Are you a computational scientist? Within 7 years of your PhD? Come join us at Lund University! We have two new positions as assistant professor! Deadline: 25th of May. The advert is broad, but this is your chance to push computational neuroscience in a fantastic place! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

“The city’s transition away from the car, tho fantastically chaotic, has become a global role model. Under mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social, Paris was ‘the most influential city in the world’ says Canadian urbanist Brent Toderian. Hidalgo, stepping down after 12 yrs, exulted: ‘The bike beat the car.’”

We have a new exiting PhD position in our program on the skin microbiome of amphibians, supervised by @cortazar-chinarro.bsky.social! Follow the link to read more and apply: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/.... Deadline the 8th of May.

We’re recruiting! Exciting opportunities in our lab supported by a @wellcometrust.bsky.social Discovery Award. • Postdoctoral researchers • Research assistant/PhD students Join us to study how neural circuits drive decision-making. Deadline 26/04 Learn more and Apply here: rezavallab.org

Picture from my lab. The ants built their nest against the terrarium wall, letting me see the inside layout. Zoom in the round chamber to see the #ant cuddle party. #animalbehavior #entomology

Do you love animal behavior & want to share that joy with younger folks? Write a short article on animal behavior for Frontiers for Young Minds (ages 8–15), co-authored with an undergrad! Part of an international ABS collection. Expression of interest due April 30. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#PressRelease 🗞️ A French-Japanese team of scientists has developed a cryptographic method that uses DNA 🧬 as a carrying medium. This method provides security that was only thought to be achievable using quantum cryptography 🔒. 👉 www.cnrs.fr/en/press/dna...

New postdoc opportunity: We’re looking for an independently-minded postdoctoral Research Assistant/Associate in biogeography, ecology, environmental science or a related field to join our Leverhulme Trust funded project studying urban sensory pollution. jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

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.

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...

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ

🚨REPOST PLEASE! 🙏🏻 Calling all South African 🇿🇦 zoology students! You have ONE more week to apply to our Collective Behaviour Field Course 📍Two weeks at the Kalahari Research Centre 🗓️ June 2026 💸 Fully funded Application details are at www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/cbfc DM for any questions

Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Two PhD positions available in our lab! www.senckenberg.de/de/stellenan... a) "Genomic Mechanisms of Olfactory Adaptation and Plasticity in Wasps, Ants, and Bees." 🐜🐝 REF.11-26010 b) "Evolutionary Genomics of Transcriptional Regulation in Beetle Sociality."🪲🪳 REF.11-26011

🚨PhD position opening in Montpellier (France) on how Quaternary climatic changes and recent anthropogenic pressures impact the genetic make-up, distribution, and demographic dynamics of lemurs in Madagascar 🐒🧬 All the info here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/420224

Seeking a motivated postdoc (2+3 yrs) to study links between cognition, behavior, and fitness in lemurs at our long-term field site in Kirindy Forest, Madagascar. Join an interdisciplinary team working on wild populations. @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Apply here: www.dpz.eu

Stand Up for Science appelle toutes celles et tous ceux qui défendent les sciences comme biens communs à manifester le jeudi 26 mars 2026. A Paris, le cortège partira de Jussieu à 16h pour rejoindre le Panthéon en passant par la rue des Ecoles, le boulevard Saint Michel et la rue Soufflot.

En France, la cruauté envers les animaux est interdite… sauf lorsqu’elle est couverte par une « tradition locale ». Résultat : des mineurs peuvent participer à des corridas et tuer des veaux dans certaines arènes. youtu.be/_WdvANc1Mp4

New research from MSU Entomology shows honeybees can “swim” across water and orient toward dark areas that likely mark the shore, but a commonly used insecticide disrupts this life-saving behavior. Read the MSUToday feature: msutoday.msu.edu/news/2026/03... #Entomology 🧪🌍🍁

Regression to the mean effect in reasoning enforced through the AI systems. Here is one more round of 'globalization' and homogenization. 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In one of the first scientific reviews on the emerging concept of “AI psychosis,” researchers expressed real concern about the possibility that chatbots can exacerbate delusions, while maintaining reservations about the idea it can “cause” psychosis in people who aren’t already predisposed.

So this has happened more than 3 times to me while teaching...I say something and a student says (out loud for the the entire class) "you don't know XYZ thing and you're an English professor?!" Has this happened to you? #AcademicSky

Researchers’ Desk – Seminar Series On Wednesday March 18 at 12 noon, Ben Kenward from Oxford Brookes University will speak to us about climate activism's effects on public opinion. The Zoom link is: us02web.zoom.us/j/6639856178. Welcome!

Two 2-year postdoc scholarships in AI-driven marine biology at Umeå Marine Sciences Centre! 🤖 Apply now—applications reviewed from 16 March 2026 until the positions are filled. 🧪🦑🌊 www.umu.se/en/umea-mari... #postdoc #AI #MarineScience

On my academic bucket list: publish an empty book (with a fancy title) about a topic I want to write about but haven’t yet found time to do so. Make it 400 pages and footnotes. #academicchatter

🦊 L'élimination massive des espèces jugées "nuisibles" en France : une politique inefficace et coûteuse ! C'est ce que démontre une nouvelle étude, menée par des chercheurs du Muséum. 👉 www.mnhn.fr/fr/actualite... © MNHN - J. Quintavalle, S. Pagani #Biodiversité #animaux

My department at CSU Northridge is hiring a vertebrate functional morphologist! We've got a great EEB group, and we're looking for someone to carry forward a tradition of enriching organismal courses and community-engaged research. App review starts March 15 csucareers.calstate.edu/mob/cw/en-us...

What the heck is this? Out in Human Nature today: "The Biological "Reality" [quotes mine] of sex and gender." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Researchers’ Desk – Seminar Series On Wednesday at 12 noon, David Beerling will speak with us about enhanced weathering. The Zoom link is: us02web.zoom.us/j/6639856178. Welcome!

🔊 Job alert! 4 Postdocs open at the fantastic Centre for Ainu and Indigenous Studies (CAIS) at Hokkaido University (Japan). Apply here: jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJor... Deadline: 18 February 2026 (Japanese time) #AcademicSky #IndigenousSky #NativeSky

This is not a metaphor for #colonialism. It is colonialism. #NikeshGosalia #R2RConf And every minute it gets worse. Compounding with each new training instance. AI is being optimized for specific user base. Non-english speakers not "seen" in these tools. #academicsky #AI #sciencesky

Do you want to become a Wallander Scholar at the Uppsala Economy and Society Lab, Department of Sociology, Uppsala University? Our department has opened a new call. #AcademicJobs #WallanderScholar #Sociology #UppsalaUniversity

Please read the eligibility criteria carefully before applying. For example, you must be a national of one of the EEA member countries: jobs.eea.europa.eu/jobs/expert-...

We’re telling the Government to put an end to peat sales now! 📢 The destruction of peatlands has got to stop! We've handed in a petition with 16,000 signatures, calling for the government to ban peat sales in 2026.⚠️ Read more👇 https://loom.ly/KMRiz34 & email your MP to support

Vibe coding is the creation of large quantities of complex AI-generated code. Executives push lay-offs claiming AI can handle the work. Managers pressure employees to meet quotas of how much code must be AI-generated... yet results are far from what was promised 1/ www.fast.ai/posts/2026-0...

Le sénateur Duplomb prétend que la filière des betteraviers pourrait disparaître si l’on n’autorise pas à nouveau l’acétamipride. Or, selon des chiffres déterrés par “Le Canard”, se passer de ce néonicotinoide n’a que peu d’impact sur les récoltes… ➡️ https://f.mtr.cool/qnyediqxrb

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...

Students at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social turned bacterial math models into a playable game, BacMan, with IceLab researchers Josephine Solowiej-Wedderburn & Eric Libby. A fun way to explore microbial competition and cooperation! 🔗 www.umu.se/en/news/stud... #scicomm

Koen de Reus recorded 1,000+ hours of pup calls for his PhD at our Institute and Radboud University, with @pieterburen.bsky.social He discovered seal pups take turns when they ‘talk’ and even develop local accents. Surprisingly human! #LanguageEvolution #VocalLearning

Which is why the habitats they fight to return to must be protected. Weakening protections for key sites for nature would push our already struggling wildlife closer to collapse. Yet the UK Government is considering doing just that. Tell your MP to stop this: action.rspb.org.uk/page/186397/... ‼️

This #NationalNestboxWeek, remember not all birds nest the same way! Here's a few options to get you started... Robins and Wrens like to keep hidden, tucking their nests away in dense cover. An open-fronted box placed low down and out of sight is just their style. (1/4)

🧬 Pour un moratoire sur les #pesticides génétiques en Europe : signez la pétition ! ✊ www.youtube.com/shorts/9V6qs... 👉 mobilisation.pollinis.org/pesticides-g... ✍ 🎬 En partenariat avec Hadi Rassi et Jérémy Bismuth (Ami des Lobbies) 🐝

No one: Bioacousticians:

When something doesn't work properly, can your dog tell if the object is broken or if you just don't know how to use it? I'm pleased to share my group @jhu.edu's first study with pet dogs (!!), now out in @plosone.org Led by Amalia Bastos: Do dog rationally infer the causes of failed actions? 1/4

Un jour on arrêtera d'infliger des horreurs pareilles aux autres êtres #sentients. En attendant, on peut agir pour ne pas laisser faire. Merci à toutes les personnes qui ne s'en foutent pas. 🔽🔽🔽 #Ross308 #spécisme

#Evidenceinformedpolicy important to Swedish voters & Public #confidence in #research in Sweden remains strong, according to the Swedish #ScienceBarometer 2025/26 know published in English! #SwedishScienceBarometer Read more and download: vetenskapallmanhet.se/2026/02/evid...

Can an escape room change how people engage with climate science? This study shows how a climate-themed STEM escape room engaged non-science audiences, fostered immersion & curiosity, and operated across online & in-person formats. Fun, but serious #scicomm → jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi...

🐾 Help enhance Human-Dog interactions! 🐾 Take part in a 30‑min online study testing a short learning module on safe, positive dog behaviour in public spaces. Open to all university students & staff- no dog experience needed! 👉 Click the link to participate tinyurl.com/37umwa57

The #slow-motion camera I have is old, and keeping tiny #ants in focus is difficult... nevertheless, attacking ant in phantom speed is cool to see!