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Amelia Eisch 🧪🧠👩‍🔬 🐁 @eisch.bsky.social · 22h

🧪 inpreparation.substack.com/p/opinion-re... this is satire….but daaaaaaamn is it laying down some truths: “We have replaced the danger of mouth-pipetting with the danger of a generation of scientists spending their most productive years writing grants that will not be funded”

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Opinion: I Miss When The NIH Payline Was 40% And We All Mouth-Pipetted Phenol

By Dr. Douglas R. Waverly, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, Yale University

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Grant agreement signed! Advertising 4 new jobs (3 year contracts w/potential to extend +2 years) on ERC #CROCOLOCOEVO grant next week-- stay tuned for details. 2 postdocs 1 technician 1 research administrator who can do science communication Start date flexible but could be as soon as 1 November!

Picture of right hindlimbs and pelvis of Terrestrisuchus (long skinny legs) and Crocodylus (modern croc; beefy and stubby), from 3D computer models

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Nabil Wakim @nabilwakim.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Summer 2026 was hottest on record in Western Europe, yet still no political awakening - According to the European Copernicus service, the average summer temperature reached 21.7°C, well above average. Yet European Union member states continued to invest in fossil fuels.

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Summer 2026 was hottest on record in Western Europe, yet still no political awakening

According to the European Copernicus service, the average summer temperature reached 21.7°C, well above average, and river flows dropped to their lowest levels in more than 30 years. Yet European Unio...

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UNR Biology Buzz @unr-biologybuzz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We are hiring! 🧪 Tenure-track position in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Great colleagues, nearby mountains, and of course a certain lake... Application info: nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNR-external... www.unr.edu/biology #evolution #EEB #ecoevo #evolsky #academicjobs

A winter view of Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada mountains with snow on the ground and trees

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Nico Mongiardino Koch @nmkphylo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am looking for graduate students to join my lab in Fall 2027. If your interests lie within the realms of phylogenetics, macroevolution, and/or invertebrate biodiversity please reach out to me!!

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Science Magazine @science.org · 01/10/2026

These frogs “see” prey with their star-shaped toes. Learn more: scim.ag/4daOBJh

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MPI for Biological Intelligence @mpiforbi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Your PhD journey starts here and now! 🚀 🎓 We are recruiting PhD students in the life sciences for our international and fully funded graduate program IMPRS-BI in the Munich area, Germany. 📆 Apply from: 01 October 2026 ⏰ Deadline: 10 November 2026 ❗ Apply now: imprs-bi.mpg.de/51861/How-to...

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Jolyon Troscianko @jtroscianko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🦋 Butterfly wing patterns create motion illusions that protect them from predators! Our new study (8 years in the making) is out in Nature today doi.org/10.1038/s415... @grahancock.bsky.social @esbriolat.bsky.social @scienceanna.bsky.social @lauraakelley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨Postdoc job alert: Come work with my paleontology & evolution group in Edinburgh! Researcher in Cognitive Evolution Over Deep Time. You'll study how brains & neurons have evolved over time, and predict neuron count in extinct species! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTC355/p...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Evolution over Deep Time at The University of Edinburgh

Apply for the Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Evolution over Deep Time role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

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Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Butterfly wing patterns in flight create illusions that misdirect predator attacks 🦋 www.nature.com/articles/s41... with @grahancock.bsky.social @jtroscianko.bsky.social @scienceanna.bsky.social @esbriolat.bsky.social

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How do brightly coloured butterflies successfully evade being eaten? Fascinating new research suggests this relates to visual illusions created by their fluttering wings. The spots & stripes, combined with the dancing flight, interfere with a predator’s sense of the insects’ speed & direction. 🦋🧪

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All of a flutter: how butterflies avoid being a predator’s lunch

Their whirring wings and bright patterns help keep them safe from birds, British study finds

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Lola von Kietzell @lolavk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My first first-author paper is online today! Read it in @asab.org #AnimalBehaviour: Cooperatively breeding white-winged choughs use recruitment calls selectively in food-associated contexts. doi.org/10.1016/j.an... A dream to work with these social #birds and the fantastic #co-authors!

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Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We used virtual mates and genetic algorithms to ask swordtail fish to design their ideal mate. Males all liked larger females but females did not share a clear preference for male appearance. Led by @kathrynbullough.bsky.social @grahancock.bsky.social in @royalsocietypublishing.org shorturl.at/rCeR2

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Zoë Goldsborough @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Why care about weird animal behaviors? Just out as an advanced publication, my contribution to the next Frans de Waal special issue in Behaviour @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Unusual behaviors are a recurring theme in my career, and I much enjoyed writing this perspective! doi.org/10.1163/1568...

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The science of the unusual: how rare observations reveal the diversity of animal behaviour

Abstract Behavioural biology often focuses on identifying general patterns, yet unusual or rare behaviours at both the population and individual level can provide insight into animal behaviour. Here, ...

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

1,200 sexual assault cases were filed at Cornell from 2018 to 2024. Most of those found responsible received minor sanctions that allowed them to remain on campus, such as probation or training. Only 7 ended in expulsion or dismissal. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

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Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive

A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

".... people recognize or discover a thing, but then take years, even decades, to get it into print. Why are they taking so long, others say, despite knowing that just about everyone in science is overworked, underpaid, and perpetually on the brink of physical or emotional collapse."

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In Memory of Richard Ellis, Influential Artist and Author — Tetrapod Zoology

Within recent days, the world has learnt of the passing of American writer, author, artist and natural historian Richard Ellis (1938-2024), best known for his many works on marine animals and their en...

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Will Gervais @willgervais.com · 29/09/2026

🚨NEW PREPRINT🚨 @aiyanakoka.bsky.social Meara Geraty and I revisited religious priming, breaking the causal claim into links that we robustly tested. Do God Primes Prime God? Converging Evidence Against the Efficacy of Experimental Religious Priming osf.io/preprints/ps... #PsychSciSky #metascience

Do God Primes Prime God? Convergint evidence against the efficacy of experimental religious priming.

WIll Gervais, MEara Geraty, Aiyana Willard

then the rest of the image is a screenshot of the table of contents.

plot summarising bayes factor results testing:
Prime -> Religious concepts (overt primes yield positive evidence, scrambled sentence negative)

Prime -> prosociality: universaly evidence strongly favoring the null result across 4 primes and 2 operationalisations of prosociality

Prime -> suspicion: fairly universal evidence in favor of priming methods causing suspicion

Religious concepts -> $$$: four independent sets of evidence favoring the null

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Dr Lauren K. Common @laurenkcommon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So pleased to have published my first foray into movement ecology, with my co-first author @varalikajain.bsky.social ! These geese are TRAVELLING (or not!), with some going north for the winter! 🪿❄️

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David Baracchi @davidbaracchi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm pleased to share our new review, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, with L.Baciadonna, C.Macri & M.Giurfa. We discuss evidence for emotions in insects and their possible deep evolutionary roots, while stressing the need for rigor and caution doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

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Exploring emotional expression in invertebrates: mechanisms, functions and phylogeny

Abstract. The idea that invertebrates may exhibit basic forms of emotion, and possibly sentience, is gaining traction as evidence of their advanced cogniti

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Clemens Küpper @chorlnev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

‼️Now published @evolletters.bsky.social Developmental differences between males and females alter the sex ratio. 🐥🧵 about this study 1/9

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Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) @epthepod.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This week, we talk to @manvir.bsky.social about magic, shamanism, and mythology! youtu.be/m7zLQ6oSbaM?... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... www.podbean.com/eas/pb-avb7s...

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Magic, Shamanism, and the Scale of Cooperation with Manvir Singh

YouTube video by Evolutionary Psychology (The Podcast)

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Dr Maggie J Watson @terngirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Musk lorikeet Trichoglossus concinnus in a grass tree Xanthorrhoea australis, Inverell, NSW photo by Ash Falconer

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Vesta Eleuteri @vestaeleuteri.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

8 years ago I started monitoring the Marakele wild elephants and dreaming of one day studying their communication. Today my first wild elephant paper exploring intentional gestural communication in the Marakele and Addo populations is out, marking a key personal moment 🐘❤️. rdcu.be/87qLLG6DSs7a 1/4

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Behaviour 2027 @behaviour2027.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Spread the word! Behaviour 2027 will be taking place in Vienna, Austria, from August 23-27.

Galapagos short-eared owl with text "Who is excited about behaviour 2027? Join us in Vienna August 23-27"

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ARAA @araa.at · 24/09/2026

#HotOffThePress 🔥🖊️ “Body awareness in Goffin’s cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana)” 🦜 Sept 2026. Scientific Reports. P. Hundegger, R. Folkertsma, @drracheldale.bsky.social, @auersperga.bsky.social & @biotay.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Body awareness in Goffin’s cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana) - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Body awareness in Goffin’s cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana)

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Zoë Goldsborough @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

📣🎓 Open #PhD Position (3.5 years) 🎓📣 Want to come work with me on culture and social bonds in apes? 🐵 Apply to join my new group in the @livingingroups.bsky.social at @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social. Full job posting: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/131133/cultu... Deadline 📅 23 October 2026 Please share widely!

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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How do orangutans build their huge diet profiles before adulthood? @revathe.bsky.social and colleagues show, for the first time, how multiple forms of learning interact over many years to build broad, survival-relevant ecological skills in a wild great ape. Paper: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To make sense of speech, listeners must segment sound streams into pieces. Across languages, people do so based more on consonants than vowels. A new @science.org study investigates the phenomenon via EEG recording in humans & dogs, finding that dogs also show consonant bias in word segmentation.🗣️🐶🧪

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Neural evidence that dogs segment the speech they hear with a humanlike consonant bias

Across many human languages, consonants carry more lexical information than vowels. During speech segmentation, humans, unlike nonhuman primates, rely more on consonant than vowel patterns, despite vo...

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Thomas MacGillavry @thomasmacgillavry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Love this channel. Great summary of the evidence supporting a universal basic income. m.youtube.com/watch?v=JeRd...

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Why The Rich Think The Poor Are Lazy

YouTube video by Barry's Economics

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marcogamba.bsky.social @marcogamba.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The indris are screaming loudly again! Combining field recordings, deep learning, and acoustic modeling, our study suggests intriguing parallels with vocal tuning in human singers. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

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Ashkaan K. Fahimipour @akfbio.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'd be grateful if you could circulate to good students: I'm recruiting PhD students for Fall '27 in the areas of species interactions and animal behavior. Ad here - jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...

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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"But the trouble with all of these additions and applications piled atop the humble research article is that they’re new solutions to a comprehensively solved problem." Excellent from @jbyoder.org

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Marlene Berke @marleneberke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Do non-human primates have theory of mind? My new paper takes a new computational approach to this classic question. We implemented verbal theories of primates' mental representations as computational models. These models completed classic visual perspective-taking tasks.

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Thomas MacGillavry @thomasmacgillavry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Book Nr. 14 for some more fun field work reading

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Thomas MacGillavry @thomasmacgillavry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When a female doesn’t show up, a camera will have to do (yes, he also mounted it)

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Thomas MacGillavry @thomasmacgillavry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In Cape York (Australia) for field work now, where most of my work is watching riflebirds from a hide. Sometimes the males don’t show up, which leaves me sitting and waiting for hours. I never get bored in the rainforest, though. There’s something about just being in the woods I never tire of.

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Behavioral Ecology @behavecol.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Factors associated with breeding site fidelity in the sex-role reversed red phalarope #SexRoleReversal #Birds doi.org/10.1093/behe...

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Lukas Edman @lukasnlp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ever feel like it's too hard to keep track of what LLMs cannot do as well as humans? We're making your life easier over at: what-llms-can-not-do.github.io We're compiling a list of papers testing the abilities of LLMs against humans. Check it out! And you can help contribute too!

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What LLMs Can(not) Do

A living survey of benchmarks that compare large language models with humans.

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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 18/09/2026

🚨 How is communication processed in songbirds? What is the neural basis for song learning and performance? Check out this review from @sarahcwoolley.bsky.social and Jon Sakata for what we currently know! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Neural mechanisms underlying the sensory and sensorimotor learning of birdsong

Communication is a natural social behavior that influences reproduction and survival; consequently, central questions in neuroethology involve discove…

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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New #cat just dropped! 😻 A first in over 100 years, a genomic study in CB by Eduardo Eizirik and team reveals a new species of 'tiger cat'. 👉 www.cell.com/current-biol... Meet the Tilcayo (Leopardus tilcayo)! (photo: Fernando Faciole/National Geographic) #cats

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/

A book cover featuring a beautiful closely cropped portrait of an Anna's hummingbird. The cover says LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale, by Ed Yong. The image also says US: 4/06/27 and UK: 4/29/27

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Adrift Lab (Marine Science) @adriftlab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One of the most important plots we’ve ever made helped us answer a question we’re constantly asked: “is the amount of ingested plastic increasing?” Answer: yes, there’s been a sustained and rapid increase in #plastics in Sable #Shearwaters since 2021

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Good read. The abuse of p(doom) and reputation-instead-of-data backed stats is a very serious political problem.

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Gerry Carter @gerrycarter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Please help us spread the word: Princeton University’s Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is hiring an Assistant Professor! I ❤️ this collegial and collaborative department full of inspiring people: eeb.princeton.edu/people Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/193474

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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨 PhD position in human, nonhuman primate, and/or dog cognition! I am thrilled to be reviewing applicants this year for a new PhD student to join the Social & Cognitive Origins Group in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins @jhu.edu @jhuartssciences.bsky.social 1/

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