Are cleaning interactions 100% safe? Check out our last paper in Journal of Experimental Biology where we found that cleaner fish can act as PARASITE SUPER-SPREADERS!!! Renato Morais Lexa Grutter Support from James Cook Uni ASFB CoralCoE journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-ab…

Congratulations Patrick!! 🎉🎉🎉

A shout out to Ecological Society for how easy they've made it to attend their conference w/ a newborn: dependent care grant to bring along grandparents for childcare; conference badges provided to my parents so they can bring baby to me to nurse; lactation room on site. Huge thanks. 🙏

Folks @ #ESA2022, if you are interested in #Mutualism and #Movement, Allison Shaw and I have organized an all-star team for our OOS from 1:30–3 PM today in room 520C! This team includes Bethanne Bruninga-Socolar (Bethanne Bruninga-Socolar; plant arrangement on flower constancy), 1/3

2 years ago, everything was going great in my mid-career lab. Making a choice to reduce stress and prioritize my health turned out to have ripple effects - my colleagues, family, and friends are reaping the benefits, as am I. I tell my story in eLife - the journal elifesciences.org/articles/82831

Had a blast working on this chapter with these two! Patrick Green melissa hughes

WOW YES!! I would 100% apply to do this PhD if I could!!!...can I?! Apply apply!

Interested in forest ecology and ecological modeling? consider applying to work with me as a graduate student at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB Geography). Application deadline is December 15: geog.ucsb.edu/academics/grad…

🚨 Postdoc opp! 🐟🐟 The Laskowski Lab is looking for our newest Amazon Warrior! We have a >2-year NSF-funded postdoc position available investigating the developmental and molecular drivers of behavioral individuality in our cool clonal fish (pls RT) laskowskilab.faculty.ucdavis.edu/2022/10/11/pos…

I wrote about why animals turn transparent and what predators can do about it. It's an epic tale of see-through shrimp, bioluminescent fish, squids with asymmetrical eyes, and octopuses that toggle between clear and opaque. my latest Discover Magazine: discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/s…

Why do some species evolve conspicuous coloration as a warning signal whereas other evolve this coloration as a sexual signal? Turns out that ancestral diel activity can help explain this pattern. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Using behavioural ecology to solve applied problems! BBSRC funded PhD opportunity with me + Erik Postma University of Exeter CEC and the amazing Christos Ioannou from University of Bristol. Contact me for more info, apply via findaphd.com/phds/project/e… please RTWT

Love Animal Behavior?? Love SICB?! SICB's Division of Animal Behavior is seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for a new secretary! This is a great way to help make your mark on the Division. DM me or Avery Russell @draverbee.bsky.social for more info! SICB_DAB SICB

So pleased to share this work w/ Laura Kelley now out in Ecology Letters: female green swordtails evaluate differences in male body size based on proportional, rather than absolute, differences, with implications for sexual selection and signal evolution tinyurl.com/4vtjjbcv

Any #colsci people recently purchased equipment for recording reflectance spectra that they'd particularly recommend? Have used Ocean Optics in the past, but wondering if there are alternatives people are happy with.

I’ll be talking at #Evol2023 about how warfare in banded mongooses influences their social evolution. Come check it out today at 11:45am in room 215 (San Miguel)!

I'll be talking about how females motivate intergroup fighting behavior in male banded #mongooses today at 4:15 in the #agonism session at #ABS2023! More too about what we can learn from long-term studies of contests. See you in room B114! Mongoose Project

Thrilled to work with dreamteam Lorian Schweikert and Sonke Johnsen to (re-)organize (thanks Covid!) this Visual Ecology workshop for June 2024, and thrilled we have spots for early-career researchers to apply to join us!! This small (30-person) event = great for networking! Apply!

Curious about Weber's Law? We (Kathryn Bullough, Bram Kuijper, Eleanor Caves) have a Quick Guide out in Current Biology this week, free access here authors.elsevier.com/a/1huZ93QW8S2R…