So today I learned there are little doors in the gates to the Colosseum in Rome because the city cats go there at night to sleep. cc @darthbluesky.bsky.social

Applications for the 2027 summer school on Computational Molecular Evolution on Crete are now open at: meetings.embo.org/event/27-com...

For the handful of people out there studying Schistocephalus solidus tapeworms (which infect copepods, stickleback, and birds): we just wrapped up a new & improved genome assembly using long read, Hi-C, and short read sequencing. Not published yet, but reach out if it would be helpful

Preprint alert! 🧪 🐟 If you are interested in #LongTermStudies #BalancingSelection #KinCompetition check out our new MS. Mini thread below 🧵:

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology@biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 3w ago

Competition among kin generates balancing selection in a wild population https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.11.737918v1

We have a fully funded PhD position on European eel! Please spread! 🐟 🪱 Main supervisor Josefin Sundin @josefin-sundin.bsky.social at SLU Aqua Stockholm (scholar.google.com/citations?us...). Apply through the portal: www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Back to Switzerland after the blast that was #ExE2026! Fantastic talks and posters, lovely people, biggest gulls I’ve seen in my life! Very pleased to present our cool time-machine eyes to this lovely crowd 🧿 See you all in Edinburgh 🍺

Excited to be at #SMBE2026 and looking forward to so many interesting talks and posters! I'll be presenting a poster today on pervasive hybridization and conservation challenges on a very cool group of freshwater fish 🐟🐟 at Arkaden 4+5. Come say hi! (if you can find the posters upstairs)

My poster and I on our way to #ExE2026 in #Cornwall! If you want to learn about peeling eyes (yes, you read it right) & what insights we get about individuals’ dietary history come say hi! 🧿

We are looking for a motivated and collaborative MSc student to join us @humboldtuni.bsky.social for their thesis on body mass inequality in Arabian babblers. Preferably based in Berlin. Co-supervised with brilliant @benmocha.bsky.social Call: danaipapageorgiou.weebly.com/join-us.html

Floating down the Aare between Thun and Bern feels like an appropriate start of the few summer weeks I have in Switzerland before heading to the big cold of Greenland.

One of the most striking patterns from today’s historic vote: The higher the share of non-Swiss residents in a municipality, the *lower* the support for the far-right SVP initiative to cap Switzerland’s population at 10M. The contact hypothesis holds up well! Plot (c): @marcokistler.bsky.social

Fully-funded 4-year PhD-position available! The PhD-student will investigate the effects of restocking European eel. The position will be based at SLU Aqua in Stockholm, Sweden. Application deadline is July 6. Info about the PhD-position and link to apply: www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

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Polymorphisms are fun to study, here is a butterfly one. Negative freq.dependence works to maintain things but where does it come from? Temporal variation works but not always! @koraklein.bsky.social and @chriswheat.bsky.social looked into this in detail. royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

Emergence time difference can create negative frequency dependence and maintain a colour polymorphism in Colias butterflies

Abstract. Many species of Colias butterflies show a female-limited colour polymorphism where the dominant Alba allele leads to white wings, faster developm

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Almost synchronously with our new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper on “Levelling: behaviours that constrain inequality in animal societies”, I'm also excited to advertise the first PhD student position in my Emmy Noether project @humboldtuni.bsky.social

In our new TREE paper, with M. Borgerhoff Mulder, S. Brosnan and E. Strauss we show that power in animal societies can be subject to control. When high-powered individuals use aggression to gain better access to resources, other group members can respond with "levelling". doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Excited to share that our paper on mirror use in octopuses is published today in @currentbiology.bsky.social! This is the first time mirror-mediated spatial navigation has been demonstrated in an invertebrate. 🐙 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Octopus bimaculoides can learn to utilize a mirror to localize a reward outside the line of sight

Mirror-mediated localization of hidden objects is well documented in vertebrates1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 but has never been demonstrated in inverteb…

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📢Job alert: #Curator (m/f/d) for the #Ornithology collection at @leibnizlib.bsky.social in Hamburg. 🐦🦉🦅🪶🥚 Application deadline: July 1, 2026. For more details and application see: 8101202752.karriereportal.cloud/job/2026-18-.... Please share.

I am looking for a MSc student to conduct their thesis within my PhD project on multimodal communication in common marmosets! 🐒🌞 You will be part of the Evolutionary Cognition Group at UZH (@nccrlanguage.bsky.social). Unpaid position (funding options would need to be applied for by the candidate).

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Journal of Experimental Biology@jexpbiol.bsky.social · 2mo ago

DEET is a key insect repellent that stops mosquitoes from biting but now research by @crlazzari.bsky.social & co reveals that the insects can learn to associate DEET with dinner if they smell it when dining on blood, leading them to bite people using DEET doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Really excited to share that one part of my PhD research is now publicly accessible on preprint servers! Here is a thread explaining our (@kokkonut.bsky.social and I) work on ageing and stochastic damage/failure accumulation, available as a preprint at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Both @nilomr.bsky.social & @andreaestandia.bsky.social have a superb eye for design of data visualisation coupled with cutting-edge bioinformatic, ML & Bayesian statistical analysis - have a look at their new company website sedum.studio

Sedum Studio | Data Science, Visualization & ML Consulting

Data science, machine learning, and interactive visualization studio. Oxford-based researchers turn complex data into compelling insight. Remote & worldwide.

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Ben Sheldon@sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Many of my group round for dinner last night on a beautiful evening to wish @andreaestandia.bsky.social & @nilomr.bsky.social well as they move back to Spain. Both of them did DPhils here then postdocs & brought so much to Oxford & @egioxford.bsky.social in terms of science, culture & friendship

We have a full time permanent technician position open, specialising in fish. Based at the John Krebs Field Station out at Wytham (University of Oxford). @biology.ox.ac.uk my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

I guess she’s helping..?

Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

Fantastic PhD opportunity linking cognition and conservation in an iconic corvid species! Get your applications in!

Dr Rachael Miller (Harrison)@drrmiller.bsky.social · 3mo ago

PhD Opportunity! 4-year funded PhD @uniexecec.bsky.social: “From cognition to conservation: using cognitive and behavioural research to enhance animal reintroductions”. Closes: 5 June 2026. Funding: @royalsociety.org (UK/Home students only). More info & to apply: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 1/

Took me a whole year, but I had my first swiss hike on the Queen of the mountains!

SIXTY-TWO FEET LONG OCTOPIECES! YESSSS! 🐙🧪

Asher Elbein@asherelbein.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is wild: the authors find evidence for giant, macro-predatory octopuses in Late Cretaceous oceans that might max out at *62 feet long,* comfortably large enough to attack, kill and eat mosasaurs

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs. But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅 First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti. #rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

Happy Avril 14th to those who celebrate: youtu.be/uxTdTaNIUxo?...

Avril 14th

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