It’s not you, it’s your song. In a new study, Luo et al. show that song and morphological differences may reduce gene flow between white-crowned sparrow subspecies. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

🎧 Do you want to help us understand how humans perceive forest soundscapes in Costa Rica ? Answer this quick 5-min survey: 👉 www.biodiful.org/#/soundscapes_en Take a break and listen to the voice of the forest 💚 Please like & share on 🦋 to reach more participants 🙏 🌐🌍🦤🧪🍁🪴

Funk et al. argue that gene knockouts, organisms with traits nullified via gene editing, could aid biologists who study selection and develop conservation interventions. Read about gene knockouts and whether they could enhance your research ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Whenever I give an interview, I ask how long a piece the journalist is aiming for. Then I TRY to keep myself to reasonable length....but I often fail, because nature and science are SO COOL. Thanks @elisecutts.bsky.social for making me feel better about it!

Elise Cutts@elisecutts.bsky.social · 3d ago

It's always a great sign when an interview with a scientist starts like this: Me: Hi there, thanks for talking to me. I'd like to ask you some questions about [thing]. Scientist: OH MY GOODNESS I LOVE [thing]!!! I could talk about [thing] for hours!!!!!

We couldn't be happier to welcome Kate to this new role!

Kate Laskowski@katelaskowski.bsky.social · 5d ago

If you know me, you know that Am Nat 🐌 is one of my fav journals. So I am delighted (and a little terrified) to say I've recently accepted a role as one of its Senior Editors! Be sure to keep us in mind as home for your favorite work (including behavior) 😉! @asn-amnat.bsky.social

If you know me, you know that Am Nat 🐌 is one of my fav journals. So I am delighted (and a little terrified) to say I've recently accepted a role as one of its Senior Editors! Be sure to keep us in mind as home for your favorite work (including behavior) 😉! @asn-amnat.bsky.social

The code does not have to be beautiful or clever, but it should run. The data needs to be formatted in a comprehensible way. The ReadMe file needs to guide readers regarding units, variable names, and how to run any R scripts.

2026 report on the impacts on federal policies on the fields of ecology, evolution, and marine science 🧪 www.firsthandaccounts.org/home with @asn-amnat.bsky.social @entsocamerica.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social @official-bweems.bsky.social @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social

Impacts on Science

This website hosts information about the impacts of federal and state policies since January 20, 2025 on the fields of ecology, evolution, marine science, and environmental science in the USA. Partici...

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A bit of good news for once: The @asn-amnat.bsky.social American Society of Naturalists is awarding its second-ever Service Award to @bobmontgomerie.bsky.social for his role in creating the data & code editor system with The American Naturalist www.amnat.org/announcement...

Presidential Award for Outstanding Service to the Community, 2026

<p>The ASN is pleased to announce Dr. Bob Montgomerie as the recipient of the 2026 special Presidential Award for Outstanding Service to the Community in recognition of the tremendous work he did in establishing <i>The&nbsp;American Naturalist</i>&rsquo;s data editors program.</p><br/>

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Comparative Biogeography of Marine and Terrestrial Microbes and Macrobiota Using Environmental DNA by Ruiz-Ramos et al. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Fontana et al. propose a new way to think about leaf litter selectivity as a process-related trait, defined by trait-mediated interactions across trophic levels. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Rock-paper-scissors dynamics and intransitive competition maintain diversity in evolutionary and ecological contexts. Delgado et al. use this to understand eco-evolutionary coexistence through intransitive feedback loops. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

🆕Noticia sobre el estudio realizado por Ciro Cabal Ruano, investigadore del @iicg-urjc.bsky.social y @biodiversosurjc.bsky.social publicado en The American Naturalist @asn-amnat.bsky.social sobre la posibilidad de que algunos paisajes abiertos de Gredos podrían ser vestigios de una antigua sabana. 👇

This is as good a time as any to say that I'm about to start as an Associate Editor at @asn-amnat.bsky.social, and I'm as nerdily excited as you might expect

Jeremy Yoder says no war@jbyoder.org · 2mo ago

Thinking about mission statements, as one does

Yeaah!!!! Leaf Sheep won the invertebrate of the year 2026!

The winner of the Guardian's Invertebrate of the year 2026 revealed

It's been a tightly fought race, but watch as naturalist and presenter Chris Packham reveals the Guardian's Invertebrate of the year 2026.

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Gabriella Nonino@gabriellanonino.com · 3mo ago

The tiny sea slug Costasiella kuroshimae also known as Leaf Sheep, one of the few animals capable of photosynthesis.

The winner of the Guardian's Invertebrate of the year 2026 revealed

The winner of the Guardian's Invertebrate of the year 2026 revealed

It's been a tightly fought race, but watch as naturalist and presenter Chris Packham reveals the Guardian's Invertebrate of the year 2026.

theguardian.com

Transgenerational and Intergenerational Maternal Age Effects Exhibit Complex, Genotype-Specific Patterns of Inheritance by Liguori et al. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Trail-side Eucalyptus at the Scorpion Ranch campgrounds on Santa Cruz Island 🌿 buff.ly/dQn5iY3

REJOICE FOR BEST COMPETITION OF THE YEAR NOMINATE YOUR BUGS www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Nominate your invertebrate of the year

We’re asking people from around the world to nominate their favourite spineless species for our third Invertebrate of the Year competition

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Smith develops theory showing that aggregation caused by habitat structure can make Janzen–Connell effects and habitat partitioning work together as a powerful mechanism promoting coexistence in tropical forests. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Gaughan et al. suggest that the preference of insect herbivores may play an important yet under-appreciated role in the destabilization of plant diversity. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Chokechaipaisarn & Hitchcock develop new models of sex allocation tailored to non-standard forms of arrhenotoky, revealing the distinct effects of asymmetric ploidy upon patterns of relatedness and sex allocation. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The 2025 bestseller Abundance argues that scarcity is an artificial political construction. Borrowing the concept, this article from The Supreme Court Review highlights recent Court decisions that fall under a pro-abundance perspective. https://ow.ly/NFuX50Zq3Ta

Stop by our booth at the Botany 2026 conference in Tucson, AZ to learn about the International Journal of Plant Sciences, our other journals, and to grab some giveaways. Can’t make it in person? Discover our science journals here: https://ow.ly/QH7u50ZiiQO International Journal of Plant Sciences

EEB Mentor Match is now open! But apps due soon (8/17). Mentees: get help applying for grad school or fellowships in ecology & evolution. Mentors: senior grads, post-docs, or faculty in these fields willing to give advice Org by Diversity Cmte of @asn-amnat.bsky.social Pls share! eebmentormatch.com

EEB Mentor Match

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Just read and really enjoyed "Spark, Scaffold, Substrate" (the @asn-amnat.bsky.social paper on natural history in EEB research recommended by @hormiga.bsky.social) and I have two notes...

Kework & Pierson studied fine-scale spatial variation in reproductive tactic frequencies in two-lined salamanders and found that "searching" male frequencies were higher in small tributaries than in larger stream reaches. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

I think about the backstories alllllllll the time - it informs the data & direction of research (and wider systems too). I’m so excited to read this 🥰

American Naturalist / ASN 🐌@asn-amnat.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Historical Perspective: Sridhar et al. use the backstories of famous scientific papers in Ecology and Evolution to uncover the background roles of natural history that are written out of papers. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Weiss et al. use field observations, experiments, and simulations to demonstrate that periodical cicada nymphs use skototaxis (orientation and movement towards dark objects), to march unerringly to their molting trees at night. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...