Recent social loss, not chronic isolation, reshapes sleep in Drosophila https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.12.738068v1

Dietary restriction is evolutionary conserved on the phenotypic and mechanistic level link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We're thrilled to welcome Dr Iliana Medina Guzman as a plenary speaker at #ABL2026! 🪲 How do camouflage and warning colours shape the evolution of species?🦜 Dr Medina Guzman (uni. of Melbourne) combines approaches to reveal how antipredator defences influence colonisation & dispersal. 🦋

Permanent Lecturer position available at Edinburgh Napier U, where I work - molecular/cell/biomedical focus. Great city and workplace. Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. jobs.napier.ac.uk/mthrprod_web...

Interested in a postdoc position? Olfaction in poison frog tadpoles! Based in Germany with some field work in Costa Rica (bilateral funding, 3 years). Please share with your froggie and neuro/behavior contacts 🐸 www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

We are accepting proposals for a Special Feature celebrating 100 years since the publication of Charles Elton's Animal Ecology. We're interested in contributions that return to Elton’s text and use it as a starting point to ask what we have learned over the past century. buff.ly/PMAqfUC

Awesome *postdoc* opportunity with Megan Head at @biologyanu.bsky.social on thermal ecology of beetles. Great place to work, great project, amazing supervisor and really good pay. Don't miss out! jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...

Please sign! 👇 Animal behaviour research is important and the loss of such an excellent research group would be devastating for the behaviour community

Please repost: I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on projects related to understanding the movement ecology of harmful and beneficial insects in agroecosystems. Applications close on: July 31, 2026 To apply and for more information, visit: lnkd.in/g8gFeB3u

📚Meta-analyses!⚠️Key pitfalls! 🔬Improved methodology! 🖥️Reliable syntheses! Our #EditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: “Biological and methodological pitfalls of meta-analyses in ecology and evolution: Lessons from eyespot function studies” Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123448

How does group size shape social evolution? New theory shows that living in smaller versus larger groups changes kinship dynamics, shifting when natural selection favors helping—or harming—others. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

The biological age of individual cell types can be evaluated using plasma proteomics, revealing diverse aging profiles across more than 40 cell types and links between the accelerated aging of specific cell types and disease, according to a paper in Nature Medicine. go.nature.com/4xHGvR2 #medsky 🧪

The University of Exeter is not in budget deficit. Yet are proposing to cut 150 academic jobs. This include my job. Please sign and share the petition, write our Vice Chancellor, to your MP, and get the word out about the act of self harm this university is about to commit. c.org/yKcx6Zr29H

New research📖 Playing it safe at early life stages: Balancing energy allocations to maximize fitness under seasonal pathogen dynamics🧪 🦠 🖥️ 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/XofOXf2

Maternal senescence broadly reprograms gene expression in offspring www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Still some time to apply to our postdoc position - deadline 3rd July. I'll be at #SMBE2026 if anyone would like to chat about it 😊

Ever wondered what female chickadees look for in a male? An ‘important’ study suggests these socially monogamous birds seek out additional males with better cognitive abilities than their nestmate, to help increase the fitness of their offspring. buff.ly/fQmQKCW

I’ve only been in Indiana for a week and there’s already been two tornadoes?! I’m also kind of addicted to watching Ryan Hall, Y’all’s storm chasing coverage

Skilful attacking trades off with defensive ability in hermit crabs AnimBeh

So pleased to see post-doc @jessicafoley14.bsky.social paper on evolution of long lifespan in pollen-eating butterflies now out in Nature Communications (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), and what's more, with a nice write-up in The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...). How cool is that!?

"Hotter, faster, sicker? Warming shifts the cost of infection from individuals to populations" 📝 read the full paper here: buff.ly/OSOTKbN

🏆 ECR Best Paper Awards applications now open! ✨ Submit your best/favourite paper and provide a short statement of contribution and impact 🗓️ Closes 10th August 📢 Winners announced 7th Sept latest Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... See you in the 'Gong! 🌊

🚨Job alert!!🚨 I'm recruiting a 3-year postdoc on amphibian host–microbiome interactions at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social - funded by BBSRC. Deadline: 8 July 2026 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW850/p...

Behavior evolves as a correlated response to selection on cuticle color in Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans #Drosophila

Excellent opportunity here: a 5 year senior research fellowship in Life Sciences (broadly defined) at All Souls College Oxford. Many opportunities to work with the diverse & inclusive community here in @biology.ox.ac.uk here in the brand new Life & Mind Buiilding www.asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctora...

Basic biology of #aging suggests that it can be influenced by transient conditions experienced earlier in life. This Essay discusses these findings, which are essential to understand the plasticity of late-life health and #longevity. 🧪

This new Global meta-analysis reveals urban-associated behavioural differences among wild populations 🌍 🔎 🦚 👇️ Read more buff.ly/ZpXeLw3

Why do sex chromosomes stop recombining? New models show even weak sexual antagonism can strongly drive recombination suppression, with mating systems shaping the outcome. By @ewanflintham.bsky.social and @charlesmullon.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Asymmetric life-history trade-offs shape sex-biased longevity patterns @natcomms.nature.com

Ummm guys, this is a board game where you play as a hummingbird! 🦜 www.kickstarter.com/projects/vic...

This looks incredible!

The scientific impact of gender in #behavior, ecology and #evolution: authorship and citation performance AnimBeh

Are seminal fluid proteins a male tool to manipulate females against their interests? Or do females have a say as well? Michalak et al. argue that if females can detect seminal fluids, using it as information can benefit both sexes. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

An analysis in Nature Aging identifies sex-specific changes in inflammation, autoimmunity and disease risk over the adult lifespan, with more widespread age-related immune remodeling in females. go.nature.com/4mwYVyJ #medsky 🧪

Kuangyi Xu, a current EEB postdoc at UToronto and a former student in my lab, spearheaded this new dissection of the lek paradox. It often doesn't hold! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New paper out: Artificial selection for increased reproductive effort accelerates actuarial senescence and reduces lifespan in a precocial bird url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... @uniexecec.bsky.social @erikpostma.bsky.social @joelpick.bsky.social y.social @oscarvedder.bsky.social

Any ECRs interested in joining a journal editorial board? I’m leaving an associate editor position due to upcoming maternity leave and other commitments and am happy to offer suggestions to the journal for a relacement. Broad zoology remit, reasonable workload.

Do you love animal behavior & want to share that joy with younger folks? Write a short article on animal behavior for Frontiers for Young Minds (ages 8–15), co-authored with an undergrad! Part of an international ABS collection. Expression of interest due April 30. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New preprint from Mabel Sydney, Tracey Chapman & me: female diet choice when there's harassment from males plus social information: doi.org/10.32942/X2G...

Reproductive fluids enabling cryptic female choice of paternity do not induce concomitant ejaculate-mediated paternal effects in embryos of hybridizing salmonid fishes: Lantiegne et al. 2026 @memorialu.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

🌴 POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY ✨ The NOMIS Foundation and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute are seeking biologists to explore questions addressing animal behaviour! 📍 Panama 💵 USD$62k p.a. + <$13k travel budget 📆 Apply by 15th April, 2026 Info/how to apply here 👇: stri.si.edu/academic-pro...

Why do women account for nearly 2/3rd of all cases of Alzheimer's disease? A new, thorough review, open-access, on its origins in midlife. @jci.org www.jci.org/articles/vie...

Lifelong behavioral screen reveals an architecture of vertebrate aging www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Brood #parasitism involves trade-off in host error rates from accepting foreign eggs & rejecting their own. @tdixit.bsky.social &co reveal advantages when egg trait distributions are categorical (not continuous); implications for other co-evolutionary arms races @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4kPKjJP

Gut microbes affect cognition during ageing www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🐝 POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY 🐜 @sydney.edu.au has an available position for an Aola Richards Postdoctoral Fellow in Entomology 🕷️ ⌚ Full-time, fixed 2 year term 🪰 Independent research programme 💵 AUD$113k + 17% superannuation Info and how to apply in the link below 👇 www.sydney.edu.au/science/scho...

Surprising and notable if it holds up in humans: Extending ovary function and fertility via gut microbiome (fecal) transplant from young mice to old. estropausal mice "a direct link between the gut microbiota and ovarian health" www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Are you a postdoc, research scientist, non-tenure track faculty member, or lecturer who wants to attend #ABS2026? Apply to the Career Diversity Travel Award! The award helps fund scientists from less well-supported career stages. Apply here by March 23: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-c...

Older people with exceptional memory have a surprisingly high number of young neurons go.nature.com/4cm8VYB

The most influential explanation of a recent surge in allergies is the hygiene hypothesis go.nature.com/40woBkB