Tailor Bird sews leaves together with plant fibre to form its nest!

Very nice work @adrijeckel.bsky.social!

Hi Jen! For metabarcoding (and microbiomes) we’ve used Novogene. Pretty affordable and good quality/service!

So grateful for this invigorating collaboration and funding opportunity! I can’t wait to see what we learn in the coming years in this multifaceted, intercontinental, multi-bicho team 🐸🐜🐌 🇨🇷🇬🇧🇳🇱

Granados-Martinez et al. (2025) ran behavioral field experiments to test whether male Strawberry Poison Frogs (Oophaga pumilio) rely on vision for navigation in tropical forests and open areas. Read a summary of their results at AmphibiaWeb.org #AWNews

A large display with thousands of insects, most of them tiny

A section of the display of bugs

Another section

Another section with some of the larger bugs

This is really cool, it's a display of all the bugs found on a single tree.

#Invertebrate

Chicago Rat Hole. Credit: WinslowDumaine, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

So the ‘#ChicagoRatHole’… wasn’t made by a rat after all? Our 3rd most popular paper this year, this #BiologyLetters study compared the imprint to eight local rodent species and revealed a 98.67% likelihood that hole was in fact left by a squirrel: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

Photo of liverwort sporophytes. They look like goofy little aliens with green necks, green hoods and single brown eyes peeking out from the hoods.

Liverwort Athalamia hyalina, looking like the advance party for a goofy alien invasion. The liverwort structures are about 1cm high. #liverwort #bryophyte #fungifriends

Logo and QR of the Bring Your Own Fluid seminar series, presented by the Social Transfer Network

🧃☕️ BYOF Seminar | Fri Oct 24 @ 10 am EDT🥛🍹
Bring-Your-Own-Fluid + enjoy 7 min talks about social fluids:

🦈 Viviparity & matrotrophy • Daniel Hughes
🐦 Crop milk • Victoria Farrar
🦂 Sexual stings • Yuqi Reitsema-Wang

Email hello@socialtransfer.net for the Zoom link! 🔗

@socialtransfernet.bsky.social

This only happens to you once

5/ Some wings have evolved strategies to help reduce damage resulting from collisions. For example, we learned a few years ago that wasp wings have a flexible joint that acts like a reversible crumple zone, allowing the wing tip to easily bend out of the way when it hits things...

We offer a fully funded 4-yr contract for a PhD candidate in Evolutionary Biology to join our group (www.eco-evo-devo.com). The project will combine genomics and ecophysiology to understand the evolution of developmental plasticity in spadefoot toads. For requisites and contact info please check 👇

Austrospirachtha carrijoi, a species of rove beetle, with text that says: Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food.

In what may be one of Earth’s craziest forms of mimicry, researchers in 2023 reported a species of rove beetle that grows a termite puppet on its back to fool real termites into feeding it.

Learn more on #NationalWildlifeDay: https://scim.ag/4mM2aS9

A calm good morning from this aquatic plant producing oxygen: #AGoodPlace

Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...

🚨 Exciting news for #ESEB2025!
Join us in Barcelona for our symposium:

Cooperation, Conflict & the Evolution of Socially Transferred Materials (S08)
📅 Thursday, 21 Aug 2025
🕥 10:30–12:30 | 🕔 17:00–19:00 (Poster Session)

Cool new pub: No evidence of quantitative honest signaling in the poison frog D auratus academic.oup.com/cz/advance-a... out of the Saporito lab 🐸🧪🌿

nice photos of the scary 😉 defensive posture

Hemos registrado por primera vez un CO2 en la atmósfera superior a 430ppm.

La última vez que esto ocurrió de forma consistente fue hace 14 millones de años.

Los primeros restos de Homo Sapiens tienen 300.000 años, los primeros del género Homo hace 2,4 Millones.

Vivimos tiempos extraordinarios

Do you work on a socially transferred material such as milk, seminal
fluid, skin secretions or regurgitate? Interested in attending ESEB 2025 in Barcelona? Then please consider submitting to our symposium!

Reticulated Glassfrog guarding eggs by Jaime Culebras!

If you can sing, you're going to be a great taking care of the kids! Thinks female Reticulated Glassfrogs in a #AWnews highlight of Garrido-Priego et al. (2024) research. Read the news: amphibiaweb.org !

Sending a hug, Terry.

Scientists need more time to think

Good piece by @natureportfolio.bsky.social. The erosion of thinking time—driven by admin, bureaucracy, industry agendas, and unrealistic output targets—stifles curiosity-led science. These pressures undermine innovation and the intellectual freedom vital for real progress. 🧪🌱🌍 #ScienceIsNotBusiness

Quietly renames “interesting papers to read in 2024” folder to “interesting papers to read in 2025” folder

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