Two weeks to go before Capturing Ecology closes!  Explore our 8 categories and enter your best photos 📸 that champion the wonders of ecology.  Competition closes on 30 September.  https://f.mtr.cool/bbujqjypnj

Balanced and considered account of scientific racism in the evolutionary sciences and what academics can do to counter it:

Calling all artists! 🧑‍🎨🎨 We are running a t-shirt design competition - craft some primate artwork and submit it to us by the 1st October. The winning design will be sold on our online store, with generated funds used to support our work promoting primate conservation, research and captive care. See 🧵

🏞️Fieldwork is one of the most inspiring parts of environmental science. Let’s make sure it’s also one of the safest and most inclusive! 🥇 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species go.nature.com/4mOb5T9

Primate Society of Great Britain (PSGB) Meeting National Museum Cardiff, 27-28 November www.psgb.org/pages/14-mee... Registration and abstract submission coming soon! Please share! @mckinneymonkey.bsky.social @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social @willallennz.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social

🚨 PhD position in behavioural evolution 🚨 Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve. Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs liu.se/en/work-at-l...

🌍🧪Ecology needs inclusive systems and equitable opportunities. Our new BES report shares evidence, lived experience, and practical steps to dismantle barriers in science.  Written by BES Network members, part-funded by Pride in STEM. Read the full report here:

The free online animal behaviour conference!

Joe Harkness reveals how neurodiverse conservationists find their “superpowers” can make them uniquely effective at their job, with skills including lateral thinking, hyperfocus, memory skills and empathy, as well as having an aptitude for fieldwork. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Insightful #psgbfieldskills2025 panel discussion with in-country researchers. First steps to community-based conservation? Build relationships first, arrive to learn not fix, be interested in others and their priorities, make friends, don't assume, show yourself as a person first, not a researcher.

It's a wrap! #psgbfieldskills2025 #zsl #asab has flown by! Day 3: ethics, logistics, permits and wildlife health via scenario-based learning (Matt Gardiner), inspiring panel discussions on community conservation (Praneetha Monipi) and collecting data at the human-primate interface (Kelly Sambucci) 👏

A fantastic Day 2 on #psgbfieldskills2025 #zsl workshop: vegetation and wildlife surveys @pintsizedprimate.bsky.social bioacoustics @wascherclaudia.bsky.social tracking, camera traps @lizallo.bsky.social and mental health in the field with Praneetha Monipi @primatesocietygb.bsky.social @asab.org

Why talk about LGBTQIA+Inclusion in the field? 45% of those participating in fieldwork have faced gender discrimination 👇 #psgbfieldskills2025 workshop @primatesocietygb.bsky.social @asab.org @zslscience.bsky.social @ljmuimpact.bsky.social @wascherclaudia.bsky.social

Our #psgbfieldskills2025 workshop has started! Great to hear Kat @pintsizedprimate.bsky.social talk on different perspectives in the development of animal behaviour methods @primatesocietygb.bsky.social Thanks to @asab.org @zslscience.bsky.social @ljmuimpact.bsky.social for their amazing support

The amazing field skills workshop! 👀 Funds go directly towards helping those in need attend:

📢 Call for abstracts! Want to present your animal behaviour research online & for free? Submit a 5-min video poster for #ABL2025. Hosted on YouTube with live Q&A on Discord! 📅 Nov 13–14 | Free, online, worldwide 🌍 🔗 Learn more, register, submit ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org #animalbehaviorresearch

A great opportunity for in-country community-based primate conservationists to share experiences and challenges in our online Panel Discussion (30 Aug '25). Send in your expression of interest by 10 Aug! @lemurnetwork.bsky.social @neoprego.org @ips-primatenews.bsky.social

Elephants gesture to signal what they want—just like us. Learn more: scim.ag/3IyDRrq

[COMMENTARY] Tools like drones & GPS apps allow local & indigenous communities to track deforestation & respond to territorial threats quickly. But these tools must be introduced with local realities and cultural wisdom in mind. ** The views expressed are author's, not necessarily Mongabay's.

Marie Curie Fellowships are open (tinyurl.com/bdewf876) - if interested in studying how wild Barbary macaques are adjusting to human impacts (tinyurl.com/5n6hxwwz), please get in touch! We're particularly keen for someone to work with all the metagenomic data we have!

An amazing opportunity for UK-based students who've faced challenges developing field skills: deadline 15 June. Could you help support a student attend? Check the justgiving link below!

Applications are now open for our 2025 Field Skills Workshop! The Field Skills Workshop is a 3-day workshop aimed to develop theory and practice in field skills. See 🧵

Great activity Danni!

🌱 Unravel the plant mechanisms involved in plant-microbe interactions in Priya Reddy's winning entry for this year's #DanceYourPhD #biology category. Watch the entire video—and learn more about the other category winners: scim.ag/4lSpjCl

1/13 The Consciousness of Corvids Using @birchlse.bsky.social `s 5 dimensions of consciousness, this study assesses the subjective experience of corvids. While they share some characteristics with us, it differs in important ways (paper) link.springer.com/article/10.1... by @walterveit.bsky.social

Looking forward to hearing all about drill conservation tomorrow with Dr James Bukie jamesbukie.com @asab.org @primatesocietygb.bsky.social

MDPI is often accused of: ➡ Prioritizing profit over quality. ➡ Rapid peer-review processes that raise concerns about rigor. ➡ Aggressively soliciting articles and editors.

Great graphics of the development of goals in the modern conservation movement over the past 70 years, highlighting which are pre-dated by underlying cultural values, with a call to make tradeoffs in values explicit to clarify management priorities and better understand animal welfare outcomes.

"Understanding the well-studied science of the developmental process of sexual differentiation is especially important now, given widespread misinformation about—and the politicization of—sex and gender." 🧪 on @thetransmitter.bsky.social

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How are researchers around the world tackling problematic names that persist in science today? https://go.nature.com/44JYhXs

as some of you may be aware, we have been dealing with considerable transphobia (among other issues) in our department at the uni of aberdeen. we are sharing this letter publicly to raise awareness and ask for your support. please sign and share 💕🏳️‍⚧️ tinyurl.com/UoATransphobia #LGBTQinSTEM

Fascinating talk from Christopher Barnard Medal winner @lirsamuni.bsky.social contrasting chimpanzee and bonobo cooperation and conflict #ASABSpring2025 #ASAB

Great flash talks 💥 sleep in fish @helenanorman.bsky.social, the friendship paradox @eloisenewman.bsky.social, parental care in roaches: Georgia Cash, behavioural plasticity in bees: Gifty Jacob, social inheritance in red deer: Hannah Lemon, motion tracking: Nikoloz Sirmpilatze #ASABSpring2025 #ASAB

Great talk from @martafavero.bsky.social about the often overlooked 'individual-level' negative effects of the pollutant phenanthrene on behavioural plasticity in wild-caught brine shrimps. #ASABSpring2025 #ASAB

Fascinating talk from Helga Fourie from CIBIO Portugal at the #ASABSpring2025 conference: Proximity promotes social partner choice in weaver birds. #asab

Great first talk to open the student presentations today at the #ASABSpring2025 Conference from Axelle Delaunay @utu.fi on the physiological stress of allomaternal care in Asian elephants #asab

Amazing short film workshop 🎥 at the LJMU hosted #ASABSpring2025 Conference today, thanks to Dr Tom Fletcher and Tom Land from #SilverbackFilms @asab.org @ljmuimpact.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social

Our #ASABSpring2025 conference kicked off with a blast (from the past) today🔥 We had an incredible talk by Dr. Tom Fletcher and Tom Land from Silverback Films 🦍, accompanied by Camilla Affleck from Liverpool Screen School 📽️ and Prof. Peter Falkingham from LJMU 🦖

Starting #ASABSpring2025 with a day long science communication workshop! Don’t forget to also follow @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social for more conference highlights and to use the #ASABSpring2025 hashtag 😁

Welcome back folks! Reminder of our two upcoming events: Seminar on Mental health in the research & innovation: understanding lived experiences of women. 19 Feb 12:30-2 https://buff.ly/4gicrSS Symposium of findings on mitigating Covid's impact. 12 Mar 13:30-15:30 https://buff.ly/3DkMumY

Watch here the latest overview of how #languagebarriers influence science and what we can do to address their multiple consequences. My plenary (and all other exciting presentations on bias in animal behaviour research) at @asab.org Winter Meeting Edinburgh 2024. youtu.be/Dz8SI5KQAaQ?...

Forest cover 🌳 *and* the presence of protective humans ♥️ predict wild bonobo density in a comprehensive new study of 20 years of data. Beautiful science to protect our fellow great apes and their home ecosystem. ☀️ From Mattia Bessone, Barbara Fruth et al: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Absolutely enjoyed #ASABWinter2024. Extremely important topic (addressing bias in research), insightful talks, welcoming, inclusive, and diverse community, and a beautiful city. Learnt so much via interdisciplinary communication. A huge thanks to the amazing organisers and audience.

Great to see @asab.org speakers promoting of the value of traditional indigenous skills, and how certification allows for a range of benefits (including better salaries for locals in grant applications). #ASABWinter2024

Thank you Finland! 👏👏👏⬇️⬇️⬇️ #mdpi #Frontiers

We’re sad the #ASABWinter2024 conference is over, but you can easily follow all of the brilliant speakers, chairs and organizers at go.bsky.app/QbM8rWb If you spoke at the conference and you just joined bluesky or we missed adding you, let us know so we can add you!

ASAB will also be at #Behaviour2025 in Kolkata, India, this summer (Aug 25-30). Abstract submission is currently open! #ASABWinter2024