PhD Alert! 😍 Our lab is hiring a PhD student to study how shrews shrink in winter and grow in spring. Yes, you read that right! tinyurl.com/shrinkingshr... Join us at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, study a super cool animal, and join the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social community! DM me for questions!

Happy Birthday MaxCine 🎂 This October, MaxCine celebrates 15 years of inspiring young scientists. Join us to celebrate this achievement at the MAXCINE FESTIVAL: three days of science, art, ideas, and community. Come in person or participate online. Talks are FREE. Registrations are open👉 maxcine.de

🚨 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 👇

The secret to shrew brain shrinkage? 🤔 Not cell loss, but water loss! Our new paper shows that brain cells shrink by losing water, a wild feat of brain plasticity 🤯 Check the paper! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @labdavalos.bsky.social @batichica.bsky.social

JOB: Juniorprofessur ab 1.4.2026 (befristet 6 Jahre, da aus begrenzten Mitteln gestellt). Denomination: "Umweltethnologie" (Environmental Anthropology) an der @uni-konstanz.de. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 1. Oktober 2025! ✨ Alle Infos ⬇️ #Wissenschaft www.soziologie.uni-konstanz.de/beyer/aktuel...

Scientists discover the secret behind the shrew’s amazing ability to shrink their brains 🧠 The clever trick sheds unwanted weight without compromising too much on cognition. Find the 5-letter word 👇 Study by @cecibaldoni.bsky.social Dechmann Lab #shrewcrew et al www.ab.mpg.de/743885/news_...

Detail of two hyenas #SciArt @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

MELA — a short documentary on the Mating Ecology of Lek Breeding Antelope — takes you behind the scenes of an interdisciplinary #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social research journey. This film reveals how science is done, shared, and lived: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i4d...

New paper from my group led by Odd Jacobson, former PhD student & current postdoc @livingingroups.bsky.social : How do animal groups simultaneously balance between- and within-group competition in dynamic environments and does this impact movement and space use? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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

How can magellanic #penguins navigate tidal currents while balancing #EnergyEfficiency & foraging opportunities? This study reveals how they adaptively make S-shaped return paths to their colony, optimizing travel in complex oceanic flows @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/40nKyD4

New paper out 🥳 The physiological costs of leadership in collective movements. - Trying to lead the group can be stressful, so it might not always be worth it!#openaccess at @currentbiology.bsky.social @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

Waving our hands in the air like we don’t care #mpiab #summer #konstanz #maxplanckinstitut #love

Another good reason to read this paper by @pminasandra.bsky.social👇 It just won the "Best Paper Award" from @uni-konstanz.de Bio Dept 👏 Congrats to Pranav + team @livingingroups.bsky.social @meg-crofoot.bsky.social @arispeshkin.bsky.social @animal-sounds.bsky.social ▶️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Notably, we identified what could be begging calls associated with nursing sessions — among the first documented in any baleen whale species 🐋🤱.

If there is an optimal behavior, why is there so much variation in the world? We found that, for white storks, context is everything. @anflack.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social New paper! @cellpress.bsky.social doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.06.044 🧵1/5

We get chills looking at the illustrations @lazaroillustration.bsky.social created! The dynamism and true feel of the way he captures these animals' movement is amazing.

Hey Camera Trappers 📸🐺🐗🦌🦅Snapshot Europe is back for 2025! Join us in deploying cameras this Sept-Oct. Help build a crucial snapshot of European biodiversity. Learn more & express interest here ▶️ app.wildlifeinsights.org/initiatives/... Spread the word and help expand our community across Europe🙏

Live Updates: Sean Combs Acquitted of Sex Trafficking but Found Guilty on Lesser Charges www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07... z you on oi a o go zioohj,zuosohuO

The greater the number of orangutans within 50 metres of an animal, the less time it spent sleeping at night or napping in the day https://go.nature.com/3Gnly7Y

Great thread of the study, and you can see view the article in @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

We know some animals nap. But do they do it to make up for lost sleep? Our joint study with Caroline Schuppli and the Suaq team dives deep into the sleep patterns of wild orangutans to find out their strategy for sleep homeostasis 🦧 💤 Paper @cellpress.bsky.social ▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... 🧵 1/8

📢New Publication Alert 📢 I’m proud to share a major milestone in my PhD journey. My first paper has officially been published: “Eukaryotic composition across seasons and social groups in the gut microbiota of wild baboons”. animalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

In the LATEST ISSUE of IBIS Cooperative and plural breeding by the precocial Vulturine Guineafowl | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Brendah Nyaguthii, Tobit Dehnen, James A. Klarevas-Irby, Danai Papageorgiou, Joseph Kosgey, Damien R. Farine | #ornithology

Daughters who have strong relationships with their fathers live longer in adulthood! Check out the latest paper from the Amboseli Baboon Project: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Excited to share our new review in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings B! 🎉 We synthesize research on social factors influencing animal migration and offer guidelines for future research. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #OpenAccess #Migration #MovementEcology

Graduate meeting coming up in Leipzig this October! Great opportunity to hang out and science with your peers! 👯🔬

New PhD position in our group! Join us to study gull foraging ecology at sea using GPS and accelerometry data! You will be working here Amsterdam Movement Ecology group under supervision of @judyshamounb.bsky.social, @rooskentie.bsky.social and me. Apply here werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Nematode towers that you can get to grow in lab using C. elegans. Maybe a new, tractable model system for studying self-organization in the lab. 🧪 "Towering behavior and collective dispersal in Caenorhabditis nematodes" by Perez et al. (2025, Current Biology) www.cell.com/current-biol...

Aaah, the animal cognition that continues to cognize. Next stop=world leadership @lucymaplin.bsky.social @barbaraklump.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/s...

My first co-author paper is out in Current Biology! In this study, led by Daniela Perez and Serena Ding, we show that nematode self-assembling towers occur in nature and can serve as a collective dispersal mechanism 🪱 Check out a video where Daniela explains the findings and the paper here 👇

Move over, starling murmurations. There’s a slimier, squirmier collective behavior in town. It's a living, twisting tower of worms. Everybody, meet the wormuration 🪱🪱 Latest paper by Daniela Perez, Serena Ding and team @uni-konstanz.de Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... youtube.com/shorts/F8QVc...

Living worm towers are recorded in the wild for the first time, a rare example of collective hitchhiking in nature. For that a team from the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social and the #UniKonstanz combined fieldwork with laboratory experiments. Details: t1p.de/fuy6v

Day 2 of the @cbehav.bsky.social Field Course: things are officially getting real! 😎 Kicked off with an early morning start, heading to the field. Today's mission: building ethograms and classifying behaviours.

🎉Welcome to the official Bluesky account for EFP 2026 !!! 🎉 Join us in sunny Montpellier from 29 June to 3 July 2026 for an unforgettable conference. Follow us for updates, sneak peeks, and all things EFP! ☀️📅🌿

In a recent correspondence, @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social and colleagues report the origin and spread of a cultural tradition of interspecies abduction of infant howler monkeys by male white-faced capuchin monkeys in the wild. www.cell.com/current-biol...

The capuchins on Jicaron are intriguing everyone, from scientists to the general public 🙈 Stories from our latest paper by @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social @bjjbarrett.bsky.social and team! Paper: www.cell.com/current-biol... 🧵 @lizlandau.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/s...

Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)

Fascinating new results from @pminasandra.bsky.social have us scratching our heads here @livingingroups.bsky.social! Looking forward to seeing if these patterns hold across an even more diverse set of species. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

‼️#PhD ‼️How do group-living sifaka make movement and foraging decisions under extreme energetic constraints? Work with an expansive bio-logging & remote sensing dataset at a hub of animal behavior research! ⏰Deadline Nov 24th....

GPS is relatively new. So how can we study long-term animal movements? Our approach in @Ecology_Letters transforms historic location records (pre-GPS) into valuable data, revealing capuchins' responses to #climate and demographic change. #openaccess...

🦍 Are you working with animal movement data and interested in home range estimation? Dive into Odd Jacobson's new publication @IntJPrimatology #openaccess (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10764-023-00398-z#openaccess, where we share new methods and invaluable insights for fellow...

Could tool use 🔨 help a primate to exploit resources from the sea 🌊? The 1st chapter of @GoldsboroughZoe‘s PhD is now out in @royalsociety #openscience (https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230355#openscience, comparing coastal activity of tool-using and non-tool-using...

WOW! This @zieglerphoto1 photo won Highly Commended in Wildlife Photographer of the Year #WPY58 🥳 @NHM_WPY It spotlights 20 yrs of work by Barbara Fruth at the Luikotale bonobo field site, where this shot was taken. Congrats to Christian, Barbara…and of course the bonobos👏😀

Cumulative culture! Social networks! Ontogeny of social cognition! Field work! 5 funded PhD positions working with Prof. Andrea Migliano @ the University of Zurich Check it out: https://www.migliano-uzh.com/phd

STRI/MPI Joint Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Tropical Animal Behavior!! 🕷️5 year fellowship 🐠any taxa 🐍based in Panama / visits to MPI-AB in Germany 🐵including research budget 🦥Don't wait--apply now! https://stri.si.edu/academic-programs/fellowships

Feeling sleepy after an action-packed weekend? Luckily for us, a quick nap or early bedtime might be all we need to feel rested. But as we showed today in @eLife, catching up on lost sleep may be a luxury that wild animals can’t afford1/9 https://elifesciences.org/articles/73695

Exciting opportunities from the Humboldt Foundation! https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/sponsorship-programmes/international-climate-protection-fellowship

We are thrilled to announce the recipients of our department's Collaborative Research Grant - Natalia Borrego and Genevieve Finerty! Find out more about their exciting collaborative research project on lion sociality here! https://www.ab.mpg.de/217033/crg-winners-announced

⭐️⭐️JOBS!⭐️⭐️ We are currently seeking: 🔹International Science Coordinator (due Feb 29): https://dir.lat/WZJqck 🔹Post doc - baboon dispersal (due Feb 15): https://dir.lat/l0UIBG 🔹Post doc...