Cotton is excited about meeting some of our applicants today @aberdlsagb.bsky.social applicant visit day and showing off the sniffing skills she has been learning on the #OneZoo project to locate parasite intermediate hosts on farmland :)

Save the date for the next European Conference on Behavioural Biology! Animal Behaviour in the Anthropocene, 1-4 September 2026 at Anglia Ruskin University. Watch this space for updates on speakers, plenaries, and calls for abstracts! #AcademicSky #UpcomingConferences

We have a permanent vacancy for a lecturer in Zoology at Aberystwyth University jobs.aber.ac.uk/en/vacancy/l... Deadline 14th December!

PhD scholarship alert! Are you interested in cognitive evolution? Do you want to know how development influences cognitive traits? Do you love hanging out with birds in the forest? If the answer to these questions is yes, please apply to work with us! 1/2 🧪 www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...

Cotton came to work to demonstrate skills taught by Eszter Monostori on her #OneZoo PhD project - teaching dogs to locate the intermediate hosts of parasites. She loved meeting our students, inspiring the next generation of scientists. @aberdlsagb.bsky.social @aberuni.bsky.social #OneHealth #UKRI

PhD project on the evolution of animal memory now available in my research group, through the TREES DLA: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo.... Come and join us if you're interested in the evolution of animal minds and you want to do some cool experimental evolution!

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/

❓ Want to join us? 📢 Fully funded #PhD for UK-domiciled Black heritage candidates 🐵 Biological market monitoring & manipulation in social animals #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork 👥 With me, #LaurenBrent & #PatrickKennedy 🎓 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social ℹ️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🙏Share widely

Teamwork in action 😁 Reeling in 40 m of oxygen/temperature sensor cable on the @aberdlsagb.bsky.social Freshwater Field Course at Llyn Tegid. Love boat work in the sunshine! And we also found some of the very rare glutinous snails shore sampling which made my day 🥰 🐌

Fantastic new study by @meg-alicemay.bsky.social using eDNA to monitor marine biodiversity at Tristan da Cunha. It identified species missed by traditional surveys, and demonstrated the effectiveness of this technique for use in challenging remote locations. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I am really looking forward to the opportunity to talk about my favourite things at the University of Chester today. Animal cognition, snails, and dogs 😊

Looking for an enthusiastic post-doc to investigate how experience shapes the brain. Drosophila neurogenetics, molecular and cellular mechanisms, imaging, optogenetics, neural circuits and behaviour will be used. At University of Birmingham campus, UK. Application deadline 19 March. Pls RT.

Fantastic PhD and Postdoctoral opportunities in aquatic animal welfare available at the University of West Scotland with Prof. Kath Sloman Postdoctoral position: Shrimp aquaculture www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list... PhD position: Ornamental fish welfare www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Two more weeks to get your abstracts in: if funding the conference is an issue, check out @asab.org's conference attendance grants, open to ALL seniorities: www.asab.org/kolkata-conf...

New article by Roger Santer and myself 'Insect visual perception and pest control: opportunities and challenges' available to read in Current Opinion in Insect Science: doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

There’s a lot of important dates coming up for #ASABSpring2025 & #Behaviour2025 ASAB Grants: asab.org/grant-overview ASAB Spring: asabspring2025.github.io Behaviour: behaviourindia2025.in Make sure you also follow @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social & @behaviour2025.bsky.social for updates 😄

@nature.com is keen to find out how scientists are using @bsky.app and whether it has become their go-to social-media platform. Do you use Bluesky? Has it replaced Xitter? We want to hear from you. www.nature.com/articles/d41... #eXit

Check out our latest work on transitive inferences (A > B, B > C, therefore A > C) in honey bees, just published in Frontiers in Psychology: www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Did you know the study of environmental DNA (eDNA) of microbes could transform how we understand and protect freshwater ecosystems? Dr Amy Thorpe, a molecular ecologist at UKCEH, shares insights from the first national survey of microbial eDNA in English rivers 🦠🔬

Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users? Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...

I have a PhD position open to start fall semester 2025! The position will include investigations of the structure of both phenotypic (behavioral) plasticity and genetic variation in behavior as well as lots of opportunity to develop your own project. #Evolution #evobio #evolsky #Ecology 🧪

📣🚨Call for Workshops: Behaviour 2025! 📣🚨 🗓️Last date for workshop proposal submission: 15 January 2025 Are you ready to share your expertise, spark meaningful conversations, and inspire change?

Highlights of 2024 #6 Took the leap and deleted my Twitter account 🎉 Looking forward to the new year on 🦋🙂

Highlights from 2024 #5 My first dog research project led by MRes student Nerys Mellor published www.mdpi.com/2656782 The data indicates scent work training can improve inhibitory control in pet dogs. Nerys is planning future work to carry out more manipulative research on scent work and behaviour.

Nominate your favourite mollusc for International Mollusc of the Year 2025 🐌🦑🐚🦪🐙🌀 A public vote decides the winner from 5 finalists and we sequence its genome! Just fill in this nomination form by 7 January docs.google.com/forms/d/1MRn... @cgreve.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one

Hilights from 2024 #4 Re-homing a gorgeous border collie girl whose owner is no longer well enough to keep her. And most importantly my fussy dog reactive Welsh sheepdog boy has fully accepted her into our little family 😁

Highlights from 2024 #3 Getting involved in the amazing world of Ecodetection Dogs www.ecologydetectiondogwg.org This has included helping Holly Peek training her dog Marnie to detect invasive Chinese mitten crabs (video) & starting an exciting new PhD, training dogs to detect parasite hosts 😁

Pleased to announce that one of my first-author PhD works has been recently published in the Journal of Proteome Research! We used #proteomics to identify signalling pathways associated with successful long-term memory formation in the snail Lymnaea stagnalis. Read more: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Highlights from 2024 #2 Our study led by @drgdavidson.bsky.social in print. We showed antibiotics at environmentally relevant concentrations alter aquatic snail gut microbiome, disrupts memory formation and covariance among pace-of-life traits. Funded by @asab.org academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Highlights from 2024 #1 Learning hoopers with my retired agility dog Patrick. Starting his new sporting career aged 10 😁 Love teaching my old dog some new tricks. This is his winning run from our first competition 🥰

#PhD 1: Effects of Mercury in Amazonian Amphibians 🐸 as part of BBSRC funded NorthWestBio DTP. Based at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social Project: tinyurl.com/frogHg Apply: tinyurl.com/NWBapply Deadline: 06/01/2025

Great to hear Malin Ah-King highlighting phylogenetic bias in science alongside sex bias at #ASABWinter2024 Often asked how is my research relevant to other species, read 'vertebrates'. More gastropod species on the planet than all vertebrate species combined @asab.org 🐌🐌🐌

A very exciting PhD on the ecological implications of divergence & adaption to warm water habitats in 3-spined sticklebacks combining field work in Iceland, mesocosms, tank studies & lab-work in the UK. Great team, lots of exciting ideas and techniques to test them. iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...

If you’re attending #ASABWinter2024 virtually, the links have been sent by email. Still want to join? You can still register: asabwinter2024.github.io Let’s learn more about animal behaviour!

Are you thinking of applying for a UKRI Future Leader Fellowship? We have potential for two positions here at Aberystwyth University across areas including biodiversity, climate change mitigation, animal health and parasitology. Expression of interest by 23rd Jan 2025 vethub1.co.uk/cms/events/

PhD position available! Are you interested in how natural selection shapes the evolution of animal memory? Be part of our experimental evolution plans at UCL @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @treesdla.bsky.social , co-supervised by Flo Camus @fcamus.bsky.social. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo...

Come do a PhD with Sinead English @englishse.bsky.social , Dan Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social and me on Gulls! GPS- and Bluetooth-tracking! Microbiomes & AMR acquisition & transmission! Human-wildlife conflict & mitigation! should be fun :-)

We’ve listed a few starter packs that we thought might be interesting to our members/researchers in animal behaviour. Feel free to add on to the thread if you have more suggestions! 🦍🦒🐐🐕🐑🐋🐍🦗 ⬇️

Very proud of Lissa O'Reilly who successfully completed her PhD viva yesterday 😁 It's been a difficult journey, but hard work and determination won out in the end. A massive thank-you to the examiners, Lisa Leaver and Iain Barber, for providing a challenging and enjoyable experience for Lissa.

Having watched loved ones suffer horribly in the last stages of their lives, begging for an end, I am very thankful that the assisted dying bill has been passed for England and Wales. Not the first post I thought I would make on 🦋 But a positive one for the future from my perspective.

Help us understand how conspicuous butterflies are by playing this game! mferickson.github.io/findbutterfly/

This looks like an important article (and great thread!), lots resonates for me here - I hope that the right people read this and pay attention, always helpful to see solutions proposed and not just the problem.

📢📢 PhD with #guppies in the ioannougroup.com @bristolbiosci.bsky.social ! 📢📢 Excellent initiative at University of Bristol: Fully funded PhDs for students of black / black mixed heritage @amydeacon.bsky.social Deadline 6th Jan 2025 #BlackinSTEM #fishsci www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

4-year funded PhD: Urban green space as refuge for people and disease vectors under climate change: a double-edged sword Very interdisciplinary (topic, approach, team): vector ecology, human behaviour; mapping and modelling! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Application deadline: 6 Jan 2025 (1/2)

New PhD opportunity on social behaviour in the context of ecological disturbance with me, @mdekauwe.bsky.social, and others. Sept 2025 start, funded by NERC Apply by Jan 13. Project and application details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...