We'd like to invite you to our second General Assembly of the Year! Please come along with your beverage of choice 🍸☕️ and your opinions 🌶️ 📆 Monday, July 13th 2026 🕒 15:00–16:00 GMT 🕓 16:00–17:00 Central Europe 🕙 10:00–11:00 US East 🕙 7:00–8:00 Pacific Time www.socialtransfer.net

Parental nutrition: Do #milk and #mucus have things in common? Find out at the BYOF seminar on May 6th at 15:00–16:00 UK / UTC+1 | 16:00–17:00 Europe / UTC+2 | 10:00–11:00 US East / UTC-4 of our #SociallyTransferredMaterials network. Bring a beverage ☕️ as you prefer – with or without the milk!

Check out our upcoming event in The Netherlands

Joris M. Koene@joriskoene.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What do milk, seminal fluid, eggs, and regurgitates have in common? Find out during our Focus Session at NWO Life 2026 “Socially Transferred Materials: Connecting Physiology, Ecology & Evolution” (28-29 May 2026, Egmond aan Zee, NL) 🐜 🐸 🐌 🐄🥚 @socialtransfernet.bsky.social

First BYOF Seminar of 2026! 🗓️ Wed. March 4 @ 16 pm CET. Join us for two 10 min talks about social transfers: 🐀 Coprophagy (Amlie Baud @ameliebaud.bsky.social) 🪰 Ejaculate (Bahar Patlar @baharpatlar.bsky.social) 📨 Email hello@socialtransfer.net for the Zoom link! @socialtransfernet.bsky.social

Join our first Social Transfer Network General Assembly on Wednesday, February 4th! 15h UK / UTC+0; 16h Europe / UTC+1; 7h US West coast / UTC-8 This is your chance to connect, catch up, and have your voice heard as we reflect on the past year and look ahead to what's next for our community.

Final edition of the BYOF 2025 Seminar series: 📅 December 10th, 2025 🕣 08:15 UK 🕤 09:15 EU 🕔 19:15 AUS 💧 Hidden Messages in Seminal Fluid | John Schjenken 📝 Rewriting the Rules of Inheritance | Nicole McPherson 🧬 How does the embryo deal when a gametes delivered a damaged genome? | Tommaso Cavazza

Join us for another exciting BYOF!

@kathigapp.bsky.social · 9mo ago

☕️Bring-Your-Own-Fluid-Seminar|Wed Nov 19th @ 9:15 enjoy 7 min talks: 👩‍⚕️ Nanoparticle & Maternal-Fetal Communication • Tina Buerkli 🐀 Reproductive phenotypes • Ivana Jaric 👪 social stress & placenta • Juliet Richetto Email hello@socialtransfer.net for the Zoom link! 🔗 @socialtransfernet.bsky.social

We are looking forward to seeing many of you at this Friday's Bring-Your-Own-Fluid (BYOF) seminar! 📅 October 24, 2025 🕒 15:00 UK / UTC+1 🕓 16:00 Europe / UTC+2 🕙 10:00 Eastern / UTC-4 🕘 09:00 Central / UTC-5 🕗 08:00 Mountain / UTC-6 🕖 07:00 Pacific / UTC-7

Jenny Stynoski@stynoski.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🧃☕️ BYOF Seminar | Fri Oct 24 @ 10 am EDT🥛🍹 Bring-Your-Own-Fluid + enjoy 7 min talks about social fluids: 🦈 Viviparity & matrotrophy • Daniel Hughes 🐦 Crop milk • Victoria Farrar 🦂 Sexual stings • Yuqi Reitsema-Wang Email hello@socialtransfer.net for the Zoom link! 🔗 @socialtransfernet.bsky.social

🚨 Exciting news for #ESEB2025! Join us in Barcelona for our symposium: Cooperation, Conflict & the Evolution of Socially Transferred Materials (S08) 📅 Thursday, 21 Aug 2025 🕥 10:30–12:30 | 🕔 17:00–19:00 (Poster Session)

🌐 Welcome to the Social Transfer Network (STN) on Bluesky! We’re an interdisciplinary community exploring how materials/signals (from molecules to microbes) transfer between individuals and shape health, behavior, and evolution. #STM