I've donated: if enough of us do that it sure make a difference. Have known about this issue for YEARS but seems that only now is it becoming well known. Help STOP the illegal killing of migratory #birds in #Cyprus! Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) donorbox.org/help-stop-il...

**PhD POSITIONS** I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work on sociality and cognition in Monk Parakeets, starting Fall 2026. Full ad is here: hobsonresearch.com/index.php/20... (please help spread the word!)

My book SHAMANISM: THE TIMELESS RELIGION will be out on May 20, 2025! Shamanism characterized the earliest religions, echoes in often unappreciated ways in the world around us, and will long outlive us. Pre-order it here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730339...

My favourite Starbucks work-buddy is now a doctor/dogtor 🐕 🎓 !!!! Congrats @louisemackie.bsky.social, we’re all so proud of you ! 🥂🍾

Numerical cognition in birds | www.nature.com/artic... | Nature Reviews Psychology | #ornithology 🪶

Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃 www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

“The big perspective change from ancient DNA study is that people living today are almost never the descendants of the people in the same place thousands of years before” news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

PhD Alert! 😍 Our lab is hiring a PhD student to study how shrews shrink in winter and grow in spring. Yes, you read that right! tinyurl.com/shrinkingshr... Join us at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, study a super cool animal, and join the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social community! DM me for questions!

Interested in doing your PhD in Spain on 🧠 ? Contact me to discuss projects and apply for this position! www.icp.cat/index.php/en...

Our student winner is @samyuktharajan.bsky.social (Stockholm University) for “Geographical variation in parental calls contextually shapes nestling songbird” You can read her paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.an... 2/4

"Facing the possibility of consciousness in human brain organoids" www.cell.com/patterns/ful... @cp-patterns.bsky.social Christopher Wood, Hao Wang, Wei-Jun Yang, and Yongmei Xi

NEW PAPER: investigating hormonal mechanisms and energy conditions of birds at stopover in relation to weather conditions encountered over the Mediterranean Sea route during pre-breeding migration. ➡️ vist.ly/46jvx #ornithology #birds 🪶 @ericacalabretta.bsky.social @fusanilab.bsky.social

Today is “drag and tag,” tagging sharks with drag queens while raising money for LGBQT+ youth organizations in Florida! www.scientificamerican.com/article/drag...

My walk home from some bird filming ❤️

Crows can learn to use tools The flexibility of corvid cognition is once again demonstrated to be sufficient for tool use, even in the absence of previous related adaptations. (paper) www.cell.com/current-biol... (blog) phys.org/news/2025-09...

Quick visit to Chilli beach the other day here in Cape York. 🏝️

Thank you to everyone at #ibac2025 for this amazing conference. I met so many great people and learned a lot about so many interesting projects. Excited to see you all again some time! And proud that my poster got the student poster price ☺️ stay tuned for the publication!

The count down starts for #CESRabat! Follow @ces2026.bsky.social and join us May 11-13 next year for an exciting meeting in Rabat, Morocco. Massive thanks to the #CESRabat organising committee: Sarah Alami (co-chair) Mathieu Charbonneau (co-chair) Zachary Garfield Edmond Seabright

Attending my first international conference, Behaviour 2025, was an amazing experience😊 I got to meet so many people interested in the same field and received a lot of valuable feedback. Excited to turn this work into a publication! #vetmeduni #Behaviour2025 #kea #poster

Notice how not a SINGLE CLIP of Charlie Kirk is being shown on TV as the news organizations try to eulogize him kindly. Even Fox News. You cannot show a SINGLE THING he ever said that wasnt spewing HATE and violence. What a legacy.

An Intergeneric Hybrid Between Historically Isolated Temperate and Tropical Jays Following Recent Range Expansion | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

At what point are Rooks and other corvids going to be given special protection, similar to primates, based on their intelligence and greater capacity for suffering? In England they can be shot, trapped and kept alive as decoys to trap & kill others. Little/no enforcement of limited protections.

New paper on precise tool use learning in carrion crows @currentbiology.bsky.social. We show that—like New Caledonian crows—expert carrion crows pay close attention to the working end of their tool, suggesting tool integration into their peripersonal space. 🧵 & vids! 👇 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Cool new paper on how neurons in my favorite bird's brain encode time. Congrats Millie and Max!! @milliejohnston.bsky.social , @crowbrain.bsky.social

First paper of the PD out! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... We argue that we can think about the start of a new collective ritual as a Stag Hunt Game. But a frequency-independent payoff is needed to get it going. In our case, perceived miracles is such a mechanism!

First camera trap footage looking interesting #birdsofparadise

"Insects and plants in tropical rainforests: the story of a turbulent relationship" 🌿 Starting now - Welcome to our first Plenary of #Ento25, Dr Vojtěch Novotný. Read more about the Ento25 plenaries 🔽 buff.ly/pccuXfc Lecture sponsored by @harperadamsuni.bsky.social. #Entomology #InsectScience

I had a great conversation with Abby. If you have 1-2 hours of your time to talk about/reflect on your story as a female PhD holder in STEM, and whether you're still in or no longer in academia, you should definitely reach out to her! Please share her call around you #WomenInSTEM

Here, the 'ballistic tongues' paper by Yu Zeng and team www.cell.com/current-biol... plus dispatch by Sam Van Wassenbergh www.cell.com/current-biol...

Extreme climate events can catalyze rapid evolutionary change! in our new Current Biology (@currentbiology.bsky.social) piece, Colin and I argue it’s time to study their evolutionary consequences systematically — beyond opportunistic observations. www.cell.com/current-biol...

A deeper challenge: First nations underwater cultural heritage in #Australia. The possibility of underwater archaeology from Australia's deep past. share.google/kCcIOzt1k28H... #IndigenousPeoples #underwaterculturalheritage #heritagelaws #fishtraps

“They’re taking our jobs” was always a lie. Alabama proved it. Alabama tried a “tough” immigration law, and it backfired hard. Immigrants fled, crops rotted, and farms collapsed. Americans tried to step in but couldn’t last a day. They’re not taking your jobs; they’re doing the jobs you won’t do.

Which #birdofparadise are we filming?

Postdoc advertisement! Hi all, I'm looking to hire a Postdoc in BIOACOUSTICS for work on Owls. Your job would be to collect & analyze bioacoustics data, and write papers. 🦉🦉🦅🐦🦜🦉🦉

This sounds like a fascinating project.

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

Exciting FULL PROFESSORSHIP at the Vienna BioCenter - Molecular Mechanisms of Disease Mechanisms: www.maxperutzlabs.ac.at/news/open-po... Come be our colleague!

Vocal Mimicry, and Conspecific Song and Calls, in Female Albert's Lyrebirds (Menura alberti) | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

Officially made it to the CYP! Time for some #magnificentriflebird field work 🤟🏻

I'm looking for a PhD student to do some trailblazing at the frontier of personality genomics and lifespan gene-environment transactions (start Fall 2026)! If you want to work with me: psychology.msu.edu/graduatestud... (PS @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social is taking a student too, in moral psych/dev!)

Issue 16 has closed & issue 17 is open journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22... The front cover by Kaloyana Koseva shows a bag hanging from its feet with forelimbs down. Laura Stidsholt reviews how bat-borne devices are revolutionising research into bat echolocation & behaviour

Do all random rhythms sound the same? This new #RSOS paper shows that, different from what is often assumed, listeners can find rhythmic structure even in randomly arranged sounds: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

⏰ EARLY-BIRD RATES TO 30 SEPT Register now for reduced rates at #BOUasm25 A day at the museum | 18 Nov 2025 | Natural History Museum, London ➡️ BOU member discounts ➡️ In-person & online ➡️ Visit Tring collections bou.org.uk/event/a-d...#BOUasm25 Keynote 🧵 ⬇️ #ornithology 🪶

The last 3 years have been the hottest in around 125,000 years. CO2 levels are their highest in MILLIONS of years. But most people have no idea this is happening, let alone what it means for our kids’ futures. Our politics & media have failed our children. We should be furious.

Excited to announce that the 1st paper from my postdoc is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! Using a large dataset of 3D preserved fossils, we explore the diversification of jaws in early bony fishes. 1/15 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Important reading as you prepare for your semester

And just like that, #Behaviour2025 is finished! Huge thanks to the organizers and everyone who made this happen!

As the name suggests, Spruce Bark Beetle is a threat to spruce plantations, but is zero risk to native forest in UK. Timber plantations are not forests, they’re crops. Big commercial worry for timber industry, but native woodlands might benefit if it kills off exotics. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...