Mama pseudoscorpion & her cute baby high in the mountains of Montana. Mama is half the size of a grain of rice. These harmless micro arachnids have no stinger, but can deliver venom to prey via their pincers. Also, they can walk backward. Also, you probably have them in your house. #BugSky 🐙🌿

Be a dipterist. Be in Costa Rica for #FlySchool2026. See a muscoid #fly perching on a leaf. Tell student so they can collect it. Success!! Wait a minute 🤔 That's not a fly, but weevil mimicking one! This was so convincing, even rapidly moving & poking its wings out 🥰 #Curculionidae: cf. #Mnemynurus

I am recruiting PhD students for my new lab housed in the Sam Noble Museum at University of Oklahoma! If you are interested in fish macroevolution, geometric morphometrics, specimen-based research & phylogenomics please reach out. More info here: fishdiversitylab.weebly.com Please share widely!!!

Can’t wait!! 🥳

Central European section of IUSSI@ceiussi.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hey Everyone, We have an almost final agenda for the international #IUSSI26 congress on our website. A detailed program will follow soon. Check it out: iussi2026.org/program/

Wow this is incredible!

Mohammed Khallaf@khallaf.bsky.social · 3w ago

Our new paper is out in @nature.com! We uncovered how a naked mole-rat queen 👑 controls an entire colony: a natural contraceptive scent that suppresses reproduction in other females! A remarkable mammalian parallel to bees and ants! 🐝🐜 @garyrlewin.bsky.social youtu.be/enfv3zJrWKM?...

Excited to share that our paper on Horizontal Gene Transfer is now out in its final form in @gigascience.bsky.social! 🥳 By analysing 163 high-quality ant genomes, we show that HGT from bacteria is widespread across the ants and likely has adaptive functions! doi.org/10.1093/giga... 🐜📸: Alex Wild

Our group recently posted 2 new papers! This is the first one where we looked at how anaerobic metabolism in P. aeruginosa alters antibiotic resistance determinants. 1/2

bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 4w ago

Anoxia selects for high fitness biofilms and increased antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.09.737528v1

⁉️ Dear Colleagues: What platforms are you using in your labs using to easily share #code, help students on lab data analyses, and centralize access to pipelines? We do a mix of #bioinformatics and #statistical analyses, using R and other pipelines. We have a linux machine. #Github? #rstudio? THX!!

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We (me and @njdowdy.bsky.social) are hiring a PhD student! Come work with us! We seek a PhD student to investigate the evolution of acoustic behavior in Lepidoptera within a comparative evolutionary framework... Job closes this week! Apply ASAP! njdowdy.gitlab.io/balogh-fello...

Kenneth F. Balogh Graduate Student Fellowship

A PhD position investigating the evolution of acoustic behavior in Lepidoptera, co-advised by Dr. Nicolas J. Dowdy (Milwaukee Public Museum) and Dr. Chelsea Cook (Marquette University). Apply by June ...

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So excited to work with these brilliant folks on a cool project to identify impacts of social and thermal stress. The @rescorp.org has created a wonderful and inspiring community, and I am honored to be supported by them!

Research Corporation for Science Advancement@rescorp.org · 3mo ago

15 researchers from the United States and Canada have won awards in the second year of Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems, cosponsored with @allenphilanthro.bsky.social, the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, and @kavlifoundation.org.

Sometimes you just get that shot. Anna's hummingbird with a little friend, in my yard. Davis, CA. #birds #ants

What an inspiring weekend!! Great people, great science!Thankful to learn from these folks.

Research Corporation for Science Advancement@rescorp.org · 5mo ago

The 2nd meeting of #Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems ends today with pitches for team research projects to explore how neural systems adapt to today’s rapid environmental changes. - with @allenphilanthro.bsky.social, the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, @kavlifoundation.org.

I am excited to share more research from my lab! This work, lead by PhD student Casey Lambert, identifies physical interactions as a method of communication to coordinate social behavior in honey bees, published in Behavioral Ecology. Let me tell you about it... academic.oup.com/beheco/advan...

Physical Interactions Shape Collective Thermoregulatory Behavior in Honey Bees

Honey bees work together to cool their colony when it gets hot, but how do they decide when to act? We show that physical touching between bees is necessar

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🎉🎉 I graduated my first PhD Student!! Dr. Justine Nguyen successfully defended her dissertation yesterday. I couldn't be more proud. I haven't been stressed giving a talk in many years, but introducing her made me so nervous!! 🐝🐝 @jlotusnguyen.bsky.social thecooklab.org/news/drjustine

Congratulations Dr. Justine Bich Lien Nguyen on successful PhD defense! — The Cook Lab

Congratulations Dr. Nguyen!!

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🎉 Happy Holidays from The Cook Lab! 🎄 This year was incredible - hired our first postdoc, published several papers, gave many talks, traveled internationally, developed new techniques, submitted several grants, developed collaborations, and learned so much! 🎉 🐝 ♥️ thecooklab.org/news/holiday...

Happy holidays from the Cook Lab! — The Cook Lab

Happy holidays 2025!

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On Thantsgiving, the ants eat too much.

Researchers reported last year that Ethiopian wolves enjoy licking nectar from red hot poker flowers, documenting this behavior for the first time in a large predator. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4ocqSuW #ScienceMagArchives

Imagine how scary it’d be if we didn’t know why global temperatures were rising. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Thats 216 biomedical PhD students for their whole degree, or 140 2 year R21 grants, or 30 5 year R01 grants, or one fired football coach...

Dave Baltrus 🦦@surtlab.bsky.social · 8mo ago

FIFTY FOUR MILLION DOLLARS, to fire a football coach at a state university

Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth. The intrepid #spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026 - 16.1 billion miles. #Voyager1 #lightday Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...

Kilauea being badass right now on USGS Live Feed: www.youtube.com/live/tk0tfYD...

These wood ants are edge specialists... but not all edges are equal. Jacob Podesta used a decade of population expansion data to show that wood ants spread more quickly along certain edges, depending on the edge orientation. Currently available open access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Minnesota Zoo is hiring an Animal Behavior & Wellbeing Specialist to work on their animal welfare team! A new position, bachelors-level with at least 3 years experience. Apply by Oct 28. #job #animalwelfare #zoo #captivewildlife #aza www.aza.org/jobs?job=48841

What an honorable title! @okstate.edu is hiring a Temple Grandin Endowed Professor in Applied Animal Behavior & Well-Being. 75% research 25% teaching. #job #phd #animalwelfare #agriculture #farmanimalwelfare jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/temple-...

Temple Grandin Endowed Professor (Assistant/Associate) in Applied Animal Behavior and Well-Being - Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States

Temple Grandin Endowed Professor in Applied AnimalBehavior and Well-Being Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural ResourcesOklahoma State University – Stillwater, Oklahoma The Department of Anim...

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Join the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona for our 2026 Dendrochronology Intensive Summer Course (DISC)! Spend 3 great weeks (May 18th to June 5, 2026) in the field, lab, and classroom learning first-hand how tree-ring research is done! ltrr.arizona.edu/summerschool

Interested in building research infrastructure and contributing to a culture of open and reproducible science? Verena is looking for a full stack developer for the Pathogen Harmonized Observatory (PHAROS)! See the Verena website for more details and to apply […]

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Postdoc position in ecological forecasting 📈 as part of the Horizon Europe OSCARS call. The postdoc will be based in lovely Sevilla (fantastic place to live) and will include working closely with several European forecasting projects. Apply by Dec 11! 🌎🧪 globalchangeeco.com/jobs

I am looking for a Senior Researcher (at least 2 years postdoctoral exp.) for the LivePlatforms project into how people make livelihoods in the platform economy; a 5-year FT post based in the School of Info and Communication Studies at UCD. Do share widely! universityvacancies.com/university-c...

** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)