Habitat complexity alters the strength of sexual selection on brain size in a livebearing fish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.20.644301v1
24.03.2025 15:45 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations Sam!! 🥳
26.03.2025 17:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I had an incredible time at the Swedish Oikos Meeting 2025! The inspiring presentations and posters left me full of ideas and excitement. Huge thanks to the organizers for putting together such a well-organized and memorable event! @nordicoikos.bsky.social
05.02.2025 20:00 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
ASAB Winter Meeting Edinburgh 2024 (Day 1)
Did you miss #ASABWinter2024 ? Or do you want to re-watch a talk or catch one you missed? Well, its your lucky day. Videos of the conference are now up on youtube for your perusal!
Day 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwF8...
Day 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz8S...
08.01.2025 17:07 — 👍 36 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 2
Now that @arezosha.bsky.social l is on BlueSky, I can let her know how much I liked her talk #ASABwinter2024 on male mate choice copy 🐟!
13.12.2024 22:39 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Thank you so much for your kind words!! 🤩
14.12.2024 10:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
1. Elisabetta in front of a slide with a chick on it reading “Early biases:
The adaptive role of plastic predispositions
Elisabetta Versace & collaborators”
2. Alper in front of a slide with a yellow warbler reading “Female song and territorial defense across seasons in the Galápagos Yellow Warbler
Alper Yelimlies, Katherine Albán Morales, Çaglar Akgay & Sonia Kleindorfer”
3. Arezo in front of a slide with a fish reading “Rethinking Sex-Biased Assumptions in Mate Choice Research: Are Males More Willing to Mate Choice Copy Than We Currently Expect?
Arezo Shamsgovara”
4. David in front of a slide with insects reading “Towards an inclusive paradigm for the identification of the causes and the prediction of the consequences of sexual selection
David Shuker, Thomas Green, and Eleanor Gourevitch Insect behavioural ecology lab”
First #ASABWinter2024 talk session ft. @elisabettaversace.bsky.social, @alperyelimlies.bsky.social, Arezo Shamsgovar & David Shuker
We learned about the combinatorial advantage of biases, song in understudied females, mate choice copying in males & putting ecology back into sexual selection 🐥🐤🐟🐜
12.12.2024 12:24 — 👍 35 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
Postdoctoral Researcher @UNIPD | 🏳️🌈 #Evolution, #Speciation, #Sexual-selection, #PhylogeneticComparativeModels |Cichlids|Poeciliids|Hermits |🐠 🐟 🐚
Fish ecologist; Asistant profesor at Masaryk University, Czechia
🔬 I study Sexual selection and host–microbiome interactions in reproduction
🐟 Fertility & microbial ecology in model fish
🎓 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc @GemmaGenomics | @UniPadova
#SexualSelection #Microbiome #EvolBio #AcademicBluesky
mate choice, evolutionary genomics, social behavior - Professore di Biologia, UniPD - Co-director, @CICHAZ.
Postdoctoral researcher at Bristol University with the Ecology of Vision lab. Interested in insect conservation, light pollution, sensory ecology, and kindness 🕷️🌈🦋 (She/Her)
PhD Student @vuamsterdam.bsky.social. Researching colouration and anti-predator strategies in 🦋
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zekeseeksnature/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aRTCnLMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Visual ecologist at Exeter University. I study how visual information affects the ecology, behaviour, survival and conservation of many different animals. Areas of interest include camouflage, signalling, visual modelling and artificial light at night
@insect-vision.bsky.social
Uni Konstanz PhD student with the International Max Planck Research School (QBEE) 🦋🧠🛩️ Intrigued by invertebrate sensorimotor control, vision, computational ethology, and 8-legged animals 🏳️🌈🇨🇦
Behavioural ecologist interested in sensory ecology of social behaviour and predator-prey interactions. Royal Society University Research Fellow.
University of Oxford
Behavioural ecologist @ University of Bristol, interested in the rules and mechanisms of behavioural/ecological interactions in a whole host of different systems. Easily distracted.
webby stuff: www.seanrands.com
Funding and supporting researchers, and publishing our research, to accelerate science that helps wild animals. wildanimalinitiative.org
Animal Linguistics / Associate Professor / University of Tokyo
animallinguistics.org
toshitakasuzuki.com
Animal behaviour, social and cognitive evolution. Jackdaws, mongooses, now wagtails. Herchel Smith Research Fellow, University of Cambridge.
PhD Candidate at University of Bristol and Shark Bay Dolphin Research studying the vocal mechanisms of cooperative action in bottlenose dolphin alliances. Having a whale of a time 🐳
she/her
https://emmachereskin.weebly.com/
Associate Editor, De Gruyter Brill Life Sciences: animal/human behaviour, cognition, anthropology, primatology, amphibians, crustacean research, zoology, sensory perception, (edible) insects and related fields.
The trumpetfish guy | PDRA @ Oxford Biology, University of Oxford | Enduring LUFC fan (he/him)
Professor of Animal Behaviour @ University of Bristol | cetacean communication and cognition group | loves dogs | PI @ Shark Bay Dolphin Research | she/her 🏳️🌈