Sandra Steiger

🪲 New from BayCEER: Siblings matter!

Research shows burying beetle offspring thrive with siblings, even without parents. A surprising twist in how family life evolves!

🔗 Published in www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#Evolution #Beetles

@unibayreuth.bsky.social @steigerlab.bsky.social

New paper out on social immunity and burying beetles! Congrats to @leo-theo.bsky.social and @max-evolbio.bsky.social!

🔬 Last week at the BayCEER Colloquium, Dr. Maximilian Körner gave us a fascinating glimpse into the social lives of Nicrophorus #beetles 🪲

A fascinating and insightful talk that sparked great discussions!
@max-evolbio.bsky.social

Are you ready for the next talk?🌿

#SocialEvolution #Ecology

Please enjoy our paper about how potential pathogens can affect burying beetle offspring - even to some surprising effects!

Was a pleasure to work with @max-evolbio.bsky.social and @steigerlab.bsky.social on my first paper as a #firstgen PhD student!

New paper out on sibling cooperation in burying beetles! Big congrats to Paul Huber!

Dung beetle and larvae taken by Huber et al.

Better together: sibling cooperation matters! Burying beetle larvae consistently benefited from growing up with siblings, both with & without parents. Huber et al. show that sibling interactions can play a key role in the evolution of family life. Read now!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

👋 Hi Bluesky! I'm an evolutionary ecologist and about to launch my own research group at the University of Bayreuth (DE).
🔬 I will study the socioecology of animal-microbe interactions, asking how social behaviors in burying beetles shape - and are shaped by - interactions with microbes.
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🎓 #PhD in Evolutionary Ecology @UniBayreuth 🇩🇪

Parental care vs microbe communities in burying beetles 🪲🧫
ERC-funded | 3 years | behavioral ecology & metabarcoding

Details: tinyurl.com/CareVsMicrobes

Apply by May 16, start in September

#AcademicSky #Microbiome #SocialEvolution #Insects

Die 1000 haben wir längst hinter uns gelassen. Wir gehen schon klar auf 2000 zu. 😀

Danke an alle, die schon gezeichnet haben. Macht gerne nochmal Werbung bei Kolleg:innen - auch insbesondere an Einrichtungen, die aktuell noch wenig Zeichner:innen haben.

www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o...

We do have an open, permanent position for an entomologist at the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology: snsb.de/en/curator-o...

Olfaction with legs—Spiders use wall-pore sensilla for pheromone detection | PNAS The sense of smell is a central sensory modality of most terrestrial species. However, our knowledge of olfaction is based on vertebrates and insec...

doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Olfaction in spiders. We found that the wall pore sensilla in spiders look similar from the outside to those of insects, but differ ultrastructurally in various ways. Independent evolution!
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📣​ Don’t miss the travel grants for #ESEB2025 #Barcelona 📣​

Conference travel award: eseb.org/prizes-funding…
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⏳DEADLINES: 30/01 (CTA) & 31/01 (CAA) ⏳

Social and ecological drivers of parental care at Queen’s University Belfast on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Social and ecological drivers of parental care at Queen’s University Belfast, listed on FindAPhD.com

Isabella Capellini, Domhnall Jennings, Karina Vanadzina, and I are advertising a funded PhD project on parental care macroevolution, based at Queen's University Belfast!

Deadline to apply Feb. 7. Come join us! 🐦🐟🐒🦖🦎

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

In Folge 17 von Natur 2.0 - dem Biodiversitäts-Podcast begrüßen @janaisanta.bsky.social und ich unseren zweiten Gast: Dr. Matthias Schott, Akademischer Rat an der Universität in Bayreuth. Es geht u.A. um chemische Kommunikation und subletale Auswirkungen menschengemachter Stressoren bei Wirbellosen.

Flier for PhD position. Text with a lab logo at the bottom with a cricket silhouette of a cricket with antenna that look like normal curves. Also has a picture of a cricket (Acheta domesticus) on a white background. Text: Crickets! Behavior! Genetics! Statistics! The Dochtermann Lab in the Department of Biological Sciences at North Dakota State University is seeking to fill a PhD assistantship examining how selection has shaped phenotypic plasticity and patterns of genetic variance. The position will start Fall Semester 2025 and the incoming student will be joining a dynamic department (www.ndsu.edu/biology) and an interdisciplinary graduate program that provides a broad foundation for success (www.ndsu.edu/ecs). For more information about the lab visit www.neddochtermann.com If interested, please contact me at ned.dochtermann@gmail.com with a brief synopsis of your research interests. @neddochtermann.bsky.social

I have a PhD position open to start fall semester 2025!

The position will include investigations of the structure of both phenotypic (behavioral) plasticity and genetic variation in behavior as well as lots of opportunity to develop your own project.
#Evolution #evobio #evolsky #Ecology 🧪

Antennal sensilla pattern distribution and odor detection in Bombus pauloensis foragers (Hymenoptera: Apidae) - Apidologie Insects rely on chemical information from the environment to survive. The reception of this information mainly occurs through the antennae, when the stimuli contact the sensory receptors located withi...

It is out!
We evaluated olfactory lateralization in the bumblebee Bombus pauloensis through SEM and EAG. Unlike honeybees, our results show that there are not differences between right and left antennae.
Congrats Florencia Palottini!! 👏
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

TT job in Animal Behavior, Indiana University. Apply by Nov 15. https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/20413

🧪📢💥We're hiring, Assistant Prof in ANIMAL BEHAVIOR!! 🐦🕷️🐸🐝🦋🐟🐁🐕🐌 This is a joint appointment in Biology (Evolution, Ecology & Behavior) and the Program in Animal Behavior. 🧪 #job #academia Apply by 11/15/23 indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/20413

Still my favorite Christmas ornament!!

Social and ecological drivers of parental care at Queen’s University Belfast on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Social and ecological drivers of parental care at Queen’s University Belfast, listed on FindAPhD.com

Know anyone looking for a PhD? Like phylogenies and R programming? Think behaviour is really neat?

Isabella Capellini, Domhnall Jennings, Karina Vanadzina, and I have a funded PhD project on parental care macroevolution, based at Queen's University Belfast!

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

We are hiring a new entomological curator in Hamburg at the Leibniz institute for the analysis of biodiversity change…
Please share and apply!!!

8101202752.karriereportal.cloud/job/2024-20-...

Job alert:

Prince Philip Professorship of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Dept of Zoology, University of Cambridge

Applicants who are leaders in their field, have a track record of collegiality, & a distinctive well-funded research programme are encouraged to apply.

jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48966/

Assistant Professor and Assistant Entomologist in Chemical Ecology and Behavior of Insects University of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now!

📢 Job Alert in #ChemicalEcology at @UCRiverside @UCRentomology

Assistant Professor in Chemical Ecology and Behavior of Insects

aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01976

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Hi Christophe, please add me! Thanks!

Associate Professor in Animal Ecology with specialization in Evolutionary Ecology - Uppsala University Associate Professor in Animal Ecology with specialization in Evolutionary Ecology , Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University

📣 We are recruiting! Please spread the word!

We look to hire an associate professor in animal ecology, specializing in evolutionary ecology. Apply by Feb 7 2025. Come join us in Uppsala, Sweden!

Application page and contact info 🔗👇 #ecology #evolution #job

www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Evolution 2025 logo. A plane traveling from a globe toward a silhouette of Georgia with a pin over Athens. Text: Society for the Study of Evolution International Travel Stipends.

Applications now open for the 2025 International Travel Stipends to attend #Evol2025! Funds cover registration, travel, food, and lodging. Can also be used to attend #ESEB2025! Apply by January 31: https://buff.ly/3ZEWUqe @evolmtg.bsky.social

Burying beetles as a model organism to study sex differences in parental care - Insectes Sociaux In species where both sexes care for offspring, one parent—generally the female—typically provides more care than the other. While current theory offers broad predictions on the evolution of sex diffe...

For a first 'real' post on Bluesky, I'm delighted to share my new paper that just came out in Insectes Sociaux: sex differences in parenting in burying beetles.

📸 @ashwhiffin.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Can you add me too, please!

2 New #PhD positions in my institution to study #biodiversity and interactions #ants and #beetles in the tropics!

Thanks!