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How vulnerable are amphibians to global warming? 🐸🌡️ In this new preprint @EcoEvoRxiv, we aimed to answer this question at truly global scales 🌍 doi.org/10.32942/X2T02T A thread 🧵(1/27)

Out now: our meta analysis on male ejaculate aging in non human animals Nature Communications Link to press release bit.ly/3Hl4o7S w/ Krish Sanghvi Shinichi Nakagawa | 中川震一 Sam Gascoigne Sheri Johnson Rob Salguero-Gómez Tom Pizzari İrem Sepil Link to paper doi.org/10.1038/s41467… Brief summary here👇

Please RT: fully-funded, 4-year PhD position in my group at the University of Zurich 👇

Looking for a three year fellowship in Zoology, Biodiversity, Conservation, etc? We have a funded opportunity for you Science at Sheffield Ecology and Evolutionary Biology tinyurl.com/344y4m3v

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New paper out in Journal of Experimental Biology: heatwaves reduce reproductive output, but not survival, in male field crickets. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-ab…

#SexualSelection and #speciation – unpublished data? For a #metaanalysis of comparative studies testing for a relationship between sexual selection and speciation, we are looking for unpublished data or studies with a different focus that might go undetected. Please get in touch!

Preprint: ideas.repec.org/p/osf/metaar/m… We present the Replication Database (metaanalyses.shinyapps.io/replicationdat…), a novel platform hosting 1,239 original findings paired with replication findings

Doing meta-analysis w/ colleagues. We noticed large differences in papers found when doing same search with Clarivate Web of Science. Search returns vary depending on institution subscriptions. I suspect many aren't aware of this. Defeats the purpose of standardized searches!

Firebug (Pyrrhocoris apterus), one of several observed today on allotment at Deal, Kent. In the UK this strikingly attractive insect is particularly associated with Tree Mallow and Lime trees.🌳 Kent Field Club Buglife Kent Wildlife Trust The British Nature Guide Royal Entomological Society Little Green Space 🐝

My first day City of Edmonton University of Alberta - here to create a Centre for Open Science & Synthesis in #Ecology & #Evolution. Looking for ~5 postdocs to join me in establishing the centre. Please apply - i-deel.org/opportunities.… Please RT

. 22 people have published more than 200 papers in 2024 (so far, we still have another six months to go) We have been doing some research on another project and saw something that we found interesting. We'd be interested to know what you think. In 2024, 22 authors (according to

. 171 papers published in 2024 are written by the same 31 authors and all published in the same journal. Is this okay (serious question - see last question)? Yesterday we posted that 22 people had published more than 200 papers (so far) in 2024 (see x.com/fake_journals/…).

A review of reviews (#metaanalysis) - a masterpiece led by Pietro Pollo - putting together 152 meta-analyses on sexual selection onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/br… Get a glimpse into the wonderful world of sexual selection and its biases and issues - giving hints to the future work.

New paper online: quantified for the first time across species, I show that females typically become less responsive after mating, but males don’t seem to care. A win for sexual selection theory! ASAB sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

When a papermill boasted how they could increase Google Scholar citations and showed their working, Reese Richardson and I decided to try for ourselves. Introducing Larry Richardson, a cat with a Google Scholar profile and an h-index of 11. reeserichardson.blog/2024/07/18/eng…