Please share your biological perspective on the definitions of reproductive terms by contributing to this research survey. #biology #reproduction #gametes

Tree of Sex@treeofsex.bsky.social · last mo.

Okay once more for the #SMBE2026 crowd! If you haven't yet, please take our survey on definitions of sex and reproductive terms. Link here or in the QR: univie.questionpro.eu/a/TakeSurvey...

Are you a biologist with experience in and enthusiasm for imaging and -omics techniques? Apply for working in Amsterdam (@vuamsterdam.bsky.social) on the exciting topic of socially transferred materials! 🐌 🐸 🐜🧬🔬 workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/po...

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...

Looking forward to your opinions about STMs!

Social Transfer Network@socialtransfernet.bsky.social · 4w ago

We'd like to invite you to our second General Assembly of the Year! Please come along with your beverage of choice 🍸☕️ and your opinions 🌶️ 📆 Monday, July 13th 2026 🕒 15:00–16:00 GMT 🕓 16:00–17:00 Central Europe 🕙 10:00–11:00 US East 🕙 7:00–8:00 Pacific Time www.socialtransfer.net

“I’ve often been told to narrow focus and specialise. But I believe my role in science is to connect different systems and synthesise across them. The fact that HFSP funds this blue‑sky, integrative science means the world to me.” Thank you @hfspo.bsky.social www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/news/egg-yol...

Does it matter that sexual selection assumes separate sexes, while this is not the norm in nature? Can we teach anatomy better and sacrifice less animals? How do these questions lead to a new field of research and art projects? Get your answers on 2 July, 15:45, VU Aula 🐌💧🫦 vu.nl/en/events/20...

Mocht je vandaag bij Teknowlogy zijn, wij zijn er ook! Met @joriskoene.bsky.social

Already looking forward to being there with @anitomical.bsky.social

Anitomical.com@anitomical.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are excited to announce that Anitomical has been invited to showcase their latest 3D models of animal #anatomy and the accompanying digital application at the teknowlogy.nl Innovation Market on 18 June, the annual innovation festival of NWO it’s free of charge, so get your ticket: direc.to/o8CT

This Friday: microbial superheroes in socially transferred materials! Those who know me can easily guess I will be mostly talking about the feeders, but one just has to appreciate _all_ the microbial goods that circulate in STMs.

Joris M. Koene@joriskoene.bsky.social · 4mo ago

With Bart Pollux and @anikokorosi.bsky.social , I will chair the Focus session “Socially Transferred Materials" at NWO Life (28-29 May 2026) 🐜🐸🐌🐄🥚 Invites speakers are @sanjahakala.bsky.social , @pranasag.bsky.social, Peter Kwant and @melissahrowe.bsky.social @socialtransfernet.bsky.social

Looking forward to the Socially Transferred Materials session at NWO Life 2026 (28-29 May) with 4 invited speakers. I present a poster on a Cuban snail's love dart, a collaboration with @bernardoreyestur.bsky.social. To find out more about love darts and social transfers: www.socialtransfer.net/blog

Parental nutrition: Do #milk and #mucus have things in common? Find out at the BYOF seminar on May 6th at 15:00–16:00 UK / UTC+1 | 16:00–17:00 Europe / UTC+2 | 10:00–11:00 US East / UTC-4 of our #SociallyTransferredMaterials network. Bring a beverage ☕️ as you prefer – with or without the milk!

Slowly getting the @anitomical.bsky.social application filled. Looking good and more to come!

With Bart Pollux and @anikokorosi.bsky.social , I will chair the Focus session “Socially Transferred Materials" at NWO Life (28-29 May 2026) 🐜🐸🐌🐄🥚 Invites speakers are @sanjahakala.bsky.social , @pranasag.bsky.social, Peter Kwant and @melissahrowe.bsky.social @socialtransfernet.bsky.social

And follow-up plans were hatched...

Anitomical.com@anitomical.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Last Friday, our chief science officer @joriskoene.bsky.social had fun giving an interactive workshop for Dutch lecturers of education in biology at Hogeschool Rotterdam.

Het is misschien niet de juiste dag of tijd om te starten, maar mijn shop is klaar! Met twee producten, later meer! miekeroth.shop

Mieke Roth's ink

because 3d can be 2d

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A nice postdoc position is available in Dan Jackson's group! evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

I am equally excited about our HFSP funded project!

Adria LeBoeuf@adriatica.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I am over the moon that my HFSP proposal w/ @joriskoene.bsky.social @stynoski.bsky.social @socialtransfernet.bsky.social has been funded! If you've heard my wild ravings on #socialfluids, commonalities across them and where this could lead, you see where we're going ❤️ Thank you @hfspo.bsky.social!

What do milk, seminal fluid, eggs, and regurgitates have in common? Find out during our Focus Session at NWO Life 2026 “Socially Transferred Materials: Connecting Physiology, Ecology & Evolution” (28-29 May 2026, Egmond aan Zee, NL) 🐜 🐸 🐌 🐄🥚 @socialtransfernet.bsky.social

This is such a bucket list moment: I'm on the mother of all science podcasts, @radiolab.bsky.social! It was so nice to be interviewed by #MollyWebster and fact-checked by #DianeKelly on snail reproduction (incl. the love dart work by @joriskoene.bsky.social). www.wnycstudios.org/story/snail-...

Snail Sex Tape

Snails do it, we watch.

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Join the @socialtransfernet.bsky.social during the first seminar of 2026, hosted from Amsterdam 🇳🇱

Social Transfer Network@socialtransfernet.bsky.social · 5mo ago

First BYOF Seminar of 2026! 🗓️ Wed. March 4 @ 16 pm CET. Join us for two 10 min talks about social transfers: 🐀 Coprophagy (Amlie Baud @ameliebaud.bsky.social) 🪰 Ejaculate (Bahar Patlar @baharpatlar.bsky.social) 📨 Email hello@socialtransfer.net for the Zoom link! @socialtransfernet.bsky.social

Join us on 4 Feb. to say hello, share ideas, give feedback and plan ahead!

Social Transfer Network@socialtransfernet.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Join our first Social Transfer Network General Assembly on Wednesday, February 4th! 15h UK / UTC+0; 16h Europe / UTC+1; 7h US West coast / UTC-8 This is your chance to connect, catch up, and have your voice heard as we reflect on the past year and look ahead to what's next for our community.

Een geweldige kans om bij te dragen aan #onderwijsvernieuwing bij de bacheloropleidingen #Biologie en #Gezondheid & Leven @vuamsterdam.bsky.social werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/ju...

🐜 4-year #postdoc position in the @socialfluids.bsky.social lab @camzoology.bsky.social investigating metabolic cooperation between bodies in a BBSRC-funded project. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc... #ants #socialtransfers #sociallytransferredmaterials #autophagy #socialinsects #aging #job (🧵1/n)

Mollusca-focused, 6-yr postdoc Postdoc in Invertebrate Evolution: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

I am delighted to present at #ZOOlogy2025, organised by the Royal Dutch Zoological Society (#KNDV) 🐌 🐚 🐙 🦑 🦪

Anitomical.com@anitomical.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Come and meet @anitomical.bsky.social at the 32nd Benelux Zoology Conference in ARTIS! @paulschilperoord.bsky.social and @joriskoene.bsky.social will be present on Tuesday, December 9, with a dedicated stand to showcase our new Comparative Anatomy Application. #anitomical #3danatomy #zoology2025

Looking forward to this last BYOF seminar of 2025!

Social Transfer Network@socialtransfernet.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Final edition of the BYOF 2025 Seminar series: 📅 December 10th, 2025 🕣 08:15 UK 🕤 09:15 EU 🕔 19:15 AUS 💧 Hidden Messages in Seminal Fluid | John Schjenken 📝 Rewriting the Rules of Inheritance | Nicole McPherson 🧬 How does the embryo deal when a gametes delivered a damaged genome? | Tommaso Cavazza

Another great seminar coming up next week!

@kathigapp.bsky.social · 9mo ago

☕️Bring-Your-Own-Fluid-Seminar|Wed Nov 19th @ 9:15 enjoy 7 min talks: 👩‍⚕️ Nanoparticle & Maternal-Fetal Communication • Tina Buerkli 🐀 Reproductive phenotypes • Ivana Jaric 👪 social stress & placenta • Juliet Richetto Email hello@socialtransfer.net for the Zoom link! 🔗 @socialtransfernet.bsky.social

🧃☕️ BYOF Seminar | Fri Oct 24 @ 10 am EDT🥛🍹 Bring-Your-Own-Fluid + enjoy 7 min talks about social fluids: 🦈 Viviparity & matrotrophy • Daniel Hughes 🐦 Crop milk • Victoria Farrar 🦂 Sexual stings • Yuqi Reitsema-Wang Email hello@socialtransfer.net for the Zoom link! 🔗 @socialtransfernet.bsky.social

Join us tomorrow for some great flash talks on maternal provisioning, milk in utero, and molecular evolution of sperm in the Bring Your Own Fluid seminar @socialtransfernet.bsky.social

EvolDir@evoldir.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Join the online BYOF seminar on social transfers, September 17, 15:00 UK time. Featuring talks on maternal provisioning and more. Details: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82976401049?pwd=HFiC0aIOfgYO2YK2TwoLu89v3Bejl1.1 #conference

If you are at ESEB2025 and interested in the models that we make for teaching innovation, contact me or find me during one of the breaks so that I can show you our 3D print of Lymnaea stagnalis!

Anitomical.com@anitomical.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Are you visiting #ESEB2025 this week? Make sure to grab one of our flyers at the main entrance to apply for a free trial of our Comparative Anatomy Application! Also be sure to catch the presentation of our scientific advisor @joriskoene.bsky.social