This is really unfortunate... ICESJMS no longer accepting pre-printed articles. 'exclusive' high-quality content = pay to publish? academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti... @icesmarine.bsky.social

Fully-funded 4-year PhD-position available! The PhD-student will investigate the effects of restocking European eel. The position will be based at SLU Aqua in Stockholm, Sweden. Application deadline is July 6. Info about the PhD-position and link to apply: www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

New #NaturalHistoryNote in Austral Ecology by @danhoops.bsky.social A bicycle dragon was observed eating a live Jan's banded snake in South Australia. A review of published diets found vertebrate prey records in Ctenophorus are exceptionally rare🦎🐍 doi.org/10.1111/aec.... @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

In fisheries models, natural mortality (M) is often set to 0.2 per year. A detailed derivation of this result was provided by John Pope in 1975, see below:

New #NaturalHistoryNote in Austral Ecology: Treefrogs in Brazil's Cerrado were found carrying tiny ostracods, providing the first evidence of phoresy in this species = Frogs may help disperse aquatic invertebrates between bromeliads & other habitats🐸 doi.org/10.1111/aec.... @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

New #NaturalHistoryNote in Austral Ecology by @danhoops.bsky.social A bicycle dragon was observed eating a live Jan's banded snake in South Australia. A review of published diets found vertebrate prey records in Ctenophorus are exceptionally rare🦎🐍 doi.org/10.1111/aec.... @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

2/n "Wasps (Agelaia pallidiventris) inhabiting the ant nest without causing apparent harm, with no visible signs of aggression or avoidance". doi.org/10.1111/aec....

1/n New #NaturalHistoryNote in Austral Ecology: Social wasps living inside ant nests in the Brazilian Amazon — with no visible aggression between the species — provide rare evidence of a potentially mutualistic wasp–ant nesting association. 🐜🐝🌿🌍 doi.org/10.1111/aec.... @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

1/n New #NaturalHistoryNote in Austral Ecology: Social wasps living inside ant nests in the Brazilian Amazon — with no visible aggression between the species — provide rare evidence of a potentially mutualistic wasp–ant nesting association. 🐜🐝🌿🌍 doi.org/10.1111/aec.... @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

We agree! #TheScientificNaturalist is all about sharing those "wow" natural history observations via short, accessible pieces grounded in solid science. With striking photo/video evidence, these studies connect rigorous ecology with a broad audience

I really like the #TheScientificNaturalist format, & this "Big sharks in the dark" paper is a great example—sufficient details, but written in a way that makes the work accessible & engaging to a broad audience. doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... @esajournals.bsky.social

I was supposed to present my research on deep-sea sharks in the western Caribbean Sea at #SI2026, but I was, er... let go from my job shortly before the conference and am not there. Since I gained a few followers from this, I thought I would share some of what I would have presented yesterday (1/9)

Giant Cretaceous octopi. What started out as a bad year for fossil octopi (looking at you, @taphonomist.bsky.social) has suddenly taken a turn for the awesome www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📢 Apply now for the ASFB’s Student Awards! 🚨 All applications are due 30th April 🚨 👀 See thread for award details

Plenary Session: Shifting cultures in elasmobranch conservation 🗓 Tuesday, 5 May ⏰ 09:00 AM – 10:00 AM 📍 Sirimavo Expo Centre, Hall A 👉 Explore the full schedule of plenary sessions, side events and more, on our website now: si2026.org

New Natural History Note in Austral Ecology: Rare peat-bound karstic wetlands in Lutruwita/Tasmania—alkaline, groundwater-fed systems within acidic peatlands. Endemic flora + living stromatolites. Monitoring shows slow change but infilling risk. 🌱🧪🌍 doi.org/10.1111/aec.... @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

New Natural History Note in Austral Ecology: Tiny sundew bugs dodge capture & steal prey from their carnivorous host plants & manage to appear when Drosera sundews are most sticky — timing their heists to peak prey capture. 🪰🌱🧪🌍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

For comparison, the longevity record for BTO (Ireland and UK) Common Ringed Plover is 21y 10m 12d (from ringing to latest report). More longevity-records here: wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/01/16/w... @btobirds.bsky.social #ornithology

PhD opportunity at the University of the Sunshine Coast: Movement Ecology and Trophic Dynamics of Bull Sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) in Southeast Queensland 💰 stipend of $15,000/yr for 3.5 yrs (+ RTP scholarship) Dr Bonnie Holmes: www.unisc.edu.au/staff/dr-bon... Dr Matt McMillan (DPI, Queensland)

Can we overcome the shifting baseline syndrome? At @au.dk they offer at three year PhD project Co-supervised by me, which aims to intertwine local ecological knowledge and scientific knowledge to gain insights into seabird breeding distributions prior to rat invasion phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...

New Natural History Note in Austral Ecology: Tiny sundew bugs dodge capture & steal prey from their carnivorous host plants & manage to appear when Drosera sundews are most sticky — timing their heists to peak prey capture. 🪰🌱🧪🌍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

New Natural History Note in Austral Ecology: Exceptional Longevity in a Neotropical Shorebird A male Two-banded Plover (A. falklandicus) was resighted over nearly two decades at the same Patagonian beach. 🐦🪶🧪🌍 doi.org/10.1111/aec.... @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

Jobs thread - Lots of aquatic research related jobs open here at SLU Aqua Sweden right now (with a few bonus aquatic jobs in other departments). Around half are English language roles. Come and work with us🙂 1/n

Journal retracts weed killer study backed by Monsanto, citing ‘serious ethical concerns’ | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Check out my recent #JFB Editor's Choice: "Put it in reverse! Captivating deep-sea footage reveals the mysterious movements of abyssal fish", featuring some amazing footage: doi.org/10.1111/jfb.... It highlights a paper by Priede and Jamieson doi.org/10.1111/jfb....

Let's try this #AcademicSky 1 fav, 1 funny, strange, or unexpected scientific anecdote about a paper, a scientist, a fact, hoping that some will be new to you.

Replication studies: a win-win for early-career training and behavioral ecology url: academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

Jobs thread - Lots of aquatic research related jobs open here at SLU Aqua Sweden right now (with a few bonus aquatic jobs in other departments). Around half are English language roles. Come and work with us🙂 1/n

1/10 ⏰⏰ New stuff from me & @tjnear.bsky.social ! We show that sharks themselves might not be a natural group ... it depends on what spots in the genome you analyze! Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New Natural History Note in Austral Ecology: Ant-mimicking crab spiders may exploit social ant behaviour to safely prey on them. The paper suggess that the Neotropical crab spider A. rogersi mimics nestmate transport. 🐜🕷️ 🧪🌍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

Oho, tuo hämähäkkien muurahaisten jäljittely ei ehkä olekaan pelkkää viatonta pedoilta suojautumista! Harmi että kuvissa on vain muurahaisia, hämpit näyttävät siis tältä (kuva: Wikipedia): #mimikry

New Natural History Note in Austral Ecology: Ant-mimicking crab spiders may exploit social ant behaviour to safely prey on them. The paper suggess that the Neotropical crab spider A. rogersi mimics nestmate transport. 🐜🕷️ 🧪🌍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

New Natural History Note in Austral Ecology: Geophagy (soil ingestion) in an Upper-Forest Frugivore, the Toco Toucan @ecolsocaus.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/aec....

New Natural History Note in Austral Ecology: "Small Australia Spiders Construct Orb Webs in the Aerial Webs of Larger Hosts" @ecolsocaus.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/aec....

Quite a few of us at SLU Aqua are working on ECO-CATCH, a large Europe-wide collaboration. I’ll be focusing on Smart Bycatch Detection Systems, aiming to advance fisheries electronic monitoring & analysis, to reduce—or eliminate where possible—bycatch of sensitive/protected species eco-catch.eu

Quite a few of us at SLU Aqua are working on ECO-CATCH, a large Europe-wide collaboration. I’ll be focusing on Smart Bycatch Detection Systems, aiming to advance fisheries electronic monitoring & analysis, to reduce—or eliminate where possible—bycatch of sensitive/protected species eco-catch.eu

Coauthor on a paper and the journal allows you to enter your social media handles, but ... no Bluesky? Especially given that Bluesky now links to more scientific papers than Twitter, according to @altmetric.com

Since that time, HPV vaccine has been demonstrated to be safe and very, very effective at preventing cancer, which you can see for yourself in this Figure from a paper by Lei et al. (NEJM, Sept 30, 2020).

Not to minimize a real problem, but couple of cautions here: *53 papers out of 4841 *It is not the job of peer reviewers - esp in conferences - to manually check every citation *These guys are selling an AI agent to detect bad cites - which is useful, but thats the pitch here.

New Natural History Note in Austral Ecology: Geophagy (soil ingestion) in an Upper-Forest Frugivore, the Toco Toucan @ecolsocaus.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/aec....

New Natural History Note in Austral Ecology: "Small Australia Spiders Construct Orb Webs in the Aerial Webs of Larger Hosts" @ecolsocaus.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/aec....

I would echo this, but with the advice for ECR's _not_ to publish with your institutional email. Use a service (Gmail, Proton, Hotmail) until you're settled.

let's go back to publishing every weird little thing we see an organism do as a natural history note. i love a good kitchen sink paper that gets into the nitty gritty of a whole-ass system, but when you're trying to research something less well-known, you really need people writing "so one time..."

There are still a couple weeks to sign up for my class, which you can take for transfer course credit, for CPE credit, or just to learn something neat! You can take just the online lecture, or sign up to spend 3 days in the field with me catching, tagging, measuring, sampling, and releasing sharks!

PhD position in fish ecology at the university of Gothenburg @naturvetenskap.bsky.social with fieldwork at Kristineberg marine station @kristinebergcenter.bsky.social Apply here: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

Want to get the data out of a PDF figure? As in, the actual data – not a rough trace-along-the-lines version? I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/ It all started a few years ago... 🧵

“There’s no defined ‘high risk’,” Ault said. Because of the high hospitalization rate for babies with no preexisting conditions, simply being an infant should make them eligible for the shot, Rupp and Ault both said. Dr. Ault says all infants are high risk therefore all infants should get them.

Inhaling toxic smoke is now the number one cause of fire injury or death in the UK, research indicates. www.fidra.org.uk/news/use-of-... 7/8

Unbelievable that lead #fishing weights are still driving wildlife declines decades after we understood the threat #Ornithology

Journal retracts weed killer study backed by Monsanto, citing ‘serious ethical concerns’ | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...