Chiara Benvenuto
@cbenvenuto.bsky.social
Evolutionary behavioural ecologist born on the Mediterranean Sea, in love with aquatic organisms. Coffeeholic. I like to see the world through camera lens, to get it in focus. 🐟🦈🦐🦀 Sexual systems-sequential hermaphroditism-biodiversity
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Lovely start to the year - 1st paper of #PhD student #NatalieTegtman out in latest issue of @asab.org #AnimalBehaviour
How a novel #call changes responses to #alarms:
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
CONGRATULATIONS Natalie; thanks #RobMagrath; Happy New Year all. 🎉
#animalcommunication #birds #fairywren
How a novel #call changes responses to #alarms:
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
CONGRATULATIONS Natalie; thanks #RobMagrath; Happy New Year all. 🎉
#animalcommunication #birds #fairywren
January 2, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Lovely start to the year - 1st paper of #PhD student #NatalieTegtman out in latest issue of @asab.org #AnimalBehaviour
How a novel #call changes responses to #alarms:
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
CONGRATULATIONS Natalie; thanks #RobMagrath; Happy New Year all. 🎉
#animalcommunication #birds #fairywren
How a novel #call changes responses to #alarms:
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
CONGRATULATIONS Natalie; thanks #RobMagrath; Happy New Year all. 🎉
#animalcommunication #birds #fairywren
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We hope you've got "submit my awesome cetacean stories to Whale Tales" on your 2026 resolution list!
#WhaleTales
#WhaleTales
January 1, 2026 at 9:30 PM
We hope you've got "submit my awesome cetacean stories to Whale Tales" on your 2026 resolution list!
#WhaleTales
#WhaleTales
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Important warning
January 1, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Important warning
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Apply for a PhD position in the Pan lab @miyapan.bsky.social at MPI Biology 🇩🇪 to study the molecular mechanisms and evolution of sex determination in haplodiploid insects 🐜🐝.
December 30, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Apply for a PhD position in the Pan lab @miyapan.bsky.social at MPI Biology 🇩🇪 to study the molecular mechanisms and evolution of sex determination in haplodiploid insects 🐜🐝.
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Our perspective piece in @pacificconsbio.bsky.social provides 8 strategies for "Increasing Pacific Islander research and authorship in the academic literature". @romiteshkant.bsky.social @mereoni.bsky.social @rufinovarea.bsky.social Free to download: www.publish.csiro.au/PC/PC25011
July 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Our perspective piece in @pacificconsbio.bsky.social provides 8 strategies for "Increasing Pacific Islander research and authorship in the academic literature". @romiteshkant.bsky.social @mereoni.bsky.social @rufinovarea.bsky.social Free to download: www.publish.csiro.au/PC/PC25011
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Historian here if you want to read one piece that will explain neo colonialism in post independence Africa read this review by @hofrench.bsky.social in @thenation.com of Professor Mamdanis brilliant book Slow Poison. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Mahmood Mamdani’s Uganda
In his new book Slow Poison, the accomplished anthropologist revisits the Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni years.
www.thenation.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Historian here if you want to read one piece that will explain neo colonialism in post independence Africa read this review by @hofrench.bsky.social in @thenation.com of Professor Mamdanis brilliant book Slow Poison. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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The sea in winter is majestic! #MediterraneanSea #LaMiaLiguria
December 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The sea in winter is majestic! #MediterraneanSea #LaMiaLiguria
Best Nativity scene, from Circolo Pescatori Dilettanti Rapallesi! Merry Fishmas everyone!!! 🐙🦞🦀🦑🦐 #MediterraneanSea #LaMiaLiguria
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Best Nativity scene, from Circolo Pescatori Dilettanti Rapallesi! Merry Fishmas everyone!!! 🐙🦞🦀🦑🦐 #MediterraneanSea #LaMiaLiguria
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A Newsweek article on Turritopsis, featuring insights and commentary from Mike Layden, Christy Schnitzler, and Maria Pia Miglietta, explaining the importance of studying cnidarian species to advance our knowledge of regeneration and stem cell biology. A nice read! www.newsweek.com/the-immortal...
The 'immortal' animal that can cheat death
One ocean-dwelling creature found in many tropic waters is known to be able to reserve its own life cycle, cheating death.
www.newsweek.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
A Newsweek article on Turritopsis, featuring insights and commentary from Mike Layden, Christy Schnitzler, and Maria Pia Miglietta, explaining the importance of studying cnidarian species to advance our knowledge of regeneration and stem cell biology. A nice read! www.newsweek.com/the-immortal...
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If you’re sad #ASABWinter2025 is over, have no fear! #ASABSpring2025 🌼 is coming soon, from March 23-25 at Bristol University. It’s an especially fantastic meeting for students and ECRs 🤠
Don’t forget travel grants are due Feb 1!
www.asab.org/conferences-...
Don’t forget travel grants are due Feb 1!
www.asab.org/conferences-...
December 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
If you’re sad #ASABWinter2025 is over, have no fear! #ASABSpring2025 🌼 is coming soon, from March 23-25 at Bristol University. It’s an especially fantastic meeting for students and ECRs 🤠
Don’t forget travel grants are due Feb 1!
www.asab.org/conferences-...
Don’t forget travel grants are due Feb 1!
www.asab.org/conferences-...
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We should also thank the ASAB council for making these meetings happen each year! It’s incredible that #ASABWinter2025 is free of charge for participants 😍
December 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
We should also thank the ASAB council for making these meetings happen each year! It’s incredible that #ASABWinter2025 is free of charge for participants 😍
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Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
December 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
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"Productivity, I’ve come to see, is not measured only by research papers and grants. It is also sustained by presence, rest, and the relationships that give meaning to the work." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/3KNJ1Bm
December 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"Productivity, I’ve come to see, is not measured only by research papers and grants. It is also sustained by presence, rest, and the relationships that give meaning to the work." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/3KNJ1Bm
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A festive-season feast of crabs 🦀
This spectacular spread comes from Albertus Seba’s Cabinet of Curiosities, Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri (1734–1765). Consider this our contribution to #Crustmas ✨
#SciArt #NaturalHistory #ILoveBHL www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41072182 🧪
This spectacular spread comes from Albertus Seba’s Cabinet of Curiosities, Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri (1734–1765). Consider this our contribution to #Crustmas ✨
#SciArt #NaturalHistory #ILoveBHL www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41072182 🧪
December 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
A festive-season feast of crabs 🦀
This spectacular spread comes from Albertus Seba’s Cabinet of Curiosities, Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri (1734–1765). Consider this our contribution to #Crustmas ✨
#SciArt #NaturalHistory #ILoveBHL www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41072182 🧪
This spectacular spread comes from Albertus Seba’s Cabinet of Curiosities, Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri (1734–1765). Consider this our contribution to #Crustmas ✨
#SciArt #NaturalHistory #ILoveBHL www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41072182 🧪
Fascinating talk by @sjportugal.bsky.social #ASABWinter2025! I was particualrly thrilled by how they can plunge dive, but learned a lot about the effect of avian flu and collisons with wind farms @asab.org @asab-meetings.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Fascinating talk by @sjportugal.bsky.social #ASABWinter2025! I was particualrly thrilled by how they can plunge dive, but learned a lot about the effect of avian flu and collisons with wind farms @asab.org @asab-meetings.bsky.social
Thanks to @thembauk.bsky.social I have just discovered #FestiveOceanArt and I must say I love it! 🐙🦀🐟. Anyone has more festive marine creatures?
Shell-ebrating the holidays in style!
Drawing by Krystyna Nedza
Lots of fantastic artwork is being shared on our Festive Ocean Art Calendar this year — we’ll post some highlights below!
#FestiveOceanArt
Drawing by Krystyna Nedza
Lots of fantastic artwork is being shared on our Festive Ocean Art Calendar this year — we’ll post some highlights below!
#FestiveOceanArt
December 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Thanks to @thembauk.bsky.social I have just discovered #FestiveOceanArt and I must say I love it! 🐙🦀🐟. Anyone has more festive marine creatures?
Barbara Caspers #ASABWinter2025 - lab consumables of choice: black socks and muffin cups to be used with adult and baby zebra finches! @asab.org @asab-meetings.bsky.social. Great talk for @amyleedale.bsky.social @vixfranks.bsky.social @alice-risely.bsky.social...
December 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Barbara Caspers #ASABWinter2025 - lab consumables of choice: black socks and muffin cups to be used with adult and baby zebra finches! @asab.org @asab-meetings.bsky.social. Great talk for @amyleedale.bsky.social @vixfranks.bsky.social @alice-risely.bsky.social...
Such an inspiration to us all! I believe animal behaviour and behavioural ecology studies can use more theoretical inputs! Thansk @kokkonut.bsky.social!!! @asab.org @asab-meetings.bsky.social #ASABWinter2025
Congratulations to Hanna Kokko for receiving this year’s ASAB medal! Hanna has done extraordinary work and we are so pleased to honour her at #ASABWinter2025
December 16, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Such an inspiration to us all! I believe animal behaviour and behavioural ecology studies can use more theoretical inputs! Thansk @kokkonut.bsky.social!!! @asab.org @asab-meetings.bsky.social #ASABWinter2025
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The ASAB medal is awarded annually for contributions to the science of animal behaviour, including teaching, writing, broadcasting, research, and work on behalf of the association.
We’re seeking nominations for the ASAB medal in 2027! Learn more:
www.asab.org/asab-medal
We’re seeking nominations for the ASAB medal in 2027! Learn more:
www.asab.org/asab-medal
December 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The ASAB medal is awarded annually for contributions to the science of animal behaviour, including teaching, writing, broadcasting, research, and work on behalf of the association.
We’re seeking nominations for the ASAB medal in 2027! Learn more:
www.asab.org/asab-medal
We’re seeking nominations for the ASAB medal in 2027! Learn more:
www.asab.org/asab-medal
What a great way to start day2 #ASABwinter2025! @toshitakaszk.bsky.social can really understand the language of birds and shared it with us! @asab.org @asab-meetings.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
What a great way to start day2 #ASABwinter2025! @toshitakaszk.bsky.social can really understand the language of birds and shared it with us! @asab.org @asab-meetings.bsky.social
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Came to Edinburgh for #ASABWinter2025 🐥🎄
December 15, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Came to Edinburgh for #ASABWinter2025 🐥🎄
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Molecular Ecology | Molecular Genetics Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Opinion: Why Sex‐Based Genomic Differentiation Should Not Be Overlooked in Population Genetics
Sex-specific genomic differentiation is a crucial yet frequently overlooked factor in population genetics. In this opinion piece, we leverage the substantial genomic resources available for the great...
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November 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Molecular Ecology | Molecular Genetics Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...