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ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social · 8d

#ISBE2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your abstract by 15 December 2025 on www.isbe2026.com

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Ari Strandburg-Peshkin @arispeshkin.bsky.social · 5d

⭐PhD position available!⭐
Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets
imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...

Analysis of communication and collective behavior in animal groups

imprs-qbee.mpg.de

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 21d

Kinship as a double-edged sword: Relatedness among burying beetle larvae enhances growth but increases mortality buff.ly/zpGurBS | #BiologyLetters #Behaviour #Ecology #Evolution

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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 19d

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

docs.google.com

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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 22d

Read the current issue of @jevbio.bsky.social here: academic.oup.com/jeb/issue

📸 Heiko Bellmann
Adult #Nicrophorus vespilloides #beetle in the act of feeding its
offspring atop a vertebrate carcass the beetles have monopolised.

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Sandra Steiger @steigerlab.bsky.social · 22d

The EAE group really enjoyed #DZG2025 in Berlin — great talks, inspiring discussions, and lots of fun!

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Sandra Steiger @steigerlab.bsky.social · 22d

New study on the effect of relatedness on larval cooperation in burying beetles: sibs boost growth, strangers boost survival. doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
Congrats to Paul Huber and Daniel Wittmann!

Kinship as a double-edged sword: relatedness among burying beetle larvae enhances growth but increases mortality | Biology Letters

Theoretical and empirical considerations suggest that relatedness can have complex effects on social life. While high relatedness may promote sibling cooperation and altruism through indirect fitness ...

doi.org

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Sandra Steiger @steigerlab.bsky.social · 28d

Already adopted this method.

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Leon Müller @leo-theo.bsky.social · 28d

Was so nice to present our research and @unibayreuth.bsky.social at this DZG meeting! Glad to be talking about parental care and how it interacts with offspring immunity 🎉
Expect our upcoming paper that deals with this cool topic!🪲 @max-evolbio.bsky.social and I had a blast working on it
#DZG2025

DZG section Behavioural Biology @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social · 28d

Kicked off our first behaviour session with 6 fascinating talks—covering everything from spiders, electric fish, and fossil insects to sex pheromones and how parental behaviour shapes immunity. 🌍🕷️🐟🪲

#DZG2025

@janka-p.bsky.social @andifischer10.bsky.social @leo-theo.bsky.social

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Sandra Steiger @steigerlab.bsky.social · 28d

Hey #DZG2025, if you are interested in family life and/or communication, then come to the talks of J Plate-11:45 BEH, L Müller-12:15 BEH, M Körner-12:30 BEH, E Grubmüller-12:30 ECO (all today), J Sahm-11:30 EVOL (Thursday) and P Huber-12:45 BEH (Friday) and see the poster of M Cavalcanti!

Female burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides feeding a larva

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DZG 2025 Berlin @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social · Mar 31

👋 Looking forward to the 117th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society. Please like and share 🤩

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Sandra Steiger @steigerlab.bsky.social · 29d

See you at Berlin #dzg2025 .....if we ever arrive

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SPP 2349 Gevol @gevol.bsky.social · Sep 5

Many thanks to all GEvol members for a truly wonderful annual meeting. It was really great to catch up with you all again.

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BayCEER @bayceer.bsky.social · Aug 6

🪲 New from BayCEER: Siblings matter!

Research shows burying beetle offspring thrive with siblings, even without parents. A surprising twist in how family life evolves!

🔗 Published in www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#Evolution #Beetles

@unibayreuth.bsky.social @steigerlab.bsky.social

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Sandra Steiger @steigerlab.bsky.social · Jul 30

New paper out on social immunity and burying beetles! Congrats to @leo-theo.bsky.social and @max-evolbio.bsky.social!

Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · Jul 18

Through social immunity burying beetles protect their kids from diseases on their carcass. Can this protection ward off an insect pathogen? Researchers @steigerlab.bsky.social find out!

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

@leo-theo.bsky.social @max-evolbio.bsky.social

Surviving in the fast lane: no increased mortality, but faster growth for pathogen-exposed larvae of a family-living beetle

Abstract. Animal taxa exhibiting post-hatching care can be found throughout the animal kingdom. During this period, parents aggregate with their offspring

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BayCEER @bayceer.bsky.social · Jun 30

🔬 Last week at the BayCEER Colloquium, Dr. Maximilian Körner gave us a fascinating glimpse into the social lives of Nicrophorus #beetles 🪲

A fascinating and insightful talk that sparked great discussions!
@max-evolbio.bsky.social

Are you ready for the next talk?🌿

#SocialEvolution #Ecology

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Leon Müller @leo-theo.bsky.social · Jul 21

Please enjoy our paper about how potential pathogens can affect burying beetle offspring - even to some surprising effects!

Was a pleasure to work with @max-evolbio.bsky.social and @steigerlab.bsky.social on my first paper as a #firstgen PhD student!

Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · Jul 18

Through social immunity burying beetles protect their kids from diseases on their carcass. Can this protection ward off an insect pathogen? Researchers @steigerlab.bsky.social find out!

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

@leo-theo.bsky.social @max-evolbio.bsky.social

Surviving in the fast lane: no increased mortality, but faster growth for pathogen-exposed larvae of a family-living beetle

Abstract. Animal taxa exhibiting post-hatching care can be found throughout the animal kingdom. During this period, parents aggregate with their offspring

doi.org

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Sandra Steiger @steigerlab.bsky.social · Jul 30

New paper out on sibling cooperation in burying beetles! Big congrats to Paul Huber!

American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · Jul 21

Better together: sibling cooperation matters! Burying beetle larvae consistently benefited from growing up with siblings, both with & without parents. Huber et al. show that sibling interactions can play a key role in the evolution of family life. Read now!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Dung beetle and larvae taken by Huber et al.

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American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · Jul 21

Better together: sibling cooperation matters! Burying beetle larvae consistently benefited from growing up with siblings, both with & without parents. Huber et al. show that sibling interactions can play a key role in the evolution of family life. Read now!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Jos Kramer @joskramer.bsky.social · Apr 22

👋 Hi Bluesky! I'm an evolutionary ecologist and about to launch my own research group at the University of Bayreuth (DE).
🔬 I will study the socioecology of animal-microbe interactions, asking how social behaviors in burying beetles shape - and are shaped by - interactions with microbes.
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Jos Kramer @joskramer.bsky.social · Apr 24

🎓 #PhD in Evolutionary Ecology @UniBayreuth 🇩🇪

Parental care vs microbe communities in burying beetles 🪲🧫
ERC-funded | 3 years | behavioral ecology & metabarcoding

Details: tinyurl.com/CareVsMicrobes

Apply by May 16, start in September

#AcademicSky #Microbiome #SocialEvolution #Insects

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Stefan Holzheu @holzheustefan.bsky.social · Mar 11

Die 1000 haben wir längst hinter uns gelassen. Wir gehen schon klar auf 2000 zu. 😀

Danke an alle, die schon gezeichnet haben. Macht gerne nochmal Werbung bei Kolleg:innen - auch insbesondere an Einrichtungen, die aktuell noch wenig Zeichner:innen haben.

www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o...

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Michael Matschiner @mmatschiner.bsky.social · Feb 16

We do have an open, permanent position for an entomologist at the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology: snsb.de/en/curator-o...

SNSB – Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns » Curator of the Diptera collection – Zoological Collection of the Bavarian State

Eine weitere WordPress-Website

snsb.de

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Gabriele Uhl @uhl-lab.bsky.social · Jan 6

doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Olfaction in spiders. We found that the wall pore sensilla in spiders look similar from the outside to those of insects, but differ ultrastructurally in various ways. Independent evolution!
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Olfaction with legs—Spiders use wall-pore sensilla for pheromone detection | PNAS

The sense of smell is a central sensory modality of most terrestrial species. However, our knowledge of olfaction is based on vertebrates and insec...

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ESEB 2025 Congress @eseb2025.bsky.social · Jan 24

📣 Don’t miss the travel grants for #ESEB2025 #Barcelona 📣

Conference travel award: eseb.org/prizes-funding…
Congress attendance aid: eseb.org/prizes-funding��

⏳DEADLINES: 30/01 (CTA) & 31/01 (CAA) ⏳

https://eseb.org/prizes-funding…

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