🥳Excited to share our latest collaborative work using whole-cell models and #AI to design genomes!🦠🧬 What a time to be alive! Project led by Ioana Gherman, with Kieren Sharma, Joshua Rees-Garbutt, Claire Grierson, Lucia Marucci, Wei Pang & Zahraa Abdallah #synbio authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

My new book 'Modelling Evolution' is now published! Please share. Available for free download for 2 weeks with this link: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Exciting news to share! I have started my new role as a Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology / Director of MSc Bioinformatics program at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

NetLogo 7 is here!! ✨New modern UI with dark mode 🔧Performance improvements & new features 👉Download: www.netlogo.org/download 📣 Full announcement: www.netlogo.org/announcements/ #NetLogo #AgentBasedModeling #ABM #ComplexSystems

Arthur Yambayamba's first PhD chapter is out today @biotropica.bsky.social 🍾 Using NFI data from Zambia we explore how climate and competition shape the crown allometries of Miombo woodlands 🌳📐 📜 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Only one week left for active and enthusiastic researchers to join two of our Editorial Board teams! 🪲 📢 Vacancies are open! Why not consider applying? #RESAgForestEnt Commissioning Editor: buff.ly/kCN1Fah #RESPhysEnt Reviews Editor: buff.ly/SJ8h79l Deadlines: 15 September 2025 ⏰

New paper (first work from Bristol!) 'Sulfoxaflor impairs bumblebee memory across moderate and extreme temperatures' @bristolbiosci.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

☀️New Paper!☀️ In @ecol-evol.bsky.social Dwarf mongooses lose body mass in hot weather due to limited behavioural plasticity With top co-authors: @josharbon.bsky.social, Amy Morris-Drake, @juliekern.bsky.social, @andyradford.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71963 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social 🧵⬇️

To be, or not to be, part-time in academia? This is a tricky question that has faced many of us and in @elife.bsky.social we discuss the benefits and challenges of being part-time. With @emiliapsantos.bsky.social and a fantastic, interdisciplinary team! elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Genuinely looking forwards to seeing this one..

Excited to share that we have just been awarded a NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant to work on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins. We will soon advertise a 3 year post-doc to join the team - drop me an email if you might be interested! Pls share widely 🙏🏻

Delighted to see this work out in PNAS. The idea that got me into butterflies, started on it in 2011 but took the intellectual energy of @benitoexplains.bsky.social, and the support of a great team, to develop it and put it all together. Thanks to #NERC @ukri.org for funding 🙏🏻

New from @gadusmo.bsky.social’s PhD thesis 👐🏼 with @dickmerrill.bsky.social, Jake Morris, Camilo Salazar and Carolina Pardo-Díaz ‘Repeated evolution of reduced visual investment at the onset of ecological speciation in high-altitude #Heliconius butterflies’ 1/n 🧪 academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

I still despise Oasis.

“Keep your voice down…”

The Animal Vibration Lab @ox.ac.uk will be at the @royalsociety.org summer science exhibition this week! Sense elephant vibrations, face off with a tarantula, and handle seismic monitoring tools to uncover how vibrations help animals communicate and sense their environment 👇 bit.ly/3FYIhqX

Very excited to say that we are seeking an Assistant Curator to join our entomology team! 😁🪲 For full details on this 2 year fixed-term post, head to our website: ➡️ careers.nms.ac.uk/job/727783 #Entomology #InsectCollection #EntoJobs #MuseumJobs

#InsectWeek event @bristolbiosci.bsky.social was a huge success - over 200 visitors across all ages, some who had even cycled here from other cities, and there was lots of enthusiasm and fascination for the mini-beasts (woodlice, spiders, and ticks also featured!). Thanks to all who came & helped!

This is an awesome idea (www.93percent.club), aimed at fostering state-educated professional networks both in university and beyond - and, I didn't realise it had aptly started here in Bristol. #StateSchoolProud

🎉We are delighted to announce that Professor Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social‬ will be the 3rd Prince Philip Professor of Ecology and Evolution. We look forward to welcoming him next year!

For #InsectWeek head over to us here in the LSB on Tuesday 24 June to discover the amazing world of insects! See these creatures up close, learn about the research, and do some awesome crafting! All are welcome, and it's FREE admission! 12-6pm, Tues 24 June! bristentnet.weebly.com/insect-week

So proud of Beibei Zhang for leading this paper in @newphyt.bsky.social showing how soils & topography shape variation in canopy dynamics across tropical forest landscapes 🌳🔃🌐 Link to 📃: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... A short 🧵

We are looking for a Research Assistant to contribute to our ongoing analysis of dolphin acoustic data from West Wales - collaboration between @wtsww.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social 🐬 Deadline is 29th June - please share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

We've just launched AviList! - the new unified global taxonomic checklist for the world's birds, developed through the Working Group on Avian Classification, including BirdLife, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, IOC and others @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.avilist.org

Next deadline for submitting a proposal for a special issue in @royalsocietypublishing.org #PhilTransB is July 18th. I'm on the editorial board and would highly recommend it as an opportunity for new networks, insights and highlighting your field. Find out more at bit.ly/PTBproposals

Comprehensive Analysis of RFID Performance of the iID BEEscience system https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.03.657638v1

Thank you to Louis and @morethanadodo.bsky.social for the fascinating look behind the scenes at your insect collection for our @bristolbiosci.bsky.social Amazing Insects field course! What a collection! 🫶🏻🦋🪲🪰

Just received my publication-day copy of this lovely (very heavy) book (a revised edition of 2008's 'Animal Life'). It was a pleasure to contribute to both editions, and the new photos (there are lots and lots) are stunning. Well worth purchasing for the young behavioural biologists in your life!

New research in #RESEcolEnt reports the impact of water droplets on tandem running recruitment in a tropical ant🐜 Light rain did not impact the time required to transport all nestmates🔽 doi.org/10.1111/een.13445 @sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wiley.com

🚨Anyone want a job?🚨 We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪 - cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo - bioinformatics and molecular biology Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n

Out now 🎉 The second paper from my Masters published in Scientific Reports! We explored how acoustic noise affects collective behaviour in guppies 🐟 With fab co-authors: Ella Waples, @andyradford.bsky.social, Steve Simpson & @ccioannou.bsky.social 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵1/6

Really enjoyed chatting with @jimalkhalili.bsky.social on the Life Scientific episode that was broadcast this morning. Thank you for having me on. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Very grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk for awarding me a Research Fellowship to continue my work on dolphin communication and social cognition 🙏 @researchdolphin.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Excited to share that my first research article is now out in iScience: “Weak anthropogenic electric fields affect honeybee foraging” www.cell.com/iscience/ful... Huge thanks to my co-authors and supervisors for their support throughout! #pollinators #bees #ecology #electrosensory #beeresearch

Royal Society has elected @icouzin.bsky.social as a Fellow in recognition of contributions to research on animal collectives 🐟🦗🦈🐜 Congratulations to Max Planck Director and Prof @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de, Iain Couzin FRS! @royalsociety.org @maxplanck.de www.ab.mpg.de/679766/news_...

We have several vacancies for our Events Committee, Finance Committee and Membership Committee. Have your say and play a vital role in helping to shape the future of the Society 🪲 📅 Deadline: 31 May - Read more and apply today 🔽

Hi everyone, I am launching a community science scheme "Spider Spies" where we are asking you, to send us pictures and if you're keen and able samples of Misumena vatia, the Flower Crab Spider to investigate their interactions with their host flowers and the invertebrate community around them.

Has anyone here reared thrips in the lab before? I would appreciate a bit of advice. 🌱 #Entomology #Evolution 🌏

Job Opportunity: Lecturer in Ecology and Global Change at University of Leeds. We welcome dynamic applicants from across the world to join our team of tropical ecology and global change scientists. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Exciting news🗞️ - The FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology 🎓 has joined BlueSky 👍 and has set up the 'African Ornithology' feed - please follow @africanornithology.bsky.social and please tag your papers 📝 or other relevant posts with #AfricanOrnithology to appear in that feed.

Did you know about these tiny shiny ants (red arrow) living with wood ants (blue arrow)? They are Shining Guest Ants (Formicoxenus) and we have recently discovered that a wood ant nest can be home to several genetically distinct colonies of these 'guests'! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author... 1/5

Now out in #ProcB 🧪 Ancestral complexity and constrained diversification of the ant olfactory system 🐜 Expertly led by Simon Marty and Antoine Couto, funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk and @agencerecherche.bsky.social 🙏🏻 #socialinsects @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @cnrs.fr

Out in the field, trying to figure out next month's field course.

One more month to the application deadline for a PhD position studying active sensing collectives in the wild with multiple sensors. Do you like this weird mix of animal behaviour, coding, and cool gadgets? Then check out the thread to see what our lab does and more on the position itself!!

Good to see UEA continuing its strength in conservation science with another lectureship vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/14...

📢 We're #hiring 2 lecturers at the University of Reading! I joined last year - happy to answer any questions about the department, University, our *gorgeous* campus, or Reading. 🦂 #Lecturer in Invertebrate #Zoology: lnkd.in/eEwNhF2m 🌱 #Lecturer in Field #Ecology: lnkd.in/eU2MMa7j

Written by our RES members, #RESInsects is a comprehensive exploration of the world of insects, perfect for experts and non-experts, put together in a beautifully illustrated book. We have an exclusive discount code for 10% off for RES Members. Get your copy 🔽 buff.ly/EbvVYZy @dkbooks.bsky.social

Looking for a PhD? I have a fully funded one for UK nationals on engineering gene circuits in probiotic microbes. Will bring together a lot of existing stands of #synbio research in my group and push towards some exciting applications! Start date Sept 2025. Email me if interested! Pls RT

In our latest paper, we describe how the passing-stripe hunting display of the broadclub cuttlefish camouflages the hunting predator during the final moments of the attack. Read more here www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @drmartinjhow.bsky.social @jtroscianko.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

New journal up-and-running that is worth a look at, aimed at considering links between individuals and higher levels of organisation. Looks like it's (currently) diamond💎 open access too.