"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.

Leading scientists from around the world will come together to unravel the early steps of #multicellular #evolution and address key questions: 🦠❓🧬 ✅ Can we identify universal principles of #multicellularity and/or fundamental differences intrinsic to each lineage?

It isn't April first anywhere in the world is it? Because reading the news about Trump's visit to South Africa just blows my mind it's just incredible... What world are we living in?!

Many ectotherms deposit eggs within a nest cavity. This study leverages 14y of data and shows that ecological variables within wild nests interact with maternal effects over tiny spatial scales to have predictable influences on phenotypes of newborns. doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Terebiznik et al.:

Adaptation for background matching to avoid predation has allowed the invasion of a drastically different environment in intertidal fishes: from water to land. Yet social signalling with conspicuous colour was constrained following this transition: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Shizhi and Ord:

Very proud to announce that the Bayesian version of our Phylogenetic Path Analysis method has been (finally) published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution. Another extremely enjoyable collaboration with the brilliant @achazhardenberg.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🐦Post-doctoral position in Avian Behaviour.🐦 Examining the evolution of escape behaviour in threatened bird species as part of an ARC-funded project Deakin Careers: careers.pageuppeople.com/949/cw/en/jo... Seek: www.seek.com.au/job/83533248

Charles Darwin's archive has been recognised on the UNESCO International Memory of the World Register, which protects invaluable records that tell the story of human civilisation. www.linnean.org/news/2025/04...

🧪 Our Terminated NSF Grant Tracker is live 🧪 🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far 🔴 Cancelled grants focused on → Training scientists → Misinformation → AI → Climate change Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info. Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

En ciencia, igual

Add this to your reading list! A must-read for anyone interested in or studying animal behavior and ecology.

La SCEE a besoin de votre aide ! Le fonds d’équité de la SCEE aide à envoyer des étudiants/postdoctorants en difficulté financière à notre rencontre annuelle. En ces temps difficiles, les besoins dépassent nos ressources. Aidez un étudiant/postdoc en faisant un petit don ici : gofund.me/ac98009f

¿Te interesa formar parte de un espacio de encuentro para ecólogos latinoamericanos? Únete a la conversación sobre los retos y desafíos de la ecología en la región. 📅 Regístrate aquí 👉 sites.google.com/view/elac202... #EcologíaLatinoamericana #ColoquioEcología #CienciaLatAm

CSEE needs your help! The CSEE equity fund helps send students/postdocs in financial need to our annual meeting. Unfortunately in these difficult times, the need exceeds our resources. Please help a student/postdoc by making a small donation here: gofund.me/ac98009f

I'd also ask the same thing...! We need your best papers! If you're all going to the conferences of these societies, happy the prices aren't much higher, happy to see funding for students/caregivers/etc then remember ALL these wonderful programs are funded by society journals!!

Would anyone blame them if they said “hell no” to that?

Are you looking out for a #PhD on #seabirds? *New* competition-funded project to understand and share biologging data to reduce consenting risk from offshore wind farms. Exciting collaboration with @olliepadget.bsky.social and @naturalengland.bsky.social (1/3)

Come work with me! #sparrows #microbiomes #reproduction

The first many-analysts study in ecology is finally published! 🥳🙌 300+ coauthors and 5+ years, this was a massive effort by @elliotgould.bsky.social Hannah Fraser Tim Parker and co. Open access 👉 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Is that surprising?

A bit late with this but my MSc student’s paper is now in @sse-evolution.bsky.social Evolution of Parental Care in extant bird species

Disculpen pero el verdadero golfo de America es Trump!

📣 We are recruiting! Please spread the word! We look to hire an associate professor in animal ecology, specializing in evolutionary ecology. Apply by Feb 7 2025. Come join us in Uppsala, Sweden! Application page and contact info 🔗👇 #ecology #evolution #job www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Le gouvernement Legault refuse de freiner temporairement l’exploitation des « ressources naturelles » sur les territoires visés par des projets d’aires protégées présentés par des groupes citoyens en réponse à l’ appel lancé par le ministre de l’Environnement. @snapquebec.bsky.social 🌎🌐

🎁 New Era at Ecosistemas Celebrates Its First Birthday! 🎂 💚 Submit your great work for a great experience —free for both authors and readers! 🎉 @ibartomeus.bsky.social @laurahmt.bsky.social

Very proud of my MSc student Pablo Lavaniegos who defended his thesis yesterday. Graduated with honours and his work published in Evolution.

"Overall, Black and Hispanic faculty received 7% more negative votes from college committees and were 44% less likely to receive unanimous “yes” votes than their white and Asian colleagues." - Kate Langin, Science www.science.org/content/arti... #AcademicSky #PhDsky

Cooking home made pizza listening to Tragically Hip 🍁 Canadian ex-pat

Happy Evolution Day! Today's the 165 anniversary of the initial publication of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" - and this is a page from his notebooks. 🧪

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

Great to see this alternative community coming together. Look forward to meeting more and more colleagues here!

Three (!) positions as Assistant Professor in #Biodiversity We hope to get one to our department #biogeography A super recruitment within Life sciences. Maximum of 7 since PhD 🌍🧪 #biodiversity #academic #climatechange #lifescience #ecology #StockholmUniversity Please re-🦋 www.su.se/english/news...

First post in bluesky looking for #evolutionarybiology #ecology #macroevo/eco to follow suggestions welcome!