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

I have some brilliant news to share! I recently received a DFG-funded Emmy Noether 6-year grant to establish my own group in Germany. I will soon be looking for a PhD student and a research assistant to join the team and investigate how the balance of power is maintained in animal societies.

Our Behavioural Brain Research special issue on Ultrasonic Communication in Rodents is growing, rapidly – and actually a lot faster than I manage to post about it. Nine new manuscripts got accepted since my last post. Quite impressive work. Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

🚨 Come join the fantastic long-tailed tit team 🚨 🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds). 🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK. 🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025. jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...

Interested in early life learning and cognitive development ? In our new pre-print we present data on developmental trajectories of three cognitive traits spanning wild meerkat pups critical life transitions 👇🏼 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Want to see what a Neuromatch course is like…on your own time? Our full course materials are freely available for anyone to explore, anytime. While the live courses include team projects, TAs, and learning pods, the content itself is always open. ➡️ neuromatch.io/open-educati...

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

The conference is next week!✨ Join us on 13–14 November for a rich two-day schedule of fascinating talks on animal behaviour 🦋🐟🐆 💻 Free, online & open to all worldwide 👉 Explore the program and register 🔗 ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

Slow down and really see nature. Join artist–zoologist Bella Charlton for a free online workshop on #NatureJournaling - hosted by SCB and Current Conservation. 🗓️ Nov 14, 2025 | 8–9 AM ET 🎨 Open to all, no drawing experience needed! 👉 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #SciComm

Guess who's back! 🦇 55 years missing: An international team led by the museum rediscovered the Turkestan long-eared bat in the Karakum Desert. Endemic species like 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘬𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴 reveal how life adapts – and why protecting unique habitats matters. 🌏 📹 Christian Dietz #biodiversity #bats

The published version of our study on the early-life transition from isolation USVs to adult-like USVs in juvenile mice is out in Animal Behaviour! authors.elsevier.com/a/1m1YDmjMA4GP bsky.app/profile/kati...

🎼What is octave equivalence? 🎶Do animals use notes and octaves? In the second episode of Acoustic World, we talk about it with @mhoeschele.bsky.social from ARI Vienna’s "Musicality and Bioacoustics" group. Free now on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/7m6Y... #acousticworld #bioacoustic #podcast

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

Hi, is there anyone in my network who studies caecilians, specifically maternal dermatophagy? I have questions 🧐

📢 The call for task proposals for DCASE Challenge 2026 has been published dcase.community/articles/cal... Don't hesitate to contact @annamariamesaros.bsky.social and @rserizel.bsky.social if you consider organizing a task.

From last year! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Super excited to share the first part of my thesis work! Perhaps how you might be able to both recognize someone’s voice *and* understand what they’re saying, we find that both social identity and vocalization category can be decoded from gerbil auditory cortex activity👂🧠 tinyurl.com/4fba6wk4

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...

A very close singing Coal Tit yesterday morning - fascinating to see these almost perfectly regular repeated motifs in the song with very rapid changes over huge frequency range. Must require some very precise neuromuscular control of bird's vocal system macaulaylibrary.org/asset/644354...

You can watch the live stream of #biodcase! Here: https://dcase.community/workshop2025/live-stream

Make your science heard 🎙️🌍 Join our second outreach workshop on 14 Nov #ABL2025 at 12:00 GMT, with oceanographer, marine ecologist & communicator Sakina-Dorothée Ayata, sharing how to choose the right media for the right audience. Free registration ➡️ ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org

New #python tool for downloading #birdsong from #xenocanto! https://pypi.org/project/xenocanto-api/ Freshly made by my colleague Burooj Ghani

Common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) do not differentiate between familiar and unfamiliar conspecifics based on pitch contour information https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.27.684793v1

#CrowCoG is hiring🚨MULTIPLE PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS 🚨for our 2026 field season (May - Sep)! Field and aviary-based positions - come help us study the remarkable tool-making New Caledonian crows. Apply here: bit.ly/3WlxxHE

🚨🚨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

Researchers gave female canaries testosterone, which causes them to sing. Two-photon in vivo imaging reveals that songs emerge due to changes in brain cell function rather than by increasing the size of a key brain region, as was once thought. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/pn1750XhFL5

Neurons in the bat auditory cortex encode class and complexity of future vocalizations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.24.684351v1

Family identity is represented within vocal categories by the gerbil auditory cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.24.684438v1

Vocal sequences of diverse parrots suggest an important role for note repetition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.24.684295v1

Science isn't done until it's shared! 🔬🌍 Make your research matter beyond the lab & join our outreach workshop at 12:00GMT, 13 Nov at #ABL2025 With: Fran Sconce (@royentsoc.bsky.social) Dr Andy Howe (Insect Investigators) Dr @ellenrotheray.bsky.social (BuzzClub) Register➡️ ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org

"Unsung Songbirds: Advances in the Study of Corvid Communication" - a new review paper (preprint) https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/10600/ Corvids are amazing, so I'm v pleased to be a small part of this review led by Claudia Wascher and Valerie Dufour. #corvids #bioacoustics

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

📢Meet us!! Paula @paulapefraga.bsky.social is a postdoctoral researcher on the behaviour team. She is interested in animal–human communication and emotions. Her research explores how physiology, vocalizations, and behaviour connect. You can easily find her hiking in the mountains with her dogs.

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...

The Tschida Lab is recruiting a new PhD student this cycle! We have ongoing projects related to (1) neural circuits that regulate vocal communication across behavioral contexts and/or development and (2) motor control of different vocalization types. Please RT! Strong neuro background a plus.

Find a career in acoustics! Studying acoustics opens up your future to a range of career paths. You can do almost anything with an acoustics background! https://exploresound.org/acoustics-careers/

I am excited to share my PhD work on head-direction cells recorded in the wild, now published in @science.org, where we recorded neurons in bats flying outdoors on an island. doi.org/10.1126/sci... With @ray-neuro.bsky.social, Shir Maimon, Liora Las, Nachum Ulanovsky and many others

One week until this fantastic seminar with speakers @cliffscience.bsky.social and @leo-perrier.bsky.social Register here for the link! braincoustics.com #bioacoustics #neuroskyence

📣 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

Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models "Furthermore, when generating and evaluating resumes, ChatGPT assumes that women are younger and less experienced, rating older male applicants as of higher quality." No surprise, but now documented: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔊3 years in the making OUT NOW & #OA: "Zebra finch tutees not only share the melody but also the rhythm of their tutor’s song" in #ScientificReports together with Judith Varkevisser and Michelle Spierings, APCs covered by #projectDEAL. #bioacoustics #rhythm #zebrafinch #AnimalBehavior 🧵1/6

When part of a word is replaced by noise, humans still hear the whole word. How do brains do this? New from Meliza group in @natcomms.nature.com Le et al. study this in zebra finches, a model system for vocal learning www.nature.com/articles/s41... #prattle 💬 #neuroskyence 1/5

Why does the naked mole rat have the longest lifespan of any rodent, nearly 40 years? A 30-year long mystery unraveled @ScienceMagazine today! Its cGAS enzyme in cells has 4 missense mutations that upends its function, promoting DNA repair and suppressing inflammation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Do you love research & writing & all things animal behavior? Well our journal, Animal Behavior, recruiting up to 5 (count em!) new Associate Editors! Editors serve three-year terms beginning January 2026. If you're interested, email Exec Editor Scott Sakaluk ([email protected]) by Oct 31!

Very pleased to see our study that formally quantifies the society of zebra finches. They have different types of relationships, and these form tiers, but they do not form a multilevel society. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... This was a very nice collaboration with great colleagues.

Pleased to have this review out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social. In it we discuss various aspects of the intersection between foraging behaviors and neuroscience, and offer some future directions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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📣✨ New ESLR logo? Join our logo competition! Include ESLR, but get creative with fonts, colours, and style. Feel free to add imagery inspired by behaviour, culture, or learning. Send designs to [email protected] by December 1st. 🌍 If selected, you’ll get full credit as the logo’s creator!