Megan Head at ANU is advertising this amazing postdoc position on thermal tolerance in insects. Canberra is a great place to live and work. Don't listen to the haters! jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...

Postdoctoral Fellow - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia

Classification:  Academic Level ASalary package: $91,546 - $114,906 per annum plus 17% superannuation Terms:  Full time, Fixed term (up to 2 years) (flexible arrangements, job share, or part time hour...

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Not the best morning for viewing wildlife and scenery. This is the car bonnet. Fog on a level I’ve only read about in old books.

Evolution of compound eye cell types shapes visual behaviors across Heliconius butterflies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.22.740151v1

As a southerner, it was quite surreal sitting on a harbour bench eating chips while Black Guillemots landed and wandered around your feet! Isle of Man.

Devastating news for all of us in Oxford - in Biology, and the many other communities he played such key roles in - that Prof Graham Taylor has died. Graham was a brilliant scientist, an instinctive leader & incisive thinker but most of all an incredible colleague www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/latest/news/...

Professor Graham Taylor

A message from Jim Naismith, Head of MPLS Division, to honour Professor Graham Taylor.

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New in Science Advances: extreme weather is measurably reducing breeding success in Australian fur seals, short-tailed shearwaters and shy albatross across 14 Tasmanian colonies in a region warming three to four times faster than the global average. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our (with @plewin.bsky.social) @currentbiology.bsky.social Dispatches is out today (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...). Covering two recent papers about bird eye movements during flight, using homing pigeons as model species.

Looking for an Associate Prof position? Interested in behavioural ecology & cultural evolution? Come join us at the Dpt of Ecology and Evolution in Lausanne🇨🇭 @dee-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! Great department & great place to live. Pls RP. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

I am looking for PhD students and postdocs to join my lab at the University of Pittsburgh in Fall 2027. Anyone excited about urban evolution, hummingbirds, & community engagement, please reach out! And/or find me at #AOS2026 this week! More info here: www.valentina-alaasam.com

📢 ASSOCIATE EDITORS WANTED Join us! IBIS is looking for Associate Editors to join our editorial team and support the peer review process Read more and complete the application form: bou.org.uk/ibis/vaca... #ornithology 🪶

EARLY VIEW in IBIS Timing pattern of Common Cuckoo parasitism and its relation to host nest attendance | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Gabriela Večeřová, Jan Studecký, Václav Jelínek, Martin Večeřa, Radka Piálková, Lubomír Piálek, Marcel Honza, Michal Šulc | #ornithology 🪶

A Review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity discusses population trends of migratory birds, dominant threats in different regions and existing conservation initiatives. It also recommends integrative conservation approaches for the future. go.nature.com/4z0KWae 🌎🧪

Happy to share this 'capstone' project from my time as a postdoc @umich.edu, where we show that hierarchically nested bursts of body-shape evolution may underlie much of perching-bird diversification over ~50 million years. Free access link here: rdcu.be/fuxB1

Rates of passerine body plan evolution in time and space

Nature Ecology & Evolution - A reconstruction of the evolutionary history of passerine body plans over the past ~50 Myr shows rare bursts of phenotypic innovation near the origin of major...

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The Arctic Circle just reached a temperature that once seemed almost impossible for such a frozen region: above 100°F, or 38°C … a shocking first … fragile regions are rapidly changing. Sometimes one number can tell a much bigger story … climate change is no longer distant. It’s here. It’s now.

!🚨New Paper alert🚨! New evidence for large mammaliforms in the Cretaceous. This time in South Brazil: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Adult female White-tailed Eagle G466 being mobbed by a Hobby this morning, viewed from the excellent @harbourbirds.bsky.social Summer Safari boat trip.

Open position of Associate Professor in Behavioral ecology and cultural evolution at the @dee-unil.bsky.social! You can toggle the ad to English on top right: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a #PhD student and a #Postdoc to investigate #innovation in great #apes: PhD ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Postdoc ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Application deadline: August 17th. Please share widely!

Natural England has confirmed that every white-tailed sea eagle found dead in Dorset since England's reintroduction began has carried traces of brodifacoum. Toxicology found the rodenticide in all five dead Dorset eagles 'at levels considered close to significant'.

To eat or not to eat: that is the question! A new #OpenBiology review synthesizes current understanding of the neural and physiological mechanisms that shape feeding-related decision-making across species: doi.org/10.1098/rsob... #SystemsBiology

🐦 A cuckoo's first challenge. A rare moment from the field in the Mutěnice ponds: a newly hatched Common Cuckoo chick ejects its foster host's egg from the nest. 🎥 Watch the remarkable beginning of one of Europe’s most extraordinary birds. Video recorded by @biosulc.bsky.social

An analysis of fossil mammals in Science suggests that Mexico served as a long-term evolutionary “holding pen” where North American species adapted and diversified for millions of years before sweeping into South America 2.8 million years ago. https://scim.ag/4fu2QKL

Why do some deep-sea anglerfish males become permanent parasites? This #ProcB study finds that parasitic males evolve when mating opportunities are rare. doi.org/10.1098/rspb... | #Evolution #TheoreticalBiology

Our new Birds of Prey have grown up so quickly

From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation iucn.org/news/202607/...

From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums

The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,...

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📢 JOB ALERT! 📢 I am recruiting a 30-month postdoc to work on modelling the vision of trilobites @hfspo.bsky.social ! If you like 3D data, fossils, and functional morphology, this is the one for you! 📆Deadline 27. Aug Pls contact me with any Qs and share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

We just released a new open resource for studying evolution, ecology, colour, behaviour & biodiversity. OzButterflies 🦋 ✨ 4,000+ individuals 🌈 Visible + UV images 🧬 CO1 barcodes 📈 Spectral reflectance data 🏞️ 125 species doi.org/10.1093/data... @mherberstein.bsky.social @livuni-ives.bsky.social

We are hiring - Project officer ‘Identifying the impact of recent fragmentation of common toad (Bufo bufo) populations in England’ a partnership project with @froglife.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social jobs.theguardian.com/job/10160175...

We're still looking for a Fish Collection Manager at the Sam Noble Museum in Oklahoma! Apply by August 1st. #MuseumJobs #TeamFish jobs.ou.edu/jobs/curator...

Curator Archivist - Norman, Oklahoma, United States

Pay Range: Targeted salary $18.99 per hour, based on experience Benefits Eligible: Yes Work Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (may include some weekends) Travel: May be required For Be...

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