Join us! 🧬🪰🎉🔬 We are currently advertising two #PhD projects to study the #evolution, #development and #genomics of sexual traits in stalk-eyed flies. Deadline for applying is Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Get in touch for more info!

📣CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!! The next deadline for the #GodfreyHewitt mobility award is 31st January 2026. Open to ECRS in support of research trips or lab visits. For more information, eligibility and how to apply: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...

Phd project on Climate Change Impacts on Sexually Selected Traits, lead by Alison Wright at Sheffield Uni, with supervisor team including @andrewpom.bsky.social and me. Application deadline 7th Jan

🧃☕️ BYOF Seminar | Fri Oct 24 @ 10 am EDT🥛🍹 Bring-Your-Own-Fluid + enjoy 7 min talks about social fluids: 🦈 Viviparity & matrotrophy • Daniel Hughes 🐦 Crop milk • Victoria Farrar 🦂 Sexual stings • Yuqi Reitsema-Wang Email [email protected] for the Zoom link! 🔗 @socialtransfernet.bsky.social

The Hopkins Lab (hopkins-lab.com) at the University of Florida is looking to recruit a postdoc to work on the genetics of organ function and evolution across Drosophila and beyond. Please visit tinyurl.com/vcsjpmzz or email me for more info. And please RT or send to anyone who might be interested!

#ISBE2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your abstract by 15 December 2025 on www.isbe2026.com @behavecol.bsky.social

Exciting news! The next #PopGroup meeting will take place in Lille 🍟, France, 7–9 January 2026 – just 1 hour by train from London, Brussels, and Paris. This year, PopGroup will also host ALPHY, the annual meeting of Evolutionary Genomics. More info: populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk See you there !

From pigeons to foxes—urban jungles are wilder than you think! We’re hyped for our Wildlife in Urban Spaces symposium, kicking off right before #DZG2025 sweeps us into 3 fantastic days of conferencing in Berlin! dzg-meeting.de/en/program/

We’re offering a fully funded 4 yr PhD position to work on Sexual selection in complex environments at the @uv.es. Co-supervised by @dbergerbiol.bsky.social. Find details below 👇

Mike Ritchie emphasising the huge importance of supporting society journals like JEB in his ESEB presidential address, Barcelona. @eseb.bsky.social @eseb2025.bsky.social

This is a big innovation for #eseb2027 not without it's challenges (time zones, currencies, technical delays...) but with potentially HUGE savings in terms of carbon footprint. So well done @eseb.bsky.social, let's embrace the experiment and make the hub concept a success! #eseb2025

Aurelien Tellier presenting the details of #eseb2027 which will be a hub meeting, with connected and local sessions in 4 hubs (Gothenburg, Munich, London, Istanbul) eseb2027.org #eseb2025

Thanks to all of the speakers in this morning's #socialtransfers symposium at #eseb2025! Really diverse and thought-provoking presentations, just what we were hoping for. See you all at the posters / get-together later!

Amazing talk by @jennyperry.bsky.social bringing together signalling theory and socially transferred materials. Keep your eyes peeled for the eventual paper with @steveramm.bsky.social @elvarobinson.bsky.social and myself #ESEB2025 @socialtransfernet.bsky.social

Good morning #eseb2025! Come join us at 10:30 in room 131+132 to hear invited speakers @jennyperry.bsky.social and @berasymbionts.bsky.social plus many excellent contributed talks on #socialtransfers @socialtransfernet.bsky.social @joriskoene.bsky.social @adriatica.bsky.social

Today! #eseb2025

Excited to be on the train to Barcelona for #ESEB2025, where I'll be chairing Symposium 8 on socially transferred materials with @joriskoene.bsky.social, presenting our own research as part of S44 on climate change and reproduction...

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🚨 Exciting news for #ESEB2025! Join us in Barcelona for our symposium: Cooperation, Conflict & the Evolution of Socially Transferred Materials (S08) 📅 Thursday, 21 Aug 2025 🕥 10:30–12:30 | 🕔 17:00–19:00 (Poster Session)

Junior Professorship (CPJ) on "Quantitative and computational approaches to the study of biodiversity" at the ECOBIO lab (UMR 6553 Université de Rennes/CNRS). Official FR job ad at www.univ-rennes.fr/recrutement-... or ask me for the EN version. Please share!

Running a test on the DAFNEE database will only take a few minutes of your time. It's a must-do. 👇

New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6 #AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Dear Zoologists (in Germany)! Before leaving for your extended public holiday weekend... Consider registering for the #DZG2025 to secure the Early Bird fee. Early bird registration is ending soon.

Hello World! The Social Fluids Lab as arrived. ☀️Come to the Socially Transferred Materials symposium at #ESEB2025 in August. Read our preprints: 🦠 doi.org/10.1101/2025... & 🪲 doi.org/10.1101/2024... OR recent papers: 🐜 🍼 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... & 🐜🌱 doi.org/10.1038/s420...

PhD position alert! Fully-funded PhD in my group to work on avian reproductive microbiomes and immunity. Please RT! Deadline June 29th, reach out for more information. #microbiomes #sparrows #spermbiology

Fantastic looking PhD opportunity on the role of oxytocin signalling across different sexual systems with Cristina Lorenzi at LEEC Paris and Virginie Canoine (Vienna)...

PhD opportunity on Oxytocin and social interactions across sexual systems in annelids. Research on the evolutionary conserved role of the “love hormone” at Univ. Sorbonne Paris Nord and Vienna University. Please RT! www-leec.univ-paris13.fr/documents/LE...

🚨 6 DAYS MORE! 🚨 ⏳ Time is tight, but we are giving you one last opportunity: 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐨 #ESEB2025! 🔗 Submit your abstract now: https://eseb2025.com/call-for-abstracts/

Last call for abstracts for our ESEB2025 symposium (deadline: 25th April 2025) Details: eseb2025.com/list-of-symp... ESEB Special Topic Network: www.socialtransfer.net

Applications now open for UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evo Bio (1–6 Sept 2025, Lausanne)! Aimed at PhD students interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology questions like sexual selection, social & life-history evolution. Scholarships available. Pls share! www.shorturl.at/znk5g

Hello World! Are you passionate about epigenomics and evolution 🧪🧬🐭🐵 ? Are you looking for a postdoc in a stimulating and inclusive environment ? Look no further... We are seeking creative postdocs for our ERC project EvoEpi @igred.fr ! 👇Details👇 tinyurl.com/PostdocEvoEp... Repost are appreciated

Abstracts for @eseb2025.bsky.social due next week! Milk, ejaculates, skin secretions, regurgitate, microbes ...our symposium will have it all, with invited speakers @berasymbionts.bsky.social and @jennyperry.bsky.social ...and you? Organised w/ @joriskoene.bsky.social and @wolfnerlab.bsky.social

Reminder that abstracts for ESEB 2025 are due soon, by 25th April. If you work on a socially transferred material such as milk, ejaculates, skin secretions, regurgitate or microbes, please consider submitting to our symposium - we want the full range and amazing diversity of STMs to be represented!

Dr. Jeremias Brand at the University of Basel offers a fully funded 4-year PhD to study Macrostomum flatworm evolution in Africa's Great Lakes. Apply by May 31, 2025. More info: https://jeremias-brand.github.io/ #phd

Join the Jacques Monod Conference on "Evolutionary and Ecological Genomics of Polyploidy in Plants" in Roscoff, France, September 15-19, 2025. Register by May 5,… https://www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/evolutionary-and-ecological-genomics-polyploidy-plants-temporal-dynamics-across-scales-biological #conference

👋 Looking forward to the 117th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society. Please like and share 🤩

Registration for the Simultaneous Hermaphroditic Organisms Workshop (SHOW) in Edinburgh is extended to March 30th. More info: https://show2025.github.io/. No fee; online attendance available. #conference

🚨If you fancy evolutionary genomics, theory, my lab now offers *two* fully-funded #PhD #genomics #popgen #evolution ℹ️One on sex-asex transitions with Christoph Haag bit.ly/4hp1q1A ℹ️One on allele-specific expression with Sylvain Glémin bit.ly/4iuKLuQ Part of #ERC RegEvol In #CEFE lab, Montpellier

Do you work on a socially transferred material such as milk, seminal fluid, skin secretions or regurgitate? Interested in attending ESEB 2025 in Barcelona? Then please consider submitting to our symposium!

Submit abstracts for the ESEB 2025 Symposium on "Cooperation, Conflict and the Evolution of Socially Transferred Materials" by April 25, 2025, in Barcelona. Details: https://eseb2025.com/call-for-abstracts/ #conference

🇫🇷🌳🐛 Offre de thèse : Venez étudiez l'écologie et le comportement du forficule européen dans les vergers ! 🍑🍏 Financement CIFRE - Collaboration entre l'IRBI (CNRS / Université de Tours) et l'AOP Pêches et Abricots de France. Date limite : 14 avril 2025 #Recherche #Écologie #Agriculture

Join the Simultaneous Hermaphroditic Organisms Workshop in Edinburgh on May 7-8, 2025. Register by March 21. Details: https://show2025.github.io/ Contact for Carer's Award info. #conference

Do you think marine evolution #MarEvol is cool? Maybe you were at the 2018 Marine Evolution meeting in Strömstad, Sweden? And surely you'd like us to do it again and organise MarEvol2? Why not in the South of France? Then fill in this questionnaire and spread the word: framaforms.org/my-interest-...

🚨 Are you interested in avian ecology and do you have a BSc or MSc diploma? Then we have an interesting vacancy for you! We are looking for a research assistant to help in the lab and the field with a microbiome study on house sparrows. @melissahrowe.bsky.social nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

Hallo Bluesky! Wir sind die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. #DFG Als Selbstverwaltungsorganisation der #Wissenschaft in Deutschland fördern wir erkenntnisgeleitete #Forschung. Hier erhaltet Ihr Infos u.a. zu Förderangeboten, Ausschreibungen und Anträgen. Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch!

Does anyone have a PDF of Rufus Johnstone's 1997 chapter 'The Evolution of Animal Signals' by any chance?

@eseb2025.bsky.social is shaping up nicely... Full list of symposia now published: eseb2025.com/list-of-symp...

Si vous venez par ici suite au sujet de France Inter, voici un kit de démarrage de chercheurs et chercheuses en écologie et biologie évolutive de France go.bsky.app/HM6CfJ5

Dioecy in a wind-pollinated herb explained by disruptive selection on sex allocation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.07.631798v1

Excellent news! Congrats @amandabretman.bsky.social and team! Delighted to see both STNs I've had the pleasure to be involved in will be represented at @eseb2025.bsky.social Early bird registration opening soon...