Chance to join the incredible banded mongoose project! 🇺🇬❤️ 3 year postdoc on the mongoose project, working on the evolution and maintenance of group identity in animal societies. The closing date for applications is 16 June 2026. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRN272/p...

🐘 “Are you talking to me?” New study by our colleagues A. Surreault-Châble et al. shows that captive Asian elephants distinguish familiar from unfamiliar human voices, and search for keepers when hearing Elephant-Directed Speech 🔊🐘 Open Access article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Join the award event for the Year 2 of the Coller Dolittle Challenge for Two-Way Interspecies Communication on the 25.6 at 15:00 UK time on Zoom link below, for a great list of talks from short-listed applicants and a plenary talk:
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2026. Disparate social structures are underpinned by distinct social rules across a primate radiation | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Half of tropical forests have been lost, mostly for beef, driving biodiversity loss. If allowed to naturally regenerate, >90% of abundance & diversity returns & ~75% similarity to old-growth forest within 30yrs. Invasive pasture grasses prevented faster recovery. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

2025. goats failed to show behavioural differences when a familiar human's face and voice were mismatched versus matched. Heart rate changes hinted at some sensitivity to incongruency, but evidence for cross‑modal recognition of humans remains inconclusive. doi.org/10.7717/peer...

🐒 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!

2024. Review of allogrooming in ungulates found evidence for hygienic, physiological & social functions including bond formation and tension reduction. But many gaps remain, particularly in testing biological market theories and using allogrooming as a welfare indicator. doi.org/10.1111/mam....

Exciting to see our new paper exploring how human activities reshape predator–prey interactions featured on this month's cover of TREE! A big thanks to @predator-smarts.bsky.social and the team, and to Angus Emmott for the fantastic cover photo! Open-Access paper 👉 www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

2026. Seasonal shifts in muskox metabolic rates and energy expenditure are primarily governed by ambient temperature royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Is bigger always better? For social animals, group size is a dilemma: big groups face more internal competition, yet hold an edge over smaller neighbors. 33 years of data on 12 wild capuchin groups reveals how these forces shape behavior. Out today in *Nat Eco & Evo*: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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We need your input ☺️ Please help my MSc student Mia with her work on emotion expression and how humans perceive valence in artificial sounds (based on animal sound features) by filling out this very short and anonymous survey: ‭‭https://www.survey-xact.dk/LinkCollector?key=96FZC8CDL532‬‬

1/2 Adult play Although phylogeny predicts which primates play as adults (if play exists in one species, it is more likely to exist in close ones), it is whether or not the society is tolerant (and not despotic) that best predicts this behavior (paper) royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

🚨New PhD opportunity🚨 Understanding sheep foraging decisions under heat stress conditions Location: Adelaide University Contact: [email protected] Details: stephanleu-ecology.com/phd-opportun... Application deadline: 17 May 2026

Long podcast covering many topics, from skylarks to animal emotions (while also trying to remember correctly results of studies of colleagues 😂) open.spotify.com/episode/5og7...

🐒 PhD Opportunity 🐒 I'm excited to announce that we are now welcoming applications for a 3-year fully funded PhD position at Nottingham Trent University as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project. More info: jamiewhitehouse.github.io/mappingconne... Apply here: tinyurl.com/PhDNTU

My supervisor Kano is advertising multiple open positions! Check out the doc :) Open Positions @ Kyushu Univ (Kano Lab) Postdoc / Tech staff / PhD-MSc Eye-gaze & social cognition (exp + field + CV) 🎥 youtu.be/rXT-yjQzJxU 📁 docs.google.com/document/d/1... @animalopps.bsky.social

2026. Why women leave academia: A longitudinal study of the leaky pipeline in German sociology link.springer.com/article/10.1...

new from us: "Impact of meteorological variations and provisioning on the body condition of feral cattle in a subtropical climate" led by @tania-perroux.bsky.social - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

2026. Horses’ cross-modal recognition of human emotions extends to fear vs joy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Join the award event for the Year 2 of the Coller Dolittle Challenge for Two-Way Interspecies Communication on the 25.6 at 15:00 UK time on Zoom link below, for a great list of talks from short-listed applicants and a plenary talk:
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📣ATTENTION!!! Postdoc position on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees and Bonobos 🤩 With the APE Group & Wildminds Lab @nakedprimate.bsky.social Come join us!!! ✨Please RT✨ @efprimatology.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social

🦇 Ever caught a glimpse of a bat darting through the night with precision? What if sound is all they need to navigate and connect? 🚀 🎤 @berlinbatlab.bsky.social Mirjam Knörnschild (Evolutionary Ethology Lab, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin) explores echolocation, social calls & even bat dialects.

We have an open MSc Project Position at the Urban Vervet Project, and are currently looking for a motivated teammate to discover species interactions in a human altered environment 👇🏼 For more INFO👇🏼

🔊Cornell K. Lisa Yang Centre for Conservation Bioacoustics: Assistant Director positions open. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31941

Come and join our team! With an application deadline in 1 week, we're hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Ecology in the Department of Biology at University of Windsor: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

New meerkat paper with Marta Manser, by former PhD student Isabel Driscoll, showing that short note calls acoustic structure differs between sentinel and sunning contexts: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🔊Out now with @lsburchardt.bsky.social @marcosqoliva.bsky.social, Kouřil & Petrusková: Yellowhammer males sing using individual isochronous rhythms & maximise rhythmic dissimilarity with their neighbours. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We're looking for an Associate Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology (mainly teaching Evo Med and Stats at UCL Anthro) as maternity cover! Please share - closing date 30th April www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

"Many animals communicate using sequences of signals, but identifying recurrent, non-random signal combinations remains methodologically challenging" New from @ehowaspi.bsky.social addresses limitations of current statistical methods Code + data: osf.io/6cgbm/overview 🧵👇 #bioacoustics #prattle 💬

Less than a month left to apply for our summer course! You are welcome to contact us if you are unsure if the course is for you or have any other questions.

📖 Published! Ecoacoustics for context-rich direct and indirect trophic interaction data and ecological network construction This paper offers a scalable, cost-effective tool for identifying species interactions, biomonitoring and constructing trophic networks🌍🐐 🔎

🎉 New paper out in Biological Reviews! 🎉 With 19 brilliant co‑authors from the IUCN SGA's Working Group on Chimpanzee Cultures, led by Crickette Sanz and me, we provide a much needed toolkit on how animal cultures can be built into conservation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🎸 You may have heard a piercing scream in a horror movie or a deep growl in a metal track. Are you curious to know why these harsh sounds are so difficult to ignore?

Philosophers with an interest in animal welfare - call for abstracts now open for what promises to be a great workshop at Duke University. We welcome any work relating to the nature, measurement, and/or moral significance of animal welfare. Applications close June 1. law.duke.edu/laweconomics...

We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Our job ad: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Message me if you have questions. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social

[➡️ #Bioacoustique]🎶🐴 Le hennissement du #cheval est produit par "bi-phonation" annonce @currentbiology.bsky.social. La découverte d'une stratégie de communication vocale aussi sophistiquée chez cette espèce commune relance les recherches. @ebriefer.bsky.social & David Reby (Univ. J-M. Saint-Etienne)

Seeking a motivated postdoc (2+3 yrs) to study links between cognition, behavior, and fitness in lemurs at our long-term field site in Kirindy Forest, Madagascar. Join an interdisciplinary team working on wild populations. @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Apply here: www.dpz.eu

🚋 You may have heard the trembling voice of someone anxious or the jolly tone of a friend sharing good news. Are you curious to know if animals also express their emotions through their voices? [...]

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

Job Alert 🚨: We are looking for field assistants to join our research projects in South Africa studying chacma baboons. Expenses coved. Please get in touch if interested and share widely. See attached advert 👇 @tylerbonnell.bsky.social

Join us for a great PhD course in R programming!

Registrations are now open for the renowned PhD Summer school in acoustic communication organised by SDU from 2-15.8 Denmark. Deadline 15.4. More info in picture below. 🦜🐳🦗🦇

2026. Despite their contrasting reputations, bonobos and chimpanzees show similar levels of aggression in zoos phys.org/news/2026-03...

🧠🧪🧵1/37 Our new paper on how pinniped (seal and sea lion) brains evolved to unlock vocal plasticity is this week's @science.org cover. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

⭐New paper!⭐ About generative network modelling - a key approach for understanding network structures. First half: We give a general introduction to generative network models Second half: We consider their use in animal behaviour research www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

2026. Feral horses and cattle create more resilient nature, rewilding study reveals phys.org/news/2026-03...

How and why does cognition vary so greatly between individuals and species? In @natrevbiodiv.nature.com, we propose the "Predatory Intelligence Hypothesis" which posits that the cognitive challenges associated with predator–prey interactions drive a cognitive co-evolutionary arms race rdcu.be/e5KIj