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Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social · 19d

A pictorial guide to parasitoids (10/11). Parasitoids can be studied in a parasitoid workshop. Silwood Park, 1992.

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Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social · 23d

Join us! Oxford is advertising an Associate Professorship in Animal Behaviour. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social · Aug 22

Mike Ritchie emphasising the huge importance of supporting society journals like JEB in his ESEB presidential address, Barcelona. @eseb.bsky.social @eseb2025.bsky.social

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Ashleigh Griffin @asgriffin.bsky.social · Aug 22

Evidence that lifestyle drives genome fluidity from @annadewar.bsky.social today. Keeping everyone going on last day of @eseb2025.bsky.social! Great talk Anna!

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Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social · Aug 19

When can replicating experiments lead to misleading conclusions? An example from human public goods games. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social · Aug 16

Exciting looking meeting at the Linnean Society London on organismal resilience. November 20th 2025 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hybrid-day...

Hybrid Day Meeting | Organismal Resilience in a Rapidly Changing World

Join us at the Linnean Society for a one-day symposium focused on the mechanisms and consequences of variation in organismal resilience

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social · Aug 16

what is environmental variability and how can you measure it? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @mingpapilio.bsky.social

Environmental Predictability in Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis: How to Measure It and Does It Matter?

Aim Abiotic environmental conditions shape ecological and evolutionary processes, yet quantifying their influence on organisms remains challenging due to variation among metrics and their intercorre...

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Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social · Jul 24

Where are mycorrhizal fungi and are the protected? (spoiler alert - no, they aren't) www.nature.com/articles/s41... @tobykiers.bsky.social

Global hotspots of mycorrhizal fungal richness are poorly protected - Nature

Machine-learning algorithms trained on 25,000 geolocated soil samples are used to create high-resolution global maps of mycorrhizal fungi, revealing that less than 10% of their biodiversity hotspots a...

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Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) @spun.earth · Jul 23

Who lives underground?

Find out now in our new paper published in @nature.com.

Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas.

Read here: buff.ly/WmDqAP3 🧵

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Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social · Jul 8

A pictorial guide to parasitoids (9/11). Parasitoids may mediate competition between different host species (apparent competition). Silwood Park, 1992.

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Ashleigh Griffin @asgriffin.bsky.social · Jun 27

Thank you to everyone attending the "Writing and DEI Workshop" at RIKENS, organized by @ryosukeiritani.bsky.social. Gender equality in STEM is a global issue and we need to share our experiences and learn from one another. Thank you for sharing your stories and enthusiasm! 🙏 and @ITHEms, @JSPS 🇯🇵❤️

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Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social · Jun 27

3/3 Funding for the workshop provided by iTHEMS & JSPS. @asgriffin.bsky.social and I used the exercises from 'Scientific Papers Made Easy' with @queensoxbiology.bsky.social: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social · Jun 27

2/3 Some great science posters by attendees, plus a superb online lecture by @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social‬ on language barriers in scientific communication - both the challenges and the solutions. Link for a previous talk he gave at ‪@linneansociety.bsky.social‬: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS08...

One-Way Mirror in the Room: How Language Barriers Impede Conservation | Tatsuya Amano

YouTube video by Linnean Society

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Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social · Jun 27

1/3 I was just lucky enough to get to do a couple of sessions on scientific writing in a DEI & Writing Workshop at Riken, Tokyo. Huge thank you to @ryosukeiritani.bsky.social for organising such an open and supportive workshop, and all the attendees for being so engaged and interactive.

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · Jun 21

@annadewar.bsky.social now giving the fourth @asn-amnat.bsky.social Early Career Scientist Award lectures at #Evol2025 about bacterial pangenomes, cooperation, and gene transfer

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LaBella Lab @lablabella.bsky.social · Jun 21

Anna Dewar @annadewar.bsky.social asks what types of genes get horizontally transferred in bacteria 🦠🧬➡️🧬🦠

Contrary to previous thinking, plasmids didn't carry more cooperation genes than the core genome.

#Evol2025 #Evol25

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Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social · Jun 24

Amazing comparative analysis using 163 ant genomes to look at many aspects of ant evolution www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Adaptive radiation and social evolution of the ants

Comparative analyses of 163 ant genomes reveal extensive genome rearrangements, context-specific gene family expansion patterns, and selection on conserved pathways that together underpin the evolutio...

www.cell.com

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Ashleigh Griffin @asgriffin.bsky.social · Jun 23

Family field trip with Jun Abe 🫶to trap parasitoids and wolbachia-infected butterflies on Kyushu Island. Hard to imagine science being more fun. Big thank you to Kanagawa University and JSPS Kakenhai for supporting the trip; Ethan and Olive for doing most of the catching! 👐💛 @stuwest.bsky.social

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · Jun 22

Winners of the @asn-amnat.bsky.social Early Career Scientist Award this year. A great honor to get to talk with these four brilliant scientists over dinner tonight.

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · Jun 13

In his #ParentCarerScientist case study, Professor Ben Sheldon FRS talks about navigating crises at home and at work, and why it's important for leaders to set an example when it comes to balancing work with caring responsibilities: #CarersWeek #AndAScientist royalsociety.org/about-us/who...

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Rob Heathcote @rjpheathcote.bsky.social · Jun 13

🐠💥2 year postdoc in fish sensory ecology!! 💥🐟
If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...

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Ashleigh Griffin @asgriffin.bsky.social · Jun 14

Thank you to our host, Hisashi Ohtsuki at the Research Centre for Integrative Evolutionary Science, SOKENDAI, for hosting us this week. We felt so welcome and loved hearing about your work. (And learning to make okonomiyaki!) @stuwest.bsky.social

Ryosuke Iritani, Stuart West, Ashleigh Griffin, Hisashi Ohtsuki

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Geneva 🇨🇦 @geneva1111.bsky.social · Jun 1

Always and in all ways ❤️

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Max Reuter @maxreuter.bsky.social · Jun 10

In relation to positive futures, I would add:
✅ Join learned societies
✅ Publish in their journals

#SocietyJournals #SciPub

Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · Jun 10

Six actions for ecologists in times of planetary crisis: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

✅Explicitly recognize and address the #biodiversity crisis
✅Explore positive futures
✅Defend academic freedom
✅Go political
✅Inspire society
✅Address the colonial legacy of ecology

Free to read: rdcu.be/eqjlk

Screenshot of the title and author list from the Correspondence article "Six actions for ecologists in times of planetary crisis" from the Nature Ecology & Evolution homepage

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Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social · Jun 4

A pictorial guide to parasitoids (8/11). Some parasitoids are solitary with only wasp developing per host. Silwood Park, 1992.

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