Jon Richardson

An iridescent blue-green ladybird beetle sitting on a leaf

Here is my contribution to #BlueBugs @ashwhiffin.bsky.social
📷 Steelblue ladybird (Halmus chalybeus)

Condition Does Not Alter Responsiveness to Mating Signals in Female Pacific Field Crickets - Journal of Insect Behavior Animals often vary in their condition (i.e. the amount of resources allocatable to fitness-related functions) and such variation can influence the expression of important mating behaviors like how qui...

4️⃣ Finally, joint first authored with another amazing undergrad student Ruby Ales, we examined the effects of condition on female responsiveness in Pacific field crickets 🦗 Out now open access in the Journal of Insect Behaviour. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

3️⃣With talented undergrad student Isabelle Hoversten we examined what female crickets 🦗 do when cues about mate availability are mismatched. Out now in @canjzoology.bsky.social. (Isabelle is now a masters student with @jennyperry.bsky.social!) cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The Evolution of Sex: Strategies of Males and Females. By Kevin Lee Teather. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. £29.99 (paper). xii + 216 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 9780198886730. 2024. | The Q...

2️⃣Marlene Zuk and I reviewed "The Evolution of Sex: Strategies of Males and Females" by Kevin Lee Teather for @qrb.bsky.social. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

A Goldilocks definition of sexual selection: a comment on Janicke Sexual selection has been a contentious topic since its proposal, so it is unsurprising that debate continues over its definition. Janicke (2024) offers a

I've been slacking on posting research updates so here are some recently published papers I've been involved in

1️⃣I wrote a commentary on a thought-provoking paper by Tim Janicke in @behavecol.bsky.social. Here are my thoughts on defining sexual selection academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

Snowy trees at the University of Minnesota

Jon in Hawaii - the background is rippling lava rock

Jon at a conference dinner wearing a lobster bib

Jon at the Minnesota State Fair - a huge crowd in the background

Today is my last day at the University of Minnesota 🇺🇸 I’m so grateful to everyone that has made me feel at home for the past 3 years. I’m lucky to have fit in so many adventures

Next week I’m thrilled to be starting my new position as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Hi Rowan - I have access. Happy to help if you DM me

Pacific beetle-mimic cockroach and her newly born nymphs

Overview of project on Nutrition and immunity in pregnancy: picture of pregnant woman on one side, viviparous insects on the other; 3 boxes linking project components (evolutionary models, insect experiments and human cohorts)

View of cormorant drying its wings by the Bristol harbour: light reflecting off the water

Researchers at an insect outreach event, standing at the stall

Job! 2-year postdoc position in EVElab, Bristol UK on nutrition and infections in pregnancy (FLF-funded)
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV631/r...

Apply if you are enthusiastic about:
- experiments on insects which get pregnant
- relevance of evolution to public health
- a vibrant city & research environment

My interview for the @insectessociaux.bsky.social blog 👇

Burying beetles as a model organism to study sex differences in parental care - Insectes Sociaux In species where both sexes care for offspring, one parent—generally the female—typically provides more care than the other. While current theory offers broad predictions on the evolution of sex diffe...

For a first 'real' post on Bluesky, I'm delighted to share my new paper that just came out in Insectes Sociaux: sex differences in parenting in burying beetles.

📸 @ashwhiffin.bsky.social

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

Congrats Tom - can’t wait to read the published version!

I haven't seen any starter packs made for behavioral ecology yet, so I decided to create one!

If you are a behavioral ecologist (any career stage), please reply so I can add you to the list so we can more easily find each other.

go.bsky.app/9mAuB6x

📢 I'm excited to be presenting this work at ISBE 2024 in Melbourne next week! 🦗

🚨New paper out today in PNAS. We show that same-sex sexual behaviour (SSB) in crickets is depends on body condition & show how a "mating filters" approach is useful for thinking about SSB more broadly www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New paper out now! Do males prefer virgin females? Our meta-analysis in Ecology Letters suggests they do - at least in invertebrates
doi.org/10.1111/ele....