Very proud of the special issue of Animal Behaviour I worked on with @wascherclaudia.bsky.social and @nicolakoyama.bsky.social on addressing biases in animal behaviour. Thanks to all authors- plenty of cool papers to read. Here's our editorial: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @asab.org

A reminder that Animal Cognition is always looking for exciting Special Collections (link.springer.com/journal/1007...)! If you have an idea for a topic and are interested in guest editing, please get in touch #AnimalCognition #ComparativeCognition

Animal Cognition

Animal Cognition is an interdisciplinary journal offering current research on all aspects of animal (and human) cognition in an evolutionary ...

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I’ve been on maternity leave for 6 wks and have been doing a little work during that time - grants that were due, continuing to support grad students/applications, manuscript revisions etc. I’ve been enjoying it - not exactly going balls to the wall but putting time into the parts of the job i love

🚨 Behavioral ecologists 🚨 I am about ready to submit a review paper on animal contest behavior. If you have any high quality photos of your study system engaging in a dyadic interaction (fight), DM me. I am revising a figure that has photos of different study systems. Photo creds will be provided!

📢 ASSOCIATE EDITORS WANTED Join us! IBIS is looking for Associate Editors to join our editorial team and support the peer review process Read more and complete the application form: bou.org.uk/ibis/vaca... #ornithology 🪶

Great place to work and live, and you’d have great colleagues!

Jesse Lasky@laskyjr.bsky.social · 4d ago

We are hiring in Penn State bio #botany2026 www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

Willa Cather figuring out how to completely savage me from 100 years in the past😭

eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 4d ago

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)

13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.

Help! My symbolism! It's so overt! And very explicit!

Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop

Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.

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As Shell announce Q2 profits of almost $10 billion

Rowan Hooper@rowhoop.bsky.social · 6d ago

SURELY, with wildfires causing the worst damage in Europe since WWII, politicians will take the opportunity to transform our approach to the climate crisis, right?? Report from me, @pennysarchet.bsky.social, @mjflepage.bsky.social and @alecluhn.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5Sn...

@insee.fr released France's daily deaths up to 30/6 so I was curious for Paris (one of the regions hardest hit by the heat in Europe) The impact is "beyond": On Friday 26/6, Paris saw more deaths than on any day during pandemic, incl during its huge wave 1

“Sleep when the baby sleeps” Me when the baby sleeps:

Panda's Insomnia: Crypto & Financial Worries

ALT: Panda's Insomnia: Crypto & Financial Worries

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Under what conditions can the evolutionary interests of a gene differ from those of their host organism? Very cool conceptual/mathematical synthesis here!

Gaurav Athreya@gauravathreya.bsky.social · last wk.

wanna read the latest overview of “internal evolutionary conflicts” — scenarios where genes spread despite being organism-deleterious? and wanna learn how to model them? look at our new preprint! we introduce unifying ideas, and try hard to write accessibly. small 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We just released a new open resource for studying evolution, ecology, colour, behaviour & biodiversity. OzButterflies 🦋 ✨ 4,000+ individuals 🌈 Visible + UV images 🧬 CO1 barcodes 📈 Spectral reflectance data 🏞️ 125 species doi.org/10.1093/data... @mherberstein.bsky.social @livuni-ives.bsky.social

Finally posted an ad for the postdoc position on my new NSF-funded project—come help build a new method to study plants' responses to environmental variation in space and over time, and figure out interesting ways to use it! Apply by 23 August to ensure consideration. Details: buff.ly/qTvaqvD

this summer's cultural cross over we've all been waiting for jimothy x bayeux

Saving new papers to a “to read” pile like I learned NOTHING from my last maternity leave 😂

Tyra Banks Typing at Office Desk

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London let its roadsides run wild, and butterflies are starting to return London’s transportation authority has doubled its wildflower verges in two years to 520,000 m², about 100 Trafalgar Squares, and butterfly sightings are up more than 50%. buff.ly/CFyUheM #ShareGoodNewsToo

New issue of #PhilTransB: Ecological #epigenetics at the intersection of behaviour and life history variation in non-model animals. Read #OA: buff.ly/6v4pqCo

Apparently the UK lost $1.5bn in under a week to extreme heat. Yet some are still calling for North Sea oil and gas expansion because… [checks notes] the economy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Heat Wave in June Cost the UK Economy $1.5 Billion

Scorching temperatures exposed shortcomings in Britain’s homes, workplaces and public transport.

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Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.

For anyone that missed my talk at @isbe2026.bsky.social - never you fear! You can watch my talk and read more about the new Replication Studies section at @behavecol.bsky.social right here! laskowskilab.faculty.ucdavis.edu/2026/07/22/r...

Updated my applyingtoeeb.info site on applying to evolution and ecology grad school in the US to incorporate some of the latest immigration changes. Share with any REU or other students who might be considering grad school.

Sorry to be missing ISBE for many reasons and definitely to be missing this. Leigh is one of the big hitters AND one of the nicest people in the field. A well-deserved recognition!

Bob Wong@bbmwong.bsky.social · 2w ago

Congratulations to 2026 Hamilton Lecture awardee Prof Leigh Simmons 🎉. #ISBE2026

Very useful tool for calculating ERC grant eligibility- but note that the call year refers to the year of AWARD not announcement/deadline - confused me into thinking I was eligible for another year 🥲! (ie the deadline for the 2027 starting grant call - just opened - is THIS October)

Isabel saur@izzysaurlab.bsky.social · 2w ago

do this: proposia.ai/materials/er...

What's the best way to lead a paper discussion so it doesn't die in silence? My answer, after years of getting it wrong: start with a summary, plan the discussion's life cycle, and make disagreement earn its place. New in BioScience. doi.org/10.1093/bios...

Three rules for leading a paper discussion

Silence is the sound of a seminar no one is steering, and for my first years as a professor, I was the one who should have been steering it. The course was

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There's still time left to submit an abstract to present at CROAK!🐍 Whether you'd like to give a talk or present a poster, whether you study molecular ecology or behavior, there's a spot for everyone! Head to docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... to join the amazing lineup of presenters!! 🦎

Folks! It's so good to see this back. If you are any flavour of queer doing any flavour of science, tech, engineering, or maths - come along! It's free and a lovely time, I promise. Their taste in plenary speakers is also impeccable...

LGBTQ+ STEM@lgbtqstem.bsky.social · 2w ago

Final countdown for Abstract Submissions! Submit your abstracts for your presentations for the STEMinar! Deadline 31 July! Find all the registration forms here: sites.google.com/view/lgbtqst...

drought is an ongoing problem in Europe and it will get worse - and yes - this is human induced ! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

European summer drying largely driven by atmospheric circulation changes since the 1980s - Nature Geoscience

Shifting atmospheric circulation patterns over Europe since the 1980s have been the major cause of increasingly severe droughts on the continent, according to nudged circulation climate model simulati...

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Did you know you can easily adapt your googling to be more environmentally friendly? Learn an easy way to turn off AI when you do not need it in a search, and save this planets dwindling water and energy.

How to Get AI Out of Your Google Search Results • The Revelator

Three simple keystrokes will deliver search results that consume less energy and water — and probably contain better information.

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