🎉 Celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Join my inaugural lecture Social by Nature — exploring how social worlds shape animal minds 11 Feb 26 • 18:00–19:00 GMT • Cambridge + Online Register: www.aru.ac.uk/events/inaug... #EveryVoiceInScience #WomenInSTEM #LGBTQHistoryMonth

January can be tough enough without an extra deadline looming. That's why we've extended our #ECBB2026 call for symposia to 15 February 2026! For more information and for the submission form click the link: www.aru.ac.uk/science-and-...

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...

Same-sex sexual behaviour in non-human primates is associated with ecological factors, life history and social structure, according to research in Nature Ecology & Evolution. go.nature.com/3LBPHD0 🧪

If you work on corvid ecology, behaviour, cognition, or conservation, this might be useful for you 👇 I’ve just published CORVIDATA in Scientific Data 🐦 doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/4)

We know you don't want to start your year by forgetting to submit a symposia proposal before the 31 January deadline. www.aru.ac.uk/science-and-... #academicsky #ecbb2026

🚨Roll up, roll up, fully-funded #PhD deadlines approaching... 6th Jan: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6 8th Jan: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp Social monitoring & manipulation #meerkats #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork #long-termdata @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social @ljnbrent.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Join us for the @ecbb2026.bsky.social at @angliaruskin.bsky.social in September! @asab.org meeting secretary @viveknityananda.bsky.social advertising our conference at #asabwinter2025

We've crawled, swam, hopped, flew, scuttled and run through our ECBB 2026 Plenary Speaker list to reach the final plenary announcement. Who is rounding off our speaker list? 🥁 🥁 🥁 It's the fantastic Dr Christopher Schell!

We are delighted to announce our second ECBB 2026 Plenary Speaker! 🥁 🥁 🥁 The amazing Professor Tim Caro! #ecbb #ecbb2026

We've announced half of our ECBB plenary speakers already! Are you ready to keep going with our next reveal? Who could it be??? 🥁 🥁 🥁 It's the brilliant @andyradford.bsky.social!

Ready to meet our third plenary speaker? We are delighted to announce it's.... 🥁 🥁 🥁 The extraordinary @mherberstein.bsky.social

Our call for symposia now open! We are now accepting submissions for symposia, with submissions for oral/poster presentations invited from 31 January 2026. For more info, or to download the proposal form, visit our conference page 👇 www.aru.ac.uk/science-and-...

Line up! Slither up! Crawl up! Climb up! No matter how you're moving or on how many legs, it's time to find out our first ECBB 2026 plenary speaker. 🥁 🥁 🥁 It's the incredible @ljnbrent.bsky.social!

🚄✈️🐒 EFP2026 Mobility Grants are open! Funding available for students, PhD, and postdocs to join the conference. Deadlines: – 15 Jan 2026: primate-range countries – 13 Feb 2026: Europe Apply here: Primate-range countries: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/pri... Europe: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/pri...

📢Out in the NEW issue of @animalecology.bsky.social is our hugely #collaborative paper: An integrative, peer-reviewed and open-source cooperative-breeding database (Co-BreeD) #mammals #birds #cooperation #openscience #datasets #alloparents Led by @benmocha.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Come and join our lab! We have TWO fully funded PhD positions AND a paid field assistant opportunity in our Behavioral Ecology group @uni-goettingen.de & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Projects will be part of @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social & @sfb1528.bsky.social!! Details in thread. Please re-post!

Tibetan macaques (Macaca thibetana) are endemic to east-central China. The largest of the macaques. Mostly terrestrial, they prefer to sleep in caves. Threatened by habitat loss; recent halts to deforestation may bring hope for population stability. Near Threatened.

📢Two fully-funded #PhD opportunities to work with us: Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6 NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork

New amazing open Postdoc position, w/t opportunities to 1) get closely involved in our next @themanybirds.bsky.social study on innovation and problem-solving; 2) work with @ecobird.bsky.social on avian innovation, cognition & invasiveness. Advert: www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...

New paper! We propose a framework to empirically study animal social relationships by modelling social network (SN) data as time-series—that is, without the need to aggregate them over time. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Great new paper by @mfhansen.bsky.social and Agustin Fuentes on human-macaque co-existence link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨Who wants to work with Kalahari meerkats? A MSc project with @mathildemartin.bsky.social at the University of Zurich. #bioacoustics 🧪

New research shows meerkat social group membership strongly shapes gut microbiomes and beneficial bacterial co-occurrence, beyond individual health or environmental exposure. ⬇️ buff.ly/neW6LHH @krishsubramaniam.bsky.social

‼️ Thrilled to share my first article on the Kalahari meerkats ‼️, in @animalecology.bsky.social! Group membership strongly influences gut microbiomes & especially the co-occurrence of beneficial bacteria, beyond animals' age or sex, disease status, or environmental exposure doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Snow leopards have the lowest genetic diversity of all big cats due to persistently small population sizes throughout their evolutionary history, which may make recovery from human hunting and habitat loss challenging. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/HM3350XeeBY

Social relationships are powerful predictors of fitness across social animals. But *why*? In our new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper, we outline testable predictions for why relationship quality and quantity adaptively vary across socio-ecological contexts. tinyurl.com/55dnkeh7

Had the pleasure of meeting Jane Goodall once, in 2011 while in grad school in Buffalo NY. This clip captures how she related to and inspired the public just as much as she inspired generations of behavioural biologists, conservationists & women in STEM. 💔 youtu.be/IUeoqaZvkcU?...

In memory of Dr. Jane Goodall, we're releasing a special podcast episode today. Ira Flatow shares his memories of the renowned primatologist, including a 2002 interview in which they discussed her groundbreaking discoveries and hopes for a better future.

Fancy joining us? Check out this excellent @royalsociety.org Career Development Fellowship: royalsociety.org/grants/caree... If you're eligible & are interested in social behaviour, vocal communication or anthropogenic impacts on wildlife, feel free to DM or email me. @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Back in Thailand, to wrap up the fieldwork phase of our longtailed macaque 'social microbiome' pilot project! Huge thanks to my Project Assistants Tanatcha & Silakorn, & collaborators Suchinda Malaivijitnond, Sunchai Payungporn & Vorthon Sawaswong! Stories to emerge soon... 🐒 💩 🦠 ⛅️ 🇹🇭

😎😎 symposium and discussion on comparative studies in animal behaviour, organized by @delphinedemoor.bsky.social, @ljnbrent.bsky.social & Anindya Sinha at @behaviour2025.bsky.social ! Was a pleasure to be part of a 👌 speaker lineup, & present my work on interspecific variation in 🐵 social behaviour!

Day 5 of #Behaviour2025 kicks off with a plenary by @samellisq.bsky.social on a question that I have thought about many times. Why does menopause evolve in some species but not in others? And how do social structures and conflict contribute to their evolution? @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Had the pleasure of presenting our collaborative work on 🦁 comparative behavior alongside fantastic colleagues at #behaviour2025 @asab.org Super fun to engage in such a thoughtful symposium on the challenges and future directions of comparative social behavior across species 🦁🐒🧪🔬

Why talk about LGBTQIA+Inclusion in the field? 45% of those participating in fieldwork have faced gender discrimination 👇 #psgbfieldskills2025 workshop @primatesocietygb.bsky.social @asab.org @zslscience.bsky.social @ljmuimpact.bsky.social @wascherclaudia.bsky.social

Our #psgbfieldskills2025 workshop has started! Great to hear Kat @pintsizedprimate.bsky.social talk on different perspectives in the development of animal behaviour methods @primatesocietygb.bsky.social Thanks to @asab.org @zslscience.bsky.social @ljmuimpact.bsky.social for their amazing support

Lucky enough to visit the Sundarbans today: where three rivers converge into the Bay of Bengal, mangroves anchor a fragile ecosystem, and swamp 🐅s remain elusive..

Immune genetic and disease surveillance of a wild meerkat population over 20 years shows that tuberculosis imposes strong pathogen-mediated balancing selection on major histocompatibility complex and identifies underlying mechanisms www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The first plenary speaker of #Behaviour2025 : Prof Susan Alberts !

#Behaviour2025 – Join us tomorrow for Weaving the MacaqueNet 3.0 & connect with our international community of macaque researchers! 🐒 The workshop is free & open to all, even if you didn’t sign up yet. 📍 We'll be at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, not the main conference venue!

🐺Gray wolves' reintroduction to Yellowstone National Park is considered a conservation success. But 30 years later, are they out of the woods?

🐝 Our latest Special Feature, "Network Ecology in the Anthropocene", is now accepting proposals. 📝 The Special Feature will be accepting submissions to all 7 of our British Ecological Society journals.

🚨JOB alert🚨 Full-time Managing Editor role for @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour. Applicants must have animal #behaviour background; previous editorial experience would be ideal. Apply by 31st July 2025. #publishing #editor #job More details: www.asab.org/opportunities PLEASE share widely.

‼️New paper alert ‼️ in @ecol-evol.bsky.social ! We show how macaque socio-ecology and their exposure to anthropogenic factors combine to influence Picobirnavirus communities: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Thrilled to have heard @willdalrymple.bsky.social at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, on how ancient India transformed the world!

Interested in field-based primatology? Apply to the PSGB field-skills workshop to be held this August, free of charge (**DL: 18th June**)! @primatesocietygb.bsky.social

Millions of birds nest in the Arctic each year. But did you know they’ve been doing this since the Cretaceous? Can’t believe I finally get to share that our paper on the birds of the Prince Creek Formation is out in ‪@science.org (and on the cover)! 🧵 Art: Gabriel Ugueto ‪@serpenillus.bsky.social

TODAYS FINE, May 13th 2025, 11 AM NYC / 5 PM Paris Erin Siracussa, University of Exeter, United Kingdom Title: Social ageing: Toward a deeper understanding of the intersection between sociality and senescence YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

With just 16 Red Wolves known to remain in the wild, every wolf is essential + worth protecting. #SaveRedWolves

Asia's carnivore conservation is often focused on big cats, overlooking some of the world's most diverse & ancient wolves 🐺 Research at @wildcru.bsky.social suggests embracing an integrated approach, to help wolves and other less-protected species and landscapes 👇 bit.ly/4kQZ3YH