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Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 13h

Need something fun to look forward to? Get involved in the publishing process at one of your favorite society journals! Apply to be an editor at Animal Behavior by Oct 31!

Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 14d

Do you love research & writing & all things animal behavior? Well our journal, Animal Behavior, recruiting up to 5 (count em!) new Associate Editors!

Editors serve three-year terms beginning January 2026. If you're interested, email Exec Editor Scott Sakaluk ([email protected]) by Oct 31!

ron burgundy from parks and recreation says " you 'd be a fool not to pick me "

ALT: ron burgundy from parks and recreation says " you 'd be a fool not to pick me "

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Anna Frances Probert @afprobert.bsky.social · 11h

Fully funded PhD (for Australian and NZ citizens) in Adelaide at @flindersuniversity.bsky.social on Australian scorpion evolution with Dr Russell Bicknell www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships...

PhD Scholarship in Australian scorpion evolution - Flinders University

www.flinders.edu.au

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Centre for Evolutionary Biology at UWA @ceb-uwa.bsky.social · 13d

🚨Massive congratulations to our CEB member @jenkelley01.bsky.social and the global collaboration team on their investigation asking why some prey use warning colouration while others use camouflaging in @science.org. Read the article below 👇

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Jen Kelley @jenkelley01.bsky.social · 13d

Wa hoo! Our paper in Science is out today, revealing why some prey use conspicuous warning colouration while others use camouflaging colours. A huge global collaboration under incredible leadership by Iliana Medina and @wlallen.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Global selection on insect antipredator coloration

Natural selection has repeatedly led to the evolution of two alternative antipredator color strategies—camouflage to avoid detection and aposematism to advertise unprofitability—but we lack understand...

www.science.org

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Science Magazine @science.org · 13d

Researchers in Science report a globally replicated experiment that uncovers which factors explain the relative success of warning coloration and camouflage as antipredator color strategies.

Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/4mBCl6i

A white-fronted bee-eater (Merops bullockoides) decides whether to consume a warningly colored white-barred acraea butterfly (Telchinia encedon).

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MothProf @mothprof.bsky.social · 13d

I have a job opening in my lab. If you are interested in bird behaviour and predator prey interactions please take a look! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — Postdoc Position in Decision Making in Birds

Are you an expert in animal behavior? Do you have experience working with birds? The Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) is looking for a motivated researcher to investigate the ro...

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Elizabeth Hobson @elizabethhobson.bsky.social · 15d

**PhD POSITIONS** I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work on sociality and cognition in Monk Parakeets, starting Fall 2026. Full ad is here: hobsonresearch.com/index.php/20... (please help spread the word!)

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Centre for Evolutionary Biology at UWA @ceb-uwa.bsky.social · Aug 13

At CEB meeting, we heard from PhD student Avantika, who will study WA magpies to better understand how female magpies use aggression & vocalisation in social & reproductive competition. 🪶🦅
@mandyridley.bsky.social @lizziespeechley.bsky.social #LeighSimmons #UWA #AnimalBehaviour #SexualSelection

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Pau Carazo @paucarazo.bsky.social · Sep 1

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 👇

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Upama Aich @upama.bsky.social · Aug 26

Not every day you get to wear the aprons once used by Leigh Simmons and Joe Tomkins in the legendary dung beetle lab—where so much cool science on sexual selection and evolutionary ecology has been cooked up (sometimes literally 🪲💩)
@invertebrateissy.bsky.social @ceb-uwa.bsky.social

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EcoEvoRxiv @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social · Aug 17

The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

doi.org/10.32942/X24...

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EcoEvoRxiv @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social · Aug 5

"TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing"
doi.org/10.32942/X2D...

A checklist highlighting the key points of TADA: Transferable, Accessible, Documented, and Annotated code.

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LyrebirdLab @lyrebirdlab.bsky.social · Aug 18

Funded #PhD scholarship- Vocal mimicry in tooth-billed bowerbirds at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment Western Sydney University ‪‪@animalecolab.bsky.social‬
@drbackhouse.bsky.social @westsyduhie.bsky.social‬
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Deadline: 30 Sept25 link: tinyurl.com/4uf92t5b

Lithograph of Tooth-billed bowerbirds C1925 by Henrik Gronvold

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Curtis Suttle @virosphere.bsky.social · Oct 27

Please share: @UBCScience is searching for 15 TT faculty in diverse areas of expertise science.ubc.ca/about/careers. Included are 2 positions in Quantitative and Environmental Science as part of a hiring cluster for black faculty; you will join 6 current UBC faculty science.ubc.ca/blackscholars.

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Bruno Alves Buzatto @brunobuzatto.bsky.social · Aug 18

My legendary students Incheol Shin and Seb Hayden published a fantastic study on kin recognition and the evolution of lethal fights in bulb mites, well done guys!

academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Media attention here:

econews.com.au/67589/meet-t...

www.ecovoice.com.au/meet-the-tin...

Mate competition and relatedness among males mediate the evolution of lethal fights in bulb mites

Abstract. Aggression can enhance direct fitness by aiding aggressors in securing reproductive resources, but it negatively impacts inclusive fitness when d

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Matt Hall @mattdhall.bsky.social · Aug 7

The final round this year for international PhD scholarships at Monash are now open (August 31st 2025). Interested in evolutionary ecology, global change, sex differences, and/or infectious disease? Maybe some ecotox together with @bbmwong.bsky.social. Get in touch. There will be Daphnia involved...

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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · Aug 7

What you eat when you eat matters!

Diet during development vs adulthood affects survival, fertility, and stress resistance — differently in male & female fruit flies.
Same calories, different outcomes.

Chandrakanth et al.: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Context-dependent effects of developmental and adult diet on life-history traits in Drosophila melanogaster

Abstract. Life-history traits such as body size, reproduction, survival, and stress resistance are fundamental to an organism’s fitness and are highly infl

doi.org

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Australasian Evolution Society @austevolsoc.bsky.social · Aug 5

Calling all evolutionary biologists!

**AES 2025 Conference**

📍 UQ Brisbane | 🗓 1–3 Oct

**Talks close 1 Sept**

Don’t miss out — submit & join us for three days of cutting-edge science + community!

aes.corsizio.com/event/685405...

#AES2025 #Evolution #ECR #SciComm #AusSci

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Upama Aich @upama.bsky.social · Aug 6

Read the full paper here: (2/2)
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Many butterflies possess a combination of characters at the posterior hindwing end, superficially resembling their head. This false head has been hypothesized to deflect predator attacks towards the f...

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Upama Aich @upama.bsky.social · Aug 6

Some butterflies adapted to have second ‘heads’ that confuse predators | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... (1/2)

Some butterflies adapted to have second ‘heads’ that confuse predators

A new evolutionary analysis of butterflies finds “false heads” arose from the coalescence of multiple traits

www.science.org

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Conservation Physiology @conphysjournal.bsky.social · Aug 1

In the #Anthropocene, species face multiple, severe stressors which may be anticipated to interact in harmful ways.

This #Perspective explores a more hopeful alternative: that stressors interact in a cross-protective manner.

Learn more here ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/conp...
🐸 🐦‍⬛ 🐝

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Prof. Nicholas Chilton @nfchilton.bsky.social · Aug 2

@scienceanu.bsky.social @uomresearchit.bsky.social

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Centre for Evolutionary Biology at UWA @ceb-uwa.bsky.social · Jul 30

This afternoon, CEB talk was presented by @hasbeanbeetle.bsky.social, who is studying elytral melanisation as female ornamentation in seed beetles. The live beetle props entertained our audience! 🪲🐞

Aadhi is supervised by Dr Natasha Lebas, Assoc Profs Joe Tomkins & Jason Kennington, & Dr Rob Dugand

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · Jul 31

We are doing a Hackathon! 💻 Together with senior editor @nhcooper123.bsky.social , we'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible... (1/2)

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Skyler Berardi @skylerberardi.bsky.social · Jul 31

Check out our paper in Evolution Letters!

We used D. melanogaster pigmentation as a focal trait to explore parallelism in phenotypic and genomic responses to environmental change - read more at the link below 👇

Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social · Jul 31

How predictably does complex trait adaptation proceed over space and time in wild populations?
doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by @skylerberardi.bsky.social, @paulrschmidt.bsky.social et al.

📷: Dr. Rush Dhillon

Figure showing the experimental overview as a graphic. Remaining alt text taken from the figure caption in the paper: (A) we sampled flies from six wild orchard populations ranging from Homestead, FL, to Lancaster, MA, and established isofemale lines in the laboratory. (B) We returned to a focal orchard in Media, PA, at early- and late-season timepoints and collected flies to capture evolutionary patterns following winter and summer conditions. (C) We then seeded outdoor mesocosms (N = 9) with an outbred population originating from early-season collections in Media, PA, and sampled flies at the end of summer (mid-season) and fall (late-season) to determine if seasonal patterns are recapitulated in experimental populations controlled for migration, drift, and cryptic population structure. (D) Across each wild or experimental context, we sampled flies, established lines in the lab, completed common garden treatment to remove environmental effects, and scored females for abdominal pigmentation. We also conducted pooled DNA sequencing on additional flies sampled from each population to map genomic patterns for candidate pigmentation SNPs.

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