📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I have a job opening in my lab. If you are interested in bird behaviour and predator prey interactions please take a look! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Interested in vocal #communication? How animals provide referential #information about danger? Then see our 🌟NEW🌟 paper by brilliant ANU #PhD student Chun-Chieh Liao out today in @asab.org Animal Behaviour. 🎉👏 #birds #choughs #fieldwork #ECR With Rob Magrath and Rob Heinsohn doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

We are hiring - PDRA position exploring how information access shapes social dynamics in killer whales. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social Prof Dan Franks (York) start 1st Nov (or ASAP) end 31st Oct 2028. Apps close on 19th Oct. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/p...

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

🚨NEW paper🚨 out now in @ecol-evol.bsky.social from the brilliant #Masters of @laurenvane.bsky.social Hot temperature effects on behaviour & body mass. Aided by dream #mongoose team of @josharbon.bsky.social Amy Morris-Drake & @juliekern.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Review in #ProcB - After the fight: post-contest acoustic signalling #OpenAccess #Behaviour @andyradford.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Great new paper led by @laurenvane.bsky.social from her masters work on the dwarf mongooses. Despite early mornings and late nights, the increasing temperatures we’re seeing are stopping the mongooses maintaining body mass. @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @andyradford.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

First paper I've read in a while that truly made me go 'woah'

Probably the best title slide I’ve ever made

New paper from my group led by Odd Jacobson, former PhD student & current postdoc @livingingroups.bsky.social : How do animal groups simultaneously balance between- and within-group competition in dynamic environments and does this impact movement and space use? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Here’s a video of an adult that hadn’t quite got the hang of the ‘tolerate juveniles’ part! Paper here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

New @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social paper out today in @royalsociety.org Biology Letters. We found adult jackdaws can learn to tolerate usually bullied or ignored juveniles when they provided information about a new foraging resource. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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.

🎉NEW PAPER🎉 out today - our review in #ProcB about post-contest acoustic signalling. Started piecemeal and alone years ago, the brilliance and energy of #ECRs @josharbon.bsky.social & Amy Morris-Drake gave it impetus. ☺️ @royalsocietypublishing.org @bristolbiosci.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

🌟CONGRATULATIONS🌟 to Lola von Kietzell on completing a brilliant #Masters field season with the wonderful white-winged #choughs. 👏 Thanks to Chun-Chieh Liao & Rob Magrath (@scienceanu.bsky.social) for in-field support & @josharbon.bsky.social for additional advice. 👍 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Part of the Phil Trans special issue "Selection Shapes Diverse Animal Minds", edited with @ellileadbeater.bsky.social. Thanks to co-authors Andoni Sergiou, @josharbon.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social & @shoalgroup.bsky.social and all the special issue contributors. tinyurl.com/35mn84ty

In our new paper we discuss the coevolution of cognition and sociality (link: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...). It was a pleasure to work on this project with Andoni Sergiou, @josharbon.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social, @shoalgroup.bsky.social, and @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social!

Huge loss for @bristolbiosci.bsky.social - you’ll be sorely missed @ebablab.bsky.social!! Hope @camzoology.bsky.social know just how lucky they are! 🦋🧠🍾

I think I have been fortunate to work in an institution (and a department) that has been led by people who saw the importance of enabling flexibility between work and personal life. It was crucial when we faced a major personal family challenge some years ago, and remains a core principle

🐠💥2 year postdoc in fish sensory ecology!! 💥🐟 If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...

Preprint @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social arising from @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social animal welfare workshops. How can we develop a better error culture in animal biologging where we can learn from our, and others, mistakes and experiences? ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Bit late to the party due to fieldwork, but whilst I was away this was published alongside a host of fascinating papers investigating how animals cultures interact with conservation royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Mother Bats Shape Their Pups’ Voices Vocal learning isn’t just about listening—it’s about interactions! Mother bats play a key role in shaping how their pups learn to communicate, showing how important early-life interactions are. doi.org/10.7554/eLif... @eLife.bsky.social @ahanaaurora.bsky.social

The flexibility of social learning and its conservation implications in mammals & beyond. New paper, led by Josh Arbon with fab collaborators Neil Jordan & @neeltjeboogert.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0136 @uniexecec.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org

The #Kalahari field season is in full swing for the team of @laurenvane.bsky.social, Josh Arbon & James Robertshaw, aided by the smallest of assistants. 😊 Not jealous of them AT ALL! Bring on the exciting #experiments and data... @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #meerkats #fieldwork #helpers