Believe it or not, the owner of these MONSTROUS FANGS is a grass-eater, but they have a friendship with a meat-eating wolf. Meet the gelada, (Theropithecus gelada), native to the Ethiopian highlands. They're called 'bleeding-heart monkey' for the 'cleavage' that turns red in females in estrus.

I like to think it worked out as some sort of "bro code" arrangement where an Ethiopian wolf caught two geladas in the back of a car at the drive-in, and in exchange for his silence, let him crash on the couch & have free use of the refrigerator. Free movie idea, btw, Disney. More here:

Cool paper alert. Was trying to model the thermal performance curves of several farmed seaweed species and ran across this awesome, theoretical unifying paper: “A universal thermal performance curve arises in biology and ecology” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

So, a thread about how I have learned #SEM in #R as a #PhD student in #StatisticalGenetics. I’ve heard SEM be described as a “system of regressions”, but in addition to observed variables, we also have latent/unobserved variables. We can represent these variables in a path diagram (lavaan.org) :

Read the story behind the paper, "energetics link long-term environmental variations to breeding success in a wild penguin population", below 🐧 buff.ly/NO5dogw @bendps.bsky.social

Restoring traditional herding practices in northern #Botswana has led to a huge decrease in cattle predation + retaliatory lion poisonings. More #lion cubs are now surviving, with the lion population in northern Botswana up 50% over the past 4 years. #conservationoptimism

Science writing often describes species like wild pigs and rats as villains destroying ecosystems. But two ecologists argue this storytelling choice misrepresents how nature actually works and can justify harmful treatment of animals. buff.ly/GAhXUcO

I saw this when it was a preprint? They have a unique version of the estimand-estimator-estimates workflow, will be useful for may biologists, not just ecologists. We need more case studies for ecologists to emulate and for norms to shift so "regression and storytelling" becomes unpublishable.

Timeline cleanse: a Japanese photographer beloved by northern WA Indigenous ppl. “The story is not just about Frank and his charisma and his incredible body of work. It’s about the way people uphold his memory and still talk about him 112 years after his death.” www.hcn.org/issues/58-2/...

🦋 The Blueprint of Life PhD Deadline is February 27th 🦋 Fully funded PhD at the UPR, Río Piedras as part of the NSF-funded Blueprint of Life project. Click on the link to learn more! evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi... 📍 Puerto Rico | Genomics | Evolution |

New opening for a 3-year PhD project in 'Seabird Ecology in a Changing Arctic' at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (Tromsø) and the Arctic University of Norway (UiT). Apply before 25 Mar 2026. #seabirdscience @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social nina.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/84-phd-...

I am hiring a research assistant (vampire bats), a Panama fieldwork coordinator (vampire bats), and also considering postdoc apps (social behavior, any species): socialbat.org/2026/02/19/h...

My department at CSU Northridge is hiring a vertebrate functional morphologist! We've got a great EEB group, and we're looking for someone to carry forward a tradition of enriching organismal courses and community-engaged research. App review starts March 15 csucareers.calstate.edu/mob/cw/en-us...

I can’t do this anymore guys, just interpret them however you want I do not care

Periodic reminder that we should avoid testing the Normality of the response variable. For a linear model, what matters is the Normality of residuals (and not that much). Visual checks better than test. #statistics

Essential reading for conservation scientists & ecologists (in fact anyone doing science across borders!) 🌍🧪https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.70227?af=R Remote-control science is an internet-enabled form of "parachute" science FWIW, I see a lot of this in AI and macroecology research

Postdoc @eawag.bsky.social apply.refline.ch/673277/1341/...

How are your shoulders? I hope they haven't got too friendly with your ears. You might want to stand up and do a few gentle shoulder rolls. Maybe a couple of side stretches. Refill your water glass while you're up.

"Oops, Git! How to recover from common mistakes" 🙈 Come learn some Git with me and {saperlipopette} at Workshops for Ukraine! Thursday, March 19th, 14:00 - 16:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone) sites.google.com/view/dariia-... Organized by @dariia.bsky.social 🙏 #RStats

One nice result in the new great tit analysis by @davididiaquez.bsky.social et al. is a lovely illustration of Simpson's paradox: within cohorts of great tits, mass increases as birds get older, but across cohorts the population trend is in the other direction www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This month's Funk lecture from @biogeography.bsky.social will be given by Juan Pablo Quimbayo. Sign up soon!

Check out my first ever paper! @kecain.bsky.social @ecostanley.bsky.social and @jgmussoi.bsky.social summarised our knowledge on sleep disturbance in birds

Eawag 2-year postdoc fellowship in Switzerland. Funding for Independent projects hosted in one of the research departments… come join us in Switzerland 🇨🇭! apply.refline.ch/673277/1335/...

Even when it seems that nothing is working, that you're not advancing, you are. You grow every day. Just remember, growth is not linear 🥰 #MondayMotivation buff.ly/kpAOHXW #AcademicSky #ECRchat #WomeninSTEM #AcWri #Postdoc #NewPI

Read the full article here journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Uppsala University seeks an Assistant Professor in Biology (Ecology, Genetics, Organismal Biology, Cell Biology). Apply by 11 March 2026. More details: https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/jobs-and-vacancies/job-details?query=893394 #job

Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen is hiring: Senior Research Assistant in Plant Ecology

Great postdoc opportunity in Sweden!! With the one and only David Wardle 🧪🌐 www.umu.se/en/work-with...

Bayesian Workflow by Andrew Gelman, Aki Vehtari, @rmcelreath.bsky.social with @danpsimpson.bsky.social, @charlesm993.bsky.social, @yulingy.bsky.social, Lauren Kennedy, Jonah Gabry, @paulbuerkner.com, @modrakm.bsky.social, @vianeylb.bsky.social (in production, estimated copy-editing time 6 weeks)

In my ongoing attempts to give you a break from *gestures widely* THE HORRORS: Let's talk about the utterly bizarre science of cats' purring. Here's a weird starting point: There are NO cats (Felidae) that can BOTH roar AND purr. Cats that roar = genus Panthera Cats that purr = genus Felis

Expressions of interest: Director at MPI EvolBio (f/m/d) — We invite expressions of interest from distinguished scientists in evolutionary biology with a bold, long-term research vision that complements our Institute. More information: www.evolbio.mpg.de/3856225/Dire...

Universitat Heidelberg is hiring: Full Professorship (W3) for “Modeling of Biological Processes”

Exploring biological questions in new theoretical ways Thank you for joining us at the first day of the 'Expanding the Palette of Mathematics in Biology' workshop! We look forward to returning tomorrow to continue our discussions

🌍 New research outlines a global recovery plan for martens, wolverines, fishers & other Guloninae species. By synthesizing expert data from Asia to the Americas, researchers identified Climate Change as the #1 global threat to these sensitive species. 🦊🧪 🔗

BIRDBASE, a new publicly available dataset, brings together "ecological and life history traits for 11,589 bird species across 254 families." #ornithology

Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum is hiring: Postdoc – Bioinformatics / Computational Biology

🚨 PhD offer (please share) Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species Deadline: 20 Feb 2026 Starting: June 2026 Supervision: Martins Briedis & me Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh

Two permanent Associate Professor positions in botany at the excellent University of Gothenburg! Open to international candidates. Cryptogams: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103... Vascular plants: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103... @naturvetenskap.bsky.social

I absolutely agree.

Read this month's Editors' choice paper, Seasonal increase in blood serum osmolality reflects environmental harshness in the striped mouse: a decade-long field study by Carsten Schradin & co journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Join the online course "DNA Methylation in Ecology and Evolution" from April 20-24. Learn to analyze DNA methylation data applied to ecological contexts. More info: https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/dnamethylation/ #course

New #RSOS paper: Desert #lizards modulate nutritional responses to match seasonal biological needs. Read more: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Polar bears 🐻‍❄️ do not eat when pregnant and nursing, making it essential to build up fat reserves prior to birthing. So how do polar bears fare under climate change when shrinking ice sheets limit their ability to hunt? Find out in this #ConPhysinAction piece by Ghizlane Banousse (link below) ⬇️ 🧵

I'm hiring postdoc in my lab to work on temporal dynamics of sorghum root microbiome assembly! This position is funded by the Moore Foundation through UGA, and would be perfect for someone finishing up their PhD this spring. Details here: chunglab.franklinresearch.uga.edu/join-lab

Life-history and ecological variables as drivers of the evolution of avian innate immune defences #ProcB #OpenAccess #Immunology #Physiology royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Deadline extended! 🎉 You now have until 31 Jan to submit a Thematic Session proposal for NSO-GfÖ 2026 (14–17 Sept, Odense). Got an ecological topic you think deserves the spotlight? We want to hear it. 💡🌿 Guidelines: vist.ly/4nbus Submit: vist.ly/4nbuv

Riverside super bloom with desert wishbone, fiddlenecks and popcorn flowers #NativePlants

Hear ye! Hear ye! We discovered that the link to scholarship application guidelines was broken so it’s been extended to Feb 9! Do you work with vertebrates in the west? Are you a student at a university in the west? We would love to learn about your research!! thesnvb.org/scholarship-...