We are now recruiting for a 3 year NERC-funded postdoc to study the transmission dynamics of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in migratory birds. Based in the Wild Microbiome Lab @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall.

🔴 PhD advert alert! Want to do a PhD working on ocean protection and restoration in a vibrant research community @exetermarine.bsky.social? Link here!! DM or email me if you'd like a chat about this opportunity :) Please share University of Exeter website: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

👏Our new paper uses #long-term data... 📚Over 1,600 daily movement tracks, 16,000 sentinel observations & 2,000 sleeping burrow returns 🙏HUGE thanks to the 83 research assistants, 12 field managers, 13 MSc students & 5 PhD students who contributed to the datasets. #awesome doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🧵 New paper! We’re excited to release OPTICS: software that immediately predicts color sensitivity from any opsin protein sequence. In other words: give OPTICS any opsin sequence, and it predicts the wavelength of light the pigment is most sensitive to 🌈👁️ academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

Very excited to finally have this out in the world! The first paper from my PhD (and my first first-author publication) makes the case for a new entrant to the world of long-lived animal models: Heliconius butterflies. Out now in @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/10)

Good news! Ministers have finally given green light to new #NaturalHistory GCSE. We’ve campaigned so long for this! Big hats off to tireless advocate Mary Colwell 🙌 Now our young people will have a chance to get to know & love the natural world, to feel awe & wonder, & gain skills to protect it 🌷🌳🦡

⚠️ Students looking for experience, opportunities, Masters, PhDs etc in Animal Behaviour: the @asab.org mailing list is an invaluable source with exciting posts every few days. Sign up here: www.asab.org/mailing-list 📩

🚨 We're hiring computational evolutionary biologists! 🚨 Boosting this - industry evolutionary biology jobs don't come along often, so if you're excited to apply your computational evolutionary biology skills to cutting-edge problems, let's talk! 🧪🧬💻

I am pleased to announce that my submission to ALIFE 2026 has been accepted as a talk. Part of a larger collaboration on “inverse design” for multi-agent motion models, this EvoFlock side project uses a genetic algorithm to tune simulation parameters to meet a behavioral objective function. #ALife

I am recruiting a #postdoc to work on assembling and analyzing #genomes of the amazing Furnariidae. Let’s unlock the secret behind their #evolution. The official application portal will be available soon at www.uno.edu/careers. Feel free to contact me for details at [email protected]

Sexier in the city? Urban male great bowerbirds decorate bowers with human-made objects, creating brighter and more varied displays than rural males. Males strongly prefer human-made objects over natural ones, possibly boosting their appeal to females! shorturl.at/lcNY2 @royalsocietypublishing.org

📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣 We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at [email protected] 🙂 Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

🚨We're hiring again, this time for a research assistant position 🚨 The position is to help with a project looking at learning and social behaviour in birds along an urban gradient Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆28th June deadline More info: shorturl.at/vBxiW #ringing #fieldwork

We are offering a PhD position with the WildBotics project @uni-konstanz.de! Want to join an interdisciplinary research network and use drones and computer vision to study animal behavior, ecology and conservation in Kenya? 🇰🇪🐘 Please apply! Deadline June 21 🧪🌍🌿 Full details: tinyurl.com/yn8jkzcf

Looking for a postdoc to join my group at the NHM London & work on aDNA of dogs/wolves! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

A new study by @grahancock.bsky.social, Innes Cuthill and @jtroscianko.bsky.social used genetic algorithms to show how lighting and habitat geometry shape the evolution of camouflage, altering optimal colours, patterns and countershading in changing environments. plos.io/4uQG2cZ

Out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org - we show that crab spiders (the ones you usually see ambushing pollinators on flowers 🕷️🌸) get worse at hunting if their eyes are covered!🫣 Sounds obvious? It's actually quite surprising, here's why... 👀 (1/8) royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

I’m a bit biased as I’m married to him BUT this will be a great project and a brilliant opportunity for an evolutionary ecologist who values variety (genomics, fieldwork, entomology) and who’d like to live in beautiful North Wales!

New co-author paper. The angle a snake is viewed cnan have a remarkable effect on the camouflage benefits of its patterning! Hoping to follow this up more soon! doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Doctoral student in Biology, with a specialisation in bird migration Lund University - Lund, Sweden Read the full job description and apply⤵️ jobrxiv.org/job/doctoral... #ScienceJobs

Doctoral student in Biology (arthropod color and polarization vision) Lund University - Lund, Sweden Read the full job description and apply⤵️ jobrxiv.org/job/doctoral... #ScienceJobs

There’s a lot of politics in the news at the moment, but this is the vote that really counts: which species will be crowned the UK’s favourite butterfly? 🦋 👑 Have your say at britainsfavouritebutterfly.co.uk

Have you ever thought of all what animals can do when predation is not a big issue? In this review 👉 doi.org/10.1016/bs.a... @maribelrm.bsky.social @juancarvajalcastro.bsky.social and I show how aposematism can be viewed as an “umbrella trait” influencing multiple aspects of its bearers' lives🔴🟡⚫

New pre-print out, how behaviour shapes camouflage evolution for spiders! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article... More evidence of stripes as an effective collision mitigation strategy for wind turbines. This time, a literature review @sjportugal.bsky.social!

Job Alert! I am recruiting a postdoc (and soon a lab tech) to study the functional morphology and biomechanics of walking-like behaviors in fishes at the University of Virginia. Details at: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0.... Ads for postdoc+lab tech on salamander locomotion grant coming soon! 🧪🐟🦎

My Asian giant mantis “Goggles” has reached her 7th instar. Her last one as a nymph.

I am hiring a postdoc for scRNA-seq research in Lund, Sweden on the visual systems of non-model inverts as part of an ERC project on the evolution and ecology of advanced color and polarization vision. Apply here or share the link with someone who may be interested! 🧪 lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

I am hiring a PhD student to join our group in Lund, Sweden working on an ERC-funded project to untangle color and polarization vision in some amazing crustaceans – minute water fleas and pugnacious mantis shrimp! Please forward this to promising students. Apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Where do Finnish reed warblers come from? 🪺🌾 Find out more about Nora Bergman's work on our latest blog post! www.informedbirds.com/blog/Blog%20...

Roll up, roll up! Looking for a postdoc? Want somewhere that's academia adjacent? Interested in seabirds, plastics, and conservation? Come work with me and @adriftlab.bsky.social! If you want to help develop an application, get in touch! #ornithology #seabirds #PhDjobs #PostdocJobs

The BBC News homepage has now COMPLETELY removed its Climate section?! It has now been relegated to a sub-menu via the "More" button in the right-hand corner.

Well this is a big one the largest paper from my PhD is finally out! We show how direct lighting influences optimal camouflage! With shadows promoting the evolution of darker, striped patterns and countershading!! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

And watch this explanatory video made by @grahancock.bsky.social www.youtube.com/shorts/36mEn...

An online game created by researchers at @uniexecec.bsky.social and @bristoluni.bsky.social explains secrets of animal camouflage, like why tigers have stripes ex.ac.uk/ea5

Oh! Our #biomimetic, #aposematic #wind turbine paper is out! @grahancock.bsky.social put together a fantastic short video explaining the study — so if you don’t feel like reading the paper, here’s the nutshell version! @helsinki.fi @behavecol.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg41...

New paper out now! Biologically inspired warning patterns deter a passerine, Parus major, from digital turbine blades academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

Goggles the praying mantis is now at her 6th instar.

🚨 The tetrachromatic color vision and motion vision of a swallowtail butterfly is explored in this wonderful review by Michiyo Kinoshita & Kentaro Arikawa 🦋🦋🦋 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us: 🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦 Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆29th May deadline More info: tinyurl.com/yz28s96x Apply: tinyurl.com/2wpkb64y #cognition #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #birds 🙏Please Share

Are you a computational scientist? Within 7 years of your PhD? Come join us at Lund University! We have two new positions as assistant professor! Deadline: 25th of May. The advert is broad, but this is your chance to push computational neuroscience in a fantastic place! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

This image is just so incredible! Auroras both North and South - i didn’t notice this until I saw Brian May’s posts on Instagram. #Artemis #Earth #Aurora www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Amazing initiative!

Fascinating PhD project on the match between insect sperm and eggs across different insects. Great team too! #PhDAlert #insects www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Spring has sprung. To celebrate I made a few different chocolate nests. Scrapes, bowls and cavity nests.

Showing off my poster for ASAB - Spring

How long do primates live? Come and find me at #ASABSpring2026 poster number 2 to find out about my model (or not if you aren't stats keen!) and how we are investigating the evolutionary causes of primate lifespan 🐒🦧

I have a new PhD position available on any topic related to musicality or animal communication that aligns well with our current research programs. Deadline March 31: oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=795a... For more info about my Musicality and Bioacoustics group: oeaw.ac.at/en/ari/resea...

📣We are recruiting! Postdoc position open in marine #eDNA / #sedaDNA in Copenhagen as part of the Arctic NordForsk #PHATE Research Project. See the link for details 👇 and get in touch if you want to know more. Deadline is on the 6th April 🌊 🧬 Glaciology and Climate - #GEUS #HAB #phycotoxins

🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics! My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026. We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems. #Postdoc #EcoEvo Pls RT!