For #DavidAttenborough’s 100th birthday, new research on the Panamanian wasp stars of his series #LifeInTheUndergrowth! Co-wasped with: @andyradford.bsky.social, Chris Wyatt, Emily Bell, Daisy Taylor @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Just when you thought garlic couldn't get any better!

Introducing * READMEBuilder * A shiny app that helps users build a high quality README to upload along with their data and code. Just install the package and run the build_readme() function to launch the app! github.com/EIvimeyCook/... Comments and suggestions welcome!

Early-life conditions can leave long-lasting marks on how animals develop and perform. Using GPS and accelerometer data from 35 juvenile golden #eagles, this #RSOS study shows that more active nestlings fledged earlier, remained more active after leaving the nest: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Sperm can “age” independently of the male, when stored in male or female reproductive tracts. Our meta-analysis finds widespread evidence across animals (including abstinence in men). Important consequences for fertility, sexual selection, haploid selection! doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

"Sex differential effects of developmental heat stress on life-history and reproductive traits" doi.org/10.32942/X2C...

Hot new study out as a preprint on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social We investigated the effect of developmental heat stress on a whole spectrum of traits in a subtropical/tropical species, highlighting the importance of studying heat stress beyond short-term heatwaves 🔆 Read here: doi.org/10.32942/X2C...

New paper out in Evolution! @sse-evolution.bsky.social From mating to sperm storage: density-dependent plasticity in pre- and post-copulatory shared mating traits 🦗 doi.org/10.1093/evol... #openaccess

Brunette 🤎 #BirdoftheDay #EyeContact

🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨: The impact of global change on parental care systems Interested in Shorebirds? Global change? Parental care? Fieldwork? 🐣☀️ Come join us in Budapest! Interested candidates - get in touch! Deadline Feb 28 2026

A field cricket's solutions to the cocktail party problem in conspecific choruses #Bioacoustics #Insect #CocktailPartyProblem doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Nearly two years of experiments, data collection and analyses has now come together in this preprint, if you fancy a Monday afternoon read: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social #ecr #openscience 🦗

Sunday read 😍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/PIS49F...

Stockholm University seeks a PhD student for a 4-year project on female sexual selection in pygmy halfbeaks. Strong interest in evolutionary and behavioral research needed. Apply by Feb 15, 2026: https://su.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:893229/ #phd

POSTDOC recruitment! We’re looking for a post-doc to join us to work on the (epi)genetic basis of inbreeding depression as part of the ANR-funded project FRIDA macrostomum.wordpress.com/the-genetic-... Please share!

Happy 2026! I am glad to have ended 2025 one step closer to finishing my PhD. Published the first chapter of my thesis where we talk about the importance and ways of studying sex-specific effects while investigating shared mating traits. Read here: doi.org/10.1007/s002...

New Pre-print Alert ‼️ Fascinated by bird nests? Me too!! Some birds add fresh green plants to their nests, even after laying eggs! 🌿 Could this behaviour have benefits? Check out our meta-analysis on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.32942/X2X... Why do birds use green nest material?

Meet our plenary speaker Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi Director of the India Program for the Snow Leopard Trust working on snow leopards and human-wildlife coexistence in the high Himalaya. His work focuses on the interactions between large carnivores, their wild prey, and farming communities.

New preprint on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social : Why do birds bring fresh green plants to their nests? 🕊️ From courtship displays to parasite defense, many hypotheses have been proposed — but what does the evidence really say? Check out our systematic review & meta analysis: doi.org/10.32942/X2X...

🌍 Join @sortee.bsky.social – A worldwide Open Science community for ecology and evolution! 🌱🧬 🌐 Join trainings, code clubs & our annual online conference 🚀 Help shape the future of Open Science Membership is inclusive and flexible. 👉: www.sortee.org/join/ #OpenScience #Ecology #Evolution

This will be my third SORTEE Conference in a row and cannot recommend it enough! #SORTEE2025

New in #ProcB - From policy to practice: Progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @eivimeycook.bsky.social tell us more in our blog royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...

📣 Hot off the press at #ProcB! 🔍 Our study checked data/code-sharing policies in 275 eco/evo journals and compliance in Proc B (n=2,340) & Ecology Letters (n=571). Policies exist, but clarity and strictness vary, affecting reproducibility. 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Publication alert! ✨ Our recent paper in Ecology & Evolution addresses how to make conferences more inclusive. We collected observational and experimental data during Q&A sessions at the Behaviour 2023 congress hosted by Bielefeld University, and circulated a survey among conference attendees [1/4]

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 👇

In 2023, we conducted a study during an international conference in Bielefeld to investigate patterns of inequality at the conference through Q&A sessions and an extensive post-conference survey. The study is finally out in Ecology & Evolution: 🔗https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.71588

Rethinking the relationship between the sex ratio and sexual selection doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by @gcmcdon.bsky.social, @daniedmunds.bsky.social, @stuartwigby.bsky.social, and @jennyperry.bsky.social 📷: Dani Edmunds

In our latest preprint, we showcase how to use a phylogenetic meta-analysis of variance to test evolutionary hypotheses across species. We collected data for 172 birds (314 populations) to test patterns of stabilising selection and canalisation for wing length. 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X2P...