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Yichao Zeng @yichaozeng.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just out in Syst Biol! What are the macroevolutionary rates of species interactions such as mutualisms and antagonisms? @cromanpa.bsky.social We developed a new Approximate Bayesian Computation approach to estimating speciation and extinction rates from cophylogenies. doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

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Anna Dornhaus @dornhaus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Message me if you qualify and are interested in working on a proposal together

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Social Transfer Network @socialtransfernet.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Looking for a post doc? You can study the evolution of Socially Transferred Materials in Amsterdam and become part of an international team!

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Chelsea Cook @phdbee.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

@nstroeymeyt.bsky.social is hiring! Collective behavior, disease, and social organization - if you’re looking for a PhD or postdoc! #IUSSI26

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Chinmay Hemant Joshi @chjoshi.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I just gave a talk on how different errors may affect collective foraging outcomes and how communication mitigates the effect of these errors. In case we did not get a chance to chat after the talk, I'm at the conference. So do say hi! Also, check out the pre-print of this work! #IUSSI26

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Frequent errors are the worst: robustness to individual failures in collective foraging

The collective behavior of complex systems emerges from the actions and interactions of their individual components. But what if these individuals make mistakes, or deviate from behavior tuned to lead...

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iussi-nas.bsky.social @iussi-nas.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

📢 Introducing @uissi-social.bsky.social, the Bluesky home of the XX International Congress of the IUSSI. The Congress runs 16–20 August 2026 in Freiburg, Germany, hosted by the University of Freiburg. Tag your posts, abstracts, and travel plans with #IUSSI26 so we can find each other.

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Avery Russell @draverbee.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

How do 🐝 evaluate costs & benefits of foraging w/in 🌸mimicry systems? Turns out 🐝 attend more to costs than to benefits, similar to animals in other contexts! For more, read our new pub in @behavecol.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1093/behe... therusselllab.net/wp-content/u... @jentomology.bsky.social

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Bees attend primarily to aversive costs, not pollen rewards, to avoid exploitation by floral mimics

We varied the benefits and costs of flower mimics and models (rewardless flowers and rewarding flowers, respectively) and investigated how bees responded.

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Tim Linksvayer @tlinksvayer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Heard of the haplodiploid hypothesis (=¾ relatedness hypothesis)? It’s long been a staple of biology textbooks – you may’ve run into it in Intro Biology, Genetics, Evolution, or Behavior. It’s also been very influential on social evolution theory, yet surprisingly, it long remained untested.🧵

shots of pages from biology textbooks featuring the haplodiploid hypothesis for the evolution of eusociality

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Chinmay Hemant Joshi @chjoshi.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Pre-print alert 🚨🐜🐝! Social insect foraging is far from perfect. @dornhaus.bsky.social and I designed an agent-based model to examine how different error types affect collective foraging outcomes and whether communication mitigates or exacerbates these effects. See the thread below! (1/6).

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Frequent errors are the worst: robustness to individual failures in collective foraging

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Avery Russell @draverbee.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Would love to support a Smith Fellowship #postdoc application for projects on our Southwest #Missouri #Prairies! Incredible #pollinator & flowering #plant diversity, & thus lots of possible topics! Years of experience & collab with conservation agencies on these prairies to help scholars network 😇

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Daniel Kronauer @danielkronauer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Our lab at Rockefeller University is looking for a Research Technician to help with our studies of ant social behavior and evolution. 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧬 🐜 Please share and apply here if interested: hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

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Research Technician I - Kronauer Lab

Primary Work Address: 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. About the Role: The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is seeking ...

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Chelsea Cook @phdbee.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

We (me and @njdowdy.bsky.social) are hiring a PhD student! Come work with us! We seek a PhD student to investigate the evolution of acoustic behavior in Lepidoptera within a comparative evolutionary framework... Job closes this week! Apply ASAP! njdowdy.gitlab.io/balogh-fello...

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Kenneth F. Balogh Graduate Student Fellowship

A PhD position investigating the evolution of acoustic behavior in Lepidoptera, co-advised by Dr. Nicolas J. Dowdy (Milwaukee Public Museum) and Dr. Chelsea Cook (Marquette University). Apply by June ...

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Dr Nathalie Stroeymeyt @nstroeymeyt.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 Fully funded PhD at the University of Bristol (UK) on how ant colonies remodel their nests to optimise performance under pressure, combining experimental work, quantitative analysis, and field work. Detail/how to apply: stroeymeyt-lab.co.uk/open-positio... Deadline: 5 June 2026

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Open positions – Ant epidemiology Lab

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Anna Dornhaus @dornhaus.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Lecture on what we can learn from collective behavior about the world in general - www.youtube.com/watch?v=oioL...: algorithmic thinking, how to make groups behave better, how to get at truth despite our failing intuition

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Seminar Series 2026: 1. Dr. Anna Dornhaus

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Rebecca Wang 王思寧 @rebeccawang.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

For Day 1 of #Invertefest - I'm (once again) highlighting the Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum @hkbm.bsky.social! 🏛️ Specifically it's wonderful "Meet Your Neighbors / 左蟲右里" series on BSky (as well as IG and FB) that showcases some of the stunning insects 🇭🇰 has to offer!

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Rebecca Wang 王思寧 @rebeccawang.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Day 2 of #Invertefest! Amplifying some cool insect papers that have crossed my feed recently!📣 ~~ Q: Why do rewardless flowers still exist, rather than being shed? 🌺 A: 🤷‍♀️ We still don't know, but this test with bees & fake flowers show it's probably not "decoy" effects! doi.org/10.1111/een....

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Tomer J. Czaczkes (@tomerczaczkes.bsky.social)

Some plants change the colour of flowers which were already pollinated, and are now rewardless. We thought perhaps they were using a behavioural economic trick - the decoy effect - to make the…

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Chinmay Hemant Joshi @chjoshi.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I took this modeling course in 2022 and really enjoyed it! The course provided me with a great framework to understand modeling papers. So if you are interested in modeling in biology in any capacity, check out the pre-print below!

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Animal Behaviour Live @animalbehaviour.live · 14/04/2026

📣SEMINAR SERIES 2026📣 Our 1st seminar of this year ! 📆Tuesday 28th April 2026 at 2pm GMT on Youtube: Dr. Anna Dornhaus (@dornhaus.bsky.social) on “What we learned about the world from studying collective behavior: algorithms, replicators, and strong inference” 🐜 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oioL...

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Seminar Series 2026: 1. Dr. Anna Dornhaus

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Chinmay Hemant Joshi @chjoshi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Check out my latest paper! I have written a 🧵on this paper: bsky.app/profile/chjo...

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Two Masters thesis position openings up on the lab website: activesensingcollectives.com/openings Especially interesting perhaps if you're into acoustics, graphical design, realtime visualisations, and algorithms. Please do spread the word and forward in your circles.

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Openings | Active Sensing Collectives

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Open postdoc position in my lab at Cornell, conducting comparative and experimental studies on transcriptomic responses to diet and toxins, utilizing the milkweed-insect community. Background in molecular bio & herbivory desired. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31867

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Cornell University, CALS Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Job #AJO31867, WDR-00057721 Postdoctoral Associate, CALS Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

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Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

It’s me!

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Bumble bees that follow a stricter routine innovate less: Foraging behaviors, environmental complexity, and how they relate to novel problem solving www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 03/03/2026

📣 Call for Applications: The University of Vienna invites applications for more than 40 fully funded doctoral positions across a broad range of disciplines in Life Sciences and Natural Sciences. 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 #PhDSky #PhD #univie 📅 Application period: 2 March – 27 March 2026, 12:00 CET More information: ⤵️

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Call for Applications: Doctoral Positions in the Life Sciences and Natural Sciences

Ambitious candidates with a strong academic track record who wish to pursue their doctorate in one of the research areas listed below.

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Abel Bernadou @abelbernadou.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

🐜 European Ant Identification Workshop 2026 🐜 📍 Banyuls-sur-Mer, France 📅 June 3–7, 2026 A hands-on workshop focused on European ant diversity, collection methods, and identification — set in the amazing Mediterranean–Pyrenean place of Banyuls-sur-Mer 🌿🏞️

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Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Alita Burmeister (@aburmeister.bsky.social) is looking to hire a postdoc (or potentially a PhD student) for projects on phage resistance and evolution. The position description is posted to the Eco-Evo Jobs wiki and also available on her lab's website (arburmeister.weebly.com).

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The Burmeister Lab: Studying Microbial Evolution and Extinction

Our research integrates evolutionary biology and microbiology, using bacteria and phage as study systems to address fundamental questions in both fields. We study microbial evolution, a...

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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

This looks very exciting! Hoping we can discover many many more cool insects than we ever dreamt of.

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Adria LeBoeuf @adriatica.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I'm hiring a technician! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... An 80% role in a 4-yr BBSRC project and hopefully beyond. Looking for someone to support the @socialfluids.bsky.social 🧪our ants 🐜 and our projects. Looking for someone kind + conscientious + reliable who takes pride in a job well done.

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Research Laboratory Technician (Part Time, Fixed Term)

An 80% FTE Research Technician position is available in the Social Fluids Laboratory, led by Dr Adria LeBoeuf, in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge. This position is part of a

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Chinmay Hemant Joshi @chjoshi.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Fascinating findings! This is what I love about behavioral ecology experiments. Simple and clever experimental designs can elegantly answer important questions.

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Alizée Vernouillet @vernouilleta.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

There is still some time to submit for our Special Collection on social cognition and anthropogenic environments! We are looking forward to hear from you! link.springer.com/collections/... Please do get in touch if you have any questions. #openaccess #socialcognition

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Mariella Herberstein (she/her) 🌈 @mherberstein.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I am looking for a PhD working on tracking trait changes in insects/spiders at the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity change @leibnizlib.bsky.social and the University of Hamburg. Apply here: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

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Job advertisement

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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Don't be put off by the ad saying "UK Students only" - a limited number of scholarships are available for international candidates. So please apply!

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Chinmay Hemant Joshi @chjoshi.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Pre-print alert 🚨🐜!!! I am really excited to share results from the first empirical chapter of my PhD. We ( @dornhaus.bsky.social and I) set out to examine how fire ants deal with perturbations to communication during foraging. Turns out their foraging is not robust to this perturbation. (1/5)

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Persist or Give up? Fire ants motivated to search for a high-quality food source even if they don’t know how to find it

Finding resources for the colony is one of the most difficult and risky tasks for a social insect worker. A worker on a foraging trip can face a number of challenges, including interference from other...

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Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

🚨 New postdoc opportunity in Aotearoa 🇳🇿 with @drhhnz.bsky.social RA / Postdoctoral Fellow in honeybee bacteriophages, microbial genetics & molecular evolution at the University of Canterbury (Christchurch). 3-year position, starts March 2026. 🔗 jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...

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Research Associate / Postdoctoral Fellow - Honeybee Bacteriophages and Advanced Biotechnology - University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha

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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

PhD position(s)🚨deadline 20th Jan 1-development of brain & behaviour in the precocial spiny mouse tinyurl.com/yaxhy5y2 2-social behaviour & neurophysiology in a menstruating rodent using AI tinyurl.com/ykv93cts apply ✍️ @ai4bicdt.bsky.social @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social @edinunineuro.bsky.social

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Chinmay Hemant Joshi @chjoshi.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

"Ultimately, good science is produced by the individual people and the small teams within larger systems."

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The Economy of Knowing

Why Metascience Needs Micro and Macro

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Chinmay Hemant Joshi @chjoshi.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Great perspective on why world needs behavioral ecology and behavioral ecologists !!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on. (Please repost to reach a broad audience.)

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Persist or Give up? Fire ants motivated to search for a high-quality food source even if they don’t know how to find it

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