🌴🌞🌊 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...

If the government wants to tackle the "online breeding ground of antisemitism" why on earth are Keir Starmer, the government and @heidialexander.bsky.social still posting on X? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

Interested in a PhD working on sexual selection in tropical shorebirds? I'm recruiting a student for Fall 2027! I'm happy to support an applicant writing a Simons Graduate Fellowship in Ecology & Evolution: www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

We must stand in solidarity with Jews being attacked by antisemitic criminals and terrorists: no ifs or buts. We must stand in solidarity with Palestinians being murdered by the Israeli government: no ifs or buts. These are not contradictory positions. They are consistent ones. 🧵1/5

🚨FULLY FUNDED PHD POSITION!🚨 If you are interested in trying to answer the question of "How did climate shape the movements, interactions, and evolution of hominin populations?" Come join my lab at @humanorigins.bsky.social 🧬🧪 deadline 7th of June ⬇️ uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

You are interested in evolutionary ecology and quantitative genetics. You enjoy fieldwork and birds. Join our laboratory and our international team. csee-scee.ca/job/fully-fu...

We are looking for two Research Assistants to conduct experiments and data analyses investigating the neural mechanisms of strategic and social decision-making using head-fixed (1) and freely-moving (1) behavioural paradigms in mice. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

We're excited to welcome @elliescerri.bsky.social for the next MENDLS lecture - 06.05.26 at the Uni of Liverpool. If you're around, please join us - see poster for details and sign up. @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social @jblinkhorn.bsky.social @phoebebakerrr.bsky.social @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social

My supervisor Kano is advertising multiple open positions! Check out the doc :) Open Positions @ Kyushu Univ (Kano Lab) Postdoc / Tech staff / PhD-MSc Eye-gaze & social cognition (exp + field + CV) 🎥 youtu.be/rXT-yjQzJxU 📁 docs.google.com/document/d/1... @animalopps.bsky.social

Submit your proposal! Contributions will explore empirical evidence, methodological challenges, and statistical frameworks for detecting and interpreting rate variation over time. Proposal deadline: 1 May 2026. Articles due Oct 2026. Methods in Ecology and Evolution ➡️ https://ow.ly/Qqvu50YMBSz

New paper alert! Facially expressive people are more popular when strangers meet in group settings, supporting the hypothesis that facial expression has evolved to form and maintain social connections. Alisa Balabanova's PhD with @eithnekavanagh.bsky.social and Tom Kupfer rdcu.be/ffBQi

This was really well done and worth a watch.

2026. Mammal Responses to Habitat Degradation Induced by Cashew Expansion in West Africa. [In West Africa, Guinea-Bissau has lost 77% of its closed-canopy forest over the last 25 years mostly due to the expansion of cashew monoculture] zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

April 22nd 2026 is our 11 year Chimp&See anniversary!  Check out our anniversary post here: www.zooniverse.org/projects/sas...

Looks like a useful way of detecting trait coevolution in both genetic and cultural phylogenies. Also, we are truly lucky to be living in a time when methods papers come with free R packages, rather than having to order it on a floppy disk that arrives in the post.

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us: 🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦 Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆29th May deadline More info: tinyurl.com/yz28s96x Apply: tinyurl.com/2wpkb64y #cognition #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #birds 🙏Please Share

Not a secret anymore! I am extremely proud and happy to present you the EVApeCognition Dataset, out now in Scientific Data. Over the last 5 years we have assembled and standardized data from 150 studies on great ape cognition from the WKPRC in the Leipzig Zoo! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For millions of years the traits of predators and prey have dictated their interactions. In the Anthropocene, humans are altering these traits. In @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social, we explore how human-induced traits shifts reshape predator-prey interactions. tinyurl.com/TREEshifts

Things I thought I’d never say - here’s a new manuscript of cockroach and rat collective intelligence. We argue group-level intelligence can emerge from very different mechanisms—from simple local rules to socially mediated cooperation and learning: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

PLS RT📣 Two Postdoc jobs at #mpaib with Serena Ding on collective behavior of worms (Never seen a "wormuration"? That's them in green) 🪱 social dynamics of collective dispersal: bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/2... 🪱 sensory ecology of worm towers: bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/7...

There is a fully-funded PhD position at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology to pursue dissertation research among the Mayangna of Nicaragua, expanding a longitudinal study of subsistence strategies and behavioral ecology. Please share the posting! www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...

Thrilled to be awarded a @leverhulme.ac.uk Research Project Grant! We’ll investigate how primates use facial expressions to construct mental representations of their social world. Jobs coming soon, watch this space: 3-year postdoc + PhD position available 👀

Happy Avril 14th to those who celebrate: youtu.be/uxTdTaNIUxo?...

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Meet Crinkle, an excellently named monkey and the first Barbary macaque to have their whole genome sequenced. We hope this is a big step forward in the conservation of the species: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @shump.bsky.social @plasticprimates.bsky.social

Two great postdoc opportunities with @eesaupe.bsky.social in Oxford on macroecology/extinction/conservation through a paleobiological lens

Out now and led by the impeccable GJ Jeunen: a new way to squeeze #eDNA sequences from preserved natural samplers! NO need to damage the old specimens: just take out the DNA leached into the ethanol! Also: we have a new entry into the #nsDNA world: #bryozoa! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We’re saddened by the passing of Dr Biruté Mary Galdikas, the last of the “Trimates” alongside Jane Goodall & Dian Fossey. Her work transformed our understanding of orangutans, and ourselves. Thank you for your legacy. Learn more: www.cbc.ca/news/science...

2026. World’s oldest dog identified at ancient hunter-gatherer site | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Brilliant research, insightful discovery - and what a FABULOUS COVER PHOTO!

Are you looking for a PhD position, hoping to learn sexual selection theory from one of the true experts in the field? Lehtonen's work is awesome - Look at this and apply! ats.talentadore.com/apply/doctor...

Gulls may facilitate landscape connectivity via nutrient and pathogen transport and deposition. Using GPS tracking, this #RSOS study analysed the foraging movement networks of breeding American #herring and great black-backed #gulls from two colonies: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

New study shows that many animals like the same sounds as we do - suggesting a shared aesthetic sense (further evidence that animals' perceptual worlds are an important part of their welfare experience) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨 The deadline for the ASAB Student video contest is 20th March - you can enter by following this link: asab.org/videos - this is a great way to showcase your research or even an area of animal behaviour that interests you! Plus you could win £100!! 💰💰 @asab.org @asab-meetings.bsky.social

3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama! Three positions, each including salary & a research budget. Applications due April, 15th. DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us! stri.si.edu/academic-pro...

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Many journals require data and code sharing. Yet code is still rarely shared and datasets are often hard to reuse. Our new paper introduces the @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data & code quality control in ecology & evolution, developed by 26 experienced data editors. 📄 doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

The University of Tübingen seeks applications for a W3-Professorship in Experimental Biodiversity Research starting Oct 1, 2027. Apply by April 26, 2026. More info: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/213700. #job

Strathclyde University has a ~£35m deficit Over 100 staff earn > £100k. Vice Chancellor gets package > £400k 6-figure salary group alone represents ~ 40% of deficit Strathclyde's answer isn’t trimming at the top, it’s cutting jobs lower down news.stv.tv/west-central...