📮I've been matched with a Pre-Scientist pen pal!🧪✍️✨ This year, I’ll be exchanging handwritten letters with an 8th grader in the US, sharing what it’s like to work in science & answering their Qs about pursuing a career in STEM. 💌Check out LPS website to donate or volunteer: prescientist.org

Applications for Winter 2025 conference attendance grants are trickling in, awarding up to £500 with a high success rate (if eligible). Deadline isn't until 1st October, but don't forget to get referee statements in by then too! All the info you need is here: www.asab.org/conference-g... @asab.org

Excited to share that we have just been awarded a NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant to work on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins. We will soon advertise a 3 year post-doc to join the team - drop me an email if you might be interested! Pls share widely 🙏🏻

Hi #river #ecologists and #geomorphologists, is there an R or python package that can take in DEM or topo data to extract possible historic islands, side channels, and backwaters? Thanks!

Why do treehoppers look so weird?! Our latest paper, out this week in @pnas.org, suggests a perhaps unexpected reason - static electricity ⚡ We show that treehoppers can detect the electrostatic cues of predators and that their crazy shapes may boost their electrosensitivity! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

📢ONE WEEK until deadline (31st July 2025) to apply for full-time Managing Editor role of @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour. Must have animal behaviour background with previous editorial experience desirable. #job #publishing #editor Full details: www.asab.org/opportunities Please spread the word

How can we beat the Farage-Badenoch-Starmer axis of cruelty in the UK? A strong @greenparty.org.uk with a *fearless* leader is part of the answer. Join the party now and make it happen by voting for @zackpolanski.bsky.social Less than 10 days left! join.greenparty.org.uk #BackZack

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"While our research has shown that many freshwater species readily bounce back from occasional periods of drought, we know that excessively hot, dry weather year after year can bring more profound long-term changes to both standing and running waters." Read our drought comment: lnkd.in/eYJ6hs6C

More on social conformity here: Conformity and differentiation are two sides of the same coin www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... with @katelaskowski.bsky.social

New PhD student paper! Social conformity in lateralisation in guppies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... by Iestyn L. Penry-Williams, with Culum Brown #openaccess at @ecol-evol.bsky.social

So very excited for the magnum opus of my #PhD to finally be out in @pnas.org. 🎉🎉 We demosntrate that mutualistic co-mimicking tropical butterflies not only converge in light microhabitat but, as a consequence, have also converged in visual system morphology! 1/n😀 www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

✨Out Now✨ The outcome of my 1st ever #guppy experiment (from 2021!) w @ccioannou.bsky.social & @jtroscianko.bsky.social We asked: How detectable are guppies to visual predators under different env. conditions?👇 academic.oup.com/beheco/artic... #ISBE #fish #behaviour @bristolbiosci.bsky.social 🧵1/9

Interested in predator / prey / collective behaviour in fishes? With or without anthropogenic change? I am keen to help develop MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship applications - get in touch! Please spread the word! marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post... @erc.europa.eu @asab.org

Out now 🎉 The second paper from my Masters published in Scientific Reports! We explored how acoustic noise affects collective behaviour in guppies 🐟 With fab co-authors: Ella Waples, @andyradford.bsky.social, Steve Simpson & @ccioannou.bsky.social 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵1/6

🚨 Freshwater habitats are under threat, species are declining, and current efforts to fix this are failing. But we have a solution to the freshwater biodiversity crisis. It's called the Freshwater Network. (1/2)

Our latest #research with @ccioannou.bsky.social has been published in @commsbio.bsky.social ! Read here 👉 rdcu.be/d9J2u We used real-time tracking and a robot-heron to investigate how state-behaviour #feedbacks influence anti-predator #escape responses in #fish 🐟.

Still 10 days left to apply for this 3-year Postdoc to study robber bees and their impacts on tropical bee communities 🐝 🇧🇷🇬🇧

Fab sci comm on a very cool field study 👇 #fishSci #socialBehaviour #fieldwork #bristol #pondLife #freshwater

Hi, Blue Sky! 👋 I'm Costanza, freshwater ecologist with a passion for rivers, fish behavior, and all things aquatic🌊🐟 I’m also into stats, science comms, and exploring how we can protect our ecosystems. Previously on X, now excited to connect here! 🌟 #PredatorPrey #ClimateChange #SocialBehaviour