Heartening to see so many students sign our open letter openletter.earth/open-letter-...

**PhD POSITIONS** I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work on sociality and cognition in Monk Parakeets, starting Fall 2026. Full ad is here: hobsonresearch.com/index.php/20... (please help spread the word!)

Following the news of ChatGPT Edu at Oxford, I woke up to the news of free access to Google AI Pro for our students. Funny how there's never any faculty input sought about the challenges of teaching (and education) when this is being actively promoted top down.

PostDoc job requirements are getting truly ridiculous. What's the rejection letter for this one going to look like? ... "sorry we had to reject your application because both your parents were human"

Please share!🙏 🚨 PhD Oportunity in Avian Behavioural Ecology in Spain The BirdBond Project (MNCN & IREC) studies how pair bonds form, change & affect reproduction/survival in the spotless starling 🐦

Tiny dinosaur in the form of a long-tailed tit early in the blueish morning #photography #birds

The MIT Consciousness Club will have a Zoom option for those who would like to join online. First session Friday, Sept 19, 12pm-1:30pm. For more, see: sites.google.com/view/mit-con.... You can register to the email list here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F....

I was reminded recently of a guy who got a paper into Nature - Nature! - claiming he'd found an entirely new basis for the 'evolution of cooperation' ... ... by running a simulation of interacting agents on a network.

New job alert: Would you like to help analyse our Big Garden Birdwatch dataset? 🪶🧪 Our monitoring science team are hiring for a new 2yr position to develop the ecological analysis and visualisation of BGBW data Interested? Full details here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

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

When an animals' groupmates go out of sight, do they also go out of mind? In a new paper in Proc B @royalsocietypublishing.org, Luz Carvajal and I show that a bonobo (Kanzi) can keep mental tabs on the whereabouts of multiple hidden social partners royalsocietypublishing.org/eprint/4GI7G...

Trying to put out old projects this summer. Here is one: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... With many thanks to Annette Killian, who has sadly passed away - and with many thanks to Alenka Hribar who tirelessly ran this study.

Thrilled to share our latest open-access study published in Scientific Reports! We examined how social versus asocial learning influences children’s ability to override previously learned strategies across three cultural settings—BaYaka, Bandongo, and Germany: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 My 2nd PhD chapter is now out in Animal Behavior and Cognition We explore social evaluation of skills in Tonkean macaques in cooperative contexts with a promising experimental design 🧮👀🐒 @skeupp.bsky.social @julxf.bsky.social Check it out here: www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org/article.php?...

Broad in scope but strikingly concise, highly accessible, and nuanced - go get this book if you have even the slightest interest in birds and/or vertebrate brain evolution. I will use it a lot. Congrats @evoneuro.bsky.social! #neuroskyence 🧪

Great read on LLMs and their (lack of) introspection: arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/w...

Applications for Winter 2025 conference attendance grants are trickling in, awarding up to £500 with a high success rate (if eligible). Deadline isn't until 1st October, but don't forget to get referee statements in by then too! All the info you need is here: www.asab.org/conference-g... @asab.org

🚨 Calling all dog behavior & cognition researchers - ManyDogs Project is launching ManyDogs 2! 🔍🐕‍🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them? Email [email protected] to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!

Aaaaand AI generated animal cognition videos are now here, too.

New publication! 🚨 If you're looking for a paper on what great tits eat then this is for you! 🦋🐛🐞🪲🐦 We looked at variation in diet using DNA metabarcoding and found lots of differences between adult and young birds and between habitat types. @ucc.ie onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

So far I still think we are asking publishing to do more than it rasonably can. If science is polluted, we need to reduce pollution at the SOURCE, which is the scientists: focus on provenance of data and analyses, demand training, documented quality control processes, but I've said this all before

Ernst Mayr was born OTD in 1904. “Most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.” 🌱🐋🦋🦫🧪 #HistSTM #PhilSci

Come work with us on this really exciting interdisciplinary project!

New review paper on primate facial expression! 🙈🙊🙉 with @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social @jmicheletta.bsky.social and Olivia O’Callaghan @ntupsychology.bsky.social

🎊Fully funded PhD position on cooperative sustainability🌳 Are you curious about 🧒 developmental, 🌍 cross-cultural 🦧 species comparative research on cooperative sustainability? All info here or dm me with questions! career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job... Please share! 🙏

1/8 A button on the traffic light to catch doves This paper describes the case of a young Cooper's hawk that used a traffic light to hunt in a tremendously skilful and ingenious way. Here's how it went... (paper) www.frontiersin.org/journals/eth... (blog) phys.org/news/2025-05...

The deadline for commentary proposals (just ~500 words) for our BBS paper is June 28! You can submit it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal....

Can you publish a non-significant result and say something meaningful? Find out with @mzloteanu.bsky.social, in his talk and workshop on "Publishing Non-Significant Results: An Intro to Equivalence Tests" Register here: tinyurl.com/ORSS2025 #OpenScience #EquivalenceTesting

New paper alert 👇 We present a new two-action sequential coordination task designed to investigate co-representation non-human primates. In collaboration with @drelizabethwarren.bsky.social and Josep Call and out now, fully #openaccess in PLoS One! (1/4) journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays

We have developed guidelines on how to give linguistically friendly presentations in English for #ICCB2025 presenters. Please have a read to make your presentation inclusive. Amazing work led by @elizeyxng.bsky.social et al. docs.google.com/document/d/1... @iccb2025.bsky.social #languagebarriers

Very much enjoyed the sparrow diversity in this area. One of my absolute favourites was Black-throated Sparrow: really stunning to watch these singing in the early morning light, but Rufous-crowned, Lincoln's and Chipping Sparrow were all really great birds too.

Hot off the press 📣: one of the most surprising and unsettling findings of my PhD. A novel social tradition emerged in the tool-using white-faced capuchins of Jicarón island… abducting and carrying the infants of another species. Thread with gifs, videos, and all the bizarre details 👇

Lastly a great thanks for the amazing illustrators @lazaroillustration.bsky.social for the drawing, @mikecostelloe.com for the interactive website (www.ab.mpg.de/671374/Capuc...), and @irazik.bsky.social for editing phenomenal videos like this one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mooQ... (12/12)

The bears like our [duct tape] hair snare! 😍🧪🐻

How do we build theory in cogsci? traditional physics w its rich data and experimental possibilities is often used as parangon. We argue historical sciences provide an equally rich source: "Lessons for Theory from Scientific Domains Where Evidence is Sparse or Indirect": doi.org/10.1007/s421... 🧵 1/

Join the MacaqueNet family! We’re looking for a postdoc to study the link between social structure and lifespan across species, using MacaqueNet data and a new life-history database. Feel free to reach out—I'm happy to chat about MacaqueNet, CRAB, or living in Exeter. shorturl.at/xyNsL

One week left to apply! Re current events: Theoretically this could also be a postdoc position - get in touch if you are interested.

Postdoc job alert! I'm hiring a 3-yr postdoc to work on our Social Modifiers of Primate Lifespans grant. Job info and how to apply below. Deadline June 1. Pls share! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

CO3 2026 will be in Montréal! 🇨🇦 📍 Delta Hotel, Montréal, QC 📅 April 15–18 After careful consideration, the CCS Executive Committee chose based on survey feedback, travel, safety, cost & character. We believe it’s the best option for our community & hope to see you there!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @curionia.bsky.social @sombylab.bsky.social

Interested in curiosity and metacognition in childhood and adolescence? Join us at Cardiff University (UK) for a Postdoc position in an international collaboration with @yanafandakova.bsky.social (Germany) and @pyoudeyer.bsky.social (France). Please repost! #DevPsych #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

I'm looking for a PhD Student at the intersection of Machine Learning and Developmental Psychology. We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions. 4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply! tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4

Julia Fischer (@julxf.bsky.social; @primatenzentrum.bsky.social) is recruiting a field assistant to work at our field site CRP Simenti in Senegal to study the behaviour of Guinea baboons in their natural habitat. Paid position, run-time at least 15 months, starting Nov 2025 s.gwdg.de/ZzyGjT

📢 Abstract Decisions Are Out! ✨We are delighted to announce the abstract decisions for Behaviour 2025! Please check your inboxes and start planning your trip! If you have not received an email by tomorrow and had submitted an abstract, kindly inform us as soon as possible.

🦅🧠 Bird Cognition 🧠🦅 Anyone who studies or is just fascinated by how birds perceive, learn, remember and solve problems 🐦 Let's all meet in this cool new #starterpack 🤩 Let me know if you want to join in too 🦜🦤🦉🦆🐣🪺🪶🧪 🔗 go.bsky.app/V2K7HQM #Ornithology #Birds #AnimalBehaviour

Ageing orangutan. Illustrations commissioned by Christine Charvet's lab. #SciArt #mammals #art #primates

Excited to share my first publication in Animal Behaviour! Our study investigates how social stimuli influence object memory in great apes across different age groups (infancy to adulthood). Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Research assistant in anatomy (6 months) on ERC project www.FACEDIFF.co.uk - join our team! Based at University of Liverpool with collaborator @drctierney.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ093/r...