Erin Macartney

yeah! Now I need to figure out how to get it into the seminal fluid haha 🤔

My Ecoli colonies busy making seminal fluid proteins for me 😍

🚨 Attention! DO NOT confuse the archaic hominin species Denisovans with the darts player Denis Ovens!

Hello! Does anyone know of any 'seed' type grants/awards within Australia (or potentially abroad if they fund research internationally) that contribute toward research only costs (not salary)??

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

What a terrible year for me to give my first and last shot at a DECRA 😭. I knew it was going to be low, but still

Screenshot of tweet from the ARC saying they’ll announce DECRA and LIEF outcomes on Tuesday 25th Nov.

ARC says they’ll announce DECRA and LIEF outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 25th Nov).

In recent times these announcements have been around 11am Canberra time. With 2 schemes on the same day, I assume they’ll announce one of them later in the day (probably DECRA first).

Anyone looking for a Australia-based postdoc? Like animal behaviour / coding / birds? My fantastic collaborator, Iliana Medina, is advertising a position researching bird nests:

unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...

Sex-specific responses of small RNAs and transposable elements to thermal stress in zebrafish germ cells Environmental fluctuations influence heritable phenotypes through complex molecular mechanisms. In zebrafish (Danio rerio), the interplay between temperature variation, transposable element (TE) activ...

🚨 New preprint alert!
Our latest work from @immler.bsky.social lab 🐟🧬

Sex-specific responses of small RNAs and transposable elements to thermal stress in zebrafish germ cells

#TESky #TE #piRNA #miRNA #zebrafish #DanioDigest
🔗 Read here www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A thread 🧵...

First successful detection of oestrogen, progesterone and testosterone in multiple human hard tissues, and their use as potential biomarkers of pregnancy The sex steroid hormones oestrogen, progesterone, and testosterone have never been detected in modern or archaeological human skeletal tissues using e…

First successful detection of oestrogen, progesterone and testosterone in multiple human hard tissues, and their use as potential biomarkers of pregnancy

What is sexual selection all about... definitionally and mathematically? A super talented PI, Jussi Lehtonen, is looking for a postdoc to work it all out! Deadline end of this month.
ats.talentadore.com/apply/postdo...

This is figure 1, which shows mutational burden and signature analysis in sperm and matched blood.

The findings of a study in Nature shed light on germline selection dynamics and highlight a broader increased disease risk for children born to fathers of advanced age than previously appreciated. go.nature.com/4h5BglX 🧬 🧪

Very excited to have joined the Editorial Board of @evoecology.bsky.social as an Associate Editor! Send your sexual selection papers this way 🤓

I think all science should include a Lovecraftian summary

From policy to practice: progress towards data- and code-sharing in ecology and evolution | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Data and code are essential for ensuring the credibility of scientific results and facilitating reproducibility, areas in which journal sharing policies play a crucial role. However, in ecology and ev...

Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social et al. From policy to practice: progress towards data- and code-sharing in ecology and evolution royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... #OpenScience #OpenData

Surprising find reveals asymmetry in identical-looking fruit fly organs At Cornell, Dawn Chen was counting sperm stored in a pair of organs called spermathecae in female fruit flies, fully expecting the counts to be roughly the same.

Female fruit flies possess two visually identical sperm storage organs that differ in origin, sperm storage, and release rates, highlighting functional asymmetry in paired biological structures. doi.org/g93t23

Here’s how fruit flies' giant sperm squeeze into tight spaces Researchers found that fruit fly sperm push against one another and align in orderly bundles, preventing knots that could block reproduction.

Researchers found that fruit fly sperm push against one another and align in orderly bundles, preventing knots that could block reproduction.

🚨 Proceedings B is recruiting new Data Editors!
Join our editorial board to help ensure data/code transparency across biology.
🗓 Term: 3 yrs from Jan 2026
📩 Apply by 30 Sep 2025 with a 2-page CV + cover letter: proceedingsb@royalsociety.org
🔗 Info: jackbrand.work@gmail.com /dylan.ge.gomes@gmail.com

Male Reproductive Senescence in Mammals Is Pervasive and Aligned With the Slow‐Fast Continuum We found evidence of male reproductive senescence in 59.6% of the mammalian studied species, with a detection probability increasing with larger sample sizes and a longer age range relative to lifesp....

Male Reproductive Senescence in Mammals Is Pervasive and Aligned With the Slow-Fast Continuum
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Wow! Just when you thought social insects (or biology in general) couldn't get any weirder

We’ve got seven places left!

Sadly, this is the last Evolution of Ageing workshop to be held with the Gutenberg series. It won’t be continuing next year!

Calling all evolutionary biologists! 🧬
AES 2025 | UQ Brisbane | 1–3 Oct
Early-bird registration close 1 Sept
aes.corsizio.com/event/685405...
#AES2025 #Evolution #ECR #AusSci

I've had a crazy amount of bots on my academic website in the last few days... I have no idea what they do, but if anyone sees anything weird coming from me, can you please let me know 😳

Just completed my 50th peer review! I’m starting to have to say “no” more often, but I actually really enjoy it and learning what people are doing. Hopefully I haven’t been reviewer 2 too often ☺️

Altered translation elongation contributes to key hallmarks of aging in the killifish brain Aging is a major risk factor for neurodegeneration and is characterized by diverse cellular and molecular hallmarks. To understand the origin of these hallmarks, we studied the effects of aging on the...

Aging selectively impairs the production of crucial DNA- and RNA-binding proteins, which contributes to hallmarks of aging in the brains of killifish.

The findings in Science advance our understanding of the relationship between aging and the risk of pathologies. scim.ag/4owxo0O

This is devastating. In addition to the obvious harm to the FlyBase staff, SO many of us rely on this resource!

AES 2025 ECR Awards – Apply Now!

Submit your best paper (preprints welcome!) for a chance to give a 30-min plenary at AES 2025 in Brisbane.

Two categories:
PhD and Postdoc

Winners get $500 travel support + free rego
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This is a great opportunity! If you're an ECR with some cool work that you want to share with the AES community, don't miss out on applying!

Don't forget to register for the best part of the academic year! Hope to see you in Brissy! 🥳🤓

Check out our latest preprint 📣 TADA guidelines 📣

TADA (Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated) helps researchers across disciplines share code, with the ultimate goal of increasing code availability & its quality.

Brilliantly led by @eivimeycook.bsky.social

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