Cool new fly sperm paper 🪰 Sperm length and seminal fluid proteins promote male reproductive success in Drosophila melanogaster LINK: academic.oup.com/jeb/article-...

2025 Student Paper Award: Evolution in one sex is often affected by selection acting on the opposite sex. Geeta Arun et al. explore this using fruit flies and find that responses to selection are largely parallel between sexes. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

By combining mark-recapture and genetic parentage data from wild #lizards, we show that the offspring of older parents do not have lower survival or reproductive success than the offspring of younger parents: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Crain et al. 2025

1/13 New paper out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age @hannahdugdale.bsky.social @lummaalab.bsky.social @erikpostma.bsky.social

Our new paper offers an explanation for the universal law that "under carefully controlled conditions.... an animal behaves as it damn well pleases." We explore how stochastic mechanisms may play an underappreciated role in generating individuality. (1/7 🧵) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In a stunning display of coordinated movement, male Swallow-tailed Manakins dance together in groups of up to five to attract females. Researchers studied display consistency, group size effects and implications for female choice: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #RSOS #AnimalBehaviour

Excited to see this huge experiment finally published!! 🪰

Sexual dimorphism in pheromone perception across worms, flies, and rodents #Drosophila

Looks like an interesting read!

Female mosquitoes control mating through subtle genital movements, determining if and when copulation occurs—a key factor in their reproductive success and the spread of mosquito-borne diseases. doi.org/g98bcr

Age-related mutations give sperm-forming stem cells a selective advantage during sperm production, shaping disease risk and genetic variation in offspring go.nature.com/4hlCBFH

Social relationships are powerful predictors of fitness across social animals. But *why*? In our new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper, we outline testable predictions for why relationship quality and quantity adaptively vary across socio-ecological contexts. tinyurl.com/55dnkeh7

Temperature can reverse sexual conflict, facilitating population growth doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Roberto García-Roa et al.

Interactive effects of developmental and adult nutrition on lifespan and fecundity in a genetically diverse Drosophila population #Drosophila

Scientists have uncovered how social life shapes aggression in fruit flies: while loners rely on quick jabs, group-raised males prefer intense, full-on tussles, a shift that helps them win territory and mates. buff.ly/7FaSDNH

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Now published! Our paper on: (1) Accurate sequencing of sperm at scale (2) Positive selection of spermatogenesis driver mutations across the exome (3) Offspring disease risks from male reproductive aging [1/n] www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Need something fun to look forward to? Get involved in the publishing process at one of your favorite society journals! Apply to be an editor at Animal Behavior by Oct 31!

Eight decades of follow-up link life course exposures to proteomic organ ageing and longevity www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Animals sense the world in many ways we can’t imagine — and Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer, Ed Yong, is on the show to tell us all about it! By the end, you’ll be looking at your dog in a totally different light. open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

Does sexual dimorphism reflect sexual antagonism? Covariation of female fitness with brothers’ sexual traits and their female homologues in neriid flies #ProcB #OpenAccess royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Researchers in Science report a globally replicated experiment that uncovers which factors explain the relative success of warning coloration and camouflage as antipredator color strategies. Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/4mBCl6i

The role of genetic variation in shaping phenotypic responses to diet in aging Drosophila melanogaster #Drosophila

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases. This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions. arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

If you are interested in contributing to the TREE series on Disability in Ecology and Evolution, email me at [email protected] We want hear from as many people as possible. December will be the last in the series, for this issue we will need contributions by c7 October. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Researchers in a recent #ScienceReview examine the influence that biological sex exerts on the immune system and immune-related diseases. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4ln58Le

Male Reproductive Senescence in Mammals Is Pervasive and Aligned With the Slow-Fast Continuum onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Meet the Topi. An antelope where females are promiscuous and compete for males. And males use "false alarm snorts" www.cell.com/current-biol...

In his Commentary, Neil Metcalfe examines why it can be hard to detect trade-offs between two activities or processes competing for energy, despite energy supposedly being a limiting resource journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Menopausal status, transition, and age at menopause with accelerated biological aging across multiple organ systems: findings from two cohort studies bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Just out in press in eLife, a cool and brilliant piece of work by @amywebster.bsky.social: Gene expression variation across genetically identical individuals predicts reproductive traits. elifesciences.org/articles/106...

The Smithsonian's NMNH is accepting applications for various fellowships for graduate students and postdocs. Projects using NMNH resources are encouraged. For details: https://fellowships.si.edu/SIFP #postdoc

Decoding disease–specific ageing mechanisms through pathway-level epigenetic clock: insights from multi-cohort validation www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...

The house mouse maintains constant telomere length throughout life academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

How much protein should you consume? erictopol.substack.com/p/our-preocc...

Videlier and Sztepanacz re-analyse published data to show that sexual dimorphism may evolve as easily from indirect responses to sexually concordant selection as from direct responses to sexually antagonistic selection. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Unlocking longevity through the comparative biology of aging www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Time flies, so if you're an early-career researcher that is eligible to apply for one of our junior faculty grants, start thinking about your application now because the next deadline is 28 November @biologists.bsky.social www.biologists.com/grants/kicks... www.biologists.com/grants/ecr-v...

Come join us in the @biology.ox.ac.uk at @ox.ac.uk! New Associate Professor position in Animal Behaviour, with Merton College: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Calling all evolutionary biologists! 🧬 AES 2025 | UQ Brisbane | 1–3 Oct Early-bird registration close 1 Sept aes.corsizio.com/event/685405... #AES2025 #Evolution #ECR #AusSci

📰Published📰What is transgenerational plasticity, and how can we measure it?💡 buff.ly/IL0eQZF 🧪🌍

Early menarche and childbirth accelerate aging-related outcomes and age-related diseases: Evidence for antagonistic pleiotropy in humans elifesciences.org/articles/102...

The effects of different types of calorie restrictions on epigenetic modifications of age-related genes in aging mouse brain link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Thanks to all those that attended the @sortee.bsky.social led symposium at #ESEB2025 and for those that met up on Wednesday!! If you’re interested in joining SORTEE and supporting open science in EcoEvo, consider becoming a member! sortee.org/join/

Light pollution is causing birds around the world to sing for longer each day, prolonging their vocalizations on average by 50 minutes, according to a new study in Science. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Uz7vzP

#ABL2025 Plenary Spotlight: Dr Wen-Sung Chung ⭐ Join us on Nov 13-14 to learn how Dr Chung’s team uncovered the sex-specific differences in the octopus brain and cognitive capability 🐙 Learn more about the conference: ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org

Exciting new Ruta lab preprint by @annaryba.bsky.social et al. on the neural underpinnings of intraspecific behavioral variation: Strain variation identifies a neural substrate for behavioral evolution Drosophila www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Introducing "The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology" The first standardised set of data editor guidelines. Led by SORTEE with input from numerous data editors across ecology and evolution. 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Allele frequency selection and no age-related increase in human oocyte mitochondrial mutations. Interesting study in #ScienceAdvances doi.org/10.1126/scia...