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...

Here at SLU Aqua (Uppsala campus, Sweden), we have an exciting 2 yr postdoc open for an ECR with a background in aquatic ecosystem ecology. The position focuses on investigating how land–sea interactions and climate change affect aquatic food webs. Great lab - apply! 🦑🧪🌎🐠 www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

BALTIC SEA & BOMB RADIOCARBON - First complete Baltic Sea bomb-produced radiocarbon chronology and use in testing fish age is released. Otoliths of Baltic herring, sprat, cod, pike, pikeperch provided key discoveries that point follow-up research. OA - doi.org/10.1093/ices...

Science nerds. This thread is awesome. All the science starter packs you need, just in time for Xmas!

Marine Ecology Starter Pack 👍 go.bsky.app/4PTX62K

🚨 Two funded PhDs (one int'l, one UK) - study coral restoration & corporate sustainability with us in Lancaster! Enquiries welcome, January 30, please share widely! 🚨 🪸🐠 Coral restoration (int'l): www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🌴📊 Corporate sustainability (UK): www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

New PhD studentship opportunity in my lab & with collaborators from the Pinniped Genomes Consortium. Come help us unravel the genomics of seal physiological super powers! Closing date 7th January 2026 🧪🦭🧬🌍🦑🐳 #marine #mammals #consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...

🎉 The December 2025 edition of the ASFB #newsletter, Lateral Lines, is out now! If you are an ASFB member already, you can access the newsletter (and all previous editions) via our website. 📰 www.asfb.org.au/asfb-newslet... If not, consider joining here: www.asfb.org.au/membership

Reminders, as public health officials warn of a very bad flu season: 🧵 * Washing hands is not a strategy for a respiratory virus. N95s, ventilation, air filtration -- especially in hospitals. * We should have been cleaning indoor air with the same effort we put into cleaning drinking water. 1/

Europe may have up to 500,000 landfills: many unmapped, forgotten and compromised. Our modelling shows the scale of risk. We also documented sites leaking PFAS, heavy metals, plastics and other toxins. www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/europe...

Australia, good news! Introducing the Australian Bryde’s Whale Catalogue (ABWC). We are slowly growing a dorsal fin catalogue of whales that are seen in Australian waters. Team effort- @happywhale_official and the ABWC is teaming up to help collect observations. youtu.be/A7fiM78IaCI

🧵1/9 There are 35,000+ fish species, but we have formal social-behaviour classifications for a tiny fraction. Most knowledge lives in the experience of researchers, fishers, divers, aquarists, naturalists, and Indigenous communities, but almost none of it is centralised. So we built ShoalBase.org.

Published records of fish social systems are valuable, but often lost in the literature; informal observations can fill gaps. ShoalBase can centralise literature and log new observations so patterns become visible. Know a paper? Please add it! Seen a behaviour? Please add that too! shoalbase.org

How does round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) affect fish abundance in the Swedish coastal areas of the Baltic Sea?

Great to work with @neildcook.bsky.social on this interesting, #OpenAccess paper - First record of a piebald leucistic smallspotted catshark Scyliorhinus canicula in a special area of conservation #Wales #Sharks #MPA #BRUVS #Conservation #Observation #CBMWC #Catshark @cbmwc.bsky.social 🦈 🌊 📹

A little more #sharkscience from my #PhD at @one-cardiffuni.bsky.social - a Short Communication published in Marine Biodiversity by @springernature.com. A fortuitous finding from #BRUVS sampling in #CardiganBay Special Area of Conservation in the UK - a #piebald leucistic smallspotted #catshark.