Males are worse mothers: Comparing care patterns in a facultatively caring beetle #Openaccess #beetle onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Males are worse mothers: Comparing care patterns in a facultatively caring beetle

Why should biparental care exist if offspring fare just as well when only one parent is present? In the facultatively dependent burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides, manipulating environmental qu....

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Just after presenting our work about how different patterns of parental care can affect immunity in #nicrophorus offspring at the @ece2026tours.bsky.social, it's now published by @insect-science.bsky.social and you can (open) access it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Males are worse mothers: Comparing care patterns in a facultatively caring beetle

Why should biparental care exist if offspring fare just as well when only one parent is present? In the facultatively dependent burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides, manipulating environmental qu...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Beetle parents try harder under pressure, but still lose out. 🪲 This new study shows how competition reshapes cooperation. Read the story behind the paper below, featuring a comic take on stressful parenting! buff.ly/QfJUOVU

Check out our new paper! Couldn't have said it better than Max - We really did wonder and we were quite surprised by the results!

Max Körner@max-evolbio.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Ever wonder how different burying beetle species vary in terms of immunity, and if the vast differences in larval dependency are reflected? I bet you did! So did we: doi.org/10.1111/eea.... Congratulations to Laura and @leo-theo.bsky.social, and big thanks to @steigerlab.bsky.social!

I can still fix it.

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

STEBAN, THE STUDENT COMMUNIST - “In dark times, should the stars also go out?”

Call for abstracts – XIII European Congress of Entomology (#ECE2026) 🐞 29 June–2 July 2026, Tours, France I’m co-organizing the symposium “Insect Systematics in the Biodiversity Crisis: Bridging Tradition and Innovation” 🗓 Early-bird & abstract deadline: 15 Dec 2025 www.ece2026.org

ECE 2026 - XIII European Congress of Entomology

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to Tours, France, in the heart of the Loire Valley, from June 29 to July 3, 2026.

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KIM KITSURAGI - “*Sunrise, parabellum*,” the lieutenant says. He's in the middle of a freshly cleaned room, with the fan above his head like a halo. His face is covered in bruises.

#ISBE2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your abstract by 15 December 2025 on www.isbe2026.com @behavecol.bsky.social

Was a pleasure to join this year's #BayCEER Workshop to talk about burying beetles, social immunity & parental care and how all this might influence offspring immunity and their early development. Watch out for a publication on this sooner than later 👀

BayCEER@bayceer.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🌿 Great energy at the 17th BayCEER Workshop 2025! 🌿 A day of sharing research, ideas, and inspiration across ecology and environmental sciences. www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/ws2025/ #BayCEER #Workshop #Ecology @unibayreuth.bsky.social @luederslab.bsky.social

Very proud and happy with @leo-theo.bsky.social and his poster presentation at the Ecological Immunity Workshop 2025 :) Excellent work Leon!

So cool to see our favourite model organism #nicrophorus on the current cover of @jevbio.bsky.social ! Heiko's pictures never disappoint 🪲

Journal of Evolutionary Biology@jevbio.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Read the current issue of @jevbio.bsky.social here: academic.oup.com/jeb/issue 📸 Heiko Bellmann Adult #Nicrophorus vespilloides #beetle in the act of feeding its offspring atop a vertebrate carcass the beetles have monopolised.

And #DZG2025 is officially open! Great opening event at the @mfnberlin.bsky.social - what a stunning venue! We are looking forward to a great conference!

Was so nice to present our research and @unibayreuth.bsky.social at this DZG meeting! Glad to be talking about parental care and how it interacts with offspring immunity 🎉 Expect our upcoming paper that deals with this cool topic!🪲 @max-evolbio.bsky.social and I had a blast working on it #DZG2025

DZG section Behavioural Biology@dzg-behaviour.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Kicked off our first behaviour session with 6 fascinating talks—covering everything from spiders, electric fish, and fossil insects to sex pheromones and how parental behaviour shapes immunity. 🌍🕷️🐟🪲 #DZG2025 @janka-p.bsky.social @andifischer10.bsky.social @leo-theo.bsky.social

SHIVERS - The skin on your back is crawling.

Please enjoy our paper about how potential pathogens can affect burying beetle offspring - even to some surprising effects! Was a pleasure to work with @max-evolbio.bsky.social and @steigerlab.bsky.social on my first paper as a #firstgen PhD student!

Journal of Evolutionary Biology@jevbio.bsky.social · last yr.

Through social immunity burying beetles protect their kids from diseases on their carcass. Can this protection ward off an insect pathogen? Researchers @steigerlab.bsky.social find out! doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... @leo-theo.bsky.social @max-evolbio.bsky.social

INLAND EMPIRE - His corpse is marked by stars. YOU - What will mine be marked by? INLAND EMPIRE - Alcohol and heartbreak. PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - Your fist clenches suddenly. YOU - It will be riddled with disco.

YOU - I am a detective. INSULINDIAN PHASMID - So am I. I was born to detect sucrose rewards and semiochemicals. What were you born to detect? YOU - I was born to detect you.

ACELE - “Yeah, well…” She tries to think of something to say. “Look man, fuck the hat.” HALF LIGHT - Your pulse rises.

VOLITION - Subdue the regret. Dust yourself off, proceed. You'll get it in the next life, where you don't make mistakes. Do what you can with this one, while you're alive.

YOU - Suffering will only make me stronger. ENDURANCE - It's probably this way of thinking that got you where you are.

0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov *fucked him over* personally with his socio-economic theory.

ENCYCLOPEDIA - Your mangled brain would like you to know there is a boxer called Contact Mike. YOU - Yeah? Any news on my wife's name? How about my mother? ENCYCLOPEDIA - Nope.

SHIVERS - In a little alley next to Boogie street, a man in stained overalls steps out of a workshop for a cigarette. His hands are bruised and soaked with motor oil and dirt. He breathes smoke out of his nostrils and closes his eyes. The next five minutes are his and his alone.

VOLITION - Do it for the city. Go. SHIVERS - Do it for the wind.

INSULINDIAN PHASMID - A nerve mirror of horrifying fidelity. Constant, never-ending damnation. PAIN THRESHOLD - It would take a million years of evolution -- or a total reversal in the condition of the world -- for your pain to end.

KIM KITSURAGI - “I'm guessing that's when you were promoted to the rank of lieutenant double-yefreitor. A new badge usually comes with a new rank.” ENDURANCE - The pain in your chest tells you you were working yourself to death to earn that rank.