Fine #sensory innervation of the contact surface of #lamellae bearing adhesive setae in the tokay gecko zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #adhesion #geckos @elissazcameron.bsky.social @amcell.bsky.social @uhl-lab.bsky.social

I am back at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia for 5 weeks and today I met an old friend 😍 the easter bluetongue skink 🦎 Oh, how I missed this place ❤️ and the people @lizardlab.bsky.social

Did you ever wonder how the pre- and post-natal environment influence Tokay gecko development in captivity? Look no further! I answer this question in my new paper published in Herpetozoa (open access): doi.org/10.3897/herp... #herps

Two postdoc positions at the Messerli Research Institute in Vienna in the research area of human-animal interactions: www.vetmeduni.ac.at/fileadmin/v/...

📢Webinar alert📢 Join us for our new webinar, together with @liftcostaction.bsky.social, as Dr Kat Wehrheim explores the philosophical journey of inter-species kinship & what indigenous perspectives can teach us about agency in relationships. ⏰ 5 pm CEST 📅 May 4th 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We believe research should be accessible to as many readers as possible, so we are proud to announce that authors can now include a translation of their abstract in an additional language in their JEB paper For more information go to journals.biologists.com/jeb/pages/jo...

The desert rain frog's high-pitched squeak mimics a squeaky toy, serving as an effective defense when threatened. This unique frog skips the tadpole stage entirely.

Join us on campus & online on Thursday, 30 April 2026 at 1pm for a seminar by Dr Ettore Camerlenghi, Assoc Research Fellow, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University. Details: rb.gy/4tr6qx

Dr. Alice Auerspreg started our #problemsolving session off strong by introducing us to tool-based self grooming in companion bovine #CO32026 Pictured below is a slide from the presentation: Veronica the cow holding a brush handle in her mouth & scratching her posterior with the bristled side.

New paper alert 📣 We tested how a change in housing and diet (alone or together) affect parasite load in captive geckos. Only when both occur together does the parasite output increase suggesting that these manipulations induce stress. OA paper here: doi.org/10.7717/peer...

(No) Birdbrain at Docville last night🎬 Really interesting take on bird cognition and conservation. Great to see @fredverb.bsky.social and @ecobird.bsky.social research brought to the screen 🐦 A short science documentary by Lode Desmet

In one week I'll be talking about tips for reproducible R code and why science would love you to try these tips on your own code too 🧪😍🌏 It's an online talk, so feel free to watch comfortably from your couch. Hope to see you there! @sortee.bsky.social #rstats events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...

Our TREE paper is now out in its final published form! Well done @yoricklambreghts.com for leading this and doing the heavy lifting! DM him for a PDF. @cellpress.bsky.social

Deadline for applying is 9 march. Don't miss out!

📣 I am excited to share some new collaborative work published in Biology Letter @royalsocietypublishing.org on spatial learning and lateralisation in lizards 🦎! Check out the full OA paper here: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... #AnimalCognition #ThinkLikeALizard

Three field seasons 219 lizards 🦎 >1,000 hours of behavioural video scoring Proud of Ioanna Gavriilidi for getting this major chapter of her PhD on insularity and lizard behaviur published. Serious dedication!

Sixty orchid mantis babies hatch at once, turning from fragile noodles to tiny kung fu fighters in minutes.

🦎 Funded 4-year PhD position on Lizard Evolutionary Ecology in our lab at UCLouvain (Belgium)! Apply before 9 March! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...

Want to know what we know about Crocodylian acoustics? 🐊 Read "Roars, Rumbles, and Resonance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Crocodylian Acoustic Signals" doi.org/10.1002/ece3... #science #biology #animalbehaviour

Banded mongooses discriminate relatedness and MHC diversity in unfamiliar conspecifics #SocialCommunication #Olfaction #Recognition doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Job alert! The University of Zurich is hiring a professor for Evolutionary Anthropology and Primatology. Learn more here: www.appointments.mnf.uzh.ch/auth/Apply/0...

Humans are transforming the natural world at an unprecedented scale and rate. We, at #UCLouvain 🇧🇪, are organizing a symposium on how organisms, populations, and communities respond to these human-induced environmental changes. April 29–30, 2026! Join us: www.uclouvain.be/en/research-...

I have prepared a video summarizing the study. Please come back here after reading the thread : ) youtu.be/bAk4PFEuWKQ English also youtu.be/CETjjZBMT5c Spanish youtu.be/tkpjlCxDJZA German (Thanks to Esau Dharma for providing the Spanish voice for Witgar Wiegele!)

A fun and informative video by @zefrank.bsky.social (True Facts) about our research on Goffin's cockatoos!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq9J...

📢 The deadline for the ISBE Early Career Award has been extended to the 20th of January 2026!! See all the details here: www.behavecol.com/awards

🎉 What a way to end the year! Very excited to see our new paper on 🐭 innovation and mate choice out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.11.077 With the amazing @fragdarm.bsky.social, @valmazza.bsky.social & Anja Guenther

I had the honour of working to bring @auersperga.bsky.social’s baby to life. It’s a VERY heavy baby - over 200 references (and yes I read them all) - but necessary to do justice to our new hypothesis of combinatory tool use origins 📝👶🛠️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Our recent paper on lizard societies now online in a special issue of Animal Behaviour. DM if you want me to send you a PDF.

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🦎Tokay gecko (Gekko gecko). Called 'tokay' because that is what the sound of a male sounds like. Max. size 40 cm (15.7"). Found in tropical Asia, from northeastern India in the west to Indonesia in the east. Considered Least Concern by the IUCN. 📷by kuritafsheen77 on Freepik

Abstract (and travel award) submission deadline has been extended to the 7th of January 2026. Don’t miss the chance to submit your contribution and be part of the scientific program of ISBE2026!

2022. Are Goats Smart? Revealing Goat Intelligence. Understanding Domestic Goat Behavior and Cognition. goatjournal.iamcountryside.com/ownership/ar...

It’s a proud moment when your star exPhD student, now early career researcher, is the senior author on a Biology Letters paper in the same issue of Biology Letters as you. And to be precise, the paper above! @lizabeldm.bsky.social

"A lack of contact with nature and limited knowledge about nature can reinforce each other in a negative spiral." #Biophobia - people can fear what they don't know or understand. Education in and about nature is vital phys.org/news/2025-12...

Interested in open, reliable & transparent science in ecology & evolution? Become a member of the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology @sortee.bsky.social! Membership is open to all and it's optional to join at no cost 👉 sortee.org/join/

A huge congrats to Dr Jai Lake! Jai just gave his exit seminar at Macquarie on why lizards are social. To be slightly more precise, his PhD was about the mechanisms underlying sociality. Papers are submitted and in prep! Watch this space. Jai was cosupervised by Geoff While at Univ. Tasmania.

Adventure time! Off to Kartong Bird Observatory in the Gambia to test out #MotusWTS using a mobile #Sensorgnome and @lotektelemetry.bsky.social Nanotag! Me and my load of tech and trusty duct tape will be repping @ecobird.bsky.social funded by @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social. 🐦📡

New study on the way 📣 I am currently raising cute quails 🐥 to study the effects of enrichment on the development of the brain, cognition, behaviour, and health! I am learning loads of new skills @ecobird.bsky.social

Meet our Plenary Speaker Daniela Rößler Fueled by curiosity and a deep love of natural history Daniela discovered a REM-like sleep state in spiders and uses integrative field, lab and comparative approaches to investigate the function, ecology, and evolution of sleep across the spider tree of life.

New amazing open Postdoc position, w/t opportunities to 1) get closely involved in our next @themanybirds.bsky.social study on innovation and problem-solving; 2) work with @ecobird.bsky.social on avian innovation, cognition & invasiveness. Advert: www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...

The statistical fragility of animal cognition findings: a meta-meta-analytic reappraisal ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

It took almost a year to write this review on causes and consequences of ranging in chicken 🐔! This was a huge collaborative effort by @ecobird.bsky.social @pec-exeter.bsky.social and @vitorhbf.bsky.social ! I am very proud of the outcome. You can check out the preprint here: doi.org/10.32942/X22...

New preprint out on bioRxiv 🌳 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🌳 Using data from 19 forest plots in Flanders, we found that forest structural complexity isn’t a consistent predictor of multidiversity and responses across taxa were mostly weak or inconsistent. @ecobird.bsky.social | @fornalab.bsky.social

Excited to announce that Eli Garcia-Pelegrin and I are co-editing a special collection for Animal Cognition on "Social Cognition in a Human World". Do you study how urbanization, pollution, heat stress, fragmentation, ... affects cognition? We want to hear from you! link.springer.com/collections/...

This list can really assist peers in avoiding predatory publishers: www.predatoryjournals.org @predatoryjournals.org I have been receiving plenty of generic emails to join editorial boards in MDPI and Frontiers. At exactly the same time, friends receive the same generic emails..

New paper! 🦎 Urbanization reshapes the social behaviour of wall lizards Now out in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org 🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @averymaune.bsky.social

Meet Chrissie Painting the new ASSAB president! @cpaintingnz.bsky.social is a Senior Lecturer and behavioural ecologist at the University of Waikato. Her research seeks patterns in animal behaviour and morphology, with a particular focus on insect and arachnid mating systems. 🪰🕷️🪳

Highlights of this year’s Ig Nobel recipients include a nutrition prize for studying the preferred pizza toppings of rainbow lizards at a seaside resort in Togo go.nature.com/3I4wd8E

People who know reptiles well say they don't only experience fleeting pains and pleasures, but also lasting emotional states: happiness & sadness, or at least good & bad moods. But how do you show this in a scientific way? My latest for @nytimes.com on a clever @coldbloodedcog.bsky.social study: