Outsider Animals by Marlene Zuk is now available worldwide! This book is an entertaining exploration of what raccoons, rats, and other animal intruders teach us about intelligence, adaptability, and ourselves. Find it here: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Biology #Wildlife #Animals

🧪 are you a trans entomologist? arachnologist? parasitologist? malacologist? carcinologist? diplopodologist? vermeologist? 🐛🐜🪱🦗🕷️🦀 if you a trans scientist studying any kind of bug or crawling/slithering invertebrate that is existentially bug-like, I would love to interview you for a project!

Job alert! PhD position "Evolutionary Genomics of Transcriptional Regulation in Beetle Sociality" with @bfeldmeyer.bsky.social in collaboration with me and the fantastic burying beetles!

SPP 2349 Gevol @gevol.bsky.social · 5mo ago

You want to work on Transcriptional Regulation in Beetles 🐞? Join our GEvol Community and work with many great people ➡️ Two open PhD positions in @bfeldmeyer.bsky.social lab in Frankfurt: g-evol.uni-muenster.de/open-positio...

Here is my contribution to #BlueBugs @ashwhiffin.bsky.social 📷 Steelblue ladybird (Halmus chalybeus)

I've been slacking on posting research updates so here are some recently published papers I've been involved in 1️⃣I wrote a commentary on a thought-provoking paper by Tim Janicke in @behavecol.bsky.social. Here are my thoughts on defining sexual selection academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

A Goldilocks definition of sexual selection: a comment on Janicke

Sexual selection has been a contentious topic since its proposal, so it is unsurprising that debate continues over its definition. Janicke (2024) offers a

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Today is my last day at the University of Minnesota 🇺🇸 I’m so grateful to everyone that has made me feel at home for the past 3 years. I’m lucky to have fit in so many adventures Next week I’m thrilled to be starting my new position as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Job! 2-year postdoc position in EVElab, Bristol UK on nutrition and infections in pregnancy (FLF-funded) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV631/r... Apply if you are enthusiastic about: - experiments on insects which get pregnant - relevance of evolution to public health - a vibrant city & research environment

My interview for the @insectessociaux.bsky.social blog 👇

Insectes Sociaux@insectessociaux.bsky.social · 2y ago

New interview with a social insect scientist! 🎙 Tom Ratz has a passion for collecting beetles, which led him to make some surprising discoveries... 🪲 insectessociaux.com/2024/12/20/i... #InsectesSociaux #SocialInsects #SocialInteractions #ArthropodBehavior #DrosophilaResearch #BuryingBeetles

For a first 'real' post on Bluesky, I'm delighted to share my new paper that just came out in Insectes Sociaux: sex differences in parenting in burying beetles. 📸 @ashwhiffin.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Burying beetles as a model organism to study sex differences in parental care - Insectes Sociaux

In species where both sexes care for offspring, one parent—generally the female—typically provides more care than the other. While current theory offers broad predictions on the evolution of sex diffe...

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I haven't seen any starter packs made for behavioral ecology yet, so I decided to create one! If you are a behavioral ecologist (any career stage), please reply so I can add you to the list so we can more easily find each other. go.bsky.app/9mAuB6x

🚨New paper out today in PNAS. We show that same-sex sexual behaviour (SSB) in crickets is depends on body condition & show how a "mating filters" approach is useful for thinking about SSB more broadly www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New paper out now! Do males prefer virgin females? Our meta-analysis in Ecology Letters suggests they do - at least in invertebrates doi.org/10.1111/ele....