New #HeredityPodcast: The evolution of the sexes Why did sex systems evolve? It’s a question as old as biology, but Elvira Hörandl (Uni Göttingen) may have found a key piece of the puzzle Listen now: play.acast.com/s/heredity-pod… Read the study: nature.com/articles/s4143… The Genetics Society

Heredity rateira Uni Göttingen The Genetics Society What's oxidative stress? I'm loving this podcast episode, even tho I don't understand some things (I'm from Arts and Humanities)

Digging out #StormARWEN

Last day to register for the virtual ASAB animal behaviour conference happening Thursday & Friday this week! FREE registration for members

A friend and colleague for nearly 40 years, top man and one of the very best journalists at the BBC or anywhere else. David and I were interviewed on the same day in 1983 to be BBC graduate trainees. I was certain he’d get it… clear he had the right stuff.

Wow - Prenatal acoustic programming of mitochondrial function for high temperatures in an arid-adapted bird | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Stunning

A female salmon deposits her eggs in a ‘redd’ (or nest). An adult male and precocious parr fertilising her eggs. Other parr and brown trout dive in to eat eggs before she quickly covers them up 🙂 ⁦⁦⁦Atlantic Salmon Trust⁩ ⁦Missing Salmon Alliance⁩ ⁦⁦North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization⁩

Another bigger stunner

Intergenerational transfer of material wealth is widespread from #socialinsects and #fish to #carnivores and #primates who transfer built structures, territories, and tools from one generation to another, perpetuating #inequality and #privlege in #animals. academic.oup.com/beheco/advance…

75cm long

Norway offers amazing conditions and salary for PhD student + Ås is a great town! PhD will be part of the project CREA_CC focusing on lake trout, brook trout, and Arctic charr in alpine lakes. Experience is telemetry and/or large dataset is an asset! jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

Fabulous pictures. An exquisitely preserved in-ovo theropod dinosaur embryo sheds light on avian-like prehatching postures cell.com/iscience/fullt…

Matt Gage Marco Graziano newscientist.com/article/230251…

Comprehensive analysis of a complex question

Forestry England This scam risks drawing public donations away from charities genuinely establishment and managing native woodlands. Your aim here is to fleece the public so you can plant uneconomic, non-native spruce plantations. Rebecca Pow Tony Juniper this is disreputable deceit, isn't it

This was so good, I’m going to watch it again. And probably again after that. Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing 🎄🎣

The full article by me and three colleagues on the potential impacts of cane toads (Rhinella marina) is online early in Pacific Conservation Biology. publish.csiro.au/pc/fulltext/PC…

Biodiversity: The tale of the 'un-extinct' fish bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…