iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I love how Jewelweed flowers look like a big mouth, in this case chomping on a bumble bee. It’s almost like an oddly shaped Pac-Man #birds 🌿 #BeeButt #NativePlants

A large fuzzy black and light yellow bee has its back half hanging out of an orange flower like a mouth. It even looks like it has lips!

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Ajay Narendra @pipilika.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We have a fully funded 3-year PhD position to study jumping spider navigation. Open to both domestic and international candidates. Details below. Join us! @animbehav.bsky.social @austentsoc.bsky.social @ausevosoc.bsky.social @neuroethology.org @asab.org

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 04/09/2026

Night eyes 😎 Finally got proper pictures of this amazing phenomenon! Mantises change their eye color (and light sensitivity) at night by transporting pigments from the surface of each compound eye unit toward the deeper eye region. Same female Tenodera sinensis, two different times. #bugsky

A female Tenodera sinensis mantis with dark black eyes against a light background, seen from very close up.

A female Tenodera sinensis mantis with green/brown eyes against a light background, seen from very close up to show the details of her face. The pseudopupil is clearly visible on her left eye, facing the camera.

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Kathleen Kay @kathleenmkay.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is an amazing book and a great way to introduce undergrads to stats and R

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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Tom Collett’s new book “Insects and How They Navigate Their World” is out and seemingly the pdf is free 👀 (for me anyway) link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Insects and How They Navigate Their World

Discover how insects navigate using vision, memory and cues from nature. A clear, engaging look at ants, bees, and the remarkable abilities of tiny brains.

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Dr Francesca De Petrillo @francescadp.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Thank you @alexrosati.bsky.social I am truly honoured to receive this award. A huge thank you to everyone I’ve had the privilege to work with over the year, my mentors, collaborators, students and of course all the monkeys who have taught me to be patient. Congratulations to all the awardees!

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Barbara Mellone 🇺🇦 @centromellone.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Manuscripts with women as corresponding authors are less frequently sent out for review at Science. The ones reviewed receive less favorable reviews by both male and female reviewers.

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Study (N=8,097) finds women more likely to finish a PhD before 30 & have children after 35. Men tended to become parents during doctoral studies & often had 3+ children by 40. Early-career mothers had lower citation rates; fathers had no such penalties. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

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Female Academics Increasingly Delay Motherhood Until Age 35

“Pronounced penalties” for those early-career staff with children may explain why Ph.D.s postpone becoming parents, a recent study finds.

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Shoko Sugasawa @shokosugasawa.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

New paper🪺 It is mainly male zebra finches that collect nest material, but in the nest females handle nest material as much as males. Stellar efforts by my former students Emma Ramsay & Daniel Olivares Gallego finally out. @cogwild.bsky.social @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social #BiologyLetters

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ASAB @asab.org · 20/03/2026

🐦‍⬛Bowerbirds!🕺Sexual signals!🪹Bower construction!🚨Disruptions! Our #EditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: “Male great bowerbirds upregulate multiple sexual signals following bower wall removal” Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2026.123480

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Animal Behaviour
Volume 233, March 2026, 123480
Male great bowerbirds upregulate multiple sexual signals following bower wall removal
Caitlin F. Evans, Laura A. Kelley

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Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Sexier in the city? Urban male great bowerbirds decorate bowers with human-made objects, creating brighter and more varied displays than rural males. Males strongly prefer human-made objects over natural ones, possibly boosting their appeal to females! shorturl.at/lcNY2 @royalsocietypublishing.org

The ground is covered in leaf litter. On the ground are two parallel walls made of sticks that form a corridor. At each entrance there are objects scattered around including grey plastic, green pieces of glass, grey stones, white snail shells and red items.

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Ecol. Solutions & Evidence | Applied Ecol. Resources @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

We're accepting proposals for our Special Feature! We invite scientists and practitioners to share experiences from management projects that didn't go to plan, but still provided important insights into how best to manage ecosystems and species🌱 ⏰Submit by 30th April More here👇 buff.ly/EXXBFsJ

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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Come work with us! Wide range of topics: #insect #emotions, #mantis stereo #vision and prey detection, insect active vision, cognition across species in the wild, bee reward perception, insect #attention. If any of that appeals, get in touch! #fellowships #postdoc (p.s. It's beautiful up North!)

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Tuna @antea04.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸 We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto. The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.

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Becky Boulton @bb-phd.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Are you an #undergrad at a UK University? Do you like insects and being outside? Do you like getting paid? If so, this summer studentship could be for you iapetus.ac.uk/wp-content/u... feat #insects #fieldwork #trees #scotland for more details and to apply: iapetus.ac.uk/new-rep-sche...

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Pauline Provini @paulineprovini.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

🚨 Job alert! #PhD in #Biomechanics × #Neuroscience to study birdsong 🎵🐤 @mecadev.bsky.social and @neuropsi.bsky.social We are pre-selecting a candidate by April 15 to compete to InLife & IPV 2026 doctoral program (interview: May 20) 🔗 Full offer: sites.google.com/site/pauline... Please share!

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a small white bird is standing on one leg on a beach .

ALT: a small white bird is standing on one leg on a beach .

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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

If preparing figures please consider "colorblind friendly" approaches (www.nature.com/articles/d41...). I am missing the long-wave opsin, which manifests in strange ways: I can't discern red vs. black. This dichromacy is rare and severe, but ~300 million have more common forms addressed in link.

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Colour me better: fixing figures for colour blindness

Images can be made more accessible by choosing hues, shapes and textures carefully.

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Birds of the World | The Cornell Lab @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...

IMAGE SHOWS GRAPHIC OF CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY PHYLOGENY EXPLORER TOOL.

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Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

New bowerbird paper out, we asked whether male great bowerbirds care about the light environment around the bower where they display to females. Short answer: not really. What they do care about is having a display arena with strong visual contrast on the ground. 🐦 tinyurl.com/2v7rycdz

A u shaped structure made out of sticks called a bower, built under a small tree. In front of the bower is a pile of grey, white and green objects that make up the display court. The whole scene is in dappled sunlight and shade created by the tree above.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

A pair of happy hammerhead sharks (ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)

Paintings of hammerhead sharks depicted in the "Oki National Products Illustration Notes". From Japan, Edo Period, ca 1735

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arielcamp.bsky.social @arielcamp.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Had the pleasure of hosting Kelsey Stilson from @mnhn.fr here at @livevobiomech.bsky.social. We learned lots about birds and got some XROMM animations working! Thanks to @britishcouncil.bsky.social 🇫🇷-🇬🇧Springboard, @paulineprovini.bsky.social and @kriscran.bsky.social for making this possible!

pen sketches of song birds with hand-written text

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Know your finches? 🤔 Whether an experienced birder or new to nature we want you to help us count Birds in Greenspaces next year 🪶 Our FREE resource pack provides ID guides to 30 bird species. Sign up to the newsletter to receive it at www.bto.org/greenspaces Illustrations by @willrose.bsky.social

Five bird illustrations by Will Rose showing Goldfinch, male and female Chaffinch, and male and female Greenfinch. The bird species name features under the illustrations and at the top of the tile is the word finches.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Tove Jansson's (1957) illustration from her book 'Moominland Midwinter'. Moomintroll, unlike his family who hibernate, decides to stay up through the harsh winter. It is a tale of endurance, acceptance and learning to live with the discomfort of uncertainty #WomensArt

Illustration in black and white featuring a small hippo-like creature in a dark room at night looking fearful, snow is on the outside of the window and a full moon shines light into the house

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

'Fox in the snow" by contemporary printmaker Cat Moore #WomensArt #December6th #ArtAdvent

Print featuring a fox walking away from the viewer leaving a trail of footprints in snow in a glade between dense winter woodland

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

#Winter, 1955 by Japanese artist and poet Keiko Minami #WomensArt

Print featuring a lone bird in black flying across a bleak white landscape towards a copse of bare winter trees

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Felix W. Moll @mollfw.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Nice commentary on our recent paper on crow stick tool use. To add one piece of information: One of our crows did, in fact, sometimes use the substrate (i.e., the apparatus desk) to adjust its grip—the crow for which stick re-grasping by tossing was too subtle to be reliably detected.

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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

If you have a student, anywhere in the world, who would like and entomological society membership please have them come on over to our entopoc.org website to sign up for up to three free memberships per student!

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#ENTOPOC

Diversifying entomology. Help us support People of Color (POC) members in entomological ( ento ) societies.

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Shoko Sugasawa @shokosugasawa.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

New paper: Stick dexterity in carrion crows🥢 Commentary on Moll et al. 2025 in which they trained crows to use stick tools. Their neat set-up allowed tracking tool motions, showing that crows became more efficient over time. Could nest building affect their stick dexterity? Full text: rdcu.be/eSOMF

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a drawing of a crow with its mouth open

Alt: a drawing of a crow with its beaks opening and closing

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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Under two weeks before my #play hits the stage @taratheatre.com ! Can't wait! Come see it if you're in London- it'll be great to have tons of people there. Book here: taratheatre.com/whats-on/i-d... A video of me wittering on about the play in the post below ⬇️ #theatre #newWriting #immigration

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I Dream of Theresa May – Tara Theatre

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David Pritchard @davidpritchard.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

#PhD position! Comparing #foraging and #cognition in #hummingbirds and #bumblebees Fieldwork in the Canadian Rockies, lab experiments at @newcastleuni.bsky.social, and ecological modelling at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social Details (including my email) here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

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From preferences to pollination: do hummingbirds and bees differ in how they choose flowers?

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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

New #PhD ad alert! Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England? Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

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The cognitive ecology of wild bumblebees

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Steve Portugal @sjportugal.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Martin Stervander 🏳️‍🌈🇸🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏛️🦉🦤🪶 @stervander.com · 12/08/2025

Join us as Assistant #Curator of Vertebrates @ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿NMS! Large collections of #birds & #mammals + very active specimen prep = cool place! The ad doesn't say, but I say there's a good chance of prolongation beyond 1y. Hurry up and apply/spread the word: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553! 🪶🧪 #museumjobs #job

Yours truly and our mounted Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) specimen

The bird collection store, busy with visiting researchers, mounts, and in the background our volunteers who capture data from the specimen labels. It's not always this packed, but we do have a fair number of volunteers and visitors.

Blue Tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) in trays in the cabinets. The collections spaces are pretty new, fresh, and functional, which is not always the case for museum collections...

A tray of African raptor eggs to illustrate the breadth of the bird collection, which holds som 70K skin specimens, 60K egg clutches, and 10K skeletons.

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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Registration for the ASAB conference is now open - come join us!

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ASAB @asab.org · 29/07/2025

Join us for #ASABWinter2025 in Edinburgh Dec 15-16 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Abstracts for posters/talks due Aug 29 More details here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/

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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

📢ONE WEEK until deadline (31st July 2025) to apply for full-time Managing Editor role of @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour. Must have animal behaviour background with previous editorial experience desirable. #job #publishing #editor Full details: www.asab.org/opportunities Please spread the word

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Shoko Sugasawa @shokosugasawa.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Obligatory ramen after voting! 在外投票してきました🍜 #参議院選挙2025 #JapanUpperHouseElection2025

A bowl of ramen with an egg and chashu pork

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ASAB @asab.org · 04/07/2025

We are seeking a full-time Managing Editor for our journal Animal Behaviour. This editor will be involved in all stages of the publication process & must have a general understanding of the topics covered. Position starts Oct 1, application deadline July 31. More details: www.asab.org/opportunities

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Opportunities — ASAB

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Kiran Basava @incertaesedis.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Happy to share our new paper introducing the Animal Culture Database in Scientific Data: We’re putting together a resource consolidating primary research on cultural behaviors in wild animal populations and how they’re affected by human activity (1/5) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Mapping nonhuman cultures with the Animal Culture Database - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Mapping nonhuman cultures with the Animal Culture Database

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Journal of Avian Biology @avianbiology.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

NEW PAPER: Dartford warblers use nest materials based on local habitat, but material type doesn't affect insulation or breeding success—suggesting flexible, functional nest-building across environments. ➡️ vist.ly/3n7q4gd #ornithology #birds #reproduction #nest @shokosugasawa.bsky.social

Fig. 1 from the article: nests of Dartford warblers.

Fig. 2 from the article: The composition of nest materials and nesting habitats of Dartford warblers. (a) Nest materials were separated into different material categories, (b) Types of nesting habitats included.

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Álvaro Luna @alvaroluna87.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Today is World Swift Day In a recent study, we found that swifts across Europe are incorporating plastic debris into their nests. We surveyed 500 nests across 7 European countries, and found plastic in many of them. doi.org/10.1016/j.sc... #UrbanEcology #PlasticPollution #Birds

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