Postdoc job alert! We are hiring a NYU-based postdoc to work on our project on the social and environmental determinants of aging. The 3 year post will be based in James Higham's lab and will focus on endocrine, immune, and inflammatory aspects of aging. Please share! apply.interfolio.com/173938

Are you studying animal sociality? Confused about the "non-independence" of social network data: what on earth are they? are they threatening your results? should you attempt to get rid of them? A thread summarising a part of our new paper (ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...).

Survey alert! If you're a social behavioural ecologist, please fill in our survey aimed at gauging interest in, barriers and solutions to, comparative social behaviour research. Thanks! forms.gle/KZJDMtLCJhvY...

😎😎 symposium and discussion on comparative studies in animal behaviour, organized by @delphinedemoor.bsky.social, @ljnbrent.bsky.social & Anindya Sinha at @behaviour2025.bsky.social ! Was a pleasure to be part of a 👌 speaker lineup, & present my work on interspecific variation in 🐵 social behaviour!

Animal Behaviour from Exeter and Bristol, plus some of our alumni, went to @behaviour2025.bsky.social in Kolkata and had mountains of rice. @crab-exeter.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social

Looking forward to another gathering of MacaqueNet! In India no less, home of the best ever macaque: the rhesu....haha just kidding, the lion-tailed, obviously. Hope to see lots of you there!

Going to @behaviour2025.bsky.social in Kolkata? Join us for Weaving the MacaqueNet 3.0, our third workshop for this big team science & community initiative behaviourindia2025.in/workshops.html. Members + non-members welcome! Get your very own sticker and be as happy as @macaelaskelton.bsky.social!

I learned a lot working on this new paper with this group of network scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and behavioural ecologists. We're hoping it helps anyone who feels (understandably!) lost in the animal social networks weeds.

the journal Animal Behaviour, which is run by @asab.org, is looking to hire a new Managing Editor. Please share advert with folks with a Life Sciences degree (ideally postgrad) who might be interested www.asab.org/opportunities

Postdoc job alert! I'm hiring a 3-yr postdoc to work on our Social Modifiers of Primate Lifespans grant. Job info and how to apply below. Deadline June 1. Pls share! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Less than 2 weeks left to apply for this! Come join us in @crab-exeter.bsky.social and as part of team MacaqueNet, to do some comparative social network and life-history research 🤩

I'm guessing this is probably very well worth the read! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

How good is it to get work with this lovely group of people in @crab-exeter.bsky.social every day? Answer: really really good!

#VoxPrimato #postdoc offre de postdoc "Social Modifiers of Primate Lifespans" pour 3 ans à l'Université d'Exeter au Royaume-Uni avec Lauren Brent et collègues du Centre de Recherche pour le Comportement Animal date limite 01/06/2025 👇

Postdoc job alert! I'm hiring a 3-yr postdoc to work on our Social Modifiers of Primate Lifespans grant. Job info and how to apply below. Deadline June 1. Pls share! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Well done @macaelaskelton.bsky.social, our MacaqueNet technician extraodinaire 💚

Come do a 1-year Masters course on Animal Behaviour in @crab-exeter.bsky.social in Exeter! Taught components + a research project with a member of staff. It's great fun!

Using the BISoN R package to analyse your social networks? Have a question? Post in our new bisonR github, in the Discussions section. github.com/bison-team/b...

congratulations @albamotesr.bsky.social !

Bake your paper! Research tech extraordinaire, Macaela Skelton, made a cake of (some of) the study sites in the MacaqueNet database. She ran out of decorations before she could do them all 😆. Link to the paper that's been cake-ified: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

thanks for a lovely visit to Oxford @robsalgo.bsky.social @rjpheathcote.bsky.social and all the rest of the bio department. Some visit highlights included seeing the field station and having lunch at the longest table I've ever headed :)

MacaqueNet, a global community and FAIR database, is now also a @animalecology.bsky.social paper! Decades of research by 100+ ppl, 5yrs of data cleaning & standardizing, 2 workshops (+1 upcoming Kolkata '25), 4 active projects and counting. Contibute data, follow the newsletter, make a request!

Recruiting a #PhD student to work on collective behaviour in real and artificial systems. Oct 2025 start. Working with @shoalgroup.bsky.social, Rob Heathcote, @willallennz.bsky.social, @joefresna.bsky.social, @marinapapap.bsky.social Advert: www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate... Deadline: 24.02

🎉 (that photos is of long-tailed macaques, not rhesus, but more importantly folks are viewing the paper 😅)

Vacancy alert! 🚨 Research associate in wild squirrel behaviour/welfare at University of Bristol 🌰 🖥️ 🐿️ www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Study sections are the review panels that allocate NIH research grants. They bring in experts from around the country and have to be scheduled many months in advance; they provide the funds that keep the nation's biomedical research going. It's hard to overstate the disruption this causes.

Excellent to be out in the field with @irene-godoy.bsky.social and Manuela Cardona! Monkey took our place in front of the Cayo Santiago sign so we made due 😅

Great team effort led by Annika Freudiger, Anja Widdig and the Cayo Santiago team. Estimating realized relatedness in free-ranging macaques by inferring identity-by-descent segments | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Applications due Monday! 👇🙉

Exciting PhD opportunity with @neeltjeboogert.bsky.social , @padpadpadpad.bsky.social (Exeter) and myself (Bristol) on gulls, their microbiomes, and role in transmitting disease. Details below - deadline 13 January!

New year, new paper! We continue to unpick the interplay between ecological upheaval and sociality and show altered social structure could result in 2x disease transmission rates. Senior authored by the unstoppable @ctestard.bsky.social. In Ecology Letters: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Listen to the Science Magazine podcast interview with @kellerfish.bsky.social about our paper on the loss of older animals from their societies and populations www.science.org/content/podc...

We want you to work with us! Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences: bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Just over 1 month left to apply to do a PhD with me in @crab-exeter.bsky.social!

📢 18-month postdoc in my lab doing drought modelling with either the UK land surface model JULES or machine learning. Up to you which. Please share widely (thanks) www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de... Closes: 18th January

Our review about the value of older animals appeared this weekend in the Age of Extinction series www.theguardian.com/environment/...

1. Testing if the microclimate in a hurricane-degraded environment shapes social behaviour, NERC GW4+ DTP with @ljnbrent.bsky.social www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

5 exciting PhD opportunities to join the Center for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter in Sept 2025. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro...

End of an era!! Has been such a priviledge to work with MacaqueNet master and postdoc extraordinaire @delphinedemoor.bsky.social. Best of luck at MPI Leipzig, Delphine! The entire CRAB family will miss you very much! Come back and see us soon 💔

Pls RT: Interested in doing a PhD on the behaviour of #bees & other animals at CRAB Uni Exeter and Bristol Uni? Check out SWBio swbio.ac.uk www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/pr... (apply by 11.12.) & NERC GW4 www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/projects-202... @seanrands.bsky.social @bethbees.bsky.social apply by 13.01.

A new view on the gut microbiome and the social contagion of health 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily... via @jeroenvanbaar.nl

* NEW #PhD * #Evolution #Ecology of Immune #Senesence in Wild Badgers - exciting project with me, @btschirren.bsky.social & our awesome collaborators @ APHA. Based at @exetercec.bsky.social in Cornwall, UK. !PLEASE SHARE! See www.animalsocieties.org and apply: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🌏 🧪 🦑

Earlier this summer I had the honor to be invited to share my journey into science on @bbcradio4.bsky.social - I talk openly about my dyslexia - at school it crippled my education - as a scientist it’s a superpower that allows me to see the world in a unique way www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Warming temperatures impact immune performance of wild monkeys phys.org/news/2024-11...

Hi JT!

A network science starter pack as of November 27, 2024 Please suggest additions! go.bsky.app/MWbwLHC

Resharing for new users to find collaborations or just people posting cool #animal #research! I think I've got a decent mix of taxonomic groups of interest, so hopefully this will be useful 🐟🦍🐠🦎🦗🦈🐧🦂🐬🕷️🐌🐢🐙🦟🐳🦁🦋🐊🐜🦆🐘🦃🦘🐛 DM to be added 😊 go.bsky.app/9CV3PAd #Behavior

Speaking of aging, look what just arrived! My copy of the Phil Trans special issue I got to co-edit, with wily ol' J41, the rhesus macaque, grooming her grandkid on the cover

🚨 PhD: "Forests on the edge: examining vegetation recovery following climate extremes" at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social with myself, Lina Mercado (Exeter) and Eddy Robertson (UK Met Office). I would REALLY love to find a student for this, please share widely (thanks) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Annual ExBaSE meeting (Exeter Behavioural and Sensory Ecology) was a great success. Left the river Exe yesterday morning, heard some excellent research talks, and woke up to the lovely views of Falmouth today. Working here is not too shabby I've got to say....