@daniellelevesque.bsky.social
Associate Professor at the University of Maine. Specializes in tenrecs, treeshrews, and energetics of small furry things. 🇨🇦 living in 🇺🇸. She/her.
Ottawa’s was 737-1111. I blame the jingle!
08.11.2025 16:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇
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Would appreciate a re-post!
@evoldir.bsky.social
Colour-ringed long-tailed tit
🚨 Come join the fantastic long-tailed tit team 🚨
🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds).
🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK.
🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025.
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...
It’s #WorldWombatDay!
We’re extremely fond of these marsupials around here and happy for any opportunity to celebrate them. Whether it’s a common wombat, a hairy-nosed wombat or a bare-nosed wombat, we think they’re all neat.
Thus, behold an array of wombat illustrations!
Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾
21.10.2025 05:13 — 👍 105 🔁 107 💬 1 📌 1
Opportunity to join our team. Open to African students at Masters or PhD level.
14.10.2025 08:36 — 👍 3 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
Deadline this week!
Charlotte Mangum #Student Support Program
This #SICB award offers financial support to help defray the cost of either housing or registration at the annual meetings.
email
sicbstudents@sicb.org
sicb.org/charlotte-ma...
@sicb-spdac.bsky.social , @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social
A 126,000-year-old butt-drag just made fossil history.
A tiny rock hyrax scooted across the sand of ancient South Africa, and that moment was preserved in stone.
Even the smallest acts can echo through time.
🧪 #SciComm
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That it was an aside means more. For years scientists have been advocating for more funding since the benefits are wide reaching. But since it’s our livelihoods it can come of as self interested (which it is but also not) so to hear it was great to hear as part of a bigger conversation.
10.10.2025 10:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pictured is a male jaguar (Panthera onca) equipped with a tracking collar. William F. Fagan et al. tracked the movements of 1,239 mammalian carnivores, including 16 canid species and 18 felid species, on six continents. On average, compared with felids, canids displayed a greater density of trackways within their range and were more likely to reuse established trackways. According to the authors, the evolutionary differences in carnivore movement patterns could aid efforts to model encounters among carnivores, prey, and humans. See the article by Fagan et al. e2401042122. Image credit: Sebastian Kennerknecht (photographer).
Canids seem to be the routine lovers, reusing their travel routes more than felids. This shapes hunting, encounters, and even disease spread. Insights from 1,239 GPS-tracked carnivores, including the Arctic foxes we track on Bylot Island 🧪🌿🌎🌐🦊. Read in the latest PNAS at bitly.cx/TxI2
10.10.2025 09:56 — 👍 38 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1As a Canadian working at a US university it was an aside that was very relevant!
10.10.2025 10:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This was fascinating, especially the parts about research funding. Let’s some the government is listening and starts building instead of more austerity 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
09.10.2025 22:05 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Take a listen to my conversation with @arshy.bsky.social about why politicians seem to be incapable of doing anything -- aside from enriching their friends. Enjoy!
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I just couldn't stop thinking about how weird sperm whale mouths are and yet how perfectly shaped for inserting giant squid into
02.10.2025 16:32 — 👍 178 🔁 55 💬 2 📌 2
So many of us opened her books and found not only chimpanzees but an invitation to see with compassion & believe in a bridge between humans and the wild. Her legacy flows through rivers, forests, children planting trees, and every act of love for animals and one another.
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There are just two weeks left to apply for our 2026 Associate Editor Mentoring Scheme! ⏰🌏
If you're based in the Global South and interested in learning about the peer review process through hands-on experience then learn more below 🧪👇
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Three more weeks left to submit your paper to @thermal-biology.bsky.social for our special issue on Ontogenetic variation in thermal biology 🦉🦫☀️❄️
23.09.2025 10:34 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!
10.09.2025 09:33 — 👍 65 🔁 114 💬 2 📌 3
Flyer How to apply to the NSF-GRFP (in 7 weeks!). Check out our comprehensive guide and timeline for applying to the NSF-GRFP (or any fellowship!) on a deadline. Give it a shot — it’s not too late! Resource by Olivia Goldman, PhD and John Lê. Photos of authors. Cientifico Latino, Inc. logo. Link: cientificolatino.com/apply-in-7-weeks
Applying to the NSF-GRFP (or another fellowship) on a tight deadline?
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#NSFGRFP #GradSchool #Fellowship
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
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Screenshot of the first page of the PDF of the Commentary, How can we best measure the energetic trade-offs faced by animals?, by Neil Metcalfe. The publishing information states: © 2025. Published by The Company of Biologists | Journal of Experimental Biology (2025) 228, jeb250303. doi:10.1242/jeb.250303. The first sentence of the Abstract reads: 'Energy is commonly presumed to be a limiting resource for most animals, forcing them to trade off the benefits of allocating energy to competing activities or processes'.
In his Commentary, Neil Metcalfe examines why it can be hard to detect trade-offs between two activities or processes competing for energy, despite energy supposedly being a limiting resource
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Are you a mammologist whose research involves natural history collections? Apply to be my colleague!
Assistant professor position with the Department of Biological Sciences and the Natural Science Research Laboratory at Texas Tech University.
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Will you be sharing your research at SICB 2026?!? 🧪
A quick reminder that abstracts for SICB 2026 are due on August 27th at 11:59pm HST. We hope to see you there and can't wait to hear about the science you have been doing!
Abstract guidelines can be found here: www.xcdsystem.com/sicb/program...
The thing I'm kind of famous for is when other people were building seven part critical thinking frameworks to address misinfo I built a method that did things like teach people to click the link and use ctrl-F and it blew everything else out of the water. Big lesson:
25.08.2025 06:19 — 👍 35 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0We simply cannot lose Biodiversity Heritage Library. Please consider helping if you can. 🙏
20.08.2025 00:20 — 👍 53 🔁 36 💬 2 📌 1
The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying!
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Flew there from Japan this summer and the crawlers confused so many of us. Had no idea what we were stepping into until it started moving and we saw another one. Extra weird when seriously jet lagged!!!
15.08.2025 00:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Those of us in STEM must vocally affirm that the humanities are our allies, and no department is expendable. Arguing we can survive by cutting whole disciplines isn’t just inhumane, it’s nonsensical. The humanities tell us why we’re here in the first place, and what to do about it! This isn’t hard!
14.08.2025 13:01 — 👍 440 🔁 132 💬 14 📌 10That’s the first I’ve heard of that and not the case with J Thermal Biol.
I’ve been working with the publisher to try and make it easier for reviewers to make suggestions. They did just recently change the policy on authors suggesting reviewers though.
Oh that’s fun! Thanks for sharing!!
14.08.2025 02:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
