Oh, you're tired after taking care of your one kid for the entire day?

New research of strange “cycad” plants offers a glimpse into the prehistoric origins of pollination

🚨 New PhD opportunity 🚨 studying foraging movements of #masonbees using novel tracking technology and metabarcoding! With me and @domino-joyce.fishsci.com.ap.brid.gy at Hull and Mike Smith at Sheffield. More at FindAPhD www.findaphd.com/phds/project... or message me directly :)

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students.

I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Delighted to publish Forum Article by @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social et al:

"Journals run by learned societies or universities have more ethical policies while being cheaper and similarly cited"

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Thank you for choosing JEB - we encourage the support of #societyjournals

🚨New #behavioural #mimicry paper out in Proc B!🚨
In which we show that hoverflies have evolved to prefer the flower colour choices of their #bee models instead of their #fly relatives.
Conversation article here: theconversation.com/natures-grea...
Paper here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Dr Mark “Spider Man” Harvey, Western Australian Museum Research Associate and Associate Editor of our journal Invertebrate Systematics, has reached an extraordinary milestone: he has described 1,000th species.

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

#InvertebrateSys

📖Cover Stories!📖

📙Dr. Russell Bonduriansky discusses the story behind the cover of Volume 30, Issue 10, published in 2016!

📸Russell shares his memories of capturing neriid flies in combat and how, thanks to a chance encounter on a walk with his son, he came to study them🪰

buff.ly/7PmIZKW

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Join us! 🧬🪰🎉🔬

We are currently advertising two #PhD projects to study the #evolution, #development and #genomics of sexual traits in stalk-eyed flies.

Deadline for applying is Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Get in touch for more info!

@sderkarabetian.bsky.social et al. developed a metazoan ultraconserved element (UCE) probe set, providing a resource for multiple research groups working on vastly different animal lineages.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf193

#genome #evolution #compbio #phylogenetics

Applications for the Godfrey Hewitt Mobility (GHM) Award are open for PhD students/postdocs in evolutionary biology. Deadline: January 31, 2026. Max award: 2,000 Euros. More info: https://eseb.org/prizes-funding/godfrey-hewitt-mobility-award/

Boy, tell me your favorite song: early mating signal divergence in treehopper evolution
Summary & Analysis by Derek Wu of "The Means of Signal Divergence Early in a Host Shift" by Rodríguez et al.
www.amnat.org/an/newpapers...

Attention!! PhD positions in animal behavior!!

We're really happy to finally see this out in Integrative Zoology!

We investigated whether the type of breeding site influences the evolution of male weaponry, using Neotropical frogs from the subfamily Leptodactylinae as models. (1/3)

@uspoficial.bsky.social @cienciausp.bsky.social

Following funnel-web spiders — amazing work by Caitlin Creak:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Study initially by @braxtonjones.bsky.social, Danilo Harms and I (funded by NatGeo and AusGeo), taken up by Caitlin with Russell Bonduriansky and Mike Kasumovic. Congrats all, especially Caitlin! :)

Hey, folks!
I'm happy to share with you my presentation at the last @animbehsociety.bsky.social meeting, in Baltimore, MD, USA
🕷️. These are preliminary results of my internship in the United Kingdom, at @universityofhull.bsky.social. Hope you enjoy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqGk...