We (me and @njdowdy.bsky.social) are hiring a PhD student! Come work with us! We seek a PhD student to investigate the evolution of acoustic behavior in Lepidoptera within a comparative evolutionary framework... Job closes this week! Apply ASAP! njdowdy.gitlab.io/balogh-fello...

We are currently accepting applications for two positions on this project! Research Fellow/Post doc : tinyurl.com/postdocNTU PhD Student: tinyurl.com/PhDNTU Come work with us! @bridgetwaller.bsky.social @neuroprimato.bsky.social

My former officemate Camille Troisi, an excellent scientist and top-tier human, now at the Université de Rennes, is currently recruiting a PhD student on the relationship between urbanisation and social learning (in birds!) sdrive.cnrs.fr/s/2HtQ8caBRd...

Welche Produkte in 🇩🇪 mit 19% besteuert werden: - Hafermilch - Windeln - Sojaschnitzel Und Welche mit 7%: - Kuhmilch - Fleisch - Froschschenkel Und Welche überhaupt nicht: - Flugkerosin - Schiffsdiesel - Int. Flugtickets Unser Steuersystem ist völlig absurd und gehört reformiert!

A new @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social Forum piece reviews "valuation illusions" in insects—perceptual and cognitive biases (risk aversion, decoy effects, incentive contrasts) that cause decisions to deviate from economic rationality, much as in humans and other vertebrates. @tomerczaczkes.bsky.social

I am hiring a PhD student to join our group in Lund, Sweden working on an ERC-funded project to untangle color and polarization vision in some amazing crustaceans – minute water fleas and pugnacious mantis shrimp! Please forward this to promising students. Apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 Fully funded PhD at the University of Bristol (UK) on how ant colonies remodel their nests to optimise performance under pressure, combining experimental work, quantitative analysis, and field work. Detail/how to apply: stroeymeyt-lab.co.uk/open-positio... Deadline: 5 June 2026

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

I NEED HELP! Please take this quick, meaningless 19 question survey so I can get data for my students to learn stats! I did a similar version a few months ago but missed an important question type. Even if you did the old one, please do it again! Please circulate widely!

dzg-meeting.de/en/welcome-ms/ The Meeting of the German Zoological Society will take place in Münster from September 7 to 11! Abstract submission until June 15! 🧪

Cleaner ants?! Like cleaner fish but in ants? Madness. Mark Moffet is also really nice- he sent me actual, physical copies of his PhD and some reprints during my PhD. I still have them! www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Argentine ants that consume a sugary treat mixed with caffeine become noticeably better at finding their way back to it. Caffeine turns ants into smarter, more efficient foragers—potentially boosting pest control efforts. 🌏 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Some plants change the colour of flowers which were already pollinated, and are now rewardless. We thought perhaps they were using a behavioural economic trick - the decoy effect - to make the rewarded flowers appear more valuable. We were wrong. resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

My mum has gout so can't eat tomatoes. I got the pizza place to use a layer of Marmite on the pizza base under the cheese for her. She loves it. And actually, I think it's better than the tomato sauce, so I'm switching too. Never going tell our Italian neighbours though.

💶🧿 Value illusions in insects 🐝🐜🦗 Insects make many of the same weird choices we do, and fall for many of the same marketing tricks - but not all! A very short piece by Tanya Latty and me doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

Some first-rate science writing: For this story, @jdrakephd.bsky.social carefully read our recent paper and then we spent a very fun 90 minutes or so talking on zoom. His article that gets right to the heart of our model, explains it clearly, and then explores why it will matter in the future.

This was indeed well written and clear. My proposal: all funders mandate that all research they fund _must_ be published in their own, in-house journals. Possibly with a rating system like @elife.bsky.social. This would kill the chase for the elite publication and reemphasized content over venue.

Post-doc opportunity on comparative cognition and movement dynamics in corvids with the brilliant Prof Debbie Kelly at the University of Manitoba

A new review in Animal Behaviour finds that of 89 mirror self-recognition studies, only a small handful involved invertebrates. The paper also calls for species-appropriate test designs beyond the visual mirror paradigm. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fascinating review on leaf-cutting ants 🐜 which are little farmers and optimized their nest architecture to provide optimal climate conditions for their fungus. 🍄 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama! Three positions, each including salary & a research budget. Applications due April, 15th. DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us! stri.si.edu/academic-pro...

We are delighted to announce #ECBB2026 registration and abstract submission are now open! Conference Attendance Grant are also available, thanks to @asab.org and @ethoges.bsky.social support! www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe...

📣📣📣 Applications for the 2026 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!! Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply! More info: disi.org

Join us next week (March 11) as @viveknityananda.bsky.social examines frameworks for investigating insect welfare, including key debates around insect emotions and pain. The session will be followed by a Q&A—a great opportunity to bring your questions on insect sentience! bit.ly/4bFAITn

Researchers in Brazil – Estamos procurando por você! The CAPES-Humboldt Research Fellowships support top researchers from Brazil with a fully funded research stay in Germany. Learn more at our upcoming Info Session: bit.ly/4u4B3pA 🗓 4 March, 10am – 11:30am (Brasília time)

Have you ever asked yourself, how insect brains represent places? And whether insects do have place cells? Then move to Germany this summer and start your PhD in my lab. We conduct tetrode recordings from bumblebees that freely forage laboratory mazes. 🧠🐝#BeeSpace @erc.europa.eu @neuroethology.org

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.

PFAS are linked to cancer and contaminate our water and food - yet chemical giants are lobbying to weaken protections to our health. Europe can still act. I just signed. Will you? action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-01...

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-...

Still in bed with espresso. Reading 🐜papers Stukalyuk, Kozyr, Sydorenko, @tomerczaczkes.bsky.social , @trigos-peral.bsky.social Excellent paper & interesting to see use of ‘blind’ in ant experiments. Urban vs rural but does melicitose increase with climate change related heat stress in plants?

📣 Cities reshape ant diets 🐜🍬 An international team—Stukalyuk et al. (Ukraine), @tomerczaczkes.bsky.social (Germany) & @trigos-peral.bsky.social (Poland) found urban ants accept lower-sugar food than rural ones, likely adapting to different food sources. 👉 shorturl.at/W7bsm #City #Ants #Nutrition

I am hiring a research assistant (vampire bats), a Panama fieldwork coordinator (vampire bats), and also considering postdoc apps (social behavior, any species): socialbat.org/2026/02/19/h...

#InvertebrateShitposting as per @joabaldwin.com's request

Artists, quote with something silly!

Come hear me stir up some controversy* next month with my take on the evidence for insect sentience. *or not, depending on your point of view.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

🧪 AIM member @trigos-peral.bsky.social takes part in a new article analyzing how urbanization affects the food resources of aphid-tending ants such as Lasius niger.

🚨 Attention! DO NOT confuse the archaic hominin species Denisovans with the darts player Denis Ovens!

Don't be put off by the ad saying "UK Students only" - a limited number of scholarships are available for international candidates. So please apply!

We are looking for a PhD student to help us improve welfare of farmed fish. Behaviour, Cognition, Welfare, Fish - join us at Wageningen University and Research! www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

My Centre is a unique place to do a PhD in Philosophy, because you can be in constant contact with experts in veterinary medicine, psychology, zoology and policy and be part of a team united by a shared interest in animal minds. We now have our 1st ever PhD scholarship: www.lse.ac.uk/sentience/phd

📢Enjoy our new work on urban ants! 🐜🌳 A fruitful collaboration with Stanislav Stukalyuk and @tomerczaczkes.bsky.social #urbanization #nutrition #ants #food_sources

Urban ants are less picky than rural ants when it comes to sugar solution. Maybe the aphids in cities produce poorer honeydew, reflecting the stress they, or their tree hosts are under? New paper, with Stanislav Stukalyuk and @trigos-peral.bsky.social. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

There is still some time to submit for our Special Collection on social cognition and anthropogenic environments! We are looking forward to hear from you! link.springer.com/collections/... Please do get in touch if you have any questions. #openaccess #socialcognition

📢 We're looking for a PhD student to focus on habitat use of wintering Curlew in and around coastal SPAs. Apply now ➡️ bit.ly/CurlewPhD The student will be based at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social and BTO, starting in October 2026 for four years. 📆 Deadline to apply: Wednesday 18 February #Ornithology

The world feels rough right now So please enjoy this shrimp, filmed off Cozumel, Mexico. It may be a larval reef shrimp, but we don’t know what species or how long it lives or what it eats. The world is still full of wonder and beauty and mystery. 🎥 @pedrovalenciam scuba diver on Insta

Four days left to apply for two postdocs in social evolution with me and @dustinrubenstein.com Based at the University of Bristol (UK), conducting fieldwork with wasps in Cameroon, Kenya, and South Africa.

SO EXCITED to be finally talking about some funky preliminary results on the eyes of this funky harvestman at #SICB2026 on Tuesday! Here are a few sneak peak pics :D