The full-fat formatted version of our recent mongoose paper is now online in Animal Behaviour: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Do you love animal behavior & want to share that joy with younger folks? Write a short article on animal behavior for Frontiers for Young Minds (ages 8–15), co-authored with an undergrad! Part of an international ABS collection. Expression of interest due April 30. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

When I can’t sleep, I’ll occasionally watch the Visdeurbel cam. There’s something comforting about knowing that at any point, there are over a thousand other people willing to do something that’s objectively kind of silly just to help individual fish. Last night I got to ring the bell three times!

Do you love animal behavior & want to share that joy with younger folks? Write a short article on animal behavior for Frontiers for Young Minds (ages 8–15), co-authored with an undergrad! Part of an international ABS collection. Expression of interest due April 30. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Just a heads up that I will soon be advertising for a Postdoctoral position in my group to work on the evolution of cannibalism in Tribolium, starting ~September. Official Job ad to come soon. #academicjobs #postdoc #eeb

🐜Ants! 🍄‍🟫Fungal parasites! 👷‍♂️Task switching! 🏥Immune function! Our #EditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: “Chronic fungal infection accelerates age polyethism in ants without altering immune response” Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123426

We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Our job ad: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Message me if you have questions. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social

Job 🚨 Please share!! We have a teaching track faculty opening in our undergraduate behavioral biology program at Johns Hopkins University Teaching animal behavior plus self-developed courses facultyjobs.jhu.edu/Positions/De... @jhu.edu @jhuartssciences.bsky.social

I'm excited to announce that the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology are now published in Peer Community Journal peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

I hired these things to stare at you

Have you ever come up with a nifty solution to a research project (of course you have!) or maybe you *need* a nifty (and cheap!) solution for something. Planning to attend ABS 2026? You can present in both the regular conference & this special session, or just attend to steal some creativity :D

Update: we've extended our timeline! Review of applications will now begin March 24. Still plenty of time to put together an app! disi.org/apply/

🚨Abstract deadline for ABS 2026 is quickly approaching (March 23)! Join us at our annual meeting this summer in gorgeous Cincinnati. All the cool kids will be there 😎 Details and submission here: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/2026/abstrac...

Proposals are due May 18 for this year’s Graduate Research Excellence Grants! Up to $2500 for 1st and 2nd year grad students and up to $3500 for 3rd years and above. Learn more and apply now! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

We are searching for a new Department Head of Entomology at Virginia Tech. Come work in lovely Blacksburg with some pretty cool people and spectatular students. Please repost and spread the word. Review Date 4/26/26. jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/profess...

Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

🚨Abstract deadline for ABS 2026 is quickly approaching (March 23)! Join us at our annual meeting this summer in gorgeous Cincinnati. All the cool kids will be there 😎 Details and submission here: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/2026/abstrac...

🚀 Postdoc Alert! Are you passionate about social learning & cultural evolution? @dominikdeffner.bsky.social & I have a 3-year position with freedom to develop your research and work on cutting-edge multiplayer and immersive experiments. Apply by March 30! hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni... Pls share 🙏

🐟 Fish 🐠🐠 Fish 🐟🐠🐡 Fishes 🦑🦀🦪 Also, somehow, Fish 🦈 Gristle Fish 🦫 Fish (Lent) 🐝 Fish (California)

Are you a soon-to-be minted Dr. of Animal Behavior? Apply for the Allee Competition at the 2026 ABS meeting! It's only the most prestigious prize for graduating animal behavior students (IMHO) and a super fun way to present your work to the world 🦜🐒🐟🪰 www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-a...

You know those moments when you see research that so well aligns with your personal interests that ask yourself if you went into the wrong scientific field... yeah, that's this for me. 😜

Apply for the #ABS2026 Turner program! This award is aimed at supporting undergraduates from groups historically underrepresented in science in attending the conference. See here for more info: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards.php

Curious whether bees can learn non-floral cues to find floral rewards? New paper in Animal Behavior @animbehsociety.bsky.social by @mtcastagna.bsky.social, @jentomology.bsky.social, Ciara Stewart, and myself! We find evidence that bees can learn leaf shape! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Apply for the #ABS2026 Turner program! This award is aimed at supporting undergraduates from groups historically underrepresented in science in attending the conference. See here for more info: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards.php

Are you a postdoc, research scientist, non-tenure track faculty member, or lecturer who wants to attend #ABS2026? Apply to the Career Diversity Travel Award! The award helps fund scientists from less well-supported career stages. Apply here by March 23: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-c...

Our new paper is now out showing how time perception in animals is linked to their ecology. Using data from 237 species we show temporal perception is faster in species that fly and pursuit predators www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐

📢NEW paper alert 📖How #aggression between groupmates can have lasting consequences both for #cooperative #behaviour & responses to #intergroup threats: doi.org/10.1016/j.an... 👑Led by @josharbon.bsky.social #fieldwork #experiments #mongooses #mammals #bioacoustics @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

🌟🌟Interested in a postdoctoral project about host-parasite coevolution and/or underlying mechanisms? 🌟🌟 Check your eligibility for this fellowship & contact me. I am particularly interested in hosting scholars from the Global South (¡Arriba mi gente!). www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp...

🐜Ants! 🍄Fungal infections! 🦠Immune responses! 💼Task allocation! Our #EditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: “Chronic fungal infection accelerates age polyethism in ants without altering immune response” Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123426

🎙️ New Meet the P.I. podcast episode with Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy (@avispatica.bsky.social) is out! Becoming a P.I., building a lab culture, navigating academia as an international researcher and more ✨ 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/24sj... 📺 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iswt...

🚨JOB alert🚨 We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol. Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology ⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026 🙏Please circulate widely 😊Come join us! Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc

New mating behavior just dropped

Footage of a southern sleeper shark was captured in January 2025 by a baited deep-sea camera in a trench at about 490 meters beneath the sea surface off the South Shetland Islands.🦈 spklr.io/6003DUXG3 📷: Inkfish/UWA/Kelpie Geoscience 🎵: Current Clouds

Social partners shape phenotypes in house sparrows: direct & indirect social effects covary in producer-scrounger tactics, forming a multivariate syndrome that constrains trait variation: academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-... @cdegroot.bsky.social @roriwijnhorst.bsky.social @dingemanselab.bsky.social

"Animal cultures matter first and foremost because they matter to the animals themselves." If you enjoyed our recent episode on the value of animal cultures, you may be interested in this new paper by @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social & @kristinandrews.bsky.social! link.springer.com/article/10.3...

🚨🚨🚨 Attention science communicators! 🚨🚨🚨 The 2026 Science IRL mini-grant application is NOW OPEN! Submit your creative ideas for connecting people with actionable science information *offline*. The deadline for this round of grants is March 23, 2026. Apply here! forms.gle/4emvpRPddmEt...

Our new paper is out today in Animal Behaviour: "Hushed disputes between noisy neighbours: Ovenbirds vary song amplitude during conflicts with territorial rivals." By Connor Acorn, Jenn Foote, & me. @animbehsociety.bsky.social How loud is an Ovenbird's song? It depends... 🧵1

Happy birthday, Chuck. Proud to carry on your legacy of studying evolutionary biology while going through it

⭐The ASSAB 2026 conference registrations are now open⭐ Early bird registrations are open until 15 May 2026 Click here to register: www.assab.org/assab-2026 We are also open for abstract submissions! 23-25 June, Adelaide, South Australia Flinders University

How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications. My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/ academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

You know what's better than science-themed March Mammal Madness Valentines of #2026MMM Combatants!?! Science-themed March Mammal Madness Valentines of combatants that carry ear-worms. They're INFECTIOUS! Download in color or greyscale at the LibGuide libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...

We are proud to unveil the world’s longest underwater timelapse, starting May 1st 2023 and running 1,000 days through January 28, 2026. This 10fps period covers summer 2023’s coral bleaching mortality event, but then recovering and growing through ‘24 & ‘25 into ‘26 #coralcitycamera

This is a *great* opportunity for early career researchers to get their work out into the public domain! I had a fab time talking to Laura about my research on the evolution of masturbation 🐒👋🍆💦🦧🌮👈: open.spotify.com/episode/3Xy9...

The Birdsong Lab is recruiting graduate students to study vocal communication in tropical birds. The deadline to apply is less than a week away! #birds #birdsong #ornithology #animalbehavior #BirdsCanada #AcademicSky #SciComm

Looking to make your science accessible and meaningful? Need help developing science education & outreach materials or ideas? Well then do we have the resource for you! The ABS Communications Committee developed this excellent repository of resources, so check it out! tinyurl.com/4evx8wyx

Are you an early career ABS member with diverse lived experiences that also studies sex &/or reproduction? Do you want to be interviewed for the "I Came For Science" podcast by fellow ABS member Laura Sirot? I bet you do! (Contact info on their webpage) www.icameforscience.org

I hope to see some of you in Bielefeld for this upcoming workshop on measuring and modeling plasticity. ECRs in and around Germany with a penchant for statistics should consider applying while spots remain available!

A lifelong passion for writing helped rising star @doctheagrif.bsky.social land a book deal and publish 15 chapter books for early readers, covering topics ranging from what the cerebellum does to how a cake bakes. By @avaskham.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...

Looking to make your science accessible and meaningful? Need help developing science education & outreach materials or ideas? Well then do we have the resource for you! The ABS Communications Committee developed this excellent repository of resources, so check it out! tinyurl.com/4evx8wyx