Are you a PhD student ready to publish a paper? Submit your research to our journal today & enter one of our new journal prizes, celebrating PhD student work in #Botany or #Biology !🧪🌍👇 academic.oup.com/biolinnean/p... @linneansociety.bsky.social

Looking to the past to predict the future... DNA & #Climate models revealed the diversification & dispersal history of the Southern Swallowtail butterfly, as well as predicting an 89% decline in suitable habitat by 2070...highlighting the need for urgent #conservation. 🌍🧪👇

Who you gonna call? EVOLUTIONARY SCIENTISTS! Ghost species (no, not species of ghost) are extinct, unknown & unsampled taxa...and they vastly outnumber those included in phylogenetics. This hidden diversity can complicate phylogenetic signals of horizontal gene flow, impacting their study...(1/2)🧪

It's #PeerReviewWeek and what better opportunity exists to say a huge thank you to our excellent reviewers from across the globe. It is your hard work & commitment that enables us to continue publishing ground-breaking research in Biology, Botany, Evolution and Zoology. (1/2)

Did you know male wasps can get tricked by orchids into thinking they're females? Pterostylis orchids use sexual deception as a pollination strategy, with fungus gnats (Diptera) falling victim, acting as the main pollinators of these deceptive plants! 🌍🧪👇 academic.oup.com/botlinnean/a...

Speaker Spotlight! Today we're sharing molecular biologist Glenn Yannic, whose research focuses on the consequences of environmental & anthropogenic changes on the genetic diversity of alpine & arctic species. Book to see Glenn Nov 20 🌍🧪👇 buff.ly/bLADJcs.?mso...

Speaker Spotlight! 📣 Today we're highlighting Chloe Haberkorn, a biologist who specialises in evolutionary genomics, currently in yeast! Her PhD focused on resistance mechanisms in bed bugs (scream). Come see Chloe on Nov 20 🧪🌍👇 buff.ly/bLADJcsmsock... @chloehbk.bsky.social

New Blog Day! 📣 Who's your daddy? This is the question asked by guest blogger @katyakolesnykova.bsky.social, breaking down Gabriela Bispo & co's paper on leatherback turtle mating systems! A long-time mystery, DNA analysis revealed a surprising truth 🌍🧪👇 A 🧵 (1/6) buff.ly/iVBnhAO

Speaker Spotlight! Today we're highlighting Maren Vitousek, whose research focuses on phenotypic flexibility: how organisms respond to challenges in their environment, with a focus on tree swallows! Book your place to hear from Maren & our other speakers on Nov 20 🌍🧪👇 buff.ly/sWmQ9WZ.

SCREEEEAAEEEAAEAEEEEAEAAAAA!!!! Oop, looks like our resident pipistrelle is BAT at it again (not with white vans)...this time she's pipisTELLING you to come to our Lunchtime Lecture with @irorotanshi.bsky.social ! You BATter not miss out on this one 🧪🌍🦇

Have you ever wondered who’s safeguarding the Global South’s rich biodiversity? Their voices and impact shine in the @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social‬’s Special Collection: oxford.ly/472pHJv

Body shape, a key trait in fish (they'd do wonders on Hinge), varies between geographic regions & sexes, reflecting adaptations to local environments. Here, body-shape variation among 3-spine sticklebacks was studied, revealing shape was mostly affected by sexual dimorphism! How? (1/2) 🧪🌍

This week we're highlighting Shane Campbell-Staton! His research focuses on how human activity has influenced life, biological stress & evolution of species around the world. Come listen to Shane & our other speakers Nov 20th! 🧪🌍👇 buff.ly/6lFTcKi.?mso...

Tadpoles have...TEETH?! An evolutionary novelty of anuran tadpoles, the taxonomic distribution of keratinized labial teeth remains a mystery. Yet here, variation in row number was studied in a phylogenetic context! If you're bitten by a tadpole do you turn into a frog..? 🌍🧪👇

SCREEAEAAEEEEEAAAAAAEAEAAA!!! That's bat for "Join our Bat Walks"! Every Wednesday at dusk in Battersea Park, book your place now (tickets are flying, just like bats...the only mammal to evolve true flight....) 🌍🧪🦇👇

The next speaker from our Organismal Resilience symposium is Luis Chevin @lmchev.bsky.social! Luis' work takes a genetic perspective on evolution and ecology. His projects consider a range of species, from theoretical models to observations in the wild. Book to hear from Luis on 20 November 🧪 🌍 👇

Our next speaker spotlight for our Organismal Resilience symposium is Rose Thorogood - @informedbirds.bsky.social. Rose's team studies information ecology in birds, and how this influences their evolution. Book your ticket to hear from Rose and others on 20 November.

Today we're spotlighting @chriswheat.bsky.social, who is speaking at our hybrid symposium on Organismal Resilience on 20 November. His lab primarily works on butterflies (not wheat!), using diverse methods to answer fundamental questions in ecology & evolutionary biology. buff.ly/hYT14pa

📣New Blog Day! 🚨 Ever wondered why birds have whiskers? Many theories have been proposed, from eye protection to prey capture, but all lacked conclusive scientific evidence...until now! Guest blogger Michael Sellgren breaks this down in our latest blog, a 🧵(1/6)🌍🧪 www.linnean.org/news/2025/08...

Speaker spotlight! @trishschulte.bsky.social studies how fishes' physiology, biochemistry & genetics adapt to challenging environmental conditions, like high temperature. Hear from her at our symposium on 20 November. Online & in person tickets available.

Submit your research with us or simply join us for our symposium on Organismal Resilience in a Rapidly Changing world! Register via the link below 👇🌍🧪https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/pages/organismal-resilience

How, when & where animals move during mating periods can direct gene flow in species. Here, the impact of migratory behaviour on population structure in 17 species of bat was studied, revealing no link to genetic structure or diversity in general! 🌍🧪🦇 Bat to the research... doi.org/10.1093/biol...

Cryptic biodiversity challenges assessments of global biodiversity & ecosystem health, including in the ocean. Here, morphology & DNA of Ancistrocheirus lesueurii was studied, revealing ~6 cryptic species! You've gotta be squidding me...🌍🧪🦑 (1/2) academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

Everyone loves tardigrades (especially at the LinnSoc), but is tardigrade love-making affected by water? Here, the effect of anhydrobiosis (life without water) on mate choice & reproductive stress was studied, finding females laid fewer eggs but no delay on mate choice! 🌍🧪 doi.org/10.1093/biol...

Sampling crustacean epibionts of green, hawksbill & loggerhead sea turtles uncovered high genetic diversity, low genetic structure & high gene flow, suggesting an overlap between host life history & historical epibiont colonisation! Ride the waves dude...🌍🧪👇 doi.org/10.1093/biol...

We know we know, you're dying to know what's new in the world of Adaptive Radiation...well wonder no more! Here, Julia Day, @jameststroud.bsky.social, @fishspeciation.bsky.social & María del Rosario Castañeda discuss it in their Editorial below 👇🌍🧪 doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Join us online as Dr Marco Camaiti reveals the hidden world of limb-reduced lizards! Discover how skinks have evolved "noodle-like" bodies, phantom bones & strange internal anatomy...all revealed with cutting-edge imaging. Join us at 12:30pm Wednesday 13th August! 👇🌍🧪

Do ecological interactions promote the coevolution of ecological niches in the acacias (Fabaceae: Vachellia spp.) and their mutualistic ants (Formicidae: Pseudom…... published in @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social using @gbif.org mediated data: #CiteTheDOI: ✅ https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaf030

Froget it's Monday by learning about subtropical Proceratophrys frogs! Found in the Araucaria Forest, DNA evidence suggests their diversity is the result of marine transgression, highlighting the role of climate in diversification! A ribbiting read 👇🐸🌍🧪 academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

Bromeliads are one of the most diverse Neotropical flora, but why are they so diverse? Here, molecular phylogeny is used to understand this in 1268 taxa...revealing how geological & climatic events shaped their evolution! 🧪🌍👇 academic.oup.com/botlinnean/a... My bromeli-bad for the lack of puns...

Check out our latest journal cover, provided by @jameststroud.bsky.social linking to our Special Issue on Adaptive Radiation! Want your image to feature on our cover? Submit your manuscript with us today 👇🌍🧪 academic.oup.com/evolinnean/p... @linneansociety.bsky.social

📣Call for Papers! Why are some individuals and taxa more resilient than others? Our latest Special Issue on Organismal Resilience aims to answers this question! Submit your research or register for our one-day symposium below 👇🌍🧪 academic.oup.com/biolinnean/p... @linneansociety.bsky.social

Titanosaur-sum discovery! Well-preserved tracks of Nemegt sauropods from S Mongolia have revealed novel insights into soft tissue anatomy & function, including scales that may have helped with scratch digging on sandy surfaces! 🧪🌍🦕 academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a... @linneansociety.bsky.social

Did you know bees like smelly flowers? Research on an aquatic angiosperm Crinum campanulatum revealed a shift from nocturnal pollination by hawkmoths to diurnal pollination by bees, associated with smaller flowers and increased diurnal scent! Find out why below 🧪🌍👇 academic.oup.com/botlinnean/a...

Our understanding of species colonisation of oceanic islands has exploded, revealing unknown multiple colonisation events! Using a species complex of endemic weevils on the Canary Islands, the consequences of multiple colonisation dynamics were explored🌍 🧪 👇 academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...

New Blog Day! Guest blogger @benraby.bsky.social breaks down a recent paper in our #Botanical journal, investigating the use of modern technology to detect salt stress in plants. What did the research show? A 🧵 (1/6) 🧪🌍🌿 www.linnean.org/news/2025/07...

Ever wondered how the tree of life is pieced together? Species-level phylogenetic inference remains challenging, but here @sungsik.bsky.social & co have developed a composite likelihood framework that handles SNP & multilocus data, improving species tree estimation! academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...

Very excited to see our paper using historical data to infer toothed whale lifespans published this week in the Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society (@biojlinnsoc.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1093/biol... w. @darrencroft.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social @mialybkaer.bsky.social, Dan Franks

New blog hot off the press, and anole this one is good...check it out below! 🌍🧪👇

This #WorldBiodiversityDay we're highlighting one of the most #threatened groups of tetrapod: Anurans. Crucial gaps in our knowledge exist for more than half of all species, preventing effective #Conservation. This is especially a problem for biphasic species...so what can be done? A 🧵(1/4) 🌍🧪

Always trust your gut...unless you're a low-altitude Eurasian tree sparrow? Analysis of the gut microbiota of sparrows at high & low altitude revealed significant differences, with low-altitude sparrows having greater diversity but a higher prevalence of potentially-pathogenic bacteria! (1/2) 🌍🧪🐦

Famous for their length, snakes:

Please join us in welcoming Prof Ullasa Kodandaramaiah as a new Associate Editor for EJLS! Broadly interested in understanding how natural selection has led to diversification of traits and life forms, he will make a great addition to our team! @linneansociety.bsky.social

A #Fossil from 5.5MYA in Italy has revealed new information on the ancestor of wolves! Part of the genus Eucyon, they mark a crucial moment in canid #Evolution, spreading across the Bering land bridge from America into Eurasia. Yet they have remained an elusive species...until now! A 🧵(1/5) 🌍🧪

Do you give a damn about beavers? Then don't iGNAW this thread! Nature's engineers, beavers were hunted to extinction in the UK, but a landmark decision to allow their #reintroduction has paved the way for their return! But how will this work? A thread 🌍🧪🧵🦫 (1/4) #BeaverDay

We see what you did there @zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social...

This months #EditorsChoice highlights the importance of continued research using modern techniques in areas thought to be fully explored, uncovering an unprecedented #NewSpecies! academic.oup.com/biolinnean/i... @linneansociety.bsky.social

New paper in @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social using @gbif.org mediated data: Eco-morphological convergence among Neotropical deer #CiteTheDOI: ❌ https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaf008

Have you heard? We're going batty for bats in #MammalWeek this year! Wanna nab a ticket to our last walk of spring? Grab it below! 🧪🌎🦇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/getting-ba....

You're telling us giant ancient deer out-competed giant ancient giraffes?! 🦌🥊🦒🧪🌍