🚨Massive congratulations to our CEB member @jenkelley01.bsky.social and the global collaboration team on their investigation asking why some prey use warning colouration while others use camouflaging in @science.org. Read the article below 👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Wa hoo! Our paper in Science is out today, revealing why some prey use conspicuous warning colouration while others use camouflaging colours. A huge global collaboration under incredible leadership by Iliana Medina and @wlallen.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Researchers in Science report a globally replicated experiment that uncovers which factors explain the relative success of warning coloration and camouflage as antipredator color strategies. Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/4mBCl6i

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...

**PhD POSITIONS** I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work on sociality and cognition in Monk Parakeets, starting Fall 2026. Full ad is here: hobsonresearch.com/index.php/20... (please help spread the word!)

At CEB meeting, we heard from PhD student Avantika, who will study WA magpies to better understand how female magpies use aggression & vocalisation in social & reproductive competition. 🪶🦅 @mandyridley.bsky.social @lizziespeechley.bsky.social #LeighSimmons #UWA #AnimalBehaviour #SexualSelection

We’re offering a fully funded 4 yr PhD position to work on Sexual selection in complex environments at the @uv.es. Co-supervised by @dbergerbiol.bsky.social. Find details below 👇

Not every day you get to wear the aprons once used by Leigh Simmons and Joe Tomkins in the legendary dung beetle lab—where so much cool science on sexual selection and evolutionary ecology has been cooked up (sometimes literally 🪲💩) @invertebrateissy.bsky.social @ceb-uwa.bsky.social

The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology doi.org/10.32942/X24...

"TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing" doi.org/10.32942/X2D...

Funded #PhD scholarship- Vocal mimicry in tooth-billed bowerbirds at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment Western Sydney University ‪‪@animalecolab.bsky.social‬ @drbackhouse.bsky.social @westsyduhie.bsky.social‬ ‬ Deadline: 30 Sept25 link: tinyurl.com/4uf92t5b

Please share: @UBCScience is searching for 15 TT faculty in diverse areas of expertise science.ubc.ca/about/careers. Included are 2 positions in Quantitative and Environmental Science as part of a hiring cluster for black faculty; you will join 6 current UBC faculty science.ubc.ca/blackscholars.

My legendary students Incheol Shin and Seb Hayden published a fantastic study on kin recognition and the evolution of lethal fights in bulb mites, well done guys! academic.oup.com/evolut/advan... Media attention here: econews.com.au/67589/meet-t... www.ecovoice.com.au/meet-the-tin...

The final round this year for international PhD scholarships at Monash are now open (August 31st 2025). Interested in evolutionary ecology, global change, sex differences, and/or infectious disease? Maybe some ecotox together with @bbmwong.bsky.social. Get in touch. There will be Daphnia involved...

What you eat when you eat matters! Diet during development vs adulthood affects survival, fertility, and stress resistance — differently in male & female fruit flies. Same calories, different outcomes. Chandrakanth et al.: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Calling all evolutionary biologists! **AES 2025 Conference** 📍 UQ Brisbane | 🗓 1–3 Oct **Talks close 1 Sept** Don’t miss out — submit & join us for three days of cutting-edge science + community! aes.corsizio.com/event/685405... #AES2025 #Evolution #ECR #SciComm #AusSci

Some butterflies adapted to have second ‘heads’ that confuse predators | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... (1/2)

In the #Anthropocene, species face multiple, severe stressors which may be anticipated to interact in harmful ways. This #Perspective explores a more hopeful alternative: that stressors interact in a cross-protective manner. Learn more here ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/conp... 🐸 🐦‍⬛ 🐝

@scienceanu.bsky.social @uomresearchit.bsky.social

This afternoon, CEB talk was presented by @hasbeanbeetle.bsky.social, who is studying elytral melanisation as female ornamentation in seed beetles. The live beetle props entertained our audience! 🪲🐞 Aadhi is supervised by Dr Natasha Lebas, Assoc Profs Joe Tomkins & Jason Kennington, & Dr Rob Dugand

We are doing a Hackathon! 💻 Together with senior editor @nhcooper123.bsky.social , we'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible... (1/2)

Check out our paper in Evolution Letters! We used D. melanogaster pigmentation as a focal trait to explore parallelism in phenotypic and genomic responses to environmental change - read more at the link below 👇

Parental age effects on offspring telomere length across vertebrates: a meta-analysis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.26.666864v1

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

"Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year."

🎉 Our new paper is out in Evolution! We show how sexual selection shapes heat tolerance in Drosophila prolongata. Males evolved under sperm competition suffer more under heat stress. Led by @adenardo.bsky.social with @StefanLupold lab members. academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... #sexualSelectio

Can magpies count? 🦅 New CEB #cognition paper shows WA magpies pick the bigger food reward & birds from SMALLER groups out-count those in larger ones: first evidence that group size shapes quantity skills within a species #HollyHunter @gblackburn.bsky.social #BenjaminJAshton @mandyridley.bsky.social

Had a great run presenting in front of fellow CEB-ists! Onto the real thing tomorrow! 🐜💪🏼

Congratulations @nirjana-dewan.bsky.social and the authors @ceb-uwa.bsky.social! 🎉🎉

Published in Nature, an important analysis of the liability of fossil fuel polluters for climate change impacts. “Chevron, the highest-emitting company, very likely caused between US $791 billion & $3.6 trillion in heat-related losses over the period 1991–2020” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you're wondering how things are going at #ourANU, it's not good. A lot of voluntary redundancy folks still waiting to hear if they are can go. College budgets slashed, layoffs imminent, but zero communication. So we rely on Reddit posts like this: www.reddit.com/r/Anu/commen...

How do fish evolve to tolerate higher temperatures, and are there trade-offs? We explore these questions in our new paper @natclimate.nature.com led by Anna Andreassen @annahandreassen.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🐟🦑

So, Murray Watt is the new Environment Minister in the re-elected @albomp.bsky.social government. Murray, please implement environmental law reform and increase investment in environmental protection and recovery, as large numbers of experts have advised. theconversation.com/australians-...

🚨New paper alert! Predator-free havens breed the wild out of wildlife. LeBas et al. show that recognising the fecundity–anxiety trade-off can keep both booming numbers & predator wariness in threatened species—best of both worlds. 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... #Conservation #Ecology #Evolution #WildOz

Explicit value trade-offs in conservation: integrating animal welfare. Check out our latest TREE paper, led by Kate Lynch. Click here for free access to the article for the next 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kzlecZ3X3... #BobWongLab 📸 Patrick Tomkins

🎉 Huge congrats to PhD student @gabrielmelhado.bsky.social who received an award at the #ASABSpring2025 conference in Liverpool for presenting his research on how pharmaceutical pollution impacts the behaviour and immune system of our Aussie native rainbowfish. Way to go, Gabriel! 🐠🔬

Over the moon to finally share our new study in @science.org led by the amazing @jack-brand.bsky.social! Pharmaceutical pollution at environmentally realistic levels alters behaviour and migration in Atlantic salmon, directly affecting survival 👉 science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Zoology stall has been busy today with so many enthusiasts around! Darwin was a big hit but stick insects won the race! 🐜🐟🦊 @jenkelley01.bsky.social @1jonevans.bsky.social @beetlebonking.bsky.social @upama.bsky.social

Darwin came to town! @beetlebonking.bsky.social @brainiants.bsky.social @upama.bsky.social #UWAOpenDay #EvolBio #EnvironmentalScience

Come find us at the Ezone 207, Zoology stall for UWA Open Day today! Drop by to chat about all things animal behaviour, conservation, and evolutionary biology. Come find out what research at CEB is all about! #UWAOpenDay #EvolBio #SaferPharma #EnvironmentalScience

Meanwhile, in Europe👇

Scientific experiments run today are based on research practices that evolved out of a British tea-tasting experiment in the 1920s.

PhD student Naledi April Matenge led today's CEB seminar on small non-coding RNAs (sncRNAs) in sperm that can play key roles as biomarkers for male fertility and embryonic development. 🧬 Naledi is supervised by @pebblemouse.bsky.social and @1jonevans.bsky.social

Come on folk, get off your butts! Let's thank @arc-tracker.bsky.social. 3500+ of you follow their posts about proposed changes in ARC funding & which schemes remain open for now. But only 135 of you have signed up to support their nomination for a Eureka prize. Sign! forms.gle/ie7b32rWcZKK...

How does long-term (multigenerational exposure) by widespread pharmaceutical pollution affect the interplay between behavioural, life-history and reproductive traits in fish? Open access paper now out in @animalecology.bsky.social: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our open-access paper is now out at @animalecology.bsky.social. We ask, how does multigenerational exposure to widespread pharmaceutical pollution affect the interplay between behavioural, life-history & reproductive traits in fish? Read full text below👇🏽 @Giovanni Polverino @bbmwong.bsky.social

Postdocs interested in meta-science and want to work in Canada - our Centre for Open Science & Synthesis in Ecology and Evolution will be happy to host you! (U of Alberta has one of the best Computer Science Dept) - apply.sloan.org/prog/call_fo... Please DM me or email me if you are interested

Whoa … this is getting real! Thanks, @mikejennions.bsky.social for putting this together. I'm blushing! 😊

Australian Researchers, If you want to support @arc-tracker.bsky.social being awarded a Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science, sign this letter of support. forms.gle/WxfVjk9JaGpn... Q: "Are they eligible?", A: "Let's find out" Sign, repost & send the link to colleagues. Word of mouth. Do it!

Today at the UWA School of Biological Sciences Postgraduate Conference, we heard from our brilliant PhD researchers on everything from arachnids to marsupials to magpies! 🕷️🦅🐀 Below is a thread of their presentations 🧵