The 2nd microgrants round of the year is open! Please share and donate any amount if you can ! More info: opencollective.com/animal-behav...

Cool research technician job for a seal diet project: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

1/ The latest Winter Gull Survey revealed that over the two decades since the last count, the total number of gulls wintering in the UK has decreased from 3.9 million to just under 2.5 million! 📉 #Ornithology #Seabirds 📖 Read the report www.bto.org/WinGSReport#Ornithology#Seabirds

Two post doc positions at the Messerli Institute of Vetmeduni Vienna, including a few topics on parrots! Deadline July 26. www.vetmeduni.ac.at/fileadmin/v/...

📄 New preprint: carrion crow communication For the first time, along with the University of León, we charted the vocal repertoire of a crow population and mapped it to social functions and behavioral context. 📄: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🔊: projects.earthspecies.org/cooperative-...

(Supplementary) funding for post-docs working in Poland or France, for research visits in Germany: www.daad.de/en/the-daad/...

So it seems like this year's fieldwork is not happening - ghosted by a project after I organised my life around them👻 If anyone from the animal behaviour/ecology world is happy to have me over for some field time, I am here with time, ideas, recording gear, funds, and stats & ML skills! :)

New preprint—A critical review on what we know about beat perception (and why that matters 🙂) w/ Gábor Háden. See doi.org/10.31234/osf...

🐤Yellowhammers! 🎶Birdsong! 💃Individuality! 🥁Rhythm! Our #EditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: “Yellowhammer males sing using individual isochronous rhythms and maximize rhythmic dissimilarity with neighbours” Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2026.123552

2 year funding for ECR-to-professors at Umeå Marine Sciences Centre, with great access to Arctic marine research facilities: www.umu.se/en/umea-mari...

Call for new group leaders (entry level!) at Paris Saclay Neuroscience: neuropsi.cnrs.fr/ao-2026/

Permanent job in Sacramento! Sr environmental scientist in a good unit. Manage acoustic data, implement automated approaches for aggregating and summarizing wildlife data, carry out advanced quantitative analyses that integrate multiple data sources. calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...

#bioacoustics Our lab is hiring a post-doc to work on bioacoustics research in the Hoosier National Forest! 🔊https://www.peaselab.com/current-openings

🔊Fun new paper from the Many Parrots: pet parrots learn names from their caretakers: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

🔊 Research analyst for bioacoustics position open with The One and Only Susan Parks, Syracuse Uni: www.sujobopps.com/postings/112...

🔊Cornell K. Lisa Yang Centre for Conservation Bioacoustics: Assistant Director positions open. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31941

🔊Out now with @lsburchardt.bsky.social @marcosqoliva.bsky.social, Kouřil & Petrusková: Yellowhammer males sing using individual isochronous rhythms & maximise rhythmic dissimilarity with their neighbours. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I wish to share our package monitoraSom which is now published in Bioacoustics, and provides a flexible workflow for detecting, validating, and analyzing acoustic events in sound recordings. #PAM #Ecoacoustics #OpenScience

New work from myself, @kasiawojczulanis.bsky.social @lsburchardt.bsky.social : seabird calls share not only efficiency universals, but also prosodic patterns with our speech. Rallentando rhythms carry info absent in spectra. 🔊🐧 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

out now in Science: @loganjames.bsky.social collected pairs of sounds in 16 species where we *know* which sound is more attractive (to that species) he played them to ppl on themusiclab.org, asking, in each pair, which was nicer. humans agreed w other animals doi.org/10.1126/science.aea1202

Come work with us! My lab (Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at Cornell) is hiring a postdoc to work on terrestrial bioacoustics and ecology. Study everything from gibbons and elephants to bird species like the giant ibis, and sarus crane. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31803

🔊Yay!! Our zine on little auk communication received an honorable mention at the @asa-news.bsky.social Science Communication Awards - thank you! Illustrations by F.Żurawska&B.Kwiatkowska 💙 You can get the zine here: doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/H7MSZ or at ResearchGate. acoustics.org/science-comm...

A small boost to this little paper as I'm working on the proofs: Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) males sing using individual isochronous rhythms and maximise rhythmic dissimilarity with neighbours www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Come work with me! unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex... #postdoc #animalwelfare #TeamHappyDogs #science

Postdoctoral Associate – Wild Animal Welfare Program at NY Uni. Looks awesome and like one could smuggle plenty of animal comm into the group! apply.interfolio.com/180942

Thrilled to share my first PhD publication - gannets put more effort into diving when they are in groups 🐟🐟🐟 Out now in @meps-ir.bsky.social www.int-res.com/abstracts/me... +Thanks to my coauthors who put a lot of effort into collecting the videos! #seabirds #ornithology #animalbehaviour

New opening for a 3-year PhD project in 'Seabird Ecology in a Changing Arctic' at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (Tromsø) and the Arctic University of Norway (UiT). Apply before 25 Mar 2026. #seabirdscience @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social nina.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/84-phd-...

🚨JOB alert🚨 We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol. Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology ⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026 🙏Please circulate widely 😊Come join us! Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc

A small practice in gratitude: happy to say that my proposal with @oeaw.bsky.social received the Seal of Excellence this year, with a result way over the threshold. Hoping the 🦭 will attract some funds to still work on this amazing project!

🔊Loconsole and colleagues: You know how humans match sounds and shapes based on their perceived "roundness"/"spikiness"? Chicks do that too! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🔊 #bioacoustics #anatomy Interested in some waterbird carcasses and/or vocal tract casts for research? I am looking for someone able to take over a project - long tailed ducks and cormorants are available. Happy to cover shipping of the casts and possibly some other costs. DM if interested 🦆

🔊Looking for STUDENT ASSISTANTS or PROFESSIONAL AUDIO ANNOTATORS Come help us process large audio libraries to understand the evolution of rhythm in a globally distributed songbird genus! Funds and pubs possible. Straightforward tasks with awesome outcomes! tinyurl.com/song-anthus

Expect plenty of little auks! Organised by my old colleagues in my hometown so I might be partial, but I think this will be awesome.

‘If musicality did not arise from language, where did it come from?’ New preprint, Curr. Biol. In press. : doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Paper Out in #NYAS: Using Rhythmic Notation and Musical Analysis on Animal Communication: A Case Study on Sperm Whales🔊🐳 doi.org/10.1111/nyas... We use Western music notation to transcribe sperm whale codas. What can we learn about them using musical analysis🎼🎶?

BSc summer internships with Onni Talas Foundation (that pay better than my first 2 postdocs): www.helsinki.fi/en/research-...

Herborn and colleagues with a really great paper on how exposure to conspecifics' stress vocalisations impacts chicks: Distress calls as social stressors affecting chicken welfare royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

Beaulieu: Considering affective state as a central component of the response of animals to environmental changes royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

We know you don't want to start your year by forgetting to submit a symposia proposal before the 31 January deadline. www.aru.ac.uk/science-and-... #academicsky #ecbb2026

Internships are now available with the Cornish Jackdaw Project! 🐦‍⬛ Duties will include assisting with nest monitoring, bird ringing, data entry, and the potential to help with ongoing research projects.

🔊Our last paper of the year: Unique rhythmic signatures in arrhythmic birdsong First evidence: rhythm analysis can reliably describe arrhythmic sequences. In tawny pipits, (ar)rhythmic differences are individual, and indicate singers' population of origin! doi.org/10.64898/202...

Science is important. Thank you, vet med, for letting Miecio, my favourite person and the love of my life, live for 17 happy years despite FIV and arthritis. I am broken but will forever be beyond grateful for these good years. 🖤

🔊Our last paper of the year: Unique rhythmic signatures in arrhythmic birdsong First evidence: rhythm analysis can reliably describe arrhythmic sequences. In tawny pipits, (ar)rhythmic differences are individual, and indicate singers' population of origin! doi.org/10.64898/202...

At Sentient Futures, we're looking for ambitious mentees to work on projects related to nonhuman sentience and welfare. I'm happy to support projects focused on bioacoustics for animal health & welfare. Consider applying here by Jan 12: sentientfutures.ai/projectincub...

Sweet postdoc in ML for budgie bioacoustics 🔊 www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeaw-home...

🐦‍⬛ New paper in Animal Cognition covering our carrion crow project with partners at @Univeristy of Leon. 52 mini-biologgers were deployed on wild carrion crows in Spain — capturing 127K+ vocalizations. 🔗: www.earthspecies.org/blog/unlocki... (1/4)

🚨 Our new paper is out!! A call for CARE in animal behaviour: an holistic ethical research framework 🐾💚 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NatureScot seeks an experienced ornithologist for seabird conservation in Scotland. The role involves seabird restoration, resilience in colonies and Marine Protected Areas, advisory work, and developing research and guidance. Apply by 21 December 2025:

We're looking for a new colleague at Asssoc Prof level! Come join us in the Zoology Department at Stockholm University. A teaching profile in ecology, faunistics and/or physiology is beneficial. Find the full job advertisemnt here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...