Parental care, and more complex cooperative systems of care, have independently evolved in hundreds of animal lineages. In an article published today, we explore how these behaviors evolve 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭l shorturl.at/g5OPw /1

Too warm to buzz? Check out our newest paper on how warming temperatures affect bee buzzes in the Arctic. Well done to Charlie and Guadalupe and other coauthors for this nice study in the Swedish Arctic! @hfspo.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌏 Biodiversity loss has deep-rooted causes—from power imbalances to short-term priorities. These shape indirect & direct drivers like land/sea use change, exploitation & climate change. Graphic from the IPBES #TransformativeChange Assessment ⤵️

Radar technology has been around for decades, used to track & predict weather. Now scientists have made a breakthrough using it to monitor insects - paving the way for cost effective biodiversity tracking across huge areas @katatrepsis.bsky.social @ncas-uk.bsky.social www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

📢 PhD opportunity! 📢 Join me, @ejduncan.bsky.social, Tom Sloan + the wider #GairWood team to investigate climate-resilient woodlands in the UK 🌳 with @yes-dtn.bsky.social @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social

What looked like a hearing organ on a tiny stinkbug’s leg turned out to be something far stranger: a fungal nursery that mother bugs use to coat their newly laid eggs in protective symbiotic hyphae, shielding their offspring from parasitic wasps. Learn more in Science: https://scim.ag/4nDrDNm

Bees exhibition at World Museum Liverpool is beautiful! Wonderful perspectives on pollination and the lives of bees. Go and see it. After all, bees are furry, vegetarian wasps. I wish it could visit us at NHM London.

#PrimatePost 🦧💧 Chimps pee when seeing others peeing! 💦 Contagious urination may have social implications for group cohesion, marking territory and long-distance travel - like when you ask your friends to pee before a long car ride! We do it too! 🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth www.cell.com/current-biol...

During the last six months there’s been a substantial increase in academics approaching me to ask about leaving #academia… This article articulates many of the reasons why they’re doing that…

📢 CUT&Tag version 3 Sometimes the preprint to paper route can be quite the odyssey. And so in that vein, we are delighted to give you version 3 of our CUT&Tag optimization and benchmarking manuscript: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A massive study with 71,922 people in 68 countries shows widespread trust in science. Most people believe that scientists should take an active role in shaping public policy www.futurity.org/trust-in-sci...

Nancy Rothwell: UK science and research ‘at risk of declining’. Interview: Ex-Manchester vice-chancellor, advising ministers on industrial strategy, warns “erosion of funding” will create long-lasting legacy www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Eusociality evolves more readily in haplodiploid #insects because of an inflated #genetic relatedness between sisters - the transition rate from solitary to eusocial life was 15-100 times higher in haplodiploid than diploid lineages www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

In a new Science study, researchers present CASTER, a tool that uses arrangements in DNA sequences known as site patterns to infer “species trees,” which are diagrams that depict the evolutionary relationships among species. Learn more:

Hurray! Some good news for bees at last. Our new government has followed the science, and refused the application by sugar beet farmers to use banned neonicotinoid pesticides.

New paper by PhD advisee Alex Waugh, et al. academic.oup.com/jeb/article-... "Our study highlights the utility of profiling genes with plasticity-associated expression to gain insight into potential assimilation by inversion polymorphisms."

The University of Leeds has become the first Russell Group university to officially announce that it is quitting Elon Musk’s social media site X. It will, however, be alive and well on Bluesky. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

I'm so proud of the University of Leeds for being the first Russell Group university to leave X.