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This beautiful wood tiger moth female is on the cover of Evolution Journal! Beautiful 📷 by Bibiana Rojas 😍 In this study, we show that heterozygote advantage and pleiotropic effects of the color locus contribute to the male color polymorphism 🟡⚪️ 🦋 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ev…

Very excited to announce that I've been awarded funding from @Skr_fi to work with Suvi Ruuskanen at University of Jyväskylä. Looking forward to returning to Finland and studying the role of gut microbiomes in predator-prey interactions🦠🐤🐞 #skr2023 #kulttuurirahastontuella

Jim McLean and I are happy to introduce R package Durga (cran.r-project.org/web/packages/D… ). This package is designed to estimate effect size easily and to visualise effect size aesthetically. (1/11) #rstats #dataviz #Datavisualization

In our new bioRxiv led by @CrisOttocento we show that early-life resource availability influences the efficacy of #tigermoths chem defences, but (rather surprisingly!) not so much their melanin-based warning colours 🐛🦋 #colsci #cienciacriolla doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…

Highly recommend this - great opportunity to learn more about preprints and the publishing process, and a good way to keep up with the latest research!

First day of #ASSAB2023 was great! So many interesting talks and had a chance to present our work with Clelia Mulà and Rose Thorogood. Looking forward to another day of cool science!

We start an action packed day with lightning talks ⚡ First to talk is Chris Irving telling us about #aposematism in Amata moths #ASSAB 2023

And now Connor Marsland on the Initial response of #Australian #magpies to common #aposematic patterns #ASSAB2023 🐦‍⬛🐞

Next we have Daniele Carlesso with the talk "Weaver #ants pool their opinions together for achieving #consensus during #cooperative transport" 🗳️🐜🐜🐜 #ASSAB2023

Our review on "The evolution and ecology of multiple antipredator defences" is out now! This paper stems from a symposium sponsored by ESEB during the pandemic, and is out now (Journal of Evolutionary Biology) thanks to the tireless leadership of David Kikuchi & Alice Exnerova doi.org/10.1111/jeb.14… #OA

Day three is here already, and we start with a Plenary lecture by Postdoctoral fellow Amanda Franklin @neptsnecklace on "Dazzling displays: function and perception of iridescence and gloss" #ASSAB2023 🐠🐞🦋💐🍄

Really enjoying the talks at #Behaviour2023 so far! Also great to be catching up with old PhD buddies - here is Liisa Hämäläinen describing a lovely expt investigating responses to prey defence in Aussie magpie predators 🐦‍⬛

Oh, and a unique opportunity to hang out with 4️⃣ of my 7️⃣ (😱) Faculty of Mathematics and Science MSc / PhD students (Liisa Hämäläinen Chiara De Pasqual Katja Rönkä @CrisOttocento)! 😍 Chloe Fouilloux (she/her), you were sorely missed (as were Morgan Brain & Miriam Furlanetto, not on ✖️)!! 🫶🏼

Two-year postdoc position open in my Suomen Akatemia | Research Council of Finland funded project investigating the role of the predator gut microbiome in interactions between avian predators and chemically defended prey: ats.talentadore.com/apply/postdoct… Please RT!

Hundreds of visitors in #ResearchersNight Faculty of Mathematics and Science ! They played #microbiome game, participated in #bird quiz, and of course learned about our bird and microbe research. Youngest participants made modelling clay microbes, and caught rubber ducks with mistnets 🙂

🚨 I've got a PhD Opportunities for someone interested in social behaviour & threatened species - with hihi of course 🐦 Funding through University of Salford (sorry, UK only eligibility): salford.ac.uk/doctoral-schoo…. Know someone who might be interested? Get in touch! #PhD #phdlife Animal behavior opps animalopps.bsky.social

Have you ever wondered what’s the role of surprise in predator–prey interactions? We’ve got you covered! Check our new review led by #OlivierPenacchio and #AliceExnerova, out now in Functional Ecology doi.org/10.1111/1365-2… Liisa Hämäläinen Kyle Summers