Rapid postfire color shift in a Mediterranean lizard @jzoology.bsky.social #Lizards inhabiting recently burned areas display lighter coloration, as a #thermoregulatory response zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🌍🔥🦎📏 #trait #fauna #zoology #wildfire #fireecology #fire

There's a word for learning from evolution's inventions: bioinspiration. Here's my interactive story on the way animals and plants fuel technological creativity. Gift link: nyti.ms/4otNQyl

In case you needed a reminder of the importance of basic science! 🤩

1/13 New paper out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age @hannahdugdale.bsky.social @lummaalab.bsky.social @erikpostma.bsky.social

Evaluating the roles of signaling and camouflage in the evolution of iris color in Tyranni passerines. Evolution doi.org/10.1093/evol...

The story on chemical communication in #poisonfrogs doesn't stop with the sexy fingers! "Histological and Gene Expression Analyses of the Arm and Finger Macroglands of Two Hyloxalus Frogs" is the new paper by the super talented Diana Abondano (Link in comments)! Out now in MolEcol. #cienciacriolla🇨🇴

Don’t miss this opportunity to attend #ISBE2026 next year!

Meet our plenary speaker Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi Director of the India Program for the Snow Leopard Trust working on snow leopards and human-wildlife coexistence in the high Himalaya. His work focuses on the interactions between large carnivores, their wild prey, and farming communities.

Start planning your stay in Turin! Accommodation can be easily booked directly on our website ➡️ isbe2026.com/accommodation/

Meet our plenary speaker Eva Ringler! Professor at the University of Bern, Eva Ringler and her research group are interested in understanding variation in animal behaviour from an ecological and evolutionary perspective focusing on Neotropical poison frogs and glassfrogs.

Meet our plenary speaker Renata Sousa-Lima! Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil), Renata ‘s research focuses on bioacoustics of aquatic mammals and has pioneered the field of ecoacoustics and soundscape ecology in Brazil.

Meet our plenary speaker Felicity Muth! Assistant professor at the University of California Davis, her lab group are broadly interested in cognition, especially aspects of learning and memory that have a clear function in the natural world, focusing on captive and wild bumblebees.

BehaveAI is live! Our biologically inspired video analysis tool sees motion as colour. Track animals or objects, classify their behaviour, and handle complex natural scenes with ease. Semi-supervised annotation, no GPUs required, user-friendly, free & open source. Pre-print tinyurl.com/BehaveAI

The Dobzhansky Prize recognizes the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding early-career evolutionary biologist. The awardee will present the Dobzhansky Prize plenary at #Evol2026. Apply by December 1! shorturl.at/p70wY

Award alert! 🎖️🚨 Every other year, the Ethologische Gesellschaft awards the Niko Tinbergen Award to outstanding post-doc level researchers in Behavioural Biology (<=6yrs post PhD exam). ...and this year is one of these years! Please send us your nominations! 🫵 Infos: www.etho-ges.de/wordpress/aw...

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Do not miss this fantastic opportunity, people! 🤩👇🏼

Globalization has accelerated the spread of mosquito species that transmit human diseases. An analysis in Nature Communications shows that 45 disease-vector mosquito species have been introduced to non-native regions worldwide. go.nature.com/4hn6ogW 🧪

Years ago, I attempted a self-assessment of my potential gender biases in an academic research setting: ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2016/04/subt... Today, I happened on a very nice summary of how to avoid such biases in letters of recommendation, which provides an comprehensive outline. Check it out

Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu

Have you recently read about a particular field in depth? Perhaps you have just finished your PhD thesis? @jevbio.bsky.social is seeking Review Articles! Find out more about Reviews and Target Reviews at JEB here: academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/re...

What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision www.nature.com/articles/d41...

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... another impressive 6 continent collaborative behavioral study!

Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

What is sexual selection all about... definitionally and mathematically? A super talented PI, Jussi Lehtonen, is looking for a postdoc to work it all out! Deadline end of this month. ats.talentadore.com/apply/postdo...

Decisions have been made on @asab.org conference grants for Winter 2025: we had 52 eligible applications and are going to make 37 awards, so that's a success rate of 71%! We're also awarding two additional grants to help with childcare costs. #EDI #ASABWinter2025 Isn't @asab.org just awesome?

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If you found this paper interesting, follow @juancarvajalcastro.bsky.social, who has finally joined 🦋 and who has a few more really cool studies in the pipeline! 🦎🐸🌡️🧬🧪🌎

En el marco de la Catedra Europa organizada por la Universidad del Norte que celebra este año a Dinamarca y Suecia, estaré participando hoy en el conversatorio "Somos las especies como Linneo las pensó?" Nos vemos (virtualmente) a las 10:30 (Col) / 17:30(CET) #CienciaCriolla

#ISBE2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your abstract by 15 December 2025 on www.isbe2026.com @behavecol.bsky.social

Professor (full) or Associate Professor (tenure track) in Microbial Genetics of Health (U. Turku Finland). Competitive starting package included! Please share. duunitori.fi/tyopaikat/ty...

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🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #33, Sept 22-29, 23 posts! ✨For the lazy (yes we are!) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... DM if you want to receive the link weekly 🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Here's an image that requires a second look. It looks like a creature with big dark eyes is peering at you: it's not. You're looking at a FROG'S BUTT (you pervert). Let's meet the Cuyaba dwarf frog (Physalaemus nattereri). Maybe we should start with seeing the front of it? (📷: George Grall)

It’s the one year anniversary of ISBE2024 in Melbourne, Australia. So many fond memories. And now it’s time to start thinking about the 2026 congress in beautiful Torino, Italy. For further information, follow @isbe2026.bsky.social or visit isbe2026.com.

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...

📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Submit your nominations for the tri-society IDEA Award by October 15! This award recognizes a person at any career stage who has strengthened the ecology and evolutionary biology community by promoting inclusiveness and diversity in our fields. www.evolutionsociety.org/society-awar...

Please share!🙏 🚨 PhD Oportunity in Avian Behavioural Ecology in Spain The BirdBond Project (MNCN & IREC) studies how pair bonds form, change & affect reproduction/survival in the spotless starling 🐦

Do you love research & writing & all things animal behavior? Well our journal, Animal Behavior, recruiting up to 5 (count em!) new Associate Editors! Editors serve three-year terms beginning January 2026. If you're interested, email Exec Editor Scott Sakaluk ([email protected]) by Oct 31!

For those interested to see the productivity gap for men, here are the figures using the same # years in research as female counterparts. Based on English papers: -50% for English non-native -58% for English non-native from low-income countries compared to English native from a high-income country.

Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #languagebarriers

📢 Vetmed Campus Open Day | Come along and experience animal research up close! 🐾 ----- 📅 Saturday, 27 September 2025 | 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. 📍 Vetmeduni Campus, Veterinärplatz 1, 1210 Vienna 🌞 Admission free!

Funded PhD position available 🎉 Come and work with me in Helsinki to uncover the pathways producing colourful tiger moth wings. Lots of options for genomics, CRISPR, fieldwork, behaviour experiments… Email with questions! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

"Global environmental factors impact the evolution of adult hemoglobins in squamata reptiles (lizards and snakes) and terrestrial turtles" New paper by the super talented Juan D Carvajal-Castro et al.! 🐍🦎🐢 #CienciaCriolla 🌎🧪 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

How an academic betrayal led me to change my authorship practices | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Welcoming in the weekend with a delightful selection of aurora shots taken around Finland recently. Photos shared on IG by arcticroadtrips, wiltsu.jpg, petripuurunen, and sropponen: www.instagram.com/p/DOc-V7dDLbq/

Looking for a PhD? I am advertising two industry sponsored PhD projects. One on black soldier fly genetics with #betabugs and another on searching insect biodiversity for novel enzymes #Syngenta. Get in touch if you are interested!! bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/available-ic...

Wonderful week in Seville attending the Spanish Ethology and Evolutionary Ecology meeting. Great science, friendly people, and the opportunity to reconnect with long-time colleagues and meet new ones. Many thanks to the organisers & the SEEE for the invitation! ☀️🌴🐸 @klivvvienna.bsky.social