⚠️ Students looking for experience, opportunities, Masters, PhDs etc in Animal Behaviour: the @asab.org mailing list is an invaluable source with exciting posts every few days. Sign up here: www.asab.org/mailing-list 📩

Just over a week left to apply! 🧪 I am happy to answer any questions!

Come work with us and do research in Germany’s only national park in the Alps, iconic Berchtesgaden Nationalpark! We are looking to fill a PostDoc position in vegetation ecology (tinyurl.com/PostDocBerch...) and a PhD position in mountain forest dynamics (tinyurl.com/PhDBerchtesg...).

This thread. This thread explains why when I saw this headline yesterday my stomach dropped all the way to my toes. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

If you'd like to get an idea of what a PhD with the WildBotics project will be like, check out our sister project WildDrone www.wilddrone.eu I'm happy to answer questions from any potentially interested applicants!

We are offering a PhD position with the WildBotics project @uni-konstanz.de! Want to join an interdisciplinary research network and use drones and computer vision to study animal behavior, ecology and conservation in Kenya? 🇰🇪🐘 Please apply! Deadline June 21 🧪🌍🌿 Full details: tinyurl.com/yn8jkzcf

We are offering a PhD position with the WildBotics project @uni-konstanz.de! Want to join an interdisciplinary research network and use drones and computer vision to study animal behavior, ecology and conservation in Kenya? 🇰🇪🐘 Please apply! Deadline June 21 🧪🌍🌿 Full details: tinyurl.com/yn8jkzcf

Win a 7-night Kenyan safari with Governors’ Camp Collection—while helping protect elephants. Once you arrive in Kenya, everything is taken care of. Plus, you can schedule your trip anytime in the next two years. Entries support protecting the Loita Forest. Enter by March 31: buff.ly/vsIKdLV

📢 SURVEY: Do you use - or have you ever used - drones in marine mammal research? 🐳🐋If so, please complete our short survey and help us map the growing range of ways UAVs are being used around the world for marine mammal monitoring and research: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/uhi/drones...

the humiliation of going on a hot date then finding out she wasn't even in the same PHYLUM (then someone writes a whole paper about it, with photos of your wiener)

Scientists in Indonesia have drone-tagged a pygmy blue whale for the first time, revealing a previously unknown migration route to western Australia. Researchers warn ship strikes, noise and climate change remain key threats. Timor-Leste teams plan to replicate the method.

Post Doc Alert: "large mammal monitoring in northwest Montana...part of a collaborative project between the University of Montana and Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks." More: www.schooljobs.com/careers/ummi... 🧪

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...

Fantastic opportunity to work with us at Shark Bay Dolphin Research 👇🏻

Yes please

New blog post!!🚨 Michael Chimento gives an overview of the new R package STbayes, designed for creating, fitting and understanding Bayesian models of social transmission 🌍 🧪 Read the blog here 👇

Excited to announce our courses for #MovementEcology.🤗 This year we will be in #Africa @mpalarc.bsky.social at Mpala Research Centre. Starting with a basic R course designed for #AfricanResearchers, followed by a two-week international Animove workshop. animove.org/basic-r-cour... Please share 👍

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

They’re stealing from us. They are stealing from us and we have to put a stop to this. This cannot stand.

The Max Planck Society has begun an exploratory round table for open science. We are drafting some recommendations to leadership. Still a long way to go! But here are my notes on the most recent draft, just so you all know how I am trying to steer things.

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too! preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵 Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/9

Interested in a multidisciplinary PhD that integrates robotics, computer vision, ecology and conservation? We are looking for 12 Doctoral Candidates to join the WildBotics MSCA Doctoral Network! Positions are fully funded for 36 months! More info & apply @ www.wildbotics.eu/recruitment 🧪👩‍🔬🌍

New from us. 2025. Adaptive behavioural strategies to seasonal challenges by a semiurban feral ungulate. (Water buffalo) Led by @debottam1991.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 New Publication on Feral Water Buffalo 🐃 🐃 in Animal Behaviour [Also my 1st publication in AB 😊] @asab.org @asabeducation.bsky.social Adaptive behavioural strategies to seasonal challenges by a semiurban feral ungulate W/ @amcell.bsky.social Kate Flay & Hannah Mumby doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

Interested in a multidisciplinary PhD that integrates robotics, computer vision, ecology and conservation? We are looking for 12 Doctoral Candidates to join the WildBotics MSCA Doctoral Network! Positions are fully funded for 36 months! More info & apply @ www.wildbotics.eu/recruitment 🧪👩‍🔬🌍

@asab.org Spring, aimed at ECRs, is coming to Bristol! Conference grant DEADLINE for Developing Country Applicants (<£2500) or anyone needing an early decision for visas (<£750) is in ONE WEEK, 1st December. www.asab.org/conference-g... Referee statement also needed by then! 🐝🐜🦟🦂🐠🐟🐬🦎🐸🦆🐿️🦓

FERAL goes wild: 🦓 Drone footage of Grevy’s zebras (with @blaircostelloe.bsky.social, Ben Koger and @icouzin.bsky.social) Pose-estimation pipelines struggled to detect vigilance behavior from overhead drone videos. FERAL identifies vigilance bouts directly from video.

So impressed with this software! Check it out!

Give FERAL: 1. videos 2. behavioral annotations FERAL fine-tunes a video foundation model on your data. FERAL outputs: - segmented ethograms - model weights you can reuse All in few lines of code (no ML or coding expertise needed). It runs easily on Google Colab. Try it yourself: www.getferal.ai

Our preprint is out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Peter Skovorodnikov and I are excited to present FERAL: a new video-understanding toolkit that maps raw video directly to behavior, no pose estimation required. It works across species, from lab to field, and even in collective systems. (🧵1/n)

The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.

Opportunity to join our team. Open to African students at Masters or PhD level.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

🍂 Applications are now open for our ML-for-Behavior 5-day course at Jackson Labs in Bar Harbor, ME. Talks and hands-on workshops cover pose estimation, supervised/unsupervised behavior quantification, and downstream behavior analyses. Financial aid is available! www.jax.org/education-an...

I am currently advertising a new 3-year research position in my TerraLuma team: Research Associate in Drone Field Operations (Academic Level A) The position will support the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network’s (@TERN_Aus) Dronescape project. careers.utas.edu.au/cw/en/job/50...

Announcing the WildDrone Summer School Sept 22-26. Registration open at wilddrone.eu/summer-school/ Join us in Konstanz for a week of drones, computer vision and conservation ecology! 🧪🌍

Announcing the WildDrone Summer School Sept 22-26. Registration open at wilddrone.eu/summer-school/ Join us in Konstanz for a week of drones, computer vision and conservation ecology! 🧪🌍

Hot off the press 📣: one of the most surprising and unsettling findings of my PhD. A novel social tradition emerged in the tool-using white-faced capuchins of Jicarón island… abducting and carrying the infants of another species. Thread with gifs, videos, and all the bizarre details 👇

Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)

This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit. This cannot be allowed to happen.

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

Postdoc job alert! I'm hiring a 3-yr postdoc to work on our Social Modifiers of Primate Lifespans grant. Job info and how to apply below. Deadline June 1. Pls share! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨 WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people. 4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic. Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

The outcome of our @asab.org Interdisciplinary Workshop (a great initiative! see www.asab.org/workshop-gra... for funding support) is now published. Led by @marinapapa.bsky.social and me, with contributions from all workshop participants as co-authors! paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Two Senior Marine Ornithologist posts at the Marine Directorate of the Scottish Government. Deadline for applications is 21/04/2025, 23:59 #seabirds #ornithology #renewables fa-evxn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word www.nature.com/naturecareer...

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