and transcriptomic 🧬 differences contributing to female sex bias in migrating #hoverflies. See my work on flight performance in this paper 🪰💪🪽 @uniexecec.bsky.social

Now with an @evolletters.bsky.social blog post about the work from study lead Ryan Imrie evolutionletters.net/examining-pa... @uniexecec.bsky.social

Pericentromeric #heterochromatin clusters into chromocenters. @skrutlnize.bsky.social &co use quantitative mass spec to characterize the chromocenter proteome in multiple tissues, identifying a link between satellite DNA-binding proteins & #transposon repression🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/4akuNAi

Ecology and Evolution (the journal) is here!

There’s a lot of important dates coming up for #ASABSpring2025 & #Behaviour2025 ASAB Grants: asab.org/grant-overview ASAB Spring: asabspring2025.github.io Behaviour: behaviourindia2025.in Make sure you also follow @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social & @behaviour2025.bsky.social for updates 😄

🌍 Droughts to Worsen in the Arabian Peninsula A study projects severe droughts in the Arabian Peninsula by 2100, driven by evaporation rising 5x faster than rainfall. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm 🧪 #ClimateChange

We are hiring! Looking for new editorial board members - 📚 Associate Editors x c.10 📚 Handling Editor x 1 📚 Commissioning Editor x1 More information and application procedure: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...

Thrilled to see our work covering the evolutionary ecology of ethanol on the cover of the January TREE issue 🎉. Stunning photo by Cyril Ruoso. @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social @kjhockings.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @exetergses.bsky.social @evol-lab-ex.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Congratulations to our #ASABWinter2024 video contest winner Snata Chakraborty 🏆🎥 See her video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTJ-...

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I have a PhD position open to start fall semester 2025! The position will include investigations of the structure of both phenotypic (behavioral) plasticity and genetic variation in behavior as well as lots of opportunity to develop your own project. #Evolution #evobio #evolsky #Ecology 🧪

Deadline approaching for PhD studentship with @kofanchen.drosophila.social.ap.brid.gy & I (cosupervisor). Neat study done on immune genes affecting neural processes. Our goal is to look at sleep X immunity using wild & mutant flies with immune diffs! #Drosophila www.kofanchenlab.net/drosophila-s...

If I get the times correctly, the WSJ announcement followed a meeting of China's National Health Commission (NHC), during which it was confirmed that the new virus was causing the pneumonia. The meeting is reported in @daliyang.bsky.social's book, Wuhan. ▫️2/ books.google.fr/books?id=3wD...

Nice work!

Humans are not 'drinking alone': alcohol consumption is not unique to humans and may have benefits - including nutritional, medicinal or cognitive - in other species www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Good morning from Kenya. Day 3 begins as University of Exeter MSc Conservation and Biodiversity students up at sunrise to strike camp in Naivasha. @brendangodley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @exetergses.bsky.social @kjhockings.bsky.social @aimee-mcintosh.bsky.social

Postdoc in Hosken lab (UoExeter, UK) closing soon (evolution of body shape) get in touch if you are interested. Please repost. jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Join us at UGA Entomology! We are searching for an assistant professor in quantitative insect ecology. Applications due January 31. www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/406...

Is low fecundity of old males a consequence of seminal fluid or sperm declines, or female post-mating responses? Our new paper in evolution letters finds some surprising answers! academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

Marine heatwaves are getting hotter and more frequent. This incredible underwater time-series from Seychelles has taught us how coral reefs can respond to bleaching - including regime shifts, boom-bust cycles, and now, a regime reversal from algae -> coral. Out now in Ecology Letters! 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍

Hey BlueSkyers, we’re finalizing a #meta-analysis 📚 on comparative studies examining the link between #SexualSelection and #Speciation. If you have unpublished data or know of studies that might not surface in a systematic search, please reach out - we’d love to include them! Please share!

This looks interesting: academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...

The Resilience of Coastal Communities (ROCC) project bit.ly/3DicIGC, which includes ESI academics Dr Rachel Turner and Dr Tomas Chaigneau, has an exhibition at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall exploring the resilience of Cornwall’s coastal communities. nmmc.co.uk/2024/02/exhi...

Top paper! 🦭🦑🌎 #biologging #seals #telemetry @exetermarine.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social

Excited to announce a new preprint with Craig Walling and Loeske Kruuk!!! ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... If you are interested in estimating genetic variation and maternal effects read on...

Wild and exciting PhD available. #birds, #ornithology, #museums, #science

#Bioremediation using synthetic #microbiomes offers significant advantages over traditional single‐strain‐based approaches 🧫🦠. This Perspective outlines 5 important considerations for the rational design of pollutant‐degrading microbiomes for enhanced bioremediation: plos.io/3ZZbBEA

About 5 years in the making: (there really is) limited evidence on the impacts of #windfarms on #fisheries species. Wind is a solution to the climate crisis, but we also need food security. These are tough, complex choices and we need evidence to support them. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14672979...

Harmonic radar tags on fruitflies!! It won't be long until we're able to track flies on their longer distance migration routes!

We have a PhD opportunity through @treesdla.bsky.social to work on adaptive constraints and the evolution of sexual dimorphism. The project can include experimentation and/or population genomics and is co-supervised by @aidaandres.bsky.social Details here: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/lim...

PLEASE REPOST: The fantastic conservation journal Endangered Species Research with all articles fully #openaccess has just arrived @esr-ir.bsky.social on @bsky.app Please give it a follow. You wont regret it! www.int-res.com/journals/esr... #conservation #academicsky 🐢🌍🧪🦑 🌐🦤 🦈🐟🐠🐡

Day 8 of #BatMas: The Hammer-headed bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus)🦇🌎🧪 These bats are the largest bat in continental Africa, with wingspans up to 1 meter. Despite their size, they eat only fruit (mangoes, figs). Uniquely, the males produce loud honking vocalizations to attract females 📸: Sarah Olson

Day 10 of #BatMas: The Spectral bat (Vampyrum spectrum) 🦇🌎🧪 Unlike most bat species, this species is monogamous and both parents are thought to be involved in raising their offspring. They are carnivorous and eat birds, rodents, insects and sometimes and other bat species. 📸: Michael B. Kowalski

Day 14 of #BatMas: Hairless bat (Cheiromeles torquatus)🦇🌎🧪 A very unique species to the order of Chiroptera, this species almost has no hairs on its body, except for some short, bristly hairs around its neck, front toes, and around the throat sac (of which produces a strong smell) 📸: Chi'en Lee

This is fabulous! Have a look @lobsterlucy.bsky.social @vitaustin.bsky.social!

A highlight of studying with us is the fieldwork! In the second year students visit the Isles of Scilly, a group of islands a 2-hour sailing journey from the Cornish coast, renowned for their extraordinary climate that borders on the subtropical. youtu.be/xI1phDwZlKc?... #ExeterCEC 🌍🦤

Postdoc @ evol-lab. A Leverhulme funded 3-year postdoc studying body shape evolution (through a sexual conflict lens) on Exeter's Penryn (UK) campus. Starts April 2025. Contact David Hosken @ U of Exeter for detail.

Have you been enjoying ASAB Winter? Don't want it to end? Well don't worry, the fun can continue this spring! Registration is open now. Come join us in Liverpool! #ASABWinter2024

My graduate student shashank and I wrote this cool review on the evolution of transposon defense. Come for pirna cluster evolution stay for wild theories!

ASAB will also be at #Behaviour2025 in Kolkata, India, this summer (Aug 25-30). Abstract submission is currently open! #ASABWinter2024

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Postdoc opportunity to study tropical seabird connectivity & population genetics in the Indian Ocean! With @malcnicoll.bsky.social & collaborators as part of the @iomarinescience.bsky.social seabird project 📍University of La Reunion Apply by Jan 15th #jobopportunity #seabird #ornithology

New paper from Exeter Marine researchers finds that Montserrat's nesting sea turtles migrate and feed in multiple countries, highlighting the need for conservation without borders! 🐢 Well done team! Read in full: doi.org/10.3354/esr0... 🦑🦤🧪🌐🌍 #AcademiaSky #ExeterCEC @mcsuk.bsky.social