A surprising link has been found between grooming and physiological stress in wild baboons. Watch a video about this #BiologyLetters research article on our author seminar channel Cassyni: buff.ly/urQirOc #baboons 🧪

There's still time to apply for our Career Development Fellowship scheme, which aims to support the retention in STEM of researchers from underrepresented backgrounds. The deadline for this application round is Wednesday 19 November: https://royalsociety.org/grants/career-development-fellowship/

Giant icons and lesser kin: Chinese public perception of panda welfare at Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding buff.ly/x6B5AMw | #BiologyLetters #Behaviour #EnvironmentalScience #Pandas

#ProcB in @theguardian.com | Super-recognizers sample visual information of superior computational value for facial recognition: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

They couldn’t even be bothered to recover the breast meat. ‘Natural bounty’, my arse. Hyopcrites. If there’s a surplus of ‘game’ this early in the season, I shudder to think what it will be like come January.

⚠️ 🐬 New scientific critique of the Faroe Island pilot whale hunt: Our new welfare assessment published in Biology Letters highlights the negative impacts on pilot whales hunted in the #FaroeIslands & disproves claims that the hunt is swift and efficient. 1/3

3/3 The severe welfare impacts documented at every stage are undeniable. This has to end. 👉 Read the full assessment via this link: www.oceancare.org/en/stories_a... #AnimalWelfare #StopTheGrind

2/3 It shows that at every stage, pilot whales suffer profoundly. The welfare impacts are severe: anxiety, breathlessness, confusion, fear, panic, pain, helplessness. #pilotwhales are sentient, intelligent beings. They never abandon each other, forced to witness their loved ones' slaughter.

Here’s the on from @oceancare.bsky.social: www.oceancare.org/en/stories_a...

Our article on the welfare of the capture and killing of whales snd dolphins. @oceancare.bsky.social @laetitiace.bsky.social #whales #dolphins #mammals #AnimalWelfare @royalsocietypublishing.org royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

#Conflict is rife in the natural world & lots of animals use #vocal #signals before & during #contests. But what about in their aftermath? Wonder no more - read our #review on post-contest acoustic signalling: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... @josharbon.bsky.social #AmyMorris-Drake @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Evidence of active sound production by a shark. Join us live on Wed 19 Nov 3:00 PM (London, Europe time) to hear #RSOS author Carolin Nieder talk about how she came to discover that New Zealand rig sharks can make strange noises. Reserve your free place: cassyni.com/events/NRzSF... 🧪

#Cytomegalovirus is a common virus that often causes no obvious symptoms, but people who carry it appear to have higher rates of a wide range of health problems. Read the latest research: buff.ly/hv6MeRT

We are thrilled to welcome the members of our new Early Career Researcher Advisory Panel! Discover more about the researchers who are helping shape the future of scientific communication: buff.ly/5abtNWQ #ECR 🧪

MDPI Religions asked me to review what sounds like a very good essay. Teachers don’t let students submit essays to MDPI. Friends don’t let friends submit essays to MDPI.

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Embattled journal Cureus delisted from Web of Science, loses impact factor t.co/VfeFJJF3Ww

They believe the problem exists but either do not believe that it is their job to help sort it out, or they do not think that their institution, journal or publishing house is the cause of the problem.

Everyone points fingers at authors, yet few acknowledge how many respectable academics serve on the boards of these journals, accept their citations, or include them in rankings data. The problem is not knowing, it’s not being willing to help solve the problem.

Predatory publishing survives not because of ignorance, but because of complicity. Many reviewers, editors, and institutions quietly decide it’s not their problem. 🧵

2025. The intricate relationship between stress and animal welfare: from historical perspective to new avenues. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

2025. A conceptual framework for conserving giant panda habitat: restoration and connectivity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

2025. Close encounters of the friendly kind: pacific between‐group interactions in primates. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

2025. An update on captive cetacean welfare peerj.com/articles/198... @peerj.bsky.social

Nigerian activists are mobilizing to stop the construction of six slaughterhouses planned by JBS, the world’s largest meat processing company. @gracehussain.bsky.social reports:

Some animal advocates tell Sentient that they believe highlighting cost-cutting could work for farm animal welfare too, though not everyone agrees.

Consumers of these squid in the U.S. are “eating a product that may have been caught by somebody in force, bonded or slave labor,” Steve Trent, CEO and founder of @ejfoundation.org, tells Sentient.

2025. An assessment of cetacean welfare in the Faroe Islands’ drive hunt | Biology Letters royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

It’s not wrong but the issue I have with this sort of paper is that it can only reproduce what is already on the existing data . In this case we know we’ve got massive gaps on entire geographical zones and tax (both virus and bat)

2025. Correction for Jarvis et al., The impact of air pollution on petcare utilization | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

2025. Slower searching yields higher efficiency: A case study of taxi drivers | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

2025. Shifting power asymmetries in scientific teams reveal China’s rising leadership in global science | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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2025. Mobile species’ responses to surrounding land use generate trade-offs and synergies among nature’s contributions to people | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

2025. Viral epidemic potential is not uniformly distributed across the bat phylogeny www.nature.com/articles/s42...

This is a brilliant panel and will be well worth listening to.

Our #mentorshipmatching event is two days away now!! 📣 --> Sign up to be a mentor/mentee, join the @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social community!! 🐝🐝🐝 --> Share this with interested students and ECRs in your group! --> Become a monthly donor to help us keep growing!

Join us (November 26th 4 PM Hong Kong Time) for our final project meeting (online) about the Hong Kong feral water buffalo 🐃 project. Check out www.hkbuffaloresearch.org/research-hig... for free registration or scan QR code on the poster. We welcome everyone!! @amcell.bsky.social

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2025. Viral epidemic potential is not uniformly distributed across the bat phylogeny www.nature.com/articles/s42...

2025. Mobile species’ responses to surrounding land use generate trade-offs and synergies among nature’s contributions to people | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).

Out today in PNAS: Mobile species' responses to surrounding land use generate trade-offs and synergies among nature's contributions to people" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2505401122 by Sophie O'Brien et al.

I have a job opening in my lab. If you are interested in bird behaviour and predator prey interactions please take a look! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

2025. Shifting power asymmetries in scientific teams reveal China’s rising leadership in global science | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

2025. Slower searching yields higher efficiency: A case study of taxi drivers | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

2025. Correction for Jarvis et al., The impact of air pollution on petcare utilization | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Do you have hours of videos📹with animals? Speed up your watching by using BEHAVE - a user-friendly, open-source, free, zero-install tool for coding animal behaviour in video recordings! Try BEHAVE here: behave.claude-apps.com Read more: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Abstract submission for #CO32026 is now open, join us next April in Montreal 🎉🍁🦫 Submit for a symposium by November 14th, or for an individual talk or poster by December 12th. Information on the conference and a link to the member portal where you can submit: comparativecognition.org/conference.php

Rumour has it that one mammal specialist is still required -apply by Oct 31! 🦇