Thanks to @dinograndoni.bsky.social and photographer Melina Mara @washingtonpost.com for this great piece supported by the Pulitzer Center covering our efforts to mend broken tropical frog populations and their importance to human health #amphibianresilience #anfibioresiliente bit.ly/4r1hblm

Don’t miss this opportunity to attend #ISBE2026 next year!

"The project that was terminated was on this hummingbird, the white-necked jacobin....I suspect that it has something to do with studying a species that doesn’t fit the binary." Researcher @jjinsing.bsky.social interviewed by @carlzimmer.com #birds #nature #science #fundscience #nonbinary 🧪

Hearts at the PSF are full today from the responses about the recent grant turn down news we shared. All of your kind words of support & solidarity, as well as your donations & new memberships, mean the world to us. We're so grateful to be in community with each of you 💛🐍💙

📢4-year fully funded #PhD on seasonal timing of egg overwintering insects 🦋🦗🪳 🔬Identify universal mechanisms underlying #insect egg developmental time under #ClimateChange 📌@niooknaw.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social ℹ️ vacatures.knaw.nl/job-invite/2... ❗Application deadline: 7 December 2025

Very excited and honored to have my photo featured in the latest issue of the Journal of Evolutionary Biology! 🐸 @eseb.bsky.social @jevbio.bsky.social If you'd like to read more about the research: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Membracis dorsata treehoppers (adults and nymphs) in Panama! One of my favorites at the moment. 😍 #insects #treehoppers #membracids

I have a job opening in my lab. If you are interested in bird behaviour and predator prey interactions please take a look! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Breaking News 🚨: Our #bioacoustics 🔉🐬🦇lab seeks a permanent new colleague in a tenure-track assistant professor 🥷position. Excited? Then join our vibrant group of 15 researchers, postdocs and PhD students at AU who work with #marinemammal #acoustics, #conservation #physiology and #effectsofnoise!

Happy to share that our paper on the #evolution and #genomics of the most common #color polymorphism in #frogs is now out in @pnas.org! My favorite frogs even made the cover of this week’s issue! 🎉🐸🎉 Read the paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm

How do light and noise pollution impact selection on sexual signals? We tested mate attraction and bat predation on túngara frogs in the field. Full text: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... #evolutionarybiology #animalbehavior @eseb.bsky.social @jevbio.bsky.social Photo: Grant Maslowski

3.5-year #Postdoc position on avian microbiomes and reproduction @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @niooknaw.bsky.social on a fully-funded ERC project focused on understanding the significance of reproductive microbiomes for host biology and fitness. Reach out for more info! nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.

Interested in doing a 3-month #internship on treehopper vibrational communication at STRI in Panama? 🤩 Check this out: stri.si.edu/academic-pro... Contact me for more info! #AnimalBehavior

Internship opportunity to work with me (in collaboration with Drs. Matt Fuxjager and Rachel Page) next year to investigate links between physiological performance capacities and call properties in tungara frogs. Please share with those who might be interested! stri.si.edu/academic-pro...

3-year #Postdoc opportunity at the University of York! I am #hiring a Postdoc to join my URF project on exploring how #biodiversity change is unfolding in the #Anthropocene. Deadline: 10th August 2025. All details and the link to apply: shorturl.at/qOQst @anthropocenebio.bsky.social #ecology

📷 The 2025 SORTEE conference program is now online! Visit sortee.org/upcoming/ to register and explore the exciting lineup of various sessions. #SORTEE2025 If you know a great open science project, now is the time to nominate it for a SORTEE Award www.sortee.org/awards/

Beautiful #treehoppers (Umbonia crassicornis or thorn bugs) in our garden in Panama! 😍 With a body length of ~1cm one of the biggest species around! #treehopper #membracids #insects

"In our study, we find that urbanization speeds up tadpole development and increased behavioral plasticity. However, exposure to urban conditions also decreased tadpole size, which may cause adult frogs to become smaller and less attractive for mates" Read the full paper here: buff.ly/FxGf8KD

Awesome study, check it out!!

In some species, the function of the treehopper's pronotum (the body part that forms the crazy structures) is intuitive - for example, there are species that look like thorns, which presumably helps them hide from predators or injure attackers. But in many species, a function is not obvious...

Reminder we have a starter pack! Recently added @earthspecies.bsky.social @erin-wall.bsky.social and @judithsmit.bsky.social. If you work in / post about acoustic communication (broadly defined!) let us know and we'll add you & don't forget you can post in our #prattle 💬 feed using that magic tag

Decided to become a member of @sortee.bsky.social! Excited to learn more about and be involved with open science in ecology & evolutionary biology!

A recent preprint from us. Tungara frogs use multifaceted cues to social context to guide adaptive flexibility in calling strategies. Cues involve conspecific stimulation patterns experienced between calls, and how these patterns interact with endogenous call rhythms. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Urban Túngara frog tadpoles develop more quickly but reach smaller sizes than those in forests, likely reflecting adaptation to warmer, predator-scarce city environments. doi.org/g9rvgp

I am looking for a Postdoc and a PhD student who want to study the neuronal mechanisms of the bee's waggle dance. 🐝 More details can be found on our webpage: www.spatial-navigation.com/open-positio...

Andrew Cronin tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “urban developmental environments alter tadpole phenotypes depending on origin”, in our recent blog post: buff.ly/OVa6Upu 🐸

Very proud of this paper lead by Andrew!!

New paper! 🐸🎶 Rocket frogs males respond to rivals depending on their own spectral call attributes, but also pay attention to the temporal properties of the challenger Check it out in Animal Behaviour: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #bioacoustics #prattle

If you are a graduate student or postdoc, consider applying for one of our Travelling Fellowships and you could receive up to £3000 to visit another lab & collaborate with other researchers. Deadline 8 August 2025 For more information visit: biologists.com/grants/trave...

🐠💥2 year postdoc in fish sensory ecology!! 💥🐟 If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...

PhD position alert! Fully-funded PhD in my group to work on avian reproductive microbiomes and immunity. Please RT! Deadline June 29th, reach out for more information. #microbiomes #sparrows #spermbiology

Watch the first episode of bugs that rule the world… www.pbs.org/video/insect...

🎉 We’re hiring! Two ERC-funded #PostdocJobs on insect–phytopathogen mutualisms are available in my lab. Explore the chemical and molecular evolution of symbioses! 🧪Chemical ecology: tinyurl.com/chem-ecol-symb 🦠Phytopathology & mutualisms: tinyurl.com/symb-plantpath #SymbioSky #PlantPathology

my most recent paper just came out! we wrote a news story about the article here:

My NSF PRFB on the genetics of female polymorphism in hummingbirds was terminated yesterday. I don't have much to say, I'm just sad. We've discovered so much, and could have gone so much further. If anyone else is in the same boat, esp postdocs, please reach out, it would be good to connect.

Three different moments in the life of a treehopper (Campylenchia hastata). They look totally different after each of their five molts! #treehoppers #membracids #insects

Do you have a project that exemplifies open science in ecology and evolution? If so nominate the project for a SORTEE Commendation Award 🏆 More details about the SORTEE Commendation Award:

Join us (in person or online) on Tuesday, April 8th, at 4PM (Panama time) for the STRI Tupper Seminar. I will discuss my research on how animals communicate in changing environments 🐸🌃🎤! stri.si.edu/event/commun...

New publication: Size in the city: #morphological differences between city and forest great tits have a genetic basis, by @babimt.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @mevisser.bsky.social and others. #urbanisation #eggmass #parusmajor #tarsuslength doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Found this treehopper (Calloconophora pinguis) guarding her eggs! She will later defend her hatched offspring against predators. So cool to see maternal care in insects! #treehoppers #membracids #insects

Really cool to see a short piece out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social titled 'Picky city frogs: urban noise and light indirectly affect mate choice' highlighting our recent paper! 🐸🌃🎤 doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... Link to our paper: academic.oup.com/beheco/artic... #urbanization #behavior #evolution

Doing some exploratory fieldwork looking for different #treehoppers, these creatures are very cool and weird and interesting!!! Found aggregations of Guayaquila (?) adults and nymphs in Santa Fe, Panamá. #insects #bugs

Today I officially started my postdoc in Panama. I'm very excited to be studying vibrational duetting in tropical treehoppers!!!! (photo below is the office at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute)

If you're looking for bioacoustics tips and help, check out the #Bioacoustics Resource Page (run by Sam Lapp and the Kitzes Lab) - bit.ly/bioacoustics-resource-page It has links to tons of tutorials, datasets, software, forums, #AudioMoth info, and more

I am excited to announce that after a long process, my work examining how El Niño events influence mating behavior and morphology in túngara frogs is finally published! Check it out! (Photo: Ryan Taylor). rdcu.be/d1g1F #evolution #ecology #climatechange

Ik kan me geen passendere context voorstellen voor een eerste post: 📢 Vandaag komen we in actie tegen de bezuinigingen op onderwijs en onderzoek. Laat ook je stem horen voor toegankelijk onderwijs, en tegen ontslagen. Teken de petitie, kom in actie! campagnes.degoedezaak.org/campaigns/st...