🧠 New paper on breathing and the brain, out now @plos.org Computational Biology! 🫁 "The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making" doi.org/10.1371/jour... We show how respiratory 'tidal computations' alter our decisons!

🚨Who wants to work with Kalahari meerkats? A MSc project with @mathildemartin.bsky.social at the University of Zurich. #bioacoustics 🧪

Great summary of our study by @uni-konstanz.de Thank you so much 👍🏻

🚨STOP SCROLLING, IT’S AN EMERGENCY BROADCAST📣 This message will self-destruct in 10…9…8…7…⏰ …now that I have your attention: 🧪Our new paper on Alerting Components in animal vocalization is out in AnimBehav🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #AnimalBehaviour #Bioacoustics #Communication

🚨New meerkat paper alert‼️

A special type of fishing takes place in southern Brazil: dolphins drive the prey into the net. The fishermen work so closely together that even their heart rates synchronise. Discovered by a research team led by #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social biologist @hanjabrrr.bsky.social: t1p.de/d56g3

1/6 The Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD) is alive! Co-BreeD covers key biological parameters relevant to cooperative breeding research in birds and mammals. Get your copy of this updateable & open-access database: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @animalecology.bsky.social

Less than a week left to apply!

🚨Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my group🚨 🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?🐾 Find out by studying meerkats! 🧪Epigenetic clocks ✨Bioinformatics 📊Long-term data 🌍Kalahari fieldwork 💡Big evolutionary questions Get in touch or APPLY NOW Please share! www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

🔊3 years in the making OUT NOW & #OA: "Zebra finch tutees not only share the melody but also the rhythm of their tutor’s song" in #ScientificReports together with Judith Varkevisser and Michelle Spierings, APCs covered by #projectDEAL. #bioacoustics #rhythm #zebrafinch #AnimalBehavior 🧵1/6

Opportunity to join our team. Open to African students at Masters or PhD level.

Interested in a PhD in quantitative animal behavior? Applications are open through October for PhD projects starting in 2026: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/32524/apply For an inside look at the projects, let our doctoral students be your guide 👇 Videos by @alexhhchan.bsky.social

⭐PhD position available!⭐ Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...

War is over, so here's a great fellowship to do a postdoc in Israel. Get in touch if interested: azrielifoundation.org/azrieli-fell...

MitWissen ist der youtube Kanal in dem ich jeden Mittwoch eine bereits publizierte Studie aus der Verhaltensbiologie auf Deutsch vorstelle. Die letzten zwei Monate war Sendepause, aber nächsten Mittwoch gehts wieder los. Bis dahin gibts hier: www.youtube.com/@MitWissenbe... 28 videos zum angucken!

Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job

Fantastic urban ecology from ralphpeterson.bsky.social et al! 1. Fieldwork on free-ranging rats in NYC 2. Thermal imaging and ultrasonic audio 3. Social vocalizations across contexts “We transfer AI-driven methods…to the study of rats in the wild” doi.org/10.1101/2025... #prattle💬 #bioacoustics

🚨Research assistant position in the Kalahari Research Centre!

Kalahari sunsets. Nothing beats this. #Kalahari #NaturePhotography

📣 Join the K/Creative Ape Team 🤓 2 PhDs on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees & Bonobos; w myself & the v awesome @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social @snf-fns.ch Uni Zurich @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @efp2026.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primbehavecol.bsky.social 🐵🧪

New! "Bacpipe: a tool to compare bioacoustic machine learning methods" https://bioacousticai.eu/bacpipe-a-tool-to-compare-bioacoustic-machine-learning-methods/ A new way to visualise how deep learning is analysing animal sounds, by Vincent Kather. #bioacoustics

Working with @wildcognition.bsky.social on this paper was so much fun: drawing from our research with mammals (primates & hyenas) we discuss to what extent the urban niche poses novel cognitive challenges or whether they are exapted to exploit urban resources link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Announcing the WildDrone Summer School Sept 22-26. Registration open at wilddrone.eu/summer-school/ Join us in Konstanz for a week of drones, computer vision and conservation ecology! 🧪🌍

And just like that, the 2025 @cbehav.bsky.social Field Course has come to an end! What an incredible journey.

Apologies for the radio silence, but we've been keeping busy in these last three days! Went to visit the meerkats again, but the Kalahari winter was uncooperative: cloudy, cold, and wet! 🌧️ The meerkats wisely stayed in their burrows, so we waited indoors for a round of "Exploding Kittens"! 😼🃏

Day 6 of @cbehav.bsky.social Field Course report😎. Took a deep dive into GPS data and movement analysis by Cini Gall. How to analyse animal GPS tracks and understand the drivers behind their movements.

Hello from @cbehav.bsky.social Field Course - Day 5! 🇿🇦 We started the day with intense classwork on animal annotation of animal calls and bioacoustic analysis. Tuning into the soundscapes of the wild 🦉🦇🦛

Day 4 is ON! 🇿🇦 Kicked things off with a talk from our former @cbehav.bsky.social Field Course student & TA Siyabonga Sangweni. He spoke about his work combining minimaly invasive and non-invasive methods for studying animals and also shared his inspirational professional journey.

Hello Day 3! Today, the @cbehav.bsky.social Field Course embarks on animal communication. Getting an essential introduction to the signals, cues, and complex information exchange that shapes behaviour.

Day 2 of the @cbehav.bsky.social Field Course: things are officially getting real! 😎 Kicked off with an early morning start, heading to the field. Today's mission: building ethograms and classifying behaviours.

Our 2025 @cbehav.bsky.social Field Course is officially underway! We rolled into the Kalahari Research Center, 🇿🇦 yesterday evening and kicked things off with our first group dinner. So excited for what's to come!

Today, German Science Foundation @dfg.de decided to shut down the most vibrant, inspiring, and successful scientific community I’ve been part of! @cbehav.bsky.social fostered groundbreaking interdisciplinary research in #collectiveBehavior. Its closure is a loss for science in Germany and beyond 🕯️🌑

Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)

Cross-species teamwork from @livingingroups.bsky.social reveals unexpected similarities in three social mammals 🤔 By lead author @pminasandra.bsky.social with Emily Grout, Katrina Brock, Meg Crofoot, Vlad Demartsev, Amlan Nayak, Eli Strauss, Ari Strandburg-Peshkin🧵1/2 www.ab.mpg.de/679000/news_...

🚨Field assistant job in South Africa working with sociable weavers 🚨 🔌Experienced in electronics? 🏷️Enjoy working with RFID technology? 🪶Like working with birds? Find more information below! Applications close on 08/06/2025 sociableweaverproject.com/recruitment/... #fieldwork #ornithology

🧪Have you ever wondered what meerkats, coatis & spotted hyenas have in common? You NEED to see this thread by @pminasandra.bsky.social and the fresh @pnas.org paper 👇

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For all my South African Colleagues - Do you know anyone with honors in environmental science/ wildlife management looking for a position 👇🏼@SimbithiEco @UrbanVervet

Registration is closing in 2 days! Do not miss our fully funded Collective Behavior Field Course. Join us this June at the Kalahari Research Center in South Africa. www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/cbfc/applica...

Want to join us in the Kalahari ? Registration to the @cbehav.bsky.social field course closes in 🔟 days.

🚨Come work with us in charming Tübingen and become a member of our growing Freigeist group! We offer a 2-year postdoc position on the communicative plasticity in wild and captive bonobos, fully funded by @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social. Applications open until March 15th. bit.ly/4gVa5Je

Lean, mean, and slender machine... #kalahari #wildlife #photography

📢Gain hands-on experience in animal behavior research! Fully funded field course opportunity for South African university students. www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/cbfc/ Spend two weeks at the Kalahari Research Centre learning about collective behavior and communication. Register until March 16th! 🧪

Do whales optimize their vocalizations for efficiency, just like human language? 🐋🎶 My latest study in Science Advances (@science.org) suggests they do—following linguistic laws seen in human speech. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

When the desert gets lit .. #kalahari #nature #photography

He's not lost, he's just strategically repositioning for maximum sunbathing efficiency 😎 #wildlife #photography #meerkats #kalahari

Pls share: Konstanz School of Collective behavior from 21st July - 8th August. Application deadline: April, 15. An amazing line up of speakers spanning all aspects of collective behavior . For info: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/ @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

Lost in the biege #wildlife #photograpy #kalahari

🧪🚨Meerkat paper alert!!! 😎