Lecturer/ Assistant professor Entomology, University College Dublin: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport... Deadline 1st December!

2 year position (Indiana, USA) studying the Neurobiology of insect welfare in the Barrett lab. Sort of a pre-doc position for someone with a BSc (and ideally) MSc in a relevant discipline. An excellent opportunity to gain (paid) research experience! www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...

The program of day 2 of #ABL2025 is here! Another exciting lineup of plenaries, talks, poster sessions and exchanges on animal behaviour 🦋🐙 💻 Free, online & open to all worldwide 🚨Don’t miss it, it’s the last day to register! 🚨 🔗https://ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org/

It's almost the weekend! 🥳 If you're looking for something for you and/or your kids to do, I've recently re-uploaded my arthropod coloring guide 🎨 Please feel free to share, print, and [definitely] have fun with it!!! drive.google.com/file/d/1V59i...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Some of the entries here made me literally laugh out loud. @b3ta.com is often very amusing This was an especially amusing image challenge: b3ta.com/challenge/tw...

Cool rotifer feeding with it's cilia beating 🐙🧪

Review request from an MPDI journal. #AcademicSky

I asked chatGPT about this (irony is not lost on me) and it seems like I was onto sth there 😅

Recently, whenever I read 'intricate' on a scientific abstract or other published work I immediately think 'AI'... #AcademicSky

New #PhD ad alert! Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England? Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

2️⃣weeks to go! Join us online on 13–14 November for two days of talks and discussions on animal behavior 🐝🐙🐘 💻 It’s free & open to everyone worldwide, don’t miss out! The full program is out now, have a look 👇 ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

A young PI here in Mainz has a fabulous PhD position that will be filled soon! By you? Keywords: Social insects, ageing, gene expression. www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-evoluti...

Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Reposting for the Monday morning scrollers! Funded PhD opportunity with me @multipleye-lab.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social - spiders, their eyes, and their babies under long- and short-term light pollution!

🚨🚨Job! 🚨🚨Permanent (75% time) job! We are a pretty awesome research group & seek a manager who deals with everything: personnel tasks, organizing retreats, preparing code for teaching / data structures for research... Fluency in German & English essential. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/51527

Join us! Oxford is advertising an Associate Professorship in Animal Behaviour. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Trying to work from home with my kids around

📣 @asab.org grants BOOSTED! 📣 We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026. Check out what we offer here: www.asab.org/grant-overview

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Congrats to the winners of the best poster and best talk of the #gradmeeg25. But all the contributions were really stunning!! @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social @denisebe.bsky.social

You like card games & social insects? Then check out the amazing new Social Insects Trump cards game developed by @elvarobinson.bsky.social and her group. It's the perfect 🐜🐝🪳-themed gift and you'll support the IUSSI widening participation & inclusion initiative: www.iussi-nweurope.org/edi

In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

📣 Am 18.10. eröffnen wir mit einer Rad-und Fußdemo auf der #A100 die Autobahn für ALLE! 📍 Estrel Hotel, S Sonnenallee ⏰ 14 Uhr Egal ob zu Fuß, mit Rad, Skates oder anderem - Hauptsache ohne Auto! 🚲 🛼 🛴

🕷️PhD position: Homemakers; web building behaviour in New Zealand sheet-web spiders 🕷️ Please email Dr Leilani Walker - [email protected]

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

In humans, bigger teams often mean less effort per person — the #Ringelmann effect. Weaver #ants 🐜 flip the script: #teamwork makes them superefficient! Video + paper out now in Current Biology! @cellpress.bsky.social tinyurl.com/44yrvp6m tinyurl.com/3jnnevfn

Urodid moth cocoon, Costa Rica. The basket hangs by a thread (possibly to discourage ants) and the structure may allow rain to drain and/or prevent mold. But it doesn't stop parasites - I think the seed-like ovals are cocoons of parasitic flies or wasps, indicating the moth pupa's likely fate. 🐙🌿

Much as I'd love to bring back Tomorrow's World, what we really need is Today's World, explaining the predatory nature of the tech industry, internet and phone scams, and online culture to people who aren't terminally online

Two specimens of Megetra punctata from southeastern Arizona. Surprisingly the smaller one was a female and the larger a male - I think size is totally related to how much blustery ooze they have left in them and not correlated to gender. These things reflex bleed as soon as they are touched!

❗️Job Alert: Deep-Sea Benthic Biologist (Assistant Professor) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA 🌊 Apply by Dec 1, 2025: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04175 📷 Auckland Museum Collections (CC) #MarineBiology

Your regular reminder that LLMs give the illusion of fluency, but still hallucinate dangerously when asked about more niche topics, such as ant behaviour. Here, Gemini invented a paper which I apparently authored. The link works, but sends you to an unrelated paper.

Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.

Schon mehr als 163.000 verteidigen die Energiewende! Wirtschaftsministerin Katherina Reiche (CDU) droht mit dem fossilen Rückschritt: Statt erneuerbare Energien voranzubringen, plant sie neue Gaskraftwerke. Im Sinne ihres ehemaligen Arbeitgebers – der Gaswirtschaft. Hier der Appell dagegen: 👇

We are looking for a Postdoc (up to 5 years) who wants to study neural mechanisms of spatial memory in honeybees. This includes tetrode recordings in behaving honeybees. Application Deadline is 1st of October 2025. More details: www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/services/...

🎓 #PhD in Animal Metabolomics & Ecology @unigreifswald🇩🇪 Sexual and non-sexual communication in a widow spider 🕷️⚗️ DFG-funded | 3 years | behavioral ecology & chemical ecology Details: bit.ly/widow-phd Apply by Sept 24, start in February 2026 #AcademicSky #pleaserepost

Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt

Ongoing academic position lecturer in terrestrial animal ecology at JCU Australia. Deadline 8th August 2025. careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...

Two (!) ongoing Academic (Research and Teaching) positions in Ecology, here at Monash University in Melbourne. Closing in a little over a week! Please share widely! Both at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor) careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Happy World Ocean Day now prove you are not a robot. (This CRABTCHA is brought to you by @jopabinia.bsky.social and yours truly.)

A six year "assistant professor" position in animal behaviour, in a university with a very strong behavioural biology staff - a great opportunity! I don't think you have to study walruses, but no doubt it helps.

Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job

The odd decorations on treehoppers may help them to detect electrostatic charges! That's pretty cool.

Why do treehoppers look so weird?! Our latest paper, out this week in @pnas.org, suggests a perhaps unexpected reason - static electricity ⚡ We show that treehoppers can detect the electrostatic cues of predators and that their crazy shapes may boost their electrosensitivity! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

We have 8 replication games over the next 13 weeks (Tilburg, Bordeaux, Brno, Galway, Berlin, Paris, Lyon and Ottawa)! Not too late to register to any of these events: i4replication.org/games.html

What do ants prefer to eat? A new assay designed to sensitively test for food preference in ants. Hopefully useful when designing baits for controlling #invasivespecies From Thomas Wagner @tiberian1986.bsky.social, Henrique Galante and me #bioinvasions #biologicaInvasions OA link next post!