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/...

How long will you live? New evidence says it’s much more about your choices than your genes theconversation.com/how-long-wil...

Scientific misconduct is on the rise. But what exactly is it? theconversation.com/scientific-m...

Our paper on #sexualselection and #intelligence / #cognition is now out in Nature Ecology & Evolution. Congrats to @cogniivan.bsky.social, Bec Fox & @kirindy.bsky.social for all their hard work to make this happen. www.anu.edu.au/news/all-new...

Lethal second-generation rat poisons are killing endangered quolls and Tasmanian devils theconversation.com/lethal-secon...

There is declining trust in Australian unis. Federal government policy is a big part of the problem theconversation.com/there-is-dec...

Australia spends $714 per person on roads every year – but just 90 cents goes to walking, wheeling and cycling theconversation.com/australia-sp...

New review paper! @1jonevans.bsky.social @pacogarciagonzalez.bsky.social and I ask whether mature sperm cells might actively express genes. Really proud to see this one out - has been a long, difficult journey through much skepticism to publication. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

A Perspective explores the consequences of bypassing natural selection in assisted reproduction—including the filtering of sperm for quality inside the female reproductive tract—and options to mimic such selection to reduce risks to offspring. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Paper just out in which Paco Garcia-Gonzalez and I advocate for useful dialogue between the fields of assisted reproduction and evolutionary biology: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Story here: www.ecolsoc.org.au/news/2024-fu...

Massive congratulations to Tess Jenkins (not yet on bsky) on winning the Fundamental Ecology Award for 2024 @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

@jenkelley01.bsky.social rocking it at #AusEvol2024 with a super speedy flash talk on moth wing colour tricks

MONKEYS Hoarded More Bananas than it could eat,

“Who would have thought that instilling a publish-or-perish culture in scientists while moving to an earn-money-by-the-paper business model for publishers would have led to an explosion of papers?” The strain on #scientificpublishing👇 direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... #academicsky

A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic. www.jstor.org/stable/24923...

ARC says they’ll release the Discovery Projects 2025 outcomes tomorrow. Recently, outcomes announcements have tended to happen at/around 11am Canberra time. My bot will pick up the announcement in RMS’s database and post immediately. Good luck!

A really exciting new study: evidence that males evolve better sight in order to detect female dishonesty in dance flies. One for the textbooks! A male resistance trait! Great one from @rosalindmurray @luc_bussiere @dtgwynne & team academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

So here is a starter pack of African scientists and researchers across disciplines. It will continue to grow as I find more people and more migrate to this platform but gotta start somewhere 😊. go.bsky.app/GixA4xP

‘Neutrality isn’t just a stance’: the Red Cross mission to provide vital aid in areas of conflict

This video will break your heart if you care about nature. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What an utterly wasteful and stressful process. It's almost as if the ARC engineered it this way! I'm holding tight waiting on DP25 outcomes, but already resigned to a very stressful a few days getting DP26 EOI read in time...