The Center for Scientific Integrity is proud to announce the inaugural winners of the 2026 Ctrl-Z Award. Named for the universal keyboard shortcut for “undo,” the Ctrl-Z Award this year honors @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social and @katelaskowski.bsky.social for choosing transparency over reputation.

ScienceAdviser Exclusive: Meet the inaugural winners of the Ctrl Z Award

Today in Science and science: Ice age hunters’ penchant for female mammoths, a detailed vagal map, and more

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Open position of Associate Professor in Behavioral ecology and cultural evolution at the @dee-unil.bsky.social! You can toggle the ad to English on top right: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

Wow! This conference looks awesome. I'm going to have some serious FOMO...

European Conference on Behavioural Biology@ecbb2026.bsky.social · 6d ago

Ready to start planning your conference experience? We've got the #ECBB2026 programme outline available for download! www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe...

RECRUITING 3 Senior Research Associates to develop responsible AI-enabled approaches to unlock animal behaviour for conservation. Roles include: 🧠 AI/Computer Vision 🐠 Behavioural Ecology 🌊 Marine Field Ecology Join @lec-reefs.bsky.social & @dsailu.bsky.social, Lancaster Uni, UK. Ads coming soon!

Almost at #BESMacro2026 ☺️ Looking forward to hearing what everyone is up to in the world of macroecology

Launched today! New resources for Morecambe Bay Curriculum including "Signals of the Bay: Grey Seal Behaviour in a Changing Ecosystem" developed by Vic Bond @LMC and me @lec-reefs.bsky.social for FE students www.lancaster.ac.uk/morecambe-ba... Includes optional resource on AI use @dsailu.bsky.social

Further Education - Lancaster University

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UKHO is searching for a marine biologist to join their team as an Ocean Environment Scientist: www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

Exam marking complete!!!!

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Did you know AI offers more than just chatbots and image generators? 🤖 Whalespotter is a whale-detecting, AI-powered tech developed at WHOI to help mariners avoid strikes as they transit high-traffic marine corridors. 📲Learn more from Science News: go.whoi.edu/SNWhaleSpotter

The critically endangered 🐧 Regent Honeyeater’s song has dwindled along with its population. 🏡 To help preserve their song and courtship behavior, one group of scientists have recruited wild-born birds as tutors for captive-bred populations. 🌍 📰🧪 More with The Guardian: https://ow.ly/zZ9650Z77aW

The awesome @nickajgraham.bsky.social is now a Fellow of the Royal Society! Sooooo coooooool! Massive congrats www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancast...

Lancaster marine ecologist elected to become Royal Society Fellow - Lancaster University

Lancaster University’s Distinguished Professor Nick Graham has been elected to become a Fellow of the Royal Society, one of the world’s most prestigious learned societies.

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When I started my MSc, they asked all of us to write down who inspired us to get into ecology. Over half of us wrote David Attenborough 🥰 Happy Birthday to an absolute legend 🥳🍾🦋🐛🦑🦎🪼🐢🦍🦜

There's a mini jobs bonanza just now at BTO! 🐦 Apply to become our next Scottish Raptor Monitoring Coordinator, Biological Data Manager or Research Support Officer via www.bto.org/jobs Birds Science People; it is a powerful combination – will you be part of it?

Had fun talking corals at Brownies tonight - such an enthusiastic and engaged bunch! My daughter couldn’t stop giggling when I dressed her up in all the dive gear 😂🥰

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us: 🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦 Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆29th May deadline More info: tinyurl.com/yz28s96x Apply: tinyurl.com/2wpkb64y #cognition #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #birds 🙏Please Share

For anyone waiting on the NERC AI for Env Science Phase One call outcomes, the timeline has been updated www.ukri.org/opportunity/... Decisions in Aug, project start Oct. Good luck!

Artificial intelligence (AI) for environmental science phase one

Secure funding to deliver new world-leading data science and AI approaches to tackle critical environmental challenges. Interdisciplinary collaboration within and beyond environmental science is encou...

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Ecological Solutions and Evidence is accepting proposals for their latest Special Feature! They invite scientists and practitioners to share experiences from management projects that didn't turn out as expected, but still provided important insights into how best to manage ecosystems and species 🌱

Final version just published of our review on the ecological and evolutionary consequences of cooperation www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... @ryosukeiritani.bsky.social @annadewar.bsky.social @asgriffin.bsky.social @lauriebelch.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

I've deleted my ChatGPT account. To explain why, I would suggest reading the #QuitGPT website but it has mysteriously disappeared.... If you want info, it's summarised here www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman

As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

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Please share widely: courtesy of the British Council, Durham University are offering FULL scholarships (visa fees, flights, etc) for MSc in STEM for women from a selection of countries. www.durham.ac.uk/study/schola... Including our Biotech and Plant Biotech MScs! www.durham.ac.uk/study/course...

Ready for our “masterclass” next week with 16-17 yr olds. Should be fun!

Many journals require data and code sharing. Yet code is still rarely shared and datasets are often hard to reuse. Our new paper introduces the @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data & code quality control in ecology & evolution, developed by 26 experienced data editors. 📄 doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

Scientists have discovered hedgehogs may be communicating at frequencies up to 85 kHz. Set an AudioMoth to a sample rate of 192 kHz or higher and you can try listening in! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Secret of hedgehog hearing discovered at far beyond human range

Researchers played a sountrack to hedgehogs to identify the frequency of sounds they can hear

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VR dive experience tested on my coral reef ecology module @lancasteruninews.bsky.social found it helped consolidate knowledge & motivated learning+pro-environmental behaviour. Just avoid that uncanny valley! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @lec-reefs.bsky.social VR by thehydro.us

Enhancing motivation to learn marine ecology and increase ocean literacy through virtual reality in higher education

Virtual reality (VR) is increasingly recognized as a tool for enhancing engagement and motivation in education. This is particularly true where access to experiential learning is limited, as is often...

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This international women’s day we celebrate the inspiring women that are part of, and work alongside our group. The UN’s theme for #IWD is “Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls”- learn more here: www.unwomen.org/en/get-invol... 👩🏽‍🔬👩🏻‍🎓👩🏾‍🏫👩🏼‍💻

📣 JOBS!!! We're looking for new colleagues in the School of Biology @bioscienceleeds.bsky.social - two associate profs (plant sci and animal biology) and a lecturer (ecology/zoology)... jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

MPAs only partly offset decades of human impacts on tropical reefs Protecting more while continuing business as usual will just slow the decline 🐟📉 ! Check our latest paper in @natecoevo.nature.com with @uflandrin.bsky.social on 2800+ reefs & ~1700 🐠 species www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐🧪🌍🦤🦑

Fun science times at iDiv this week working on sMacrobehaviour 🤗