🚨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...

It's that time of the year! 🐦 But this time if feels like the stakes are even higher! Te Manu Rongonui O Te Tau - Bird of the Century! It's too hard to choose😭 www.birdoftheyear.org.nz

Huge year for women for the last year of the Rutherford Discovery Fellowships before the new scheme starts. Not enough to balance out the gender bias in earlier years though. Congratulations to the 2023 recipients!

So proud of this wonderful ecology & animal behaviour bunch - coming out with a PhD is hard enough, doing it through Covid times shows how strong & resilient these women are. Fabulous to celebrate with them yesterday at UOA graduation. 🌏🧪 Projects on myna vocalisations, feral cats & pūkekos

Officially a Doctor! 4 years of ups and downs, just so I could change my name to Dr Juliane on my email signature, Twitter and airline profiles. #worthit

I did it! I defended my thesis today! 🥳 It's been a long, wild, but amazing journey. And I couldn't have done it without my two exceptional supervisors! Thank you, @ke_cain and @mc_stanley1, for hanging on and believing in me (even when I changed my project for the 4th time). 😆

I had the pleasure of chatting to @kate_g_evans for this super cool article about sleep in animals at @NZGeographic I talked about sleepy birds and their songs. #sleep #animalbehaviour #birds #nzgeographic #nzbirds #SciComm

New paper alert! 🚨 Check out our opinion piece at @BiologyLetters: "The importance of sleep for avian vocal communication." #animalbehaviour #sleep #birdsong #vocallearning #birds

Presenting at #ISBE2022 about the importance of sleep to bird vocal communication. This afternoon (29/07) at 15:15!

#ISBE2022 is starting! So excited to be part of such a cool and huge conference after so long without seeing everyone in person!

I've been working from home for a while. And most days I only walk from my bed to my desk and the kitchen. 😆 Now I have an excuse to get out of the house! I’ll be part of #SweatWithPride 🏳️‍🌈 and exercise at least 21min per day during June!

Sleepy magpies sing in different times, less often, and perform poorer on cognitive tests.

Fresh paper out of the oven! 🍞 Sleep loss impairs cognitive performance and alters song output in Australian magpies. Check out this cool paper that came out of an amazing collab. #cognition #birdsong #sleep #animalbehaviour

I got the @ISBE2022 travel award! Thank you @BehavEcol for giving me the opportunity to attend this year's conference. Also, super excited to go back to Sweden! 🥳 #ISBE2022

Today I'll be presenting about the effects of #stress on mynas' vocal performance at #AOC2022! Join me in session "3B | Bird song: Australasian significance" at 12:10pm (NZDT) or 10:10am (AEDT). 🐦⚡️

I love my @SecretSantaNZ gifts! Birds, art and chocolate 🥰 And btw, this painting is beautiful! So curious to know who made it 🤩 #SecretSantaNZ2021

My #SecretSantaNZ2021 gift arrived! I already love the packaging. So excited to open them next week. 🤗