It’s #TautonymTuesday! Meet 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑎 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑎, the common #genet. This slender, spotted #carnivore ranges across #Africa and parts of southern #Europe, with a long ringed tail and cat‑like agility that makes it an excellent nocturnal #hunter. #TaxonomyTuesday #Systematics Photo: Frédéric Salein

Anyone else need an adorably sleepy baby great horned owl to get them through the week? #bird #birds #owls #mcoupephotography #wildlife #greathornedowl

Stable ecology jobs are few and far between at the moment, but the team I'm on is actually hiring! Come coordinate the third Ohio Bird Atlas! This'll be a 5+ year role, based at Ohio State. Bachelor's degree required (Master's preferred). Please share! osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

Attention horse researchers!! The annual Morris Animal Foundation equine behavior/welfare Request For Proposals is now open! 🐴 More info is available at www.morrisanimalfoundation.org/apply under Equid Annual.

The deadline is approaching for our NSF-funded Lab Tech search - please consider applying! I'm happy to answer any Qs, and you can learn more about our great lab group here: TessaSolomonLane.com 🧪🐠🧠 @sbn-bsky.bsky.social @sicb.bsky.social @animbehsociety.bsky.social @sfn.org

⏮️ Missed our last seminar? No worries! You can still catch Dr. Anna Dornhaus’s talk “What we learned about the world from studying collective behavior: algorithms, replicators, and strong inference” on YouTube! 🐜🐝 @dornhaus.bsky.social 🎥 Watch the replay now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oioL...

🚨 Fifty years of research on "badges of status" in animals, and we still don't know if the hypothesis holds. In our new reply, we argue that the evidence is shakier than recently claimed. A thread 🧵📄 (w/ @ornitho-pie.bsky.social) 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

New theme issue of #PhilTransB: The evolution of collective intelligence. Read #OA: buff.ly/f0gWUxH

Feeling bamboozled by R? If so, you're not alone. Join me & @jbbrask.bsky.social in Copenhagen for an intro course that will give you the foundation I wish I'd had as a PhD student. Friendly & accessible with lots of time for your own questions & coding projects. Deadline extended to May 15. 🎉

Proposals are due soon for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! This year the R. C. Lewontin Early Award and Rosemary Grant Advanced Award are both due on May 18. Be sure to review the application instructions and apply soon! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

Hey fam, did you know the ABS website hosts a "Positions & News" message board that you can post to? Use it to get the word out about jobs (field techs! TT!) or other fun stuff (surveys! initiatives!) to the animal behavior community! (Pls repost) www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/news.php

Don't forget about this excellent opportunity to share your joy and story-telling passion with younger generations! Expressions of interest are due on April 30th: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🐼Lemurs! 🖊️Social learning! 🫂Tolerance! 🌐Diffusion analysis! Our #EditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: “Social tolerance mediates social learning in wild red-fronted lemurs, Eulemur rufifrons, and ring-tailed lemurs, Lemur catta” Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2026.123517

Excited to share a new article written with fantastic co-authors Towards an Integrated Understanding of Animal Weapons www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cocaine Bear and Cocaine Shark might have just been campy horror films, but Cocaine Salmon are the real deal. 🐟🧪

This is absolutely a program you want to get involved with! Incredible support, mentoring and community!

Transformers! More than meets the eye! This VERY ANGRY ROCK is actually a brown box crab (Echidnocerus foraminatus), a king crab found off the Pacific coast of North America. The impressively compact shape is a defense posture, but there's an even neater feature not shown here. (📷:zedasd)

This #PhilTransB theme issue, organised by @ellileadbeater.bsky.social and @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social, explores how and why animal minds have evolved to be so different from one another: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

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📢 Mark your calendars for the Joint Graduate Meeting 2026, sponsored by @ethoges.bsky.social and the German Zoological Society (DZG)! Don't miss this fantastic opportunity to showcase your research & network with peers! 📆 30.09. - 02.10.2026 🌍 @uni-muenster.de Abstract submission will open soon.

🐦 New PhD position! @prfju.bsky.social @ckecz.bsky.social Nest defence in passerine birds Interested in animal behaviour, fieldwork and evolutionary ecology? 📅 Start July 2026 | ⏳ 4 years | 💰 Fully funded Apply by May 10 → [email protected] / [email protected] #PhDjobs #PhDchat #PhD #ornithology

The UC Center for Public Engagement with Science @ucpews.bsky.social is hiring a postdoc! Anyone who will earn a PhD in a related discipline with interest in public engagement is encouraged to apply. Please share widely! More details and apply here: jobs.uc.edu/job/Postdoct... #SciComm #philsci 🧪

ETHOLOGY - Call for papers - Special issue "Wildlife in Urban Spaces – Adaptations and Human Perceptions" 🦌🏙️💁‍♀️ Submission deadline: Saturday, 31 October 2026

Hey are you into podcasts? Have you ever made one or know how to sound edit? Well then we have the job for you! The Animal Behavior Podcast is hunting for more folks to help edit their podcasts! They have some interviews but need more expertise on the technical side. Email: arredondo .at. ou.edu

Hey are you into podcasts? Have you ever made one or know how to sound edit? Well then we have the job for you! The Animal Behavior Podcast is hunting for more folks to help edit their podcasts! They have some interviews but need more expertise on the technical side. Email: arredondo .at. ou.edu

If you're in need of a bit of color this morning, here's a metallic green sweat bee who wants all the pollen. Anza-Borrego Desert, California. #Bugsky 🌿🐙🐝🌼

Post Doc position alert! Come work with us on the evolution of cannibalism. Full job description in link below. Salary starts at $58k plus benefits. (Please help spread the word) emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Amazing initiative!

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...