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Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches. This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists! Archaeologists! Please volunteer www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

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Congratulations to this year’s ASAB paper prize winners for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal 🏆 📝 1/4 www.asab.org/animal-behav...

Job opportunity in ANIMAL BEHAVIOR!!

Reminder! The deadline for our infographic competition is the 18th of October. The last day of #biologyweek You can find out more information here www.asab.org/education-news There are three age categories: 7-10 years old, 11-14 years old and 15-21 years old.

Reminder that today (Sept 12) is the (extended) deadline for submitting abstracts to #ASABWinter2025 ! 🚨 Submit here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/ Also don’t forget the deadline for travel grants for the winter meeting is coming up on October 1 🚂

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@delphinedemoor.bsky.social was present at the Behaviour 2025: XXXVIII International Ethological Congress and took the opportunity to spread the ABC mission 👏 We’ve prepared resources, like logos and email templates, for everyone to reach more students, mentees, donors: linktr.ee/animalbehavi...

As a final addition, my departmental colleague (@batsrkul.bsky.social) Prof. Erin Gillam and I finally got our poster presentation recorded and up. Just a couple of months late! We looked at average explanatory power across studies in animal behavior. youtu.be/nXZ7yIARokE #ABS2025 #evolution

Join us at the Southeaster Conference for Animal Behavior to learn about this year's theme, Behavior in the Southeast! We now have an updated time: 9/26 to 9/27! Register here by 9/11: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Following up on the #ABS2025 meeting, our lab's presentations are now available on youtube: www.youtube.com/@Dochtermann...

"By focusing on sentience and placing it in an evolutionary context, Feinberg has created a compelling argument that the principles of neurobiological emergentism can aid our attempts to understand the brain and consciousness." — The Lancet Neurology mitpress.mit.edu/978026255095... @thelancet.com

Application is open! Come join us and our fantastic line-up of speakers next year in March in Bonn!

Celebrating the publication of our big collaborative spatial-social meta-analysis of density-dependent transmission effects, out now in Nature Eco Evo! doi.org/10.1038/s415... (or rdcu.be/eD6eB)

Super happy that our paper on offspring provisioning in communal breeding Smooth-billed Anis is out in @animbehsociety.bsky.social 🥳 Excellent undergrad work by Ashley Grew @queensuniv.bsky.social & Labiqah Iftikhar @uwaterloo.ca, who scored 100s of hours of video to find out that…1/3

Do you have a passion for communication AND animal behavior? Well then we have the job for you! Join our Communications Committee and help drive the sci comm of our society! Help us post on IG, publish a podcast, write to our reps and newspapers! email: [email protected]

Here's an owlet showing off his flexibility last week.🪶

Do you mentor scientific writing, or use written assignments in the science courses you teach? Do you find mentoring/teaching writing hard, or time consuming? (Because it is!) Our new book can help, and it's getting close to being in your hands.

PhD opportunity in animal behavior (based in Madrid)!!

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers! This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Founders Memorial Poster Award is given to outstanding posters presented by grad students or postdocs. This year, @sekharma.bsky.social nabbed the top spot with "Ungeneralizable generalizations? The influence of taxonomic bias on meta-analytical inferences in behavior" Congrats!!

First place in the Allee Competition for best (graduating) student talk goes to Janice Yan for her talk on "Sexual conflict, social networks, and the fitness consequences of female multiple mating." Amazing work! Janice is now a postdoc with @cwmiller.bsky.social More: www.janice-yan.com

🧪 ETHOLOGY: Female cricket mate choice depends on size and song, modulated by competition 🎶🦗♀️ Jia et al. show female Chinese crickets rely on male songs, but differently with shifting intra-sexual competition— a complex interplay between song, size & social context at work! doi.org/10.1111/eth....

So you already know the basics of ERC research grant application. Still thinking of applying this year? Or supporting someone who is going to apply? Now it's time for a more in-depth look. Register for our 2nd webinar about ERC grants, on 11 September at 15:00 CEST 👉 europa.eu/!tB4q8F

Our new paper shows how arena size can bias sociability estimates in sticklebacks: bigger tanks = lower sociability, even after adjusting for tank size. Repeatability highest at intermediate size. #methodsmatter! Great work from @mgmci13.bsky.social! Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Grateful to @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org for an amazing opportunity to reconnect with friends and colleagues🤩Loved showing them around the City of Joy – and ofc, no trip to #Kolkata is complete without diving into its irresistible food scene! 🍲🕌🥘🧆🤤 #behaviour2025

⏳ Time is ticking… Only 5 days left! Don’t miss your chance to share your work at #ABL2025, our free online conference on animal behavior research. 🎤 15-min oral talks 🎥 5-min video posters 📅 Deadline: September 7 📄 Submit your abstract now 👉 ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org

We always give out several awards during our annual meeting for best posters and talks. These presentations are always major highlights of the meeting and this year they did not disappoint either!

One of the best part of our annual meeting is getting to announce all of our society's annual awardees! This year, we inducted 5 new Fellows to our society. These fellows were all nominated by their peers for their distinguished contributions to the field. Congrats to all of them! 🎉🦆🐝🪹🐒🦜🎉

This was the coolest part of my summer. Its also very cool to have teaching, mentoring, and outreach appreciated. So much of the pressures of our jobs are all about grants and papers but its validating to have the other ways in which we choose to spend our time and energy be noticed and appreciated.

Big congrats to Terry Ord for receiving this year's Penny Bernstein Distinguished Teaching Award! While Terry is an avid animal behavior researcher, he also is passionate about teaching and published a (free!) graphic novel explaining topics in animal behavior! www.ordlab.unsw.edu.au/understandin...

Congratulations to Debra Shier (at the @sandiegozoo.bsky.social) for winning this year's Buchholz Conservation Award for an outstanding contribution to the integrative field of conservation behavior. Well done! science.sandiegozoo.org

Congrats to Mark Hauber on winning this year's Quest Award for an outstanding seminal contribution! Mark has studied it all but the biggest themes in his work center around understanding brood parasitism and coloration of bird eggs. Richly deserved @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social ! www.cowbirdlab.org

We're so excited to announce that Eleanor Caves has received the Outstanding New Investigator Award! Eleanor is a visual ecologist interested in understanding how ecology shapes variation in vision among specie and how this affects their interactions with their world. Congrats!! caveslab.org

Big time congrats to @larschittka.bsky.social on receiving the Exemplar Award this year! Lars and his team has discovered several previously unimaginable cognitive capacities in the itty bitty brains of bees giving us new insights into the evolution of learning. chittkalab.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk

We're delighted to award Steve Nowicki the Distinguished Animal Behaviorist Award! Steve and his team investigates vocal communication in birds. Steve has a legacy of producing top scientists, mentoring over 26 PhDs & postdocs. He has left a positive lasting mark on the field! www.nowickilab.org

In robins, males and females sing to defend a territory. A new paper in @royalsocietypublishing.org shows that both increase vocal effort when hearing the song of an intruder, regardless of its sex. This highlights the role of female birdsong in displaying aggression: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

So honored to be honored by a society I value so much

One of the best part of our annual meeting is getting to announce all of our society's annual awardees! This year, we inducted 5 new Fellows to our society. These fellows were all nominated by their peers for their distinguished contributions to the field. Congrats to all of them! 🎉🦆🐝🪹🐒🦜🎉

Associate Professor position in animal physiology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (to replace me basically). An amazing permanent position at a great university! Please spread widely 🙏 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

WSU biology is hiring a vertebrate ecologist! wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...

Prof. Rohini Balakrishnan presented the #Behaviour2025 plenary talk on the topic of signals, mate-finding & mate choice: the importance of spatial context @CES_IISc #plenarytalk #scienceconference

Join the ABS and our colleagues for a week of action supporting NSF research funding in the US! A media toolkit with sample language, talking points, and contact templates compiled by the ASN/SSE/SSB is available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A new theme issue in #PhilTransB looks at how and why animal minds have evolved to be so different from one another, framing animal #cognition as a diverse set of solutions to life’s many challenges buff.ly/csMZa3R

AIBS is offering this professional development program designed to help scientists, including graduate students, hone their written communication skills to increase the impact and influence of their message. #aibs #writingcourse #workshop www.aibs.org/news/2025/25...

At ABS 2025, join us and @aibsbiology.bsky.social July 9 at 12:15 PM for a workshop on communicating science to non-technical audiences! We'll focus on influencing policy and public understanding—perfect for making your science matter beyond academia. Sign up here: fs10.formsite.com/spltrak/gdrr...

Are you a scientist with an interest in photography? We're delighted to announce that the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition is now open for entries until 15 August 2025! 🎉 Find out more: royalsociety.org/journals/pub... #RSPphotocomp

Congratulations to Thalia, one of the ABS 2025 Turner Awardees! Thalia is an early-year undergraduate at Lake Forest College studying sexual selection in insects in the Barbosa lab. She is interested in understanding how environmental and sexual selection shape animal behavior and morphology. (1/2)