Scientists tracking the behavior of nine northern resident orcas off the coast of British Columbia observed the killer whales seemingly coordinating with Pacific white-sided dolphins to hunt salmon. https://wapo.st/4pvoH6R

Landscape factors influencing predation on capercaillie nests by two competing mesopredators: pine marten and red fox vist.ly/4hxz4 #NestPredation #Capercaillie #Marten #Fox

Domestic cat communication. Cool paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join us for our annual lecture on 16 December! We will delve into the wonders of animal seismic senses, from spider webs to elephant rumbles, with Dr Beth Mortimer 🐘🕷️ 16 December 17:15, in the Life and Mind Building, Oxford & online 👇 www.biology.ox.ac.uk/event/biolog...

Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #languagebarriers

taxonomy 101: whales are not fish taxonomy 201: whales are hoofed animals taxonomy 301: whales are fish

Now out in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social Tetrapod vocal evolution reveals faster rates and higher-pitched sounds for mammals 🐘🦉🐸. Mammalian hearing likely allowed the rapid diversification of their vocalizations. Open access here: doi.org/10.1093/evol... #bioacoustics #animalcommunication

Lots of great new OA 🦇 research 📄 published recently that provide valuable insights into different aspects of bat responses to natural and man-made elements of the #environment. Whilst these may not seem particularly "exciting" they provide crucial evidence to aid bat conservation. 🧵 below

Mind-blowing new paper just out! 🧪 A research team used #Gaia to create the most detailed 3D census to date of OB associations within ~1000 ly from the Sun. Result? 🔭 57 groups of massive stars — twice as many as we knew before — that were born together and are now slowly drifting apart. 1/4

It’s time to publish responsibly! (And has been for a while, quite frankly...) To help you do so, @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social and coauthors have put together a handy database of academia-friendly journals, DAFNEE. You can read about it in their article just out in @jevbio.bsky.social.

Dimming streetlights in urban areas reduces insect attraction but pipistrelle bats forage more in darkness 🦇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too! preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵 Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/9

Short- and long-term costs of reproduction revealed by telomere dynamics in wild greater horseshoe bats www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Fascinating story about evidence that #H5N1 #birdflu infected vampire bats in South America, raising the prospect of a potential new & dangerous host for the virus. Some good news: The virus didn't appear to spread well among the bats. By @martinenserink.bsky.social. www.science.org/content/arti...

🐘 New research - Large herbivores are linked to higher herbaceous plant diversity and functional redundancy across spatial scales ➡️ buff.ly/zqRgqqo @jonastrepel.bsky.social @joe-atkinson.bsky.social @andrewabraham.bsky.social @jessekalwij.bsky.social @jcsvenning.bsky.social @econovoau.bsky.social

Cool work, birds disperse truffles www.cell.com/current-biol...

Writing a good cover letter used to be an “honest signal” — costly and likely indicative that you can do the job. Now that it isn’t, what will replace it? In the short term term probably individual networks, but that’s not scaleable to large organisations

Beavers create habitats for bats and support endangered species phys.org/news/2025-11...

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New OA 🦇 research 📄 Very cool study using the latest miniaturised technologies to study bat #behaviour in #ALAN Wild bats hunt insects faster under lit conditions by integrating acoustic and visual information www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

🐜New study provides the first examination of social immunity in a supercolonial ant subject to attack by a specialist pathogen. The study directly manipulates the nest template to see how space shapes the outcome of social immune behaviours ➡️ buff.ly/NulFOSb

New paper! We propose a framework to empirically study animal social relationships by modelling social network (SN) data as time-series—that is, without the need to aggregate them over time. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

"The statistical fragility of animal cognition findings: a meta-meta-analytic reappraisal" doi.org/10.32942/X2Z...

Our synthesis on patterns of bird diversity and diversification dynamics in South America is available online: books.google.com/books?id=lyi...

“A team led by UC San Diego was able to mass-produce a key pigment, xanthommatin, that occurs in the psychedelic skin of many cephalopods. Until now, xanthommatin has proven impractical to collect from animals or make in a lab.” #scicomm www.sciencealert.com/scientists-r... 🧪 🐙 🦑

"Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🦇Bats in Churches research reveals ancient buildings as vital wildlife refuges: www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/10... . New research from the Bats in Churches partnership project reveals that half of all Church of England churches are home to bats. In older churches that rises to nearly eight in ten.

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j... via @statnews.com

Great paper on bat evolution: An Integrative Perspective on Bat Evolution - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

🚨🦇New paper alert! We integrate information across fields to highlight key traits associated with the diversification of #bats, their roles as evolutionary drivers, and their importance to global ecosystems: An Integrative Perspective on Bat Evolution www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Greater noctule bats prey on and consume passerines in flight | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

So excited to finally share our work on how birds responded to the 2024 Great American Eclipse! Thanks to @rosvall-lab.bsky.social for inviting me on this journey! I never expected any of my research to show up in @science.org, let alone on the cover. Surreal. I hope you enjoy it!

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How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge url: academic.oup.com/jmammal/arti...

Inferential theories are on the rise in cognitive science. But what does it mean to infer? Check out our take on inference across a variety of (neuro)cognitive systems.

This is a helpful guide for students new to the publishing game. A step-by-step guide to getting your manuscript across the finish line, from start to finish. I appreciate how it doesn't assume hidden curriculum and is informed by the author's experience with English not being his first language.

#BREAKINGNEWS 🦇🌍 The world now has 1,500 recognized bat species! 🎉 The global list at www.batnames.org just hit this milestone. New bats are found through fieldwork in remote places & genetic discoveries. Amazing biodiversity news! #Bats #Biodiversity #BatsNeedFriends

Bioacoustics Winter School - January 2026 Time to apply! 👇Program and application form👇 www.eneslab.com/bioacoustic-...

Interested in simulating the kind of data that you might commonly find in evolutionary and ecological studies? Then we have the R package for you - squidSim!! Check our new preprint: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Our latest research highlights the importance of dry grasslands for bats 🦇🦇🦇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@delphinedemoor.bsky.social was present at the Behaviour 2025: XXXVIII International Ethological Congress and took the opportunity to spread the ABC mission 👏 We’ve prepared resources, like logos and email templates, for everyone to reach more students, mentees, donors: linktr.ee/animalbehavi...

Would you like some good news? A new vaccine has just been approved for protecting koalas from chlamydia, which is one of their leading causes of death.

I've been a pescatarian for 25+ years but recently I also stopped eating octopus. They're amazing.

New paper on precise tool use learning in carrion crows @currentbiology.bsky.social. We show that—like New Caledonian crows—expert carrion crows pay close attention to the working end of their tool, suggesting tool integration into their peripersonal space. 🧵 & vids! 👇 www.cell.com/current-biol...

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Science denial is real — but so are tools for teaching #evolution effectively. @galesinatra.bsky.social unpacks both in her #Scopes100 talk, now on YouTube: https://loom.ly/8SIzwSA#evolution#Scopes100@ncse.bsky.social

Dan Riskin from The Bat Signal made a really cool video about our recent publication. youtube.com/@followtheba...

Do I know anyone in North West Texas (Lubbock or nearby) who want to adopt a dog? My colleagues are moving aboard for two years and can't take theirs with.