Upama Aich

Go try this!! As always, a fantastic idea from @odedrechavi.bsky.social.

Till death do us part- fruit fly edition. 🤓

Flies were frozen to euthanise before we counted their sex ratio. This pair, as you can see, was quite busy throughout and remained attached even after being frozen for 4 days. They are full sibs, so I call them Cersei and Jaime 🫣🙈

Need something fun to look forward to? Get involved in the publishing process at one of your favorite society journals! Apply to be an editor at Animal Behavior by Oct 31!

PhD Scholarship in Australian scorpion evolution - Flinders University

Fully funded PhD (for Australian and NZ citizens) in Adelaide at @flindersuniversity.bsky.social on Australian scorpion evolution with Dr Russell Bicknell www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships...

🚨Massive congratulations to our CEB member @jenkelley01.bsky.social and the global collaboration team on their investigation asking why some prey use warning colouration while others use camouflaging in @science.org. Read the article below 👇

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Global selection on insect antipredator coloration Natural selection has repeatedly led to the evolution of two alternative antipredator color strategies—camouflage to avoid detection and aposematism to advertise unprofitability—but we lack understand...

Wa hoo! Our paper in Science is out today, revealing why some prey use conspicuous warning colouration while others use camouflaging colours. A huge global collaboration under incredible leadership by Iliana Medina and @wlallen.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A white-fronted bee-eater (Merops bullockoides) decides whether to consume a warningly colored white-barred acraea butterfly (Telchinia encedon).

Researchers in Science report a globally replicated experiment that uncovers which factors explain the relative success of warning coloration and camouflage as antipredator color strategies.

Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/4mBCl6i

Vacancy — Postdoc Position in Decision Making in Birds Are you an expert in animal behavior? Do you have experience working with birds? The Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) is looking for a motivated researcher to investigate the ro...

I have a job opening in my lab. If you are interested in bird behaviour and predator prey interactions please take a look! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Image showing Hobson Lab logo (with parakeets, a social network, and R code), two Monk Parakeets, and several individually-marked parakeets with the text "Now recruiting PhD students!!"

**PhD POSITIONS** I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work on sociality and cognition in Monk Parakeets, starting Fall 2026. Full ad is here: hobsonresearch.com/index.php/20... (please help spread the word!)

At CEB meeting, we heard from PhD student Avantika, who will study WA magpies to better understand how female magpies use aggression & vocalisation in social & reproductive competition. 🪶🦅
@mandyridley.bsky.social @lizziespeechley.bsky.social #LeighSimmons #UWA #AnimalBehaviour #SexualSelection

We’re offering a fully funded 4 yr PhD position to work on Sexual selection in complex environments at the @uv.es. Co-supervised by @dbergerbiol.bsky.social. Find details below 👇

Not every day you get to wear the aprons once used by Leigh Simmons and Joe Tomkins in the legendary dung beetle lab—where so much cool science on sexual selection and evolutionary ecology has been cooked up (sometimes literally 🪲💩)
@invertebrateissy.bsky.social @ceb-uwa.bsky.social

The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

doi.org/10.32942/X24...

A checklist highlighting the key points of TADA: Transferable, Accessible, Documented, and Annotated code.

"TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing"
doi.org/10.32942/X2D...

Lithograph of Tooth-billed bowerbirds C1925 by Henrik Gronvold

Funded #PhD scholarship- Vocal mimicry in tooth-billed bowerbirds at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment Western Sydney University ‪‪@animalecolab.bsky.social‬
@drbackhouse.bsky.social @westsyduhie.bsky.social‬
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Deadline: 30 Sept25 link: tinyurl.com/4uf92t5b

Please share: @UBCScience is searching for 15 TT faculty in diverse areas of expertise science.ubc.ca/about/careers. Included are 2 positions in Quantitative and Environmental Science as part of a hiring cluster for black faculty; you will join 6 current UBC faculty science.ubc.ca/blackscholars.

Mate competition and relatedness among males mediate the evolution of lethal fights in bulb mites Abstract. Aggression can enhance direct fitness by aiding aggressors in securing reproductive resources, but it negatively impacts inclusive fitness when d

My legendary students Incheol Shin and Seb Hayden published a fantastic study on kin recognition and the evolution of lethal fights in bulb mites, well done guys!

academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Media attention here:

econews.com.au/67589/meet-t...

www.ecovoice.com.au/meet-the-tin...

The final round this year for international PhD scholarships at Monash are now open (August 31st 2025). Interested in evolutionary ecology, global change, sex differences, and/or infectious disease? Maybe some ecotox together with @bbmwong.bsky.social. Get in touch. There will be Daphnia involved...

Context-dependent effects of developmental and adult diet on life-history traits in Drosophila melanogaster Abstract. Life-history traits such as body size, reproduction, survival, and stress resistance are fundamental to an organism’s fitness and are highly infl

What you eat when you eat matters!

Diet during development vs adulthood affects survival, fertility, and stress resistance — differently in male & female fruit flies.
Same calories, different outcomes.

Chandrakanth et al.: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Calling all evolutionary biologists!

**AES 2025 Conference**

📍 UQ Brisbane | 🗓 1–3 Oct

**Talks close 1 Sept**

Don’t miss out — submit & join us for three days of cutting-edge science + community!

aes.corsizio.com/event/685405...

#AES2025 #Evolution #ECR #SciComm #AusSci

Correlated evolution of multiple traits gives butterflies a false head | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Many butterflies possess a combination of characters at the posterior hindwing end, superficially resembling their head. This false head has been hypothesized to deflect predator attacks towards the f...

Read the full paper here: (2/2)
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Some butterflies adapted to have second ‘heads’ that confuse predators A new evolutionary analysis of butterflies finds “false heads” arose from the coalescence of multiple traits

Some butterflies adapted to have second ‘heads’ that confuse predators | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... (1/2)

In the #Anthropocene, species face multiple, severe stressors which may be anticipated to interact in harmful ways.

This #Perspective explores a more hopeful alternative: that stressors interact in a cross-protective manner.

Learn more here ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/conp...
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@scienceanu.bsky.social @uomresearchit.bsky.social

This afternoon, CEB talk was presented by @hasbeanbeetle.bsky.social, who is studying elytral melanisation as female ornamentation in seed beetles. The live beetle props entertained our audience! 🪲🐞

Aadhi is supervised by Dr Natasha Lebas, Assoc Profs Joe Tomkins & Jason Kennington, & Dr Rob Dugand

We are doing a Hackathon! 💻 Together with senior editor @nhcooper123.bsky.social , we'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible... (1/2)

Check out our paper in Evolution Letters!

We used D. melanogaster pigmentation as a focal trait to explore parallelism in phenotypic and genomic responses to environmental change - read more at the link below 👇

Parental age effects on offspring telomere length across vertebrates: a meta-analysis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.26.666864v1

3-year #Postdoc opportunity at the University of York!
I am #hiring a Postdoc to join my URF project on exploring how #biodiversity change is unfolding in the #Anthropocene.

Deadline: 10th August 2025.

All details and the link to apply: shorturl.at/qOQst

@anthropocenebio.bsky.social #ecology

Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death

"Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year."