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I have a pet theory about bluesky: there's actually a silent majority of people with concern, but ultimately a nuanced opinion on AI. But this crowd is generally too hesitant to express any excitement or wonder bc there will be a hard-and-fast backlash from the vocal anti-AI contingent. Kinda sucks

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

Hi all, putting feelers out: folks looking for a job ASAP in the 🇬🇧 in Cornwall, or willing to move? Collaborating group hiring a couple roles with skills in any of: - insect injections (incl. gene edits) - machine learning for image analysis - experience with 🦋 a plus! Can email me at link below.

13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.

My #ExE2026 conference post is now live! It was great chatting with attendees about their research and learning more about the field. Thanks again to the organisers @erikpostma.bsky.social, @btschirren.bsky.social, @blongdon.bsky.social, @ali--wilson.bsky.social, and @hansonmark.bsky.social!

New for 2026, we’re launching our member spotlights series, where our members share their successes, achievements and experiences. This month, we’re celebrating two of our fantastic Early Career members, Dr Roberta Cacioppo and Dr Mark Hanson. bit.ly/spotlight-on...

There are a couple of other more granular attempts at this also e.g. MeRIT doi.org/10.1038/s414... and dragon kill points doi.org/10.1186/s129...

An inevitable development for for-profit Open Access publishers is Fordism: automation & massification. If you earn money piece-rate for each paper you want to increase the flow of papers while minimizing cost. e.g. very low and *uniform* turnaround times at Frontiers and MDPI

Say hello to @hansonmark.bsky.social, one of our new #ListerPrize2026 Fellows 👋 Mark's research helps explain the evolution of key host defence genes – antimicrobial peptides – and how animals can activate their production. Learn more 👉 mahansonresearch.weebly.com

I had a great time at the 1st #ExE2026 conference! Lots of amazing talks spanning genetics, behaviour, ecology and evolution 🐤 I presented a poster about the effects of sublethal pesticide exposure on cricket behaviour. The paper is in the final stages of review, so hopefully more to share soon 🦗🤞

12/Editors and journals hold enormous influence over careers and over what science becomes part of the published literature. That influence comes with responsibility, and it can drive great scientists away from science. To fellow #ECRs: do not be afraid to raise concerns when something feels wrong.

1/🧵 With this paper finally published, I want to talk about the worst peer review experience of my career as a non-native English speaker, early-career researcher, and solo author, and why I think it matters. #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #EvoSky

You know when you're deep into dissecting a mechanism for your project, and you've thrown everything at it and it still is not that? I call it "The Magic Gnome principle": there's maybe a invisible property or phenomenon yet to be discovered that's messing with it. This is a Magic Gnome 🧪

I routinely see kids products that come in the 2 options "Dinosaur" or "Unicorn"- which apart from the obvious, annoys me because one gets science and one gets mythology. This could easily be fixed by swapping dinosaurs with dragons, or, hear me out, aggressively marketing Cambrian sea life to girls

Fifteen minutes into @danielbolnick.bsky.social plenary at #ExE2026 and it’s already clear this is a fabulous presentation. A great start to day 3.

Day 2 of #ExE2026 ! Thank you to all our sponsor journals. I am proud to say ExE is sponsored strictly by society and non-profit journals! 👌📄 A huge thanks to our journal sponsors (see next post), who take their APC revenue and use it to support the sci communities like ExE ❤️ 1/2

Another great plenary at #ExE2026, this time from Trine Bilde! I'd never heard of social spiders before! Here's that @plosone.org study about inbreeding in the spiders: doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029636 🕷️

Moderate Multiple Parentage and Low Genetic Variation Reduces the Potential for Genetic Incompatibility Avoidance Despite High Risk of InbreedingBackground Polyandry is widespread throughout the animal kingdom. In the absence of direct benefits of mating with different males, the underlying basis for polyandry is enigmatic because it can carry...doi.org

Folks quick to dump on the fact that latest group of amazing @hypothesisfund.bsky.social awardees are all men (n=5) are encouraged to check out the list of all recent awardees to celebrate all their achievements: www.hypothesisfund.org/portfolio

Portfolio — Hypothesis FundThe Hypothesis Fund enables scientists to take intelligent risks. To defy the predominant expectations in their field. To go after their big ideas.www.hypothesisfund.org

Interested in the evolutionary genomics of host-pathogen interactions or the evolutionary ecology of senescence? 1 week left to apply for the two postdoc positions in our badger - bovine TB project🦡🦠🧪🧬👇

Looking forward to a brilliant week of Evolution and Ecology at #ExE2026, hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social! I'm here from @plos.org (@plosone.org) so please feel free to come chat about publishing with us, or just to show off your research! 🦔🌱🧬🦊🦠🌲