Are you an animal behavior researcher? 🐸🦜🐒🪲🦋🦇🐍🐏Consider supporting @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social this holiday season ❄️🐝 It takes less than a minute and your money goes directly towards supporting #AnimalBehavior students!! 🎄🎄🎄 opencollective.com/animal-behav...

Wishing everyone a joyful holiday season ❄️🎄⛄ At @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social 🐝🐝🐝, we’re excited to support even more #AnimalBehavior students through #microgrants + #mentorship. Your generosity makes this possible - consider donating to help us keep this work going!

Are dingoes dogs? Researchers argue no: dingoes are genetically distinct, reproductively isolated, and on their own evolutionary path: theconversation.com/dingoes-are-... @drcairns.bsky.social @howlingdingo.bsky.social @euanritchie.bsky.social @newsometm.bsky.social #AusMammalogy 1/4

This #GivingTuesday please consider donating to @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social to support undergraduate students globally!! 🫶🗺️ Help us make #animalbehaviourresearch more inclusive 🐝🐝🐝 Sign up to be a monthly donor, or make a one time contribution using this link opencollective.com/animal-behav...

Happy Thanksgiving Week!! 🦃🦃🦃 Here at @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social we are giving thanks to all our wonderful donors 👛 🔃and stellar volunteers 🐝 🐝who keep Team ABC running throughout the year! 💪

Our #mentorshipmatching event is two days away now!! 📣 --> Sign up to be a mentor/mentee, join the @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social community!! 🐝🐝🐝 --> Share this with interested students and ECRs in your group! --> Become a monthly donor to help us keep growing!

We’re thrilled to announce the ABC's fourth mentorship-matching event!! 📣📣 This is a unique opportunity for you to meet and connect with experienced mentors. The mentorship match event - more of an informal "vibe check" - will be on Nov 6 2025 at 14:00 GMT 🐝🐝 Help us spread the word!! #mentorship

Big week for talking about animal sex! Thanks @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social for inviting me to talk about @mebenitez.bsky.social and my paper on pleasure in primate sexual behavior 🙈 Repost to follow of the premiere of the "Second Nature" doc feat the Capuchins de Taboga field site & scientists 🇨🇷🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Listen to @ecunningham96.bsky.social explain how this research project idea began - "From pathology to pleasure Reframing mechanistic studies on same-sex sexual behavior in primates"

We present our first series on Research Journeys with @ecunningham96.bsky.social 😀

Australian printmaker Rachel Newling is inspired by the floral and fauna of her homeland. 'Grey Headed Flying Fox', hand coloured linocut #ReframjngWomenPrintmakers

Diversity in research. How can we take into account the extra burden of publishing in English for those who are not native speakers? With AI can we now translate and look at publications from any language? @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social

🚨𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗮𝘀𝘁𝘀! www.ehbea2026.com is now live for our 2026 European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association (EHBEA) conference in Leiden (NL🇳🇱) Check for 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻, first 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 & the [𝗔𝗜]𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸! 🗓️ 14–17 Apr 2026 | CBEN pre-conf 14 Apr 📍Pesthuis #EHBEA2026

📣 @asab.org grants BOOSTED! 📣 We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026. Check out what we offer here: www.asab.org/grant-overview

Eres un chileno/a, mexicano/a o otra persona latinoamericana que quiere hacer un doctorado en la tema de programas educativas de imagen corporal en escuelas? Tenemos una beca en Durham para unirse en nuestra proyecto! Puedes ver las detalles y aplicar aqui 👇 #Psicología #antropología 🇨🇱🇲🇽🇳🇮🇵🇷🇦🇷🇨🇷🇭🇳🇸🇻🇺🇾🇵🇾🇵🇪🇧🇴🇨🇺

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

@delphinedemoor.bsky.social was present at the Behaviour 2025: XXXVIII International Ethological Congress and took the opportunity to spread the ABC mission 👏 We’ve prepared resources, like logos and email templates, for everyone to reach more students, mentees, donors: linktr.ee/animalbehavi...

Attention #Behaviour2025 ! Can’t wait for the next conference? Good news, the deadline for abstracts for #ASABWinter2025 has been extended !

Folks attending @behaviour2025.bsky.social in the city of joy!! 📣 Visit poster #72 to catch @delphinedemoor.bsky.social & @stotra.bsky.social repping Team @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social Learn more about our collective 🐝 🐝🐝

✨3 months until our online conference ! ✨ Discover our amazing plenary speakers in this video! Feel free to share with anyone who might be interested in attending. 🙌 Free registrations here : ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org #animalbehaviour #ethology #onlineconference #ABL2025

Early career researcher who'd love a mentor? Or mid-career (onwards) looking to give back AS a mentor? Sign up below for the new round of Guillemates 🥰🐧 Mentees👉 forms.gle/cdktNREkhUDb... Mentors👉 forms.gle/uwA9X9giUPnA... Such a great learning (or supporting!) opportunity 👩‍👩‍👦‍👦 Pls share! #seabirds

That's a captivating podcast that I really enjoyed! Highly recommended ;-)

Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt

Registration for the ASAB conference is now open - come join us!

We are doing a Hackathon! 💻 Together with senior editor @nhcooper123.bsky.social , we'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible... (1/2)

Remember to keep dogs on lead near breeding seabird colonies!

Let's start the week with amazing news! During the last round of ABC microgrants, we were able to fund 6 students, and in total £1270! This means that since 2021, ABC total grants distributed have just reached the £26.000 mark 🥳 Thank you to every person who ever donated!

Hot off the press 📣: one of the most surprising and unsettling findings of my PhD. A novel social tradition emerged in the tool-using white-faced capuchins of Jicarón island… abducting and carrying the infants of another species. Thread with gifs, videos, and all the bizarre details 👇

Please consider helping us support the next generation of primatologists! Any support is greatly appreciated, and will help us host this fantastic event for the second time! 🐒

Is there any work you would like to see highlighted at ABC this month?

I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science

📢 Abstract submissions for Animal Behaviour Live Annual Conference are now OPEN! 🗓 Deadline: 7 Sept 2025 🎤 Choose from: 🔹 15-min live or recorded talk 🔹 5-min pre-recorded video poster (our classic format!) 📄 Submit here: ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org #ABL2025

If you are a graduate student or postdoc, consider applying for one of our Travelling Fellowships and you could receive up to £3000 to visit another lab & collaborate with other researchers. Deadline 8 August 2025 For more information visit: biologists.com/grants/trave...

We believe that diversity & inclusion are a must for good science. This is why we support students from historically excluded groups, including LGBTQIA+ students. With this year's anti-LGBTQIA+ and specifically anti-trans measures, we feel it's more important than ever to state this.

If you know someone whose work you think should be highlighted, please send us a private message in the coming weeks!

An article by the IUCN Primate Specialist Group I'm part of (working on primate-human interactions) is now out - "How and Why People Provision Primates" open access 👇 static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/120...

Happy Pride Month! 🌈 We're celebrating equality, freedom, and inclusion at ABC and especially in academic spaces. We have exciting ideas ahead and would love to highlight LGBTQ+ individuals making a difference in animal behaviour.

As always, the event is free and open to all — no registration needed! #AsianElephants #AnimalBehaviour #Socioecology

🐾 *Call for Interns: Join the Behaviour 2025 Team!* International Ethological Congress | August 25–30, 2025 | Kolkata, India Are you passionate about animal behaviour and skilled in communication?

📢 Workshops at Behaviour 2025 📢 We are delighted to present a range of workshops at Behaviour 2025! These workshops are thoughtfully designed to offer hands-on, skill-based training across a range of topics from behavioural and cognitive sciences to journal publishing and science communication.

Applications are now open for our 2025 Field Skills Workshop! The Field Skills Workshop is a 3-day workshop aimed to develop theory and practice in field skills. See 🧵

Our new preprint is out! 🧬 In this great study with @labdavalos.bsky.social, we looked at the mysterious pancreas of Aselli in #shrews: an unexpected site for plasma cell differentiation and a critical hub of immune function beyond the bone marrow! 😍 Have a look! 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🥁New #ABCMicrogrants Funding Round!!🥁 More details to follow 🐝🐝🐝 Help us spread the word 🐝🐝🐝

🥁New #ABCMicrogrants Funding Round!!🥁 More details to follow 🐝🐝🐝 Help us spread the word 🐝🐝🐝

Looking forward to the next Animove! Applications are open until May 31st: animove.org/next-animove-costa-rica Excited to get to teach once again with other amazing tutors and to meet all of the participants!

Why are bunnies associated with Easter? Is there anyone out there studying hare behaviour? We’d love to hear more cool facts about these animals :) Read the full story here: 👉 smithsonianmag.com/history/the-ancient-origins-of-the-easter-bunny-180979915

Over the past 4 years, ABC has collected donations and distributed the funds as microgrants to animal behaviour students in financial need. These microgrants have helped students cover costs such as books, travel, registration fees, etc. Thank you to everyone who donated to ABC!

Our paper investigating reproducibility potential in ecological journals without a code-sharing policy is now @peercomjournal.bsky.social 📰 doi.org/10.24072/pcj... 💻 github.com/ASanchez-Toj... We've shared our results already (bsky.app/profile/asan...), so we won't bother you again. Instead...👇