Grateful to attend the @asab.org Spring Conference 2026 at the @bristoluni.bsky.social, my first international conference! Thanks to ASAB for the conference travel grant. Inspiring talks across diverse systems and great discussions. Thanks IISER Kolkata & Prof. @abhadra7.bsky.social for the support.

I had a brilliant time presenting my first-ever poster on the first experiment of my PhD at #ASABSpring2026. It was such a friendly and welcoming atmosphere and it was a pleasure meeting so many like-minded students all working on exciting projects in animal behaviour.

Eleanor has had a busy week at #ASABSpring2026 in Bristol. Watch this space for an article with helpful advice for making an academic poster and attending your first conference coming soon...

Really excited to have presented work from my Master’s on the fitness benefits of polyandry at the #ASABSpring2026 Conference in Bristol - and proud to have won best student speaker! ✨ It was a great few days meeting other researchers and listening to all the exciting work happening in the field! 🦋

Congratulations #ASABSpring2026 - Winners 🍀🔬📝📚 🔹 @mariafilippou.bsky.social 🔹 @charlotte9080.bsky.social 🔹 @mlysmac.bsky.social ? 🔹 @aylamanguala.bsky.social 🔹 Taruna Verma 🔹 Amaia Alcalde @asab-meetings.bsky.social

I was dragged out for a song by @sophiadaoudi.bsky.social who then proceeded to throw me across the floor like a discus 💀

The #ASABSpring2026 ceilidh at Zerodegrees in Bristol! 🪩 Don’t forget, there will be more dancing fun at the gala dinner ceilidh at @ecbb2026.bsky.social, make sure you register for it!

We know you already miss #ASABSpring2026, but if you want to keep up with the cool research at the meeting, you can follow the speakers! (If you were missed or just started an account, let us know so we can add you) go.bsky.app/86N72m5

Professor Elva Robinson, Biology, UoY, gave a plenary at the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour's #ASABSpring2026 meeting this week - she presented her research on dynamic intergroup cooperation and gave some career tips to ECRs

Well done Maria who presented her MRes, on the fitness consequences of female extra-pair mating in sparrows, at @asab-meetings.bsky.social. Paper to follow later this year 🤞 #ornithology

It's always useful having the person who actually did the fieldwork 10 years ago (@samellisq.bsky.social) present in the audience... helps with answers to questions when you can see the person involved nodding along! #ASABSpring2026

🥇Poster prize awarded to #AylaWebb at @asab.org #ASABSpring2026 🐝Reproductive hierarchies & queen succession in paper #wasps 🌟CONGRATULATIONS Ayla 🎉 @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social #ProudSupervisors @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @asab-meetings.bsky.social #fieldwork #ECR #PhD #experiments #evolution

Well done to both @victoriamallinson.bsky.social and Kath for presenting their research at #asabspring2026 @chrisleduck.bsky.social @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social

Another fab conference #ASABSpring2026 😊 ASAB Spring always one of my favourites (and not JUST because of the ceilidh, though it's definitely a big perk!) and this was no exception! Thanks to the organisers from Bristol Uni for hosting 😊

First time doing a big talk about my research! Thank you for your support and all the insightful questions @asab.org #ASABSpring2026

I’ve had a wonderful time at #ASABSpring2026 @asab-meetings.bsky.social learning about lots of interesting things (and sharing some stuff about my crickets and pesticide exposure 🧪) Really excited to be heading to @isbe2026.bsky.social in July too to share some other work from my first chapter 🦗🦎

Fun fact: just as I was taking this photo, it began to hail… HARD 🌨️😆 oh British weather!

Spent the last two days in Bristol for @asab-meetings.bsky.social where I presented my PhD research on facial expressions and affect in bonobos 🐵🌡️ Thank you to the organizers and everyone who attended for such a fun and interesting conference - can’t wait for the next one!!

Thanks #ASABSpring2026 for a great time and the opportunity to speak 🐸s

CONGRATULATIONS to @laurenvane.bsky.social and #JamesRobertshaw on delivering such great talks at the #ASABSpring2026 conference. #ProudSupervisor #ECRs #PhD #Masters #meerkats #mammals #bioacoustics @asab.org @asab-meetings.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

And #ASABSpring2026 is finished! A huge thank you to the organizer Sean Rands, his big group of volunteers, and Uni Bristol for hosting👏 Don’t forget ECBB (@ecbb2026.bsky.social) Sept 1-4 in Cambridge and our joint #ASABWinter2026 meeting with PSGB (@asabpsgb2026.bsky.social) Dec 8-10 in Edinburgh

Big congrats to our video contest winner Amaia Alcalde and runner up Taruna Verma, poster winners Ayla Webb (PhD) and Maria Maclaren (MSc), and talk winners Charlotte Wiltshire (PhD) and Maria Filippou (MSc)! #ASABSpring2026

Reminder from @helephantmylne.bsky.social to get involved with this year's City Nature Challenge #ASABSpring2026 www.citynaturechallenge.org

Last talks of #ASABSpring2026, covering wasp host detection, fish mate choice, frog individual variation, mouse daytime activity, bird nest entrances, chimp tool use & sparrow polyandry! 🐝🐟🐸🐁🪺🐵🐦

CRAB Posters at #ASABSpring2026 from @helephantmylne.bsky.social , Bryony Jenkins, Eleanor Benson, Sophie Pettit , and Henry Moreau-Smith (Pictures taken in the very rare gaps when they didn't have customers)

If you're new to bluesky, here is a great list of folks to follow to get you started! #ASABSpring2026

Another great talk session this morning at #ASABSpring2026 : We covered meerkat sunning calls, fish colour patterning, cricket insecticide exposure, moth same-sex sexual behaviours, cold snap and heatwave effects on bees & farm bird song learning ☀️🐠🦗🦋🥶 🥵🐦‍⬛

We love to see that more info about @ekupyrova.bsky.social's research can be found at ASAB's #AnimalBehaviourJournal 😁 Our well-respected flagship journal, founded in 1953, is a major part of how we can support such amazing meetings like #ASABSpring2026 - we encourage all of our members to submit!

Brilliant plenary from @elvarobinson.bsky.social at #ASABSpring2026 . Science! Advice! Ants! And a mention of me! In short everything you could want in a talk.

Last plenary of #ASABSpring2026 by @elvarobinson.bsky.social about ant nest networks and inter-group cooperation 🐜 🐜 🐜 🐜 🐜 Thanks also for sharing such valuable advice to students/ECRs! 🙏

TIL at #ASABSpring2026 that I cannot tell the difference between ants and spiders 🙈 Loved the plenary from @elvarobinson.bsky.social this morning!

Seeing so many brilliant early-career scientists and hearing about their research at #ASABSpring2026 is a privilege. Very interesting! It did make it more understandable why it's so hard to get a funded PhD anywhere 😅😭

What an afternoon! #ASABSpring2026 🌸 it was nice catching and chatting to students at the poster session + more great talks on a variety of topics & species - conflicts, microbiomes, reciprocity, predator-prey strategies, poop & olfaction 🦗🦠🐀🐇🦅💩👃

This is my QR code! So glad people are enjoying it 😂💜 #ASABSpring2026

Really pleased to have had the opportunity to talk about my work on meerkat intergroup conflict and pre-emotive behaviour at #ASABSpring2026 yesterday. Thanks to everyone who asked great questions!

If you look closely you can see him blush #ASABSpring2026

Hope everyone had a great time at the ceilidh last night, and that nobody is too late for the plenary 😉🍻💃🕺 #ASABSpring2026 #ASABAfterDark

Hope everyone is looking forward to the last day of #ASABSpring2026 😊 Please note that we are on the other side of the physics building in the Frank Theatre for the talks today!

Thanks to the lovely staff in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social who have been helping run this! Day 1 an absolute treat. Will day 2 be even better? #ASABSpring2026

Don’t forget there will be live music and a ceilidh starting from 6:30pm at Zerodegrees (53 Colston St, Bristol BS1 5BA). The last ceilidh we had at #ASABSpring2024 was a true delight, don’t miss out! #ASABSpring2026

Afternoon #ASABSpring2026 talks on termite conflicts, baboon microbiomes, rat reciprocity, rabbit social associations, bird predation strategies, meerkat faecal intrusions & mongoose scents 🦗🦠🐀🐇🦅💩👃

I must say, the zodiac skylight of the Uni Bristol Tyndall lecture theatre is super cool! #ASABSpring2026

I couldn't help myself!!! Had to get a photo with this guy 🦍 thanks for taking the photo @raccoonologist.bsky.social #ASABSpring2026 @bristoluni.bsky.social

Interesting advice from animal behaviour scientist Dr Patrick Kennedy (if you're a selfish gene)! #ASABSpring2026

How long do primates live? Come and find me at #ASABSpring2026 poster number 2 to find out about my model (or not if you aren't stats keen!) and how we are investigating the evolutionary causes of primate lifespan 🐒🦧

The first poster session of #ASABSpring2026 was bustling! There’s no way to have seen every one, so please free to drop your poster below as well ⬇️ 👀

Congratulations to @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social for winning the Christopher Barnard Award for Outstanding Contributions by a New Investigator! 🎉 Such an engaging talk on strategic social behaviour – including brinkmanship, blackmail and climatic sabotage at #ASABSpring2026 ! 🐝

Not only a good evolutionary strategy, but I also expect very useful in academia 😜 j/k j/k... But seriously, this was a really fantastic talk by #ASABSpring2026 Christopher Barnard Award winner @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social

Great variety of talks this morning! 🐵🏇🐶🦋🐭 From facial expressions in bonobos to memory in butterflies - always cool to see what's going on in the field of Animal Behaviour #ASABSpring2026 🌸 @asab.org @asab-meetings.bsky.social

Great talks this morning at #ASABSpring2026 on horse-rider conflicts, paca farm welfare, bonobo facial expressions, free-ranging dog feeding, AI for horse welfare, fruit fly mating & butterfly memory 🏇🧑‍🌾 🙊🐕🐴🪰🦋