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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Outsider Animals by Marlene Zuk is now available worldwide! This book is an entertaining exploration of what raccoons, rats, and other animal intruders teach us about intelligence, adaptability, and ourselves. Find it here: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Biology #Wildlife #Animals

Outsider Animals: How the Creatures at the Margins of Our Lives Have the Most to Teach Us by Marlene Zuk

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

🧪 are you a trans entomologist? arachnologist? parasitologist? malacologist? carcinologist? diplopodologist? vermeologist? 🐛🐜🪱🦗🕷️🦀 if you a trans scientist studying any kind of bug or crawling/slithering invertebrate that is existentially bug-like, I would love to interview you for a project!

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Sandra Steiger @steigerlab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Job alert! PhD position "Evolutionary Genomics of Transcriptional Regulation in Beetle Sociality" with @bfeldmeyer.bsky.social in collaboration with me and the fantastic burying beetles!

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Jon Richardson @jonrichardson.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

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

An iridescent blue-green ladybird beetle sitting on a leaf

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Jon Richardson @jonrichardson.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

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...

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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

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Jon Richardson @jonrichardson.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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

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Sinead English @englishse.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

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

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

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Tom Ratz @tomratz.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

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

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Hannah Scharf @hannah-scharf.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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

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Jon Richardson @jonrichardson.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

🚨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/...

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