PhD Alert! 😍 Our lab is hiring a PhD student to study how shrews shrink in winter and grow in spring. Yes, you read that right! tinyurl.com/shrinkingshr... Join us at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, study a super cool animal, and join the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social community! DM me for questions!

Come & work with us - fully funded 4 year PhD on Social Ageing: Social environment effects on senescence, using an epigenetic clock www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... @rug.nl @david-s-richardson.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social photo: @charlisdavies.bsky.social

Fully funded PhD working on insectivorous bird declines with a broad range of stakeholders. Starting ASAP #ornithology #zoology #biodiversity #science #ecology www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

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...

🎉Welcome to the official Bluesky account for EFP 2026 !!! 🎉 Join us in sunny Montpellier from 29 June to 3 July 2026 for an unforgettable conference. Follow us for updates, sneak peeks, and all things EFP! ☀️📅🌿

Celebrating the publication of our big collaborative spatial-social meta-analysis of density-dependent transmission effects, out now in Nature Eco Evo! doi.org/10.1038/s415... (or rdcu.be/eD6eB)

New paper from my group led by Odd Jacobson, former PhD student & current postdoc @livingingroups.bsky.social : How do animal groups simultaneously balance between- and within-group competition in dynamic environments and does this impact movement and space use? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Rohini Balakrishnan gave a wonderful plenary talk on tree crickets, showcasing the power of combining field and experimental research, with some very neat findings—males use leaves to amplify their calls, and more so on days when their calls are less loud! 😮 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Closing @behaviour2025.bsky.social with a very nice talk by @stotra.bsky.social on the costs and benefits of co-existence for wolves, coyotes and cougars in Yellowstone National Park. @asab.org

A great talk by @nikos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy highlighting the importance of considering what behaviours to use when estimating dominance hierarchies, in particualr when comparing different dominance hierarchies. @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Full room on the last day for @beckypadget.bsky.social's talk on modeling the trade of public goods such as sentinel behaviour) in biological markets. @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Great talk by @yoonjungyi.bsky.social on using playback experiments to assess competition in providing sential behaviour as a signal of quality in littermate meerkats. 📢 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Shuba gave a very nice talk on female-male relationships in bonnet macaques, showing that male grooming increases mating access 🐒💚🐒 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

@lucahahn.bsky.social gave a very interesting talk on his research investigating feedback effects between social relationships and social information in jackdaws @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Susan Alberts & @samellisq.bsky.social gave beautiful plenary talks showcasing the Amboseli baboons @amboselibaboonrp.bsky.social & Southern resident killer whales @whaleresearch.bsky.social - excellent examples of the value of long-term research and the insights we can gain from them.

Thank you to everyone who joined our symposium on comparative research in animal behaviour at @behaviour2025.bsky.social! It was great to see such interest & the discussions happening right after the symposium! Looking forward to continue the discussion! 🐅🦍🐍🐋🦘🦚🦏🐫 @asab.org

Very proud of @zakhiyapc.bsky.social presenting her poster on bonnet social networks to @debottam1991.bsky.social at the @behaviour2025.bsky.social conference! ☺️ @asab.org

🔥 Into wolves, coyotes and pumas? 🐺🐾 Come thru 📍Hall 2 at 4:20pm for some neat Yellowstone carnivore science! Last-day energy @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org — let’s GOOOOO! 🐺🐾 #Behaviour2025 #collaborativescience Artwork credit @ayuna-lh.bsky.social 🙏

@irene-godoy.bsky.social presented a great talk on the interplay of kinship & reproductive value shaping social selectivity in aging in rhesus macaques & capuchin monkeys. 🐒🐒

Hannah Lemon gave a very clear and interesting talk about social inheritance of social relationships from mothers to their daughters and sons (to a lesser extent) in the Rum red deer @rumdeerresearch.bsky.social. @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Animal Behaviour from Exeter and Bristol, plus some of our alumni, went to @behaviour2025.bsky.social in Kolkata and had mountains of rice. @crab-exeter.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social

Whatever scary thing they see on the path, these Black Guineafowl are determined to plow through it rather than go around it. Silly birds! (And did you see the little chick behind the first bird in the line?)

Want to help make the field of animal behaviour more accessible to help? Visit the @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social at poster 72 to learn about how to apply for microgrants and mentorship, become a mentor or financial contributor. 🐝🐝🐝 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

@devisatarkar.bsky.social gave beautiful talk on the extent to which social network traits are heritable vs. shaped by the spatial & social environment at birth using long-term data on blue tits 🐣🧬 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Very inspiring talk on the maintenance of trait variance under sexual selection by Kavita Isavaran - a great introduction to the symposium on this topic organised by Diptarup Nandi, Rittik Deb & Viraj Torsekar! 🦎 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

@ingeridh.bsky.social gave a great talk about her work investigating squirrel caching behaviour using accelerometers in a very interesting session led by Hemal Naik & Ebi Antony George on using machine learning in animal behaviour research🧑‍💻🐿️

Immune genetic and disease surveillance of a wild meerkat population over 20 years shows that tuberculosis imposes strong pathogen-mediated balancing selection on major histocompatibility complex and identifies underlying mechanisms www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are you like me and struggle to choose colors for your charts? I recently found the colorspace package, and it's a total game-changer. cran.r-project.org/web/packages... Load the package, run 'pal<-choose_palette()' and a GUI shows you color combos! Check out my example with #TidyTuesday data:

Great talk on how fertilized vs unfertilized reindeer females shape male behaviour and spatial distribution in females by Marie Sophie Roy! ☔️🦌 [rain-deer is as close as I could get!]

Really nice talk by Athira T K, showing clear reproductive success in Asian elephants, and an increased likelihood of siring offspring when in musth in older males! @behaviour2025.bsky.social 🐘

Such a great start to #Behaviour2025 with Weaving the #MacaqueNet 3.0! Every time, it is so nice to reconnect with familiar faces and meet new ones. 🐒💚🐒💙🐒

The Cooperative Breeding Database (Co-BreeD) joined Bluesky! Follow it for updates on state-of-the-art datasets on cooperative breeding birds and mammals! @co-breed.bsky.social

It's been 6 years that Stotra and I are friends & collaborators. It took #behaviour2025 to get us to finally meet in person <3

#behaviour2025 drumroll begins🥁 In Kolkata, picking up dear colleague and friend @delphinedemoor.bsky.social!! Excited for a week of #animalbehavior science and #networking #academicconference #wildliferesearch #animalbehaviorresearch #colleaguesmeetup 🦁🧪🐒

🚨 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?...

#Behaviour2025 – Join us tomorrow for Weaving the MacaqueNet 3.0 & connect with our international community of macaque researchers! 🐒 The workshop is free & open to all, even if you didn’t sign up yet. 📍 We'll be at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, not the main conference venue!

Looking forward to another gathering of MacaqueNet! In India no less, home of the best ever macaque: the rhesu....haha just kidding, the lion-tailed, obviously. Hope to see lots of you there!

Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.

**Postdoc opportunities**👇👇 Find me at poster 302 today between 17:30-18:00 for a chat. 🦡🦠🔬🧬 #eseb2025

Unfortunately, our invited speaker @colingarroway.bsky.social is stuck in Canada, but on the upside you will get to hear more about the work by Timothée Bonnet, who is taking over his slot, and from Lizy Mittell about her super relevant work on the invisible fraction! You won’t want to miss this!

On my way to join my very first ESEB conference in Barcelona! 🤩 Come to poster session 3 on Thursday, P110! I'll be happy to exchange about DNA/RNA extractions from bone samples and DNA methylation analyses 🧬 #eseb2025 @eseb.bsky.social @eseb2025.bsky.social

Interested in the role of journals in supporting open, credible and diverse research? Come see my talk at #ESEB2025 Tuesday 3-3:30pm, symposium S11, room 122/123. I will also be taking about our fantastic new data editor guidelines

Excited to be at ESEB 2025 in Barcelona! Presenting a poster on my first chapter (with my supervisors Josh Firth and Sarah Knowles) today between 5-7 pm, so come along say hi! Happy to chat about the friendship paradox and animal social networks ☺️ @eseb2025.bsky.social

PostDoc position available at the University of Bern to study virus diversity in free-roaming dogs in Africa and Asia. Interested candidates should apply via email. More info: http://www.cmpg.iee.unibe.ch #postdoc

Please share! Our lab is recruiting a PhD student to join us starting fall 2026. Our group is broadly interested in plant molecular evolution and comparative genomics. More info about our lab and grad programs at Colorado St. is available on our lab website. sites.google.com/site/danielb...

Behind all of these advances are societies that value and invest in science of all kinds. Societies that understand the importance of basic knowledge of the world around us. Societies that support universities as unique places where teaching and research go hand-in-hand. 22/n

🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24... Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵

Israel murdered Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues because genocide can only proceed without witnesses. Western media outlets have failed to condemn the systematic murder of Palestinian journalists, and in the process have become accomplices. Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.

The @scilifelab.se ancient DNA unit is looking for an bioinformatician placed at Uppsala University. This is a great way to be part of diverse #aDNA research projects as a staff scientist with permanent (!!) employment: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Do I take my ADHD meds to the field? What to put in a risk assessment w dyspraxia? How do I support ND students during fieldschool? If you ever wondered what fieldwork's like as a neurodivergent ecologist, this webinar by the @britishecologicalsociety.org is for you! tinyurl.com/yckyrf4r