We are VERY excited to announce the call for applications has just been released for the 5th CV4Ecology Short Course!! This two-and-a-half-week intensive program trains ecologists and conservation practitioners to develop their own AI tools for their own data. Tell your friends! Apply now!

SIGNAL Workshop Day 1 kicks off later today!! If you (or someone you know) is interested, we can still take late registrations. Day 1 focus is on building your mentor relationships. More info & registration link here: signal-ab.weebly.com

Are you a current / soon-to-be / recently graduated Graduate Student, working in animal behavior, ecology, or evolution? Want to build your professional network, meet peers from around the world, & support your academic journey & wherever you go next? Join our SIGNAL workshop! signal-ab.weebly.com

THIS WEEK! Accepting late registrations for SIGNAL. This is a great opportunity for graduate student professional development and networking. And you can make friends with other Animal Behavior folks ahead of the meeting in Cincinnati! #AnimalBehavior #ABS2026

I don't want to say that this year's webcam focal birds are better than the team we have highlighted for the last few years, but... they are. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypod...

Please share with your networks! We are still accepting registrations for this exciting grad student support workshop, taking place this Thurs/Fri. Come join us!! More info & registration link: signal-ab.weebly.com

Now accepting applications for our 2027 Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution! These awards support students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs to conduct #ecology and #evolution research. Deadline is June 30, 2026: bit.ly/4umYKZd #science

As some of you may know... we're down $5m and may or may not ever claw any of it back. So, we're writing new grants. If anyone would be willing to share a funded application for - NSF CAREER or NIH DP2 that is 100% dry lab-based - NSF BIO Capacity: Infrastructure I will owe you a coffee forever!

Bird friends: This is a longshot, but does anyone have extra plastic color leg bands for size 0-band birds? Avinet has been out of many colors (e.g. yellow!!) for months and I need more colors to mark Cerulean Warblers in May-June! 🐦 🧪

I highly recommend the SIGNAL program! It's great professional development and networking for graduate students in a variety of biological fields, especially Animal Behavior.

Grad students! The 2026 SIGNAL Graduate Student Professional Development Program will be on May 7-8 at 12-4:00pm ET. SIGNAL promotes a culture of belonging for graduate students in evolution, animal behavior, ecology, toxicology, & other fields. More info: signal-ab.weebly.com. Register by May 4!

No beak? No problem. Despite his disability, Bruce the parrot beats all of his rivals in combat. He's done it by inventing a fighting style reminiscent of jousting or fencing. “He doesn’t have to open his bill. He’s just got this dagger.” Really fun story by @phiejacobs.bsky.social for @science.org

The Cultural Evolution Society is delighted to announce that Mason Youngblood (he/they) @masonyoungblood.bsky.social, Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, is the recipient of the 2026 CES New Investigator Award. Congratulations Mason on this well-deserved award!!

I’m still looking for ecologists that would like to Zoom in with my students and me to talk about your research and ways in which you incorporate GIS sensors into your research 🌏🌍🌎

The NSF GRFP is now out! There are 2,599 awardees, which is the most ever—and a big shift from last year which initially halved awardees (1,000 awardees + an additional 500). I've thrown together a plot to break down the changes by field. www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...

I am super excited to share that Yolanda Morbey and I at the centre for @animalsonthemove.bsky.social are recruiting for a postdoc with expertise in analysis of #Motus data! Please help us get the word out! Deets here: www.uwo.ca/cam/research...

Do you love animal behavior & want to share that joy with younger folks? Write a short article on animal behavior for Frontiers for Young Minds (ages 8–15), co-authored with an undergrad! Part of an international ABS collection. Expression of interest due April 30. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

American Woodcocks start to dance around this area (Columbus Ohio) at the end of February, so they're always my favorite first sign that spring is coming. Daffodils are another of my favorite signs of impending spring. So imagine my joy when the woodcock wandered over to the daffodils. 5/

🧪 Under CoPilot settings -> Privacy -> Disable Allow #GitHub to collect and use my Inputs, Outputs, and associated context to train and improve AI models Disable.

The inimitable Amalia Bastos is accepting applications for PhD students, through @standrewspsyneuro.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social 4-year funding is available for students with the right to work in the UK: www.findaphd.com/phds/program... Awesome project, dreamy place, stellar mentor

My PhD student Chelsea Carminito is defending today! Her dissertation is called "Behavioral responses to social disturbance manipulations in monk parakeets". She'll be defending at 1pm eastern this afternoon (zoom link available on request!)

The Dijkstra lab at CMU seeks postdoctoral researchers in evolutionary biology and behavioral ecology, focusing on cichlid fishes. Apply by March 20. Info: https://sites.google.com/site/peterdijkstrausnl/home #postdoc

Hey post-docs in Environmental Sciences that need to catch them all... Job posting #academicsky #postdoc #phd #ecology

The Guild of Natural Science Illustrators (gnsi.org) has a job board they update regularly for requests like this. Researchers can contact [email protected] with specs and GNSI will post it if it fits their guidelines. Paying work only, no spec work, but other than that, no job is too small #sciart

Well, in more pleasant news, the Fish Doorbell is back... 🧪

Are you a postdoc, research scientist, non-tenure track faculty member, or lecturer who wants to attend #ABS2026? Apply to the Career Diversity Travel Award! The award helps fund scientists from less well-supported career stages. Apply here by March 23: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-c...

dialed.gg I wanna see your numbers, people.

NSF's FAQ about Graduate Research Fellowship applications returned without review (RWR) ... does not inspire confidence, I have to say www.nsf.gov/funding/info...

If you're an #EcoEvo #PhD candidate anywhere in the world looking for project funding, consider applying for the @asn-amnat.bsky.social Student Research Award. Ten proposals for $2k in research funds will be awarded. Due 13 March 2026. Please share widely! 🧪 #grants #ecology #evolution #behavior

I am hiring a research assistant (vampire bats), a Panama fieldwork coordinator (vampire bats), and also considering postdoc apps (social behavior, any species): socialbat.org/2026/02/19/h...

PSA for Overleaf users: Overleaf has a single "Disable AI features" button if you go to your account settings.

Ominous bird valentines.

How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications. My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/ academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

New (competition funded) PhD opportunity with me, @iaciac.bsky.social and @dralgernon.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Higher-order networks and animal communication. Suited to someone keen on network science theory/computational modeling and keen to adapt this to ecology & evolution.

Accepted at Animal Behaviour! "Permanent and temporary mate-switching in a long-lived seabird: Insights from a 64-year study." Kent Island's storm-petrel dataset gives some nice detail on how these birds spend years together, break up, and even get back together. Led by @ingridpollet.bsky.social !

Holy shit: it's an RFP for the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB). Hello old friend www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at [email protected] so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

Our Satellite Call for #CCS2026 is still open, but the clock is ticking. ⌛️ Want to spotlight a hot topic in #ComplexSystems? Submit your proposal by Feb 10 and help shape our community. Any methods, tutorials, debates, and demos are welcome! Apply here: bit.ly/3LUgTNc

Are you (or do you know someone) recently graduated from undergrad looking to beef up your skills and experience prior to starting grad school/career? Do you like social drama and parakeets? Come join my team! I'm looking for two people to start very soon!! tinyurl.com/59rf8jcy

Are you looking for a #postdoc to start in 2027? Do you have a #physics background and are you interested in #ecology #forests #ecosystems #learning #plasticity? I'm looking for candidates to nominate for the Human Frontier Science Program in the Physics Department at Seoul National University. 🧪🦋

Final week to apply for SFI’s 2026 immersive, summer programs in complexity science: Apply by Feb 4, 2026 CSSS and GWCSS : www.santafe.edu/engage/learn... Journalism Fellowship: santafe.edu/journalism-f...

For the 2026 ABS Meeting, the Latin America Affairs Committee invites all ABS members to submit lightning talk proposals for the special session Gadgets, Inventos, and Gambiarras: Creative, Budget-friendly DIY Research Methods in Animal Behavior!

Happy large boulder the size of a small boulder day for all who celebrate

Absolutely stoked to now carry maps by "Steady Hand" Jen Urso! Drink. This. Up.

Job alert: NOAA NWFSC & UW are looking for a postdoc (ASAP) in Seattle study foraging ecology of Cook Inlet beluga whales using eDNA. Genetics/ecology/eDNA experience preferred. Interested candidates reach out to [email protected] or [email protected] directly. #eDNA #ConsGen

🚨 PhD offer (please share) Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species Deadline: 20 Feb 2026 Starting: June 2026 Supervision: Martins Briedis & me Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh

Our collection on Decision-making in structured groups in npj Complexity is open and accepting manuscripts through May! It's a broad call, covering anything from animal societies to human social systems of all sorts. Learn more: www.nature.com/collections/...

We are hiring – postdoc position exploring how kinship shapes social ageing in killer whales. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social and Prof Rufus Johnstone (Cambridge) starts 1st April 2026 and ends 31st March 2029. Apps close 2nd Feb. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ788/p...

New 𝙉𝙚𝙩𝙎𝙄 𝙎𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩 group at Northeastern uses network science to study sports dynamics. Treating play like a language, they reveal team “signatures” and launch a new sports analytics course (🔗 tinyurl.com/bddkc8vf). @alexvespi.bsky.social @jkbren.bsky.social news.northeastern.edu/2026/01/13/s...

Our application for AOS Kessel Fellowships for Ornithological Research is now open. This year, we have several grants of $15K and one grant for $30K available. Applications due by 1/31/26 Info: americanornithology.org/awards-grant...