fx dechaume-moncharmont @fxdm@mamot.fr

Too many white men: scientists portrayed in common biology textbooks are not representative of their target audience, the student population. #science #biology #gender #genderbias #gendergap #glassceiling #race #ethnic #representation #diversity #ethics #textbook #student #education #teaching
📄 Wood et al (2020) A scientist like me: demographic analysis of biology textbooks reveals both progress and long-term lags. Proc R Soc lond B 287:20200877 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0877

#Ethics : practical recommendations for research on wild animals. #science #biology #ecology #physiology #welfare #behaviour #behavior #biologging
📄 Soulsbury et al (2020) The welfare and ethics of research involving wild animals: A primer. Methods in Ecology and Evolution http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13435

Mike Tyson effect in social insect: wasps rely on public information to assess their opponent's strength before engaging in a #fight. #science #biology #behaviour #animalbehaviour #eavesdropping #wasp #insect #hymenoptera
📄 Tibbetts et al (2020) Wasps use social eavesdropping to learn about individual rivals. Current Biology http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.05.053

Compared with many animal species, we are essentially color-blind, deaf and anosmic. Many fish and bird species have far better #UV #vision than us. Here is a new example in #hummingbird. #science #biology #color #colour #ultraviolet #eye #bird
📄 Stoddard et al (2020) Wild hummingbirds discriminate nonspectral colors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1919377117

Males are rarely involved in parental care in nature, with the notable exception of #fish species. This is possibly linked with external eggs fertilization. #science #biology #behaviour #animalbehaviour #sexrole
🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/article/fathers-day-fish.html

Remarkable robustness of linear #mixed‐effects models. It does not give a blank cheque for reckless statistical analysis, but it certainly is good news for scientists having to deal with deviations from textbook’s unrealistic assumptions regarding data #distribution. #science #statistics #regression #lmm
📄 Schielzeth et al (2020) Methods in Ecology and Evolution http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13434

More than half of the 360 living species of #turtle and #tortoise are threatened with #extinction. #science #biology #ecology #conservation #reptile #herpetology
📄 Stanford et al (2020) Turtles and tortoises are in trouble. Current Biology http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.04.088

Beware of STRANGE: very sensible recommendations for increasing #replicability in animal #behaviour studies. #science #biology #animalbehaviour #ethology
📄 Webster & Rutz (2020) How STRANGE are your study animals? Nature 582:337–340 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01751-5

Ecological interactions between species are incredibly complex, but they also share striking similarities with the computer game #Starcraft. Recent success of deep learning #Alphastar in this game arouses interest in #ecology. #science #biology #deeplearning #ai #deepmind
📄 Barbe et al (2020) Artificial intelligence accidentally learned ecology through video games. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 35:557–560 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2020.04.006

#Gamete production by #meiosis is expected to be balanced with even proportion of y-chromosome bearing #sperm (leading to son in #mammal). This new study in #mouse shows that sperm #sexratio can be tweaked in response to sexual competition. #science #biology
📄 Firman et al. (2020) Sperm sex ratio adjustment in a mammal: perceived male competition leads to elevated proportions of female-producing sperm. Biology Letters 16:20190929 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0929

The vast majority of #gastropod species has #dextral (right-handed) shell. #Sinistral individuals are extremely rare in snails. Here is a very nice citizen science project investigating the developmental origin of this #chirality. #science biology #ontogeny #snail #shell #citizenscience
📄 Davison et al. (2020) Internet ‘shellebrity’’ reflects on origin of rare mirror-image snails.’ Biology Letters 16:20200110 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0110

Online #conference on animal behaviour, a worthwhile endeavour by three young french scientists. #science #biology #animalbehaviour #behaviour #congress
🔗 http://animalbehaviour.live/index.html

In front of puzzle boxes, wild cockatoo are as smart as captive ones, but far less interested in these lab toys. #science #biology #animalbehaviour #cognition #bird #cockatoo
📄 Rössler et al (2020) Using an Innovation Arena to compare wild-caught and laboratory Goffin’s cockatoos. Scientific Reports 10:1–12 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65223-6

Life span increases with social integration, a review based on long-term studies in mammals. #science #biology #sociality #survival #mammal
Snyder-Mackler et al. (2020) Social determinants of health and survival in humans and other animals. Science 368:eaax9553 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aax9553

#xkcd, simply brilliant. As usual. #science #statistics #plot #prediction #confidence
🔗 https://xkcd.com/2311/

Impressive underwater #acoustic #communication in #lobster: they produce sounds called "antennal rasps" which propagate over several hundreds meters. #science #biology #crustacean
📄 Jézéquel et al. (2020) Spiny lobster sounds can be detectable over kilometres underwater. Scientific Reports 10:1–11 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64830-7

#PhD thesis in behavioural ecology in #Lyon, France. We are looking for candidates. Subject: Alternative reproductive tactics in structured populations of invasive fish species. #science #biology #fish #goby #invasive #ecology #animalbehaviour #lehna #UnivLyon1
🔗 http://e2m2.universite-lyon.fr/medias/fichier/sujet-e2m2-2020-dechaume_1589893381426-pdf