Reminder that virtual Evolution is this week, and the Pres Symposium this Thursday!!

🐒 Post-doc Opportunity 🐒 ... annndd we're now also advertising a 3-year Research Fellow position at NTU as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project. More info: jamiewhitehouse.github.io/mappingconne... Apply here: vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Deadline: 19th June :) Please repost!

New work out: Predation and the Evolution of Island Bird Plumage Colouration: Experimental Insights from Island and Mainland Environments academic.oup.com/jeb/article-...

Do humans share a sense of acoustic beauty with other animals? According to a new study in Science, the answer may be yes. In a global citizen-science experiment, researchers show that humans tend to prefer many of the same animal sounds that animals themselves favor. https://scim.ag/41jFG1u

Our paper is on the cover of @currentbiology.bsky.social : a strawberry poison frog with the most common color morph, living up to its common name 🍓. In this issue, we uncover the genetic basis of color variation in frogs from Bocas del Toro, where blue, green, yellow, orange, and red morphs occur

New Job Alert! 📢 Join BTO as a Database Developer. Apply online ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs 📝 Salary: £34,578 📅 Full time role, part-time will be considered 🏠 Hybrid working policy

🚨NEW SCIENCE ALERT!🚨Read our new, open-access publication in Scientific Reports (@nature.com) describing #biofluorescence in #cassowary casques! Very excited to unveil this after keeping it secret for 5 years⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... NYITCOM @akiopteryx.bsky.social @jonathanberman.bsky.social

🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨 #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology "Acoustic repertoire and anatomical features of the flying gurnard from the Adriatic Sea" Horvatić & Vieira et al. with SPE members Manuel Vieira, M Clara Amorim, and Paulo Fonseca @ Journal of zoology

"I don’t know why my fellowship was terminated. I suspect that it has something to do with studying a species that doesn’t fit the binary of what we expect to see in nature, with completely different males and females." @carlzimmer.com profiles my wonderful coauthor @jjinsing.bsky.social Gift link.

Konstanz school of Collective Behavior will take place again from 20th July to 7th August , 2026. We have an amazing line up of speakers covering state of the art research on collective behavior across systems. Application deadline : March 15th Details here: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/applica...

EEB Postdoctoral Fellowship @ U.Toronto app deadline Jan 15 2026. Opportunity for independent research, encourages collab across labs/disciplines. Lots of great folks to interact with, Come join us! eeb.utoronto.ca/employment-2/

We are happy to announce that registration for ISBE2026 is now open! We encourage you to register as soon as possible to take advantage of reduced fees and to plan your trip and accommodation in advance. Please read the information on www.isbe2026.com before proceeding with your registration.

Thrilled that @shreyadimri.bsky.social & I will be part of #LoveMethods26! We'll present on "How to avoid common problems in #SystematicReviews & #MetaAnalyses" 📅 Jan 19–23, 2026 | FREE | All online Everyone's invited to join the entire week of workshops! 🔗 excelscior.uc.pt/love-methods...

Our new @science.org paper is out! Cuckoos and hosts are locked in a coevolutionary arms race over egg mimicry. But how are these egg types inherited, and could this drive speciation? We sequenced hundreds of genomes to find out! doi.org/10.1126/scie... 🧵1/6

🧵1/5 Excited about our new paper in PRSB! @royalsocietypublishing.org Can AI make research on avian brood parasitism easier? YES! We show that AI model can identify conspecific parasitic eggs better than an average ornithologist. doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 📸 Barn swallow – our study species.

📢 JOB ALERT! Interested in #Bioacoustics, #Linguistics and the #Evolution of #Language? We are seeking a #ResearchAssistant to join our project 'Convergent Evolution of Vocal Communication: Exploring the Parallels between #Birdsong and Human Speech'.👇 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Ana V. Leitão brings us “Morphological evolution in island birds is associated with more terrestrial lifestyles and a lower number of raptors and intra-family competitors” 🏝️🦅 @islandbirdproject.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #ornithology #evolution

1/8 Island environments drive unique evolutionary changes in birds. 🌴🐦 At #BOUasm25, we’re sharing our global 🌍 study using museum collections to uncover how living on islands influences the evolution of locomotion traits. Our paper 👉 doi.org/10.1111%2Fge...#BOUasm25, #IslandBirds #Ornithology

All aspects of bird behaviour are a product of the anatomy and physiology of their brains. Brain anatomy can therefore provide new insights into bird behaviour. Today at #BOU2025, I will discuss how museum specimens can potentially be used to study bird brains. #ornithology #neuroskyence 1/6

This publication presents the Co-BreeD database, a collaborative tool for studying cooperative breeding across mammals and birds.

#jobalert Postdoctoral position in Applied animal ethology and animal perception Department of Biosystems and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden More information: www.applied-ethology.org/Postdoctoral...

PhD project on the evolution of animal memory now available in my research group, through the TREES DLA: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo.... Come and join us if you're interested in the evolution of animal minds and you want to do some cool experimental evolution!

1/13 New paper out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age @hannahdugdale.bsky.social @lummaalab.bsky.social @erikpostma.bsky.social

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/