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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Feb 14
One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · Feb 14
It’s official. My university who told me for all of the years I have been a faculty person they it valued diversity all of a sudden decided it no longer does without even attempting to resist a legally questionable executive order.

www.thedp.com/article/2025...
Penn to introduce changes to University discrimination policies, remove term ‘diversity’
The changes include the renaming of several statements, offices, and policies, and the elimination of terms including “diversity.”
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Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · Feb 14
NEW RESEARCH: Seamounts are a HUB for sharks!

New research on seamounts off Ascension Island has found that there are 41 TIMES the amount of sharks there than in the open ocean, despite no increase in primary productivity.

Read the full paper here - doi.org/10.1371/jour...

🦑🌊🦤🌍🌐🧪
#AcademicSky
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · Feb 12
🎉CONGRATULATIONS🥂 to Lucy Westover on publishing her 🥇 paper in @royalsocietypublishing.org. Celebrating #ECR success is GREAT.
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#fieldwork #experiment #predation #noise #mongooses #vigilance #behaviour #ECR #Masters

#OpenAccess so please share:

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Lucy Westover holding her Masters thesis. Dwarf mongoose photo used on front cover of journal.
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ASAB @asab.org · Feb 11
An amazing resource from @asabeducation.bsky.social ! These worksheets are fantastic way to acknowledge and celebrate #WomenAndGirlsInScience #WomenInSTEM 👩‍🔬
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ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · Feb 11
Happy #WomenAndGirlsInScience Day. To celebrate we have some free worksheets to share with your young people. asab.org/education-news Thank you to these brilliant women for taking part - Professor Dorothy Cheney, Professor Anindita Bhadra, Dr Danielle Lee and Professor Sue Healy #WomeninSTEM
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ASAB @asab.org · Feb 11
It’s never been more important to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩‍🔬

Here’s a collection of posts from last year about some of the remarkable historical #WomenInSTEM in the animal field:
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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · Feb 12
100% endorse this. Also true at conferences etc
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MPLS Division, University of Oxford @mplsoxford.bsky.social · Feb 11
The Advice I Wish I'd Received: IDWGS 2025

Professor Milner-Gulland from @biology.ox.ac.uk recommends seeking advice from senior researchers and the rewards of collaboration across career stages.

#WomenInScience #IDWGS2025
It's scary to ask for feedback and advice from senior people, especially when you're not confident that your work is good enough. I wish I'd known that equal and fun collaborations across career stages are possible, seeking advice can be a positive experience, and that senior people might find engaging with a student on their research to be the best part of their day. Photo: John Cairns
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Oliver Poole @ollypoole.bsky.social · Feb 12
New paper out today from our lab. doi.org/10.1098/rsob...

We unpick the morphological 🧑‍🧒, physiological 🔬, behavioural 📟 and transcriptomic 🧬 differences contributing to female sex bias in migrating #hoverflies. See my work on flight performance in this paper 🪰💪🪽

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Multiple factors contribute to female dominance in migratory bioflows | Open Biology
Migration is a widely observed phenomenon supported by morphological, physiological and behavioural traits that vary with season and sex in many species. Recently, the genetic components underpinning migration in the marmalade hoverfly (Diptera: Syrphidae)...
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Ben Longdon @blongdon.bsky.social · Feb 11
Now with an @evolletters.bsky.social blog post about the work from study lead Ryan Imrie evolutionletters.net/examining-pa... @uniexecec.bsky.social
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Jan 17
Pericentromeric #heterochromatin clusters into chromocenters. @skrutlnize.bsky.social &co use quantitative mass spec to characterize the chromocenter proteome in multiple tissues, identifying a link between satellite DNA-binding proteins & #transposon repression🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/4akuNAi
Loss of D1 during embryogenesis triggers transposon expression in adult ovaries. Top: Ovaries from the indicated genotypes (D1 and aubergine mutants and heterozygotes, F1 and F2) were stained with Vasa (green) and DAPI (magenta). Bottom: RNA in situ hybridization against Copia (green) and total polyadenylated mRNA (blue) was performed in ovaries of the indicated genotypes that were also stained for DAPI (magenta). Yellow and black arrowheads indicate undifferentiated germ cells in the aubergine mutant germarium.
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Allen J Moore @ajmoore.bsky.social · Jan 17
Ecology and Evolution (the journal) is here!
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Ecology and Evolution @ecol-evol.bsky.social · Jan 17
Divorce rates predict reproductive success in little penguins: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ornithology
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ASAB @asab.org · Jan 17
There’s a lot of important dates coming up for #ASABSpring2025 & #Behaviour2025

ASAB Grants: asab.org/grant-overview
ASAB Spring: asabspring2025.github.io
Behaviour: behaviourindia2025.in

Make sure you also follow @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social & @behaviour2025.bsky.social for updates 😄
ASAB Important Upcoming Dates Logo of animals crossing the street as in the Beatles Abbey Road 2025 Asab SPRING MEETING Liverpool, UK Apr 23-25 Feb 1: ASAB travel grants due Feb 12: Abstracts due Apr 1: Registration ends Logo of a stylised tiger looking up at a tree and sun Behaviour Kolkata India 2025 Aug 25-30 Jan 31: Abstracts due Feb 28: Early bird registration ends Apr 1: ASAB travel grants due Apr 30: Regular registration ends
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · Jan 13
🌍 Droughts to Worsen in the Arabian Peninsula

A study projects severe droughts in the Arabian Peninsula by 2100, driven by evaporation rising 5x faster than rainfall.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm 🧪 #ClimateChange
Projected increase in droughts over the Arabian Peninsula and associated uncertainties - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Projected increase in droughts over the Arabian Peninsula and associated uncertainties
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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · Jan 10
We are hiring! Looking for new editorial board members -

📚 Associate Editors x c.10
📚 Handling Editor x 1
📚 Commissioning Editor x1

More information and application procedure: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
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Anna Bowland @acbowland.bsky.social · Jan 10
Thrilled to see our work covering the evolutionary ecology of ethanol on the cover of the January TREE issue 🎉. Stunning photo by Cyril Ruoso. @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social
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ASAB @asab.org · Jan 9
Congratulations to our #ASABWinter2024 video contest winner Snata Chakraborty 🏆🎥

See her video:

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Anchoring Bias in Web-shaking Behaviour of Spiders - by Snata Chakraborty
YouTube video by Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
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Marty Kardos @martykardos.bsky.social · Jan 10
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Erica Larson @ellarson.bsky.social · Jan 3
Very proud to share this outstanding work by @kelsiehunnicutt.bsky.social - now out in Genetics!
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Ned Dochtermann @neddochtermann.bsky.social · Jan 2
I have a PhD position open to start fall semester 2025!

The position will include investigations of the structure of both phenotypic (behavioral) plasticity and genetic variation in behavior as well as lots of opportunity to develop your own project.
#Evolution #evobio #evolsky #Ecology 🧪
Flier for PhD position. Text with a lab logo at the bottom with a cricket silhouette of a cricket with antenna that look like normal curves. Also has a picture of a cricket (Acheta domesticus) on a white background. Text: Crickets! Behavior! Genetics! Statistics! The Dochtermann Lab in the Department of Biological Sciences at North Dakota State University is seeking to fill a PhD assistantship examining how selection has shaped phenotypic plasticity and patterns of genetic variance. The position will start Fall Semester 2025 and the incoming student will be joining a dynamic department (www.ndsu.edu/biology) and an interdisciplinary graduate program that provides a broad foundation for success (www.ndsu.edu/ecs). For more information about the lab visit www.neddochtermann.com If interested, please contact me at ned.dochtermann@gmail.com with a brief synopsis of your research interests. @neddochtermann.bsky.social
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Jan 7
Deadline approaching for PhD studentship with @kofanchen.drosophila.social.ap.brid.gy & I (cosupervisor).

Neat study done on immune genes affecting neural processes. Our goal is to look at sleep X immunity using wild & mutant flies with immune diffs! #Drosophila
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Drosophila species
Individuals of a species need to allocate and perform vital behaviours such as searching for mate and food, and escaping from environmental threats along the 24 hours of a day. Locomotion serves as a ...
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Hosken Lab Cornwall @evol-lab-ex.bsky.social · Jan 8
Jen not sure if this is what you are after but have a look:
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Intralocus sexual conflict can resolve the male-female health-survival paradox - Nature Communications
Although men have lower survival across ages, women have poorer health than men as they age. Here, Archer et al. suggest that this pattern is explained by intralocus sexual conflict and provide suppor...
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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.bsky.social · Jan 8
If I get the times correctly, the WSJ announcement followed a meeting of China's National Health Commission (NHC), during which it was confirmed that the new virus was causing the pneumonia. The meeting is reported in @daliyang.bsky.social's book, Wuhan. ▫️2/

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screenshot of text: "On January 8, the NHC Expert Panel chaired by Xu Jianguo met to assess the laboratory results. The group concluded that the novel coronavirus as identified by the laboratories was the etiological agent causing the outbreak in Wuhan. The announcement of this conclusion came out the following day in the form of a bland Xinhua News Agency interview with Xu Jianguo."
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Hosken Lab Cornwall @evol-lab-ex.bsky.social · Jan 8
Nice work!
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Simone Immler @immler.bsky.social · Jan 8
A great end to 2024:

The Zebrafish Sperm Proteome
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We described >5400 sperm proteins!

Spearheaded by PhD student Jayme Cohen in collaboration with many people at
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The Zebrafish Sperm Proteome
One of the key processes that forms the basis of fertilisation is the tight interaction between sperm and egg. Both sperm and egg proteomes are known to evolve and diverge rapidly even between closel...
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Jan 8
Humans are not 'drinking alone': alcohol consumption is not unique to humans and may have benefits - including nutritional, medicinal or cognitive - in other species www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The evolutionary ecology of ethanol
The consumption of ethanol has frequently been seen as largely restricted to humans. Here, we take a broad eco-evolutionary approach to understanding …
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Stu Bearhop @stubearhop.bsky.social · Jan 7
Good morning from Kenya. Day 3 begins as University of Exeter MSc Conservation and Biodiversity students up at sunrise to strike camp in Naivasha. @brendangodley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @exetergses.bsky.social
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Hosken Lab Cornwall @evol-lab-ex.bsky.social · Jan 7
Postdoc in Hosken lab (UoExeter, UK) closing soon (evolution of body shape) get in touch if you are interested. Please repost.

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