Old hearts age backwards: transplanted organs adjust to host's biological age www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Old hearts age backwards: transplanted organs adjust to host's biological age

Tracking the biological age of grafted organs suggests that donor pools could be expanded to boost organ availability.

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Mistranslation protects against lifespan reduction due to mating in Drosophila melanogaster females academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...

Mistranslation protects against lifespan reduction due to mating in Drosophila melanogaster females

Abstract. Accurate translation of genes into proteins is critical to organism fitness, and errors in this process are usually detrimental and cause proteot

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Men are more likely to accept invitations to review a paper in Ecology and Evolution when the *editor* inviting them is male. Women’s response rate is unaffected onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

📢 My colleague Daniela Perez (not on Bluesky) is looking for a postdoc! The position is for 2 years, working on cooperation, competition & collective decision-making in 🪱. More info: tinyurl.com/mr2vd57n 📅 Deadline: 25 September 2026 📩 Interested? Contact Daniela directly!

Research Position (m/f/d) (Postdoc)

<div style="margin:0;">The Department of Evolutionary Biology explores how organisms' traits and behaviours evolve in response to envi...

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Late-life semaglutide treatment slows ageing and extends lifespan in female mice www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Late-life semaglutide treatment slows ageing and extends lifespan in female mice - Nature

Semaglutide treatment for 3 months in female mice improved physiological function, attenuated hallmarks of ageing and modulated nutrient sensors and conserved genetic regulators of ageing.

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Ovarian aging and the "leaky gut" "These findings provide the strongest evidence to date that menopause may promote gut barrier dysfunction and microbial translocation in otherwise-healthy women." jci.org/articles/vie...

Looking for sci comm opportunities? Join us as a writer for American Naturalist press releases! These write-ups are primarily written by graduate students and other early-career scientists. No experience required; we have editors to help along the way. Apps due Sept 1. Please share widely :D

Looking for Press Release Writers & Editors for The American Naturalist

Sign up for the opportunity to write and/or edit for The American Naturalist! We are seeking authors to write press releases for new journal articles. See examples of recent press releases here. We a...

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Another paper showing a lack of sex differences in behavioural studies 👇👇 I would still argue that studying both sexes is important when looking at shared traits

Sara Lipshutz (she/her)@jacanamama.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Claims of sex-dependent effects in the behavioral and brain sciences are infrequently supported by valid statistical comparisons www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

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whaaaaaaa I had no idea they were considered predators of birds in the first place!

🌟🌟 Postdoc position in Disease Ecology & Nature-Based Solutions 🌟🌟 We are looking for a creative and highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher to join the UKRI @netpositivecentre.bsky.social and the @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall, UK. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/11... 🦠🌳🏙️🌍🗺️🐝 🦌🕷️

Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow in Cornwall | University of Exeter

View details and apply for this Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow vacancy in Cornwall. Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow This UKRI funded full-time post is available from 01/1...

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Resveratrol exerts anti-aging effects in young but pro-aging effects in middle-aged C. elegans via a gerosuppressive daf-16/dod-6/sod-3 axis www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Resveratrol exerts anti-aging effects in young but pro-aging effects in middle-aged C. elegans via a gerosuppressive daf-16/dod-6/sod-3 axis

Aging, a complex process influenced by genetic and environmental factors, is a major determinant of health and disease. The polyphenolic compound resv…

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Recent social loss, not chronic isolation, reshapes sleep in Drosophila https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.12.738068v1

Dietary restriction is evolutionary conserved on the phenotypic and mechanistic level link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Dietary restriction is evolutionary conserved on the phenotypic and mechanistic level - EMBO Reports

The anti-ageing response to Dietary Restriction (DR) is thought to be mechanistically ancient, reasoning from its phenotypic conservation. However, DR is implemented differently across species and evi...

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We're thrilled to welcome Dr Iliana Medina Guzman as a plenary speaker at #ABL2026! 🪲 How do camouflage and warning colours shape the evolution of species?🦜 Dr Medina Guzman (uni. of Melbourne) combines approaches to reveal how antipredator defences influence colonisation & dispersal. 🦋

Permanent Lecturer position available at Edinburgh Napier U, where I work - molecular/cell/biomedical focus. Great city and workplace. Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. jobs.napier.ac.uk/mthrprod_web...

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Interested in a postdoc position? Olfaction in poison frog tadpoles! Based in Germany with some field work in Costa Rica (bilateral funding, 3 years). Please share with your froggie and neuro/behavior contacts 🐸 www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

We are accepting proposals for a Special Feature celebrating 100 years since the publication of Charles Elton's Animal Ecology. We're interested in contributions that return to Elton’s text and use it as a starting point to ask what we have learned over the past century. buff.ly/PMAqfUC

Awesome *postdoc* opportunity with Megan Head at @biologyanu.bsky.social on thermal ecology of beetles. Great place to work, great project, amazing supervisor and really good pay. Don't miss out! jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...

Please sign! 👇 Animal behaviour research is important and the loss of such an excellent research group would be devastating for the behaviour community

Stephen Montgomery@ebablab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

@crab-exeter.bsky.social are a fantastic group of researchers, and a real beacon of excellence for Exeter. What a huge and deeply sad act of self sabotage this would be. Please consider signing their open letter👇🏻

Please repost: I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on projects related to understanding the movement ecology of harmful and beneficial insects in agroecosystems. Applications close on: July 31, 2026 To apply and for more information, visit: lnkd.in/g8gFeB3u

📚Meta-analyses!⚠️Key pitfalls! 🔬Improved methodology! 🖥️Reliable syntheses! Our #EditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: “Biological and methodological pitfalls of meta-analyses in ecology and evolution: Lessons from eyespot function studies” Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123448

How does group size shape social evolution? New theory shows that living in smaller versus larger groups changes kinship dynamics, shifting when natural selection favors helping—or harming—others. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

Group size modulates kinship dynamics and selection on social traits

Abstract. An individual’s relatedness to its group may change with age due to demographic processes, and such kinship dynamics can shape age-linked social

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The biological age of individual cell types can be evaluated using plasma proteomics, revealing diverse aging profiles across more than 40 cell types and links between the accelerated aging of specific cell types and disease, according to a paper in Nature Medicine. go.nature.com/4xHGvR2 #medsky 🧪

The University of Exeter is not in budget deficit. Yet are proposing to cut 150 academic jobs. This include my job. Please sign and share the petition, write our Vice Chancellor, to your MP, and get the word out about the act of self harm this university is about to commit. c.org/yKcx6Zr29H

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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New research📖 Playing it safe at early life stages: Balancing energy allocations to maximize fitness under seasonal pathogen dynamics🧪 🦠 🖥️ 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/XofOXf2

Maternal senescence broadly reprograms gene expression in offspring www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Maternal senescence broadly reprograms gene expression in offspring

Offspring of older parents have reduced fitness in many species, but the mechanisms mediating this cross-generational dimension of ageing remain poorly understood. Senescence is associated with genome...

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Still some time to apply to our postdoc position - deadline 3rd July. I'll be at #SMBE2026 if anyone would like to chat about it 😊

Susan Johnston@susanjohnston.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣 We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at Susan.Johnston@ed.ac.uk 🙂 Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Ever wondered what female chickadees look for in a male? An ‘important’ study suggests these socially monogamous birds seek out additional males with better cognitive abilities than their nestmate, to help increase the fitness of their offspring. buff.ly/fQmQKCW

I’ve only been in Indiana for a week and there’s already been two tornadoes?! I’m also kind of addicted to watching Ryan Hall, Y’all’s storm chasing coverage