New paper led by Andrew Katsis @klf-univienna.bsky.social Good guardian, bad parent: tradeoffs between territory defense and parental care in Darwin’s finches url: academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

Do you love research & writing & all things animal behavior? Well our journal, Animal Behavior, recruiting up to 5 (count em!) new Associate Editors! Editors serve three-year terms beginning January 2026. If you're interested, email Exec Editor Scott Sakaluk ([email protected]) by Oct 31!

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

**PhD POSITIONS** I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work on sociality and cognition in Monk Parakeets, starting Fall 2026. Full ad is here: hobsonresearch.com/index.php/20... (please help spread the word!)

We are hiring - PDRA position exploring how information access shapes social dynamics in killer whales. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social Prof Dan Franks (York) start 1st Nov (or ASAP) end 31st Oct 2028. Apps close on 19th Oct. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/p...

New paper! In #greylaggeese, individuals are consistent in subgroup size & departure timing during collective flights. New insights into #individuality signatures of #movement! 📸 KLF #GreylagGoose #AnimalBehaviour #univienna doi.org/10.1007/s002...

#greylaggeese and #ravens were also the subject of a BBC series: “Do birds understand us?” Thomas Bugyar and Andrew Katsis report on their research and observations on this topic. www.bbc.com/audio/play/w... @univie.ac.at

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 🐦

Changing priorities about protective shelters: a review of a key method to investigate possible pain in crustaceans royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

It’s been seven months since I launched my Beaks & Bones newsletter. Thank you to everyone who already subscribed. You make all of this make sense. 🙏🏼 I’ve published 20 stories about fascinating bird research so far. 🪶🧪 All are available to read in the archive: beaksandbones.substack.com/archive

🔊 Fellowship opportunity Interested in a post-doc in Turkey? Check out this CoCirculation postdoctoral fellowship program Full details & key dates: cocirculation3.tubitak.gov.tr/program-home Kiraz Erciyas @erciyaskiraz.bsky.social at Ondokuz Mayıs University is looking to host #ornithology

(ahem) Friends, my book has a cover! And a pub date (5/5/26)! And a preorder button! I can't wait to share it with you: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741329... 🧪

Linguistics lesson for the day: Accountability is crucial to interpreting language. We make sense of something based on who we believe said it. Synthetic text extruded by LLMs was not said by anyone -- so a crucial step in the chain is broken. >>

Postdoc advertisement! Hi all, I'm looking to hire a Postdoc in BIOACOUSTICS for work on Owls. Your job would be to collect & analyze bioacoustics data, and write papers. 🦉🦉🦅🐦🦜🦉🦉

A new academic year is ramping up. Have you considered adding us to your syllabus? Podcasts episodes are a great way to add variety & boost engagement, and they offer a launchpad for exploration. A number of instructors have used our episodes to good effect! (Let us know if you're among them!)

For 58€ a month I can ride on almost any public transport anywhere in Germany. Within a 15 minute walk from my house I can access 4 S Bahn lines, 3 UBahn lines, regional trains (I honestly don’t even know how many of those), 3 tram lines and at least 4 city bus lines (probably more).

Are you a prospective postgrad looking for a research project? Check out our brand new list of postgrad projects for 2026-27. From animal weapons 💥and rewilding, to neuronal plasticity and invitro fertilisation 🧪 the breadth of topics is tremendous. Find out more: bit.ly/3VxHscv

Traffic Noise Provokes ‘Road Rage’ In Male Galápagos Warblers #SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social #NoisePollution #birds🦉 #Ornithology🪶 #aggression #Galapagos medium.com/grrlscientis...

PhD studentship in bird ecology and behaviour at the Museum of Natural History in Madrid

🚨 PhD position in behavioural evolution 🚨 Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve. Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs liu.se/en/work-at-l...

🐦🔬 Recruiting PhD students! 🌎🧬 I’m looking for 1–2 PhD students to join our team starting Fall 2026 at the Sam Noble Museum & University of Oklahoma. Our research: 🐦 birds • 🌍 biogeography • 🌴 Neotropics • 🧬 population genomics • 🌱 speciation 👉 Learn more: www.moncriefflab.org Please share!

New paper: In #greylaggeese, influencers are bold and their followers are open to novelty. Aggressive geese? They stick to family. Followers may choose leaders whose traits provide protection so that innovation can emerge and spread. #AnimalBehavior @univie.ac.at www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Funded #PhD scholarship- Vocal mimicry in tooth-billed bowerbirds at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment Western Sydney University ‪‪@animalecolab.bsky.social‬ @drbackhouse.bsky.social @westsyduhie.bsky.social‬ ‬ Deadline: 30 Sept25 link: tinyurl.com/4uf92t5b

“Not only does this contribute to cognitive deskilling, with the potential erosion of a student’s ability to write, reason and think critically, but it could contribute to social deskilling, if students are not attending classes, asking lecturers questions or sharing ideas with their coursemates.”

We’re recruiting for a multi-university (and ECCC) cross-city project on urban biodiversity, connectivity, and ecosystem services: 1) a Concordia or U Laval MSc student (PhD possible), 2) a UBC MSc student, 3) a postdoc. I’ll link to each position below. Please share broadly!

So it looks like programming with AI slows you down, AI doesn't actually discover as much science as people have claimed, and also there are material risks to using AI to create assets for games and other media. Got it.

To be heard over roaring rivers, white-throated dippers swap from song to flashing their bright eyelids. New research reveals one of the clearest examples yet of animals switching between senses to communicate – showing how noisy environments can shape evolution: www.bi.mpg.de/news/2025-08...

Interested in doing a 3-month #internship on treehopper vibrational communication at STRI in Panama? 🤩 Check this out: stri.si.edu/academic-pro... Contact me for more info! #AnimalBehavior

While I find the autocomplete analogy to be a useful starting place when explaining how LLM‘s work, this detailed thread digs into more fundamental critique of the technology.

WSU biology is hiring a vertebrate ecologist! wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...

my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...

We are calling on the UK Government to not introduce a levy on higher education provider income from international students, reduce visa costs to attract global talent, and to review higher education funding to create a sustainable model www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/58...

Young Cowbirds Look To Adult Females For Proper Social Development, study out of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, published by Animal Behaviour #SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social #birds🦉 #ornithology🪶 #behavior #evolution #SocialDevelopment www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...

Energy? "Energy"? Are you fucking kidding me?

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

"Government is now substantially a minority funder of UK universities" I know what this is trying to say, but this is not how to say it. UK Universities do not issue shares, they do not get most of their funding from VC rounds, alumni, or even from covenant bank loans. 90+% is tuition (see SLC).

More people who work in universities should read up about their finances, however, public posts about university finances should always take the extra 2 paragraphs to give more detail. That's a bit lacking here. 🧵

New blog post: The New Eugenics Companies (Oops, I meant to say generational health and embryo selection)

Essay which clearly outlines the scientific and ethical problems with selecting embryos for polygenic traits. Scientists associating themselves with embryo selection companies, and those who’ve previously defended sociogenomics but are staying silent on these companies, come in for criticism here

Just like gun violence, there are far too many people who look at traffic violence as a problem without a solution, despite oodles of evidence from around the world. The difference is that devotion to guns is largely a thing among the right, while car brain is a bipartisan affliction.

This is again a reminder that college isn’t supposed to just teach you a job but is supposed to teach you how to think, because that job you’re training for might not exist when you graduate

I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group. The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects. Please RT. Details 👇: shorturl.at/iiiOv

New publication from L&C Lab led by our PhD student Begüm Yılmaz in collaboration with Reyhan Furman, Tilbe Göksun, and Terry Eskenazi! @begumyilmaz.bsky.social @reyhanfurman.bsky.social @tilbegoksun.bsky.social Read the article 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢 Call for Submissions ESP is hosting the AI for Non-Human Animal Communication workshop at @neuripsconf.bsky.social 2025! We welcome short papers & proposals that explore the use of AI in understanding animal communication. 🗓️ Deadline: Aug 31, 2025 🔗 aiforanimalcomms.org

📢 Come to Tübingen and get your PhD with us! Unique opportunity to explore great ape communication 🐵🦧🦍 from multiple disciplinary angles within a single, integrated project. 👇

Check out this Senior Research Ecologist- Bioacoustics vacancy @btobirds.bsky.social britishtrustforornithology.postingpanda.uk/job/734089 #ornithology 🪶

Bird sounds.

We are looking for a postdoc to join our group to work on an ERC funded project on avian reproductive microbiomes. nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies... Please RT! #microbes #microbiomes #sparrows #postdoc