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Cognitive and Behavioral Ecology Lab
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Lynda Delph
12 days ago
Today the members of the Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior graduate program at Indiana University celebrated the upcoming retirement of Dr. Ellen Ketterson. Ellen was a bastion of civility and scientific excellence. The program would not be what it is without her presence over these past decades.
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Just some snow coming to our high elevation field site next week, just as we were preparing to test our chickadees. Now we have to take a short break before 'diving' into all that snow.
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Johanna Mappes
11 days ago
Thrilled to announce a Postdoc opportunity in our group on the evolutionary genetics and ecology of colour. Wonderful system, great collaborators, and room to shape your own ideas. Apply by 7 Jan:
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...
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Journal of Animal Ecology
15 days ago
🪹 In new research, Vatka et al. investigated how changing food abundance affects evolutionary potential of offsprings’ body size traits in two woodland passerines. 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️
buff.ly/bXGpbPC
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Postdoctoral Scholar, Biology
The University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) appreciates your interest in employment at our growing institution. We want your application process to go smoothly and quickly. Final applications must be submitt...
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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).
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about 2 months ago
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Journal of Avian Biology
24 days ago
NEW PAPER: how bird diets and gut microbiomes shape each other: synthesizing how diet drives microbiome shifts, how microbes may steer diet choices, and outlining key questions and methods for studying diet–microbiome links. ➡️
vist.ly/4gjuw
#ornithology
#birds
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NL Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW
about 1 month ago
New publication: Phenological Plasticity and Its
#Temperature-Related
Drivers in Common
#Songbirds
Across Europe.
#climatechange
#phenology
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
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Winter field work as usual
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The American Genetic Association
about 1 month ago
Modular genetics drives behavioral diversity in this iconic species. Paper here:
doi.org/10.1093/jher...
Corresponding author:
scholar.google.com/c...
#JHered
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EvolDir
about 1 month ago
The University of Miami seeks a Robert E. Maytag Chair of Ornithology, an Associate/Professor role for renowned avian researchers. Apply by Jan 10, 2026. More info:
https://www.biology.as.miami.edu
.
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Department of Biology | College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Biology | College of Arts and Sciences
https://www.biology.as.miami.edu
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Andreas Nord
about 2 months ago
I am recruting a
#postdoc
for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in
@erc.europa.eu
project
#HotLife
. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇
shorturl.at/WA1Qa
Would appreciate a re-post!
@evoldir.bsky.social
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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).
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about 2 months ago
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Ben Sheldon
2 months ago
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...
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Michael Reichert
2 months ago
Oklahoma State Department of Biology is hiring an assistant professor in comparative biology (very broadly defined)! We have a great department, come join us. And please spread the word.
jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor of Biology - Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States
Campus OSU-Stillwater Contact Name & Email Dr. Michael Reichert,
[email protected]
Work Schedule TBD Appointment Length Regular Continuous/Until Further Notice Hiring Range $85,000 - $8...
https://jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/assistant-professor-of-biology-stillwater-oklahoma-united-states
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2 months ago
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Devi Satarkar
2 months ago
New preprint! 🪶 We analysed 60 years of data on 83,000+ great tits to show how extreme climate impacts on nestling growth and survival are stage-specific and context-dependent 🐣 🌍🔥❄️ With
@davididiaquez.bsky.social
@iremsepil.bsky.social
@sheldonbirds.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Elli Leadbeater
2 months ago
Selection Shapes Animal Minds: In our next highlighted talk recording, Johan Lind explores sequences and animal intelligence
youtu.be/BnjO7-glLOY
@royalsocietypublishing.org
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Sequences and animal intelligence
YouTube video by Selection shapes diverse animal minds
https://youtu.be/BnjO7-glLOY
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PLOS Biology
2 months ago
@sonjawild.bsky.social
@galarconnieto.bsky.social
&
@lucymaplin.bsky.social
show that young
#GreatTits
, which have limited
#ParentalCare
, learn to solve a foraging
#puzzle
socially, but rather than parents, siblings & non-parental adults are preferred role models
@plosbiology.org
🧪
plos.io/46JZn6n
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Sonja Wild
3 months ago
Out today in
@plosbiology.org
(1/5) Siblings and non-parental adults provide alternative pathways to cultural inheritance in juvenile great tits 🐦🧩 Link to study:
10.0.5.91/journal.pbio...
Co-authors:
@lucymaplin.bsky.social
@galarconnieto.bsky.social
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New paper from the lab by Angela Pitera (last chapter of her PhD dissertation!) showing that food-caching chickadees rely on their own spatial memory when learning a spatial task and not on social learning.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Social group membership does not facilitate spatial learning of fine-scale resource locations - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
While many animals use social information to discover novel food sources, the importance of social information availability in the process of learning and remembering specific, fine-scale resource locations remains unclear. Benefits of using social information may vary with an individual’s ability to learn and remember resource locations and environmental conditions. We experimentally tested whether animals use social information from group mates to find and learn resource locations using wild, food-caching mountain chickadees (Poecile gambeli). We tested spatial learning and memory performance by tasking birds with learning the location of one rewarding feeder out of eight using two treatments: (1) birds in the same social group shared the same feeder and (2) social group members had to learn different feeders. We found no evidence that access to social information from close social associates facilitates spatial learning and memory as there were no differences in performance between treatments. Most chickadees used personal information to find their feeder, but there were low and similar rates of social information transmission for both treatments. Our results suggest that chickadees use social information from conspecifics regardless of group membership or familiarity but primarily rely on independent learning and personal information when foraging in a familiar area.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-025-03655-8
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My take on the amazing paper by Hanna Payne and Dmitriy Aronov on activation of hippocampal place codes by gaze in food-caching chickadees.
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APA PsycNet
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-68156-001
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Gabrielle Davidson
3 months ago
📢🚨Please share! We’re hiring! 📢🚨Have a strong interests in wildlife ecology and gut microbiome bioinformatics? 3 year Senior Research Associate for NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant. Apply here:
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18...
. Informal enquiries welcome!
drgldavidson.github.io/ACMEresearch
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Elli Leadbeater
3 months ago
Selection Shapes Animal Minds: More completely free videos of talks from our Royal Society Discussion meeting last year. Today's highlighted talk: Dr Zegni Triki (Neuchatel)
@zegnitriki.bsky.social
@royalsocietypublishing.org
@cornishjackdaws.bsky.social
youtu.be/WQLjnfhSyD4?...
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The fish challenge to vertebrate cognitive evolution
YouTube video by Selection shapes diverse animal minds
https://youtu.be/WQLjnfhSyD4?feature=shared
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Elli Leadbeater
3 months ago
Selection Shapes Animal Minds: next up in our highlighted talks from last year's Royal Society Discussion Meeting is Michael Sheehan (Cornell) talking about pop gen approaches to the evolution of cognition
youtu.be/VIlSj5lwSMQ
@cornishjackdaws.bsky.social
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Mutational origins and selection dynamics of cognitive traits in animals
YouTube video by Selection shapes diverse animal minds
https://youtu.be/VIlSj5lwSMQ
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Elizabeth Hobson
3 months ago
Congratulations Dr. Sanjay Prasher (recent Hobson Lab PhD) on a new publication! We explored how memory, attention, and social preferences affected social plasticity, using an agent-based modeling approach.
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
(or message me if you want a pdf!)
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Lauren Whitenack
4 months ago
Do you like baby birds? Fun photos and stories about chickadees in my latest guest post at Wing Beat, the blog of the
@amornith.bsky.social
. This post accompanies our recent paper on postnatal dispersal and recruitment in mountain chickadees 🪶
americanornithology.org/hatch-early-...
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Hatch early and eat well: Patterns of juvenile dispersal and recruitment in Mountain Chickadees from a long-term study - American Ornithological Society
Being a fledgling is difficult—and dangerous. The vast majority (~80 percent) of young birds do not survive this stage, succumbing to predation or starvation. What might give a vulnerable fledgling a ...
https://americanornithology.org/hatch-early-and-eat-well-patterns-of-juvenile-dispersal-and-recruitment-in-mountain-chickadees/
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EvolDir
4 months ago
The Smithsonian's NMNH is accepting applications for various fellowships for graduate students and postdocs. Projects using NMNH resources are encouraged. For details:
https://fellowships.si.edu/SIFP
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Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP)
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https://fellowships.si.edu/SIFP
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Scott Taylor
4 months ago
🦜🐣🦢🦉🦃🦤🦩🪶 Can’t wait to share this with everyone!
add a skeleton here at some point
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Nice blog by
@laurenwhitenack.bsky.social
about her recent paper on phenological flexibility in mountain chickadees.
communities.springernature.com/posts/mounta...
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Mountain chickadees are flexible in their breeding timing - but early breeding is best
Animals living in highly variable or changing environments face a challenge: each year, conditions during the reproductive season may be different. Do animals such as mountain chickadees living in har...
https://communities.springernature.com/posts/mountain-chickadees-are-flexible-in-their-breeding-timing-but-early-breeding-is-best?utm_source=digest_mailer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_digest
4 months ago
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José Cerca
4 months ago
The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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ecoevojobs.net 2025-26
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New paper from the lab by
@laurenwhitenack.bsky.social
Breeding phenology and clutch size were repeatable within individuals, but no strong evidence for clear benefits of phenotypic plasticity in response to climatic variation.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Individual repeatability and plasticity of reproductive phenology in a resident montane bird - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Phenological plasticity involves the ability of organisms to adjust the timing of life history events such as reproduction in response to different environmental conditions. Global climate change can ...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-025-03629-w
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Jennifer N. Phillips
4 months ago
WSU biology is hiring a vertebrate ecologist!
wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...
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Assistant Professor
Online applications must be received before 11:59pm on: September 14, 2025 If a date is not listed above, review the Applicant Instructions below for more details. Available Title(s): 270-NN_FACULTY -...
https://wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jobs/job/Pullman-WA/Assistant-Professor_R-13692
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American Naturalist / ASN 🐌
4 months ago
Using long-term data from individually marked songbirds, Vatka et al. discovered that breeding time trends are not attributed to an evolutionary change but phenotypic plasticity. Read now!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Dissecting Factors Behind Temporal Trends in the Timing of Breeding in Two Songbird Species—Evolutionary Change or Phenotypic Plasticity? | The American Naturalist
Abstract Warming climate has led to significant phenological advances in many plant and animal populations. Whether these advances represent evolutionary responses or phenotypic plasticity remain typi...
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/737024
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Assistant Professor, Neurobiology - Reno, Nevada (US) job with University of Nevada, Reno - College of Science | 674336
The Department of Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno, is looking for a tenure-track assistant professor to join us starting July 1, 2026. We...
https://jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/674336/assistant-professor-neurobiology/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMHTKhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHnGRT4kKTfEEjC5G6GlJnKj15HO43DGFjhGU-gRoDuIN50CcqocZb8rVlT6I_aem_BRXuh3TNZAOwRjVgSmKfGA
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Mike Moore
5 months ago
🚨🚨 New tenure track position in
#ConservationBiology
@oberlincollege.bsky.social
in the
#Biology
department--come join us, and contribute to our brand new Environmental Science major too!
#biologyjobs
#ecologyjobs
jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/16671
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Assistant Professor of Biology
The Biology Department at Oberlin College invites applications for a full-time tenure track faculty position in the College of Arts and Sciences in conservation ecology. Initial appointment to this po...
https://jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/16671
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Dr Mark E Hauber
5 months ago
Animal Cognition job at Hunter College CUNY:
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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Jobs | City University of New York
https://cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/assistant-professor-animal-cognition-primate-cognition-or-animal-welfare-psychology-department/CA8997A2295A4E588577B882ACBFD42A/job/
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Adult mountain chickadees are molting heavily - but juveniles look much ‘cleaner’
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It’s that time of the year again - nutcrackers are going after pine cones
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New paper from the lab by
@jwelklin.bsky.social
In mountain chickadees, there is positive assortment by age in pairing, but such assortment appears due to pair longevity rather than active mate choice based on age.
academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
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Social pairing in the absence of reproductive senescence in a socially monogamous songbird
Older, more experienced individuals may make better mates than young, inexperienced individuals, but reproductive ability often declines in old ages. Mount
https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article-abstract/36/4/araf083/8210173?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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Jenny Coomes
5 months ago
New publication! 🚨 If you're looking for a paper on what great tits eat then this is for you! 🦋🐛🐞🪲🐦 We looked at variation in diet using DNA metabarcoding and found lots of differences between adult and young birds and between habitat types.
@ucc.ie
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Elli Leadbeater
5 months ago
Today's highlighted talk is a great contribution by Arnon Lotem, discussing the evolution of learning mechanisms and their fine-tuning to fit different species' needs
youtu.be/At9uqrPNz5Y
@royalsocietypublishing.org
@cornishjackdaws.bsky.social
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Cognitive evolution: the mechanisms may be simple but their fine-turning may not be
YouTube video by Selection shapes diverse animal minds
https://youtu.be/At9uqrPNz5Y
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈
5 months ago
🧪 CRITICAL UPDATE: The House draft version is now out. ✅ Like the Senate's version, there's no cut to NASA's budget. ❌ There's a 23% proposed cut to NSF's budget. 8-page summary:
appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
Draft bill:
appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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Elli Leadbeater
5 months ago
The next in our series of highlighted talks from our
@royalsocietypublishing.org
discussion meeting on "Selection Shapes Diverse Animal Minds" is by Rob Barton (University of Durham):
youtu.be/tVqgb0PosHw
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What is it like to be an octopus?
YouTube video by Selection shapes diverse animal minds
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