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Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

A while ago @caritalindstedt.bsky.social asked me “would you puke to save the group?” Well not me personally, there's real science about the evolution of cooperation here. With the help of talented student @abhay-gupta.bsky.social, we now have answers! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....

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Sex-biased cooperation among immature peers: it matters who helps whom

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Bibiana Rojas @biobiiana.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

New paper out in @behavecol.bsky.social! Multiple studies show that sexually selected traits such as colours can reflect the presence of pathogens/parasites, but, can defensive coloration do the same? L. Schlippe Justicia, @carodittrich.bsky.social, O. Nokelainen & I tackled that question (1/3)

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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Look - it's a new preprint! Predatory attacks change bee visual perception and decision-making, making bees better prepared to detect threats. Excellent work by the brilliant Olga Procenko for her (prize-winning) PhD with us! #bees #vision #predation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Acute stress modulates early visual perception and decision-making speed in bees without compromising accuracy

Acute stress is known to influence decision-making, but it can also directly affect earlier stages of sensory processing. In humans, stress alters the perception of basic visual features, fine-tuning ...

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Chentomology @chentomology.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

It’s national #mothweek ! Elegant, mysterious, and incredibly diverse, moths are such fantastic creatures that deserve as much or even more attention as butterflies 🦋 there’s not even a moth emoji yet!

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Ashlesh Pattanaik @orthopterizzt.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Thanks for posting this, @omearabrian.bsky.social! If anyone's wondering, yes, I am the grad student in question. Follow the iNat link and spread the word! Feel free to send any questions my way

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Ashlesh Pattanaik @orthopterizzt.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Tree crickets build megaphones, called "baffles", by chewing holes in leaves to attract mates. For my PhD, I am studying the evolution of baffling. Lil bit of phylogenetics, lil bit of citizen science. Follow the link to my new project on @inaturalist.bsky.social www.inaturalist.org/projects/baf...

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Baffling in North American tree crickets

This project aims to collect data on “baffling” behaviour in tree crickets (subfamily: Oecanthinae). Baffling is a strategy used by males to make themselves louder. They do so by calling from leaf edg...

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