New in @royalsocietypublishing.org Biol Lett: 🐦 Thrush nightingales migrate at night and stay completely inactive during the day while crossing ecological barriers 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... 👏 @pablomaciastorres.bsky.social @hedenstrom.bsky.social #ornithology #birdmigration #animalbehavior

A new book for weekend reading: UP by @drlucyrogers.com (approved 🐱).

Upgrading our flight simulator for the next step: analysing wingbeats with DeepLabCut @deeplabcut.bsky.social and high-speed video (up to 300 fps) under different light and magnetic conditions #insectmigration #butterflies #insectnavigation

As spring migration ramps up, some tall buildings turn their lights off at night to save #birds from deadly impacts with glass, but not enough At a time of declining songbird numbers, we need better policy than voluntary measures to protect all those winged beauties from this fate:

#RIN26 #memories #AnimalNavigationConference

Animal Navigation conference RIN26

On Monday evening I'm giving a talk at The Royal Institution - 'The living lab above - science of the sky' See you there? Tickets still available - both online and IRL: www.rigb.org/whats-on/liv...

The first day was full of exciting animal research input: Two sessions covering topics on cultural and genetic inheritance 🧬🧪 and celestial navigation ✨️☀️🕗 in moths, birds and fish🦋🐦🐟 as well as a poster session with flash talks to attract interested visitors 🦋💡🤗

🐦 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

A new guide from @rspb.bsky.social on how to safely help your garden birds with feeders 🐦 www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

New review paper on bird #microbiome methods out! Bridging the gap: improving methodologies for future avian microbiome research 🐦🦠🧬 #OA @avianbiology.bsky.social @charlisdavies.bsky.social @kbodawatta.bsky.social nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Students of ASSAB! ⭐The 2026 round of ASSAB grant applications are now open⭐ If you are conducting research on animal behaviour in the Australasian region, apply here: www.assab.org/grants-2026

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us ❓Quantifying animal #movement patterns & behavioural #interactions in a changing world 👥Joint position in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #MacquarieUniversity 📆19th April deadline tinyurl.com/343acaev #maths #modelling #data #fieldwork #Australia 🙏PLEASE SHARE

What do The Bee Gees and bumblebees have in common? Both bees have rhythm!🕺🪩🐝 check out this new paper where authors show that bumblebees can discriminate rhythms across sensory modalities! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Lovely NatGeo article by Hannah Nordhaus, featuring plenty of "nature's brightest thinkers", former team members Mathieu Lihoreau and Olli Loukola, plus myself (and with excellent photography by Karine Aigner): www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Fascinating PhD project on the match between insect sperm and eggs across different insects. Great team too! #PhDAlert #insects www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

First whole-brain recording of social sound processing in a vertebrate. Surprises start in the hindbrain; thalamus gates conspecific calls; male and female brains diverge downstream. Work by @joerghenninger.bsky.social, @mh123.bsky.social sky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

"Why is publishing so expensive?" It's a question I hear all the time, so we at @biologists.bsky.social thought we'd try to dispel some of the myths around publishing economics & provide transparency around our costs. Today, we publish editorials in all 5 of our journals - links in the thread below.

Sakura blossoms in full bloom on the Keele university campus. #springblossom #keeleuniversity #sakura

Butterflies suck—nectar. Walruses suck—clams. And most fishes suck everything they eat. But birds? Scientists had never seen suction—until now. https://scim.ag/4tbNmyQ

82% of Britain’s electricity is currently zero carbon. This is an incredible achievement of which we should be rightly proud and motivated to go further, faster. Instead, we’ve got fossil fuelled politicians telling us we should be focusing on 93% depleted North Sea oil & gas.

We asked the researchers at #ASABSpring2026 if they could summarise their posters in 10 words or less - and they stepped up to the challenge 😍 (Also watch to the end for a celebrity cameo⭐️)

This is so cool. Radio Garden is a non-profit Dutch radio and digital research project developed the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Over 40,000 stations available as of 2024 radio.garden

The #ASABSpring2026 ceilidh at Zerodegrees in Bristol! 🪩 Don’t forget, there will be more dancing fun at the gala dinner ceilidh at @ecbb2026.bsky.social, make sure you register for it!

Post-doc opportunity on comparative cognition and movement dynamics in corvids with the brilliant Prof Debbie Kelly at the University of Manitoba

When honeybees communicate to nestmates about the location of food resources through dance, the size and age of the audience matters: Bees dance precisely when many bees old enough to follow the dancer to food are present. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/wA4w50YySJr

Want to draw attention to your poster at a conference? 🧵✨ Cross-stitch a QR code onto cotton and attach it to your board. Cool idea! #ASABSpring2026 #bristoluniversity

3️⃣ days left to submit an abstract for poster and oral contributions for #ICN2026Vancouver ↘️ icn2026vancouver.com/poster-oral-... ↙️ Share widely and come to the most inspiring #neuroethology conference 🧠🪱🐟🦋🐦🐸🦎🐢🐝🐜🦀🦞🐙

In academia, we're good at talking about successes, but sweep unfunded grants & unsuccessful job apps under the rug. It can be a tough road, filled w/ failure* For anyone discouraged about the process, here's my failure CV #AcademicSky 🧪 *None are really failures if you learn from them

Nice summary of long distance insect migration in the Guardian today with fancy graphics www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New preprint on Orientation and Navigation of migratory moths in Europe 🚀 Our new results on European moth orientation and navigation are now available on the bioRxiv preprint server! 🦋🌙 Why study moth migration? Moths are more than night-time fliers. They are important pollinators, key food…

Cool idea for how to run a journal club from @eblancosuarez.bsky.social. Have students review a preprint and compare to the actual changes in the published version

Getting involved as an organiser of one of our Workshops is easy. We focus on the logistics, so you can focus solely on the science. Watch this video to hear from some of our previous organisers. The call for proposals for 2028 programme runs until 29 May. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eShr...

New Insight on orientation mechanisms in migratory moths 🦋 We’re excited to share our latest Insight in eLife:👉 This Insight paper discusses the Research Article, “Geomagnetic and visual cues guide seasonal migratory orientation in the nocturnal fall armyworm, the world’s most invasive insect” by…

DIY low-cost Moth Trap A short, practical guide to building your own low-cost trap for moths and other nocturnal insects, suitable for citizen science projects:

New paper out on the decision strategies of bumblebees. When using visual cues to make flower choices, they switch strategy with sensory context, learning as much as necessary, but as little as possible. Based on their training time, we propose a mechanism for this switch. tinyurl.com/2r9d4jrs 🌸🐝🧠

#EngineringLabDay A new version of our portable, low-cost DIY moth trap, equipped with UV LED strip and powered by power banks. The design is based on concepts developed by Dutch Butterfly Conservation and @ukceh.bsky.social (links in comments). Instructions/3D printing files coming soon on website

🚨🚨🚨 Attention science communicators! 🚨🚨🚨 The 2026 Science IRL mini-grant application is NOW OPEN! Submit your creative ideas for connecting people with actionable science information *offline*. The deadline for this round of grants is March 23, 2026. Apply here! forms.gle/4emvpRPddmEt...

Today is Friday, 13th, and we are missing 13 followers until we reach 1000 😱 Challenge for the end of the week: Can we reach a bluesky community of 1000 neuroethologists!? #Neuroethology 🧠🧪 Please share widely 🫶

Our beginner’s guide to using Raspberry Pi as a video-recording system for behavioural research 🎥🛠🦇🦋🐦. magbbb.com/openscience/... #raspberrypi #openscience #opensource #raspi #animalbehaviour

🤩 Join us for the next TIBBE seminar: Comparative databasing January 28, 3–4pm UTC This event hosts an outstanding neuroscientist & biologist particularly interested in insect brains who will present his work, followed by an interactive discussion with the audience: www.crowdcast.io/c/comparativ...

Thank you @ebpgenome.bsky.social for highlighting @projectpsyche.bsky.social If you want to learn more about the large-scale genomics project on Lepidoptera in Europe, we introduce the project in our paper in Trends in Ecology & Evolution: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 PhD offer (please share) Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species Deadline: 20 Feb 2026 Starting: June 2026 Supervision: Martins Briedis & me Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh

Excited to return to Lisbon this June for the epic 3-week Cajal course on Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and VR! 🐀🐟🪰🏃‍♀️🎥🖥📈🧪 Applications are open through Feb 13! Come join us. cajal-training.org/on-site/quan...

Please share widely! #ESTEEM #postdoc CFA: 20 positions for female scientists in natural sciences, life sciences, economics @univie.ac.at: careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... To save you a click: PhD completed in 2022 or after (minus career interruption), defended by deadline #UniVienna

Happy new year! I wanted to share my new Python package called chatter that streamlines the process of applying AI/ML models to animal communication 🦜🦇🐋🐵👨‍🌾 masonyoungblood.github.io/chatter/

Beautiful review on the sense of taste in Lepidoptera 🦋 by @alexhaverkamp.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨RA/PhD position available in evolutionary neurobiology 🚨 Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social - employment benefits - 4 years funding - 1000% fun Deadline: 14/1/2026 Details: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

This is a really interesting and provocative paper. Down with brain areas!