Christoph Grüter

A recovering patch of rainforest in Ecuadorian Chocó, picture by Eike Lena Neuschulz

Seed dispersal by 🦜🦇 underpins rainforest recovery. We want to understand more about its timing + traits driving recovery through obs, exp + genomic data. Ready to join the @reassemblynet.bsky.social team working in Ecuadorian Chocó? Pls apply to our 4-yr PhD position @sgn.one: tinyurl.com/2pkryc99

Honeybee egg size is linked to land use and predicts worker foraging performance - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Humans have changed the nutritional landscape available to bees, increasing the risk of nutritional stress and health challenges. Honey bee (Apis mellifera) queens are known to increase worker egg siz...

This study demonstrates that egg size may be linked to nutritional conditions in rural and urban habitats, and increased egg size was associated with increased foraging.

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

YouTube video by Royal Society of Biology Letter P | Pollinator Interaction Researcher Dr Dave Lawson | A to Z of the Biosciences

In our latest A-Z of the Biosciences video, Dr David Lawson talks about his role as a senior lecturer inc his research into the interactions between flowering plants and their pollinators, particularly bumblebees 🐝.

Watch the full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QMQ...

Supported by BBSRC

Shades of blue and red in a slice through an immuno stained brain showing some deliciously lovely looking mushroom body lobes - ripe for investigation during a funded PhD - and the central complex. Image credit: Dr Max Farnworth

🚨RA/PhD position available in evolutionary neurobiology 🚨

Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social

- employment benefits
- 4 years funding
- 1000% fun

Deadline: 14/1/2026

Details:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

One week left to register for our Winter meeting in Leuven 🐝 🐜 🪳 🕷️ 🌺 👇👇👇

Bumbling around over what to get your loved ones for Christmas? Look no further! Your answer to fun, learning & festive family competition is here. Social insects trump cards, available at the Winter Meeting. Order today: www.iussi-nweurope.org/edi

All proceeds go to funding inclusion bursaries.

Still 2 weeks left to register for our Winter Meeting 2025 in Leuven 🇧🇪!

Register here: www.iussi-nweurope.org/meetings

Date: 18-19 Dec
Host: Laboratory of Socioecology and Social Evolution @KU Leuven (@twenseleers.bsky.social)

We have an exciting programme, incl. Ido Pen & @rmash.bsky.social

Investigating the Role of Host Microbiome Dynamics as Drivers of Wildlife Disease Using a One Health Framework at University of Exeter on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Investigating the Role of Host Microbiome Dynamics as Drivers of Wildlife Disease Using a One Health Framework at University of Exeter, listed on FindAPhD.com

**PhD opportunity at @uniexecec.bsky.social** How does host microbiome dynamics affect wildlife disease?

Combine molecular techniques, statistical modelling, and field sampling to understand how microbiome dynamics in 🦡 affects their susceptibility to bTB. 🔬🦠🧪 Please repost! shorturl.at/q3OxV

Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉 Sounds exciting 🍿

Statistical performance of animal cognition meta-analyses at the primary-study and meta-analysis levels. (a) Statistical power: Median power to detect the (true or bias-corrected) meta-analytic effect size; darker red bars indicate lower power. (b) Type M error: Median exaggeration ratio between estimated and true effect sizes; darker blue indicates stronger overestimation (values > 20 shown as “20+”). (c) Type S error: Median probability of obtaining a significant effect in the wrong direction; darker yellow-green indicates higher Type S error. Violin plots above each panel summarise distributions across meta-analyses. Each point represents one meta-analysis (matching a row in the bar plots), and the horizontal line denotes the overall mean.

"The statistical fragility of animal cognition findings: a meta-meta-analytic reappraisal"
doi.org/10.32942/X2Z...

Are you a POC student, early career researcher, or professional entomologist from a country in the Global South?

We are now funding memberships!
Apply from October 1st to December 15th.

More info:
www.entopoc.org/apply.html
Apply:
docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...

🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳

Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland

Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Architectural immunity: Ants alter their nest networks to prevent epidemics In animal groups, spatial structure shapes social interaction patterns, thereby influencing the transmission of infectious diseases. Active modifications to the spatial environment could therefore be ...

We had two papers out in Science and Scientific Reports in the past week - I couldn't be happier!

Science paper on architectural immunity:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Scientific Reports paper on the synergistic interaction between new-generation pesticide and disease:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Funded PhD - Nutritional value and vulnerability of blue foods at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Funded PhD - Nutritional value and vulnerability of blue foods at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com

Looking for a PhD that combines global food security, climate change and environmental protection? Then read on...

The amazing #JoleahLamb is joining us in 2026 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social. You can join too with this exciting fully-funded PhD opportunity:

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

Meet our plenary speaker Eva Ringler!

Professor at the University of Bern, Eva Ringler and her research group are interested in understanding variation in animal behaviour from an ecological and evolutionary perspective focusing on Neotropical poison frogs and glassfrogs.

The impact of PhD studies on mental health—a longitudinal population study Recent self-reported and cross-sectional survey evidence documents high levels of mental health problems among PhD students. We study the relationship…

The impact of PhD studies on mental health - A longitudinal population study

PhDs can be and some would likely argue, should be hard.

But surely not *this* hard?

#AcademicSky

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 Deadline to submit an abstract for our IUSSI winter meeting in beautiful Leuven, 18-19 December has been extended to 31st October 2025

🚨 Please register at: www.iussi-nweurope.org/meetings

Come and join us - will be great fun & great lineup of speakers! Plenaries by Ido Pen & @rmash.bsky.social

📣 @asab.org grants BOOSTED! 📣

We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026.

Check out what we offer here:
www.asab.org/grant-overview

Illustrated trump cards featuring social insects such as ants, bees, wasps, and termites. Each card includes colourful artwork of an insect species along with stats and traits used for gameplay. The cards are part of the Social Insects Trump Cards game supporting the IUSSI widening participation and inclusion initiative

You like card games & social insects?

Then check out the amazing new Social Insects Trump cards game developed by @elvarobinson.bsky.social and her group.

It's the perfect 🐜🐝🪳-themed gift and you'll support the IUSSI widening participation & inclusion initiative: www.iussi-nweurope.org/edi

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead The children’s names below appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims As of the end of July there were 18,457 children named on the long official list of Palestinian victims of Israel’s war in Gaza. Over almost two years, that is equivalent to bombs, bullets and shells killing a boy or girl every hour of every day. In reality the deaths are not spaced out so evenly. Siblings, cousins and playmates are often killed together, by an airstrike or artillery shell. Even children shot by snipers or quadcopters are sometimes brought into hospitals in groups, doctors say. Continue reading...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

🚨 Still 10 days left to submit an abstract for our IUSSI winter meeting in beautiful Leuven, 18-19 December;

🚨 Registration is now open: www.iussi-nweurope.org/meetings

Analysis of communication and collective behavior in animal groups

⭐PhD position available!⭐
Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets
imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...

Join — Sydney Functional Ecology

Excited to share a PhD opportunity in my upcoming lab at The University of Sydney!
Join an ARC-funded project on the ecology of ant invasions in 2026 🐜
🇦🇺 Live in Sydney, ant around Australia
🌍 Intl + Domestic applicants welcome
markwongecology.com/join
#PhD #Ecology #Biodiversity
Pls share, thx 🙏

Fifteen 2-year postdoc fellowships available at U. Toulouse 😍 through a MSCA-COFUND (AToUT tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...)

Interested to apply for a postdoctoral research project focusing on the genomics of farm animals or pollinators? Let me know!

Eligibility: <1 yr in 🇫🇷 in the last 3 yrs

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Help us build a new kind of media. Please sign up. More coming soon! @thenerve.news 🙏🙏🙏

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Plant that mimics odour of half-eaten ants to attract pollinators discovered Botanist says new Japanese species of dogbane is first evidence of plants copying ants

🤯 that's amazing!🐜🪰🌺

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Postgraduate Cambridge University Scholarship | Gates Cambridge A fully funded graduate education for future leaders committed to improving the lives of others.

If you are from the US and interested in applying for a PhD with me (or anyone else @camzoology.bsky.social @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social), your deadline for the gates scholarship is October 15!
(You’ll need to write a research proposal, so contact PIs now) www.gatescambridge.org/programme/th...

Photo showing the inside atrium of the new Life and Mind Building

Oxford Biology is growing 📢

We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in:
🌱 Plant Sciences
🦉 Animal Behaviour
🔬 Molecular Cell Biology

3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology.

Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7
Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3

We are delighted that our Winter Meeting 2025 in Leuven 🇧🇪 is approaching!

Abstract submissions now open: www.iussi-nweurope.org/meetings

Date: December 18-19
Abstract deadline: October 15
Host: Laboratory of Socioecology and Social Evolution at KU Leuven
Plenary: Ido Pen & @rmash.bsky.social