🔊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/...

Applications open for Sentient Futures incubator: an 8-week program pairing fellows with mentors to work on projects aimed at improving the welfare of future sentient beings. Happy to be one of the mentors. Apply! 🐖🐣🪳🐟🐙 www.sentientfutures.ai/projectincub...

New paper out! 🔊 As crow chicks grow, their voices become more individual overall - but this depends on the context! Stable parameters carry ID info across age classes. Gidl, Binder et al. Very proud to see our MSc students publish! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How do rhinos talk to each other? A new study suggests snorts may lack specific communicative function. However, "pant" calls triggered significant reactions, influenced by sex & social context. www.behavioural-ecology-group.com/learning-fro... #SciComm #Bioacoustics © stanciuc via canva.com

@malavika-m.bsky.social & colleagues, Social environment affects vocal individuality in a non-learning species (spoiler: density plays a role in non-colonial birbs) 🔊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What's objectively best for chicken welfare is veganism, but in the meantime you can work towards improving the state of things as a chicken affective ethologist: www.animalpainresearchinstitute.org/chicken-affe...

If you consier a meow a cry, this kinda feeds into the idea that negative calls are less inidividual. Anyway, some of my fav questions asked on the world's most perfect beings, read this paper! Russo et al: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cool post doc opening in the awesome MRI, Białowieża: ibs.bialowieza.pl/en/announcem...

📢We have a brilliant #PhD opportunity on collective animal behaviour across vertebrates! Deadline early 2026 so plenty of time to prepare, feel free to reach out for more info if you are interested in applying 👀 All details below👇

#ornithology folks: would anyone with access to the Birds of the World be so kind to share the tawny pipit migration/wintering details with me? 🐤🙏 birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/...

🚨Job Alert plz RT! Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition! We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals Open-rank apply.interfolio.com/178146

PhD scholarship alert! Are you interested in cognitive evolution? Do you want to know how development influences cognitive traits? Do you love hanging out with birds in the forest? If the answer to these questions is yes, please apply to work with us! 1/2 🧪 www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...

🔊Boosting our new work: Emotional contexts influence vocal individuality in ungulates, Osiecka, Lefèvre & @ebriefer.bsky.social Turns out that emotional valence impacts the level of vocal individuality - some parameters remain stable indicators of ID across emotional states. tinyurl.com/emotid

Come and join our lab! We have TWO fully funded PhD positions AND a paid field assistant opportunity in our Behavioral Ecology group @uni-goettingen.de & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Projects will be part of @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social & @sfb1528.bsky.social!! Details in thread. Please re-post!

As I'm planning next years field season, I wonder if anyone on here would like to run a small island project on Skúvoy with me. I will be catching and samling great skuas, but there will be good opportunities to investigate other aspects of seabird island ecology 🌍🧪 #seabirds

🔊Negative valence overrides identity information in ungulate vocalisations. Happy to share new work by @ebriefer.bsky.social Romain Lefèvre & myself authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Flexible Funds for research projects between Berlin and Oxford www.berlin-university-alliance.de/commitments/...

The Arctic warms 4x faster than the rest of the planet -> really strong winds -> little auks (who are very little) have trouble taking care of their young (visit the colonies less) Awesome and depressing work by Martin & collegues www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📣 Apply now for the 🌵CaCTüS 3-month fully funded internship in Germany in 2026! Work on ML, theor. neuroscience, computational psychiatry, behavioral experiments or data analysis at a top institution in Tübingen. For students facing barriers in higher education. 👉 cactus-internship.tuebingen.mpg.de

Very East Berlin for a wren.

📢 JOB ALERT! Interested in #Bioacoustics, #Linguistics and the #Evolution of #Language? We are seeking a #ResearchAssistant to join our project 'Convergent Evolution of Vocal Communication: Exploring the Parallels between #Birdsong and Human Speech'.👇 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

perretologia.substack.com/p/anthropomo... <3

🐃🐦 Interested in how feral buffalo & cattle affect bird communities in Hong Kong? Join our research team (@amcell.bsky.social, Prof. Kate Flay & me) at CityU HK through the DAAD RISE Paid Internship for German students. Apply: shorturl.at/LvDe3 | Ref: HK_BI_0704| |📧: [email protected]

Bielefeld University seeks a full-time research associate in Evolutionary Ecology of Behaviour. Application deadline: 11.12.2025. For details and to apply, visit: https://jobs.uni-bielefeld.de/job/view/4618/research-position-m-f-d-in-evolutionary-ecology-of-behaviour-postdoc?page_lang #job

The Slender-billed Curlew was declared extinct in October 2025. At #AEWAMOP9, delegates paid tribute to it, with this rare taxidermied specimen on view. Read personal reflections and testimonies from those who searched for, studied, and cared deeply about it: www.unep-aewa.org/en/news/reme...

🔊Longer chatter => more urgency in magpies? Kuspiel and colleagues link.springer.com/article/10.1...

NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation to track #seabirds from Rathlin Island and analyse data to identify foraging areas (deadline 10 Nov): buff.ly/K0zcdH8

🔊Funded PhD positions in (very technical aspects of) bioacoustics with Peter Balazs (ITU, Austria) career.it-u.at/en/Job/73280

Harvard's environmental postdoc grant (2yrs, 90k pa + extras) www.environment.harvard.edu/environmenta...

This November, like every November, I am teaching basic research proposal writing to the new phd cohort at my institute. Here is the 2 page template we start with and adapt. Link to LaTeX github.com/rmcelreath/P...

🔊Go listen to Marco's awesome new podcast on bioacoustics! I might be partial, but both guests ( @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social & @mhoeschele.bsky.social ) are beyond amazing💚🎶

Harm to Nonhuman Animals from AI: a Systematic Account and Framework, Coghlan & Parker. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨Job alert! CMST are hiring an offshore fieldwork specialist to maintain our acoustic equipment, design and build moorings, manage field deployments, and join in data analysis, publication, presentation, and student support. Closing 21 Nov. staff.curtin.edu.au/job-vacancie... #bioacoustics

Check out pypi.org/project/xeno... where you'll find xcapi: a Python package for downloading animal sounds using the Xeno-canto API. Courtesy: Burooj Ghani (of AvesEcho etc. fame). #bioacoustics

Omw to record some grebes I guess? Interesting work on who do we study when we study seabirds, @ingridpollet.bsky.social and colleagues: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Beyond stoked to start a #sentientfutures fellowship this week (and on a roll, the Effective Altruism network). Science is great & all, but we need to actually consider and improve the welfare of other beings. Come join the bright side. www.sentientfutures.ai

Looking for a PhD? 🦜 Interested in ornithology, animal behaviour, bioacoustics? I am advertising a PhD on vocal communication in ring-necked parakeets tinyurl.com/44a3hcnz Eligible candidates are encouraged to apply for University of Salford Widening Participation Scholarships tinyurl.com/4wtzzh3z

🔊 Check out our new work led by @wascherclaudia.bsky.social for a deep dive into corvid calls 🖤

📢 #CFP: Wild Animal Initiative is accepting grant applications for projects studying wild animal welfare. 🗓️ Submit your EOI form by November 14 to be considered. 🧪 #wildlife #biology #zoology #ecoevo #animalbehavior #animalbehaviour #physiology #conservation #science

📢 PhD opportunity at @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @ifv-whv.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social 🎓 Interactions between contaminants and parasites in common terns 📅 Apply by 12/12/2025 at euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380142 #seabirds #ecotoxicology @univ-larochelle.fr @commonternproject.bsky.social

🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

📣 Are you interested in applied animal ethology and perceptual abilities of animals? Do you want to help us disentangle how animal emotions are modulated by their sensory environment? Then, you might be the postdoc we are looking for🌠 More info: www.slu.se/en/about-slu... #appliedethology #postcoc

Fear of novelty varies across species & individuals, impacting adaptability & survival. @themanybirds.bsky.social @drrmiller.bsky.social &co assess #neophobia in 1400 subjects from 136 #bird species, identifying phylogenetic influences & broad ecological drivers @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4haLEsN

🐦Funded PhD @Bristol for UK-domiciled applicants of Black heritage ✨ How does human pressure impact the stability and longevity of bird populations in the Global South 🌍 Train in R & Bayesian modelling with partners in Tanzania, Kenya, SA, @zslscience.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...