More fieldwork in Singapore with @theroesa.bsky.social

New #dog #eyetracking paper: Pupil size changes reveal that dogs have expectations about the usual response to some conventional human gestures in a third-party context. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... led by Lucrezia Lonardo and w/ Ludwig Huber.

Lund University is hiring for 9 new positions! Individual job details below!👇 #ScienceJobs

🇵🇬 declares 🇬🇧 size MPA in the Bismarck Sea. #30x30 #OceanOptimism oceanographicmagazine.com/news/papua-n...

Our work on trace conditioning x reversal learning in honey bees is now published ! @martingiurfa.bsky.social I especially want to acknowledge Shirel's part in this work, for collecting most of the data during her Bachelor's internship. 🐝✨ Link: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Super stoked that our paper on gecko embryology and diel activity evolution is featured on the cover of @journal-evo.bsky.social! Finally, the most glorious lizards (Aristelliger) are getting the spotlight they deserve 😀

Thought Id check out who cited one of my papers on riflebird courtship; turned out one citation is pure AI slop! The book chapter invented a nonsensical title and author list. Another ref about jellyfish had a DOI linked to a paper about long term memory in Caracaras. Total shite!

New episode!! 🎉🎙️ An interview w/ @mattlongo.bsky.social about the cognitive neuroscience of hands. The hand is often celebrated as a paragon of engineering, but the meat-and-bones design is not particularly novel. Could the real power of the hand lie elsewhere? Listen: disi.org/the-inner-li...

We are recruiting for a PhD student who will be studying jointly between Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and University of St Andrews, More information are attached. @phrg-standrews.bsky.social @cpc-cg.bsky.social @bspsuk.bsky.social

Scientists have identified four new-to-science species of chameleons living on isolated mountain peaks in northern Mozambique. These granite "sky islands" act as ecological oases, allowing unique species to evolve in isolation for millions of years. @npbrao.bsky.social reports! mongabay.cc/LANQcz

I am hiring a PhD student to join our group in Lund, Sweden working on an ERC-funded project to untangle color and polarization vision in some amazing crustaceans – minute water fleas and pugnacious mantis shrimp! Please forward this to promising students. Apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Probably my favorite Attenborough clip 🪶

Happy 100th birthday, Sir David Attenborough! Of all the billions of animals on Planet Earth, you are one of the very very best. Thank you. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

We’re hiring! We invite applications for an Ecological Statistician to join our team. Work at the interface of cutting-edge biodiversity science and statistics. DL 27 May @jarnovanhatalo.bsky.social @rececochange.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

I really like the #TheScientificNaturalist format, & this "Big sharks in the dark" paper is a great example—sufficient details, but written in a way that makes the work accessible & engaging to a broad audience. doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... @esajournals.bsky.social

🚨 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...

One week left to apply: jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/3e09...

James Costa and Elizabeth Yale will be giving a talk about their new book: Annotated Edition of The Descent of Man. Wed, 13 May at 5.30-6.30pm. Department of Zoology. @camzoology.bsky.social BOOK NOW: www.eventbrite.com/e/1985662082...

Second preprint from my PhD! Using our whole lake transplant experiment in Alaska 🏔️ we test for assortative mating following secondary contact among divergent stickleback populations 🐟 and found the opposite of what we expected… 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excellent reminder from @garymarcus.bsky.social of all the arguments about why chatbots(a far better term than the misleading “AI”) are not conscious, using Dawkins’ daft infatuation as the starting point.

How infuriating to hear the chairman(?) of Asda on the Today programme implying that land use for solar farms might significantly hurt UK food production. It's nonsense. Golf courses use more than solar ever will & beef/lamb production is huge yet provides a tiny fraction of our protein & calories.

📣 #PhDOpportunity in Geelong, Australia Ever wondered how urbanisation affects sleep in birds? 🐦 Interested in #behaviouralecology and #biologging? Come and work with me and Kate Buchanan at @deakinuniversity.bsky.social! Applications close 31 May Details: www.deakin.edu.au/study/fees-a...

What an unreal bird! Sword-billed hummingbird, Peru

#PhilJobs #HPS

Very important article and read academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Roll up, roll up! Looking for a postdoc? Want somewhere that's academia adjacent? Interested in seabirds, plastics, and conservation? Come work with me and @adriftlab.bsky.social! If you want to help develop an application, get in touch! #ornithology #seabirds #PhDjobs #PostdocJobs

This was one of the hardest stories to write. When people fail to spay/neuter, or buy a dog instead of adopting, the animals pay the price — and so do shelter workers and animal control officers. Performing euthanasia, responding to cruelty cases, & more, is a huge burden.

🐒 PhD Opportunity 🐒 I'm excited to announce that we are now welcoming applications for a 3-year fully funded PhD position at Nottingham Trent University as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project. More info: jamiewhitehouse.github.io/mappingconne... Apply here: tinyurl.com/PhDNTU

Postdoc available in herbivores and vegetation mapping, focusing on reindeer and muskoxen. Collab between Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Cambridge Uni, and the Scott Polar Research Institute. More details, naalakkersuisut.emply.net/recruitment/... 🧪 🌍 #PhDSky #AcademicSky

Well this is a big one the largest paper from my PhD is finally out! We show how direct lighting influences optimal camouflage! With shadows promoting the evolution of darker, striped patterns and countershading!! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Sunbirds don’t drink nectar like hummingbirds. They use intralingual suction: the tongue acts like a straw, moving nectar via pressure differences rather than capillarity. A clear case of biomechanical divergence despite ecological convergence. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... @CurrentBiology #ornithology

Nice work @stfabian.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/biol...

PhD Opportunity! 4-year funded PhD @uniexecec.bsky.social: “From cognition to conservation: using cognitive and behavioural research to enhance animal reintroductions”. Closes: 5 June 2026. Funding: @royalsociety.org (UK/Home students only). More info & to apply: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 1/

New paper alert! In this Current Biology paper led by Hassan Al Razi, we show that chimpanzees in Rwanda adjust nest construction with weather conditions. @ox.ac.uk @oxford-anthro.bsky.social @oxfordhumsci.bsky.social @ceb-uwa.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sing loud, sing rhythmically! And grow up singing! Third paper in a row! One of the most insightful papers of the last few years is finally out! Congrats to the whole team! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Scream loud today!!! Read more about rhythm in siamangs in our new paper: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I love this piece. Animals are so totally worth spending your life obsessing over and kids know that best :)

Psilocybin mushrooms are found worldwide, yet I have long argued (based on direct evidence) that traditional use is confined to Mesoamerica. I was wrong! In a new paper led by @eselster.bsky.social, we document Indigenous psilocybin mushroom use—potentially very old—in highland southern Africa.

Do infants have a sense of beauty? A study using kinetic dot displays doi.org/10.1098/rspb... | #ProcB #Behaviour #Cognition #Neuroscience

Killing a person is a crime. Killing a river, a forest, or an entire ecosystem? Still legal in most countries. When destruction is this scale, fines aren't enough. Ecocide must be criminalised at the international level. Make destruction a crime, not a business cost.

📣ATTENTION!!! Postdoc position on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees and Bonobos 🤩 With the APE Group & Wildminds Lab @nakedprimate.bsky.social Come join us!!! ✨Please RT✨ @efprimatology.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social

He highlighted the importance of observing subtle changes in behavior, such as feather postures, and documented how slight changes in posture, feather erection, and gesture could have large, but non-obvious, communicative effects. Also, my favorite illustrative figures are from this paper.

✍ New blog post! Why Science Should Celebrate Ideas, Not Individuals jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2026/04/22/w... My main point is not to reject recognition or role models altogether, but to strike a better balance. Ultimately, ideas should take center stage, not individuals.

Zoologist and author Desmond Morris dies aged 98 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hey gang! Exeter’s looking for a 4-year postdoc in philsci & AI. Sweet gig at a great place - share around :D #philsci #philjobs www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD641/p...

Doing more writing/coding than reading these days but book nr. 6 of the year is Sleeping Beauties by Andreas Wagner. Nice perspective on the tendency for biological and cultural systems to produce important innovations long before their potential is realized.

Galápagos yellow warblers often start incubating their next clutch before their fledglings are fully independent. Which brings a little parent-offspring conflict with it.

New special issue on "Cultural evolution of the arts" led by @sobchuk.bsky.social and @masonyoungblood.bsky.social confirms my intuition that this field has taken off in the past two decades, with a particularly strong representation from music! doi.org/10.1017/ehs....

#bioacoustics Our lab is hiring a post-doc to work on bioacoustics research in the Hoosier National Forest! 🔊https://www.peaselab.com/current-openings

A new paper I'm on is out today! Led by Stanley Somogyi, we suggest that ancestrally variable characters stabilized independently in different bird lineages, causing distantly related groups to retain similar traits and creating headaches for bird systematists. www.cell.com/current-biol... 🪶🧪