Reposted by Jon RichardsonNatalie Pilakouta @nataliepilakouta.bsky.social · 06/10/2026📣 PhD opportunity in my lab 📣 Are you interested in the effects of climate change on social behaviour? 🌡️🔥 This PhD project will examine these effects in the amazing burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Informal enquiries welcome. Please share widely! 01027
Reposted by Jon RichardsonRobin Hayward 🌳 🏳️⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026We'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/ 15647478
Reposted by Jon RichardsonPrinceton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Outsider 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 0113
Reposted by Jon RichardsonSabrina 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! 717998
Jon Richardson @jonrichardson.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Cool observations Per! Would you be okay with me using one of these photos (with credit of course) in a paper I'm writing? 110
Reposted by Jon RichardsonSandra Steiger @steigerlab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Job alert! PhD position "Evolutionary Genomics of Transcriptional Regulation in Beetle Sociality" with @bfeldmeyer.bsky.social in collaboration with me and the fantastic burying beetles! 036
Jon Richardson @jonrichardson.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Here is my contribution to #BlueBugs @ashwhiffin.bsky.social 📷 Steelblue ladybird (Halmus chalybeus) 140
Jon Richardson @jonrichardson.bsky.social · 20/08/20254️⃣ 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...link.springer.comCondition Does Not Alter Responsiveness to Mating Signals in Female Pacific Field Crickets - Journal of Insect BehaviorAnimals 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... 010
Jon Richardson @jonrichardson.bsky.social · 20/08/20253️⃣With 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...cdnsciencepub.comEffects of mismatched mate availability cues on reproductive investment in female cricketsAnimals use cues experienced during early life to adaptively adjust their phenotype to the social environment they will likely experience. However, since animals often use multiple cues to assess the ... 161
Jon Richardson @jonrichardson.bsky.social · 20/08/20252️⃣Marlene 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/...journals.uchicago.eduThe 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... 141
Jon Richardson @jonrichardson.bsky.social · 20/08/2025I'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...academic.oup.comA Goldilocks definition of sexual selection: a comment on JanickeSexual selection has been a contentious topic since its proposal, so it is unsurprising that debate continues over its definition. Janicke (2024) offers a 181
Jon Richardson @jonrichardson.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Today 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 🏴 1270
Jon Richardson @jonrichardson.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Hi Rowan - I have access. Happy to help if you DM me 110
Reposted by Jon RichardsonSinead English @englishse.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Job! 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 02829
Reposted by Jon RichardsonTom Ratz @tomratz.bsky.social · 20/12/2024My interview for the @insectessociaux.bsky.social blog 👇 0134
Reposted by Jon RichardsonTom Ratz @tomratz.bsky.social · 01/12/2024For 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...link.springer.comBurying beetles as a model organism to study sex differences in parental care - Insectes SociauxIn 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... 23713
Jon Richardson @jonrichardson.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Congrats Tom - can’t wait to read the published version! 120
Reposted by Jon RichardsonHannah Scharf @hannah-scharf.bsky.social · 18/11/2024I 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 14613263
Jon Richardson @jonrichardson.bsky.social · 24/09/2024📢 I'm excited to be presenting this work at ISBE 2024 in Melbourne next week! 🦗 130
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/... 130
Jon Richardson @jonrichardson.bsky.social · 24/11/2023New 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....doi.orghttp://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14341Wiley Online Library requires cookies for authentication and use of other site features; therefore, cookies must be enabled to browse the site. Detailed information on how Wiley uses cookies can be fo... 020