Antigoni Samourdani

Check out our new paper in @science.org on how greater noctule bats 🦇 hunt passerines 🐦 on the wing #greaternoctulebats #bats #passerines #spain #zoology #ethology #biologging #bioacoustics #sciencejournal

Bats Catch Migratory Birds and Eat Them in Midair

Check out also the feature of our latest paper in @nytimes.com 🦇

#greaternoctulebats #bats #passerines #spain #zoology #ethology #biologging #bioacoustics #sciencejournal

Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Dobzhansky Prize to recognize the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding early-career evolutionary biologist. Nominations due December 1, 2025.

Nominations are now open for the Dobzhansky Prize, which recognizes the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding early-career evolutionary biologist. The award includes $5000 and an award talk at the in-person Evolution meeting. Deadline: December 1
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Universität Basel: Postdoc position in mountain macroecology The research group Ecology at the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Basel in Switzerland invites applications for a postdoc position within the ERC project 'Global status, tren...

*Job alert*

We have a 5-year postdoc position on #mountain non-native species & #macroecology in our group @unibas.ch. Great opportunity to join us!

Details here: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stellen/postdoc-position-in-mountain-macroecology/6c5a8906-354f-43c6-bc9b-1156d21725a5

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🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday!
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!

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Abortion is healthcare.

Abortion should be regulated like other health services so that women and girls can access safe, timely and respectful care.

Today is International #SafeAbortion Day.

Access to safe abortion protects the health of women and girls.

As with all other health services, women and girls should be able to access safe and respectful abortion care, when they need it, without fear of harm, punishment or recrimination.

B is for... Blue morpho butterfly!

These butterflies live in the rainforests of South America and can have a wingspan of up to 20cm. If you look closely you can see the outline of the eye spots that are on the other side of their wings.

Protecting animal cultures as World Heritage - Nature Sustainability It is becoming increasingly clear that animal cultures have intrinsic, irreplaceable value, and yet they are not adequately protected by preserving habitat. The time has come for UNESCO to explicitly protect non-human cultural heritage alongside human heritage.

Here we propose adding an 11th criterion to UNESCO’s framework to protect animal cultures—habitat protection alone isn’t enough. Excited to collaborate with philosophers @merikatariina.bsky.social & @birchlse.bsky.social on this!

Message me for access ;-)
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YouTube video by Time Out New York Jeffery Lewis "Roll Bus Roll"

“I gotta take two Tylenols and close my eyes”
I’d blame it on Jeffrey Lewis

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Fact for the day: paracetamol does not cause autism

🚨 PhD alert 🚨 We are looking for a highly motivated student to use 🧬 genomics 🧬 and 🛰️ bio-logging 🛰️ approaches to disentangle cultural and genetic contributions to seabird migration 🐣 Think this is you, or someone you know? Then come to our Q&A session at on 29/09 and check out the ad below!

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Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...

Come and work with us! Three new academic posts (including Animal Behaviour) and superb facilities in the new Life & Mind Building

I had to read this thread so now the rest of you do too

Aerial picture of Greenlandic landscape with the sea, lakes and the glacier visible

Back from two months of Greenland fieldwork! Managed to not lose my mind next to the big ice cube, saw the northern lights, and most importantly collected good data and noticed interesting eco patterns of my new freshwater study system! Now time to make sense of everything!

📢Apply now! Join our IMPRS for Brain&Behavior to pursue a #PhD in #neuroethology. Learn how brain circuits are linked to interesting animal behaviors!
📅 Deadline: October 31, 2025
🔗 imprs-brain-behavior.mpg.de
#neuroscience #Neuroskyence #neurojobs #sciencejobs #PhDsky #PhDOffers #FundedPhD

Awesome PhD opportunity with the greatest supervisor, and based in Sweden, which has the best reputation for PhD conditions (salary, benefits, etc.)!

It’s the big fat Greek farming scandal – devised by the political elite and paid for by ordinary people | Alexander Clapp A massive EU subsidy scandal has pulled back the curtain to reveal how power operates in Greece, says journalist Alexander Clapp

“The scandal has also pulled back the curtain to reveal how power in Greece operates.”

It’s not often an accurate description of Greece appears in the international media. Thank you, @alexclapp.bsky.social.

New publication from my lab: Vampyrum spectrum, the Neotropics' largest carnivorous bat, is very cooperative. These gentle apex predators regularly provide prey for family member – documented in the wild for the first time.
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Thanks, Hanna! There are quite a few Kokkonuts at #ESEB2025! On Thursday, @gauravathreya.bsky.social talks about ageing + sex, @tomospotter.bsky.social talks about guppy polymorphisms, @ccrowther.bsky.social has a poster on nesting 🐢, and Victor Ronget has a poster on ageing trends in mammals + 🐦!

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying!

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As a nation, we’re lucky to have luminaries like Leonard Cohen. Few people are brave enough to go to a Greek island, do a ton of speed, and ask the important questions like “what if you were horny for a 17th century Mohawk saint?”

An illustration with populations on the left and mathematical representations of these populations in terms of birth-death processes on the right

Stochastic differential equations for trait frequencies, mean value of a trait, and the variance of a trait in the population

Hey #ESEB2025 folk! I'll be presenting my work on describing evolution in finite populations at 11:30 am on Tuesday in S-03. Drop by to learn how taking ecology and variable population size seriously changes classic pop gen descriptions like the Price eqn, revealing novel directional eco-evo forces.

hello to everyone going to #ESEB2025! want to hear about the consequences of age-dependent plasticity in reproducing via sex vs. asex? I will give a talk at 11:15am on Thursday in S15.02. come for the pretty Hydra illustrations, stay for the novel evolutionary insights on facultative sex!

PhD student in Evolution of Indo-Pacific birds The Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics is offering a four-year PhD position focused on analyzing population-level genomic data from museum bird samples. The project will employ cutting-edge gen...

*PhD position* 🦉

Would you like to do a PhD with Indo-Pacific birds and evolutionary genomics? Join us in Stockholm:

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05 September 2025, 23:59

PhD student in Evolution of Indo-Pacific birds
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that was rude

that was really fucking rude

Supersized stick insect discovered in high-altitude trees in Australia The 40cm-long insect, named Acrophylla alta, weighs slightly less than a golf ball and may be the heaviest insect in Australia

Like the old-growth coastal redwoods that host whole other ecosystems in their spires, these extraordinary Australian stick insects reveal not only the richness and mystery of mature forest canopies but how vital their protection is for countless forms of life.
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American musical satirist Tom Lehrer dies at 97, US media report Lehrer, a Harvard-trained mathematician, wrote darkly humorous songs, often with political connotations.

On Saturday, the great Tom Lehrer died at the age of 97. Mathematician, singer, songwriter, satirist and a great character.

All of his songs are in the public domain, so if you're into tributes, now is a good time to do one.

🧪 #AcademicSky

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Do you like to think about temporal niches and coexistence theory? Or perhaps you want to hear some really quirky natural history of marine insects & the moon? Or both? Read on: a mystery & its potential solution in two papers!

Then vs Now: Same chimp, same task - 17 years apart 🐒🔧

New Oxford-led research suggests that ageing can affect how wild chimpanzees use tools, though the impact varies widely between individuals.

More info ⬇️
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-07...