Happy to get male Red and Black Grouse in the same (albeit poor) shot.

Annual spring trip to a Black Grouse lek. North Wales this year. 30+ birds spread across three leks.

Job Alert 📢 Join BTO as a Senior Research Ecologist! Apply now➡️ www.bto.org/jobs This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of BTO’s climate change work! 📆 Application deadline: Sunday 26 April. 📝 £44,637 per annum. 📍 Hybrid, HQ in Norfolk or one of our country offices. #Ornithology

Pablo Villar et al discover male octopus mating arms are sensory organs used to find females, navigate internally to the oviduct & deliver sperm. From behavior to structure, these findings offer a framework for how sensory systems shape reproduction & species barriers www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Funky eyebrows

Postdoc in Macroevolution - Deadline April 12th - Join a team of Stuttgart botanists & myself to test drivers of Angiosperm diversification! Fully open process Submit cover letter, CV, 3 referees & publication list in a single PDF to [email protected] + 3 key papers (if possible) as PDF

This one is a no brainer for me

Hey y'all. I'm a month late to this, but I wanted to share that one of my PhD chapters was published in Systematic Biology with my advisor, Frank Burbrink. Here, we explore how ecological opportunity influences phenotypic evolution in North American natricid snakes. 🧵/8

New pigeon lofts at work are nearly finished! Looking resplendent. Could possibly Airbnb them out to people.

Paleontology just gives weirdness and unveils the non-analogue worlds. New giant sail-backed saurolophine dinosaur from China Gongshuilong fanwei. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio

A research fellow post combining MESOZOIC PALAEOBOTANY and plant ecophysiology here at Nottingham with Barry Lomax. Fixed term to March 2029. Please spread the word! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... #paleobotany #plantscijobs 🌍⚒️🌱🧪🔬

A very cute afternoon

Finally: A thorough anatomical description of the enigmatic pseudo-anteater Eurotamandua from the Messel pit based on CT data. Futher evidence is provided that this charismatic animal is a stem-pangolin. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Source: Science News share.google/eGNc4HzUHRLd... Phantom crane flies and flight.

Post-doc opportunity on comparative cognition and movement dynamics in corvids with the brilliant Prof Debbie Kelly at the University of Manitoba

2/2 Tähän viittaisi se, että muurahaiskarhuilla ja hetulavalailla on hampaiden hermot vaikkei enää niitä hampaita; niillä voinee siis olla hampaatonta hammassärkyä 😖 Muurahaiskävyt ovat onnistuneet pääsemään eroon sekä hampaista että niiden hermoista. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Becca Wood captures amazing video of Sharp-tail grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus) males demonstrating their sexy dance, which involves moving legs up & down more than 20 times per second, inflating purple neck sacs, tails behind them like a flag. They're native to Canada & central plains of the US.

Whatever the copepods in last week’s sample were eating, I want some! Instant club wear! Photographed using UV light. #marineplankton 🦑

A new #ScienceAdvances study identifies a cellular mechanism that ticks use to feed on their hosts. This finding may help develop strategies to disrupt tick feeding and pathogen transmission. https://scim.ag/4s295bD

Our paper is now out in its final form in @natcomms.nature.com ! We show that ancient insect symbionts can undergo extreme, convergent genome reduction to as little as ~50 kb - driven by ecological shifts and symbiont replacement. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... More below 👇 1/

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us ❓Quantifying animal #movement patterns & behavioural #interactions in a changing world 👥Joint position in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #MacquarieUniversity 📆19th April deadline tinyurl.com/343acaev #maths #modelling #data #fieldwork #Australia 🙏PLEASE SHARE

🚨NEW SCIENCE ALERT!🚨Read our new, open-access publication in Scientific Reports (@nature.com) describing #biofluorescence in #cassowary casques! Very excited to unveil this after keeping it secret for 5 years⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... NYITCOM @akiopteryx.bsky.social @jonathanberman.bsky.social

We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Our job ad: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Message me if you have questions. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social

Turns out Chickens are as bad as cats for stealing your chair!

Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us

Great opportunity to join BTO as Director of Country Operations! Apply online ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs 📝 £68,199 📆 Full time, Permanent. 📍 Stirling, Scotland, but we would consider BTO Cymru or Northern Ireland offices for the right candidate. 🖥️ Hybrid. Closing date: Tuesday 14 April. #Ornithology

The Silkies are looking amazing

Wind & solar are currently producing 65% of Britain's electricity. Meanwhile, renewables now offer 30,000 more UK jobs than oil and gas. Meanwhile, we're in a climate emergency. Meanwhile, we're in a fossil fuel supply crisis. Meanwhile, the Tories and Reform want to scrap Net Zero. grid.iamkate.com

Nocturnal ants navigate using a time-compensated lunar compass CurrentBiology

Really excellent paper on the genetics of caterpillar butt ornaments journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Work trip to London Zoo to look at bird eyes!

Small is beautiful! In a new pre-print in @elife.bsky.social, a team led by Alexey Polilov do the first-ever 3d electron-microscopic analysis of a miniaturized eye: the 29-lens compound eye of a 0.2-mm-long parasitic wasp! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... (whole wasp image by Andrew Polaszek.)

Idonauton apicalis, nicknamed “Supernova” for its wild colors and spiky, starburst-like body! Found in Southeast Asia.

Final version just published of our review on the ecological and evolutionary consequences of cooperation www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... @ryosukeiritani.bsky.social @annadewar.bsky.social @asgriffin.bsky.social @lauriebelch.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social

New paper on common cuckoo behaviour is out! When cuckoo females parasitize a nest, they always take an egg out. And we found that they strongly prefer red over green experimental eggs. Check what we think about it: doi.org/10.1016/j.be... @lisandrinamari.bsky.social

Fun Friday night

Gulls may facilitate landscape connectivity via nutrient and pathogen transport and deposition. Using GPS tracking, this #RSOS study analysed the foraging movement networks of breeding American #herring and great black-backed #gulls from two colonies: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

A new issue of #PhilTransB celebrates variability in animal #physiology research. Read #OA: buff.ly/mAzN7wF

In a return to his former stamping ground, this week's EGI seminar will be given by Prof Innes Cuthill from @bristolbiosci.bsky.social on how to understand defensive coloration - see if you can spot him in this old photo! Seminar in @biology.ox.ac.uk at 3.30 on Friday - joining instructions below ⬇️

Slightly unusual online chat with the Post Office this morning.

I have a new PhD position available on any topic related to musicality or animal communication that aligns well with our current research programs. Deadline March 31: oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=795a... For more info about my Musicality and Bioacoustics group: oeaw.ac.at/en/ari/resea...

Fully funded PhD position on primate parochialism! Study how cooperation within groups and conflict between groups evolve in red-fronted lemurs at our long-term field site in Kirindy Forest, Madagascar. @kirindy.bsky.social & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Apply here: www.dpz.eu

🦇We're Hiring! 🦢 Research Assistant position at ATU to determine the feasibility of establishing a radio receiver (Motus) network in Ireland for migrating bats and birds March 26th deadline! www.atu.ie/connect/jobs... @atu-ie.bsky.social @birdwatchireland.bsky.social @shrewgod.bsky.social

Out now in Science: The Truman Show, but with killifishes! "Continuous recording of a vertebrate’s adult life from adolescence until death would provide a complete view into the behavioral architecture of aging." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Young magpies learn to combine calls into "sentences" much like human toddlers: through listening to family and friends! Now available to read at @royalsocietypublishing.org @mandyridley.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social @ceb-uwa.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

ICYMI: New online! The consequences of rising temperatures for animal fertility

Hume’s Leaf Warbler in Warwickshire. Pinging about. Seemed to hate Chiffchaffs, but tolerated Redpolls.