Victoria’s riflebirds are masters of time, accelerating their dance tempo by reducing the durations between movements by just 50 milliseconds, before leveling off at 3 alternations per second and flashing their yellow mouth. Read more about this spectacular dance here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Amazing riflebirds! We did not dare to write that males 'mesmerize' females with their spectacular displays, but .... judge yourself! Photo by Thomas MacGillavry www.cell.com/current-biol... @thomasmacgillavry.bsky.social @klivvvienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

I am looking for an intern to work with captive crows this winter semester. Please feel free to share, or contact me if interested !

New paper led by Andrew Katsis @klf-univienna.bsky.social Good guardian, bad parent: tradeoffs between territory defense and parental care in Darwin’s finches url: academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

Textbook recommendation? Dear #biology bsky: a philisopher friend of mine is looking for accessible textbooks on basic concepts in ecology, and is esp. interested in co-evolution and symbiosis. If you have brilliant materials to share/books to recommend, that would be great!

@behaveco.bsky.social was very busy and had a great time this week at #ibac2025, with 2 posters and 3 talks @biologen.bsky.social, @damaris-riedner.bsky.social, @karina-stampe.bsky.social

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Thank you to everyone at #ibac2025 for this amazing conference. I met so many great people and learned a lot about so many interesting projects. Excited to see you all again some time! And proud that my poster got the student poster price ☺️ stay tuned for the publication!

Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice. 👇 New paper by the ENES Bioacoustics Research Team in @currentbiology.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1llMH3QW8S...

In bioacoustics, our methods matter. Using different machine learning techniques for caller ID can lead to conflicting results, making it hard to compare studies. A new preprint asks: which analysis pipeline is the most reliable? 📈 Find more at: www.behavioural-ecology-group.com/same-data-di...

Yay bioacousticians all around! <3 Come see me at the #IBAC session tomorrow - or anytime for coffee/bikes!

Postdoc advertisement! Hi all, I'm looking to hire a Postdoc in BIOACOUSTICS for work on Owls. Your job would be to collect & analyze bioacoustics data, and write papers. 🦉🦉🦅🐦🦜🦉🦉

Super happy that our paper on offspring provisioning in communal breeding Smooth-billed Anis is out in @animbehsociety.bsky.social 🥳 Excellent undergrad work by Ashley Grew @queensuniv.bsky.social & Labiqah Iftikhar @uwaterloo.ca, who scored 100s of hours of video to find out that…1/3

Amazing! Full article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper out today with Asaf Zorea : "Domain-general noise reduction for time-series signals with Noisereduce" (open access)! We present Noisereduce, a lightweight Python library for denoising signals. Read the paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Code (library): github.com/timsainb/noi...

Thank you #behaviour2025 for hosting my talk on overimitation in dogs, the topic of ManyDogs 2! 🐶 @manydogsproject.bsky.social We are collecting data now in dog labs across the world! Email [email protected] / check out our website below to join! manydogsproject.github.io/manydogs2.html

Personality predicts collective behavior in greylag geese: influencers are bold and followers are exploratory | doi.org/10.1016/j.is... | iScience | #ornithology 🪶

An important issue recently noticed: bats versus electric vehicles? "Sounds of silence: electric mobility promises a quieter soundscape for wildlife, but may challenge ultrasonically sensitive species globally" https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.10.664227 #bats #bioacoustics #animalbehaviour #evs […]

The first paper of my PhD is out! Looking at the plasticity of antipredator behaviour in ravens using a slightly... unorthodox predator. "When to mob? Plasticity of antipredator behavior in common ravens’ families (Corvus corax) across offspring development" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

If you are interested in bird behaviour or animal brains, our book has you covered. Available next week, you can order direct from @mitpress.bsky.social (mitpress.mit.edu/978026255273...) or wherever books are sold. #birds #neuroskyence 🪶🧠🧪🇨🇦 See more on it here: www.ulethbridge.ca/unews/articl...

Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job

What life history and behavioral traits predict female bird song at a global scale? Our collaborative paper let by Karan Odom and out today in @natcomms.nature.com helps to answer that question @josephtobias.bsky.social @sheardcat.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So many thank yous to @nickjourjine.bsky.social (literally, read the blog post) and @daliao.bsky.social for giving @tessarhinehart.bsky.social and me the opportunity to teach the bootcamp Repo here if you're curious: github.com/vocalpy/acou... #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

Hey friends in bioacoustics & acoustic communication: I am (finally) sharing this post on the new version of @vocalpy.bsky.social I released after teaching a bootcamp with @tessarhinehart.bsky.social at the @nmac2024.bsky.social last year blog.vocalpy.org/posts/2025-0... #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

Exciting new venue for publishing these close replications!! Woohoo! Love this idea and project, Kate! #ABS2025 #BreakingNews

Hi everyone, happy to share with all of you the paper from the second chapter of my PhD, where we show that more exploratory birds use a broader foraging niche, linking consistent behavior with ecological flexibility. I hope you can enjoy it and share it!!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

interesting study on ravens' mobbing shows plasticity of antipredator behavior across offspring development! Led by alumna @silviadamini.bsky.social at Bugnyar lab ! link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-025-01976-9 🪶 👍 #womenSTEM

🚨JOB alert🚨 Full-time Managing Editor role for @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour. Applicants must have animal #behaviour background; previous editorial experience would be ideal. Apply by 31st July 2025. #publishing #editor #job More details: www.asab.org/opportunities PLEASE share widely.

🐾 Just out & open access! Exploring Animal Behavior Through Sound, Vol. 2 🎶 From insects to elephants and whales—how animals use & are affected by sound. Thanks to Christiane Erbe & all co-authors (me included)! 👉 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

✨Exciting news✨ 📢 We are delighted to announce two conference attendance grant opportunities by IUBS and The Company of Biologists for students and early career researchers keen to attend and present at Behaviour 2025! Support: Upto Rs. 50,000 or 500 Euros

New genomic research suggests Çatalhöyük was a female-centered society. The discovery builds on past archaeological theories and evidence like this "mother goddess" statue. 🏺🧪

New! "Bacpipe: a tool to compare bioacoustic machine learning methods" https://bioacousticai.eu/bacpipe-a-tool-to-compare-bioacoustic-machine-learning-methods/ A new way to visualise how deep learning is analysing animal sounds, by Vincent Kather. #bioacoustics

New preprint on morphological and cultural divergence in Darwin's cactus finches in two Galapagos Islands. Led by Melanie Kaluppa, with @jeffersongl.bsky.social @alperyelimlies.bsky.social @klf-univienna.bsky.social #ornithology #bioacoustics #prattle www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very happy to share the latest from my postdoc‬! 10 yrs of mouse social networks + 1.25 yrs of acoustic data ➡️ insight into vocalization & sociality in a wild population of your favorite lab model 🐁 paper: bit.ly/4n93yyD data: bit.ly/4lfFBEk code: bit.ly/4kNnMwx #bioacoustics #neuroskyence 1/8

🔊🐦🎵Very happy to share our new preprint*: Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) males sing using individual isochronous rhythms and maximise rhythmic dissimilarity with neighbours. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... *and my 1st post-doc paper with @humboldt-foundation.de

You might have heard that psychology has a WEIRD problem. Though it aims to understand human minds, many of its studies have historically been skewed towards WEIRD minds. In this 🚨NEW PAPER🚨, @kristinandrews.bsky.social and I argue that comparative cognition also has a WEIRD problem. 👇🧵 1/17

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti... a nice article on aggression and urbanization featuring our study @caglarakcay.bsky.social @klf-univienna.bsky.social

Exited about our first dynamic map of Adelaide's warblers' dawn chorus! Males sing many song types (colors & numbers) from the tops of tall trees in their territories. Here, you can see how they match one anothers' song types, causing songs 8, 3, 9, 21, and 5 to spread around the neighbourhood.

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🦉 hoot's there? @malavika-m.bsky.social et al. use differences in population density (PD) of Little Owl to compare territorial calls from high PD areas and low They extract call freq contours + align w/ dynamic time warp -> higher individuality scores in high PD areas! 😱 #prattle #bioacoustics

🌧️📱 rain calls 📱🌧️ Cool study in @behavecol.bsky.social from Framond et al. (Brumm lab, @mpiforbi.bsky.social) of a poorly understood chaffinch call type Based on playbacks + field studies they conclude these are female-directed alarm calls academic.oup.com/beheco/artic... #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

Our paper on brain size evolution in birds of paradise was recently accepted! In brief: •BoPs have big brains, comparable to those of medium-sized corvids •Neither absolute nor relative brain size appears to have co-evolved with display complexity doi.org/10.1093/orni...

Did you know that riflebirds are the only known bird with “double jointed” wrists? It’s a nice example of how sexual selection can mess with the bodies of males (and females) to accommodate unusual displays Read more about these spectacular displays here: doi.org/10.1093/biol...

The last of a 20+ year long collaboration with Csaba Moskat; now in open access at Animal Cognition: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Just got our preprint AIexplained to me by one of those LLM companies, presenting our discussion as their “novel idea”. Ridiculous…

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...

1/2 The game of Balinese macaques In Bali, macaques play a game where they cover their eyes with objects to challenge themselves to overcome difficult tasks (pirouettes or walking stairs), and attract the attention of others to play (paper) link.springer.com/article/10.1... v @zewaldj.bsky.social‬

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