The NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program is thrilled to be hosting our annual Wild Animal Welfare Summit! Two and a half days of talks, discussions, and networking among researchers, advocates, and policymakers about how to improve wild animal welfare at scale :)

Beyond paternal care: career stage and reproductive opportunities shape male services in vervet monkeys https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.22.733760v1

I’m beyond excited to share I’ve been awarded a Minerva Fast Track Fellowship by @maxplanck.de to start my research group “Culture and Social Behavior” at @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social! Keep your eyes peeled for a PhD position advertisement coming later this year 🐒 www.ab.mpg.de/1442914/zoe-...

The University of Exeter is not in budget deficit. Yet are proposing to cut 150 academic jobs. This include my job. Please sign and share the petition, write our Vice Chancellor, to your MP, and get the word out about the act of self harm this university is about to commit. c.org/yKcx6Zr29H

Interested in a Postdoc on how brains/ANNs learn and represent visual/semantic concepts in Osaka, Japan? Check out the JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships (up to 2 yr). I'd be happy to host postdocs to come work in my lab at CiNet, Osaka! Info🧵👇 Please repost! #neuroskyence #psychscisky #mlsky 🧠💻 /1

At @scifaw.bsky.social ? Don't miss @janirecas.bsky.social's talk at 10:30 this morning — Associations between judgement bias and other indicators of affective state: a way to advance wild animal welfare science? #SciFAW100

NEW RESEARCH 🔍 #Aging and early life adversity are associated with increased mortality risk. But how similar are they at the molecular level? We investigated #epigenetic profiles across tissues in macaques and you can find the full story in our @science.org article! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Great recognition for the R development team at UoAuckland stats dept. Ross Ihaka & Robert Gentlemen changed the world.... phys.org/news/2026-06...

"Tell Jabba I'll get him his money..."

We are now recruiting for a 3 year NERC-funded postdoc to study the transmission dynamics of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in migratory birds. Based in the Wild Microbiome Lab @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall.

Coverage in the Guardian of our latest publication in Royal Society Open Science, with fantastic collaborators Alan McElligott (@amcell.bsky.social), Christian Nawroth (@goatswhostare.bsky.social), Federico Rossano and Simon Townsend. Paper threaded below! www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

🎓📢 PhD Alert 🎓📢 Three weeks left to apply for the PhD position on maintaining the balance of power in animal societies! www.hu-berlin.de/en/universit... @animalopps.bsky.social

Thrilled to be joining @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. More soon from our chimpanzee and bonobo relatives on the making of cooperation and culture

📣📣 Our annual conference #ABL2026 is here! 💚 Join us on 12 Nov 2026 for a full day exploring "Studying Animal Behaviour in a Changing World" 🔹 FREE & online 🔹 3 stellar plenaries 🔹 Talks & posters on diverse topics 🔹 Global-friendly time zones 🌎 Mark your calendar 📅 and don't miss this #ABL2026!

📰 A team from the University of Geneva, Pasteur Institute and the NCCR Evolving Language shows that virtually all animal species have been vocalizing in a common rhythm for hundreds of millions of years. New article on our website. evolvinglanguage.ch/the-universa...

Scientists analysed the impact of Cyclone Senyar on Indonesia's critically endangered Tapanuli orangutans. They found that the storm’s extreme rainfall in November 2025 resulted in landslides that delivered a severe demographic shock to a species already on the brink of extinction.

The government must treat this as the emergency it is. Our sovereignty, democracy, and the lives of some of those who live here are threatened by a deadly combination of US billionaires, Russian interests and homegrown fascists. Step 1: Get the money out of politics.🧵 bylinetimes.com/2026/06/10/r...

Whale Necropolis, and weird fishes. Glorious chewy carcasses, the real circle of life: ‘we report a vast whale necropolis extending 1,200 km along the floor of the Indian Ocean, comprising 5 modern whale-fall communities and 476 fossil cetaceans.’ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Now updated to include a third tab that covers using mixed-effects Cox Proportional Hazards models for hypothesis testing (and various visualization options). tpavlic.github.io/topic_visual...

new diamond open-access Journal of Statistical Ecology launched 🎉🎉🎉 jse.centre-mersenne.org @fredbarraquand.bsky.social @oaggimenez.bsky.social @marieaugermethe.bsky.social @vianeylb.bsky.social (apologies to any Bsky editors I missed)

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Brown plumages are social signals that reduce aggression towards young seabirds! doi.org/10.1016/j.an... Out now in @asab.org Animal Behaviour, ft. real gulls, plastic gulls Led by amazing undergrad Molly Hill, Lily Fanburg, @sdobney.bsky.social, and @dmennill.bsky.social

How do social networks become adaptive? From self-organisation and phase transitions to cultural learning, social networks are shaped by feedback between individual interactions and collective dynamics. Check my new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cattle to get TB vaccine from 2030 under ‘game-changing’ strategy as badger cull nears ends - Eradication attempts have seen many thousands of cattle and badgers killed but the new strategy is a step change, says the government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Learn how to respond to reviewers with confidence. In a recent article from @conphysjournal.bsky.social, members of the editorial team share practical tips for responding to peer review: oxford.ly/3RKFZB5

new, in press: Are individual differences in social behaviour a cause or a consequence of endoparasite infection in feral cattle? www.researchgate.net/publication/... led by @tania-perroux.bsky.social #AnimalBehaviour via @asab.org

New paper! We use simulations to test received wisdom on the observational sampling method to use and find that Altmann 1974 was right all along (never bet against Jeanne!). Focal follows capture rare, fleeting behaviours, scans captures long, common behaviours. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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📢Out now in #ProcB our NEW paper on how #reward inequity can promote production of #publicgoods and #free-riding 👏Congratulations @beckypadget.bsky.social as lead author 👥With #AndyHigginson @royalsocietypublishing.org @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @crab-exeter.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

In 2019 MPs voted on including a Customs Union in the withdrawal agreement. It was defeated 276-273. If 2 MPs had voted the other way it would have passed Among those who voted against were 5 LibDems, including Ed Davey. Why? They didnt want to do anything that helped Corbyn

Our new paper is out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social - about metabolic acclimation to captivity in mole rats (photo by D Kleynhans). You can read it here - journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/.... Males and females respond differently to captivity!

We have a full time permanent technician position open, specialising in fish. Based at the John Krebs Field Station out at Wytham (University of Oxford). @biology.ox.ac.uk my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

Immigration make Britain brilliant

We are deeply grateful to Sir David Attenborough showing his passion for the Taï chimpanzees, supporting them despite them giving him the "most exhausting time of his life". Happy 100th Birthday 🎂 www.taichimpproject.org/media-pr?wix...

Brunel's hiring! We're building up in clinical, with 2 separate full research/teaching lines. One's aimed at early career (Lecturer rank), one's mid-seniorish (Senior Lecturer/Reader). Apply & spread the word! Feel free to reach out with questions SL/Reader here, Lecturer ad in next post

New paper out (Biology Letters, OA): in primates, male-biased size differences are better predicted by between-group competition than by mating system. Time to look beyond the group in studies of sexual selection. doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

interesting new fellowship for people studying child development, available for early-career folk (10 years since PhD, US$300K over 3 years, worldwide eligibility)

Thousands of University of Nottingham staff told they are at risk of redundancy

🌴🌞🌊 We are recruiting 🌊🌞🌴 UCSB seeks a lecturer broadly trained across anthropological fields to teach anthropological approaches to health. More info: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03100 UCSB is an Equal Opportunity Employer Expected salary range: $70,977–$98,249

great to see this published, "Methods in Ecology and Evolution editorial on animal and plant ethics in research. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... all worth reading - by @g-iossa.bsky.social & team. via @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social & @britishecologicalsociety.org

Is bigger always better? For social animals, group size is a dilemma: big groups face more internal competition, yet hold an edge over smaller neighbors. 33 years of data on 12 wild capuchin groups reveals how these forces shape behavior. Out today in *Nat Eco & Evo*: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our recent paper on human-induced trait shifts and predator–prey interactions is on the cover of the May issue of Trends in Ecology & Evolution 😭😵‍💫 The paper is available open access here -> www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Why would we want to learn from our pasts, or ponder the power of the written and spoken word, or explore the deep questions of humanity? According to the University of Hertfordshire, we wouldn't. They've just cut all of our undergrad Humanities programmes

🚨NEW paper today in @royalsocietypublishing.org #ProceedingsB 🔥A slow burner but worth it - CONGRATULATIONS #EmilyBell on #PhD output 📑Limits to behavioural plasticity in tropical paper wasps 👥 #ChrisWyatt #DaisyTaylor @waspwoman.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

2026. The evidence base for ranger patrol effectiveness in conservation and how to improve it. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Thank you all who submitted an abstract for #ECBB2026 in ARU, Cambridge. We received an amazing collection of abstracts and it'll be an exciting programme! Now's the time to register: www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe... @ecbb2026.bsky.social @asab.org @ethoges.bsky.social @spetologia.bsky.social

new, in press: Domestic goats can follow the direction of human voices to solve a hidden-object task scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/publicati...

What is the role of social learning in adopting novel food? Study of urban #cockatoos by @julia-penndorf.bsky.social @clevercockierp.bsky.social &co shows that they rapidly adopt novel food via #SocialLearning, with juveniles showing conformist preferences @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4uq6NVq

Interested in collaborating with our lab? Why not visit? Visitors have published chapters, got new ideas and made new collaborations. At @scienceanu.bsky.social we have much to offer, including joining for cool field work and seeing great wildlife. Details here: sites.google.com/site/drfarin...