Registration for our new course is now open - check it out. We hope you join us. It will be epic. The course: bamfieldmsc.com/education/pr... Application information: bamfieldmsc.com/education/ho...

Charley Harper, "Darwin's Finches", from "The Giant Golden Book of Biology", 1961

How can we figure out the rules duetting birds use to coordinate their songs? The answer slapped me in the face when a black-bellied wren duetted with my playback (Logue 2006, 2007)! See complementary studies by Karla Rivera-Cáceres (development), Eric Fortune, and Melissa Coleman (mechanisms).

Come and work with us this spring!

‘Dear Enemies’ Are Made When A Song Sparrow Learns To Sing www.forbes.com/sites/rebecc...

✨New paper✨ How do juvenile ravens find social groups? We describe how juvenile common ravens, who have left their natal territories seeking to join non-breeder flocks, use space with respect to other birds, and discuss what this means for social integration. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Brazil has now signed agreements with Springer-Nature and Elsevier for Brazilian researchers to read AND PUBLISH for free for 3y. Rest of the world, take note: THIS is how you support and promote open science. www.google.com/url?q=https:...

You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.

Want to work on biodiversity in the Alps? ⛰️ We are offering several internship positions for the upcoming spring and summer in collaboration with the Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol 🕷️🦋🦇🐜🌼🦗🪱 biodiversity.eurac.edu/interns-want...

Song length competence: evidence for a new fitness indicator in birdsong https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.05.692489v1

I’m recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! 🦉 gavinmjones.com/opportunities/

📢NEW paper out NOW in @asab.org Animal Behaviour on how a novel #call changes subsequent responses to #alarms in #fairywrens 🌟CONGRATULATIONS #NatalieTegtman on #first paper from #PhD 👥With #RobMagrath @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #animalcommunication #birds #fieldwork #ECR doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

Exciting ASAB news: increased grant money 💰💰 😍😍

Climate change is EXPENSIVE

PLEASE SHARE 🚨🚨 6-month RA position available at the Univ. of St Andrews to work with Sue Healy (@cogwild.bsky.social), Simone Meddle (@simonemeddle.bsky.social) and I on the behavioural neuroendocrinology of early reproduction in zebra finches. tinyurl.com/577cx9tj Deadline: 03/12/2025 ⬇️

Bielefeld University seeks a full-time research associate in Evolutionary Ecology of Behaviour. Application deadline: 11.12.2025. For details and to apply, visit: https://jobs.uni-bielefeld.de/job/view/4618/research-position-m-f-d-in-evolutionary-ecology-of-behaviour-postdoc?page_lang #job

Join the course "Proteomic Methods for Species Identification" by Transmitting Science, taught by Dr. Michael Buckley from Dec 12-19. Learn peptide mass fingerpr… https://www.transmittingscience.com/courses/genetics-and-genomics/palaeoproteomics-and-zooarchaeology-by-mass-spectrometry-zooms/ #course

Join the course "Integrative taxonomy in the 'big data' era" from March 16-20, 2026, at MNHN Paris. Register at: https://sites.google.com/site/coursbarcode/home. For queries, contact Nicolas or Sarah. #course

Join the GRACE project as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Evolutionary Genomics and Climate Resilience. Conduct genomic analyses on marine species to study responses to climate change. Apply by March 1st, 2026. More info: https://umr-sebio.fr #postdoc

Good guardian, bad parent: tradeoffs between territory defense and parental care in Darwin's finches #Bird #TradeOff #PlaybackExperiment doi.org/10.1093/behe...

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS! Special Issue ‘Towards an integration of personality research across psychology and biology’ in Personality Science Editors: Mitja Back, Barbara Caspers, @mdammhahn.bsky.social & @niclaskuper.bsky.social Submit your proposal before November 30! More info tinyurl.com/y9demmtt

New Zealand’s invasive starlings on the cover of Molecular Ecology! 🐦🧬 This collaborative project unpacks the invasion history of starlings in Aotearoa New Zealand, combining population genomics with historical records of human-mediated translocations. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).

A young PI here in Mainz has a fabulous PhD position that will be filled soon! By you? Keywords: Social insects, ageing, gene expression. www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-evoluti...

Become a Visiting Fellow or Postdoc! Applications for 2026-27 now open for Visiting Fellows and Postdoctoral Fellows! More info and application link is available on our website at https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/programs/overview/ #PhilosophyOfScience #ResearchFellowship #PostdocOpportunities

Your chance to contribute to an exciting special issue on personality research in Personality Science! Don't hesitate to contact the guest editors (see below) to propose a manuscript

Two weeks left to apply for our graduate school IMPRS-BI and join us as a PhD student! Find out more: imprs-bi.mpg.de

#CrowCoG is hiring🚨MULTIPLE PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS 🚨for our 2026 field season (May - Sep)! Field and aviary-based positions - come help us study the remarkable tool-making New Caledonian crows. Apply here: bit.ly/3WlxxHE

🚨We're hiring! The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is seeking a tenure-track split position as Assistant Curator of Ichthyology and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. Please retweet & share with colleagues! 🐟🐠🧪 Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674

⭐PhD position available!⭐ Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...

Hi everyone, it's a pleasure to share with you our newest paper, lead by @melaniekaluppa.bsky.social!!! Have a look and enjoy it!!! Cultural and morphological divergence of Darwin’s cactus finches (Geospiza scandens) across Galápagos Islands url: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...

Good guardian, bad parent: tradeoffs between territory defense and parental care in Darwin’s finches | doi.org/10.1093/behe... | Behavioral Ecology | #ornithology 🪶

The Weir Lab at the University of Toronto seeks PhD students for Fall 2026 to study avian genomics and speciation. Competitive funding, diverse training, and a collaborative environment are offered. Apply: [email protected]. More info: https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~jweir/index.html #phd

My group @humantechnopole.bsky.social is searching for a #postdoc to work at the interface between #neurodevelopment and #cancerbiology focusing on neurofibromatosis type 1: careers.humantechnopole.it/job/Postdoc-...

Categorical and semantic perception of the meaning of call types in zebra finches | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thanks to @dmennill.bsky.social & dozens of other fantastic colleagues, the International Master of Bioacoustics MOBI at the Univ of St-Etienne is a very unique training program (and so cheap compared to overseas - 1400 € for the whole year!). Info here: www.masterofbioacoustics.com #bioacoustics

Accepting applications for Graduate Students! PhD & MSc I am seeking highly motivated individuals to join my research team. Application details here: https://bit.ly/4mlBd6x Deadline 01 Dec 2025 Please share widely! (1/3) 1/3

We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Fully funded PhD with me, @uniexecec.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social working on insectivorous bird declines - hopefully esp. House martin www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Please share!🙏 🚨 PhD Oportunity in Avian Behavioural Ecology in Spain The BirdBond Project (MNCN & IREC) studies how pair bonds form, change & affect reproduction/survival in the spotless starling 🐦

Tenure track philosophy job in Canada Western University’s Department of Philosophy seeks to hire a Asst Professor with an area of specialization in one or more of metaphysics, epistemology, and logic, broadly construed). The anticipated start date is July 1, 2026 www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...

📢 Come work in Bochum! - 3 year PostDoc Position in an edition and research project on Ernst F. Apelt - PhD in philosophy or history of science and very good German language skills required - PI: Prof. Helmut Pulte - Deadline: 6.10.25 All information here: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/d...

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!

PhD position available to study the migration ecology and year-round demography of blackpoll warblers.

Want to work with the FitMA-team? Here is your chance! Join our great project and get paid for it! Two postdoc positions open! #classicsky #medievalsky #philsky www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Great paper from Saint Etienne and friends! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!

Hey you. Wanna apply for a fellowship on collections? the AHRC Early career fellowships in cultural & heritage institutions are open! The Natural History Museum priorities are below. If you wanna talk birds, hit me up. Collectors, colonialism, Canada, Australia & more www.ukri.org/opportunity/...