After 5 years of developing, a new preprint from the lab - introducing our workflow for comparative insect connectomics, aimed at democratizing connectomics. @erc.europa.eu @lundvision.bsky.social @biologylu.bsky.social Read it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Let’s celebrate women and girls in science on this International Day of Women and Girls in Science! UNESCO reports that women represent only 35% of STEM graduates, about 1/3 of researchers worldwide, and just 1/10 STEM leaders.

Reading: Discovery of rapamycin was an unexpected benefit of studying Easter Island’s Indigenous people theconversation.com/a-billion-do...

Note that there’s a PhD position on this topic, if you found this interesting! #ASABWinter2025

This has been a wonderful conference, a huge thank you to all of the volunteers and especially the organizers of #ASABWinter2025 : Jolyon Troscianko, Innes Cuthill and Laura Kelley 👏🏻

Sad to be missing the #ASABWinter2025 @asab-meetings.bsky.social conference this week, but two postdocs that may interest ASAB members:

Looking for an interdisciplinary funded #PhD in #bees and #physics, #behaviour, #physiology, #neuroethology, modelling? Call open now. International students eligible. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... Centre for Research in Aimal Behaviour @crab-exeter.bsky.social Exeter campus.

New in #PhilTransB - a theme issue exploring one of science’s deepest questions: how life can emerge from non-living matter. Edited by @ricardsole.bsky.social and colleagues. Read: buff.ly/7iz4tGu

Isabella Aiona Abbott was the first Native Hawaiian woman to receive a PhD in science and a leading expert on Pacific marine algae. She discovered over 200 seaweed species and her work is still influential today. adalovelaceday.subst...

We are hiring (Post number 2) - join us as a graduate research assistant to support killer whale research. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social Prof Dan Franks (York) start 1st Nov (or ASAP) end 31st Oct 2028. Apps close on 19th Oct. jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

We are hiring - PDRA position exploring how information access shapes social dynamics in killer whales. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social Prof Dan Franks (York) start 1st Nov (or ASAP) end 31st Oct 2028. Apps close on 19th Oct. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/p...

@delphinedemoor.bsky.social was present at the Behaviour 2025: XXXVIII International Ethological Congress and took the opportunity to spread the ABC mission 👏 We’ve prepared resources, like logos and email templates, for everyone to reach more students, mentees, donors: linktr.ee/animalbehavi...

As one of NASA’s first African-American employees, Annie Easley helped develop software for the Centaur rocket stage, which enabled several landmark spaceflights in the later 20th century. She also helped develop early battery powered vehicles. adalovelaceday.subst...

A massive, dangerous and disgusting scandal, of which far too few people are yet aware. At @fightingdirty.bsky.social we'll keep pushing to stop it. Congrats to @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social for continuing to shine the light: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube! Please like and repost to help us get the word out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization 🧵

Twin cathedral bells rang in unison in Japan's Nagasaki for the first time since the atomic bombing of the city 80 years ago, commemorating the moment the atrocity took place.

An article I wrote for @theconversation.com in response to #allotment sell-offs. Featuring evidence from myself and @davegoulson.bsky.social and the amazing work led by Jill Edmondson's team at Sheffield. #communitygardens #urbanbiodiversity #growyourown theconversation.com/allotments-a...

Securing survivors’ memories of #Hiroshima is increasingly urgent, amid a new era of nuclear brinkmanship. The horrifying truth is that the 9 nuclear states have *already* amassed the equivalent firepower of 145.000 Hiroshima bombs. This madness has to stop

A watch frozen forever at 8:15am, the moment an atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on Monday August 6th 1945. #Hiroshima #August6th #HiroshimaPeaceMemorialMuseum #広島 #HiroshimaDay

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

A MASSIVE WIN AT NEWCASTLE UNI ICU

Traditions of behaviour have been found to be passed on in numerous species of animals. Now, major #conservation agencies have begun to recognize that these discoveries could have big implications for conservation agendas. Explore the new #PhilTransB issue: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

🚨 Our study from @bethbees.bsky.social lab is out in @royalsocietypublishing.org . We show that bumblebees taste some amino acids (valine), but not others (lysine). Bees might choose flowers not just by how sweet they taste! #bees 🐝 #taste 👅 #pollen #nectar 🌺 #protein 🥩 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Research experience placement in the Exeter Bee Lab and co-supervised by Dr Hamad Javaid @crab-exeter.bsky.social this summer (funded by NERC GW4+) for UK-based undergrads from underrepresented ethnic minorities: www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/s/N-Hempel-2... Apply by Friday 9 May

Well done @macaelaskelton.bsky.social, our MacaqueNet technician extraodinaire 💚

Applications are open to the best #MSc training for a career in #AnimalBehaviour! Highly suitable for anyone with a BSc in Biology or Psychology, but we are skilled at converting people with social, veterinary and agricultural BSc's to a exciting career. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Evolution of the olfactory system during the radiation of Heliconiini butterflies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.06.647427v1

This year marks 360 years since the first edition of #PhilosophicalTransactions, launching the world’s longest-running scientific journal. Join us as we take a 360° view of publishing, exploring its history, reflecting on its present impact, and imagining its future. royalsociety.org/journals/pub...

🎉Congratulations to the Top 3 images from the Node–FocalPlane image competition! 1️⃣"Cell-estial bloom" by @oozguc.bsky.social 2️⃣"Dancing actinotroch" by @allancarbal.bsky.social 3️⃣"Who’s active?" by @jupeloggia.bsky.social thenode.biologists.com/results-from... @focalplane.bsky.social #biologists100

Flowers🌸 as infection🤧 hotspots for pollinators🐝: landscape and behaviour have an impact. New preprint from @cristinabotias.bsky.social, @bethbees.bsky.social, @nataliehempel.bsky.social and me doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Please re-post: We have 2 new PhD positions on insect behaviour. We are looking for people with interests and expertise in development of behavioural assays, working with insects, computer vision, image processing and data analysis, and previous research experience. Please email us to discuss! 🦟💻🐝

Closing this Monday 13th Jan - PhD funding to study bees, foxes, monkeys, orcas or pheasants with us in @crab-exeter.bsky.social Exeter

🐝 We're currently advertising three PhD projects to study bees at Bristol University, UK. Two focus on foraging behaviour, ecology & nutrition, one on parasitic bees and their impact on indigenous stingless beekeeping in Peru. Feel free to share: www.socialinsect-research.com/opportunitie...

Job alert! We are looking for researchers interested in the interconnectedness of ecosystems, climate change and human/wildlife health - ‘One Health’ approaches- to join the People and Nature Lab at UCL East. Deadline 4th Feb www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI276/l...

Interested in researching #insect #neuroethology? Then check out this postdoc fellowship opportunity for a 3-year project on animal sociality in #Panama and across tropics. #STRI-Panama

We are hiring! We are looking for two PhD students interested in the regulation of habit formation. Habits are useful to decrease cognitive load, but carry the risk of becoming stereotyped and hard to control - it’s hard to shake a bad habit. The fruit fly Drosophila also forms habits and we […]

The Bentham-Moxon Trust is a grant-making charity supporting plant & fungal collections, research & education that furthers the work of @kewgardens. They are looking for a part-time Finance & Admin Manager. NB the employer is BMT not Kew but based at Kew. careers.kew.org/vacancy/bent...

The Neural Systems & Behavior course at @mblscience.bsky.social is now open for applications (deadline 1st Feb 2025, tinyurl.com/329nbtzp). Students often describe this 8-week training course as a life-changing and eye-opening scientific experience. Apply and join us in magical Woods Hole 💫🐙🧠🔬

Postdoc @ evol-lab. A Leverhulme funded 3-year postdoc studying body shape evolution (through a sexual conflict lens) on Exeter's Penryn (UK) campus. Starts April 2025. Contact David Hosken @ U of Exeter for detail.

We have just e-mailed all delegates of the #ASABWinter2024 the programme with joining links for virtual attendance! Please check your inboxes/spam folders. And you can still register: asabwinter2024.github.io

🔺 Interested in doing fieldwork in the Amazon while studying 🐸 with amazing capabilities? Then this opportunity could be for you! Join Andrius Pašukonis and me at #KLIVV (Vienna) for a PhD adventure on sensory ecology and cognition in #poisonfrogs 👉 bibianarojas.co/news/ Please spread the word!

Highly recommended PhD opportunity in Mainz! Join Carlotta’s lab to work on how animals process and integrate nociceptive stimuli in a collaborative project with Emmanuel Perisse. Apply now! #PhDposition #Neuroscience #Drosophila

The window for non- UK applicants is sadly closed now, but the *UK* applicants can still send me enquiries until the *31st of December*!

If our PhD studentships from NERC weren't enough, we've also got this one on offer on 🐇. Deadline Dec 11th

+ two more with the BBSRC SW Bio 6. Using experients in wild rabbits to understand how and why social behaviour changes with age. Deadline: 11th Dec. More info & how to apply here: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...

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

🚨It is finally out: In our newest paper paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social we show that #Cataglyphis #DesertAnts have a polarity-sensitive magnetic sense 🐜🧭 Please read & share 🧪↘️https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)01519-7↙️ #Magnetoreception #Neuroethology #InsectNavigation

Here is a link to an exciting collection of 14 new review articles in Current Opinions in Insect Science on "Parasitoid Biology in the Anthropocene" edited by Editors: R.M. Borges, R. Venkatesan and S. van Nouhuys. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Message me if you want PDFs you can't access.

🧪We welcome Jeroen Dobbelaere as a guest author on our blog series ‘How to make labs more sustainable.' Jeroen is one of the newest members of our Sustainability Committee and will teach us how to start approaching #sustainability from inside the lab. https://bit.ly/4gkeSUw #SciSky #climatechange