That previous photo is me taking a video of an adult, winged, female damselfly who is underwater and laying eggs in the stems of the underwater plants. Here is the view. You can watch her curl her abdomen around and insert the two eggs!! 🥚 🌿

Tachinid #parasitoid emerging from #monarch #butterfly chrysalis... The larva was never exposed, but field collected leaves were fed to the caterpillar. Many tachinids lay their eggs on leaves, only to be consumed by caterpillars, later consuming the caterpillars from the inside out

The next stand-alone meeting of the American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social will be on the East Coast!!! Mark your calendars for January 8-12, 2027 and we'll talk evolution, ecology, behavior, and integrative organismal biology at www.themansionatglencove.com/meeting-venues

Mind blown

Veeloxxy Bites@the-episiarch.bsky.social · 11mo ago

So this ant...can give birth to male clones of its own species AND of a different species... then mates with the male clones of the other species to produce hybrid workers...and mates with males of its own species to produce new queens... 🐜 Yo these ants are wildin' 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very cool and love the artwork!

Skyler Berardi@skylerberardi.bsky.social · last yr.

Check out our paper in Evolution Letters! We used D. melanogaster pigmentation as a focal trait to explore parallelism in phenotypic and genomic responses to environmental change - read more at the link below 👇

Two bombardier beetles (Brachinus sp.) attacking a termite. Many insects defend themselves with smelly/irritating chemicals; these beetles go to 11. They mix chemicals in their abdomen, and the resulting reaction reaches near boiling; the noxious mixture is emitted with an audible pop. 🐙🌿 #insects

Real wild wrinkle to the argument that open data will improve the integrity of science.

Alejandro Montenegro@aemonten.bsky.social · last yr.

👀 "We argue that permissive open-access data policies naturally facilitate exploitative workflows, from direct API access for data dredging to large language model authoring of papers." www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Final week to apply for this year’s round of the Princeton EEB Fellowship Program, folks! Please repost and help spread the word! We’re going tweetless and need the biggest bluest skies you folks can muster, please!!! ☀️ @eseb.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social Thanks!

Andrea L Graham@grahammunology.bsky.social · 2y ago

Just 3 more weeks to apply for the Princeton EEB Fellows Program! 🌵🦥🦩🦠🧫🌻Please identify at least 2 faculty collaborators, craft your research program, & apply here: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app... @sse-evolution.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social Please repost &/or apply!

Friends don't let friends make bad graphs repo has been updated! Friends don't let friends use boxplot for binomial (bimodal) data. Is your box plot hiding something from you? #DataVisualization github.com/cxli233/Frie...

I am looking for a PhD student to start in fall of 2025 at MSU. Potential topics include trait-based approaches to plankton community resilience, temperature effects on communities, harmful algal blooms and many others. Please get in touch if interested. More info: www.kl-lab.group.

Saiva bullata is endemic to the mountains of Northern Thailand. Despite its colours, it remains extremely well camouflaged when resting on the tree trunk. Yet another polka-dotty species!

Hope I'm the first to post this all time classic on this platform

NIAID releases alternative to BioRender, all illustrations freely available in public domain bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Brains are soft and squishy—but they might preserve better than other soft tissues. That story, a conversation about eco-evo dynamics with @lucasnell.bsky.social, and more of the best in Science and science in today's #ScienceAdviser www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Excited to share our new paper out in Science! We combined simulations, experiments, and field data to show how dispersal simultaneously stabilizes species and genetic diversity, which results in persistent eco-evo dynamics. doi.org/10.1126/scie...

The very cool caterpillar of an African death's-head hawkmoth (Acherontia atropos), found at night in Madagascar. #ento #invertebrate 🌿 🐙

New preprint out: many individual chironomid midge species can live in some wild places (e.g., Himalayan glaciers, hot springs). What shared features allow them to do this? doi.org/10.1101/2023...