And the best student poster prize first place poster goes to ... Charlotte Sutton!! Her poster about keeping finches up all hours of the night had so much work on it!! Good work!!

Great talk by Kamya Patel and her talk "Sleepy singers: disturbance negatively impacts song learning" about how sleep deprivation can impact zebra finch singing #ASSAB20206 @kamyabio.bsky.social

Charlotte Sutton’s poster titled “sleep on the brain” looks at the cognitive effects of early-life sleep disturbance on zebra finches #ASSAB2026

Summer Research Scholarships at the University of Waikato are now open! 📢 I have a project available on social dynamics in bird sleep, and we’re looking for motivated students to join us.🐦💤 💰$8,000 |⏱10 weeks (Nov–Feb) 🗓Apply by 13 July 2026 More info: www.waikato.ac.nz/study/schola... 🧪

Excited to launch this today! If you know any Indigenous students in the Australasian region who are interested in Animal Behaviour, please encourage them (or nominate them) to join ASSAB for free 🐦 🐛 🐸 🐀 🪲 🐝 🐟 🦎 🐔

Also, @jgmussoi.bsky.social is leading this special issue in NZ J Zoology & is seeking submissions from Animal Behav folks around the Australasian region.

Great news! We have two amazing workshops lined up for the ASSAB 2026 conference! 🐋 So you want to study marine wildlife behaviour: building the research and the researcher 📊 From Field to Dashboard: Rapid Ecological Data Collection and Visualisation with Survey123 www.assab.org/assab-2026

Excited to be Lead Guest Editor for a special issue of the New Zealand Journal of Zoology on Australasian Animal Behaviour 🐦🦎🦘🌏🧪 Linked to ASSAB 2026 conference, we’re welcoming submissions across all areas of animal behaviour research in Australasia. @royalsocietynz.bsky.social

Fabulous day celebrating biodiversity & the City Nature Challenge at Te Papanui. Thanks to our friends at GoEco, Hamilton City Council, @jgmussoi.bsky.social & my awesome students @waikatouniversity.bsky.social for making it so fun. There's still time to snap pics for CNC @inaturalist.bsky.social

More protection for migrating animals after global meeting – Expert Reaction

🚨ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED🚨 If you need more time to get your abstract together for the 2026 ASSAB conference, we have great news! The deadline for abstract submissions has been extended until the 27th of March! www.assab.org/assab-2026

🚨ABSTRACT SUBMISSION REMINDER🚨 Submissions for the 2026 ASSAB conference are still open until the 13th of March. Submit now to take part in a friendly, warm and welcoming conference for behavioural ecologists

⭐ASSAB 2026 Plenary Speakers⭐ 🐝Prof. Andrew Barron: Why the honey bee is smarter than ChatGPT 🐦🐿️Assoc. Prof. Kristal Cain: Chasing birds and shiny squirrels - an alternative path in academia 🪲Dr Kawsar Khan Behaviour ecology in the Anthropocene 🐟Dr Upama Aich Sex and stress in a changing world

Register for the ASSAB 2026 conference here: www.assab.org/assab-2026 The conference is warm and welcoming for all animal behaviour enthusiasts and researchers. Hosted by Flinders University, South Australia.

⭐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

Check out my first ever paper! @kecain.bsky.social @ecostanley.bsky.social and @jgmussoi.bsky.social summarised our knowledge on sleep disturbance in birds

🚨SAVE THE DATE ASSAB 2026🚨 The ASSAB 2026 conference will be held in Adelaide in 2026! Keep an eye out on the ASSAB website and social media for more information! We will see you there!

This paper shows the importance of collaborations! Who knew a bunch of "leftover" fecal samples could turn out into such a cool paper. We found that lack of sleep and increased stress decrease diversity in the gut microbiotas of common mynas. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New paper! Been working on this one for a while and it is finally out! We discuss and speculate on the possible role of sleep disruption in hybridization! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

@kamyabio.bsky.social's first article from her PhD is out! @aucklanduni.bsky.social @kecain.bsky.social

Check out @kecain.bsky.social and my interview with ‪Audubon Magazine about our latest article. www.audubon.org/magazine/sle... #AudubonMagazine #Science #Sleep #Birdsong

Interesting study @royalsocietypublishing.org tests how sleep disturbance affects vocal communication in birds. @kecain.bsky.social @jgmussoi.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

The effects of #sleep disturbance on a #songbird’s vocal performance #ProcB #OpenAccess #Behaviour royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

New research shows common mynas sang fewer and less complex songs after a bad night’s sleep. Poor-quality song could affect a bird’s ability to reproduce and survive.

And here's @jgmussoi.bsky.social's @aunz.theconversation.com story theconversation.com/sleepy-birds...

New article out: The effects of sleep disturbance on a songbird’s vocal performance royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #science #birds #sleep #birdsong #urbanecology

Fish driving cars and chimps doing maths: what teaching animals ‘irrelevant’ skills reveals about our own minds theconversation.com/fish-driving...

Reminder: Tomorrow (14 May) is the last day for submitting abstracts to #ASSAB2025 See you all in Armidale!

We are extending the deadline for submitting abstracts to Wednesday, the 14th of May, and the early bird registration to Friday, the 16th of May. #ASSAB2025 Check out our website for more updates: www.assab.org/assab-2025

Not news, but more than ever important to reiterate! 🧪 theconversation.com/basic-resear...

Are you a researcher publishing a study developed in the global south? Check out the New Zealand Journal of Zoology! www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/nzjz-so...

The Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour conference is thus June in Armidale, NSW! Register to attend here: www.assab.org/assab-2025 If you are keen to present, we are also accepting abstract submissions until the 9th of May : docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Abstract submissions are open for the Australasian Ornithological Conference #AOC2025 And I'm excited to be organizing the Behavioural Ecology Symposium! #Birds, #behaviour and #ecology? Can't beat that. 🤷‍♀️ Go ahead and submit your abstract! aoc.org.au/call-for-abs...

🇦🇺 should be doing everything we can to attract & retain the next generation of ppl with big ideas. PHD students shouldn’t have to live in poverty to complete their study. ⬆️ the stipend was recommended by the Universities Accord - govt should get on with it. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

I had a great time chatting to Jonny from 95bFM about our research. Here is the link if you want a quick 9 minutes listen: 95bfm.com/bcast/ready-...

What?!?! A game changer for equity-seeking groups when compared to h-factor indexes for candidacy and promotion. ping @laurierbiology.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

It’s a dark day for research in Aotearoa New Zealand and the ramifications for the country are huge. Minister Judith Collins has just announced our blue-skies funder will no longer fund humanities & social science research and that 50% of what is funded must have economic benefit.

The Conservation Technology Lab at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance has an opening for a postdoc from computer science or a related field with strong experience in machine learning to work on bioacoustics projects in ecology and conservation: us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...

Absolutely loving the first year PhD Lightening talks at our annual Dept. research & teaching celebration. @kamyabio.bsky.social tells us about her project on sleep disturbance in birds. 🧪🌏🐦 #SBS @aucklanduni.bsky.social

Just did the same. Slowly adding the links to some of the posts. But nice to see that my few tweets won't go to waste.

Early career researchers at @ISBE2024 be like: #ISBE2024 #ecr #postdoc

#ISBE2024 attendees! If you are (like me) trying to choose which talks to watch next week, may I persuade you to check out my talk? 🕵️‍♀️ The effects of sleep deprivation and stress on avian vocal performance 🐦😴 Session 8B - Communication - Wednesday (11:45 - 12:00) @ISBE2024

Are comparable studies really comparable? 🪱🐦 -We found that small changes to protocols can strongly affect cognitive performance. -Highlighting replicability problems often present in cognition studies. #Cognition #ProblemSolving #AnimalBehaviour

Check out our new paper 🚨: Experimentally elevated corticosterone increases song output and complexity in common mynas. ⚡️🐦⚡️🎶 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

VP Jo Monks talks about the Letter on RNZ www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro... 🌏🧪

NZ Ecological Society today joined 9 other scientific societies, which together represent thousands of members with expertise in this field, in writing an open letter to the New Zealand government expressing collective concern at environmental legislative changes. 🌏🧪

Hey. That’s me @jgmussoi.bsky.social and @kamyabio.bsky.social. With @ecostanley.bsky.social and J Lesku at LaTrobe. Gonna be fun!!

Ngā mihi nui ki a Dr Cain @kecain.bsky.social at the University of Auckland @aucklanduni.bsky.social, who has a #MarsdenFund grant to investigate how sleep disruption impairs vocal learning in young birds! 🐦💤🎶 #birds #sleep #learning www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/f...

I’ll be advertising a #postdoc position soon. Broad theme is modelling interactions among native and nonnative freshwater fish under climate change. Hit me up if interested but a detailed ad will be out soon. #postdocjobs #ecology #freshwater #modelling #climatechange #rivers

We did it!!! @kecain.bsky.social 🐦💤 Our project has been funded by the Marsden Fund. Who knew a random phone call chatting about bird sleep would turn into a PhD, and now a Marsden awarded project?!? www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/f...