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A recent analysis in Science of more than 116,000 bird songs has revealed that the astonishing variety of passerine birdsong is built from just eight basic acoustic motifs, like trills, whistles, and harmonic notes. Learn more on #WorldAnimalDay: scim.ag/3SziyeL

A phylogenetic distribution and trait correlates of acoustic motifs in passerine birds. Hedline reads: The global biogeography of passerine songs

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Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

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Letter to Charles Lyell
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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Are you are in charge of a UK monitoring project? This survey arcg.is/1mn48e5 is aimed at understanding which ecological monitoring data are collected across the UK, how much is shared, and how easy it is to discover & potentially re-use. Please fill it in if you can! See survey for more details.

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UK Terrestrial and Freshwater Monitoring Survey

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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Are you a #NewPI in Ecology & Evolution? Would you like to meet with peers to chat about work, the future and life as a new PI? 🍪☕️ Then I have the form for you! 📋 Help us gauge interest in a new network/event by filling in this short survey: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/K4wUiuLuFn Please RT! 🙏

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Dr Mark D. Scherz @markscherz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🚨We're hiring a new Curator of Mammals!!🚨 🦍🐕🦝🐅🦓🦌🐃🐖🐏🐫🐘🦏🦛🐿️🦔🦇🦥🦦🦨🦘🦡🐋🦭🦒🧸 Come join the Vertebrate Unit at @nhmdk.bsky.social—a fantastic team in the heart of Denmark's beautiful capital! Amazing collections, incredible history. Please share widely! 🧪🏛️ candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

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Tenure Track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor and Curator of Mammals

Tenure Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor, and Curator of Mammals at Natural History Museum Denmark The Natural History Museum Denmark wishes to ap

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Chase Brownstein @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🚨🚨 1. New preprint! We examine whether the diversity of transcontinental freshwater fish radiations, such as killifishes and cichlids, might be driven by marine ancestry in the aftermath of an asteroid impact! Retained salinity tolerance explains their biogeography and diversity!

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Richard Merrill @dickmerrill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Very excited to see this multi-faceted* study, led by Shane Wright and representing years of work on visual evolution and perception in Heliconius as part of our ERC Starting Grant, released into the world! 🦋*pun very much intended www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Corinna Langebrake @co-la.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

To the birding community: one of our GPS-tagged redshanks was predated during its migration in France. We would be very greatful if we could have the GPS tag back and get as much information as possible from the bird! This is the last position: maps.app.goo.gl/jCWDXDfhnJPT... @genmig.bsky.social

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Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County @nhm.org · 31/08/2026

Meet your new fine-feathered friend! Similar to its modern day descendants, 𝘊𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘹 𝘻𝘰𝘶𝘪 had feathers—but it wasn't a bird.

Skeleton cast of 𝘊𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘹 𝘻𝘰𝘶𝘪 displayed in NHM's Dino Hall.

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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🚨 I AM HIRING a 3-year postdoc & 4-year PhD student 🚨 [PLEASE SHARE WIDELY] My Emmy Noether @dfg.de funded Neural Circuit & Systems Evolution lab (🌟) at the @unimainz.bsky.socialÍ wants to start existing. So..., what do we need? WELL... we need you! APPLY UNTIL 21 SEPTEMBER.

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Do you feel more stressed depending on the season or time of day? You might expect your productivity and mood to remain constant, but these rhythms affect your ability to deal with stress in ways you may not realize.

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Why your ability to cope with stress changes with time

Seasonal changes have more effects on your biology and behavior than you might realize

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 26/08/2026

Interested in joining the #RSOS editorial board? We seek enthusiastic & engaged Associate Editors who will perform a range of valuable tasks for the journal and the communities it serves. The application deadline is 30 October 2026. Find out more: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/pages/e...

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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

📣 📣 📣 UPDATE: The 2026-2027 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resource! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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ecoevojobs.net 2026-27

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Avery Maune @averymaune.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

📢 City lizards are more social ! Thrilled to share the first paper from my PhD, out now in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org ! We show that urban lizards are more social than their non-urban counterparts 🦎🏙️🌳🧪 doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... @behavecobie.bsky.social

Three common wall lizards basking next to each other on a stone wall in an urban habitat in Croatia.

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Joe Brennan @biologyjoe87.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Looking for sci comm opportunities? Join us as a writer for American Naturalist press releases! These write-ups are primarily written by graduate students and other early-career scientists. No experience required; we have editors to help along the way. Apps due Sept 1. Please share widely :D

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Looking for Press Release Writers & Editors for The American Naturalist

Sign up for the opportunity to write and/or edit for The American Naturalist! We are seeking authors to write press releases for new journal articles. See examples of recent press releases here. We a...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Helen Ahpornsiri, an artist who creates intricate collage artworks created with real pressed flora and foliage #WomensAr

Four images, a heron, a fox, a mouse and a toad, all created with a collage of tiny leaves snd flowers against a white background

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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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Liam Dougherty @liamdougherty.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

New pre-print led by the amazing @patricepottier.bsky.social - very little evidence for evolution of life history traits in response to warming, even in insects. Rapid adaptation is unlikely to mitigate the continuing impacts of climate change 🔥🔥🔥

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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Very proud of the special issue of Animal Behaviour I worked on with @wascherclaudia.bsky.social and @nicolakoyama.bsky.social on addressing biases in animal behaviour. Thanks to all authors- plenty of cool papers to read. Here's our editorial: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @asab.org

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Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

🤝 Two learned societies. One shared goal. We're proud to be partnering with @royalsociety.org for #InnovationsInEntomology on 1 October, bringing together experts from across sectors to discuss the scientific and technological advances shaping the future of insect science.

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Join two Societies for Innovations In Entomology

💻 Online attendance available via livestream registration.

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Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology @mpi-ce.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Researchers from our @oconnorlab.bsky.social found that the oil beetle's parasitic larvae mimic floral scent to attract bees, allowing them to sneak into their nests. This is the first example of an animal mimicking flower odors to manipulate an ecological interaction www.ice.mpg.de/563251/PR_Alam

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Oil beetle larvae smell like flowers to manipulate bees

The larvae of the European oil beetle mimic floral scents to attract wild bees and thus infiltrate their nests. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology have identified monoterpeno...

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Dieter Lukas @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

A new resource with funding opportunities for evolutionary biologists docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-m8… put together by Prothama(“Pro”) Manna from the SSE Grad Student Advisory Council […]

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We just released a new open resource for studying evolution, ecology, colour, behaviour & biodiversity. OzButterflies 🦋 ✨ 4,000+ individuals 🌈 Visible + UV images 🧬 CO1 barcodes 📈 Spectral reflectance data 🏞️ 125 species doi.org/10.1093/data... @mherberstein.bsky.social @livuni-ives.bsky.social

examples of database images. (B) Disassembled RGB. (C) Disassembled UV. (D) Pinned dorsal RGB. (E) Pinned dorsal UV. (F) Pinned ventral RGB. (G) Pinned ventral UV.

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This week’s lessons from animals comes from horses, and what they can teach us about silent communication open.substack.com/pub/lessonsf...

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Horse whispering

Turns out horses have a lot to say. We just need to listen differently.

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Alice Risely @alice-risely.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Are you interested in #gulls, diet metabarcoding, or both? Of course you are! Check out our new preprint where we use molecular methods to decode the (animal-based) diet of lesser black-backed gulls - arguably a species with one of the most diverse diets out there. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Quentin Bacquelé @quentinbacquele.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Horses have been 'talking' to us all along. We just haven't known how to listen. My latest Lessons from Animals explores the silent language of horses, and what it can teach us about paying attention. open.substack.com/pub/lessonsf...

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American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

When organisms colonize new environments, they can experience release from previous parasites. Bolnick et al. use an experiment to track how this release leads to large fluctuations in infection rates, as well as immune evolution. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Insect Welfare Research Society @insectwrs.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The University of Lincoln is recruiting for a funded two-year MPhil who will develop, test, and validate behavioral and physiological indicators of wild insect welfare, in the lab and in the field. The stipend is £20,780/year plus home fees. Applications close August 2. Open to UK students.

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Developing, Testing and Validating Indicators of Wild Insect Welfare at University of Lincoln on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Developing, Testing and Validating Indicators of Wild Insect Welfare at University of Lincoln, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Emília Santos @emiliapsantos.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

🎨 job alert 🐠 Come join us! We have two positions open! These are part of our @erc.europa.eu funded project on the mechanisms underpinning convergence of colour patterns in cichlid fishes! Closing date: 16th August. Postdoc: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... Technician: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

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Mohammed Khallaf @khallaf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Our new paper is out in @nature.com! We uncovered how a naked mole-rat queen 👑 controls an entire colony: a natural contraceptive scent that suppresses reproduction in other females! A remarkable mammalian parallel to bees and ants! 🐝🐜 @garyrlewin.bsky.social youtu.be/enfv3zJrWKM?...

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Naked mole-rats are ruled by a queen: this chemical puts her in power

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Portuguese Ethological Society (SPE) @spetologia.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨 #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology "The evolution of eyespots in skates and rays" Akerman et al. with SPE member Ana Cristina Gomes @anacrgomes.bsky.social @ Nature Ecol Evol @stockholm-uni.bsky.social

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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

🦇 Did you know brown long-eared bats love perching in their favourite spot and eat moths? They are not so keen on the wings though... This photo, taken by Mike Mullis, is a collection of moth wings left by a brown long-eared bat from underneath its feeding roosts in his barn in East Sussex (cont)

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Jenny Stynoski @stynoski.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Interested in a postdoc position? Olfaction in poison frog tadpoles! Based in Germany with some field work in Costa Rica (bilateral funding, 3 years). Please share with your froggie and neuro/behavior contacts 🐸 www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

One of the most insightful lessons I've read about mentorship didn't come from a psychology paper. It came from a pond full of tadpoles. Here's what they can teach us about learning, leadership, & why our actions matter. New in Lessons from animals lessonsfromanimals.substack.com/p/the-tadpol...

Illustration of a frog watching over a pond while a school of tadpoles swims below the surface, with one tadpole highlighted. Text announces the article "The Tadpole Effect: How choosing the right role model could save your skin."

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

What if the magpie's bad reputation is built on a myth? My latest Lessons From Animals explores what this misunderstood bird can teach us about first impressions, prejudice, and seeing the bigger picture. lessonsfromanimals.substack.com/p/magpies

A hand-drawn sketch of a woman in a brown hat and blue jacket tipping the brim of her hat to a magpie perched on a mossy stone wall. They face one another in a peaceful cottage garden with leafy trees and a stone house in the background, evoking the traditional greeting to a lone magpie.

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I've always made sense of the world by looking closely at nature. I finally have somewhere to write about it. Welcome to Lessons from Animals. open.substack.com/pub/lessonsf...

Illustrated banner with hand-drawn natural history sketches of animals and plants on a cream background. The title "Lessons from Animals" appears in the centre above the subtitle "Finding wisdom in the natural world."

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Science Magazine @science.org · 28/05/2026

Researchers have identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation. scim.ag/4nTQ3nq

How animals sense Earth’s magnetic field is one of biology’s enduring mysteries. Researchers have now identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons (Columba livia) to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation.

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hannahgurholt.bsky.social @hannahgurholt.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I'm excited to share that my first chapter was just published in Ecology. If you'd like to read about how "Light pollution at night impacts monarch butterfly growth and performance," you can find it here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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MPI for Biology Tübingen & Friedrich Miescher Laboratory @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

We are proud to share that Ruth Ley @microbiome.bsky.social , Director of the Department of Microbiome Science, has been elected Fellow of The Royal Society @royalsociety.org . Congratulations!!!

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Ruth Ley elected Fellow of the Royal Society

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Lee Henry @henrylabsymbio.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

New paper out in @molbioevol.bsky.social 🧬🦠 We show phage toxin diversity in protective symbionts isn’t random—toxin families are linked to defense against different parasitoid species. This suggests toxin diversification is a major force shaping the functional evolution of these microbes.

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