📢🚨Please share! We’re hiring! 📢🚨Have a strong interests in wildlife ecology and gut microbiome bioinformatics? 3 year Senior Research Associate for NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant. Apply here: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18.... Informal enquiries welcome! drgldavidson.github.io/ACMEresearch

I have a job opening in my lab. If you are interested in bird behaviour and predator prey interactions please take a look! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

SUPER has opened a call for (home) student-led marine/freshwater ecology PhD projects, to be hosted at one of the seven Scottish partners. If anyone knows anyone interested in something like this, the applicants should approach potential supervisors ASAP! superdtp.st-andrews.ac.uk/how-to-apply/

📢Coming up, workshop at #Behaviour2025 on our swaRmverse package! 🗓️Tue 26/8, 13:10–14:40 💻Theory & R practical (feel free to bring your data) 🎯Discussion on comparative analysis & metrics 🙏Come & recommend features for version 2.0! 👉RSVP on the app More info: behaviourindia2025.in/workshops.html

Great new work lead by @vernouilleta.bsky.social on the effect of early life environment and decision making! 🐣

New publication! 🚨 If you're looking for a paper on what great tits eat then this is for you! 🦋🐛🐞🪲🐦 We looked at variation in diet using DNA metabarcoding and found lots of differences between adult and young birds and between habitat types. @ucc.ie onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Late to the party but the last paper of my PhD was published earlier this year! Pinyon jays (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus) and Clark’s nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana) can discriminate between pilfering and non-pilfering conspecifics, but not between heterospecifics link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Very interesting talk this morning by @lisandrinamari.bsky.social on paternal effects of lead exposure on vigilance and fearfulness in quails #SEB2025

Demain soir, mardi 27.05, à 18h je donnerai une conférence en ligne gratuite sur les cultures animales, sur l'invitation de l'association AUBE, fondée par les étudiant.e.s de master d'éthologie de @rennesuniv.bsky.social. Merci à eux et au plaisir de vous voir ! openagenda.com/fr/rennesuni...

🚨 🪺🐦🦠 PhD opportunity in my lab for UK home fee students. Feel free to contact me for informal enquiries. Please share! shorturl.at/wUo8r

Hier, "Vis ma vie de chêne", mon dernier ouvrage paru chez Milan, est sorti ! Les superbes illustrations sont de Didier Balicevic ! Découvrez aussi "Vis ma vie de hérisson", écrit par mon amie Charlotte Duranton et illustré par Nikol, qui lance la collection avec cet opus. Bonne lecture !

🚨 Job opportunity 🚨 A 3-year post doc position is opening as part of my #APELANG project funded by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social It’s about multimodal combinatorial communication in wild #chimpanzees 🐵 Job ad here: maelleroux-research.weebly.com/apelang.html And here 👇🏻

Off to #Liverpool for 'fieldwork' (ie collect gull poop). If anyone is local and knows where both HG and LBBG like to hang out let me know. I'll start off at the docks but local knowledge on where gulls like to get up to no good welcome!

🚨Fully-funded PhD studentship on insect behaviour, cognition & muscles with me & @viveknityananda.bsky.social at @newcastleuni.bsky.social 🐝🍀🎓🙌Application deadline April 30, start date in September. Drop me an email if you have questions! www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...

PhD position split between Bristol and Macquarie University with myself, Rachael Dudaniec, and @chrisleduck.bsky.social Please email me with any enquirers 🐝 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🚨TWO WEEKS left 🚨 to submit your abstract to our session (A8) "Animal responses to a changing world: what about cognition?" at the Society Experimental Biology conference in Antwerp this summer! Abstract submission & info ➡️ www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a... 🐠🐤🐙🦎 @sebiology.bsky.social

⭐New paper out on great tits' social behaviour⭐ We manipulated food access & stability of social interactions at feeders (small-scale) to investigate their effects on individual-level social network position & dyadic assoc. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (birds handled with required permits)

Very happy to announce we are organizing a session on Animal Cognition at the @sebiology.bsky.social conference this summer! 🧠🐟🕊️🐸🐝 Working on cognition and environmental changes? Submit your abstract now to the Animal session A8 at this link➡️ www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a... 🧪🌍

Excited to have started a new position as a Lecturer at the Université de Rennes 🥳 More work on the role of cognition in dealing with environmental change coming this way! #newPI #animalbehaviour

Looking for someone to review a manuscript? Is it on avian urban-rural ecology/evolution, dietary adaptation, or dietary analysis using metabarcoding or stable isotope analysis? Then please send me a request. I am looking for an opportunity to review a manuscript with a PhD for training purposes.

In case you missed it: www.bbc.com/news/article... #SmartBirds #AnimalIntelligence #UniversityofCambridge @leverhulme.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social

Fully-funded PhD: Comparative analysis of collective behaviour in natural and artificial systems. Supervised by Andrew King and myself at Swansea University, @rjpheathcote.bsky.social (Oxford) and Marina Papadopoulou (Tuscia). Come fly in the swaRmverse! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Know anyone looking for a PhD? Like phylogenies and R programming? Think behaviour is really neat? Isabella Capellini, Domhnall Jennings, Karina Vanadzina, and I have a funded PhD project on parental care macroevolution, based at Queen's University Belfast! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Our latest paper, where we showed how a lactobacillus gut microbe can benefit wild birds, was featured in @forbes.com. Thanks for the article @grrlscientist.bsky.social. @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social @ucc.bsky.social @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Come do a PhD with Sinead English @englishse.bsky.social , Dan Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social and me on Gulls! GPS- and Bluetooth-tracking! Microbiomes & AMR acquisition & transmission! Human-wildlife conflict & mitigation! should be fun :-)

New PhD opportunity (posted for Josh Firth, lead supervisor and yet to migrate here): harnessing real-world network experiments to aid prediction of how natural social systems will respond to change & perturbations, using 🐦 the Wytham Tits yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/und... get in touch for more info.

Fully-funded PhD position available on the cultural evolution of tea! With me, Sabine Parrish, and David Burslem at the University of Aberdeen (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿), come combine anthropology and biology to think about why people drink tea and how that may change in the future. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

I made a starter pack for animal behaviour researchers / ethologists! please share and feel free to self-nominate or suggest others to be added as this is very much still a work in progress and not an exhaustive list 🌍🧪😊 #SciSky #BioSky #AnimalBehaviour #AnimalBehavior #Ethology go.bsky.app/Tr8VZpV

📢 Excited to announce that the new edition of my co-authored book on human behaviour and evolution will be published next month (Dec 2024): 'Sense & Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour (3rd Ed)' global.oup.com/academic/pro... 🧪🏺 #evolution #psychscisky #evobio #philsci #histsci

Please re-post: I have a postdoc position open! Helsinki is great and working environment is fantastic! #colours #polymorphism #behavior #experiments #lepidoptera jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Our lab is looking for potential graduate students interested in working with us and the Smithsonian Institution on the sensory systems of extinct birds and using our large bird brain collection. Details here: evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi... #ornithology #evolution #neuroskyence #AcademicSky

#BOU2024 #Sech2 In this project, I’m looking at the effect of a high-fat high-sugar diet on the gut microbiota (GM) of young pigeons (as a pathway influencing cognition). By manipulating the diet in early-life (HFHS vs control) we found flexible responses to diet, and long-term effects of HFHS diets

🐦2 new recent preprints (1) We manipulated the physical & social environment at a within-group scale. Both changes in food distribution & social stability influenced great tit's social network metrics, but food distribution seem to have a stronger effect on social centrality. shorturl.at/ekrAR

📣 We are hiring!! 📣 A postdoc position in the Computational Group Dynamics (COGNAC) lab, RIKEN CBS, Tokyo (Wako). Starting in April 2024 or soon after. Interested in experimenting human collective behaviour? See full details 👉 cbs.riken.jp/en/careers/2... Please Repost 🙏

Stopping behaviour in gulls is vital in the context of diversified foraging (e.g. chip-pilfering 🍟). Learning important info about Edinburgh’s favourite birds 😉 from @camilletroisi.bsky.social #ASABwinter2023

Great talk by @camilletroisi.bsky.social Inhibitory control in two gull species: examining the subcomponents of stopping across contexts @asabnews.bsky.social #ASAB

New paper out today! Do you want a detailed global database of traits related to bird nests? Want to see how well some of those traits correlate with environmental and morphological variables? How about a discussion of data gaps? Well you're in luck! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

PhD funding available! Based at the University of Aberdeen, with me, Isabella Capellini, Daniel Pincheira-Donoso, and Justin Travis, come combine anthropology and evolutionary biology to study the international pet trade! 🦜🐒🦎 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...