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Journal of Vertebrate Biology @jvertbiol.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#FishFriday 🐟 Is catfish venom all about the spines? A specialised axillary gland in the #CuckooCatfish develops days after hatching and produces a secretion with ~1,800 proteins. And those ‘venom glands’ in the fins? Not quite! 👀 👉 doi.org/10.25225/jvb... #ichthyology @fishecoevo.bsky.social

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Bibiana Rojas @biobiiana.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So proud of Edina Nemesházi for this fantastic work about the consequences of sex reversal for the reproductive success of wild frogs, which is now out in Science Advances! 🥂💥🥳Congrats to all of the authors 👏 @klivvvienna.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Journal of Vertebrate Biology @jvertbiol.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

📝 How to write a good #PeerReview? An accessible guide by Carl Smith & Martin Reichard offers practical advice on writing clear, constructive and high-quality manuscript reviews – from accepting an invitation to making a final recommendation. 👉 doi.org/10.25225/jvb... @bioone.bsky.social #Zoology

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Caitlin E. McDonough-Goldstein @ideaspermatheca.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

How do we navigate the semantic labyrinth of sex in biology? doi.org/10.1093/icb/icag093 In developing a @treeofsex.bsky.social 2.0 ontology, we have encountered many versions of sex. In this paper, we come together to explore places of contention and make connections across concepts of sex.

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Navigating the Semantic Labyrinth of “Sex” in the Study of Reproductive Trait Evolution

Synopsis. “Sex” is a compound of many different concepts that contribute to a multiplicity of meanings. As a result, “sex” appears in a wide range of scien

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Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

For anyone that missed my talk at @isbe2026.bsky.social - never you fear! You can watch my talk and read more about the new Replication Studies section at @behavecol.bsky.social right here! laskowskilab.faculty.ucdavis.edu/2026/07/22/r...

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Joris M. Koene @joriskoene.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Please share your biological perspective on the definitions of reproductive terms by contributing to this research survey. #biology #reproduction #gametes

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Astrid Böhne @astridboehne.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Happy to present tomorrow in S03 @official-smbe.bsky.social #SMBE2026 and co-hosting S09 New frontiers in sex evolution with wonderful colleagues @aruizherrera.bsky.social @cbenvenuto.bsky.social and @danjeffries.bsky.social come see us in room Carstensen tomorrow

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Oxford Ecosystems @oxfordecosystems.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

New paper from Sruthi Krishna Moorthy and @ymalhi.bsky.social examines 60 years of tropical ecology research 🌍 The study highlights the growing dominance of tropical forest research and persistent global inequities in tropical ecology authorship. doi.org/10.1111/btp....

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Shifting Trends in Tropical Ecology Research Over Six Decades

We analyzed over 170,000 tropical ecology publications (1960–2023) using a large language model to extract study location and biome information at scale. We show that research has grown across all bi....

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Tree of Sex @treeofsex.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

As everyone's winding down on #evol2026 we want to share our survey link with you again. Whether you work in reproductive biology specifically or not, please take a minute to help us understand how the scientific community uses reproductive terms in research! And hope to see you at #SMBE!

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ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas @ergabiodiv.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

#ERGAReads | The Tree of Sex consortium: A global initiative for studying the evolution of reproduction in eukaryotes @treeofsex.bsky.social 🧬 🌳 Article: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Website: www.treeofsex.org #genomes #treeofsex # @jevbio.bsky.social @sangerinstitute.bsky.social

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Tree of Sex

Web site created using create-react-app

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

ASAB EDIA Award www.asab.org/edia-award via @asab.org cc @asabeducation.bsky.social

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EDIA Award — ASAB

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Wendy Valencia Montoya @wendyssae.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

My PhD paper on my beloved cycads and beetles on the cover of Science!!! Check out how we studied thermal infrared as a pollination signal, from molecular mechanisms to the wonders of behavior... science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

'“This is a drastic departure from historical practice,” Rosa DeLauro, the ranking member of a US House of Representatives committee that drafts government spending bills, told Nature.'

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White House stalls release of approved US science budgets

The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

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Pat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

My book is now published! 🌏🎶🧪  You can download it for free at academic.oup.com/book/62353 - I’d be grateful if you do! I also published an accessible summary with audio/video today in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... Try reading that first, then give the whole book a read if you like it!

Front cover of my book, titled "Comparative musicology: Evolution, universals, and the science of the world's music" (published today by Oxford University Press)

1st of my 4-page essay published in Nature today titled "Music is not a universal language - but it can bring us together when words fail"
Picture caption: "Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny (centre) performed in Spanish at the half-time show of the 2026 American Football Super Bowl LX."

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

This video of former ICE attorney Ryan Schwank on why he left the agency is an absolute *must watch*. Please share widely.

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Former ICE Attorney Schwank on Why He Left Agency

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

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George Kafetzis @gkafetzis.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social! A dive into the deep history of vertebrate vision, together with @mikebok.bsky.social, @neurofishh.bsky.social and @denilsson.bsky.social Photo credit : Vasilis Karkalas

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Luisa F. Pallares @luisapallares.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

New Perspective!🔥It's fascinating how scientists from different fields but interested in the same question [e.g. genotype-phenoytpe relationship] can have such different perspectives. Here we put in our 2 cents wrt genetic effects being context-dependent, and pheno variation being mostly polygenic

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Beyond Mendel: a call to revisit the genotype–phenotype map through new experimental paradigms

Abstract. The long-standing notion that genotypes map to phenotypes through simple one gene–one trait relationships continues to shape both research in the

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Andrew Mongue @ajmongue.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I'm back with another weird scale insect repro study. Previously I've talked about the simultaneous hermaphrodite cottony cushion scales and (functional) haplodiploidy paternal genome elimination in mealybugs. But how did these systems evolve? The Mongue lab has some answers! 1/n #genomics

An unknown scale insect from Costa Rica.

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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Delighted that a #trumpetfish has made the 🌟cover🌟 of @royalsocietypublishing.org journal #ProceedingsB. Read about how these predatory #fish hide against similarly coloured non-threatening species to #camouflage on the move in our #OpenAccess article: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #behaviour #marine

Front cover of the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B showing a trumpetfish shadowing a non-threatening species of a similar colour to aid its hunting success.

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Chiara Benvenuto @cbenvenuto.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Today, International Day of Women and Girls in Science, I am really looking forward to listening to @wascherclaudia.bsky.social in her talk "Social by nature: from animal minds to inclusive Science communities". Thanks Claudia!

Introduction to the talk, with the title: Social by nature: from animal minds to inclusive Science communities

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Rob Marchant @rob-marchant.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

A wonderful way to start the week with news that vertical farms are spreading across the #Maasai community by the Enduata Emaa Organisation - supporting community #resilience and #diversification

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Chiara Benvenuto @cbenvenuto.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

It was a great pleasure to present, with @naiarasales.bsky.social, the succesful partnership between Environmental Research & Innovation Centre (ERIC) and Mersey Gateway Environmental Trust #IPBES12 "Evidence to Action: Mobilising Sciences, Business & Policy for Nature" event! @ipbes.net

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Chiara Benvenuto @cbenvenuto.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

What a busy week! Monday was #IPBES12 stakeholder day @ipbes.net! A fabulous forum for scientists, Indigenous people, governments, biodiversity leaders and all stakeholders. Key points discussed: reach, uptake & impact and business and biodiversity! @alice-risely.bsky.social @amyleedale.bsky.social

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Here is a 400BCE plate from souther Italy for serving fish. Three species of sparids (sea bream) are shown. Sea bream were among the first farmed fish this plate represents a common group of species from that area. 🧪🐡

Bottom surface of the other picture showing no fishes.

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Visited the Natural History Museum London last week and honestly: collections like this are the backbone of everything we think we know about the ocean. Absolute treasure trove.

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Chiara Benvenuto @cbenvenuto.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Great panels at the @ipbes.net stakeholder day today! A fabulous forum for scientists, Indigenous people, governments, biodiversity leaders and all stakeholders. Key points discussed: reach, uptake & impact and business and biodiversity! @alice-risely.bsky.social @amyleedale.bsky.social

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Jakub Žák @fishjakub.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

New paper! We challenge the universality of dietary restriction for lifespan extension! It works for inbred but not for genetically diverse populations. In outbred Nothobranchius furzeri, neither protein nor caloric restriction delayed actuarial senescence #AgingResearch

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Chiara Benvenuto @cbenvenuto.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Cold, but not too cold for snowdrop and crocus flowers! A bit of colour for a gray day...

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Chiara Benvenuto @cbenvenuto.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Made it to Brno! Invigorating and refreshing weather, the journey was fabulous. I cannot wait for the symposium of fish mating systems to start tomorrow!!!! fish.ivb.cz/@fishecoevo.... 🐟🐟🐟🐟

Prague seen from the window ofvthe airport shuttle, over the bridge

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The Gods are on my side tonight … this is rural Cavan right now .. #Aurora #NorthernLights #ThisIsCavan #Ireland

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Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠 @jutfelt.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

PhD position in fish ecology at the university of Gothenburg @naturvetenskap.bsky.social with fieldwork at Kristineberg marine station @kristinebergcenter.bsky.social Apply here: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

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Chiara Benvenuto @cbenvenuto.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Today is rainy, but yesterday the sunset was gorgeous. Little relief in a dark world...

Orange clouds in the sky, reflected in the water of the quays

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ayyu ❄️ @ayyu210.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

An Inuit message of solidarity and support for our 🇬🇱 relatives from Inuit of Alaska and Canada ❤️ You are not alone. We love you and stand for your right to self-determine the future of your nunaat ✨️ #InuitNunaat #InuitNunangat #Greenland #KalaallitNunaat #KalaallitPigaat youtu.be/MeE8PHbLgfo?...

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180,000 Strong Inuit Standing Together

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Oceana UK @oceanauk.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

🚨 BREAKING: The High Seas Treaty enters into force today – without the UK 🌊 81 countries have ratified. The UK still hasn’t. This treaty could create the largest network of ocean sanctuaries in history. No more excuses. Ratify the #HighSeasTreaty now. 🌍✊⏳

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

International Fellowships 2026
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
Funding status
Open for applications
Career stage
Early-career

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 15/01/2026

#IPBES12 is taking place in Manchester, UK, in February 2026. We check-in with the planning team behind the scenes of the preparation and how can stakeholders get involved before and during the event. 🌍🧪 Manchester here we come! 🏡 🔗 www.ipbes.net/events/ipbes-12-plena…

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Chiara Benvenuto @cbenvenuto.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

This morning, there was an impressive sky out of the balcony!

Skyline of Manchester, with skyscrapers in the distance, some windows with lights on nearby and majestic dark clouds over the beginning of the sunrise

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Chiara Benvenuto @cbenvenuto.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Thank you #MediterraneanSea! I really needed to recharge and redefine my priorities! #LaMiaLiguria

Rapallo, view of the castle and the coast, with a calm sea

View of the promontory of Portofino in the distance; cam sea and clouds in the sky

Just the sea, as line of clouds and sparkling reflexes of the sun on the sea

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Aurora Ruiz-Herrera @aruizherrera.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Excited to be part of the amazing team behind our upcoming symposium on Sex Evolution at #SMBE2026! 🔹 Daniel Jeffries 🔹 Paul Jay 🔹 @sphaeromeria.bsky.social 🔹 @astridboehne.bsky.social 🔹 @cbenvenuto.bsky.social Join us in Copenhagen for cutting-edge discussions on #sex #evolution

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Aurora Ruiz-Herrera @aruizherrera.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

🔬 Uncovering the mechanisms of sex chromosome dosage compensation in skinks! 🦎 🧬 Our latest collaborative study on how a lizard species with an extraordinary ability to change sexual phenotype maintains genomic balance. 👇 rdcu.be/eVjqW

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Sex chromosome dosage compensation in a sex reversing skink is not influenced by sexual phenotype

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Chiara Benvenuto @cbenvenuto.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

One resolution for the New Year to feel happier: I want to start reading again before going to sleep! 📖 📕 Research papers do not count...

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