Feeling bamboozled by R? If so, you're not alone. Join me & @jbbrask.bsky.social in Copenhagen for an intro course that will give you the foundation I wish I'd had as a PhD student. Friendly & accessible with lots of time for your own questions & coding projects. Deadline extended to May 15. 🎉

TODAYS FINE, May 13th 2025, 11 AM NYC / 5 PM Paris Erin Siracussa, University of Exeter, United Kingdom Title: Social ageing: Toward a deeper understanding of the intersection between sociality and senescence YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

Excellent resource: christinapagel.substack.com/p/eight-thin...

Join us—mentee or mentor—for our next mentorship matching event! 🐝 We'll briefly introduce the ABC mentorship scheme & then there's plenty of time for mentees & mentors to get to know each other and decide if they'd like to start mentorship!

If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti... Please share widely

Bake your paper! Research tech extraordinaire, Macaela Skelton, made a cake of (some of) the study sites in the MacaqueNet database. She ran out of decorations before she could do them all 😆. Link to the paper that's been cake-ified: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Social networks of birds are often constructed from spatio-temporal data streams of feeder visits, but how do we define ‘connection’ and does it matter? While common definitions yield similar patterns, do consider context of systems and research Qs! Well led by co-first authors Alex and Jamie! 🧵👇

📢 Paper alert! 📢 🐑🪱📝Our latest work studying the immune system of the Soay sheep in St Kilda has just been accepted and is available online on the special collection "Ecoimmunology" of Discovery Immunology! #SoaySheep #Thelpercells #parasites #SoaySheepProject

New paper out in BEAS! Co-first with @j-dunning.net : we compared three different ways of defining social associations from RFID data across four avian study systems. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

It’s never been more important to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩‍🔬 Here’s a collection of posts from last year about some of the remarkable historical #WomenInSTEM in the animal field:

So exciting to see MacaqueNet out into the world! 🤩 Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365... Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/

We are very excited for #Behaviour2025 this summer! Don’t forget ASAB has special funding for this conference: www.asab.org/kolkata-conf...

My latest story for National Geographic, about the similarities between whale song and human language, featuring @inbalarnon.bsky.social, @simonkirby.bsky.social, @ellengarland.bsky.social, @masonyoungblood.bsky.social and @rferrericancho.bsky.social!

Very proud of this one: new paper using AI to classify emotional valence from 7 ungulate species my team has recorded over the years. We also publish the database of call open access along the paper :-) @behaveco.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Timing matters for maternal effects on offspring HPA-axis in wild macaque. New paper out from the Assamese macaque Project at Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary! link here 👇👇 tinyurl.com/yc6k5dvf @primatenzentrum.bsky.social @unigoettingen.bsky.social @primatecognition.bsky.social @dfg.de

🧪 Check out our new paper in Sciences Advances! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🐒 When a severe drought hit a population of wild monkeys in Costa Rica, individuals with a stronger stress response were more likely to survive @jbeehner.bsky.social @irene-godoy.bsky.social

We just updated the #AnimalBehaviourJournal guide for authors 📝 Did you know that we have three types of research papers? In addition to primary research, we also accept methods papers and data set papers! More info: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/anim...

Genomic analysis reveals a polygenic architecture of antler morphology in wild red deer (Cervus elaphus) Paper by Peters, Huisman, Kruuk, Pemberton and @susanjohnston.bsky.social antler morphology is highly repeatable over an individual's lifetime 🧪 #mammals onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Just returning from excellent visit to @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social. Lots of good science conversations and even got to see a bit of the city! Thanks to Eli Strauss for hosting & everyone who took time out of their busy schedules to chat!