Karin Nordström

🚨SAVE THE DATE ASSAB 2026🚨
The ASSAB 2026 conference will be held in Adelaide in 2026!
Keep an eye out on the ASSAB website and social media for more information! We will see you there!

🚨 PhD position 🚨

‼️another PhD opportunity‼️‼️

Apply for an ISBE travel award until December 15!

The cognitive ecology of wild bumblebees

New #PhD ad alert!
Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England?

Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information.

iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Super fun collaboration with the Sussex team!

Women end up doing the academic housework

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”

Just a little fun for a Sat morning. @arc_gov_au funding vs fossil fuel company tax concessions in 2022-23. Big thanks to the awesome @ARC_Tracker for all that you do. Please do something to fix this @ausgov.

Sources: australiainstitute.org.au/report/fossi...
www.arc.gov.au/about/our-or...

Read the whole 🧵 to learn how to disable AI scraper Copilot 👇

Bluesky is now open. Science Twitter, here’s how to use it! The once-great science twitter is, depending on who you talk to, either dying or dead. Once a vibrant place for many discussions related to my fields of marine biology, ocean conservation, and publ…

Friends, I wrote up a quick guide to getting started on Bluesky for folks who are used to old Science Twitter.

Please share it with your folks who are joining. And please let me know if I missed anything or got anything wrong. 🧪

www.southernfriedscience.com/bluesky-is-n...

This US study by @wytham88.bsky.social & co👇 should apply equally well to ARC grants.

It's precisely why having grant outcomes scheduled well in advance matters so much, esp. for ECRs.

Jason Clare: You helped achieve that, but it should be legislated in new ARC act, too.

Dear new bluesky friends, I run a feed that collects invertebrate related posts. All you have to do is include #Invertebrate, #Invert or #虫 in your post to show up in the feed.

Share your invertebrate photos, art, facts and everything else!

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Grants & Awards for Animal Behaviour Students Sheet1 Name of the grant:,What type of grant?,Who is eligible?,How much money?,Which organisation?,Link to the grant: ASAB Undergraduate Recognition Award,Award,Undergraduate students,NA,Association ...

Are you a student in animal behaviour looking for funding? We have created a list of grants for you! Our microgrants go some way to supporting you personally and we hope that this list helps you to find the rest of what you need: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

At night, pollution keeps pollinating insects from smelling the flowers Nitrogen radicals degrade key floral scents, threatening ecosystems and agriculture

Our paper is now out in Science! Led by Jeremy Chan, we find that atmospheric pollutants negatively impact plant-pollinator interactions. A fantastic collaboration with Joel Thornton and others.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Paper for recolorize, my R package for color segmentation, is out! Featuring a couple of new examples. Special shoutout to
@svbelleghem.bsky.social, who lit a candle when we submitted it and also was just the most helpful coauthor you could hope for. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Such a cool study, done by really excellent researchers.

Why are moths attracted to lights? Science may finally have an answer Insect flight paths were filmed at night using hi-res and infrared technology with surprising results

Oh wow this is actually super facinating!

'Footage reveals that moths turned their backs to artificial lights, playing havoc with their flight paths... artificial lighting may not draw flying insects out of the darkness but simply trap those that fly past.' 🧪
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

This fall, we will again be running the renowned Sensory Ecology postgrad course here in Lund. Find information and sign up at the link below. Registration is on a first come-first serve basis. 🧪

biology.lu.se/phd-studies/...

BioAudio Welcome to BioAudio: The Teaching Podcast. After many years teaching biology in universities in the UK and in Canada I've come to the conclusion that we can do better than text books. I always want so...

I started podcasting to replace textbooks. It is accessible, free etc. Students like it >5000 downloads in 2023. Season 1 is senior evolution. Season 2 is first year evolution and ecology. If you are interested you are welcome to use it bioaudio.buzzsprout.com/2234324 #AcademicSky 🧪 #WomenInSTEM

Australia being ‘left behind’ as federal research and development funding sinks to 30-year low Technology experts sound the alarm as authorities try to encourage private investment

Do all the reviews you want, but the bottom line has been obvious for 10+ years.

"We urgently need publicly funded scientists doing essential research for overall public benefit & a nice social media strategy doesn’t make that happen – funding does."

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Happy to announce two PhD positions in fish ecophysiology 📣

Fully funded, fun fish temperature physiology, supervision by me, @shaunkillen, @NPilakouta! @Naturvetenskap

Please spread the word 🙏

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Picture of an image logo that says Arctic Congress 2024 in Bodø

We now welcome abstracts for our session at Arctic Congress 2024 on "Cross/Trans-Disciplinary Collaborations and Advancing Community, Equity, and Inclusion in Arctic Research"

Check out more information at usapecs.org/post/icass2024 🧪⚒️

Yang lab logo A red strawberry poison frog. Behavioral Ecology, Animal Coloration, Sexual Selection, and More!

My lab at the University of South Florida is looking for a postdoc to collaborate on a project on the evolution of poison frog color, behavior, and learning! Happy to answer questions, and I will be at #SICB2024 to chat - come join us!! Details on how to apply: shorturl.at/uwxIU
Please share widely!

Tenure track position in Applied Statistics (Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor) / T...

At Tampere Uni we have an open Prof position (all levels) in Applied Statistics, including Complex Systems ! Join us in the cold yet beautiful North! ❄️ For questions DM me or read details here: tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index... Deadline Jan 8th ! ⏰

This graphic shows four line graph time series and each are monthly from January 1984 through November 2023. The first graph is a 12-month running mean of global mean surface temperature anomalies. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1991-2020 baseline using ERA5 data. The second graph is monthly carbon dioxide abundance. The CO2 graph is the Keeling Curve. Current levels are 420 ppm. The third graph is monthly global methane abundance. Current levels are 1919 ppb. The fourth graph is monthly global nitrous oxide abundance. Current levels are 337 ppb. The three greenhouse gases show seasonal cycles and long-term increasing trends using data from NOAA ESRL. The global mean surface temperature anomaly record also exhibits decadal variability and a long-term increasing trend. All graphs are rising and shown in four different colors, including white, yellow, orange, and pink.

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Data updated through last month. Graphic available at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

Applications are invited for two Leverhulme Trust-funded post-doctoral positions to join our lab in the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour to study the neural circuits' underlying sexual behaviours.
 
Apply: tinyurl.com/552u5nfr
 
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Bluesky with streaming light emitting from the ASAB bird logo

Hello everyone, we’re on Bluesky! The skies might be anything but blue here in lovely Edinburgh ☔️ but we are very excited to share the ASAB winter 2023 conference on this app for the very first time! #ASAB23

(We know hashtags don’t work yet, but maybe they’ll be useful for posterity)

Line graph time series of 2023's daily Antarctic sea ice extent anomalies in red shading compared to each year from 1979 to 2022 using shades of purple to white for each line. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1981-2010 baseline. 2023 is a record low for this time of year. There is substantial interannual and daily variability. There are no clear long-term trends.

This is really quite something... Antarctic sea ice extent is back to a record low for the current date. This is actually below 2016, which was previously a massive outlier in November and December.

More sea ice graphs at: zacklabe.com/antarctic-se...

I completely resonate with this piece, and I am so glad to see this critical issue getting attention.

Most people I talk to outside of science are shocked to hear there is little to no institutional support for this science communication work... most of it being done in our "free time"

Do you take pics of bumble bees? (if not maybe you should)
Don't forget to submit those pics to bumble bee watch www.bumblebeewatch.org ! It is like iNaturalist for just bumble bees, but expert bumble bee identifiers (like me) volunteer to ID pics! #bees