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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The winners of our 2025 infographic competition are up! Visit our website for the results www.asab.org/education-news . Here are some of the judges favourite to wet your whistles! Well done to all the entrants.
November 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The winners of our 2025 infographic competition are up! Visit our website for the results www.asab.org/education-news . Here are some of the judges favourite to wet your whistles! Well done to all the entrants.
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📣CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!!
The next deadline for the #GodfreyHewitt mobility award is 31st January 2026. Open to ECRS in support of research trips or lab visits.
For more information, eligibility and how to apply: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...
The next deadline for the #GodfreyHewitt mobility award is 31st January 2026. Open to ECRS in support of research trips or lab visits.
For more information, eligibility and how to apply: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...
November 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
📣CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!!
The next deadline for the #GodfreyHewitt mobility award is 31st January 2026. Open to ECRS in support of research trips or lab visits.
For more information, eligibility and how to apply: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...
The next deadline for the #GodfreyHewitt mobility award is 31st January 2026. Open to ECRS in support of research trips or lab visits.
For more information, eligibility and how to apply: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...
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Large-eyed animals like owls 🦉 have a trade-off between large eyes & short optic nerves, which lowers eye mobility (to compensate they evolved swivelly necks)
But chameleons 🦎 have long, coiled optic nerves with extra slack for eye mobility, allowing them to use their famous large swivelly eyes 👀🧪🌏
But chameleons 🦎 have long, coiled optic nerves with extra slack for eye mobility, allowing them to use their famous large swivelly eyes 👀🧪🌏
The twisted secret behind a chameleon’s oddball eyes | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
The twisted secret behind a chameleon’s oddball eyes
Coiled nerves allow the reptiles to move their peepers in multiple directions at once without moving their heads
www.science.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Large-eyed animals like owls 🦉 have a trade-off between large eyes & short optic nerves, which lowers eye mobility (to compensate they evolved swivelly necks)
But chameleons 🦎 have long, coiled optic nerves with extra slack for eye mobility, allowing them to use their famous large swivelly eyes 👀🧪🌏
But chameleons 🦎 have long, coiled optic nerves with extra slack for eye mobility, allowing them to use their famous large swivelly eyes 👀🧪🌏
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1/n We have discovered that bees can keep track of time duration!
Bees can discriminate long 🟡🟡 vs short🟡 flashes, a bit like the "dash" and "dot" of the Morse code.
Check our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... and videoclip youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?... @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
Bees can discriminate long 🟡🟡 vs short🟡 flashes, a bit like the "dash" and "dot" of the Morse code.
Check our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... and videoclip youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?... @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 8:58 AM
1/n We have discovered that bees can keep track of time duration!
Bees can discriminate long 🟡🟡 vs short🟡 flashes, a bit like the "dash" and "dot" of the Morse code.
Check our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... and videoclip youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?... @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
Bees can discriminate long 🟡🟡 vs short🟡 flashes, a bit like the "dash" and "dot" of the Morse code.
Check our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... and videoclip youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?... @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
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A biologist at the American Museum of Natural History, Jonathan Coddington, cataloged a new genus of South American spiders in 1986.
Two things about the spider were unique:
they lived in caves & laid cubic eggs.
So he called them genus 'Plato', and that's the nerdiest thing I have read all year.
Two things about the spider were unique:
they lived in caves & laid cubic eggs.
So he called them genus 'Plato', and that's the nerdiest thing I have read all year.
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
A biologist at the American Museum of Natural History, Jonathan Coddington, cataloged a new genus of South American spiders in 1986.
Two things about the spider were unique:
they lived in caves & laid cubic eggs.
So he called them genus 'Plato', and that's the nerdiest thing I have read all year.
Two things about the spider were unique:
they lived in caves & laid cubic eggs.
So he called them genus 'Plato', and that's the nerdiest thing I have read all year.
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Think your fishery has no data? Think again. Learn how to uncover hidden catch info 🕵️♀️🐟 bit.ly/catchrecon
Sea Around Us launches catch reconstruction course to empower global fisheries research | Sea Around Us
Catch reconstruction video tutorials.
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Think your fishery has no data? Think again. Learn how to uncover hidden catch info 🕵️♀️🐟 bit.ly/catchrecon
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New publication out, highlighting the link between genetic diversity (GD) and policy! 🧬📜
"Conserving genetic diversity in accordance with the Global Biodiversity Framework"
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
We summarize the highlights in this thread. 🧵
"Conserving genetic diversity in accordance with the Global Biodiversity Framework"
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
We summarize the highlights in this thread. 🧵
Conserving Genetic and Genomic Diversity in Accordance with the Global Biodiversity Framework
Adopted in December 2022, the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) under the Convention on Biological Diversity outlines a visionary road map guiding humanity's relationship wit...
www.annualreviews.org
November 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
New publication out, highlighting the link between genetic diversity (GD) and policy! 🧬📜
"Conserving genetic diversity in accordance with the Global Biodiversity Framework"
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
We summarize the highlights in this thread. 🧵
"Conserving genetic diversity in accordance with the Global Biodiversity Framework"
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
We summarize the highlights in this thread. 🧵
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"Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said."
Jamaicans Have Been Turning to Solar Power. It Paid Off After the Storm.
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said."
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There are two populations of white rhinos (Ceratotherium simum): Northern & Southern.
The Northern white rhino is functionally extinct. The last male, 'Sudan', died in 2018.
Two females remain, leaving only the possibility of artificial insemination with frozen sperm.
The Northern white rhino is functionally extinct. The last male, 'Sudan', died in 2018.
Two females remain, leaving only the possibility of artificial insemination with frozen sperm.
Stem cell breakthrough could save the northern white rhino
To save the northern white rhino species from extinction, researchers are turning stored rhino tissue samples into sperm and egg cells.
www.freethink.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
There are two populations of white rhinos (Ceratotherium simum): Northern & Southern.
The Northern white rhino is functionally extinct. The last male, 'Sudan', died in 2018.
Two females remain, leaving only the possibility of artificial insemination with frozen sperm.
The Northern white rhino is functionally extinct. The last male, 'Sudan', died in 2018.
Two females remain, leaving only the possibility of artificial insemination with frozen sperm.
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Congrats @rodrigodomingues.bsky.social!!!! 🦈🦈🦈
Over seventy years after DNA’s structure was first described, its code is now helping Rodrigo Domingues understand Brazil’s endangered guitarfishes.
Genetic studies are showing us how these elusive rays evolve, adapt, and what it may take to ensure their survival.
saveourseas.com/update/four-...
Genetic studies are showing us how these elusive rays evolve, adapt, and what it may take to ensure their survival.
saveourseas.com/update/four-...
Four letters, countless possibilities: Using DNA to protect Brazil’s Guitarfishes
In their article describing the double-helix structure of the DNA molecule, Watson and Crick, whose breakthrough was made possible by Rosalind Franklin’s critical X-ray diffraction data, wrote: “We wi...
saveourseas.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Congrats @rodrigodomingues.bsky.social!!!! 🦈🦈🦈
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Over seventy years after DNA’s structure was first described, its code is now helping Rodrigo Domingues understand Brazil’s endangered guitarfishes.
Genetic studies are showing us how these elusive rays evolve, adapt, and what it may take to ensure their survival.
saveourseas.com/update/four-...
Genetic studies are showing us how these elusive rays evolve, adapt, and what it may take to ensure their survival.
saveourseas.com/update/four-...
Four letters, countless possibilities: Using DNA to protect Brazil’s Guitarfishes
In their article describing the double-helix structure of the DNA molecule, Watson and Crick, whose breakthrough was made possible by Rosalind Franklin’s critical X-ray diffraction data, wrote: “We wi...
saveourseas.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Over seventy years after DNA’s structure was first described, its code is now helping Rodrigo Domingues understand Brazil’s endangered guitarfishes.
Genetic studies are showing us how these elusive rays evolve, adapt, and what it may take to ensure their survival.
saveourseas.com/update/four-...
Genetic studies are showing us how these elusive rays evolve, adapt, and what it may take to ensure their survival.
saveourseas.com/update/four-...
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I am 1 chapter in to @lukekemp.bsky.social 's Goliath's Curse, and it's already one of the best books, and most timely, that I have ever read. Do yourself a favour and pick it up ASAP.
November 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I am 1 chapter in to @lukekemp.bsky.social 's Goliath's Curse, and it's already one of the best books, and most timely, that I have ever read. Do yourself a favour and pick it up ASAP.
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🇪🇺 @dtobioflow.bsky.social aims to:
🔵 unlock “sleeping” #BiodiversityData that are inaccessible
🔵 create a digital replica of marine biological processes
🔵 harmonise standards and protocols to make biodiversity data interoperable
🔗 tinyurl.com/2mhjzzd2
🌊🧪 #MarineEcology #PhDSky #DTO #AcademicSky
🔵 unlock “sleeping” #BiodiversityData that are inaccessible
🔵 create a digital replica of marine biological processes
🔵 harmonise standards and protocols to make biodiversity data interoperable
🔗 tinyurl.com/2mhjzzd2
🌊🧪 #MarineEcology #PhDSky #DTO #AcademicSky
November 6, 2025 at 8:54 AM
🇪🇺 @dtobioflow.bsky.social aims to:
🔵 unlock “sleeping” #BiodiversityData that are inaccessible
🔵 create a digital replica of marine biological processes
🔵 harmonise standards and protocols to make biodiversity data interoperable
🔗 tinyurl.com/2mhjzzd2
🌊🧪 #MarineEcology #PhDSky #DTO #AcademicSky
🔵 unlock “sleeping” #BiodiversityData that are inaccessible
🔵 create a digital replica of marine biological processes
🔵 harmonise standards and protocols to make biodiversity data interoperable
🔗 tinyurl.com/2mhjzzd2
🌊🧪 #MarineEcology #PhDSky #DTO #AcademicSky
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With @aconga.bsky.social we wrote a short Dispatch to highlight two awesome companion papers in @currentbiology.bsky.social by @jeffgroh.bsky.social, @gcbias.bsky.social and by Liu et al. on how the control of heterodichogamy is going nuts in the Juglandaceae :
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
November 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
With @aconga.bsky.social we wrote a short Dispatch to highlight two awesome companion papers in @currentbiology.bsky.social by @jeffgroh.bsky.social, @gcbias.bsky.social and by Liu et al. on how the control of heterodichogamy is going nuts in the Juglandaceae :
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Hermaphroditic plants also use TIME ⏰🌿 to avoid selfing.
Two new @currentbiology.bsky.social papers explore the rapid turnover of this trait in the wingnut family.
Both @vincentcastric.bsky.social and I summarized these findings 👉 authors.elsevier.com/a/1m2MA3QW8S...
#Evolution #PlantBiology
Two new @currentbiology.bsky.social papers explore the rapid turnover of this trait in the wingnut family.
Both @vincentcastric.bsky.social and I summarized these findings 👉 authors.elsevier.com/a/1m2MA3QW8S...
#Evolution #PlantBiology
November 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Hermaphroditic plants also use TIME ⏰🌿 to avoid selfing.
Two new @currentbiology.bsky.social papers explore the rapid turnover of this trait in the wingnut family.
Both @vincentcastric.bsky.social and I summarized these findings 👉 authors.elsevier.com/a/1m2MA3QW8S...
#Evolution #PlantBiology
Two new @currentbiology.bsky.social papers explore the rapid turnover of this trait in the wingnut family.
Both @vincentcastric.bsky.social and I summarized these findings 👉 authors.elsevier.com/a/1m2MA3QW8S...
#Evolution #PlantBiology
Good morning New York City!!! And good morning Virginia and New Jersey!
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Good morning New York City!!! And good morning Virginia and New Jersey!
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Looking for a #PhD?
Interested in #SocialBehaviour #BiologicalMarkets #Fieldwork?
Want to be based in #Bristol?
Check out this project with me, @ljnbrent.bsky.social & #PatrickKennedy:
tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
For UK-domiciled Black-heritage applicants
Get in touch for more information
Please #share
Interested in #SocialBehaviour #BiologicalMarkets #Fieldwork?
Want to be based in #Bristol?
Check out this project with me, @ljnbrent.bsky.social & #PatrickKennedy:
tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
For UK-domiciled Black-heritage applicants
Get in touch for more information
Please #share
Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage - Biological market monitoring and manipulation in social animals at Unive...
PhD Project - Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage - Biological market monitoring and manipulation in social an...
www.findaphd.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Looking for a #PhD?
Interested in #SocialBehaviour #BiologicalMarkets #Fieldwork?
Want to be based in #Bristol?
Check out this project with me, @ljnbrent.bsky.social & #PatrickKennedy:
tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
For UK-domiciled Black-heritage applicants
Get in touch for more information
Please #share
Interested in #SocialBehaviour #BiologicalMarkets #Fieldwork?
Want to be based in #Bristol?
Check out this project with me, @ljnbrent.bsky.social & #PatrickKennedy:
tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
For UK-domiciled Black-heritage applicants
Get in touch for more information
Please #share
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Interested in thermal biology? Please join our new and growing grass roots initiative, the Thermal Ecology Alliance, initiated by @patricepottier.bsky.social. 🧪🐟🦑🌡️
Sign up here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org#participation
Check who already signed up:
www.thermalecologyalliance.org#community
Sign up here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org#participation
Check who already signed up:
www.thermalecologyalliance.org#community
November 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Interested in thermal biology? Please join our new and growing grass roots initiative, the Thermal Ecology Alliance, initiated by @patricepottier.bsky.social. 🧪🐟🦑🌡️
Sign up here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org#participation
Check who already signed up:
www.thermalecologyalliance.org#community
Sign up here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org#participation
Check who already signed up:
www.thermalecologyalliance.org#community
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🔁 EU Maritime & Fish
Save the date: 2–6 March 2026 for #EUOceanDays
European Ocean Days return to Brussels.
A week for ocean community to connect and work together, on blue skills, innovation with #BlueInvest, #MissionOcean progress, and the take first steps under the #EUOceanPact.
More soon.
Save the date: 2–6 March 2026 for #EUOceanDays
European Ocean Days return to Brussels.
A week for ocean community to connect and work together, on blue skills, innovation with #BlueInvest, #MissionOcean progress, and the take first steps under the #EUOceanPact.
More soon.
November 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
🔁 EU Maritime & Fish
Save the date: 2–6 March 2026 for #EUOceanDays
European Ocean Days return to Brussels.
A week for ocean community to connect and work together, on blue skills, innovation with #BlueInvest, #MissionOcean progress, and the take first steps under the #EUOceanPact.
More soon.
Save the date: 2–6 March 2026 for #EUOceanDays
European Ocean Days return to Brussels.
A week for ocean community to connect and work together, on blue skills, innovation with #BlueInvest, #MissionOcean progress, and the take first steps under the #EUOceanPact.
More soon.
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2025. Bridging worlds: exploring synergies between the arts and biodiversity conservation. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Bridging worlds: exploring synergies between the arts and biodiversity conservation
Collaborations between biodiversity conservation and the arts can lead to synergies and fresh approaches to intractable problems. These collaborations can yield diverse mutual benefits, such as offer...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:35 AM
2025. Bridging worlds: exploring synergies between the arts and biodiversity conservation. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Guess I’m just gonna leave this video here as my intro tweet :) 🕷️💤 In my group, we study spider sleep! :) m.youtube.com/watch?v=BTcc...
Do Spiders Dream Like Humans Do? This Researcher Wants to Find Out.
YouTube video by Scientific American
m.youtube.com
November 17, 2024 at 11:58 AM
Guess I’m just gonna leave this video here as my intro tweet :) 🕷️💤 In my group, we study spider sleep! :) m.youtube.com/watch?v=BTcc...
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Welcome to the 2025 #Nudivember art challenge!
Like last year, here is a list of some lesser known, yet always fabulous, nudibranch species.
Participate as much or as little as you want in any art form you like.
Make sure to use #Nudivember and use alt text!
Like last year, here is a list of some lesser known, yet always fabulous, nudibranch species.
Participate as much or as little as you want in any art form you like.
Make sure to use #Nudivember and use alt text!
October 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Welcome to the 2025 #Nudivember art challenge!
Like last year, here is a list of some lesser known, yet always fabulous, nudibranch species.
Participate as much or as little as you want in any art form you like.
Make sure to use #Nudivember and use alt text!
Like last year, here is a list of some lesser known, yet always fabulous, nudibranch species.
Participate as much or as little as you want in any art form you like.
Make sure to use #Nudivember and use alt text!
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No Free Lunch: Sustainable Aquaculture Requires Recognizing Past Science, Improvements, and Comparative Assessment, Reviews in Aquaculture 18, no. 1 (2026): e70098, doi.org/10.1111/raq.....
No Free Lunch: Sustainable Aquaculture Requires Recognizing Past Science, Improvements, and Comparative Assessment
Aquaculture has become an established and important part of the global food system. Several critiques of aquaculture continue to resurface, seemingly ignoring past research and improvements of (1) aq...
doi.org
October 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
No Free Lunch: Sustainable Aquaculture Requires Recognizing Past Science, Improvements, and Comparative Assessment, Reviews in Aquaculture 18, no. 1 (2026): e70098, doi.org/10.1111/raq.....