We are delighted that our Winter Meeting 2025 in Leuven 🇧🇪 is approaching! Abstract submissions now open: www.iussi-nweurope.org/meetings Date: December 18-19 Abstract deadline: October 15 Host: Laboratory of Socioecology and Social Evolution at KU Leuven Plenary: Ido Pen & @rmash.bsky.social

Next year's European Congress of Entomology in Tours (France) 👇

🚨 PhD alert! IMPRS brain & behavior in Bonn just opened their calls for applications. Great PhD funding opportunities. Check it out! PS- I just joined their faculty, meaning you could do a rotation in my lab or even a PhD with me on spider sleep 🙃 Apply! 🚨

🚨 Postdoc opportunities! 🚨 We’re looking for postdocs in 🌿 biodiversity science, 🧬 genetic indicator assessment, and 📊 ecological statistics. Join us in unraveling the drivers & consequences of global change on biodiversity — and be part of a supportive & collaborative environment! DL 24 September

Job alert! We're looking for a Scientific Data Applications Specialist (m/w/d) 80-100% 📢 👉 Are you interested? Find all necessary information here: apply.refline.ch/673277/1287/...

3.5-year #Postdoc position on avian microbiomes and reproduction @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @niooknaw.bsky.social on a fully-funded ERC project focused on understanding the significance of reproductive microbiomes for host biology and fitness. Reach out for more info! nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

Attention #Behaviour2025 ! Can’t wait for the next conference? Good news, the deadline for abstracts for #ASABWinter2025 has been extended !

📌North-West European IUSSI Winter Meeting 2025 We are happy to announce that our next meeting on the 18–19 December 2025 will be in Leuven, Belgium, hosted by @twenseleers.bsky.social and his team. Plenary speakers: Ido Pen & Rahia Mashoodh @rmash.bsky.social More details to follow 🐝🐜🪳🪲

The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology doi.org/10.32942/X24...

With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!

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

Interesting (moderne) discussion of E. O. Wilson's Sociobiology: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📢 Don't miss out on this opportunity to join the @royentsoc in Glasgow this September for #Ento25 🪲 300+ insect scientists from across the globe are attending to celebrate the innovative research surrounding the little things that run the world 🔽 buff.ly/FiCiHj8 @unistrathclyde.bsky.social

We know it’s the middle of August ☀️ , but don’t forget to start thinking of winter and #ASABWinter2025 !! ❄️ ⛄️ ❄️☃️❄️

Continent-wide differentiation of fitness traits and patterns of climate adaptation among European populations of Drosophila melanogaster doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Esra Durmaz Mitchell et al. Drosophila melanogaster

Today, at #ESEB2025 👇

SORTEE Meet-up at @eseb2025.bsky.social – Barcelona Come connect with fellow ESEB attendees who share an interest in open, reliable, and transparent evolutionary biology. 📅 Wednesday, 20 August (tomorrow!) 🕜 1:30 PM 📍 Expo Area – look for @tomratz.bsky.social and @eivimeycook.bsky.social

**SORTEE Meet-up at #ESEB2025 – Barcelona** Come connect with @sortee.bsky.social members and fellow ESEB attendees who share an interest in open, reliable, and transparent evolutionary biology. 📅 Wednesday, 20 August 🕜 1:30 PM 📍 Entrance foyer, Expo Area – look for the SORTEE t-shirts!

For people going to ESEB - this will be Wednesday afternoon!

Applications for Winter 2025 conference attendance grants are trickling in, awarding up to £500 with a high success rate (if eligible). Deadline isn't until 1st October, but don't forget to get referee statements in by then too! All the info you need is here: www.asab.org/conference-g... @asab.org

New preprint about open science in eco-evo! We sampled 110 journals, 550 articles, and assessed whether data and code are accessible: (1/5) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... #ScientificPublishing #OpenScience #ecology #conservation #EvolutionaryBiology #paleobio #systematics #archeology

I'm very excited to share the central paper from my PhD out now in Science Advances. We investigated how social effects among neighbors shape the evolution of reproductive cooperation and the pace of adaptive population growth among the Indigenous Tsimane of Bolivia. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Passive debris cloaking in beetles provides non-visual camouflage against predatory ants #Insect #PredatorDefense doi.org/10.1093/behe...

The registration deadline is rapidly approaching (August 18th). Be sure to register - spaces are limited!! @kokkonut.bsky.social @unimainz.bsky.social

Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job

Connect with #SORTEE members and fellow Open Science enthusiasts at #ESEB2025 in Barcelona!

🚨 Lecturer in Animal Ecology position @jcuofficial.bsky.social. Candidates with expertise in terrestrial animal ecology are encouraged. 📍 Townsville, AU Closes: 8th Aug 2025 🔗 careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...

The ESEB STN workshop on dispersal and mating systems has started in the Italian Piemonte

My interview with @horizons-en.bsky.social about our paper in Behavioral Ecology with P-O Montiglio:

Save the date! The next ISBE Congress will take place 20–24 July 2026 in Turin.

In our new paper we discuss the coevolution of cognition and sociality (link: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...). It was a pleasure to work on this project with Andoni Sergiou, @josharbon.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social, @shoalgroup.bsky.social, and @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social!

PhD position open with Dr. Jutta Schneider and @mherberstein.bsky.social in Hamburg, on sub-social behavior in crab spiders 🕷️ It even includes field work in Australia! Application deadline is 15 July, more info at the link: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

In about a week we (Biological Sciences @ Monash Uni in Melbourne, Australia) will be opening a search for 3 (!!!) permanent academic positions (40% research, 40% teaching, 20% service) at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer. 1 Genomics, 2 Ecology. Please share, email me, DM, follow, send carrier pigeons…

We like big beetles and we cannot lie! 👀🪲 Meet the biggest beetle in the world, Titanus giganteus - also known as the Titan beetle. Measuring up to 17cm long, this is one absolutely enormous beetle!

I recently gave an interview for the SNSF magazine about the fascinating world of black widow spiders. Here it is! 🕷️🕸️🦗 www.horizons-mag.ch/2025/06/05/h...

Nice illustration (and review paper) summarising the ecosystem services provided by spiders 👇

🎉 Our new paper is out in Evolution! We show how sexual selection shapes heat tolerance in Drosophila prolongata. Males evolved under sperm competition suffer more under heat stress. Led by @adenardo.bsky.social with @StefanLupold lab members. academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... #sexualSelectio

Looking for a PhD project on sexual selection? Join us at UZH! Application deadline: 9 June 2025. jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Hoje despedimo-nos de Sebastião Salgado, extraordinário fotógrafo da humanidade. Em Portugal, logo após o 25 de Abril, documentou a esperança e a liberdade recém-conquistada — as imagens a preto e branco correram o mundo a contar a nossa história. 1/2

We're looking for TWO lecturers (in Conservation Biology & Evolutionary Ecology) to join us in this beautiful corner of the world! Come join our pretty awesome (if I do say so myself!) department! 💚 @zoologyotago.bsky.social otago.taleo.net/careersectio... otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

Available PhD position in out Department in Zurich, on the ecology of predator-prey interactions 👇

Are you interested in predator-prey interactions and movement ecology? I am looking for a PhD student to work on the project "A mechanistic theory of functional responses: zooming into movement behaviour to understand and predict predator-prey interactions" euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/342402.

Full professor of insect behavioural physiology anyone?

ISBE2026 Congress in Turin 👇

Content submissions for the 5th SORTEE Conference (15-16 Oct 2025) are now OPEN. Submit your proposal for an unconference, hackathon or workshop by June 2nd via sortee.org/upcoming The conference will be FREE for members, so consider joining us (sortee.org/join/).

The next edition of the SORTEE Conference will take place mid-October. #OpenScience

We are hiring a chair/professor in our Ecology & Enviro Modelling group at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. Scotland is lovely, and my colleagues are fantastic! Reach out if you are interested in joining the CREEM family ☺️ Working link this time 👇 www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

PhD position in a top group at #LMU Munich 👇

Moth trapping on Irchel campus at #uzh

If you win a fight, you're more likely to win the next one. But why? We show that using Bayesian updating to update your assessment of your own fighting abilities does a pretty good job of reflecting how animals typically behave in real life social contest!