Goggles the praying mantis is now at her 6th instar.

Vision in flower foraging butterflies: from functional organization of the retina to encoding in the brain Summary: This Review discusses how processing in the retina and lamina in Papilio xuthus is the first element for its tetrachromatic color vision and chromatic motion vision, whereas higher-order neur...

🚨 The tetrachromatic color vision and motion vision of a swallowtail butterfly is explored in this wonderful review by Michiyo Kinoshita & Kentaro Arikawa 🦋🦋🦋

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Great tit perched on a branch, with beak slightly open. Photo credit: Alizée Vernouillet

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us:

🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦

Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social

📆29th May deadline
More info: tinyurl.com/yz28s96x
Apply: tinyurl.com/2wpkb64y

#cognition #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #birds

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Are you a computational scientist? Within 7 years of your PhD? Come join us at Lund University! We have two new positions as assistant professor! Deadline: 25th of May. The advert is broad, but this is your chance to push computational neuroscience in a fantastic place!
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Hello, World - NASA NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft's window after completing the translunar injection

This image is just so incredible! Auroras both North and South - i didn’t notice this until I saw Brian May’s posts on Instagram. #Artemis #Earth #Aurora

www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Amazing initiative!

Insect eggs and sperm: evolutionary and biophysical interactions at University of Lincoln on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Insect eggs and sperm: evolutionary and biophysical interactions at University of Lincoln, listed on FindAPhD.com

Fascinating PhD project on the match between insect sperm and eggs across different insects. Great team too!
#PhDAlert #insects

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Spring has sprung. To celebrate I made a few different chocolate nests. Scrapes, bowls and cavity nests.

Showing off my poster for ASAB - Spring

Me with my academic poster at ASAB Spring conference. Poster is titled "Live and Let Die: Unravelling the variation in primate lifespans.". My research investigates how we can estimate the duration of primate lifespans, so that we can run a comparative model of the causes of lifespan across primates.

How long do primates live? Come and find me at #ASABSpring2026 poster number 2 to find out about my model (or not if you aren't stats keen!) and how we are investigating the evolutionary causes of primate lifespan 🐒🦧

I have a new PhD position available on any topic related to musicality or animal communication that aligns well with our current research programs. Deadline March 31: oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=795a...

For more info about my Musicality and Bioacoustics group: oeaw.ac.at/en/ari/resea...

Postdoc in marine environmental DNA/ sedimentary ancient DNA The Department of Glaciology and Climate at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) is looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic postdoctoral resea

📣We are recruiting!

Postdoc position open in marine #eDNA / #sedaDNA in Copenhagen as part of the Arctic NordForsk #PHATE Research Project.

See the link for details 👇 and get in touch if you want to know more.

Deadline is on the 6th April 🌊 🧬
Glaciology and Climate - #GEUS

#HAB #phycotoxins

🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics!

My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026.

We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems.

#Postdoc #EcoEvo

Pls RT!

Meet Blizzard and Firebolt, my new axolotls.

We've been blown away with the response to our map of women through science history, with over 125 submissions so far, and 70 landmarks added across the UK. Submit your suggestions now and help us map science history. #WomenInSTEM #InternationalWomensDay royalsociety.org/news-resourc...

I am looking for a PhD student to join my new Socio-Eco-Evo group, hosted in Katie Peichel's Evolutionary Ecology Division @ University of Bern. We're offering a fully funded 4-year position, studying social plasticity and behavioral adaptation among stickleback in Greenland. Please share around!

Goggles managed their first moult on Monday and is noticeably bigger!

🦎 Funded 4-year PhD position on Lizard Evolutionary Ecology in our lab at UCLouvain (Belgium)! Apply before 9 March! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...

Settling in to their new habitat. Meet “Goggles” the Asian giant praying mantis.

PhD position: Evolutionary Physiology of Avian Energetics We are seeking a motivated PhD candidate to investigate the ecological and evolutionary significance of major energy metabolites (glucose and fatty acids) circulating in avian blood.

PhD position: Evolutionary Physiology of Avian Energetics
Review of the applications begins on March 16, 2026, and continues until the position is filled.
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/413707

Have you ever asked yourself, how insect brains represent places? And whether insects do have place cells? Then move to Germany this summer and start your PhD in my lab. We conduct tetrode recordings from bumblebees that freely forage laboratory mazes. 🧠🐝#BeeSpace @erc.europa.eu @neuroethology.org

Congratulations!!!!

Our BehaveAI paper has just come out!

Easy & effective tracking & behavioural classification, even with tiny (2px), fast moving, camouflaged objects.

Paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Download: github.com/troscianko/B...

@uniexecec.bsky.social @kevinjgaston.bsky.social @jimamclgalloway.bsky.social

Woop woop, first paper of 2026. This one was a delight to contribute to, a multi-method deconstruction of the existence of a subspecies. I provided pattern analysis of moth colouration, revealing a cryptic different in colour between sexes but not subspecies!

peerj.com/articles/206...

New #PhD on #bees (BeeHd?)! Despite the ad saying "UK Students only", a limited number of scholarships are available for international candidates. So please apply!

New (competition funded) PhD opportunity with me,
@iaciac.bsky.social and @dralgernon.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Higher-order networks and animal communication. Suited to someone keen on network science theory/computational modeling and keen to adapt this to ecology & evolution.

An awesome talk by @matteosanton.bsky.social showcasing his research at the University of Exeter.

It’s such an incredible find and tears the scales and feathers can’t overlap statement apart. Lots of implications for integument across dinosauria!

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Artificial nighttime lighting is suppressing moth activity Moths move significantly less when exposed to artificial nighttime light, new research shows. Moths’ attraction to artificial light, such as streetlights, is common knowledge and has been much studied...

Moths move significantly less when exposed to artificial nighttime light, new research from the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter, Cornwall shows.
Read More: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

@uniexecec.bsky.social #ExeterEcology