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Jon Richardson

@jonrichardson.bsky.social
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Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at University of Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿| Previously Postdoc at University of Minnesota 🇺🇸 | PhD at University of Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿| he/him 🏳️‍🌈

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Natalie 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!
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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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Jon Richardson @jonrichardson.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Cool observations Per! Would you be okay with me using one of these photos (with credit of course) in a paper I'm writing?
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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
4️⃣ 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...
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Condition Does Not Alter Responsiveness to Mating Signals in Female Pacific Field Crickets - Journal of Insect Behavior
Animals 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...
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Jon Richardson @jonrichardson.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
3️⃣With 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...
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Effects of mismatched mate availability cues on reproductive investment in female crickets
Animals 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 ...
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Jon Richardson @jonrichardson.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
2️⃣Marlene 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/...
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The 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...
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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 bibJon at the Minnesota State Fair - a huge crowd in the background
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Jon Richardson @jonrichardson.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Hi Rowan - I have access. Happy to help if you DM me
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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 nymphsOverview 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 waterResearchers 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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Tom Ratz @tomratz.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
For 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...
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Burying beetles as a model organism to study sex differences in parental care - Insectes Sociaux
In 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...
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Jon Richardson @jonrichardson.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Congrats Tom - can’t wait to read the published version!
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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
📢 I'm excited to be presenting this work at ISBE 2024 in Melbourne next week! 🦗
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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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Jon Richardson @jonrichardson.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
New 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....
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http://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14341
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