🌍🦋 Across 6 continents, 21 sites & 15,000 paper moths, we joined a worldwide experiment led by @wlallen.bsky.social & Iliana Medina, showing how ecological context shapes the evolution of animal colouration. Proud to be part of this global team effort: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

New preprint out from the lab, including @rroyaute.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... In this we test what we refer to as the "standard model" of behavioral variation. This was inspired by recent work identifying intra-genotypic variation as a major contributor to "individuality". 1/

New paper, led by Camille Bordes: Social network dynamics under experimental manipulations of predation risk and food abundance in wild rock hyraxes besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper, led by Camille Bordes: Social network dynamics under experimental manipulations of predation risk and food abundance in wild rock hyraxes

Crazy discovery in ants 🤯🐜 One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants | Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41... "Males from the same mother exhibit distinct genomes and morphologies, as they belong to species that diverged over 5 million years ago."

A 40C degrees day is perfect for checking some trail cameras in the Judean Desert with @otter-guy.bsky.social

🐒🕸️ New preprint! Confused about how to model animal social networks? ASNA can be confusing—but also full of opportunity. We break down 5 common misunderstandings in animal social network analysis and share solutions from behavioural ecology, anthro, stats, & network science. Hope it helps! A 🧵

We have a new paper out in @cp-iscience.bsky.social reporting that more socially integrated female chimpanzees have lower offspring mortality 🧪 #evosky #primates #primatology #anthropology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New in #ProcB - Early-life paternal relationships predict adult female survival in wild baboons - find out more about the study from the authors #Behaviour @archielab.bsky.social‬ royalsociety.org/blog/2025/06...

been a long time coming, there's now a preprint along with Will Hoppitt describing our new R package for creating, fitting and interpreting bayesian NBDA models (STBayes). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Documentation is here michaelchimento.github.io/STbayes/inde...

New paper in @behavecol.bsky.social (link: academic.oup.com/beheco/advan...) led by PhD student @marcofele.bsky.social using hard-won data from our amazing baboon team. Our @swanseauni.bsky.social press release: www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office... We introduce the idea of a "social spandrel".....

Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)

1/3 Chimpanzees combine their vocalizations to create new meanings. They have studied more than 4000 sequences of 53 chimpanzees from Taï (Côte d'Ivoire), and analyzed how combinations (16) of two vocalizations change their function. (paper) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our latest superb starling work in @nature.com. We observe long-term reciprocal helping relationships, and suggest reciprocity is an underappreciated mechanism promoting the stability of cooperatively breeding societies. Led by Alexis Earl and @gerrycarter.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully. You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers. Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.

Really excited that our DFG grant on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size variation in *Heliconius* has been funded :) In the next weeks, I will post an advert for a PhD, but if you know of good students, please suggest they get in touch. Please repost.

I wrote about how population stratification in genetic analyses led to a decade of false findings and almost certainly continues to bias emerging results. But we are starting to have statistical tools to sniff it out. A 🧵:

1/35 New paper out! @jamesTstroud and I dive into why long-term studies are crucial for understanding evolution. They reveal processes impossible to detect in short timescales and capture rare events that transform our understanding of evolutionary dynamics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Postdoc fellowships in Israel: azrielifoundation.org/fellows/inte...

Friends! The science that we love is under threat. World-wide, there're forces seeking to make it corporate-like, focused on deliverables, or even the enemy of society. Take a stand & celebrate science & music! #theconferencetoendallconferences - Registration starts NOW! woodstock.img.cas.cz

FINE starts again next week with exciting free online seminars. In its 10th season we will hear about whales, parental care, neuroethology, aging, group-living lizards and much more!

It was a good hyrax day near the Sea of Galilee

IT'S HAPPENING! The Woodstock of Biology 2.0 meets Night Science @nightsciencepod.bsky.social 10-13 of June in Prague & the Woods of Bohemia... Be there or be REJECTED. #theconferencetoendallconferences

Long-term ecological #research projects apart from being highly demanding, it deserves extra respect from the scientific community; funding agencies should consider the benefits of such projects #ecology #science #nature #evolution @ipbes.bsky.social @esci.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Scientists - consider writing up your research for Frontiers for Young Minds (if you are brave enough to face kid reviewers 😉). Here's how: kids.frontiersin.org/participate/... Like Liza Fazio! @lkfazio.bsky.social Or Yann LeCun! @ylecun.bsky.social kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

3-year Postdoc Position Join our team @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social and investigate the dynamics of seasonal songbird migration using biologging technologies See details here: bit.ly/3ZojW38 Please get in touch if interested & share with anyone else who might be!

Exciting new NERC funded PhD opportunity available with us on #killerwhale #orca #behaviour and #conservation, co-supervised by Stephanie King, Sam Ellis and Dan Franks in partnership with The Center for Whale Research USA exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... - deadline 13th January 2025 #killerwhale

A nice example of hyrax tusks

Come do a PhD with Sinead English @englishse.bsky.social , Dan Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social and me on Gulls! GPS- and Bluetooth-tracking! Microbiomes & AMR acquisition & transmission! Human-wildlife conflict & mitigation! should be fun :-)

New NERC DTP PhD opportunity on social networks and demography in Soay sheep with me, Dan Nussey, Amy Sweeny and others (Autumn 2025 start). Apply by January 6th. Project and application details: e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...

Took a break from grant writing to visit the nearest rock hyrax group, but they were occupied with a "guest"

All enthusiasts of #ethology #cognition #ecology #evolution #biodiversity have you been to the #Behaviour2025 website? Check out our stellar list of speakers behaviourindia2025.in/speaker.html. Pre-register now. Mark your calendars and make plans to visit #India!

Homophily in social and demographic traits predict association patterns in female western and mountain gorillas royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1...

* NEW #PhD * #Evolution #Ecology of Immune #Senesence in Wild Badgers - exciting project with me, @btschirren.bsky.social & our awesome collaborators @ APHA. Based at @exetercec.bsky.social in Cornwall, UK. !PLEASE SHARE! See www.animalsocieties.org and apply: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🌏 🧪 🦑

Job alert: academic staff member in animal behavior at the University of Konstanz. Topic: Investigating remote tag attachment mechanisms for wild primates Deadline: December 6th 2024 stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/7...

Behaviors and reproductive characteristics may evolve faster than other traits, thanks to the genetic effects of social interactions doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Francesca Santostefano, Maria Moiron, Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar, and David N Fisher

What is lost with the loss of our oldest, wisest, and largest animals www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Any scientists🧪 trying to get a grant proposal in soon & want some next-level Broader Impacts? We've been part of 11 funded NSF proposals in the 3yrs since I founded GP. Let's work together to connect your research to students & create high quality FREE lessons for all! 👇

From the archive (March 2023):

Just published: I wrote an article for kids about animal sociality in Frontiers for Young Minds: kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

It's published 🎊 with a powerful quote from Woese: “Science is an endless search for truth. Any representation of reality we develop can be only partial. There is no finality....There is only deeper understanding, more revealing and enveloping representations.” 2004 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A Lesser mouse-tailed bat at our field site in Ein Gedi

We are looking for a new colleague to join our EEB group at IU.

Interested in a 3-year postdoc fellowship to study neotropical bat behavior with me at @stri_panama? If so, email me. Deadline July 15 stri.si.edu/nomis

We are looking for an Associate or Full Professorship in Behavioral Biology to join our Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich and become a key member of the dynamic research community at the Kalahari Research Centre. Details and application👇

Our new OA article is out in Behavioral Ecology! Tracking juvenile great tits across their first year of life, we document the dynamic changes in social strategies during transition to independence in a species with limited parental care. (1/2) doi.org/10.1093/behe...

New paper!! "By casting the female brain as the central selective agent, Inferred Attractiveness captures novel & dynamic aspects of sexual selection & reconciles inconsistencies between mate choice theory and observed behavior" doi.org/10.1371/jour... @emilyhduval.bsky.social @servedio.bsky.social

A symposium on sensory evolution and ecology at U Chicago this November, supported by @asn-amnat.bsky.social voices.uchicago.edu/trevorpricel... Please spread the word, this looks like a great event!

Wild jackdaws can selectively adjust their social associations while preserving valuable long-term relationships www.nature.com/articles/s41...