Behavioural ecologist, most interested in cognition and fish that shoot.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nick-Jones-43
@HumboldtStiftung Research Fellow
To celebrate our 100-year anniversary, we are highlighting 100 biologists with an extraordinary link to the Company, each of them having made an important contribution in their own right. During May, we featured eight extraordinary biologists: Caroline Williams, Tobias Wang, Meng Zhu, Chris Wood, Reinier Prosée, John Speakman, Janet Rossant and Ottoline Leyser.
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Peer review is often criticised for being slow, biased and quashing revolutionary ideas.
With our consultative review process, reviewers discuss their reviews with each other before reaching a decision and limit suggestions for extra work. https://elifesciences.org/about/peer-review?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=submissions_organic&utm_content=consultative_context
"Bird feeders have caused a dramatic evolution of California hummingbirds:
beaks have grown longer and larger, and ranges have expanded to follow the feeders"
How does sexual selection influence behavioural consistency? Using experimental evolution, Brand et al. demonstrate that evolution under heightened sexual selection limits individual phenotypic plasticity and promotes male behavioural consistency.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/729600
#sexualSelection #behavioral #evolution #phenotypicPlasticity #male
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Having a ball doing #literatureResearch with @zotero. I previously hated doing it, but it turns out it was because I didn't have the right tool.
I used #kbibtex and :gitannex: #gitAnnex before. Robust, decentralized, very fine syncing control, fully offline-capable, etc. - but it was missing the streamlined, well-integrated polish that #Zotero has and felt a bit too clunky to be efficient.
Dreaming of a postdoc adventure with earwigs?
✨ Dive with me into insect behavior, parental care, social immunity, population genomics, microbiota, ecotoxicology, and many other exciting topics!
If you already got a crazy idea, or just a vague idea for a postdoc project: Let's chat and make it happen via the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship ! 🌟
Call is open and will close by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
Open PhD position at the university of Bayreuth: "Parental Care and Microbial Control in Burying Beetles" with the fantastic Jos Kramer !
Amazing PhD opportunity alert! Join a top-notch lab with an incredible supervisor and work on a fascinating biological model. Don't miss out—apply now! 🚀🧬
More information 👉 https://www.dzg-ev.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/PhD_EvolutionaryEcology_Bayreuth2025.pdf
Standardizing global science methods is necessary to understand the mechanisms behind the redundant relationship between fish traits and their range shifts: doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15970 #JFB
http://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.16014
Subarctic organisms face low temperatures and brief growing seasons, with evolutionary pressure favouring growth-optimized behaviours. This study on Arctic Grayling explores time budget and aggression in foraging aggregations, using 3D videography: doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15974 #JFB
Thank you to Jeroen Dobbelaere for his third guest author post in our 'How to make labs more sustainable' series. His latest blog focuses on equipment in labs. Read in full at https://www.biologists.com/stories/sustainable-labs-equipment-in-labs/
Are you a graduate student or postdoc interested in fish swimming? This course covers kinematics, ecomorphology, behavior & physiology.
𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝟭𝟰/𝟮/𝟮𝟱.
Course takes place 20/7/25 to 21/8/25, Friday Harbor, Washington state, USA. More info: https://bit.ly/4aHVqQ0
Financial aid is available to students from all countries: https://fhl.uw.edu/courses/financial-aid/
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https://bit.ly/4aHVqQ0
new paper out, in the special issue 'Measuring fish cognition: Empirical based guidance for designing cognition assays' led by @NickARJones:
Conditioning a collective avoidance response in rummy-nose tetra
Waybright & Dillon combine new data on physiology with continental scale ground temperature data to develop landscapes of mortality risk for overwintering ectotherms, and apply the approach to predict mortality risk for overwintering bumble bee queens.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/733183
#temperature #mortality #overwintering #bee #mortalityRisk #ectotherms
#JFB: Gone with the flow: whitefish egg drift in relation to substrate coarseness under a range of flow velocities doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15923 #FishSci
I feel sad for the loss of the noun "invitation" and its replacement with "invite" and I will not comply.
How I hunt down fake degrees and zombie universities https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03419-w
