So the ‘#ChicagoRatHole’… wasn’t made by a rat after all? Our 3rd most popular paper this year, this #BiologyLetters study compared the imprint to eight local rodent species and revealed a 98.67% likelihood that hole was in fact left by a squirrel: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

Liverwort Athalamia hyalina, looking like the advance party for a goofy alien invasion. The liverwort structures are about 1cm high. #liverwort #bryophyte #fungifriends

🧃☕️ BYOF Seminar | Fri Oct 24 @ 10 am EDT🥛🍹 Bring-Your-Own-Fluid + enjoy 7 min talks about social fluids: 🦈 Viviparity & matrotrophy • Daniel Hughes 🐦 Crop milk • Victoria Farrar 🦂 Sexual stings • Yuqi Reitsema-Wang Email [email protected] for the Zoom link! 🔗 @socialtransfernet.bsky.social

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5/ Some wings have evolved strategies to help reduce damage resulting from collisions. For example, we learned a few years ago that wasp wings have a flexible joint that acts like a reversible crumple zone, allowing the wing tip to easily bend out of the way when it hits things...

We offer a fully funded 4-yr contract for a PhD candidate in Evolutionary Biology to join our group (www.eco-evo-devo.com). The project will combine genomics and ecophysiology to understand the evolution of developmental plasticity in spadefoot toads. For requisites and contact info please check 👇

In what may be one of Earth’s craziest forms of mimicry, researchers in 2023 reported a species of rove beetle that grows a termite puppet on its back to fool real termites into feeding it. Learn more on #NationalWildlifeDay: https://scim.ag/4mM2aS9

A calm good morning from this aquatic plant producing oxygen: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...

AsoHerp is pleased to announce that after several requests from our friends around LATAM we have decided to extend the abstract submission and early fee subscription. Please share with your colleagues and students this is the last chance for early registration. 👉🏽 www.herpcr2026.com

🚨 Exciting news for #ESEB2025! Join us in Barcelona for our symposium: Cooperation, Conflict & the Evolution of Socially Transferred Materials (S08) 📅 Thursday, 21 Aug 2025 🕥 10:30–12:30 | 🕔 17:00–19:00 (Poster Session)

La fecha se acerca! We are so excited to welcome an amazing group of scientists that would be sharing their work with us at the conference. Muy emocionados de tener un grupo de excelentes científicos que compartirán su trabajo con nosotros! 🐍inscríbete aqui: www.herpcr2026.com #XIIICLH 🇨🇷

Get to know our keynote speakers! Conoce a nuestros invitados! Inscríbete en el XIII Congreso Latinoamericano de Herpetología y comparte con nosotros de estas charlas y mucho mas! 🐸 No olvides que si quieres participar en las ponencias debes enviar tu resumen antes del 31 de Agosto.🦎 #XIIICLH 🇨🇷

🐸 Las inscripciones están abiertas en: www.herpcr2026.com/inscription 🐍Para participar no se olviden de enviar sus resúmenes para presentar sus trabajos herpetológicos hasta el 31 de agosto de 2025 www.herpcr2026.com/enviar-resumen Consultas: [email protected]

XIII CLH 🐸 23 al 27 feb 2026 🐍 San José, Costa Rica La página de inscripción ya se encuentra abierta y pueden enviar resúmenes para presentar sus trabajos herpetológicos hasta el 31 de agosto de 2025. Página web del congreso: www.herpcr2026.com

Cool new pub: No evidence of quantitative honest signaling in the poison frog D auratus academic.oup.com/cz/advance-a... out of the Saporito lab 🐸🧪🌿 nice photos of the scary 😉 defensive posture

📣 THE WAIT IS OVER! We are pleased to announce that registration for the XIII Latin American Congress of Herpetology is now OPEN. To register, we invite you to visit the following link 🐊: www.herpcr2026.com/inscription

Hemos registrado por primera vez un CO2 en la atmósfera superior a 430ppm. La última vez que esto ocurrió de forma consistente fue hace 14 millones de años. Los primeros restos de Homo Sapiens tienen 300.000 años, los primeros del género Homo hace 2,4 Millones. Vivimos tiempos extraordinarios

Do you work on a socially transferred material such as milk, seminal fluid, skin secretions or regurgitate? Interested in attending ESEB 2025 in Barcelona? Then please consider submitting to our symposium!

If you can sing, you're going to be a great taking care of the kids! Thinks female Reticulated Glassfrogs in a #AWnews highlight of Garrido-Priego et al. (2024) research. Read the news: amphibiaweb.org !

Good piece by @natureportfolio.bsky.social. The erosion of thinking time—driven by admin, bureaucracy, industry agendas, and unrealistic output targets—stifles curiosity-led science. These pressures undermine innovation and the intellectual freedom vital for real progress. 🧪🌱🌍 #ScienceIsNotBusiness

Quietly renames “interesting papers to read in 2024” folder to “interesting papers to read in 2025” folder

🧪🌎. Our short film "The Waiting" 🐸🎥🐸🎬 is been awarded as a Vimeo Staff Pick, so since yesterday it's publicly accessable on Vimeo! vimeo.com/1036802517?s...

Friends don't let friends make bad graphs repo has been updated! Friends don't let friends use boxplot for binomial (bimodal) data. Is your box plot hiding something from you? #DataVisualization github.com/cxli233/Frie...

📣 Bring-Your-Own-Fluid Seminar Mon Dec 9 @ 9am CST/4pm CET The #SocialTransferNetwork invites you to a fun hour of talks, connections, and your favorite social fluid - whether that's a study topic like mucus, milk, or regurgitate, or a seminar beverage ☕️🧋🥛🍹 DM for link!

Another paper on why and how to #stophelicopterresearch with specific examples from #CostaRica No más investigación helicoptero. No más extractivismo. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...