I always had the vague feeling that Scientific Reports and Nature Communications are mainly APC business models. A paper estimated the total APC for gold/hybrid Open Access per journal 2015–2018: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Surprise, surprise - there are 2 outliers at the top😐

FINE SEMINAR March 16th, 2026 Patrick Tkaczynski Research Centre for Evolutionary Anthropology and Palaeoecology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Here's a really easy New Year's Resolution: If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow. If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious. By making these choices, you will literally save lives.

🚨 Junior Research Fellow position (+possible PhD conversion) studying Emergent Collective Intelligence for Ephemeral Resource Tracking. Based with Akanksha Rathore at BITS Pilani (India) and including visits to Konstanz (Germany) to collaborate with us! Apply by 12 September. More info 👇

Small but not defenseless 🦇 In our latest paper, we describe a behavior in disc-winged bats that is endearing and a little fearsome. When threatened, these bats shake the leaf, producing a loud drumming-like sound. This display likely signals to predators that the bats are aware of their presence.

Spent the start of my week learning all about spectral bats, huge, carnivorous creatures who are shockingly sweet. Read (and watch!) what 3 months of monitoring a family of four showed us about the home lives of the tropical bats: www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job

We are seeking a full-time Managing Editor for our journal Animal Behaviour. This editor will be involved in all stages of the publication process & must have a general understanding of the topics covered. Position starts Oct 1, application deadline July 31. More details: www.asab.org/opportunities

The Local Organizing Commitee welcomes behavioral ecologists from across the world and of all career stages to enjoy a five-day meeting rich in top-notch science and ample networking opportunities in Turin (Italy), 20-24 July 2026.

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We are looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join an exciting project investigating the effects of bat seed dispersal on plant microbiomes and pathogen dynamics in tropical ecosystems. With @morceglo.bsky.social. More info: jobs.apsnet.org/job/postdoct...

Bats rely on social calls to stay together, but what happens when predator recognition disrupts communication? Find out more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #BiologyLetters #behaviour #ecology

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A collaborative work with @morceglo and G. McCracken; T. tricolor is an incredible system that helps us shed some light on 🦇 anti-predator defenses and how acoustic signal recognition mediates a trade-off between predator avoidance and social communication with ecological and social implications.

One critical ingredient of diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM🧪 is being a kind and inclusive reviewer. This means regarding the authors receiving the review as valued members of our community. scienceforeveryone.science/p/the-power-...

Narcissists aren’t better leaders, yet they frequently rise to positions of power. Why? A study by Nevicka et al. suggests people with low self-esteem are drawn to them—they feel more valued. Teaching kids healthy leadership matters, but we must also tackle why people choose the wrong leaders.

ISBE26-the 20th International Society for Behavioral Ecology Conference will take place in Turin, Italy, from 20-24th of July 2026. We invite you to join us to enjoy a 5-day meeting rich in top-notch science and ample networking opportunities, in our beautiful city. Website out soon! #ISBE26

It’s been a devastating 24 hours with 3 NIH grants terminated…all focused on the health and wellbeing of trans or intersex youth. If folks have any ideas of foundations that may be interested in supporting the completion of these projects so years of work aren’t wasted, please let me know. 🙏

Great talk by Hal Whitehead about sperm whale clans yesterday. If you missed it, then watch it here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQbA...

FINE starts again next week with exciting free online seminars. In its 10th season we will hear about whales, parental care, neuroethology, aging, group-living lizards and much more!

✨We are hiring!✨🧪🏛️🧬 The @nhmdk.bsky.social at the University of Copenhagen is seeking a permanent, full-time Molecular Biology Lab Manager to help us establish and run our National Facility for #Museomics in the heart of one of Europe's most beautiful cities! Please reskeet!

Have/nearly have a PhD? ≤7 years post-doc experience? Working outside UK? Not a UK citizen? BA & Royal Society offering 2-yr Fellowships for early career researchers to come to the UK! 💷 Includes: Research expenses £12k Relocation up to £8k 🗓️ Deadline: Mar 18, 2025 (17:00 GMT) #ResearchFunding

We have a great list of ongoing award, fellowship and grant opportunities that we thought our members might be interested in. 🌍 #conservation #MarineLife #ecology Check it out here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #conservation #funding #fellowships #awards

Two postdoc fellowship at K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics: - Ecosystem-scale biodiversity conservation in the tropics: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29549 - Large whale monitoring using Distributed Acoustic Sensing: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29547 Applications due 30/04/25

New paper out @science.org shows that bats surf warm storm fronts to power continental migrations 🌀⛈️🦇🤙 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... By Edward Hurme; Ivan Lenzi; Martin Wikelski; Timm Wild; and Dina Dechmann

According to the Oxfam report, it seems that one of the largest threats to humankind is.. the billionaires. They spend in 90' the same #CO2 you spend in a lifetime. Low/Middle-income countries paying the most in terms of human lives 🌍🌐🧪 #Climate oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/ha...

1/ Does climate activism work? The short answer is yes, and there's been lots of research this year showing how Here are some highlights 🧵

🚨New postdoc positions available: we are looking for 2 postdoctoral researchers to join a large, collaborative effort to document, describe, and investigate the biodiversity of tiny, cryptobenthic fishes in the Indo-Pacific 🤏🐠🧪. More details: fishandfunctions.com/join%F0%9F%9... Please repost 🦑🧪

Together with @leanneproops.bsky.social and Cressida Bowyer, we are looking for PhD applicants for a project using human behaviour change theory to develop educational programmes promoting the conservation of crested macaques. More information here: www.port.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Surely one of the greatest collective disappointments about research is taking so many amazing minds, wonderful people, and thoughtful thinkers and burdening them with 7532578 other things so they have no time to actually think(/create/write/etc)

Yesterday, two different people emailed me gracious notes about how they'd used some of my course materials to teach Scientific Writing. I'm happy to have made some folks' jobs a bit easier! And if you'd like my course materials too, here you go: scientistseessquirre...

Small grants from Graduate Women International, for women already enrolled in a PhD, to aid research in science. Deadline in January! graduatewomen.org/what-we-do/g...

Some great PhD opportunities for 2025 in our fab department @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall: 1) How does pollution impact behavioural evolution? Project with @ali--wilson.bsky.social spans behaviour, genetics and ecotox, working with cherry shrimp. More info: tinyurl.com/yvthn7xn

Advertising for 2 fully funded PhD projects on cooperation in children, apes and across cultures. Co-supervised by Juliane Kaminski @comparativeminds.bsky.social and Esther Herrmann. See below for links. Message me if interested!

5 exciting PhD opportunities to join the Center for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter in Sept 2025. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro...

* NEW #PhD * #Evolution #Ecology of Immune #Senesence in Wild Badgers - exciting project with me, @btschirren.bsky.social & our awesome collaborators @ APHA. Based at @exetercec.bsky.social in Cornwall, UK. !PLEASE SHARE! See www.animalsocieties.org and apply: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🌏 🧪 🦑

I am running my statistical rethinking course again starting in January. But this time just for Leipzig locals, so I can work with a smaller group this year and track individual progress better. I think that will help me tune the material, espeically homework, better. Materials still open however.

ODFW is hiring 2 wolf biologists! 🐺 Despite ad wording, this is for an all-around everything-wolf biologist job. From Roblyn Brown: "We need to find individuals that can trap and monitor wolves, as well as identify depredation and work with ranchers." oregon.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/SOR_External...

Applications are due February 19 for the R. C. Lewontin Early Awards, which provide up to $2500 in research funds for 1st year master’s and 1st or 2nd year PhD students. Read the full requirements, instructions, and evaluation criteria here: https://buff.ly/3YZlUHf

Two year postdoc position in great ape genomics at the MPI-EVA www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...

Exciting new NERC funded PhD opportunity available with us on #killerwhale #orca #behaviour and #conservation, co-supervised by Stephanie King, Sam Ellis and Dan Franks in partnership with The Center for Whale Research USA exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... - deadline 13th January 2025 #killerwhale

My school is advertising 6+ fully funded PhD studentships to start in October 2025, open to UK or international applicants. I'd be very happy to support applicants working in my areas of interest, including animal ethics/animals in political philosophy. #philsky #polisky

Three year postdoc on bird migration www.ab.mpg.de/639728/job_f...

Did you know BlueSky only has 20 employees? We would like to say a huge THANK YOU to those 20 warriors (who are working 24/7 to keep up with the incredible growth) for giving us a space to share. We escaped hell to be here. Thank you, @bsky.app & Jay Graber CEO (not a billionaire)

Dorothy Bishop lambasts world’s oldest scientific academy as she quits in protest “I’m not willing to treat Elon Musk ‘collegially and with courtesy’,” she says. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...