Ecoacoustics for context‐rich direct and indirect trophic interaction data and ecological network construction - Dawson - Methods in Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📖 Published! Ecoacoustics for context-rich direct and indirect trophic interaction data and ecological network construction This paper offers a scalable, cost-effective tool for identifying species interactions, biomonitoring and constructing trophic networks🌍🐐 🔎

Forget describing new species, how often are we adding new genera, families, orders, and classes? New higher-order clades are often "hidden" as symbionts or in less-accessible habitats

Evolution of long distance communication in mammals: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Birds That Don't Exist: Niche Pre‐Emption as a Constraint on Morphological Evolution in the Passeroidea - Chia - 2026 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Well damn, this is cool. Birds That Don't Exist: Niche Pre-Emption as a Constraint on Morphological Evolution in the Passeroidea | Chia et al., 2026 | Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

📢NEW paper alert 📖How #aggression between groupmates can have lasting consequences both for #cooperative #behaviour & responses to #intergroup threats: doi.org/10.1016/j.an... 👑Led by @josharbon.bsky.social #fieldwork #experiments #mongooses #mammals #bioacoustics @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

New article out exploring great ape name recognition! We find partial evidence that zoo-living chimps & bonobos know each other's names 👀 Huge thanks to Animal Behavior and Cognition (a great open-access journal) & co-authors for your collaboration!🎉🐵 unsvr1.com/web/abc/work...

Our internal organs are evolutionary marvels. New technologies are transforming our understanding of the evolution of vertebrate organs. You can find more by reading here: rdcu.be/e5EgU #EvoBio #EvoDevo 🐟🦎🐢🦇🐊🦜

🦇 evolution is an amazing feature of life Biodiversity don’t let human greed f*** this up

Social calls of pipistrelles contain a lot more information than we think. My review of my 2025 recordings offers up some thoughts and focus for future research. 🦇

New paper out with Nicole Lopez showing that predation risk, male horn size, and female territoriality drive the evolution of and investment into female horns! "Territoriality, sociality and male weaponry shape horn investment in female bovids": academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

Our BehaveAI paper has just come out! Easy & effective tracking & behavioural classification, even with tiny (2px), fast moving, camouflaged objects. Paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour... Download: github.com/troscianko/B... @uniexecec.bsky.social @kevinjgaston.bsky.social @jimamclgalloway.bsky.social

The last chapter of my PhD is finally out !!!! In the same species, on neighboring islands, we see radically different warning colors emerge. Evolution in action: Selection-driven color variation in the aposematic strawberry poison frog, Oophaga pumilio: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

🦋 New research challenges the Temperature-Size Rule and highlights climate change’s potential to profoundly reshape butterfly life cycles, population dynamics, and ecological interactions. 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/zFrpO7t

Vocal convergence during formation of social relationships in vampire bats url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

“Before the middle ear and its associated 'tympanic' hearing abilities, animals relied on bone-conducted sound, where nerves carry signals from vibrations in the jawbone to the brain.” #scicomm #fossil www.sciencealert.com/250-million-... 🧪 🦊

🧪Before the day begins, meerkats share a unique ritual. After emerging from their burrows, they spend up to an hour "sunning" to warm up for the day. During this quiet time, they produce soft, tonal "sunning calls". Just standing, sunbathing, and calling. But why❓ #bioacoustics #meerkats #kalahari

Check out our new blog post!🚨 Authors provide an overview of the animal2vec framework, including its capabilities and potential for usage in animal behavior, ecology, and conservation research 🔊 🌍 🧪 Read more here👇

Head-direction cells as a neural compass in bats navigating outdoors on a remote oceanic island | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Is speciation usually allopatric? Genomic analyses of 93 Drosophila species pairs show that gene flow during divergence is common—even among allopatric species—challenging the classic allopatric model of speciation. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

Last week I had the privilege of speaking with @auersperga.bsky.social and @biotay.bsky.social about a very talented cow. She's called Veronika, she's fabulous and she's currently getting a lot of well-deserved attention. Here's my piece for @iflscience.com: www.iflscience.com/we-didnt-eve...

Illegal miners have forced Peru’s oldest environmental research station to suspend work | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Variation in sexual signals and defensive strategies elicits receiver-dependent shifts in attractiveness url: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Representation in science matters www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New study alert! Sexually selected vocalizations of Greater Mouse-Eared Bats We recorded male Myotis myotis in mating roosts and found complex vocalizations with an individual signature and pronounced seasonal variation. Check it out! 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Un 31 de diciembre muere, 🖋️ Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813-1894) Escritora y naturalista estadounidense, autora del fascinante, 📖 Diario rural. Apuntes de una naturalista Obra en el origen de la #Literatura sobre naturaleza, sostenibilidad y ecologismo, adelantada en 4 años al famoso Walden de Thoreau.

Scientists tracking the behavior of nine northern resident orcas off the coast of British Columbia observed the killer whales seemingly coordinating with Pacific white-sided dolphins to hunt salmon. https://wapo.st/4pvoH6R

Landscape factors influencing predation on capercaillie nests by two competing mesopredators: pine marten and red fox vist.ly/4hxz4 #NestPredation #Capercaillie #Marten #Fox

Domestic cat communication. Cool paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join us for our annual lecture on 16 December! We will delve into the wonders of animal seismic senses, from spider webs to elephant rumbles, with Dr Beth Mortimer 🐘🕷️ 16 December 17:15, in the Life and Mind Building, Oxford & online 👇 www.biology.ox.ac.uk/event/biolog...

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

taxonomy 101: whales are not fish taxonomy 201: whales are hoofed animals taxonomy 301: whales are fish

Now out in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social Tetrapod vocal evolution reveals faster rates and higher-pitched sounds for mammals 🐘🦉🐸. Mammalian hearing likely allowed the rapid diversification of their vocalizations. Open access here: doi.org/10.1093/evol... #bioacoustics #animalcommunication

Lots of great new OA 🦇 research 📄 published recently that provide valuable insights into different aspects of bat responses to natural and man-made elements of the #environment. Whilst these may not seem particularly "exciting" they provide crucial evidence to aid bat conservation. 🧵 below

Mind-blowing new paper just out! 🧪 A research team used #Gaia to create the most detailed 3D census to date of OB associations within ~1000 ly from the Sun. Result? 🔭 57 groups of massive stars — twice as many as we knew before — that were born together and are now slowly drifting apart. 1/4

It’s time to publish responsibly! (And has been for a while, quite frankly...) To help you do so, @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social and coauthors have put together a handy database of academia-friendly journals, DAFNEE. You can read about it in their article just out in @jevbio.bsky.social.

Dimming streetlights in urban areas reduces insect attraction but pipistrelle bats forage more in darkness 🦇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too! preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵 Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/9

Short- and long-term costs of reproduction revealed by telomere dynamics in wild greater horseshoe bats www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Fascinating story about evidence that #H5N1 #birdflu infected vampire bats in South America, raising the prospect of a potential new & dangerous host for the virus. Some good news: The virus didn't appear to spread well among the bats. By @martinenserink.bsky.social. www.science.org/content/arti...

🐘 New research - Large herbivores are linked to higher herbaceous plant diversity and functional redundancy across spatial scales ➡️ buff.ly/zqRgqqo @jonastrepel.bsky.social @joe-atkinson.bsky.social @andrewabraham.bsky.social @jessekalwij.bsky.social @jcsvenning.bsky.social @econovoau.bsky.social

Cool work, birds disperse truffles www.cell.com/current-biol...

Writing a good cover letter used to be an “honest signal” — costly and likely indicative that you can do the job. Now that it isn’t, what will replace it? In the short term term probably individual networks, but that’s not scaleable to large organisations

Beavers create habitats for bats and support endangered species phys.org/news/2025-11...

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New OA 🦇 research 📄 Very cool study using the latest miniaturised technologies to study bat #behaviour in #ALAN Wild bats hunt insects faster under lit conditions by integrating acoustic and visual information www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

🐜New study provides the first examination of social immunity in a supercolonial ant subject to attack by a specialist pathogen. The study directly manipulates the nest template to see how space shapes the outcome of social immune behaviours ➡️ buff.ly/NulFOSb

New paper! We propose a framework to empirically study animal social relationships by modelling social network (SN) data as time-series—that is, without the need to aggregate them over time. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...