Super proud of @stancaf.bsky.social and @shubhamsoni.bsky.social for having led this important Natural History study. Surely you have heard about arboreal 🐍, but did you ever imagine them to dive to hunt for tadpoles in treeholes?! You're welcome! 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
@klivvvienna.bsky.social

Happy that the Societas Europaea Herpetologica is now represented here @seh-herpetology.bsky.social
Follow for herpetology related scientific and non-scientific content, news and announcements from the #European #Herpetology Society 🐸🐍🦎🐊🐢🧪🌍 #Conservation #SciComm #Ecology

Thats the other winner of the @seh-herpetology.bsky.social #SEH #conservation grant! Congratulations to both projects. Congratulations to both projects! Looking forward to seeing what they discover 🐸⛰️!

One of two grants from #SEH, the European Herpetological Society, to support conservation projects! 🐍🏝️

Have a look at this great #PhD opportunity on Road Ecology at Aarhus University, Denmark 👇 Timely topic, and a great supervisor! 📅DL: 30.04 phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...

(📸: coloradosun.com/2025/12/07/p...)

What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.

What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why care? Amphibians are vanishing fast. This shows we can’t tackle disease or habitat loss in isolation—it’s the combination that counts.

More human activity = higher Bd infection risk.
Frogs’ protective skin bacteria don’t just change with habitat loss—they get rewired when Bd is also present.
Surprisingly, “good” bacteria that fight Bd increase in disturbed, infected frogs.

🐸 🧪🍄🌎New Preprint alert!
Our study on how habitat disturbance + deadly fungus (Bd) mess with the skin bacteria of Amazonian poison frogs (Dendrobates tinctorius).

🔗 ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

#Conservation #Microbiome #MolBiol #evobio @biobiiana.bsky.social @f-hoelzl.bsky.social #LiaSchlippe

✅ Fröhliche Ostern (ein Artikel hat leider nicht funktioniert)

#Teamwork with @sanjosaurus.bsky.social , Anne Stephan, @roedellab.bsky.social and Kathrin Dausmann from @uni-hamburg.de

But in the wild, their actual body temps often don’t match these preferences, highlighting the real-world constraints of microhabitats and moisture.

Key takeaway: Frogs can find a balance—if their environment lets them. Climate change may push them beyond these limits.

New study on common frogs 🐸 reveals how they balance energy demands🔋 and thermoregulation 🌡️ in a changing climate. Lab experiments show their metabolic rate doubles every 10°C rise, and they prefer ~25°C—close to their critical max of 30°C.
🧪👩‍🔬 doi.org/10.1016/j.cb...

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🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲

👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest

This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity!

Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚

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Many journals require data and code sharing. Yet code is still rarely shared and datasets are often hard to reuse.

Our new paper introduces the @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data & code quality control in ecology & evolution, developed by 26 experienced data editors.

📄 doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

📢 New preprint out!

tl;dr: Publish your code, add clear README's!

138 participants assessed data & code archiving practices across 1861 papers published at 7 @britishecologicalsociety.org journals, identified gaps & offered recommendations for improvement

🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X26...

Congratulations Thomas! 🎊 PhD done ✅

The importance of early life stages⚠️ and why we need more research on them! See this new study by @patricepottier.bsky.social, @kruthsatz.bsky.social and colleagues

What happens when closely related species meet but stay distinct? 🦎🧬 A new #OpenAccess study maps the narrow hybrid zone between Danube & Italian crested newts, showing strong selection against hybrids & a cautionary tale about mtDNA quirks 🔍

🔓 brill.com/view/journal...

🍁Funding for new PhD students ($40k/yr) & postdocs ($70k/yr) coming from outside Canada. Contact me if interested in #Ecophysiology at #UBC in #Vancouver! Possible topics: leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimate, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology, more! michaletzlab.org
Please share!

Please contact me if you want to be nominated for a postdoc via this scheme - you need to live outside of Canada and I need to do so by 9 Feb (and need to start by March 2027) - www.ualberta.ca/en/graduate-... (I think you do need to have a competitive CV etc)

Please email me if you are interested

Formatted version out at last! “Defensive colouration is not a reliable indicator of 🍄 infection in aposematic poison 🐸” academic.oup.com/beheco/artic... @klivvvienna.bsky.social @behavecol.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in Zoology with focus on ecology and evolution Department of Zoology  at Stockholm University includes ca. 80 employees counting researchers, PhD students, and administrative staff. Research and education at the department occurs in an internatio

We're looking for a new colleague at Asssoc Prof level! Come join us in the Zoology Department at Stockholm University. A teaching profile in ecology, faunistics and/or physiology is beneficial. Find the full job advertisemnt here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Thrilled to announce a Postdoc opportunity in our group on the evolutionary genetics and ecology of colour. Wonderful system, great collaborators, and room to shape your own ideas.
Apply by 7 Jan: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...

📣Please share: We are looking for a field assistant to join our team in studying #ruffs on coastal meadows at Botnian Bay in Finland. The job will provide fantastic insights into lekking behaviour and provide essential skills in field ornithology. Details here www.bi.mpg.de/2790786/2512...

Photograph of the outside of the Max Planck Institute (Nijmegen, the Netherlands) and the trees of the forest around it.

Only a few weeks left to apply for our 4-year PhD position, using human brain organoids & multi-omic methods to study genes implicated in speech disorders. Application deadline 5 Jan 2026. Fellowship is embedded in the International Max Planck Research School. More info: www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe...

🚨PhD position available!🚨🧪
I am seeking a talented PhD student to join my ERC StG project GEMINI, to explore the exciting world of vertebrate genomics and comparative genomics, seeking to understand the genomics of miniaturisation! 🦇🦎🦜🐸🐟🦈 🤏🧬
Deadline: 4 Jan 2026!
employment.ku.dk/phd?show=153...

Employment - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

EEB Postdoctoral Fellowship @ U.Toronto app deadline Jan 15 2026. Opportunity for independent research, encourages collab across labs/disciplines. Lots of great folks to interact with, Come join us!
eeb.utoronto.ca/employment-2/

This new issue contains not only great new #science, but also all #SEH council reports, including a summary of #SEH2025, meeting minutes and the new Code of Conduct. The news section is open to everyone! 🐸🦎
brill.com/view/journal...

Make sure you don’t miss our key dates for abstract submission and registration!