Don’t miss this opportunity to attend #ISBE2026 next year!

📰Published📰Experimentally increased food availability allows for earlier departure in a long-distance migratory shorebird🐦 buff.ly/RRfxBPw 🧪🌍

We are looking for contributors to our series on the Methods Blog, exploring the experiences of ecologists conducting research in remote field stations during the holiday season 🎄 See previous blogs here 👉 buff.ly/MnMcRqG (1/2)

🚨 Come join the fantastic long-tailed tit team 🚨 🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds). 🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK. 🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025. jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...

Meet our plenary speaker Felicity Muth! Assistant professor at the University of California Davis, her lab group are broadly interested in cognition, especially aspects of learning and memory that have a clear function in the natural world, focusing on captive and wild bumblebees.

New research shows meerkat social group membership strongly shapes gut microbiomes and beneficial bacterial co-occurrence, beyond individual health or environmental exposure. ⬇️ buff.ly/neW6LHH @krishsubramaniam.bsky.social

I have some brilliant news to share! I recently received a DFG-funded Emmy Noether 6-year grant to establish my own group in Germany. I will soon be looking for a PhD student and a research assistant to join the team and investigate how the balance of power is maintained in animal societies.

I am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇 shorturl.at/WA1Qa Would appreciate a re-post! @evoldir.bsky.social

Gestation length both shapes and is shaped by other life history traits in terrestrial eutherian mammals doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Thodoris Danis et al.

Next PhD chapter of Paul Berry is out: Environmental cues and individuality shape diel and seasonal antelope behaviour. Movement Ecology

Somewhat troubling: Suzgun et al. in Nature Machine Intelligence Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact www.nature.com/articles/s42...

PhD studentship on antimicrobial resistance in wild baboons! Fully-funded by @swbiodtp.bsky.social Application deadline: Wed 3 Dec 2025. More details: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo.... Apply here: www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/ho... @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social @xavh.bsky.social

Did a Travelling Fellowship change your future? Which is your favourite JEB paper? Tell us about your experience of @Co_Biologists www.biologists.com/100-years/me...

a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐

Still a few days to apply!

Award alert! 🎖️🚨 Every other year, the Ethologische Gesellschaft awards the Niko Tinbergen Award to outstanding post-doc level researchers in Behavioural Biology (<=6yrs post PhD exam). ...and this year is one of these years! Please send us your nominations! 🫵 Infos: www.etho-ges.de/wordpress/aw...

Remember… Bats aren’t spooky, they’re adorable 💕Here, an Ectophylla alba pup chilling under a leaf tent gets a surprise visit… from a katydid. Happy Halloween 🦇🦇🦇

New for #Evol2026: Research Synthesis Working Groups! Each funded group will present a symposium at the meeting, collaborate on a publication, and establish a lasting research network. Submit your proposal by January 6! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

Staying in Germany!? – Info Event on Professional Perspectives, Funding and the Legal Framework: 13 November, 5-7pm at the Welcome Centre - Alexander von Humboldt House, Hüfferstraße 61. (Register by 10 November.) www.uni-muenster.de/de/veranstal...

#2025MMM #2026MMM

Your chance to contribute to an exciting special issue on personality research in Personality Science! Don't hesitate to contact the guest editors (see below) to propose a manuscript

Brown rats are preying on bats at urban hibernation sites – even snatching them mid-air. Conservation efforts must include non-native rodent control at key bat roosts. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The science funding crisis threatens the careers of future #behavioral ecologists BES

Have you recently read about a particular field in depth? Perhaps you have just finished your PhD thesis? @jevbio.bsky.social is seeking Review Articles! Find out more about Reviews and Target Reviews at JEB here: academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/re...

This is a reminder that the deadline is 2 weeks away!

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS! Special Issue ‘Towards an integration of personality research across psychology and biology’ in Personality Science Editors: Mitja Back, Barbara Caspers, @mdammhahn.bsky.social & @niclaskuper.bsky.social Submit your proposal before November 30! More info tinyurl.com/y9demmtt

What is sexual selection all about... definitionally and mathematically? A super talented PI, Jussi Lehtonen, is looking for a postdoc to work it all out! Deadline end of this month. ats.talentadore.com/apply/postdo...

I'm v excited to be recruiting a PhD student to work on badger behaviour and ecology! Starting date is March 2026; see the ad here, or message me for more details: www.gregalbery.me/s/March-2026...

🚨Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my group🚨 🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?🐾 Find out by studying meerkats! 🧪Epigenetic clocks ✨Bioinformatics 📊Long-term data 🌍Kalahari fieldwork 💡Big evolutionary questions Get in touch or APPLY NOW Please share! www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

Meet our plenary speaker Renata Sousa-Lima! Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil), Renata ‘s research focuses on bioacoustics of aquatic mammals and has pioneered the field of ecoacoustics and soundscape ecology in Brazil.

🚨🚨Job! 🚨🚨Permanent (75% time) job! We are a pretty awesome research group & seek a manager who deals with everything: personnel tasks, organizing retreats, preparing code for teaching / data structures for research... Fluency in German & English essential. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/51527

Welcome! ... and studentship 👇

❓ Want to join us? 📢 Fully funded #PhD for UK-domiciled Black heritage candidates 🐵 Biological market monitoring & manipulation in social animals #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork 👥 With me, #LaurenBrent & #PatrickKennedy 🎓 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social ℹ️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🙏Share widely

We have an open PhD student position in evolutionary ecology in our lab @creaf.cat in Barcelona! 🦎 🌳 🦆 🐍 Applications open until Nov. 10th, 2025. Please help us spread the word! Link to position description and requirements: creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/... Lab website: oriollapiedralab.com

Diverse bird species recognize the same vocalization to rally neighbours against invading cuckoos go.nature.com/3KKM8tH

New paper out now in Evolution, co-led with Dave Westneat! Using long-term data on house sparrows, we find that quantity-quality tradeoffs near a local fitness ridge favor more or less canalized clutch size distributions in response to environmental variability. academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

#behavioral ecology: Striped #mice speak up CurrentBiology

Impressions from #gradmeet25 @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social

Nominations due December 1 for the Dobzhansky Prize! This award recognizes the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding early-career evolutionary biologist. Submit your nomination package today: shorturl.at/p70wY

“Women-led papers were more likely to be featured in local outlets than in national, international, or science-specialty media. They appeared more often in liberal-leaning outlets than conservative ones. And coverage of their work carried a more negative tone” www.science.org/content/arti...

And the full paper in Ecology and Evolution @ecol-evol.bsky.social here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #InclusiveAcademia #ConferenceEquity #DiversityInScience

Abteilungsleitung bei info fauna! Will sich jemand im Artenschutz engagieren? naturschutz.ch/job/info-fau...

Ein Dopaminmangel im Körper kann u.a. zu Antriebslosigkeit oder Bewegungsproblemen führen. Weit schlimmer ist jedoch eine Folge, die sich in den kommenden Jahrzehnten weltweit zeigen wird: Die Zahl der Parkinsonfälle wird drastisch steigen. Doch es gibt ermutigende Forschungsergebnisse. #Parkinson

We publish in Ecology 30 years of Arctic wildlife monitoring on Bylot Island (Nunavut, Canada)! Our long-term dataset tracks 35 species across 400 km² of tundra, providing rare insights into community dynamics, food webs, and climate responses. Open data for all at bitly.cx/OnOI2 🌍🦊🦉🦑 🧪🌿🌐

Canids seem to be the routine lovers, reusing their travel routes more than felids. This shapes hunting, encounters, and even disease spread. Insights from 1,239 GPS-tracked carnivores, including the Arctic foxes we track on Bylot Island 🧪🌿🌎🌐🦊. Read in the latest PNAS at bitly.cx/TxI2

This is desperately sad. Professor John Woinarski breaks the news for @aunz.theconversation.com that Australia's next animal - the tiny Christmas Island Shrew - has officially been declared extinct. theconversation.com/and-then-the...

ETHOLOGY: Observing animal behaviour can be time cosuming - “Piecewise-Continuous Sampling” can offer a smart middle ground between continuous & instantaneous sampling— reducing bias and effort in behavioral data collection 🐜📹 Lynch et al. test it on harvester ants 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/eth.... #Methods

🚨 Master’s project! Curious how birds find their way? 🧭🐦 Analyze decades of ringing data to study abnormal migratory routes and uncover what these deviations can reveal about the mechanisms guiding birds on their journeys. Drop me an email for details! #ornithology www.vogelwarte.ch/de/wir/mitar...

🚨 PhD alert! IMPRS brain & behavior in Bonn just opened their calls for applications. Great PhD funding opportunities. Check it out! PS- I just joined their faculty, meaning you could do a rotation in my lab or even a PhD with me on spider sleep 🙃 Apply! 🚨