New study alert! Sexually selected vocalizations of Greater Mouse-Eared Bats We recorded male Myotis myotis in mating roosts and found complex vocalizations with an individual signature and pronounced seasonal variation. Check it out! 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Unique rhythmic signatures in arrhythmic birdsong https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.19.695402v1

🚨 New paper alert! "Honestly exaggerated: howler monkey roars are reliable signals of body size and behaviourally relevant to listeners" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... We show that formants advertise body size and mediate social interactions in black and gold howler monkeys.

🐬 Can friendship slow ageing? In wild bottlenose dolphins, strong social relationships aren’t just important for social life — they may actually influence biological ageing. @liviagerber.bsky.social #ScienceCommunication #MarineMammals #Ageing #MAVELab www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Exciting PhD opportunity to develop tech and software to record and understand wild animal behaviour. Fully funded by EPSRC DLA. Based at @uniexecec.bsky.social; co-supervised by Alex Thornton (@cornishjackdaws.bsky.social), @kjhockings.bsky.social and collaborators. Apply: tinyurl.com/5fr73snt

3 year postdoc funded by @ukri.org NERC on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins is now live - please share widely 🙏 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

New PhD studentship opportunity in my lab & with collaborators from the Pinniped Genomes Consortium. Come help us unravel the genomics of seal physiological super powers! Closing date 7th January 2026 🧪🦭🧬🌍🦑🐳 #marine #mammals #consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...

I am happy to present to you our review „The diversity and evolution of vocal communication in nonavian reptiles“, published @annualreviews.bsky.social Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. Huge thanks to @gabrieljcohen.bsky.social and my other co-authors! Must say, I am a bit proud of Figure 1. ….

The remarkably long lifespan of bowhead whales could be due to an increased ability to repair DNA mutations, according to research in Nature. go.nature.com/4hzvDN7 🌏 🧪

#RSOS in @theconversation.com | Personality predicts song complexity in superb fairy-wrens: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Paper & incredible science alert: Our assistant professor @laurastidsholt.bsky.social & a passionate team @elena-tena.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social found proof for greater nocturnal #bats 🦇 preying on migratory birds 🐦 AND devouring them in flight! #bioacoustics www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hi everyone, it's a pleasure to share with you our newest paper, lead by @melaniekaluppa.bsky.social!!! Have a look and enjoy it!!! Cultural and morphological divergence of Darwin’s cactus finches (Geospiza scandens) across Galápagos Islands url: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...

⭐PhD position available!⭐ Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...

We are hiring (Post number 2) - join us as a graduate research assistant to support killer whale research. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social Prof Dan Franks (York) start 1st Nov (or ASAP) end 31st Oct 2028. Apps close on 19th Oct. jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

#OceanOpportunities PhD position: Site-fidelity and feeding behaviour of fin whales at Antarctic feeding grounds - Deadline 02 October 2025 nf-pogo-alumni.org/26092025-6/

Interested in vocal #communication? How animals provide referential #information about danger? Then see our 🌟NEW🌟 paper by brilliant ANU #PhD student Chun-Chieh Liao out today in @asab.org Animal Behaviour. 🎉👏 #birds #choughs #fieldwork #ECR With Rob Magrath and Rob Heinsohn doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

Zebra finches can not only distinguish the full range of their species’ vocalizations but also organize them by meaning—similar to what humans do, according to a new study in Science. https://scim.ag/4psyElY

In her review, Laura Stidsholt @bioacousticsau.bsky.social discusses how bat-borne acoustic devices are changing echolocation research in wild #bats by recording sensory & foraging behaviour across different species, habitats & levels of disturbance journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Come & work with us - fully funded 4 year PhD on Social Ageing: Social environment effects on senescence, using an epigenetic clock www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... @rug.nl @david-s-richardson.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social photo: @charlisdavies.bsky.social

Delighted to be cosupervising this funded PhD with @joewynnbirds.bsky.social on #migration in #birds #seabirds @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Start in early 2026! Register for our online briefing session. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

With my colleague Christophe Guinet we offer a 6-months position for a master student about sexual selection in southern elephant seals. Here for more details: www.linkedin.com/posts/corali... @predateursmarins.bsky.social @ecophycebc.bsky.social @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @univ-larochelle.fr

A week late but had a great time chatting all things bowhead song at the end of year poster session #MSc_MMS_St_A See thread to hear why nobody’s selling CDs of bowhead whale song 🎤🐋

🧠 What does collective movement look like in cognitively advanced animals? I have a new pre-print out for a super short solo-author paper I just submitted! I explore how the ability to forecast others' behaviours affects your own decision-making. Check it out: doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.14.670290

New #JRSocInterface paper: Individual vocal identity is enhanced by the enlarged external nose in male proboscis #monkeys: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #bioengineering

Funded #PhD scholarship- Vocal mimicry in tooth-billed bowerbirds at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment Western Sydney University ‪‪@animalecolab.bsky.social‬ @drbackhouse.bsky.social @westsyduhie.bsky.social‬ ‬ Deadline: 30 Sept25 link: tinyurl.com/4uf92t5b

The effects of #sleep disturbance on a #songbird’s vocal performance #ProcB #OpenAccess #Behaviour royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

I'm excited to share our new (in press) paper on vocal individuality and acoustic recognition. We looked at Red-tailed Black-Cockatoos, Little Penguins, Little Owls, Tree Pipits and Chiffchaffs, with promising results. #bioacoustics #vocalindividuality www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#BiologyLetters A new study uncovers a physiological basis for teamwork in mole-rats and sheds light on how metabolism influences social behaviour in cooperative species. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #behaviour #biochemistry

New PhD position in our group! Join us to study gull foraging ecology at sea using GPS and accelerometry data! You will be working here Amsterdam Movement Ecology group under supervision of @judyshamounb.bsky.social, @rooskentie.bsky.social and me. Apply here werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Societies might shape minds, but minds can shape societies. In this new paper we discuss how this feedback changes how we think about social and cognitive evolution. Led by @lucahahn.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Wrote a popular piece with @johanlind.bsky.social on why human language is so different from other animal communication. There’s a growing wave of studies suggesting key features of human language are present among animals. We propose a different perspective: theconversation.com/animals-cant...

PhD positions in Evolutionary or Population Genomics and Bird Cognition are available at the University of Hong Kong. Applicants should have a biology-related degree. Details: www.simonywsin.com. #phd

Hallooo, are you looking for a really cool MSc project in bioacoustics/evolution of communication/linguistics? Help me process our goldmine of birdsong recordings, and investigate whether and how conformance to various linguistic laws varies in the Anthus genus! 🔊 🐦🎵 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Excited to share our new preprint! Unlike the North American yellow warblers, females in Galápagos commonly sing and duet with their paired partners. Here, we tested possible functions with a playback experiment: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Two paper just out from the #clevercockieproject! @julia-penndorf.bsky.social reveals how cockies play politics when deciding who to aggress: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... & @barbaraklump.bsky.social describes a new 'drinking innovation': royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

bluecorridors.org is live! Watch whales doing their thing as they mooch and migrate throughout the year. It is an honour to be involved in processing the data for this amazing living initiative. Looking forward to expanding it further!

Hey all UK based folk. Consider signing this petition to pressure the government to re-evaluate their rowback on the commitment to require inclusion of swift bricks in new build houses, a key conservation measure for these declining birds. 38d.gs/cdpr

Hot off the press 📣: one of the most surprising and unsettling findings of my PhD. A novel social tradition emerged in the tool-using white-faced capuchins of Jicarón island… abducting and carrying the infants of another species. Thread with gifs, videos, and all the bizarre details 👇

Great paper from @stephanreber.bsky.social & co! Can’t wait to learn more about culture in reptiles 🦎

Advertising for a funded internship over the summer: take a look 🐸 eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

“It’s like claiming to have brought Napoleon back from the dead by asking a short French man to wear his hat.” A short piece in The Conversation by me on why “de-extinction” is nothing of the sort, and bad, bad conservation. theconversation.com/why-de-extin...

#RSOS in @newscientist.com | Evidence of active sound production by a shark: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... www.newscientist.com/article/2473...

🚨PAPER ALERT! Unlike chimpanzees and marmosets, vocal sequence production in mangabeys does not show a developmental trajectory. We also present a novel largely applicable Bayesian approach to evaluate individual vocal repertoire size. This can be applied to any signal type doi.org/10.1038/s420...

New paper on the demographic drivers of cultural evolution in Great Tit song published today - epic work led by @nilomr.bsky.social with help from @andreaestandia.bsky.social Ella Cole & Sara Keen. Why did we do this, and what did we find? 🧵 follows: 1/n www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A mammoth circus of macabre fantasy and moral bankruptcy. I got my views on mammoths down. Enjoy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Very excited to see my research featured in Nature Africa! 🐆📸🎙️ We used a combo of #cameratraps and #bioacoustics to demonstrate that leopards have individually identifiable roars! @wildcru.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @uniexecec.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d44...

BEHOLD THE FLAGSHIP PAPER OF MY PHD! 🚢 I trained wild and zoo housed Guinea baboons to pull a lever for peanuts to test whether they monitored the foraging skills of others and used the information to inform their social choices 🧵 (1/9) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

New paper! Humpback song evolution in the waters of Okinawa. Great to see this out, another #MSc_MMS_St_A Marine Mammal Science MSc thesis published 🥳 congratulations to Ella and Nozomi. 🐋🦑🧪 tl;dr:

Are you looking out for a #PhD on #seabirds? *New* competition-funded project to understand and share biologging data to reduce consenting risk from offshore wind farms. Exciting collaboration with @olliepadget.bsky.social and @naturalengland.bsky.social (1/3)