Ramakrishnan Vasudeva

Just a reminder of tomorrow’s seminar at 3.30 in LT1 in @biology.ox.ac.uk

An expressive watercolour painting of a great spotted woodpecker

I'm currently knee-deep in updating my website in preparation for a big seconds sale this Saturday. There's a LOT to add! Anyway, here's my expressive watercolour painting of a Great Spotted Woodpecker.

#watercolours #birdart 🪶

Loved giving a workshop yesterday on transparency, reproducibility, and publication bias in meta-analyses

📊 Part of a brilliant event by the Science: To Be Determined team (@idiv-research.bsky.social). Thank you so much for the invitation!

🔗 conference.idiv.de/event/4/over...

Close up photo of the Moon while a Lunar Eclipse is starting

I'm attempting the #LunarEclipse with low clouds and Raccoons! #MoonPhotography #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #Photography #SantaBarbara

🌠 Meet Our Exec Committee for 2026 🌠

@hasbeanbeetle.bsky.social is a PhD candidate at the University of Western Australia currently working on sexual selection in cowpea seed beetles. He is not a father, yet still doesn’t have time for hobbies or interests of his own 🥀

Photo of a Lunar Eclipse during Totality

Not my best work but I'll take it! I'm tired! #LunarEclipse #Totality #MoonPhotography #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #Photography #SantaBarbara #BloodMoon

Tuesday moon .. a radiant orange colour at 7pm in north Hampshire, England .. my pic doesn't do it justice .. Worm Moon, 3rd March 2026

This week's EGI seminar will be given by Prof Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social from Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz @unimainz.bsky.social on the role of time in avian trade-offs. All welcome in person in LT1 in LaMB @biology.ox.ac.uk 3.30pm on 6 March. Also live-streamed: details available ⬇️

No evidence for squaring the survival curve: lifespan-extending treatments increase variation in age- at-death Abstract. Geroscience has the goal of extending lifespan through geroprotective interventions. These interventions are typically imparted on groups of indi

New paper out with @tahliafulton.bsky.social and Alistair Senior! A complementary meta-analysis of Ivimey-Cook, Sultanova & Maklakov (2025) where we find that lifespan extending treatments dont square the survival curve.
Longer life ≠ compressed mortality.
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

🌠 Meet Our Exec Committee for 2026 🌠

@damienesquerre.bsky.social is a lecturer and researcher in Biological Sciences from the University of Wollongong, focusing on evolutionary processes, specifically in reptiles and amphibians. In his spare time, he is an avid wildlife photographer 📷

We already have more than 💯 participants for #ExE2026, but there are still places available.

Once you have registered, you have until April 1 to submit an abstract, so don’t miss out and register now at sites.exeter.ac.uk/exe/registra...

Everything you need to know is 👇 and at evoxeco.uk!

Axolotls retain fertility throughout lifespan - BMC Biology Background Salamanders such as axolotls exhibit exceptional regenerative abilities and longevity. While many ectothermic species reproduce into old age, axolotls have been proposed to experience post-...

Axolotls retain fertility throughout lifespan
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The image is a thermal rendering of industrial piping, displaying various colors indicating temperature variations. Text on the left reads, "Unlocking thermal energy. Capture, storage and re-use of industrial waste heat. Read the report online." The Royal Society logo is at the bottom left.

Our recent report on unlocking thermal energy looks at how capturing, storing and re-using waste heat from industrial processes could be a huge opportunity for the UK to make progress towards #NetZero: https://royalsociety.org/news/2026/01/thermal-efficiency-in-industry/

A comparison of methods to assess selective disappearance and quantify ageing
doi.org/10.32942/X2Q...

A watercolour painting of a dunnock

This is a watercolour painting of a Dunnock (previously know as hedge sparrows). Small little ground feeders with a beautiful song 🎶

#watercolours #birdart 🪶

With @eivimeycook.bsky.social @commonternproject.bsky.social @iremsepil.bsky.social

Are current methods inaccurate in quantifying ageing & selective disappearance? We compare methods using simulations, analytical solutions, and empirical data, across life histories & methodologies (eg incomplete data). Surprising results & several recommendations. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

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

Florida turtle ant (Cephalotes varians) Nature Ecology & Evolution - Corrie S. Moreau studies the evolution of extreme armour and gut microbiomes in turtle ants.

How fun! I was invited to write a "Species Spotlight" for Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com and I chose my favorite species the Florida turtle ant Cephalotes varians! rdcu.be/e5EZK Including a stunning photo of ants I collected by @alexwild.bsky.social

Schematic of experimental design in new study.

Dwarf mongoose acting as a sentinel in Limpopo Province, South Africa

📢NEW paper alert

📖How #aggression between groupmates can have lasting consequences both for #cooperative #behaviour & responses to #intergroup threats:

doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

👑Led by @josharbon.bsky.social

#fieldwork #experiments #mongooses #mammals #bioacoustics
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes millions of biomedical and life science articles, revealing that f...

Median amount of time spent under review is 7.4–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles and the differences remain significant after controlling for several factors - analysis of >36.5 million articles in >36,000 journals
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

#Dogs #Dog #HugADog #BestFriend #GoodDog #FaithfulFriend #LoveDogs #DogsAreLove

Thank you @abhishek11.bsky.social

Many congratulations 🙌

Lola von Kietzell in Canberra collecting field data.

Lola von Kietzell with a group of white-winged choughs which she worked on for her Masters.

🥂CONGRATULATIONS to Lola von Kietzell on defending her #Masters by Research thesis with no corrections. 👏

🙏THANK you to @josharbon.bsky.social for cosupervising, #Chun-ChiehLiao & #RobMagrath for brilliant #fieldwork support, and @caglarakcay.bsky.social & @stephanielking.bsky.social as examiners.

💥⚡⚡NEW PAPER ALERT ⚡⚡💥
Temperature rises and impacts on sexual selection; mate choice mechanisms, phenotypes, fitness in current opinions in insect science with
@evol-lab-ex.bsky.social
#TomTregenza
Paper is here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

🚨JOB alert🚨

We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol.

Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology

⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026
🙏Please circulate widely

😊Come join us!

Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc

CEEC Rebellion's coming!

Make a note in your diaries for the 18 and 19 March 2026 at UEA, and in the meantime, how awesome are the team?! ⬇️

#UEAScience

The young stars of the constellation #Taurus: GN 04.32.8 is a reflection #nebula, clouds of dust in space that don't emit their own light, but reflect light from nearby newly forming stars. 480 ly from Earth.

Link for more info: esahubble.org/images/potw2...

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, G. Duchêne