PhD studentship on antimicrobial resistance in wild baboons! Fully-funded by @swbiodtp.bsky.social Application deadline: Wed 3 Dec 2025. More details: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo.... Apply here: www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/ho... @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social @xavh.bsky.social

Registration is open, and the programme is shaping up!

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Which processes underlie collective intelligence in naturalistic human groups? In new work led by Valerii Chirkov, we show that payoff selectivity is key in transforming a group of individuals into an intelligent collective 🤝🧠 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY7n... Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

⭐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...

MSc internship / Field Assistant position available in our group! Impact of urbanisation on avian reproduction 🐦🏙️ 🌳 Deadline: 7 Nov 2025 All details 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/... Please share it around!

📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Abstract submissions now open too. Registration details won't be long! www.psgb.org/pages/14-mee...

Wahoo, Cécile!!! Can't wait for all the exciting science in the coming years👍

Primate Society of Great Britain (PSGB) Meeting National Museum Cardiff, 27-28 November www.psgb.org/pages/14-mee... Registration and abstract submission coming soon! Please share! @mckinneymonkey.bsky.social @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social @willallennz.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social

🧠 What?! A meeting just on disgust?! Yes!! 📍 @iast.fr, France | 🗓 Dec 4–5, 2025 💥 Keynotes by Paul Rozin @upenn.edu, @cr-amo.bsky.social, Philip Powell @sheffielduni.bsky.social & Cindy Kam 🌍 From Psychology to Politics, Biology & beyond 🎓 Abstract submissions until Aug 31: forms.gle/QBmkUB3aLDjY...

Attention #Behaviour2025 ! Can’t wait for the next conference? Good news, the deadline for abstracts for #ASABWinter2025 has been extended !

with @shoalgroup.bsky.social and @lostintheswarm.bsky.social ✨ Link to the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/2041... Made possible by an @asab.org Conference Attendance Grant 🥰🙏

Fox finds raccoons in henhouse. www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/07...

Originally posted on Twitter in 2023—reposting after a chat with a colleague about possibly publishing in an MDPI journal (whose review practices are similar to Frontiers). Not sure if either has since addressed the issues raised, but I feel process should be public knowledge.

In our new paper we discuss the coevolution of cognition and sociality (link: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...). It was a pleasure to work on this project with Andoni Sergiou, @josharbon.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social, @shoalgroup.bsky.social, and @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social!

Part of the Phil Trans special issue "Selection Shapes Diverse Animal Minds", edited with @ellileadbeater.bsky.social. Thanks to co-authors Andoni Sergiou, @josharbon.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social & @shoalgroup.bsky.social and all the special issue contributors. tinyurl.com/35mn84ty

Deadline tomorrow!!!

I ll talk about the project that brought me to Italy for a year, join us for some RobotFalcon and 🕊flocks updates 😁 #heterogeneity #collectives

Next Collective Behaviour Online Seminar #CollBehavSeminar Marina Papadopoulou: "Dynamics of collective motion and escape in heterogeneous flocks of homing pigeons" 17th June 2025, @2pm UK time Subscribe to lnkd.in/eCWT2dvF to keep up to date and for information on how to access our seminars!

If you haven't had time to read our recently published article yet then here's a quick read about the issue in The Conversation. theconversation.com/why-cant-we-...

A really excellent article about our study introducing "social spandrels" 👏🏻 todayheadline.co/baboons-walk...

An article by the IUCN Primate Specialist Group I'm part of (working on primate-human interactions) is now out - "How and Why People Provision Primates" open access 👇 static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/120...

1/3 www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate... PhD studentship! Comparative Analysis and Modelling of Collective Behaviour in Natural and Artificial Systems. **this scholarship for UK residents only, as defined by UKCISA regulations** Details below! Please RT (AI-generated image)

New paper in @behavecol.bsky.social (link: academic.oup.com/beheco/advan...) led by PhD student @marcofele.bsky.social using hard-won data from our amazing baboon team. Our @swanseauni.bsky.social press release: www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office... We introduce the idea of a "social spandrel".....

Our next Collective Behaviour Online Seminar #CollBehavSeminar is a double act! @palinabartash.bsky.social & David Bierbach "Collective air-breathing in the largest freshwater fish on Earth" 3rd June 2025, @2pm UK time. Subscribe to lists.uu.se/sympa/subscr... to keep up to date on our seminars!

Was a delight to be external examiner for @helephantmylne.bsky.social's PhD Viva yesterday at @yorkuniversity.bsky.social. A very enjoyable discussion! Congratulations Dr Mylne!

Permanent Teaching Fellow jobs in 1) Marine and 2) Terrestrial Ecology at @swanseauni.bsky.social Fantastic department and an awesome place to live! Link: www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...

The outcome of our @asab.org Interdisciplinary Workshop (a great initiative! see www.asab.org/workshop-gra... for funding support) is now published. Led by @marinapapa.bsky.social and me, with contributions from all workshop participants as co-authors! paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I decided that now being at the @asab.org Spring conference is a good time to make the move from X to bluesky! New here so let me know if you have any tips to get started

🚨New in @science.org🚨 With Simon Townsend (@nccrlanguage.bsky.social) and Martin Surbeck, we have investigated whether wild bonobos can combine calls in complex combinations, similar to how humans combine words into sentences 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #ScienceResearch #AnimalCommunication

Lovely visit to @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social to catch up with the legendary Alex Wilson and give a (9am!) seminar where I gave an overview of our www.SHOALgroup.org research and some of our new projects we are developing, like the "swaRrmverse" (see this @MEE blog: methodsblog.com/2025/02/10/i...)

Our next Collective Behaviour Online Seminar #CollBehavSeminar is by Leticia Paiva talking about "Emergent phases in termite groups" 25th March 2025, @2pm UK time. Mailing list: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Lucia Pedrazzi is using drones to study animal behaviour in her PhD. Here's her introduction to the topic. With me, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social, Miguel Lurgi (cosupervisors), and Hemal Naik and @csandbrook.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

academic survival rate is significantly lower for (1) mentees from larger groups and for (2) mentees with more productive mentors.... 😞 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Our next Collective Behaviour Seminar #CollBehavSeminar is by @sercansayin.bsky.social from @uni-konstanz.de on 18th March 2025, @2pm UK time. Talks are 15 minutes long, with 15 minutes of questions. Subscribe to lnkd.in/eCWT2dvF to keep up to date and for information on our seminars.

New MSc in Marine Restoration and Conservation at Swansea University! Apply from 19th March!

Tomorrow!

Two extremely important articles Why long-term field studies are rare: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... And why field studies are important: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Unvaccinated school-aged child dies of measles in Texas amid growing outbreak. It is the first measles death in the US since 2015. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

NEXT COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOUR ONLINE SEMINAR: Tuesday 4th March, 2pm GMT (London) ALEXANDRE PACHECO "Robots are not eusocial ants: Resilience to Byzantine robots using blockchain technology" Mailing list lists.uu.se/sympa/subscr...

Mike Bruford's contributions continue to shape our field. RIP Mike

Out today: my article for The Guardian! In 2017, 2 orcas named Port & Starboard started killing great white sharks in South Africa. Here's the whole story so far & how the effects could be a grim reflection of the future of sharks under much bigger threats! 🦈 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#Podcast @luciemurphy.bsky.social and friends asked me along for a chat about science and academia. Some funny random stories too. Enjoyed! open.spotify.com/episode/4dYk...

Shiny Happy Pheasants🎵 Looking for someone with decent Shiny App skills to put together app for conservation managers to explore pheasant movement data. All backend analytical code is completed. Now needs GUI frontend developed ~1-2 months work (paid!), can be remote Interested? Reply/DM Pls RT

Ethnic cleansing…reframed as a “real estate transaction”…

☎️ Calling #MEvoSky ☎️ 2x 5-year research associate / research assistant positions in experimental evolution ERC-funded project: How do mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? Join the friendly and exciting @mermanchester.bsky.social community in Manchester!

Our new paper shows that plasticity that has evolved to deal with one stressful situation, can help plants to adapt rapidly to new stressful situations. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @meebangor.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @ukri.org @pnas.org

🏰 PhD position on computational modelling | collective dynamics | cultural evolution 🏰 Get in touch with any questions you might have and join me in beautiful Marburg! stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/c... (Deutsch) stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/3... (English)