Introducing the campest katydid of all time. 🦄💅🏽👸💞 Why would this animal (Arota festae) have evolved this way, other than to look utterly fabulous? We have unleashed some (slightly whacky) thoughts, now out in @esajournals.bsky.social. Photo credit: @zekerowe.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... 1/n
08.03.2026 17:13 — 👍 34 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0Reminder: a little over one week left to submit abstracts for the individual‑based conservation topical collection. Happy to chat if you’re considering contributing!
06.03.2026 10:36 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
The PopGen Vienna Seminar series schedule is ready for the next term (March-June). It's jam-packed with fantastic speakers in #evolution, #genetics, #genomics, #popgen, and more! Details and streaming link signup can be found on our website popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/
18.02.2026 11:36 — 👍 25 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 2
1937 article of a Red-Tailed Hawk carcass discovered to have choked, seemingly to death, on a squirrel skull.
I never, ever weary of the treasures to be found among the deep tracks, I mean DEEP STACKS, of Natural History.
05.03.2026 00:40 — 👍 50 🔁 9 💬 4 📌 2They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.
05.03.2026 04:33 — 👍 4393 🔁 1813 💬 103 📌 30
Big effort, exciting results - our paper on the constraints of thermal limits in tropical insects is now out in @nature.com! 🦋🐝🪰🪲🦗
@ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social
@biologie-uniwue.bsky.social
@uni-wuerzburg.de
Screenshot of the first page of the PDF of the Review article, Transgenerational plasticity and climate change: phenotypic responses across ectothermic animals, by Anthony Gilbert and Daniel Warner. The publishing information states: © 2026. Published by The Company of Biologists | Journal of Experimental Biology (2026) 229, jeb250304. doi:10.1242/jeb.250304. The first sentence of the Abstract says, 'Using organismal-level data to predict population-level responses to climate change is a common, yet complicated challenge'.
In their Review, Gilbert & Warner discuss how warming due to climate change can have effects across multiple generations of ectotherms and highlight knowledge gaps which would benefit from future research
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.
04.03.2026 02:17 — 👍 2783 🔁 985 💬 17 📌 40When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
03.03.2026 12:10 — 👍 9493 🔁 4125 💬 77 📌 165#winterwarming
04.03.2026 04:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Friends, we need to set the bar higher than this.
03.03.2026 18:00 — 👍 51 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0
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 ⬇️
03.03.2026 07:50 — 👍 31 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 1
photos from an excellent study by Cohen et al (2021) of a cerambycid beetle just straight up doing it with the flower of Disa forficaria, in a classic example of a ~sexual mimicry pollination system~
the humiliation of going on a hot date then finding out she wasn't even in the same PHYLUM (then someone writes a whole paper about it, with photos of your wiener)
01.03.2026 03:37 — 👍 184 🔁 50 💬 10 📌 5
How and why does cognition vary so greatly between individuals and species? In @natrevbiodiv.nature.com, we propose the "Predatory Intelligence Hypothesis" which posits that the cognitive challenges associated with predator–prey interactions drive a cognitive co-evolutionary arms race
rdcu.be/e5KIj
Something I’ve learned - the best research environments aren't sterile. They're alive with creativity and warmth, with huge fish murals and dogs who have no idea what a p-value is but show up to lab meeting anyway. Science is a human endeavour and humans need to be inspired by their surroundings.
25.02.2026 12:55 — 👍 49 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
In any other sector this would be front page news along with government funding announcements.
The UK just seems to not value higher education.
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...
So true 🫠
24.02.2026 20:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
IOB's EIC is Dr. Ignacio Moore.
read more about his work with tropical #birds, & #reptiles
www.biol.vt.edu/faculty/moor...
& look over IOB to see if we are a fit for your work:
academic.oup.com/iob
A card announcing the call for papers stating 'Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of Reproduction Guest Editors: Etya Amsalem, Tony D. Williams and Kathryn Wilsterman. Submission deadline: 30 June 2026' with the Journal of Experimental Biology logo and the logo for the Special Issue containing an egg cell surrounded by eight sperm cells. The eighth sperm, on the top right, is penetrating the egg.
We are calling for Reviews, Commentaries or research papers for our upcoming Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of Reproduction, covering the entire reproductive process, from mate selection, mating and egg-laying or pregnancy through to parental care
bit.ly/3ZT42hY
The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?
23.02.2026 23:35 — 👍 4285 🔁 1768 💬 42 📌 52
Differences in the relative percentage of life stages exposed to climatic stressor(s) (a, c, e) or assessed for physiological traits (b, d, f) across the traits (top row), taxa (middle row), and climate change stressors surveyed (bottom row). Studies categorized in “development” yet assessing adult animals are studies measuring whole animal size, growth or measuring multiple life stages. Other stressors not captured by these broad categories (i.e. diet, UV radiation; n = 6) and studies investigating interactions between climatic and non-climatic stressors (n = 138) are not displayed for clarity. Note that the values do not correspond to strict percentages of studies because some studies have investigated multiple life stages, traits, taxa or stressors. Representative diagrams were drawn by me!
new paper and illustrations 🧪👩🏻🔬🌎🌐
We asked are embryos understudied in conservation physiology?
Turns out, despite the increasing recognition of the ecological importance & sensitivity of embryos, we found no evidence that embryo research has gained traction over the past 10yrs
paper link below👇🏼
Our research on Tawny Owls at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk was featured on this episode of BBC Radio Scotland - listen at: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
We discuss how we track Tawnies' movements and the way they are adapting to noisy and light-polluted areas
@dmdominoni.bsky.social
@iapetusdtp.bsky.social
Just 🚨TWO WEEKS🚨 until the deadline of our language barriers survey! Don't miss out on the opportunity to share your experiences of language barriers in academic conferences. Take our short survey at: forms.gle/u8ESktcJP8Y6...
12.02.2026 21:39 — 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0I think we've figured out we were over-diluting the samples, >90% binding in all but the neat and 1:2 dilutions so we'll run again! It seems a less sensitive kit than those others have used for lizards faeces, and that I've used for plasma. Standards were fine so 🤞🤞🤞 for next run!
21.02.2026 10:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The question may not be "why are British students taking so many useless degrees?" so much as "why can't the British economy generate enough graduate vacancies?"
20.02.2026 09:50 — 👍 142 🔁 40 💬 10 📌 4
Decorative Image Array of the Bracket Guide, the Combatant Logo and the 2026 Bracket. Screen-reader materials available at the LibGuide.
BRACKET DROP DAY!!!!
Get yours now at the LibGuide! libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...
Pick your portal: Players, Learners, or Educator!
#2026MMM
