The University presents this as 'Future Nottingham' but it absolutely guts the arts and humanities. They want to sack 40% of the Dept of English, for example. Languages will be cut entirely. If that's the future, it's shit (and very far from what a University should be)

Six months after taking my classes most of my students will have forgotten 90% of the factual details they learned and I don’t particularly care about that. What I care about is the habits of thought that we practiced and which ideally will become muscle memory of the mind.

“Sick of his racism being called out, racist man votes for racism”

Another hard year for the #birds & our team. In 2 weeks we removed 1.1 kg of #plastics from Australian #shearwater chicks (>8850 pieces). Balloons clips, clothes pegs, tiling spacers, strapping tape, drink lids, nurdles, toys, cutlery - the list goes on & on 😞 #SeabirdSaturday #PlasticPollution

Many New World warblers sing duets — but nobody knew why. Krause et al. used radio telemetry to show that Adelaide’s warbler pairs duet to defend their territory, supporting the idea that duets function as cooperative signals. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Neuroscientists: "How natural should laboratory behavior be?" Pigeons: "fuck you, the world is a Skinner box"

Postdoc Opportunity! 4-year @royalsociety.org funded post @uniexecec.bsky.social: “Understanding the role of individual cognitive variation in reintroduction biology”. Closes: 5 June 2026. More info & to apply: careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/78... Wt: @paradiseparkhayle.bsky.social & Wildwood Trust

📖 Published📖 charisma: An R package to perform reproducible colour characterization of digital images for biological studies🖥️ 🌍 🧪 👇️ buff.ly/bIUBOck

Knowledge & understanding grow in university settings when experts disagree with each other, testing each others' claims, adducing different evidence & positing alternative scenarios. That's how change happens. In this thread, I suggest that we take a different approach to that featured here. 1/x

This is very good in imagining what HE might look like in the coming years

🚨 Fifty years of research on "badges of status" in animals, and we still don't know if the hypothesis holds. In our new reply, we argue that the evidence is shakier than recently claimed. A thread 🧵📄 (w/ @ornitho-pie.bsky.social) 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Thank you all who submitted an abstract for #ECBB2026 in ARU, Cambridge. We received an amazing collection of abstracts and it'll be an exciting programme! Now's the time to register: www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe... @ecbb2026.bsky.social @asab.org @ethoges.bsky.social @spetologia.bsky.social

NEW PhD studentship in #ornithology to calculate how much power #birds need to fly, and how power varies among species and speeds: buff.ly/oS56wm1

ECBB 2026 abstract deadline is TODAY! get that abstract in before the window closes! www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe...

📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268

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🚨Last chance to submit an abstract for ECBB!!🚨 Deadline 30th April..... Come and join us in Cambridge! For more information about topics, and how to submit, visit our Call for Abstracts page 👇👇 www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe... @ecbb2026.bsky.social

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/

What Are Great Tits Showing Us About The Genetics Of Personality? #SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social #behavior #personality #birds🦉 #evolution #ecology grrlscientist.medium.com/what-are-gre...

Abstract submission deadline for European Congress for Behavioural Biology 2026 is TOMORROW (April 30th). Looking forward to seeing you in Cambridge in September!! www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe... @ecbb2026.bsky.social @asab.org @ethoges.bsky.social @spetologia.bsky.social

HAROLD. We talked about this

What is this female Galapagos yellow warbler singing about? Could it be that ECBB 2026 abstract deadline is tomorrow (April 30th) and you should submit an abstract? Well folks, we just don't know... in any case check out the ECBB website. @ecbb2026.bsky.social www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe...

#ECBB2026 Abstracts will close this week! For more information about topics, and how to submit, visit our Call for Abstracts page 👇👇 www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe...

Abstract deadline (April 30th) for the European Congress for Behavioural Biology fast approaching!! Don't miss out! www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe...

Galápagos yellow warblers often start incubating their next clutch before their fledglings are fully independent. Which brings a little parent-offspring conflict with it.

📢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

❗️New PhD position in our lab ❗️ Nest defence in passerines: parental quality, investment and fitness 🐦 ➡️ 4 years, fully funded position 🗓️ Start: July 2026 ⏳ Application deadline: May 10, 2026 ✉️ [email protected], [email protected] #PhD #PhDjobs #ornithology #ethology #cognition

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Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

Looking forward to co-chairing a symposium on 'Methods to study curiosity-like behaviours in animals' with @monteirotiago.bsky.social at the European Conference for Behavioural Biology (@ecbb2026.bsky.social). Consider applying by 30th April if your work is curiosity/information-seeking related!

New paper: Female superb lyrebirds show diverse vocal mimicry unrelated to age, but older females more often mimic predators, suggesting mimicry is fine-tuned for nest defence rather than sexual selection. ➡️ vist.ly/4x338 #ornithology #birds #mimicry #vocalisation #age

You can't fool me, that's a man in some kind of suit

Extremely excited to start my 8-year @royalsociety.org Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship @uniexecec.bsky.social focussing on understanding the role of individual cognitive variation in reintroduction biology. With 2x 4-year Postdoc and PhD positions being advertised shortly - do get in touch if interested!

A rare Substack piece from me on the biggest problem with the earned settlement proposals. It's not the unfair treatment of those already here, as bad as that is. It's the forward-looking, permanent change for all future migrants. open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...

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My "Introduction to Phylogenetic Comparative Methods in R" online book is now available here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer-o... Note it only deals with basic methods and was mostly written in 2020 if you're wondering why your awesome new method/paper is missing! Please cite it if you use it :)

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us ❓Quantifying animal #movement patterns & behavioural #interactions in a changing world 👥Joint position in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #MacquarieUniversity 📆19th April deadline tinyurl.com/343acaev #maths #modelling #data #fieldwork #Australia 🙏PLEASE SHARE

Hello! My name is Gabriella and in April '26 l will graduate with my PhD in compcog from VetMedUni Vienna🤩👩🏻‍🎓🦜🐒🐕🇦🇹 With this in mind, I am excited to soon extend my passion for animal behavior/cognition in a post-doc/job position, so any recs/ connections would be greatly appreciated!! Website below☺️

Sometimes you just get that shot. Anna's hummingbird with a little friend, in my yard. Davis, CA. #birds #ants

Solo songs, duets and territory defence across seasons in female Galápagos yellow warblers, Setophaga petechia aureola AnimBeh

New paper: female birdsong isn’t rare, accidental, or about fighting—so why do females sing? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @univie.ac.at @alperyelimlies.bsky.social @caglarakcay.bsky.social Video: A. Yelimlies

New paper led by @alperyelimlies.bsky.social (1st chapter of his thesis!) in Animal Behaviour: Alper discovered that female Galapagos yellow warblers commonly sing solo songs and duets with their mates but mostly during the non-breeding season. doi.org/10.1016/j.an... #ornithology

Our paper on the female song in Galápagos yellow warblers is now published in Animal Behavior: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... To celebrate, here is the first ever video I recorded back in 2023 of the female BzHz singing!

an awesome paper that really pushes the boundary of animal communication networks! congrats to @birdsonglab.bsky.social

Our new paper describes song type sharing, matching, and collective themes in Adelaide's warbler dawn chorus communication networks. It's part of a special issue on animal communication networks. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... #animalcommunication #communicationnetworks #birdsong

We are delighted to announce #ECBB2026 registration and abstract submission are now open! Conference Attendance Grant are also available, thanks to @asab.org and @ethoges.bsky.social support! www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe...

“File drawer 2.0” “[Supplementary] files offer optimal settings for spinning research outcomes by sorting information between the main document and supplementary files to fit one’s narrative, making information technically available but effectively invisibilised.” By @paulbertin.bsky.social

Kuşların değerini biliyor muyuz? sarkac.org/2026/02/kusl... @pinarea.bsky.social tarafından.