🦋 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...

"The statistical fragility of animal cognition findings: a meta-meta-analytic reappraisal" doi.org/10.32942/X2Z...

Our synthesis on patterns of bird diversity and diversification dynamics in South America is available online: books.google.com/books?id=lyi...

“A team led by UC San Diego was able to mass-produce a key pigment, xanthommatin, that occurs in the psychedelic skin of many cephalopods. Until now, xanthommatin has proven impractical to collect from animals or make in a lab.” #scicomm www.sciencealert.com/scientists-r... 🧪 🐙 🦑

"Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🦇Bats in Churches research reveals ancient buildings as vital wildlife refuges: www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/10... . New research from the Bats in Churches partnership project reveals that half of all Church of England churches are home to bats. In older churches that rises to nearly eight in ten.

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j... via @statnews.com

Great paper on bat evolution: An Integrative Perspective on Bat Evolution - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

🚨🦇New paper alert! We integrate information across fields to highlight key traits associated with the diversification of #bats, their roles as evolutionary drivers, and their importance to global ecosystems: An Integrative Perspective on Bat Evolution www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Greater noctule bats prey on and consume passerines in flight | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

So excited to finally share our work on how birds responded to the 2024 Great American Eclipse! Thanks to @rosvall-lab.bsky.social for inviting me on this journey! I never expected any of my research to show up in @science.org, let alone on the cover. Surreal. I hope you enjoy it!

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How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge url: academic.oup.com/jmammal/arti...

Inferential theories are on the rise in cognitive science. But what does it mean to infer? Check out our take on inference across a variety of (neuro)cognitive systems.

This is a helpful guide for students new to the publishing game. A step-by-step guide to getting your manuscript across the finish line, from start to finish. I appreciate how it doesn't assume hidden curriculum and is informed by the author's experience with English not being his first language.