📢 We’re hiring! We’re looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to join our team at @funcagroeco.bsky.social The position focuses on how collaborative agri-environment measures affect multiple taxa and ecosystem services. See: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/vacancy+f...

Ants 🐜 are my first scientific love, so this week’s post is a reminder of the little creatures that run the world! Ants are dominant predators, herbivores, and ecosystem engineers around the planet. We couldn’t live without them. And they’re also beautiful! @zoologymuseum.bsky.social

It’s LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ History Month, so let’s celebrate diversity in nature. Our penguin 🐧 and giraffe 🦒 both represent animal groups famous for their same-sex relationships and behaviour. If you want to learn more about non-binary nature, come on one of our tours @zoologymuseum.bsky.social

New PhD alert! We'll be applying animal welfare ideas to look at how stress affects bees, looking at the effect on bee brains with @lenariab.bsky.social, and working with @sensibee.bsky.social developing new monitoring methods. Please spread the word! #bees #PhD 🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

My first queen 🐝 of the year, foraging hard in the beautiful @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social also carrying lots of lovely Parasitellus mites who will help keep her nest clean once she founds it

Someone had punting plans this morning

Natural history museums can remind us of what we have lost, and thus amplify and empower conservation of species that still exist. This case shows the original ‘penguin’ - the Great Auk - and the iconic Dodo 🦤 - both of which were driven to extinction by Homo sapiens @zoologymuseum.bsky.social

This week’s museum specimen is our narwhal skeleton (Monodon monoceros). As the scientific name suggests, this animal should have one tusk, but ours has two! I wonder what this meant for it when it was alive, before it ended up in our Museum 🤔

Everyone needs breakfast

My weekly Museum post - this week is cleaning week, to make sure our specimens, particularly the skeletons, are dust-free. Expert work being done by Kane and Bethany - not sure I should be trusted with a duster yet 🤣 @zoologymuseum.bsky.social

🐜 4-year #postdoc position in the @socialfluids.bsky.social lab @camzoology.bsky.social investigating metabolic cooperation between bodies in a BBSRC-funded project. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc... #ants #socialtransfers #sociallytransferredmaterials #autophagy #socialinsects #aging #job (🧵1/n)

In honour of my new job as Director of the University Museum of Zoology at Cambridge University, this is the first of a series of weekly posts celebrating our amazing collection. And what better to start with than the Fin Whale, who will welcome you when you come to visit! @zoologymuseum.bsky.social

First ever evidence that multi-actor collaborative conservation produces biodiversity benefits (as far as I know) doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Legal rights for stingless bees! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We present: The Art of #InverteFest - December 2025 Edition A digital art book showcasing the work of 100 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna. Thank you to the artists who contributed to our book! Download: drive.google.com/file/d/1JCXz... #Art #SciArt

🎄 Celebrating Christmas Eve's #InsectAdvent order: #Strepsiptera, bizarre & brilliant parasites, and RES mascot since 1833. Their morphology & history mean they’re rarely seen. Many entomologists describe them as one of the strangest insect orders. 🔗 buff.ly/U7pmiwX

Last call! We're hiring 👉 Invertebrate Paleontology Collection Manager 📌 Apply by Jan 5, 2026 This position will manage the extensive collections, conduct fieldwork, participate in public outreach & pursue external funding. 🔸 Full info + application: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/inver...

A young PI here in Mainz has a fabulous PhD position that will be filled soon! By you? Keywords: Social insects, ageing, gene expression. www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-evoluti...

We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab. biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... Deadline January 15th!

For the Aussies, the zoologists and the architects out there. 💩🧊🧪 By @chazhutton.com

The 2026 Guarda Summer Course in Evolutionary Biology is now accepting applications. Amazing place, amazing course, amazing opportunity for early grad students. tb.ethz.ch/education/gu...

Thrilled to announce a Postdoc opportunity in our group on the evolutionary genetics and ecology of colour. Wonderful system, great collaborators, and room to shape your own ideas. Apply by 7 Jan: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...

Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity. Apply here no later than February 11 2026: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1

🚨 Tenure-track professorship at Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany, with a focus on evolutionary ecology of social hymenoptera 🐝🐜 Initially for 6 years: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/pr...

Come work with us! 🪲For our new project bAImo we are searching for a PhD researcher combining modelling 💻 with ecological expertise, aiming to improve interdisciplinary approaches to insect monitoring 🔎🐝 please visit tinyurl.com/bAImo-PhDoffer for more details. Looking forward to your application 🦗😊

After seeing loads of dead sand dollar tests in my life (for which I already feel lucky), it was a joy to see a live one today doing its thing on Manuel Antonio beach in Costa Rica

Heather nectar metabolites reduce within-colony epidemics of the bumblebee parasite Crithidia bombi showing that anti microbial compounds in nectar are effective at improving bee health at colony levels. @rbgkew.bsky.social @markjfbrown.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Please share 📢 We have a Postdoc position available here @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social to develop innovative genetic control strategies for insect agricultural pests in collaboration with @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/19...

Permanent Research Group Leader Position, Crete, Greece: Interested to assume long-term responsibilities for the Biodiversity Computing Group www.biocomp.gr I have set up in Crete? Apply now via apella.minedu.gov.gr/en/node/5998 (PDF also in English) - for questions email to [email protected]

We're looking for a new colleague at Asssoc Prof level! Come join us in the Zoology Department at Stockholm University. A teaching profile in ecology, faunistics and/or physiology is beneficial. Find the full job advertisemnt here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Feeling emotionally overwhelmed after spending the morning with hundreds of nesting Olive Ridley Turtles at Playa Ostional 😍

I have to correct this post - they are green turtle tracks. Which is still amazing 🤩 And the lesson is, always speak to an expert 😉

Today’s beautiful stingless bees - Scaptotrigona pectoralis

A leatherback turtle came to nest last night #besttracksever

The best kind of thirst trap

We wondered why these dragonflies were so insecure about egg-laying, until a frog surged forth! (Sadly not caught on camera) [Monteverde, Costa Rica]

🚨RA/PhD position available in evolutionary neurobiology 🚨 Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social - employment benefits - 4 years funding - 1000% fun Deadline: 14/1/2026 Details: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Biggest stingless bee nest entrance I’ve ever seen! [normal-sized adult male hand for scale]

Inspiring to find community #pollinator conservation at work at Lake Arenal, Costa Rica

📢Two fully-funded #PhD opportunities to work with us: Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6 NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork

I made a friend 😍 #socialinsect of the day #stinglessbee

How to make them happy - count the birds 😍

#socialinsect of the day - beautiful Nasutitermes #termites look at the soldiers with their beautiful nozzle heads!

New PhD position available! For applicants keen to combine evolutionary ecology, neuroscience and animal cognition. Based at UCL with me, @maxreuter.bsky.social, @fcamus.bsky.social and Tamara Boto (Bristol). Directly funded, see here for details and eligibility: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

@waspwoman.bsky.social you asked for more, so here is today’s beautiful wasp nest, from Arenal Volcano National Park, CR🇨🇷 any ideas on genus/species? 🙏

A rather epic (albeit exceedingly nerdy) natural history highlight - this is how fast a sloth moves when it has to go down to the ground for its weekly poo - so lucky to see this 🤩

Ok, back to insects! What a lovely wasp nest - @waspwoman.bsky.social any idea on species? It was about the size of a 🎾

Honorary invertebrate of the day (I know, but it’s so adorable) 3-toed 🦥

And a beautiful bullet ant (Paraponera clavata) 😍🐜

Lovely Atta cephalotes 🍃 ✂️ 🐜 with hitchhikers to ward off the phorid flies at La Selva