Booty bumping is officially a scientific term!!!! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We are calling for Reviews, Commentaries or research papers for our upcoming Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of Reproduction, covering the entire reproductive process, from mate selection, mating and egg-laying or pregnancy through to parental care bit.ly/3ZT42hY

The Plakke lab seeks students for funded M.S. positions in Fall 2026 at Governors State University, focusing on dichotomous sperm in insects. Info session on March 26. Email CV to [email protected]. More info at: https://www.govst.edu. #gradstudent

question to those doing sperm motility analysis. Are there any recent resources/reviews you'd recommend? What software are you using? Thanks

New paper from our lab showing that larvae exposed to thermal stress suffer higher mortality, but for those that survive, there are no long-term effects on reproduction later in life www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌡️🐞 Congrats to @jakobwiil.bsky.social on his first paper from his PhD! 🥳

🧵1/4 We are calling for submissions for our upcoming Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of Reproduction bit.ly/3ZT42hY

Watch Isobel Grieve talk about research published in #BiologyLetters that investigated the effect of temperature stress on male and female reproductive success and offspring fitness in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides: cassyni.com/events/9iJ8J... @izzygrieve.bsky.social

Are you anywhere in the world (other than Canada) and want to do a PhD in my lab in Canada at Queen's University? We have a prestigious scholarship for 3-years of PhD funding. Get in touch, applications due early February. Must love plants and evolution! friedmanlab.ca

An important study maps how nerves control the Drosophila male reproductive tract, revealing two types of glutamatergic neurons that also release serotonin or octopamine. 🔗 buff.ly/3PV2YQW

Sunday read 😍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/PIS49F...

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...

I really need the announcer at the station to stop saying “we’re sorry that your journey will take longer than planned”

📣 PhD opportunity in my lab 📣 We're looking for a motivated student interested in the effects of thermal stress on animal survival and reproduction: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Project is open-ended to allow student to define its direction depending on their interests Please share widely!

I've been running around like a headless chicken all day and am very frazzled, so I am going to eat some popcorn and see if I can muster some thoughts about research culture. (These are not necessarily subtweets of anyone at my institution, I'm just thinking out loud.)

Size does matter for mating success in two species of seed bugs in the wild. #sexualselection #lygaeidae #mating #naturalselection #malematechoice #sicily doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... @opheliasfritsch.bsky.social and Shuker

When we posted this a couple of weeks ago, we had some AI enthusiasts insist that this diagram was the result of poor prompting, or that the prompt that the original poster made was to generate a funny, bad diagram. So we decided to test ChatGPT's capability...

I thought I saw some auks, but it was just a skua flying backwards.

CRE reunion at BoS17! @nalini-drp.bsky.social @martingarlovsky.bsky.social @yazbraimah.bsky.social plus Zee and Stefan.

Looking forward to #BoS2025 tomorrow and when I come back I can harvest this beetroot

Sharing because I'm pretty chuffed with how it turned out. I knitted a bag with strawberries on it for my niece's first birthday. I even managed to line it and add drawstrings.

New account - It turns out that changing your email includes Bluesky sending a verification code to your current address. Unfortunately, mine had expired, so here we are.