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:

📣 Hot off the press at #ProcB! 🔍 Our study checked data/code-sharing policies in 275 eco/evo journals and compliance in Proc B (n=2,340) & Ecology Letters (n=571). Policies exist, but clarity and strictness vary, affecting reproducibility. 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

New in #ProcB - From policy to practice: Progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @eivimeycook.bsky.social tell us more in our blog royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...

Soon giving a talk at the University of Neuchâtel as part of the Biology seminar series. www.unine.ch/biologie/wp-...

Hot off the press! Check out our new paper on sleepy lizard aka shingleback skink fire cue discrimination led by @ecolojolly.bsky.social DM if you want a PDF.

Water anoles take a bubble of air down when they submerge, which they breathe like a tiny scuba tank, and now @lindseyswierk.bsky.social & co reveal that the reptiles may also be using the bubble like a gill, to breathe oxygen directly from the water journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Looking forward to discussing open methods in comparative cognition, including the challenge of 'species fair' task design as part of the ManyManys webinar series 🤩 🐒🦜🐜🐕👶🦎🐐🐟 📅 September 12, 11:00 a.m. (ET) on Zoom 🔗Registration: airtable.com/app0bcw8jYPv... #openscience #bigteamscience

Successful @ecobird.bsky.social #EOU2025 trip. Great presentations by @cesarepacioni.bsky.social, Jolien Van Malderen, Caoimhe Abdul-Wahab, Mélibée Morel and me! Well done team 👏 Loads of fun, and surprisingly good Welsh weather 😇

New paper alert 🚨 We test quantity discrimination in #magpies using both a cognitive task and playback experiment and find that birds can discriminate between quantities in both! Interestingly, performance in the two task was negatively correlated! 🐦 @mandyridley.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/behe...

🧪ETHOLOGY: Are reversal learning & inhibitory control linked? 🧠⏪🐦 Biagiotti Barchiesi et al. tested urban kelp gulls on reversal & detour tasks. Gulls adapted well, with those showing ledd inhibitory control performing better during reversal. No age effect found. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/eth.... #Cognition

Cognitive processes are robust to early environmental conditions in two lizard species #Reptile #Learning #DevelopmentalPlasticity doi.org/10.1093/behe...

FINE Fall 2025 will start in just 4 weeks. Here is the preliminary program. Stay tuned!

Heat or stress hormones experienced in early life often impair cognition. A study @jexpbiol.bsky.social shows that spatial learning is unaffected in lizards when the eggs experienced such stressors. 🦎🥚 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... @pablorecio93.bsky.social @danielwanoble.bsky.social

Students of ASSAB! You can now apply for the 2025 student research grants here: www.assab.org/grants-2025 We have two grants available for up to AUD$2500, we will also select two highly commended applications. Deadline: August 31st 2025

Research Grants by @asab.org www.asab.org/research-gra... "ASAB’s Grants Committee does not support helicopter or parachute science.... To promote inclusion, ASAB will not fund projects that rely on unpaid volunteers, e.g. for data collection." great to see! #DEI

🚨Job Alert 🚨 Charles Darwin University is looking for a research project coordinator! Apply here: cdu.t1cloud.com/T1Default/Ci...

Another PREPRINT on gecko welfare out at BioRxiv (@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social) How does a change in housing and diet influence nematode output in Tokay geckos? Check it our here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

‪Come join us at the @asab.org Winter Conference 2025: how sensory info affects behaviour. 15th & 16th Dec, abstracts due end Aug. More info and registration asabwinter.github.io/2025 Co-hosted with @jtroscianko.bsky.social and Innes Cuthill

Join us for #ASABWinter2025 in Edinburgh Dec 15-16 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Abstracts for posters/talks due Aug 29 More details here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/

🎟️ DAY PASS for Behaviour 2025 is now live! 🌟 Join us at Biswa Bangla Convention Centre, Kolkata from 25-30 August for world class talks, symposia, workshops & networking with global leaders in animal behaviour! 🚨Hurry up! Day passes are selling fast, Don't miss out! 👉Click on this link below

Well, I am interested in social behaviour. I am more into the nice behaviour not so much the fighting 🤣

📣 Check out the latest preprints related to Tokay gecko welfare! 1. Is physical closeness a good measure for pair bond strength? doi.org/10.32942/X2F... 2. How do incubation environment and social rearing influence development? doi.org/10.32942/X2T... Stay tuned for more coming soon!

The talented Jindong Zhang analyzed 74,000+ papers, revealing how #biomimetic research relies on a narrow slice of biodiversity—missing out on nature’s untapped genius. In our paper, we call for broader, species-level, and comparative approaches! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Another PhD chapter published for Ioanna Gavriilidi @uafunmorph.bsky.social, now in @jzoology.bsky.social! She finds that island-dwelling lizards tend to rely less on chemosensory cues compared to their mainland counterparts. zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Decoding the chaffinch “rain” call: a female-directed alarm call? #bird #bioacoustics #AntiPredator doi.org/10.1093/behe...

The Local Organizing Commitee welcomes behavioral ecologists from across the world and of all career stages to enjoy a five-day meeting rich in top-notch science and ample networking opportunities in Turin (Italy), 20-24 July 2026.

New paper! 🐸🎶 Rocket frogs males respond to rivals depending on their own spectral call attributes, but also pay attention to the temporal properties of the challenger Check it out in Animal Behaviour: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #bioacoustics #prattle

Our letter is out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social We argue against a recent claim that animals cannot make mental simulations because they supposedly do not reliably memorize sequences. The evidence for model-based animal cognition is too overwhelming. 🧪 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lKMt_V1r-...

The paper is Open Access royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

NEW PAPER🎺 How does cognition determine an individual’s fitness? A systematic review of the links between cognition, behaviour and fitness in non-human animals Lots of studies try to explain how cognition might evolve, by taking a behavioural ecology approach Has this approach made any progress?🧵

Short-term increases in rival number improves single mating productivity in male Drosophila #Competition #Insect #FruitFly #ReproductiveBehavior doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Proud to share our newest gecko paper published @ecol-evol.bsky.social! We raised geckos either with or without their parents and found some effects on the development of behaviour and cognition! Read the rest here: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

📢📢Our May/June issue is now complete! Have a look at all the exciting research here: academic.oup.com/beheco/issue... #AnimalBehavior #AnimalBehaviour #Ecology

🚨New paper out!🚨 We tested whether birds show better response inhibition when the stop signal matches their ecological niche. 🐤 No clear effect, but plenty of learning (on both sides of the test box). More + behind-the-scenes: bit.ly/45ZYHtq Read the registered report: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

NEW: Statement from the PCI RR Managing Board on the withdrawal of Infant and Child Development as a PCI RR-friendly journal, and the decision by Wiley to refuse preprints that have been peer-reviewed by @peercommunityin.bsky.social / @pci-regreports.bsky.social Read here ➡️ osf.io/tn8mh

Why did some birds evolve to be so clever? Mark O'Hara & Berenika Mioduszewska took on the challenge of studying wild Goffin's cockatoos on a small Indonesian island. Their exciting findings help answer that question. Listen: linktr.ee/wild_behavior_pod Photo: Goffin Lab Tanimbar

1/2 Sidney's cockatoos have learned to use drinking fountains It's a tricky mechanism that requires turning and holding a handle. They've figured out how to do it using their own weight, and now it's cultural : ) (paper) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... by @lucymaplin.bsky.social‬

How animals discriminate between stimulus magnitudes: a meta-analysis #NumericalCognition #WebersLaw doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Check out the 📢 Editor's Choice 📢 article for our May/June issue here: doi.org/10.1093/behe... John Endler asks: What should we be doing as behavioural ecologists?

Ecological contexts shape sexual selection on male color morphs in wood tiger moths #ColSci #Insect #Moth doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Book chapter alert 🚨 We have a new chapter out on learning and cognition in goats 🐐🐐🐐, published in the book "Small Ruminant Welfare, Production and Sustainability"! DM for pdf! shop.elsevier.com/books/small-...

Amazing Animals Asia, Moonbear Rescue Centre, Chengdu 😍🐻😍🐻