New work out from our @islandbirdproject.bsky.social team lead by @raquelponti.bsky.social We will be presenting this at the upcoming conference #BOUasm25 "A day at the museum: collections-based ornithological research in a changing world" on BlueSky, 18th of Nov.

Award alert! 🎖️🚨 Every other year, the Ethologische Gesellschaft awards the Niko Tinbergen Award to outstanding post-doc level researchers in Behavioural Biology (<=6yrs post PhD exam). ...and this year is one of these years! Please send us your nominations! 🫵 Infos: www.etho-ges.de/wordpress/aw...

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! Owls become darker and redder toward the equator avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/o... Based on the Global Ecology and Biogeography paper by Arianna Passarotto et al. | #ornithology #RaptorResearch

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! The constrained evolutionary trajectories of White-eyes on the African mainland and its islands avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/03/09/t... #ornithology

Sandra Trigo @trigosandra.bsky.social the second plenary speaker of the #SPEetol2025 presenting how sex-differences in ornamentation are expresed and regulated in birds. Such a great start! @spetologia.bsky.social Fishethologygroup @ccmar.bsky.social

The morning session of the last day of #SPEetol2025 conference, the "Evolution and mechanisms of signal expressio " session, included amazing talks regarding the study of signals evolved and are expressed! Thank you to all the speakers, it was great to know more about your research 😊

#SPEetol2025 is starting! Welcome notes from the vice-president of SPE Ana Leitão @anavleitao.bsky.social @spetologia.bsky.social fishethogroup @ccmar.bsky.social

Paper and database now online! Massive work from @benmocha.bsky.social and team, and so great to be part of it!

Ana Leitão & Raquel Ponti, from CIBIO-BIOPOLIS, will investigate bird evolution in insular environments. Their SIBECOL-funded project explores how reduced predation & stable climates shape sexual dimorphism in endemic species. @anavleitao.bsky.social @raquelponti.bsky.social #evolution #birdresearch

Interested in hosting a symposium, workshop, or other special event?! Please see these instructions and reach out to your societies. www.evolutionmeetings.org/host-a-works...

🐦 Exciting news! Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology: “A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.” Led by the #ManyBirds Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @themanybirds.bsky.social

Whoa! New predator-prey interaction just dropped!

Today IUCN has officially declared the Slender-billed Curlew extinct, marking the first known global extinction of a formerly widespread migratory bird species whose range included mainland Europe, North Africa, and West Asia. Read more here ⬇️ www.unep-aewa.org/fr/node/6632

Remembering Mark Elgar, a brilliant mind in #BehaviouralEcology. His work reshaped our understanding of animal behaviour, and his warmth and mentorship inspired generations. A true loss for science & community. academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Comunicado da SPE | Reforma do Ministério da Educação, Ciência e Inovação ------ SPE statement | Change of the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation

🐦Sociable weavers! 🤖Deep learning! 👥Sexual monomorphism! 🕵️Cryptic differences! Our July #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: “Deep learning approach to detect and visualize sexual dimorphism in monomorphic species” Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123223

Did you know that acta ethologica is a society journal? Check out the this cool work and other new papers that are coming out link.springer.com/article/10.1... @spetologia.bsky.social #animalbehaviour #ethology #spe

🚨 Don't miss your last chance to submit your abstract until sunday 27th July! 🎉 You can continue to register even though the early bird prices are over. 🤔 Do consider joining SPE and becoming a member to benefit from reduced prices in the registration.

Happy to share our new paper introducing the Animal Culture Database in Scientific Data: We’re putting together a resource consolidating primary research on cultural behaviors in wild animal populations and how they’re affected by human activity (1/5) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Curious about all the nerdy-birdy details of how birds move, forage, and fly? Learning bird anatomy can be a real leg-up! Train your anatomy knowledge with the free All About Bird Anatomy learning tool, including a self-quizzing flashcard mode. You'll be a bird anatomy pro in no time!

Are you a PI in a biology field looking for postdocs? Here is a Starter Pack of early career biologists currently seeking postdoctoral positions! (Also if you are searching for a postdoc, let me know if you want to be added!) go.bsky.app/8zZNEGV

4 year fixed term postdoc position in Tasmania, Australia. Drones, camera traps, population monitoring. careers.utas.edu.au/en/job/50114...

1 WEEK to submit your abstract and regist in early bird prices! One reason to submit? That's easy! Students presenting can win an award! These awards can allow you to attend an international ethological congress. See more infos regarding our Vitor Almada Award in our website etologia.pt/about-en/

🚨 INVITED SPEAKERS 🚨 If you need anymore good reasons to attend the SPE meeting, the great invited speakers should be one of the reasons to consider 😉 We are looking forward to meet you at Faro ! Register here 👇 ccmar.ualg.pt/activity/xxi...

Another unexpected angle on bird wing evolution: skeletal measurements suggest that wing bone length is shaped not only by aerodynamics of flight but also by thermoregulation (1/4) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #macroecology #ornithology 🧪🌎🌐🪶

Societies might shape minds, but minds can shape societies. In this new paper we discuss how this feedback changes how we think about social and cognitive evolution. Led by @lucahahn.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

First independent survey of deaths in Gaza reports more than 80,000 fatalities The results align with other efforts to count the number of people killed amid the ongoing conflict. https://go.nature.com/44nH0la

📢📝 REGISTRATIONS OPEN! ⏰️📄 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS OPEN!

🚨 New issue alert! 🚨 The latest issue of #actaethologica is now out! Check the Volume 28 Issue 2 June 2025 for 10 articles featuring diverse studies in #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology

"Bringing animal behaviour into marine conservation: insights and future directions" Clara Amorim This review highlights how animal behavior can inform marine conservation, guiding impact assessment and management, and explores future tech and AI tools to boost conservation efforts.

🚨 New collection @ acta ethologica 🚨#AnimalBehaviour #Ethology #conservation #evolution "Reflections on the Last 25 Years of Ethology" link.springer.com/collections/... #SPEetologia #actaethologica

🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨 #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology #physiology "Vasotocin and oxytocin modulation of the endocrine and behavioral response to an aggressive challenge in male Siamese fighting fish"

‼️Save the date‼️The new Max Planck #Postdoc Program kicks off its first call for applications from April 1, 2025; applications can be submitted until May 13, 2025. mpg.de/en/max-planc... #ScienceCareer

A new paper with @szymekdr.bsky.social and others ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... We can now test adaptive radiation, pleiotropy or phenotypic integration beyond mean, co-divergence and "contra-divergence" of traits (see next) Probably my favorite contribution so far to Evolutionary Biology

🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨 #animalbehaviour #ethology #climatechange #oceanwarming

🦅🧠 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

🔄 REPLAY FRIDAY 🔄 🎥 Inequities in academic publishing Prof. Yap Boum II & Dr. Cristiana R. Lages discuss: ✅ Decolonizing publishing ✅ Challenges in the Middle East & Africa ✅ Barriers for Global South researchers 📽️ Watch now 👉 youtu.be/Ppy2TEfSrqE #GlobalSouth #PublishingEquity

Condolence Note – Passing of Professor Luís Soczka March 3, 2025 Professor Luís Soczka passed away last Friday, February 28. A prominent figure in Psychology and Ethology in Portugal, he was dedicated to research and teaching, leaving behind a significant legacy.

This looks interesting: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Any university still using X and promoting it on its web site is making a mockery of "institutional neutrality."

New OA paper just out in @royalsocietypublishing.org in which Xu Xing and review the current state-of-play with respect to feather origins, highlighting areas of conflict and consensus and suggesting some (hopefully) constructive ways forward 🪶🪶🪶 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

As if the plumage of birds-of-paradise wasn't already amazing enough, new research shows that males of most species are actually biofluorescent, meaning they absorb and re-emit light! #ornithology

🔬✨ How to best introduce ourselves on 🦋? Well, with our recent papers 🤩⬇️ 🦅 Does size matter when recognizing predators? 🧐 Do magpies recognize a juvenile goshawk? 👀 No weapons, no danger? 🐞 How do #birds respond to aposematic 🐞 in their diet? #Ornithology #AnimalBehaviour #RaptorResearch 🪶🧪

Há berçários do tubarão-azul em canhões submarinos de Portugal www.publico.pt/2025/02/11/a...

A phylogeny of warbler flight calls! During a guest lecture to our Speciation class, I showed off the acoustic phylogeny Zach Gayk & I published in Evolution. We showed that warblers with similar migratory journeys produce similar flight calls, beyond what is explained by genetics. [📷: N. Emerick] .