📣 EvolDir is now managed by @eseb.bsky.social!

We are delighted to be taking the reins and express our gratitude to both Brian Golding who began this service to the community in the mid-1980s and to @rdmpage.bsky.social who ran this account until now 👏

You can now find evoldir here: evoldir.net

This is figure 1, which shows the distribution of health intents.

A paper in Nature Health reports on a sample of 500,000 conversations between users and Microsost Copilot from January 2026 on health-related topics, showing nearly one in five conversations involved personal symptom assessment or condition discussion. go.nature.com/4eqgK07 🧪

Image of soil detritivores and their faeces, and details of the PhD: General principles of detritivore faeces production in temperate ecosystems Dr. François-Xavier Joly, UMR Eco&Sols, Montpellier, France Dr. Benjamin Pey, UMR CRBE, Toulouse, Montpellier 3-year fully-funded PhD position Starting Oct. 2026 INRAE

📣 Fully-funded PhD position at INRAE, within the Eco&Sols unit in Montpellier, France:

General principles of detritivore faeces production in temperate ecosystems

📄Full description --> www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/fr028...

Please get in touch to apply, or share in your network!

Job alert! PhD position "Evolutionary Genomics of Transcriptional
Regulation in Beetle Sociality" with @bfeldmeyer.bsky.social in collaboration with me and the fantastic burying beetles!

Silent takeover: How invasive bees reshaped plant-pollinator interactions in a biodiversity hotspot Biological invasions are a major driver of biodiversity loss. Invasive pollinators can reshape native plant-pollinator networks. This study, taking Chile as an example, is divided into two parts. Firs...

🌸How do non-native #pollinators change pollinating networks?

🐝By analyzing 2,100+ records in Chile, researchers found that non-native bees (like 𝘉. 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘴) are shifting #pollination networks toward less specialized homogenized structures, with 𝘉. 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘴 dominating 73% of the interactions.

Slow-motion videos reveal tree frogs making some of the most dramatic landings in nature.

Learn more on #WorldFrogDay: https://scim.ag/3Nnd04A

The SORTEE guidelines for data and code quality control in ecology and evolutionary biology are now published in the Peer Community Journal!

🔗 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

Postdoctoral Research Associate at The University of Edinburgh Discover an exciting academic career path as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

Like #hemocytes? I'm advertising a 3 year, BBSRC #postdoc position, in #Edinburgh, using #Drosophila & human cells to understand sex differences in the regulation of #macrophage function, an exciting collaboration with the Bénézech and Wood labs. Please share! 🪰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQU604/p...

Insectes Sociaux becomes PCI-friendly: what does this mean? The scientific journal Insectes Sociaux has become “PCI-friendly” in partnership with Peer Community In ( — an opportunity to speed up and increase the transparency of peer review, without automati…

New interview! 🎙️

@jmeunierearwig.bsky.social explains the recent partnership between Insectes Sociaux and Peer Community In, which promotes transparency and supports open science. ✍️

insectessociaux.com/2026/03/10/i...

#SocialInsects #OpenScience #PeerReview #Preprints #InsectScience

Infection, Immunity & Microbionts SIG 📅 Join us on 16-17 April for: 🔬 Day 1: Symbionts & Microbiomes 🦠 Day 2: Pathogens & Immunity

Researchers working on insect infection, immunity and microbionts are invited to share their work at the upcoming two-day Infection, Immunity & Microbionts Special Interest Group Meeting at @uniofbath.bsky.social.

📅 16-17 April
📄 Abstracts Deadline: 17:00 (GMT), Friday 13 March 🔽

Insect research has used Drosophila as a model organism for over a century. But today’s tools now open up a much wider spectrum of insects which deserve to be studied. See the recent commentary in @fly-journal.bsky.social by @peterkdearden.bsky.social, ‘Why just fly?’ doi.org/10.1080/1933...

Highly destructive mussel has started to invade the Amazon After ravaging waterways across South America, the fast-spreading species threatens a biodiversity stronghold

The golden mussel, a highly destructive invasive species that began to plague South American waterways decades ago, has reached the Amazon region, threatening some of the richest biodiversity on the planet. https://scim.ag/4rq3gFz

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

Welcome ExE 2026 is a 3-day conference aimed at evolutionary ecologists from around the world, hosted by the University of Exeter in beautiful Cornwall. It provides a friendly and inclusive platform for all c...

For folks in #Ecology and #Evolution, we are hosting a conference here in Cornwall UK! Great chance for a summer staycation June 29-July 3.

Plus, we've managed to make it affordable: £250 + £49/night for accommodation.

#EvolBiol #EcoEvo

sites.exeter.ac.uk/exe/

The adaptive significance of polyandry: a meta-analysis Abstract. Polyandry is prevalent, but the optimal patterns of mating for females remain poorly understood despite their importance for our understanding of

Compelling meta-analytic evidence for female fitness benefits of polyandry in arthropods by Yan et al.

academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Four decades of road salt take their toll on Toronto’s waterways After a record-breaking snowstorm, melting ice is flushing tonnes of road salt into Toronto’s waterways. New data shows how much the city uses and why experts say the real problem may lie in the priva...

Toronto is covered with road salt right now, which will eventually end up in the city's waterways, where it disrupts ecosystems. To get an idea of how much we're talking, I got salt figures from the city going back to the 80s: nearly 5 million tonnes. For @nationalobserver.com

Come to Hamburg and do a PhD on insect/spider traits with me!

😱⏰Only 2 days left! Submit your abstract and get the early bird rate for the XIII European Congress of Entomology (29 June – 3 July 2026, Tours, France)! 🪲🦋🐜🪰

All details and submission: ➡️https://www.ece2026.org/

@irbi-tours.bsky.social
@ece2026tours.bsky.social
@royentsoc.bsky.social

Uppsala in late autumn

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Réchauffement climatique : l'industrie du ski en flagrant déni

En montagne, chaque degré de réchauffement climatique équivaut à un mois d'enneigement perdu. Pourtant, les responsables des stations de skis s'obstinent, sous perfusion de subventions publiques. ⛷️

👉 www.socialter.fr/article/rech...
#ski #montagne #climat

⛰️ Take a look at a study that compared plant-pollinator communities in the Gavarnie-Gèdre commune of the Pyrenees across 115 years to assess the impact of climate change.

Access the publication here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

#ANTENNAexpertise

We've got ISSUES. Literally.

We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?

arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

A 🧵 1/n

GBE | The evolution of bees: insights from ‘omic studies

Brenman-Suttner & @amrozayed.bsky.social review how 'omics tools provide insights into the molecular basis of bee eusociality and adaptation, and allow us to address urgent challenges facing bee conservation due to anthropogenic change

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf226

📸 Amro Zayed

#genome #evolution

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/...

📢 GEvol Job Alert: PhD position in Joachim Kurtzs lab in Münster in the Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity. This research project focuses on the evolutionary flexibility of epigenetic regulation in insects. Find this and more open positions @ g-evol.uni-muenster.de/open-positio... 🧬

📢 18-month PostDoc Fellowship – University of Montpellier (France)
🦠🦋 Interested in insect pathology, immunity, microbiome, or genomics?

We’re looking for a motivated candidate (<2 years post-PhD by mid-2026). 🧪
📩 Contact me ASAP for details!
⏳ Application deadline: 16/01/26
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Senior Editor for Journal of Applied Ecology - British Ecological Society Join the editorial board on Journal of Applied Ecology! Apply by 21 Dec 2025.

We're looking for a 6th Senior Editor!

If you…
👉are intrigued by the interface between ecology & biological resource management
👉are interested in contributing to the journal’s strategic vision
👉have editing experience

…we’d love to hear from you!

www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/seni...

🧬 PhD Position: Evolutionary & Comparative Genomics 🕷️
Join us at @uni-goettingen.de for a 3-year PhD (65% TV-L E13).
We will investigate the genomic & phenotypic impact of gene duplication across 233 arthropod genomes!
More infos 👇 and s.gwdg.de/eDrAAY
#Evolution #Genomics #Bioinformatics

PhD studentship through China Scholarship Council - deadline Dec 1st 2025 UoE-CSC application link: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/pg-research/csc-scholarships/ For inquiries, please email:  m.hanson@exeter.ac.uk Nature of funding: This funding is a scholarship awarded to.....

Characterising the immune repertoire of a global crop pest Myzus persicae
mahansonresearch.weebly.com/blog/phd-stu...

#Drosophila #Evolution #Immunity #Aphids

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Good morning everyone 🌞

There is only 1 seat left for the #Phylogenomics course in December!

If interested, check it out before it is too late!