For anyone that missed my talk at @isbe2026.bsky.social - never you fear! You can watch my talk and read more about the new Replication Studies section at @behavecol.bsky.social right here! laskowskilab.faculty.ucdavis.edu/2026/07/22/r...
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
Please share your biological perspective on the definitions of reproductive terms by contributing to this research survey. #biology #reproduction #gametes
Tree of Sex@treeofsex.bsky.social · last mo.Okay once more for the #SMBE2026 crowd! If you haven't yet, please take our survey on definitions of sex and reproductive terms. Link here or in the QR: univie.questionpro.eu/a/TakeSurvey...
Happy to present tomorrow in S03 @official-smbe.bsky.social #SMBE2026 and co-hosting S09 New frontiers in sex evolution with wonderful colleagues @aruizherrera.bsky.social @cbenvenuto.bsky.social and @danjeffries.bsky.social come see us in room Carstensen tomorrow
New paper from Sruthi Krishna Moorthy and @ymalhi.bsky.social examines 60 years of tropical ecology research 🌍 The study highlights the growing dominance of tropical forest research and persistent global inequities in tropical ecology authorship. doi.org/10.1111/btp....
Shifting Trends in Tropical Ecology Research Over Six Decades
We analyzed over 170,000 tropical ecology publications (1960–2023) using a large language model to extract study location and biome information at scale. We show that research has grown across all bi....
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#ERGAReads | The Tree of Sex consortium: A global initiative for studying the evolution of reproduction in eukaryotes @treeofsex.bsky.social 🧬 🌳 Article: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Website: www.treeofsex.org #genomes #treeofsex # @jevbio.bsky.social @sangerinstitute.bsky.social
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How do fish cope with warmer, less oxygenated waters? A new open-access book dives deep into the answer. 🐠 bit.ly/breathingwat...
Pauly and Müller’s Breathing Water in a Warming World available on open access | Sea Around Us
Fish are running out of breath. 🌊🐟 A new open-access book explains how warming waters threaten aquatic life.
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My PhD paper on my beloved cycads and beetles on the cover of Science!!! Check out how we studied thermal infrared as a pollination signal, from molecular mechanisms to the wonders of behavior... science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Excited to have attended the ISPF COP Legacy Event @britishcouncil.bsky.social in Belém, with my whole team @naiarasales.bsky.social @cgubili.bsky.social @rominassbatista.bsky.social & Cristiana Maciel @jonready.bsky.social from @ufpa.bsky.social!
'“This is a drastic departure from historical practice,” Rosa DeLauro, the ranking member of a US House of Representatives committee that drafts government spending bills, told Nature.'
White House stalls release of approved US science budgets
The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.
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Coming up in March! Join @sortee.bsky.social for a webinar with @daxkellie.bsky.social on good, shareable, and reproducible R code - register here: events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...
SORTEE Webinar: On what makes good sharable and reproducible R code, how to do it, and why it’s good for science
For this month's SORTEE webinar, Dr. Dax Kellie from the Atlas of Living Australia will present on good, sharable, and reproducible R code in science
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My book is now published! 🌏🎶🧪 You can download it for free at academic.oup.com/book/62353 - I’d be grateful if you do! I also published an accessible summary with audio/video today in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... Try reading that first, then give the whole book a read if you like it!
This video of former ICE attorney Ryan Schwank on why he left the agency is an absolute *must watch*. Please share widely.
Former ICE Attorney Schwank on Why He Left Agency
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The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?
19thnews@19thnews.org · 5mo agoThe trove of files released by the Department of Justice, illuminates Epstein’s deep interest and entrenchment in the scientific community. But the files also underscore how he used his power and money in ways that kept women out of places where they might succeed. https://bit.ly/4qWgPLz
Out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social! A dive into the deep history of vertebrate vision, together with @mikebok.bsky.social, @neurofishh.bsky.social and @denilsson.bsky.social Photo credit : Vasilis Karkalas
George Kafetzis@gkafetzis.bsky.social · 11mo ago👁️The retina — strikingly conserved across vertebrates, but an oddity among bilaterians! So how did it evolve? With @mikebok.bsky.social, @neurofishh.bsky.social and @denilsson.bsky.social, we argue that retinal complexity may 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑦𝑒 𝑖𝑡𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n
New Perspective!🔥It's fascinating how scientists from different fields but interested in the same question [e.g. genotype-phenoytpe relationship] can have such different perspectives. Here we put in our 2 cents wrt genetic effects being context-dependent, and pheno variation being mostly polygenic
Beyond Mendel: a call to revisit the genotype–phenotype map through new experimental paradigms
Abstract. The long-standing notion that genotypes map to phenotypes through simple one gene–one trait relationships continues to shape both research in the
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I'm back with another weird scale insect repro study. Previously I've talked about the simultaneous hermaphrodite cottony cushion scales and (functional) haplodiploidy paternal genome elimination in mealybugs. But how did these systems evolve? The Mongue lab has some answers! 1/n #genomics
Delighted that a #trumpetfish has made the 🌟cover🌟 of @royalsocietypublishing.org journal #ProceedingsB. Read about how these predatory #fish hide against similarly coloured non-threatening species to #camouflage on the move in our #OpenAccess article: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #behaviour #marine
Today, International Day of Women and Girls in Science, I am really looking forward to listening to @wascherclaudia.bsky.social in her talk "Social by nature: from animal minds to inclusive Science communities". Thanks Claudia!
A wonderful way to start the week with news that vertical farms are spreading across the #Maasai community by the Enduata Emaa Organisation - supporting community #resilience and #diversification
It was a great pleasure to present, with @naiarasales.bsky.social, the succesful partnership between Environmental Research & Innovation Centre (ERIC) and Mersey Gateway Environmental Trust #IPBES12 "Evidence to Action: Mobilising Sciences, Business & Policy for Nature" event! @ipbes.net
What a busy week! Monday was #IPBES12 stakeholder day @ipbes.net! A fabulous forum for scientists, Indigenous people, governments, biodiversity leaders and all stakeholders. Key points discussed: reach, uptake & impact and business and biodiversity! @alice-risely.bsky.social @amyleedale.bsky.social
Here is a 400BCE plate from souther Italy for serving fish. Three species of sparids (sea bream) are shown. Sea bream were among the first farmed fish this plate represents a common group of species from that area. 🧪🐡
Visited the Natural History Museum London last week and honestly: collections like this are the backbone of everything we think we know about the ocean. Absolute treasure trove.
Great panels at the @ipbes.net stakeholder day today! A fabulous forum for scientists, Indigenous people, governments, biodiversity leaders and all stakeholders. Key points discussed: reach, uptake & impact and business and biodiversity! @alice-risely.bsky.social @amyleedale.bsky.social
New paper! We challenge the universality of dietary restriction for lifespan extension! It works for inbred but not for genetically diverse populations. In outbred Nothobranchius furzeri, neither protein nor caloric restriction delayed actuarial senescence #AgingResearch
Cold, but not too cold for snowdrop and crocus flowers! A bit of colour for a gray day...
Worth a read of this piece by Peter Turchin in these turbulent times: www.vox.com/the-highligh...
Hundreds of societies have been in crises like ours. An expert explains how they got out.
An analysis of historical crises over the past 2,000 years offers lessons for avoiding the end times.
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