I have a PhD project to look at the impact of climate change on an endangered WA skink 🦎. Applicants interested in herpetology, thermal ecology and collaborating with First Nations are encouraged to apply. Apply now: www.murdoch.edu.au/study/schola... Lab website: www.nicholaswulab.com

.The very talented and fun Jonathan Henshaw has two positions to offer! If you like theoretical eco-evo questions, don't hesitate. Also, Freiburg is a very pretty place PhD: uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb... Postdoc: uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

Do you live in Australia, or have you ever travelled here? Then you can help our research on Australian biosecurity by completing a short survey. Scan the QR code below, or click this link: go.unimelb.edu.au/6xah

🚨 Behavioral ecologists 🚨 I am about ready to submit a review paper on animal contest behavior. If you have any high quality photos of your study system engaging in a dyadic interaction (fight), DM me. I am revising a figure that has photos of different study systems. Photo creds will be provided!

New preprint led by Tala Jajieh from the ResToRes project. By analysing RCTs with confirmed data fabrication, our new preprint reveals that most zombie trials arise from monocentric, recurrent patterns of misconduct and often remain undetected for many years. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Hey @isbe2026.bsky.social - I’ll be in Turin from tomorrow, and looking to recruit PhD student and postdoc to my lab in Stockholm soon… anyone interested in parasites, sexual selection, transgen effects, fish (guppy) tracking - let’s meet up!

Mental note for next time: write "DL: 7 August". It seems some potential north American applicants think the deadline has passed, but in Europe, 7.8 = deadline in 3 weeks 😅, so there is still time to apply!

Craig Primmer@fishcongen.bsky.social · last mo.

Thanks to a couple of recent Ws on the funding front, we have 3 open postdoc positions in Helsinki, Finland in the field of salmonid fish ecological and evolutionary genomics. DL 7.8. More details in advert: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Do you have a background in behavioural ecology and are you interested in doing a PhD in Australia? I’m looking for new grad students so check out our website (BobWongLab.org) or come find me in Torino at #ISBE2026. 🐟🐠

🐟🐠🐟🐠🐟🐠🐟🐟🐠🐟 Looking for a postdoc? Let's develop a proposal together: www.wur.nl/en/jobs/pers... Get in touch to discuss topics 🐟🐠🐟🐟🐠🐟🐟🐠🐟🐟🐠

Thanks to a couple of recent Ws on the funding front, we have 3 open postdoc positions in Helsinki, Finland in the field of salmonid fish ecological and evolutionary genomics. DL 7.8. More details in advert: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

A new retraction for an influential evolutionary biologist is raising the question of whether scientific misconduct more than 20 years ago was just a blip in his impressive publication record or further proof, as some claim, that much of his work rests on a shaky foundation.

A prolific evolutionary biologist caught faking data decades ago notches a new retraction

A study claiming a tenfold decrease in bugs splattered on evolutionary biologist Anders Møller’s windshield over two decades has been retracted. shanecotee / iStock Anders Møller, an influential ev…

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Beyond the high profile of the affected journals and their unusually rapid response—as noted by @elisabethbik.bsky.social—the most notable aspect of this story is that the home institutions appear to have taken strong disciplinary action against the supervisors and PIs, not just the first authors.

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...

gonna post 100 likely permutations of the World Cup knockout bracket on bsky and then delete all the ones that were wrong after the final and then claim I predicted everything before the tournament to demonstrate p-hacking for my classes next semester

Eels, in an early life stage called leptocephalus, drift with the plankton, eating tiny invertebrates and fish. Shot using scuba, at night, while drifting with the plankton, out over the deep abyss. #eel #leptocephalus #larvalfish #blackwater #blackwaterdiving

The UK’s strangest avian couple at the Long Nanny, Northumberland this morning - the female American Black Tern with the same male Arctic Tern she bred (unsuccessfully) with in 2024. A small nest scrape but no eggs as yet. #NEbirding #rarebirdsUK

This was fun, quick and really nice to look at and think about forests for a while! Worth a few minutes of your time! 👇🏻 🌿🌳🦑🪶🐦🌍🌎🌏

Nicolas Mouquet@nmouquet.bsky.social · 5mo ago

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Still 10 days left to apply - Come join us in Uppsala! Fully funded Phd position in Evolutionary Biology. Deadline 22nd of May.

David Berger@dbergerbiol.bsky.social · 4mo ago

PhD-position ALERT! 🧪🪲 🧬 Interested in studying the genomics of local adaptation and niche breadth using long-term experimental evolution? Come join me and @gmkov.bsky.social at @animecol-uu.bsky.social, Uppsala Univ. Read more and apply here: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline 22nd of May!

Timmy, the humpback whale stranded in Germany for 6 weeks, was released on Saturday after a chaotic rescue operation that shocked marine biologists. It's unclear where Timmy is now; he may already be dead. Here's my story about the case: www.science.org/content/arti...

Chaotic whale rescue shocks marine biologists

Timmy, a humpback whale stranded in Germany 6 weeks ago, was ailing and may already be dead

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Just found out about the new science journal "Stacks". The editorial board includes the legendary @elisabethbik.bsky.social. Publication costs are what they should be. Moreover, it has an interesting peer-review where reviewers interact, agree and vote for publications. stacksjournal.org

This is NOT AI. These are green dragontail butterflies (Lamproptera meges), native to S & SE Asia. They compensate for undersized wings with long 'swallowtails' to generate lift. Butterflies that fly in cursive, swimming like fish through the air. (📷: Center for Biological Diversity)

I think this is a cool initiative by BES. But it's also a sign of what a huge distance we still have to travel if non-confirmatory results command a dedicated special issue. They shouldn't be "special". besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

Ecological Solutions and Evidence Call for Proposals: Unexpected, Failed, and/or Neutral Results in Applied Management

<em>Ecological Solutions and Evidence</em> is an open access journal covering all areas of applied ecology that communicate key findings related to practical environmental management.

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This is really unfortunate... ICESJMS no longer accepting pre-printed articles. 'exclusive' high-quality content = pay to publish? academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti... @icesmarine.bsky.social

Congrats to Karolinska Institute, the most prestigious research institute in Sweden!

Leonid Schneider@forbetterscience.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Former Rector Karin Dahlman-Wright, who was foind guilty of research fraud and sued to avoid sacking, triumphantly returns to @ki.se ! news.ki.se/karin-dahlma...

Former Rector Karin Dahlman-Wright, who was foind guilty of research fraud and sued to avoid sacking, triumphantly returns to @ki.se ! news.ki.se/karin-dahlma...

Karin Dahlman-Wright director of KI’s new research infrastructure organisation

Karolinska Institutet has appointed Professor Karin Dahlman-Wright as director of KI’s new research infrastructure organisation, RIKI, with effect from 1 April. RIKI provides the tools, methods, techn...

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Scraped photos, a sketchy dataset, & AI-written papers. This little fiasco has it all. Springer Nature retracted 38 works that used the dataset, but "dozens of papers from other publications remain available, with no retraction notice or expression of concern." www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

Here's Why Dozens of Autism Publications Were Retracted

Dataset scraped photos of kids from autism websites without consent

medpagetoday.com

Weekend reads: How to buy a scientific paper; creating responsible authorship culture; sanction authors for hallucinated references?

Weekend reads: How to buy a scientific paper; creating responsible authorship culture; sanction authors for hallucinated references?

If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: University of Melbourne opens formal investigation into education res…

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Just a reminder, we not only wrote about the profiteering nature of the Springer-Nature Discover journal series, but we made a "guess the publisher" game! hal.science/hal-05113253 Game by @pagomba.bsky.social pagoba.shinyapps.io/publi_guess/ #OpenAccess #AcademicSky #FoSci #MDPI #SciPub

Johannes Gierschner@gierschner.bsky.social · 5mo ago

'invited' to review for Springer's MDPI-clon "Discover ..." 🤦‍♂️ 👉 Publishers deliberately invent journals to skim the impertinent profits with (AI-generated) papers mimicking science - all on public costs... How long will Funding Bodies play this game? 🤔 #ResearchIntegrity #ChemSky #CompChemSky

“We know the fraudsters are going to fraud. We’re gonna make it a little bit harder for them”. @elisabethbik.bsky.social @abalkina.bsky.social & other sleuths share tips for detecting dodgy papers. By @sjmelchor.bsky.social @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Five ways to spot when a paper is a fraud

Science sleuths share their common-sense tips for sniffing out fishy articles.

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