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Join us for ESEB 2025 in Barcelona, 17-22 August. Register now for reduced fees! Enjoy symposia, networking, and local culture. Full details: https://eseb2025.com/ Looking forward to seeing you! #conference

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Oh, this is us! With Tracey Chapman, Emily Fowler and Lucy Friend at UEA we have been trying to work out fine scale egg laying decisions by Drosophila females. Turns out it’s more complex than we thought (again)…🪰🧪

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The Royal Society must choose between Musk and its integrity. When science itself is under attack, neutrality becomes complicity, says Kit Yates. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

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Tally just ticked past 1900 signatures. Please keep spreading the word about the letter & asking people to sign. It's important to make the Royal Society aware (at their meeting on 03 March) just how much the scientific community wants them to speak up for their values. forms.gle/SfsDemyS8QhP...

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💖 Love at first bite @universityofleeds.bsky.social !🍫 @sarkarlab.bsky.social cracked the code behind chocolate’s melt-in-your-mouth magic: it’s all about lubrication 📖 🧪 Read more 👉 europa.eu/!pnPycc Tag someone you’d share a scientifically perfected chocolate with, this #ValentinesDay! 💑

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Celebrate LGBT+ History Month with @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social library.leeds.ac.uk/news/article... 🏳️‍🌈 Check out the LGBT+ Collection 📽️ Watch BFI’s selection of queer movies 📖 Join our read-along this month (Radio Silence by @aliceoseman.bsky.social) 🌐 Sign up to the @wikipedia.org editathon

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Second Royal Society fellow resigns over Elon Musk’s membership. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

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An open letter to the President of the @royalsociety.org – time to stand up for your values. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

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Top five grumpy notes written by the father of evolutionary biology, naturalist, and humanist Charles Darwin. #DarwinDay

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'Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.' Happy #DarwinDay, everyone!

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Happy #DarwinDay! Wishing I could find a photo of the 50cm sponge cake Darwin bust Chloe Bird made when we were at Exeter Cornwall campus. The head proved too heavy so he had to be laid down. Very fitting.

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200 early career researchers across the Faculties of Biological Sciences and Medicine and Health will benefit from a new package of career support. Read more on our website 👇 biologicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/biological-s...

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Great Drosophila natural history! Metabolomics of 43 species from different environments: doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

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Take a look at our blogs and case studies celebrating the invaluable contributions of LGBTQ+ scientists, and raising awareness about the challenges still faced throughout the scientific community: #LGBTQPlusHM #LGBTQHistoryMonth https://buff.ly/413HLiZ

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In this new preprint on ecoevorxiv we provide a detailed, practical guide to measuring CTmax and CTmin in aquatic animals. Amazing team of authors! 🧪🐟🦑 Raby @rachaelmorgan.bsky.social Andreassen @erinmcstewart.bsky.social @jaydebon.bsky.social ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

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We're on the way to our first event of 2025, the March Science Café, with the usual 3 diverse, interesting topics. Thursday 27th March, 7.30pm at Otley Courthouse. Tickets £6, free for under 18s. For full details see the web site otleysciencefestival.co.uk/science-cafes/

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Declining body size is a widely anticipated response to #anthropogenic #ClimateChange, but how general is it? @lbuckley.bsky.social &co use a >50-year study of montane #grasshoppers to show that size shifts depend on both elevation & species’ seasonal timing 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3CEBrF6

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Driver lines for studying associative learning in Drosophila. https://buff.ly/4gmT0Hu

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If you need a distraction consider reading the final version of this paper on the heat tolerance of lizard sperm by PhD student Wayne Wang in JEB! journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

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Here at Leeds we are so lucky to have a range of impact development activities. A real vanguard is the Building Impact Momentum programme: expressions of interest for the next cohort open until Feb 14th researchersupport.leeds.ac.uk/research-imp... Leeds staff (academic and professional) welcome!

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Workshop on ecological & evolutionary immunology/insect immunity. 15-19th Sept 2025 - Werbellinsee, Germany, organised by Sophie Armitage and Jens Rolff. Abstract deadline start of March www.bcp.fu-berlin.de/en/biologie/...

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RES has joined Bluesky! We are excited to share fascinating science, news, events & more. To start, we’re featuring the #LargeBlueButterfly 🦋 Our #Conservation Science team recently published ground-breaking findings on the dispersal rates of this #EndangeredSpecies 🔽 https://buff.ly/3Wz5QLU

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📣 Don’t miss the travel grants for #ESEB2025 #Barcelona 📣 Conference travel award: eseb.org/prizes-funding… Congress attendance aid: eseb.org/prizes-funding�� ⏳DEADLINES: 30/01 (CTA) & 31/01 (CAA) ⏳

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🗣️ Arts and Humanities Scholars: Are you ready? 🗣️ We are 👏 thrilled 👏 to announce that ORCID now supports an expanded range of work types, such as 🎼 musical compositions, 🎨 still and 🎞️ moving images, and even 📝 teaching materials!! Learn more: https://info.orcid.org/new-work-types/

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For #drosophila scientists, I've made a free #diagram resource of a variety of common physical markers, both coloured and lined. Hopefully going to make more, so feel free to share suggestions! Current collection: Bar, CyO, e, Hu, w, mini-w, Pin, v, wt, Sp, Ser, Sb, y. doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

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Ecology and Evolution (the journal) is here!

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Why is an old male reproductively doomed to fail? Is it poor sperm and seminal fluid, or do females not like him and his ejaculate? doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by @krishsanghvi11.bsky.social, @taralync.bsky.social, et al. Image: Krish Sangvi & Martin Jahn

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Our new paper is out in Ecology and Evolution in which we use hemiclonal analysis in #Drosophila to document genetic variation in the strength of male mate choice for large females. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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@eseb2025.bsky.social is shaping up nicely... Full list of symposia now published: eseb2025.com/list-of-symp...

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A nice end to the week: just heard that our symposium proposal "Cooperation, Conflict and the Evolution of Socially Transferred Materials" was accepted for @eseb2025.bsky.social Details coming soon! See you in Barcelona?

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Excellent end to the week. Just heard that our symposium "Enhancing Diversity and Transparency in Ecology and Evolution: Reliable Practices for Research and Organisations" has been accepted at @eseb2025.bsky.social! w/Marija Purgar (not on BSky). Stay tuned for more info! @sortee.bsky.social

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Very excited our symposium on “Ecological and evolutionary implications of climate change on reproduction” has been accepted for @eseb2025.bsky.social! Linked to our ESEB STN, organised by Rhonda Snook, Claudia Fricke, @liamdougherty.bsky.social and me. See you in Barcelona? Details to follow.

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Check out this special issue in The Journal of Thermal Biology! 🌡️🔥🌡️ If you've done some work that advances our understanding of the variation in thermal responses across life stages, this one is for you👇

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👀Behind the paper!👀 🫎Rebecca Levine shares insight behind the sometimes complex physiological tradeoffs facing male moose to successfully find mates. She discusses the subtle drawbacks species face due to climate change and the importance of collaboration🌡️ buff.ly/4h62Bn5 🧪🌍

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High temperatures reduce mosquito fertility - our latest work now published! @pearg.bsky.social @bvanheerwaarden.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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Two weeks today, we will be hosting this highly topical event. 'Mission (Im)possible - How to Reclaim Britain’s Future? In Conversation with Torsten Bell MP'. For full details and how to book visit our website bit.ly/3D5HfHH! @universityofleeds.bsky.social @polisatleeds.bsky.social

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Is low fecundity of old males a consequence of seminal fluid or sperm declines, or female post-mating responses? Our new paper in evolution letters finds some surprising answers! academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

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Join us online for Roger Butlin's retirement celebration on Jan 9 at 2pm GMT during the Population Genetics Group meeting. Enjoy talks and stories from his career. Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83972880389?pwd=fJMFBFqOrcH3RuuCyrwVQnPej2a30X. #conference

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Looking for some festive fun for family & friends over the break? Why not try my Annual Christmas Quiz. Four delightful rounds including an embedded music round 😉 Please share, forward it to others and hope you enjoy it. #Quiz sites.google.com/site/doconno...

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Liebe deutsche Evolutionsbiologen, if you would rather publish in a society journal and support your community, @jevbio.bsky.social is here: academic.oup.com/jeb Frohe Weihnachten!

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Apply to "Drosophila genetics and genomics": experienced experts will teach you hands-on in classical strategies and cutting-edge experimental techniques to enhance your use of this powerful model organism for research, whilst connecting to scientists in your field. www.embl.org/about/info/c...

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Congrats former PhD student Hana Merchant on publishing your final thesis PhD chapter in @jexpbiol.bsky.social. All about evolutionary shifts in the thermal biology of common mole rats: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

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Postdoc @ evol-lab. A Leverhulme funded 3-year postdoc studying body shape evolution (through a sexual conflict lens) on Exeter's Penryn (UK) campus. Starts April 2025. Contact David Hosken @ U of Exeter for detail.

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New paper in J Exp Bio on the heat tolerance of sperm in the brown anole lizard. PhD student Wayne Wang developed a way to measure sperm cell LT50, found that sperm heat tolerance is repeatable across males, and that episodic male heat stress reduces sperm motility 🦎 #anolis doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

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Why do we know so little about where hippos live and thrive? Researcher Hannah Lacy has examined 100s of records to create Africa's first hippo database - but we need more info to protect these iconic creatures 🦛 theconversation.com/hippos-have-... @uk.theconversation.com

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At a disco for grown ups, starts at a reasonable time, all in bed by a reasonable time, I know all the tunes, perfect for middle age.

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Check out our cool new findings showing how developmental temperature and corticosterone have long term impacts on mitochondrial efficiency that coincide with consistent differences in body size through life! A fantatsic team effort doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

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The European Drosophila Society @fly-eds.bsky.social has just launched a #prize to the best #PhD thesis using #Drosophila. 🏆🪰 Deadline is Feb 2025. Prize = €1000 & keynote presentation at the #EDRC2025 @edrc2025.bsky.social ! More info here: europeandrosophilasociety.org/eds-best-phd...

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Just under a month to the deadline for these BBSRC YBDTP PhD projects available to study heat-related fertility loss and ageing in fruit flies 🪰or plant-plant interactions for sustainable crops🌾🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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