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altnps.bsky.social
One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
February 14, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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nelsonlflores.bsky.social
It’s official. My university who told me for all of the years I have been a faculty person they it valued diversity all of a sudden decided it no longer does without even attempting to resist a legally questionable executive order.

www.thedp.com/article/2025...
Penn to introduce changes to University discrimination policies, remove term ‘diversity’
The changes include the renaming of several statements, offices, and policies, and the elimination of terms including “diversity.”
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February 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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exetermarine.bsky.social
NEW RESEARCH: Seamounts are a HUB for sharks!

New research on seamounts off Ascension Island has found that there are 41 TIMES the amount of sharks there than in the open ocean, despite no increase in primary productivity.

Read the full paper here - doi.org/10.1371/jour...

🦑🌊🦤🌍🌐🧪
#AcademicSky
February 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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andyradford.bsky.social
🎉CONGRATULATIONS🥂 to Lucy Westover on publishing her 🥇 paper in @royalsocietypublishing.org. Celebrating #ECR success is GREAT.
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social

#fieldwork #experiment #predation #noise #mongooses #vigilance #behaviour #ECR #Masters

#OpenAccess so please share:

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Lucy Westover holding her Masters thesis. Dwarf mongoose photo used on front cover of journal.
February 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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asab.org
An amazing resource from @asabeducation.bsky.social ! These worksheets are fantastic way to acknowledge and celebrate #WomenAndGirlsInScience #WomenInSTEM 👩‍🔬
asabeducation.bsky.social ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · Feb 11
Happy #WomenAndGirlsInScience Day. To celebrate we have some free worksheets to share with your young people. asab.org/education-news Thank you to these brilliant women for taking part - Professor Dorothy Cheney, Professor Anindita Bhadra, Dr Danielle Lee and Professor Sue Healy #WomeninSTEM
February 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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It’s never been more important to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩‍🔬

Here’s a collection of posts from last year about some of the remarkable historical #WomenInSTEM in the animal field:
February 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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sheldonbirds.bsky.social
100% endorse this. Also true at conferences etc
mplsoxford.bsky.social MPLS Division, University of Oxford @mplsoxford.bsky.social · Feb 11
The Advice I Wish I'd Received: IDWGS 2025

Professor Milner-Gulland from @biology.ox.ac.uk recommends seeking advice from senior researchers and the rewards of collaboration across career stages.

#WomenInScience #IDWGS2025
It's scary to ask for feedback and advice from senior people, especially when you're not confident that your work is good enough. I wish I'd known that equal and fun collaborations across career stages are possible, seeking advice can be a positive experience, and that senior people might find engaging with a student on their research to be the best part of their day. Photo: John Cairns
February 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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ollypoole.bsky.social
New paper out today from our lab. doi.org/10.1098/rsob...

We unpick the morphological 🧑‍🧒, physiological 🔬, behavioural 📟 and transcriptomic 🧬 differences contributing to female sex bias in migrating #hoverflies. See my work on flight performance in this paper 🪰💪🪽

@uniexecec.bsky.social
Multiple factors contribute to female dominance in migratory bioflows | Open Biology
Migration is a widely observed phenomenon supported by morphological, physiological and behavioural traits that vary with season and sex in many species. Recently, the genetic components underpinning migration in the marmalade hoverfly (Diptera: Syrphidae)...
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February 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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blongdon.bsky.social
Now with an @evolletters.bsky.social blog post about the work from study lead Ryan Imrie evolutionletters.net/examining-pa... @uniexecec.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Pericentromeric #heterochromatin clusters into chromocenters. @skrutlnize.bsky.social &co use quantitative mass spec to characterize the chromocenter proteome in multiple tissues, identifying a link between satellite DNA-binding proteins & #transposon repression🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/4akuNAi
Loss of D1 during embryogenesis triggers transposon expression in adult ovaries. Top: Ovaries from the indicated genotypes (D1 and aubergine mutants and heterozygotes, F1 and F2) were stained with Vasa (green) and DAPI (magenta). Bottom: RNA in situ hybridization against Copia (green) and total polyadenylated mRNA (blue) was performed in ovaries of the indicated genotypes that were also stained for DAPI (magenta). Yellow and black arrowheads indicate undifferentiated germ cells in the aubergine mutant germarium.
January 17, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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ajmoore.bsky.social
Ecology and Evolution (the journal) is here!
ecol-evol.bsky.social Ecology and Evolution @ecol-evol.bsky.social · Jan 17
Divorce rates predict reproductive success in little penguins: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ornithology
January 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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asab.org
There’s a lot of important dates coming up for #ASABSpring2025 & #Behaviour2025

ASAB Grants: asab.org/grant-overview
ASAB Spring: asabspring2025.github.io
Behaviour: behaviourindia2025.in

Make sure you also follow @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social & @behaviour2025.bsky.social for updates 😄
ASAB Important Upcoming Dates Logo of animals crossing the street as in the Beatles Abbey Road 2025 Asab SPRING MEETING Liverpool, UK Apr 23-25 Feb 1: ASAB travel grants due Feb 12: Abstracts due Apr 1: Registration ends Logo of a stylised tiger looking up at a tree and sun Behaviour Kolkata India 2025 Aug 25-30 Jan 31: Abstracts due Feb 28: Early bird registration ends Apr 1: ASAB travel grants due Apr 30: Regular registration ends
January 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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samillingworth.com
🌍 Droughts to Worsen in the Arabian Peninsula

A study projects severe droughts in the Arabian Peninsula by 2100, driven by evaporation rising 5x faster than rainfall.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm 🧪 #ClimateChange
Projected increase in droughts over the Arabian Peninsula and associated uncertainties - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Projected increase in droughts over the Arabian Peninsula and associated uncertainties
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January 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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jevbio.bsky.social
We are hiring! Looking for new editorial board members -

📚 Associate Editors x c.10
📚 Handling Editor x 1
📚 Commissioning Editor x1

More information and application procedure: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
January 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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acbowland.bsky.social
Thrilled to see our work covering the evolutionary ecology of ethanol on the cover of the January TREE issue 🎉. Stunning photo by Cyril Ruoso. @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social
@kjhockings.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @exetergses.bsky.social @evol-lab-ex.bsky.social
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January 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Congratulations to our #ASABWinter2024 video contest winner Snata Chakraborty 🏆🎥

See her video:

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Anchoring Bias in Web-shaking Behaviour of Spiders - by Snata Chakraborty
YouTube video by Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
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January 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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ellarson.bsky.social Erica Larson @ellarson.bsky.social · Jan 3
Very proud to share this outstanding work by @kelsiehunnicutt.bsky.social - now out in Genetics!
January 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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neddochtermann.bsky.social
I have a PhD position open to start fall semester 2025!

The position will include investigations of the structure of both phenotypic (behavioral) plasticity and genetic variation in behavior as well as lots of opportunity to develop your own project.
#Evolution #evobio #evolsky #Ecology 🧪
Flier for PhD position. Text with a lab logo at the bottom with a cricket silhouette of a cricket with antenna that look like normal curves. Also has a picture of a cricket (Acheta domesticus) on a white background. Text: Crickets! Behavior! Genetics! Statistics! The Dochtermann Lab in the Department of Biological Sciences at North Dakota State University is seeking to fill a PhD assistantship examining how selection has shaped phenotypic plasticity and patterns of genetic variance. The position will start Fall Semester 2025 and the incoming student will be joining a dynamic department (www.ndsu.edu/biology) and an interdisciplinary graduate program that provides a broad foundation for success (www.ndsu.edu/ecs). For more information about the lab visit www.neddochtermann.com If interested, please contact me at ned.dochtermann@gmail.com with a brief synopsis of your research interests. @neddochtermann.bsky.social
January 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
Deadline approaching for PhD studentship with @kofanchen.drosophila.social.ap.brid.gy & I (cosupervisor).

Neat study done on immune genes affecting neural processes. Our goal is to look at sleep X immunity using wild & mutant flies with immune diffs! #Drosophila
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Drosophila species
Individuals of a species need to allocate and perform vital behaviours such as searching for mate and food, and escaping from environmental threats along the 24 hours of a day. Locomotion serves as a ...
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January 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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flodebarre.bsky.social
If I get the times correctly, the WSJ announcement followed a meeting of China's National Health Commission (NHC), during which it was confirmed that the new virus was causing the pneumonia. The meeting is reported in @daliyang.bsky.social's book, Wuhan. ▫️2/

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screenshot of text: "On January 8, the NHC Expert Panel chaired by Xu Jianguo met to assess the laboratory results. The group concluded that the novel coronavirus as identified by the laboratories was the etiological agent causing the outbreak in Wuhan. The announcement of this conclusion came out the following day in the form of a bland Xinhua News Agency interview with Xu Jianguo."
January 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Nice work!
January 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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rebeccasear.bsky.social
Humans are not 'drinking alone': alcohol consumption is not unique to humans and may have benefits - including nutritional, medicinal or cognitive - in other species www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The evolutionary ecology of ethanol
The consumption of ethanol has frequently been seen as largely restricted to humans. Here, we take a broad eco-evolutionary approach to understanding …
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January 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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stubearhop.bsky.social
Good morning from Kenya. Day 3 begins as University of Exeter MSc Conservation and Biodiversity students up at sunrise to strike camp in Naivasha. @brendangodley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @exetergses.bsky.social
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January 7, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Postdoc in Hosken lab (UoExeter, UK) closing soon (evolution of body shape) get in touch if you are interested. Please repost.

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January 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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trishjmoore.bsky.social
Join us at UGA Entomology! We are searching for an assistant professor in quantitative insect ecology. Applications due January 31. www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/406...
Assistant Professor: Quantitative Insect Ecologist
The Department of Entomology at the University of Georgia (UGA) invites applications for a tenure-track position (9 months) in quantitative insect ecology at the Assistant Professor rank.The position ...
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January 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM