The Christmas borbles are extra round this year 😍🎄🕊️ @birdfybynetvue.bsky.social

🎉🍾 very excited to see this out before 2025 ends doi.org/10.1111/2041... with Will Hoppitt in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social. This paper is an overview of our new R package STbayes, a user-friendly toolkit for performing Bayesian NBDA analyses. @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

We're open for abstract submission, and look forward to welcoming you all to Bristol in March! asab-spring-conference2026.github.io @asab-meetings.bsky.social #ASABSpring2026

🌟Huge CONGRATULATIONS to @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social who has won the @asab.org Christopher Barnard Award for Outstanding Contributions by a New Investigator. 🤗 Research on social evolution and what links climate & cooperation in a changing world, using #wasps as models. #worthywinner #ECR #proud

Excited for the BES Annual Meeting in Edinburgh this week, where I’ll be presenting our framework for forecasting human-wildlife conflict in near real-time!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Looking forward to chatting more about human-wildlife conflict, elephants, forecasting and movement modelling.🐘 #BES2025

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!

Since start of my postdoc in the late March. Ending the year with 5 first-author publications (1 pub, 4 in review🤞), 5 conferences, 3 awards, 3 grants, 2 fossil sites, 16 museums, UNESCO training, published palaeoart, Jurassic World & Walking with Dinosaurs credits. And perfectly timed burnout.

Come work with us! #PhD position on #ecosystem and #biodiversity effects of large #herbivores on the Eurasian steppes now announced: www.euraxess.de/jobs/395512 Nice combination of fieldwork and meta-analysis, co-supervised by @jonastrepel.bsky.social and ejlundgren.github.io

🚨 New paper! 🚨 In exploring maternal traits and social and environmental conditions on rate of gestational weight gain in meerkats: 🍼 Gestational growth is strongly nutrition-dependent 📈 Faster prenatal growth increases pup survival & more! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Great #ASABWinter2025 conference in Edinburgh! Proud to be presenting our sociable weaver acoustics and social network results from two of our PhD students! 🎉 @asab.org

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

New paper out in @commsbio.nature.com: Social bonds decrease epigenetic age in male bottlenose dolphins rdcu.be/eUoID led by @liviagerber.bsky.social @researchdolphin.bsky.social

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

Perfect last talk of the day: learning about what bumblebees do at the end of THEIR day (not drinking wine, which is next on the #ASABWinter2025 agenda 🥂) 🐝 🐝 🐝

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!

Very happy to have presented my poster today on vocal regulation of cooperation in meerkats at #ASABWinter2025 come chat to me tomorrow if you’re interested! 🤓

Edinburgh at dawn and dusk today. Beautiful city to be in at this time of year - and lots of wonderful sensory information & behaviour talks/posters today at #ASABWinter2025 @asab.org @asab-meetings.bsky.social

Sad to be missing the #ASABWinter2025 @asab-meetings.bsky.social conference this week, but two postdocs that may interest ASAB members:

Starting with a public lecture by Innes Cuthill on camouflage… not only did he come dressed in camo, but a camo kilt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ! #ASABWinter2025

Tomorrow is the big day! Who is on their way? #ASABWinter2025

Our newest research in @currentbiology.bsky.social: www.cell.com/current-biol... We find dominant baboons have more interrupted and less rest at night. Author list and story in comments below :-)

#ArtAdventCalendar Dec. 13 A male common grackle in mid display trying to impress the females. I think he may have achieved peak iridescence! #Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶

Paleocolor news! This is one of my absolute favorite areas of study. It's beyond mindblowing that we can learn these things about animals no human will ever see.

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

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!

blown away by this, given the names of previous winners - recent and not so recent - hugely grateful to @zslofficial.bsky.social, and all the many students, postgrads, postdocs and collaborators who have helped make the last 14 years so fun and exciting Will go back to avoiding cameras now… 🫣

Honoured & humbled to receive a #Nature #Award for #Mentoring in #Science yesterday. ☺️ Testament to the wonderful #ECRs I've been privileged to work with. THANK YOU to all who nominated me. 🙏 #proud #support @natureportfolio.nature.com @bristolbiosci.bsky.social www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/de...

Job alert! Fully funded PhD position on the link between curiosity and cognition in lemurs at our long-term field site Kirindy Forest in Madagascar @kirindy.bsky.social & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. This project is part of @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social. Apply here: www.dpz.eu

JOB ALERT! 🦜🔭🌿 Are you passionate about #Birds, #Ecology, #Fieldwork, #Research? The University of Salford is looking for a #ResearchTechnician to assist with ecological monitoring of #Ringneckedparakeets in Manchester, UK. More info & how to apply 👇 Hurry! Closes 15 Dec @salforduni.bsky.social

📖 An extract from her diary on Monday 9 November 1914 read, “Biddy objects to my late hours. About 9 o.c. I hear poor tired sighs, and realise that she is waiting to be covered up for the night. If I don’t hear she walks out of her basket and pokes me.”

🐼 Pandas, 🦁 lions, 🐢turtles … get the spotlight while less cute species quietly vanish. charisma driven conservation is not just flawed, it can be harmful. If we want real biodiversity, we must look beyond the photogenic. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

🚨 New Publication on Feral Water Buffalo 🐃 🐃 in Animal Behaviour [Also my 1st publication in AB 😊] @asab.org @asabeducation.bsky.social Adaptive behavioural strategies to seasonal challenges by a semiurban feral ungulate W/ @amcell.bsky.social Kate Flay & Hannah Mumby doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

I always make sure to somehow squeeze this graph into my teaching because I think it’s just very important to know this.

👋to @josharbon.bsky.social who has completed a truly outstanding #NERC-funded postdoc investigating #pre-emptive #behaviour in relation to #intergroup #conflict 👏 Loads of exciting #research, new #methods learned & an awe-inspiring level of help provided to others 🥇 Good luck in #Cambridge, Josh

"Death toll passes 1,000 in devastating floods across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Thailand" Really horrific www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

It was wonderful to present my work to colleagues at @zslscience.bsky.social at the recent ZSL Science and Conservation Conference! 🐸 Thanks to the organisers and the committee for the Promoting #EDI through Public Engagement Award. I will endeavour to continue this work in my role as an EDI Rep! 🌈🧠

#AcademicRant Can we talk **again** about conference registration fees? I'd love to attend "big" conferences, but with EARLY-BIRD fees of €650, I just can't. And I am based in Western Europe. I'd also like to point out the total lack of remote attendance options. Who are those conferences for? 😤

it's advent you know what that means

Thank you for everyone who chipped in to the charities in Hong Kong. Your money will help to feed the displaced and fund money to save hurt animals in the fire. So far your donations reached $4,760 (HKD). Thank you for supporting Tai Po survivors.

With the recovery mission still underway and hundreds of people displaced, you can send help to those affected by Hong Kong's Tai Po fire. Feeding Hong Kong: feedinghk.org Hong Kong Red Cross: donation.redcross.org.hk/onlinedonati...

Doodles for Hong Kong 🇭🇰 In response to the tragic Tai Po fire, I'm doing charity commissions. Anyone who puts over £25/250HKD into "Feeding Hong Kong" or Hong Kong SPCA can request a coloured doodle of any prehistoric animal 🙏

Emergency fundraiser for the recent hong kong fires Will accept as many as I can work on May need significant amounts of time to work on your comms, sorry in advance

it's great that convergent evolution made sure we have the "evil muppet lurking in the swamp" niche covered on multiple continents

The Oxford University social media team getting some well-deserved clapback after neglecting to mention the Indonesian biologists who were also involved in documenting the flowering of Rafflesia hasseltii. Instagram doesn't charge you by the word, so maybe at least do the bare minimum?

📢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...

Excited to introduce the Latent Layers Framework – now out in @behavecol.bsky.social – to help think through when and why network differences confound inference in (comparative) social network analysis! 🧵 tinyurl.com/3k3yahwy

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

Attended Hong Kong Pride event, a small but locally event. And left my "mark"

Join us in June for the ATBC Annual Meeting in Yunnan, China, hosted by the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden! Proposals now open for sessions & workshops.