✨Last Chance for Super Early Rego!✨ We’ve extended our super early bird rego until the 17th of July! Use code SUPEREARLY2026 to join us December for 🧬𝗘𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗻𝗴🧬 Only 1 week left so register at this link: aes.corsizio.com/portal/aes

Look! I made a mouse seminal fluid protein in Ecoli and it made HEAPS! Now to use it in an experiment 🧫 🐁

Check out our new paper where we use the Geometric Framework for Nutrition to show dietary effects on the seminal vesicle fluid proteome and its relationship to foetal development in mice (with one protein in particular appearing to be a promising candidate for future research) 👀

Royal Society Publishing@royalsocietypublishing.org · last mo.

A father's diet may influence more than his own health. This #ProcB study found that dietary macronutrients alter proteins in mouse seminal fluid, with potential effects on placental and foetal development doi.org/10.1098/rspb... | #Ecology #Evolution #MolecularBiology

A very upsetting piece about the state of science in NZ

Peter Dearden@peterkdearden.bsky.social · last mo.

on the destruction of New Zealand Science open.substack.com/pub/peterkde...

🚨New paper out now 👀 where we use nutritional geometry to examine the effects of diet on the mouse seminal fluid proteome and its relationship to foetal development 🐭 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Paternal dietary macronutrients affect the seminal vesicle fluid proteome and fetal development: a geometric framework for nutrition study in mice

Abstract. Seminal plasma can have wide-ranging effects on reproductive fitness—from affecting sperm fertilization capacity and female reproductive physiolo

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Just updated *READMEBuilder*. Some key mentions: 1. It now produces a nice ASCII map of the directory structure which is added to the README. 2. Allows for data- and code-specific licenses to be specified. 3. Allows you to edit previously made READMEs from READMEBuilder. 4. Various bug fixes!

Ed Ivimey-Cook@eivimeycook.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Introducing * READMEBuilder * A shiny app that helps users build a high quality README to upload along with their data and code. Just install the package and run the build_readme() function to launch the app! github.com/EIvimeyCook/... Comments and suggestions welcome!

🏆 ECR Best Paper Awards applications now open! ✨ Submit your best/favourite paper and provide a short statement of contribution and impact 🗓️ Closes 10th August 📢 Winners announced 7th Sept latest Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... See you in the 'Gong! 🌊

Has US spelling over British spelling become the default in the Oxford English Dictionary?? I just had proofs come back from the Royal Society with all my 's' changed to 'z' etc... and when I asked them, they said it's because they use the OED spelling

Sperm carry unexpected genetic messages | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Sperm carry unexpected genetic messages

Maturing mouse sperm get loaded with full-length messenger RNAs that are transferred to fertilized egg, suggesting a new route for paternal influence

science.org

Super early bird 🐦 rego now open!

Australasian Evolution Society - AES@ausevosoc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

✨REGISTRATIONS ARE NOW OPEN!✨ Join us in December for 🧬𝗘𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗻𝗴🧬- A joint conference by Australasian Evolution Society (AES) and The Society of Australian Systematic Biologists (SASB)🤝. Register at this link: aes.corsizio.com/portal/aes Follow the thread for Key Rego Dates (1/1)

Really excited to share that one part of my PhD research is now publicly accessible on preprint servers! Here is a thread explaining our (@kokkonut.bsky.social and I) work on ageing and stochastic damage/failure accumulation, available as a preprint at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Planning a meta-analysis for the summer, or helping a student navigate a project❓ Don’t start without a plan, here are 12 tasks to help boost feasibility and topic knowledge! 🧪 #phd youtu.be/iU0DK-8kwoI?...

start your meta-analysis with these 12 tasks to boost feasibility and project engagement

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A meta-analysis is not a ‘easy’ publication. Search strategy development, screening, more screening, data extraction, requesting additional data, risk of bias assessments, the actual synthesis, write up—it all takes time. Many people heavily underestimate the resources required to complete one

Dan Quintana@dsquintana.bsky.social · 3mo ago

So we emailed the authors of all 358 unpublished registrations. 80 wrote responded. The reasons they gave were almost entirely logistical: no time (47%), people leaving the project (11%), no funding (7%). Only one person cited non-significant results as a reason for not publishing.

🚨 Perhaps the most alarming finding: effect size estimates varied dramatically depending on where they came from. Estimates from correlations & mean comparisons told a very different story to those derived from inferential statistics (t, F, χ²), raising serious concerns. 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

A new version (1.6-0) of the metadat package (wviechtb.github.io/metadat/) has been released on CRAN (cran.r-project.org/package=meta...). The package provides over 100 meta-analytic datasets, which are useful for teaching and testing purposes. #RStats #MetaAnalysis

Just got my first ethics application approved as CI 🥳! Now to start leading my first vertebrate project 🐭 watch this space for some cool seminal fluid and intergenerational effects research 👀

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Have you read this? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Penguins in zoo environments live longer but show signs of accelerated aging, offering insights into how abundant resources and reduced physical activity impact longevity and health. doi.org/hbtmqk

Well-fed penguins live longer but age faster—much like modern humans

In public discourse, the increasing lifespan in Western countries is often linked to longer life in good health. However, studying human aging in modern societies is complex because outcomes are shaped by numerous social, behavioral, and environmental factors, including medical advances, food security, poverty, alcohol use, and civil violence.

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out now in Science: @loganjames.bsky.social collected pairs of sounds in 16 species where we *know* which sound is more attractive (to that species) he played them to ppl on themusiclab.org, asking, in each pair, which was nicer. humans agreed w other animals doi.org/10.1126/science.aea1202

If you missed my talk today about how to make your R code more reproducible and why it's good for science, the recording is already online! Apologies for the internet issues, I hope you can forgive me, they do go away after a few minutes 😅 #rstats 🧪🌏 @sortee.bsky.social youtu.be/2_Aum45rYlU

Webinar: Dax Kellie on reproducible R code

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Why are we still spending tens of thousands of $$$ on APC for non-society journals like Nature? Wouldn’t that money be better spent at society journals at least? We are doing ourselves a disservice by continuing to participate in this madness. You don’t need a paper in these journals to succeed.

✨ SAVE THE DATE ✨ This year's AES Conference will be held jointly with our friends at the Society of Australian Systematic Biologists 🧬 📍 University of Wollongong 📆 2-4 December Mark it in your calendars ✏️ more information to come soon!

If you currently do not have a reproducible workflow where you can share data and code where possible, I expect you will soon not be able to publish in good journals. Beyond being best practice, journals will use this to identify papers written by AI. Plan a new project accordingly.

PLOS@plos.org · 5mo ago

@plosbiology.org is formalizing its long‑standing practice of asking authors to share research code, introducing a mandatory #code‑sharing policy and clarifying what is meant by code sharing. Learn more and find guidance on best practice: plos.io/4reyX3v

🐝 POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY 🐜 @sydney.edu.au has an available position for an Aola Richards Postdoctoral Fellow in Entomology 🕷️ ⌚ Full-time, fixed 2 year term 🪰 Independent research programme 💵 AUD$113k + 17% superannuation Info and how to apply in the link below 👇 www.sydney.edu.au/science/scho...

The Aola Richards Sydney Insect Hub

The Aola Richards Sydney Insect Hub supports early- and mid-career researchers to advance insect ecology, evolution, genomics, and applied entomology, delivering impact in biodiversity, biosecurity, a...

sydney.edu.au

A massive bloom of rimu berries fueled a mating surge among the world’s heaviest (and strangest) parrots

A new Love Island? Berry bloom leads to baby boom for New Zealand’s goofiest parrot

A massive bloom of rimu berries fueled a mating surge among the world’s heaviest (and strangest) parrots

scientificamerican.com

🌠 Meet Our Exec Committee for 2026 🌠 @erinmacartney.bsky.social is an post-doctoral research associate at the University of Sydney, where she is particularly interested in how the environment impacts post-copulatory traits including male-male and male-female reproductive interactions ✍️

New paper out with @tahliafulton.bsky.social and Alistair Senior! A complementary meta-analysis of Ivimey-Cook, Sultanova & Maklakov (2025) where we find that lifespan extending treatments dont square the survival curve. Longer life ≠ compressed mortality. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

No evidence for squaring the survival curve: lifespan-extending treatments increase variation in age- at-death

Abstract. Geroscience has the goal of extending lifespan through geroprotective interventions. These interventions are typically imparted on groups of indi

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Sneak peak at our new paper where we ask if lifespan extending mimetics of dietary restriction benefit all equally (ie square the survival curve) 📈 @tahliafulton.bsky.social

New Scientist@newscientist.com · 5mo ago

The drug rapamycin has been held up for its life-extending properties, but whether this treatment – or fasting – actually adds years to your life isn't guaranteed

🚨JOB alert🚨 We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol. Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology ⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026 🙏Please circulate widely 😊Come join us! Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc