Lovely start to the year - 1st paper of #PhD student #NatalieTegtman out in latest issue of @asab.org #AnimalBehaviour How a novel #call changes responses to #alarms: doi.org/10.1016/j.an... CONGRATULATIONS Natalie; thanks #RobMagrath; Happy New Year all. 🎉 #animalcommunication #birds #fairywren

We hope you've got "submit my awesome cetacean stories to Whale Tales" on your 2026 resolution list! ⁠ #WhaleTales

Important warning

bye 2025👋

Apply for a PhD position in the Pan lab @miyapan.bsky.social at MPI Biology 🇩🇪 to study the molecular mechanisms and evolution of sex determination in haplodiploid insects 🐜🐝.

Our perspective piece in @pacificconsbio.bsky.social provides 8 strategies for "Increasing Pacific Islander research and authorship in the academic literature". @romiteshkant.bsky.social @mereoni.bsky.social @rufinovarea.bsky.social Free to download: www.publish.csiro.au/PC/PC25011

Historian here if you want to read one piece that will explain neo colonialism in post independence Africa read this review by @hofrench.bsky.social in @thenation.com of Professor Mamdanis brilliant book Slow Poison. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

The sea in winter is majestic! #MediterraneanSea #LaMiaLiguria

Best Nativity scene, from Circolo Pescatori Dilettanti Rapallesi! Merry Fishmas everyone!!! 🐙🦞🦀🦑🦐 #MediterraneanSea #LaMiaLiguria

A Newsweek article on Turritopsis, featuring insights and commentary from Mike Layden, Christy Schnitzler, and Maria Pia Miglietta, explaining the importance of studying cnidarian species to advance our knowledge of regeneration and stem cell biology. A nice read! www.newsweek.com/the-immortal...

If you’re sad #ASABWinter2025 is over, have no fear! #ASABSpring2025 🌼 is coming soon, from March 23-25 at Bristol University. It’s an especially fantastic meeting for students and ECRs 🤠 Don’t forget travel grants are due Feb 1! www.asab.org/conferences-...

We should also thank the ASAB council for making these meetings happen each year! It’s incredible that #ASABWinter2025 is free of charge for participants 😍

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

"Productivity, I’ve come to see, is not measured only by research papers and grants. It is also sustained by presence, rest, and the relationships that give meaning to the work." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/3KNJ1Bm

A festive-season feast of crabs 🦀 This spectacular spread comes from Albertus Seba’s Cabinet of Curiosities, Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri (1734–1765). Consider this our contribution to #Crustmas ✨ #SciArt #NaturalHistory #ILoveBHL www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41072182 🧪

Fascinating talk by @sjportugal.bsky.social #ASABWinter2025! I was particualrly thrilled by how they can plunge dive, but learned a lot about the effect of avian flu and collisons with wind farms @asab.org @asab-meetings.bsky.social

Thanks to @thembauk.bsky.social I have just discovered #FestiveOceanArt and I must say I love it! 🐙🦀🐟. Anyone has more festive marine creatures?

Barbara Caspers #ASABWinter2025 - lab consumables of choice: black socks and muffin cups to be used with adult and baby zebra finches! @asab.org @asab-meetings.bsky.social. Great talk for @amyleedale.bsky.social @vixfranks.bsky.social @alice-risely.bsky.social...

Such an inspiration to us all! I believe animal behaviour and behavioural ecology studies can use more theoretical inputs! Thansk @kokkonut.bsky.social!!! @asab.org @asab-meetings.bsky.social #ASABWinter2025

The ASAB medal is awarded annually for contributions to the science of animal behaviour, including teaching, writing, broadcasting, research, and work on behalf of the association. We’re seeking nominations for the ASAB medal in 2027! Learn more: www.asab.org/asab-medal

What a great way to start day2 #ASABwinter2025! @toshitakaszk.bsky.social can really understand the language of birds and shared it with us! @asab.org @asab-meetings.bsky.social

Came to Edinburgh for #ASABWinter2025 🐥🎄

Molecular Ecology | Molecular Genetics Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

While most of us are burning out in the horse race of proposals, funding, and contracts, it’s easy to forget what real science is! What a delight to see a highly intellectual exchange among some of the great minds in #sexualselection studies @timjanicke.bsky.social academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

Very happy to see our opinion article out in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social today. 🥳 We ask whether sexual signals can influence the evolutionary trajectory of naturally selected adaptations, such as protective colouration, for better or for worse 🧐 1/n doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Currently recruiting PhD students to follow up on this result - please come to have a chat if interested #ASABWinter2025

One of my fave cephalopod conference talks was Erica Vidal on baby squids and octos. Reminded me that everyone needs to see this 2023 paper from Erica and Liz Shea that shows how utterly unbothered hatchlings are about any preconceived notions of Correct Shape 🐙🧪: www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

Seeing, sniffing, sensitive touching - all play different roles when monkeys forage 🐒🍎🍋🥭 Fantastic plenary by [email protected], revealing some very surprising variation between species! #ASABWinter2025

Really amazing talk by #ASABWinter2025 by Satyam Gupta 🐸🦟! Great results, cool drawings and I also liked the acknowledgement: don't forget that @asab.org offers conference attendance grants 💰! @asab-meetings.bsky.social

Is bat foraging being affected by ultrasonic insect calls? Crickets can be even noisier than you think (if you’re a bat) #ASABWinter2025

Everyone needs an emotional support octopus! Thank you @mariaaeester.bsky.social! Great work of art!🦑

#artadventcalendar day 14

Brilliant talk by my favourite labmate and ride-or-die bestie Poppy at #ASABWinter2025 😍

Comparing weight discrimination in cockatoos and capuchins 🏋🏻 Both extractive foragers, tool users, and CUTE 😍 #ASABWinter2025

Reminder to attend the AGM right after this session! #ASABWinter2025 Agenda here: www.asab.org/agm

And now #ASABWinter2025: Crazy camouflage 🦗🍃by @benitoexplains.bsky.social! @asab.org @asab-meetings.bsky.social

@wlallen.bsky.social finishing off the morning session! 🦋 Highlighting the importance of replication and long-term research (and persistence despite negative peer reviewers!!) 👍 #ASABWinter2025 @asab-meetings.bsky.social @asab.org

#ASABWinter2025 we are moving fast from mighty mantis shrimp🦐 (fabulous talk by Melissa Hargreaves) to lemurs 🐒(wonderful talk by Jiaqi Wang) and now @wlallen.bsky.social is guiding us through crypsis and warning colouration as antipredator strategies 🦋! @asab.org @asab-meetings.bsky.social

Very sad I cannot be at #ASABWinter2025 in person (my train was cancelled ⛈️), but enjoying the public lecture by Innes Cuthill @ecologyofvision.bsky.social on camouflage online, from art to clever experiments in the field! @asab-meetings.bsky.social @asab.org

Starting with a public lecture by Innes Cuthill on camouflage… not only did he come dressed in camo, but a camo kilt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ! #ASABWinter2025

I must say it has been a good wake up for all of us to try and find all the hidden animals 🕵️🦋🦉🦎

Our Editorial for our upcoming special issue in Molecular Ecology: Conservation Genomics—Making a Difference onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We love to fetishize "top" researchers and give them special big pots of money. But we get far more science by spreading money among all researchers (closer to the NSERC DG model). This old post is magically relevant again... scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/w...

New paper on brood parasite genomics! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled to announce a Postdoc opportunity in our group on the evolutionary genetics and ecology of colour. Wonderful system, great collaborators, and room to shape your own ideas. Apply by 7 Jan: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...

Just one week left to submit your abstract for our symposium on eco-evolutionary dynamics of #sexualselection and #sexualconflict at @ece2026tours.bsky.social ! Join us in beautiful Tours, France, 29 June – 3 July 2026!

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...