I am recruiting for a 2-year postdoc position with our group at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior! Learn more & apply here: tinyurl.com/3n88uv2p Deadline: 20 Dec 2026 Start date: Flexible in 2027 @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social

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📄 The why: A survey of 868 behavioural ecologists on how they choose research organisms revealed that logistics and societal relevance mattered within animal groups, but at broad scales, emotional affinity for certain taxa closely mirrored the bias in the literature

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📄 The what: Across 1.38 million papers in 612 journals, ecology & evolution research is strongly taxonomically biased. Overall, the dominance of vertebrates hasn’t shifted since the early 2000s, and vertebrate studies get more citations and media attention than invertebrate ones

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UK power grid right now is only 5% fossil fuel.

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🎉 First work from my lab at Duke University 🦋 Led by @tianshenbio.bsky.social Shen Tian, whose in situs are 😚🤌, with key contributions from @yf-joye-zhou.bsky.social Joye Zhou. Exploring the evolution of the WntA regulatory network in butterfly wing patterning. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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