#PhD position! Comparing #foraging and #cognition in #hummingbirds and #bumblebees Fieldwork in the Canadian Rockies, lab experiments at @newcastleuni.bsky.social, and ecological modelling at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social Details (including my email) here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

🎇✨Congratulations Prof. Susan Healy, our 2027 Research Award recipient (Uni. St Andrews, UK). A symposium + banquet will honor her contributions at the 2027 conference & a special issue will be published March 2028: 'In Honour of the Contributions of Susan Healy' #WomenInSTEM

PLEASE SHARE 🚨🚨 6-month RA position available at the Univ. of St Andrews to work with Sue Healy (@cogwild.bsky.social), Simone Meddle (@simonemeddle.bsky.social) and I on the behavioural neuroendocrinology of early reproduction in zebra finches. tinyurl.com/577cx9tj Deadline: 03/12/2025 ⬇️

🚨New PDRA position available at the Healy Lab🚨 Project on avian nest construction. Duties will include conducting behavioural experiments with zebra finches on nest building. Post available for 24 months starting ASAP. Closing date 18 March www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

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These birds build together and together they show an architectural style www.nytimes.com/2024/08/29/c... @mariatelloramos.bsky.social

And if you want the tl;dr, NPR did a pretty cool piece on this work 😉: www.npr.org/2024/08/29/n...

Congratulations to Maria Tello-Ramos, Sue Healy, and team for a BEAUTIFUL paper on weaver bird nest building and cultural traditions. This is one for the textbooks! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The book is finally out! "Provides a comprehensive overview of the work that has sought to explain which natural selection pressures impact vertebrate brain size" global.oup.com/academic/pro...