🎓📢 PhD Alert 🎓📢 Three weeks left to apply for the PhD position on maintaining the balance of power in animal societies! www.hu-berlin.de/en/universit... @animalopps.bsky.social

#job opportunity! JOB OPPORTUNITY: Junior Marine Biologist - Sea Turtle Research Unit (Malaysia) www.linkedin.com/posts/seatur...

#Conservation #WildlifeConservation #AnimalBehaviour #HumanWildlifeInteraction #OpenScience

The work grew out of a multidisciplinary workshop we hosted at the SLU Umeå 🇸🇪 and VetMedUni Vienna 🇦🇹. Led by Laura Saggiomo. With: Bruno Esattore, @janirecas.bsky.social, Michaela Másílková, @valmazza.bsky.social, Sarah Gore, and Pizza K. Y. Chow

What do we mean by calling an animal "wild"? A zoo tiger? A city fox? A feral cat? Nobody agrees 😅 We asked 358 wildlife experts, and "wild" isn't just one thing 🐾 It isn't just the opposite of "domestic," but exists along a spectrum with multiple dimensions. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The ISBE2026 scientific program is now available! Discover the full lineup of sessions, speakers, workshops, and networking opportunities. Whether you're presenting or attending, now is the perfect time to mark your calendar. Access the program via our website www.isbe2026.com

2026. Review: The roles of individuality and social life in shaping positive animal welfare in livestock species www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper! We use simulations to test received wisdom on the observational sampling method to use and find that Altmann 1974 was right all along (never bet against Jeanne!). Focal follows capture rare, fleeting behaviours, scans captures long, common behaviours. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We have a fully funded PhD position on European eel! Please spread! 🐟 🪱 Main supervisor Josefin Sundin @josefin-sundin.bsky.social at SLU Aqua Stockholm (scholar.google.com/citations?us...). Apply through the portal: www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

🦞 Our new paper on the role of environmental complexity in cognitive development of juvenile lobsters finally swam into the light! Interested in individual variation in cognition, and its implications for conservation and welfare? Have a look here doi.org/10.1007/s100... 🦞

Do you know an outstanding aquarist? We're hiring a Senior Aquarist to help run our cephalopod facility at Columbia University. Our team maintains a colony of 250+ cuttlefish, develops new husbandry techniques (inc transgenics) & studies cuttlefish camouflage and social behavior. 1/3 [Pls repost!]

Another fantastic #SQuID experience! We met Federico, during a #SQuID workshop in Brazil. Federico got a #SQuID fellowship to come work in Canada for three months; the occasion to start a nice collaboration with Federico's supervisors, Valentina and Raul! result: a paper we hope will interest you!

Excited by this new paper from Olli Loukola's team! edition.cnn.com/2026/06/04/s...

🧪 ETHOLOGY: How do salamanders react to urban environments? 🦎🏙️ Friemoth et al. found that 2 woodland salamander species showed neophobia toward human litter, while one increased wall-hugging behavior on new surfaces. Urban habitats can alter behaviour! #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1111/eth....

Love this new research showing that mice can discriminate between conspecifics with good and poor welfare (and show a preference for the former as breeding partners). Potentially promising new direction for finding novel welfare indicators, particularly olfactory ones. doi.org/10.1002/zoo....

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We are looking for Marine Sites Science Officer to support our Marine Programme by analysing seabird tracking data to identify important areas ⏱️Deadline: 03/07/2026 🐧Fixed term 2 years, 35 hrs/pw 📌Cambridge/ Hybrid Come join our fantastic team! Details ➡️ tinyurl.com/marinesitesj...

The animal welfare impacts of #biologicalinvasions is a neglected research topic. Here the authors developed a framework to assess their severity and type, and apply it to bird and ant #invasions, finding ants to cause widespread suffering of animals. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NEW publication on the impact of light pollution on the Indian Gharial. Led by Megha Khanduri. #crocodile #ALAN #LightPollution kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

🚨We're hiring again, this time for a research assistant position 🚨 The position is to help with a project looking at learning and social behaviour in birds along an urban gradient Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆28th June deadline More info: shorturl.at/vBxiW #ringing #fieldwork

The tortoises are back! 🐢 New study in collaboration with @elisabettaversace.bsky.social and Gionata Stancher now available: "Sex, not familiarity, shapes social interactions in adult captive tortoises (Testudo hermanni)" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

(1/2) Hiring! 🤸🧠🐩 Postdoc position in my new group @univie.ac.at & Messerli Research Institute on the neuro-cognitive foundations and evolution of sociality across humans, dogs, and other carnivorans. 📍 Vienna 📅 Application deadline: 26 July 2026 ℹ️ shortifyme.co/p3NjN

📣 Funded* #PhD position (4 years) Wood #Ant #conservation project in Ireland🐜 @maynoothuniversity.ie Application close: 3 June 2026 More info: dirilgenecology.com/contact/ - @muresearch.bsky.social | @mu-gra25.bsky.social | @maynooth-bgs.bsky.social | * @npwsireland.bsky.social #findaphd

Chance to join the incredible banded mongoose project! 🇺🇬❤️ 3 year postdoc on the mongoose project, working on the evolution and maintenance of group identity in animal societies. The closing date for applications is 16 June 2026. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRN272/p...

Are you interested in the effects of human disturbance on the breeding of common loons and do you live by a lake in the Laurentians? We are looking for volunteers for a citizen science project, #Engagement @fondsrechercheqc.bsky.social info: plongeon-huard-quebec.ca/en/accueil-e...

This was a classic example of slow science, but it was worth persevering! It was largely because it was a pleasure to interact with my excellent SQuID group collaborators/friends! For anyone interested in estimating variance components from temporal datasets.

🚨New PhD opportunity🚨 Understanding sheep foraging decisions under heat stress conditions Location: Adelaide University Contact: [email protected] Details: stephanleu-ecology.com/phd-opportun... Application deadline: 17 May 2026

It was a pleasure to be part of this excellent PhD defence! Bold foxes, perplexing humans... and a lovely (online) viva with @mariatelloramos.bsky.social. Congrats Kristy and Blake @drblakemorton.bsky.social #PhDone🎓

I am hiring a PhD student to join our group in Lund, Sweden working on an ERC-funded project to untangle color and polarization vision in some amazing crustaceans – minute water fleas and pugnacious mantis shrimp! Please forward this to promising students. Apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

📣 #PhDOpportunity in Geelong, Australia Ever wondered how urbanisation affects sleep in birds? 🐦 Interested in #behaviouralecology and #biologging? Come and work with me and Kate Buchanan at @deakinuniversity.bsky.social! Applications close 31 May Details: www.deakin.edu.au/study/fees-a...

🎉🦜NEW PAPER ALERT 🦜🎉 Which social learning biases underly the acquisition of novel food in wild parrots ? We (@lucymaplin.bsky.social, @bjjbarrett.bsky.social, @sonjawild.bsky.social, @drjohnmartin.bsky.social) presented >700 cockies with a novel, artificial food (🧵1/6)

You are interested in evolutionary ecology and quantitative genetics. You enjoy fieldwork and birds. Join our laboratory and our international team. csee-scee.ca/job/fully-fu...

PhD Opportunity! 4-year funded PhD @uniexecec.bsky.social: “From cognition to conservation: using cognitive and behavioural research to enhance animal reintroductions”. Closes: 5 June 2026. Funding: @royalsociety.org (UK/Home students only). More info & to apply: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 1/

Recognition of octopus sentience is increasingly reflected in public discussion, alongside emerging global policy efforts to restrict or ban octopus farming

🚨Deadline 30/04! PhD opportunity: 🐾 Mapping the Manor: How are the lives of meerkats shaped by their sleeping & breeding burrows? 🐾 💡 Big ecological Qs 📡 Geophysics tech + data 🌍 Fieldwork with me, @geophysics-adam.bsky.social & @aldinafranco.bsky.social APPLY NOW: www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

Swimming invasive snakes colonize Mediterranean islets by active swimming, then wipe out Endangered endemic lizard populations. A hidden pathway for biological invasions with profound conservation implications, as they re-shape island ecosystems 🐍 🌊 #OpenAccess in 'Ecology' Picture: Rubén Casas

We're looking for an Associate Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology (mainly teaching Evo Med and Stats at UCL Anthro) as maternity cover! Please share - closing date 30th April www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Research Assistant position working on eye-tracking and parenting cognition in macaques, linked to Yuri Kawaguchi's BBSRC Fellowship. Join us at NTU! @yurikawaguchi.bsky.social vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Interested in home cage monitoring in rodents? 😃 This book contains a wealth of information on this topic: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Post-doc opportunity in raptor conservation at The FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology in Cape Town, South Africa - with @megmurg.bsky.social and me. South African Citizen or have a valid work visa. science.uct.ac.za/fitzpatrick/... #Ornithology #RaptorResearch #AfricanOrnithology

Urban wildlife interactions aren’t straightforward🐿️🏘️ In #Berlin gardens, red squirrels occur more with higher tree cover and in autumn. Plus they tend to avoid cats🐱 but show no clear patterns with foxes, raccoons, or martens🦊🦝***New paper out @wildlifebiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/wlb3...

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us: 🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦 Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆29th May deadline More info: tinyurl.com/yz28s96x Apply: tinyurl.com/2wpkb64y #cognition #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #birds 🙏Please Share

📌Save the date: from 30.09-02.10.2026 the Joint Graduate Meeting in Animal Behaviour will take place @uni-muenster.de, sponsored by @ethoges.bsky.social and the DZG. No registration fees🤗 Take the chance, visit Münster, present your research, build and grow your peer network. More information soon

🐦 New PhD position! @prfju.bsky.social @ckecz.bsky.social Nest defence in passerine birds Interested in animal behaviour, fieldwork and evolutionary ecology? 📅 Start July 2026 | ⏳ 4 years | 💰 Fully funded Apply by May 10 → [email protected] / [email protected] #PhDjobs #PhDchat #PhD #ornithology

ETHOLOGY - Call for papers - Special issue "Wildlife in Urban Spaces – Adaptations and Human Perceptions" 🦌🏙️💁‍♀️ Submission deadline: Saturday, 31 October 2026

We are offering two 4-year PhD positions in our new SNF project "The Evolutionary Roots of Altercentrism"

New paper out: this is the 3rd ch. from my M.Sc.-thesis that started in 2019! How did the toxin glands as well as the composition of the toxins secreted from these glands change after an African toad invaded novel ranges and what are potential drivers of these changes? doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

Are innovators born that way, or does solving problems come from experience?🐭 In our recent(ish) paper in @asab.org with @valmazza.bsky.social & Anja Guenther, we show innovation may be inherent in wild house mice and experience makes innovators better! paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123441

📢One week left to apply! To promote research on #animal #behaviour in Greece, we are organizing a 3 day workshop on methods, from social evolution to collective behaviour 🐭🐟🐦🐒✨ 📍 Crete☀️ 🗓️ July 13-15 🌐 marinapapa.github.io/TRASEworksho... Supported by @biologists.bsky.social 🙏 DM for questions!

Rhythm is everywhere! Big congrats to Chloé, Yannick, and Andrea for this smashing new paper, and thanks for putting Laura and me in the gang! Read more at nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

💶🧿 Value illusions in insects 🐝🐜🦗 Insects make many of the same weird choices we do, and fall for many of the same marketing tricks - but not all! A very short piece by Tanya Latty and me doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...