How do jellyfish and anemones decide when to sting? Here, we ask "to sting or not to sting" Lily He Corey Allard Wendy Valencia @stephalopod @AgneseSeminara eLife - the journal MCB_Harvard elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr…

Learning about how cephalopods have co-opted acetylcholine receptors as sensory receptors on their suckers - fascinating stuff at #SMBE2023 with Wendy Valencia 🐙🐙

Harvard professor Claudia Goldin is just incredible. If curious here a short video about her work: youtube.com/watch?v=c_frjr…

Check out our new preprint on invasive Helicoverpa armigera in North America — feedback welcome! biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… Rapid evolution of pesticide resistance in native H. zea via two independent processes: (1) introgression from an invasive species, and (2) strong selection

Guide to octopus "taste by touch" chemotactile sensation. Corey Allard Wendy Valencia Current Biology MCB_Harvard - cell.com/current-biolog…

Very disappointed to learn that University of Groningen is blocking funding for MEME EvoBio , jeopardising a programme that attracted many young researchers to evolutionary biology — especially those from the Global South ukrant.nl/budget-cuts-th…

Herbaria are invaluable repositories of biodiversity that serve as crucial resources for scientific research, conservation efforts, and education. Show your support to save the Duke University Herbarium: bit.ly/4bRkrbI

Duke's destroying a globally recognized generational legacy. I know 15 biology faculty and curators who trained at Duke's herbarium, just in my 10 years there. 2023's Climate Commitment "for life"? A budget is a moral document and Duke has shown its cards. science.org/content/articl…

It's heartbreaking to see how war continues in Ukraine and Gaza. How do we seed human empathy more broadly?

How do organisms evolve new traits and behaviors? In Annual Reviews, Wendy Valencia surveys major sensory receptor families to uncover evolutionary patterns of sensation driving diversification and speciation. annualreviews.org/content/journa…

Congratulations to #WPY60's Behaviour: Invertebrates winner! 🐜 Ingo Arndt (Germany) watched as red wood ants carved an already dead blue ground beetle into pieces small enough to fit through the entrance to their nest.

Check out our review on the Evolution of Sensory Receptors, the incredible molecular machines that decode the outside sensory world! 🪲🐭🦎🐙🐓🦠🦗🐌💃

Speaking of flipping rocks, here’s our latest from the Ediacaran of South Australia! This new taxon, Quaestio simpsonorum, demonstrates that although the first animals can sometimes look a little like aliens, they provide really exciting insights into metazoan evolution!

Don't miss out working with one of the best and kindest scientists I know!! Neil Rosser’s lab at the University of Miami is currently recruiting graduate students interested in the evolution of tropical biodiversity rosserlab.github.io/people.html#re…

Microbiomes shape our biology from gut-brain, skin, immunology, and more. Here, Rebecka Sepela et al explores octopus “taste by touch” sensation to ask how environmental microbiomes drive animal behavior. Cell Press, MCB_Harvard, Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

‘Solar-powered’ sea slugs have specialized depots in their cells that store photosynthetic equipment looted from algae go.nature.com/4emIHnx

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New paper on red colour vision in two Mediterranean beetle pollinators: doi.org/10.1242/jeb.25…

Incredible astronomy pictures mymodernmet.com/2025-astronomy…