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Hosken Lab Cornwall
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evolutionary ecology, behaviour, genetics
It’s official. My university who told me for all of the years I have been a faculty person they it valued diversity all of a sudden decided it no longer does without even attempting to resist a legally questionable executive order. www.thedp.com/article/2025...
Penn to introduce changes to University discrimination policies, remove term ‘diversity’
The changes include the renaming of several statements, offices, and policies, and the elimination of terms including “diversity.”
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NEW RESEARCH: Seamounts are a HUB for sharks! New research on seamounts off Ascension Island has found that there are 41 TIMES the amount of sharks there than in the open ocean, despite no increase in primary productivity. Read the full paper here - doi.org/10.1371/jour... 🦑🌊🦤🌍🌐🧪 #AcademicSky
🎉CONGRATULATIONS🥂 to Lucy Westover on publishing her 🥇 paper in @royalsocietypublishing.org. Celebrating #ECR success is GREAT. @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #fieldwork #experiment #predation #noise #mongooses #vigilance #behaviour #ECR #Masters #OpenAccess so please share: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
An amazing resource from @asabeducation.bsky.social ! These worksheets are fantastic way to acknowledge and celebrate #WomenAndGirlsInScience #WomenInSTEM 👩🔬
ASAB Education Committee@asabeducation.bsky.social · last yr.Happy #WomenAndGirlsInScience Day. To celebrate we have some free worksheets to share with your young people. asab.org/education-news Thank you to these brilliant women for taking part - Professor Dorothy Cheney, Professor Anindita Bhadra, Dr Danielle Lee and Professor Sue Healy #WomeninSTEM
It’s never been more important to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩🔬 Here’s a collection of posts from last year about some of the remarkable historical #WomenInSTEM in the animal field:
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MPLS Division, University of Oxford@mplsoxford.bsky.social · last yr.The Advice I Wish I'd Received: IDWGS 2025 Professor Milner-Gulland from @biology.ox.ac.uk recommends seeking advice from senior researchers and the rewards of collaboration across career stages. #WomenInScience #IDWGS2025
New paper out today from our lab. doi.org/10.1098/rsob... We unpick the morphological 🧑🧒, physiological 🔬, behavioural 📟 and transcriptomic 🧬 differences contributing to female sex bias in migrating #hoverflies. See my work on flight performance in this paper 🪰💪🪽 @uniexecec.bsky.social
Multiple factors contribute to female dominance in migratory bioflows | Open Biology
Migration is a widely observed phenomenon supported by morphological, physiological and behavioural traits that vary with season and sex in many species. Recently, the genetic components underpinning migration in the marmalade hoverfly (Diptera: Syrphidae)...
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Now with an @evolletters.bsky.social blog post about the work from study lead Ryan Imrie evolutionletters.net/examining-pa... @uniexecec.bsky.social
Examining patterns of susceptibility across virus and host species - Evolution Letters | Editor's Blog
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Ben Longdon@blongdon.bsky.social · last yr.Just out "Positive correlations in susceptibility to a diverse panel of viruses across Drosophilidae host species"; 35 host species * 11 viruses. Work led by Ryan Imrie together with Megan Wallace in @evolletters.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Pericentromeric #heterochromatin clusters into chromocenters. @skrutlnize.bsky.social &co use quantitative mass spec to characterize the chromocenter proteome in multiple tissues, identifying a link between satellite DNA-binding proteins & #transposon repression🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/4akuNAi
There’s a lot of important dates coming up for #ASABSpring2025 & #Behaviour2025 ASAB Grants: asab.org/grant-overview ASAB Spring: asabspring2025.github.io Behaviour: behaviourindia2025.in Make sure you also follow @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social & @behaviour2025.bsky.social for updates 😄
🌍 Droughts to Worsen in the Arabian Peninsula A study projects severe droughts in the Arabian Peninsula by 2100, driven by evaporation rising 5x faster than rainfall. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm 🧪 #ClimateChange
Projected increase in droughts over the Arabian Peninsula and associated uncertainties - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Projected increase in droughts over the Arabian Peninsula and associated uncertainties
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We are hiring! Looking for new editorial board members - 📚 Associate Editors x c.10 📚 Handling Editor x 1 📚 Commissioning Editor x1 More information and application procedure: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
Thrilled to see our work covering the evolutionary ecology of ethanol on the cover of the January TREE issue 🎉. Stunning photo by Cyril Ruoso. @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social @kjhockings.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @exetergses.bsky.social @evol-lab-ex.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Congratulations to our #ASABWinter2024 video contest winner Snata Chakraborty 🏆🎥 See her video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTJ-...
Anchoring Bias in Web-shaking Behaviour of Spiders - by Snata Chakraborty
YouTube video by Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
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I have a PhD position open to start fall semester 2025! The position will include investigations of the structure of both phenotypic (behavioral) plasticity and genetic variation in behavior as well as lots of opportunity to develop your own project. #Evolution #evobio #evolsky #Ecology 🧪
Deadline approaching for PhD studentship with @kofanchen.drosophila.social.ap.brid.gy & I (cosupervisor). Neat study done on immune genes affecting neural processes. Our goal is to look at sleep X immunity using wild & mutant flies with immune diffs! #Drosophila www.kofanchenlab.net/drosophila-s...
Drosophila species
Individuals of a species need to allocate and perform vital behaviours such as searching for mate and food, and escaping from environmental threats along the 24 hours of a day. Locomotion serves as a ...
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If I get the times correctly, the WSJ announcement followed a meeting of China's National Health Commission (NHC), during which it was confirmed that the new virus was causing the pneumonia. The meeting is reported in @daliyang.bsky.social's book, Wuhan. ▫️2/ books.google.fr/books?id=3wD...
Nice work!
Simone Immler@immler.bsky.social · 2y agoA great end to 2024: The Zebrafish Sperm Proteome analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... We described >5400 sperm proteins! Spearheaded by PhD student Jayme Cohen in collaboration with many people at @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social
Humans are not 'drinking alone': alcohol consumption is not unique to humans and may have benefits - including nutritional, medicinal or cognitive - in other species www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The evolutionary ecology of ethanol
The consumption of ethanol has frequently been seen as largely restricted to humans. Here, we take a broad eco-evolutionary approach to understanding …
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Good morning from Kenya. Day 3 begins as University of Exeter MSc Conservation and Biodiversity students up at sunrise to strike camp in Naivasha. @brendangodley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @exetergses.bsky.social @kjhockings.bsky.social @aimee-mcintosh.bsky.social
Postdoc in Hosken lab (UoExeter, UK) closing soon (evolution of body shape) get in touch if you are interested. Please repost. jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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Join us at UGA Entomology! We are searching for an assistant professor in quantitative insect ecology. Applications due January 31. www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/406...
Assistant Professor: Quantitative Insect Ecologist
The Department of Entomology at the University of Georgia (UGA) invites applications for a tenure-track position (9 months) in quantitative insect ecology at the Assistant Professor rank.The position ...
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Is low fecundity of old males a consequence of seminal fluid or sperm declines, or female post-mating responses? Our new paper in evolution letters finds some surprising answers! academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
Reproductive output of old males is limited by seminal fluid, not sperm number
What causes an old male to reproductively fail? Is it his sperm or seminal fluid? In fruit flies, old males produce fewer offspring than young males. But s
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Marine heatwaves are getting hotter and more frequent. This incredible underwater time-series from Seychelles has taught us how coral reefs can respond to bleaching - including regime shifts, boom-bust cycles, and now, a regime reversal from algae -> coral. Out now in Ecology Letters! 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍
Nick Graham@nickajgraham.bsky.social · 2y agoStill hope for coral reefs. Using 28-years of data in Seychelles, we find reefs recovering 4-5 years faster from the 2016 bleaching event, than they did after 1998. Also, a reef that had regime-shifted to macroalgae for over 15 years, is recovering to coral. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Hey BlueSkyers, we’re finalizing a #meta-analysis 📚 on comparative studies examining the link between #SexualSelection and #Speciation. If you have unpublished data or know of studies that might not surface in a systematic search, please reach out - we’d love to include them! Please share!
The Resilience of Coastal Communities (ROCC) project bit.ly/3DicIGC, which includes ESI academics Dr Rachel Turner and Dr Tomas Chaigneau, has an exhibition at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall exploring the resilience of Cornwall’s coastal communities. nmmc.co.uk/2024/02/exhi...
