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Experts and the public have radically different visions of an automated future

Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

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🐙🗣️ It's today! Join us in just a few hours for our seminar "Cephalopods as Biological Image Generators" with Dr. Sam Reiter on YouTube! 🎥 📅 Time: Today, 8:00 AM GMT 📺 Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxAr... #AnimalBehaviour #Cephalopods #OnlineSeminar

Anyone interested in cephalopods and their amazing camouflage abilities ? 🐙 Don't miss our upcoming seminar next Tuesday! 🙂‍↕️

📣 SEMINAR SERIES 2026 – 1 week to go!📣 Join us on Tuesday 30 June at 8:00AM GMT for our next seminar! 🐙 Dr. Sam Reiter on "Cephalopods as Biological Image Generators" 📍 Live on YouTube → www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxAr... ✅ Free & open to all! #AnimalBehaviour #OnlineSeminar #Cephalopods

📣 SEMINAR SERIES 2026 📣 Our next seminar is coming up fast! 🐙 🎥 Check out this teaser! Dr. Sam Reiter on: 💬 "Cephalopods as Biological Image Generators" 📆 Tuesday 30 June 2026 at 8:00 AM GMT 📍 Live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxAr... 💡 Free & open to all #cephalopods #animalbehaviour

Discover how cephalopods use their remarkable camouflage abilities to transform visual information into dynamic skin patterns 🐙🦑, and what this can teach us about vision 👀, motor control 🦿, and even generative image models. 🖼️ As a reminder, this event is free and no registration is required. 💚

📣SEMINAR SERIES 2026📣 Join us for our next seminar! 📆 Tuesday 30 June 2026 at 8:00 AM GMT on our YouTube channel: Dr. Sam Reiter (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) will present “Cephalopods as Biological Image Generators” 🐙 📺 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxAr...

📢 Abstract submissions for #ABL2026 are now OPEN! 🗓 Deadline: 6 September 2026 This year's theme: "Studying Animal Behaviour in a Changing World" 🌍🧠 🎤 Choose from: 🔹 15-min live talk 🔹 5-min pre-recorded video poster 📄 Submit here: ablaoc.sciencesconf.org #ScienceConference #AnimalBehaviour

📣 Registration for #ABL2026 is now OPEN! This year's theme: "Studying Animal Behaviour in a Changing World" 📆 12 November 2026 🐾🌍 🆓 The event is FREE, but registration is mandatory. 📄 Register & submit your abstract here: ablaoc.sciencesconf.org #AnimalBehaviour #ABL2026 #AcademicEvents

📝 Registration is now open! 📢 Submit your abstract by 6 September 2026 ➡️ ablaoc.sciencesconf.org

📣📣 Our annual conference #ABL2026 is here! 💚 Join us on 12 Nov 2026 for a full day exploring "Studying Animal Behaviour in a Changing World" 🔹 FREE & online 🔹 3 stellar plenaries 🔹 Talks & posters on diverse topics 🔹 Global-friendly time zones 🌎 Mark your calendar 📅 and don't miss this #ABL2026!

🎙️New Meet the P.I. podcast episode with Wen-Sung Chung @wensungceph.bsky.social is out! From octopus brains to fieldwork, marine ecosystems, and the challenges of studying cephalopod behaviour ✨🦑🐙 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/40Tt... 📺 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hngd...

Male bumblebees seek mates by depositing sex pheromones. To study how ♂️🐝balance mate-seeking and feeding behavior @natacharossi.bsky.social, @larschittka.bsky.social et al. tracked ♂️🐝in an indoor flight cage and show that ♂️🐝prioritize mate-seeking over energy gain. academic.oup.com/beheco/advan...

New paper alert‼️Collaboration with @nicrodemo.bsky.social and Fernando 🐝🌼✨️

And another paper out, which has just been covered by The Guardian! www.theguardian.com/environment/... original article: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... @bethbees.bsky.social @nicrodemo.bsky.social

Bees spend a lot of energy while buzz-pollinating flowers. We used respirometry, lasers, and bees in 3D chambers to figure just how energetically expensive it is. Thanks @bethbees.bsky.social and @natacharossi.bsky.social for this fun collaboration! royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

New paper out! url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/NJAHCB6RxF... @oupacademic.bsky.social @behavecol.bsky.social @larschittka.bsky.social

📧 Les Français.e.s ont droit à des élu.e.s qui défendent leurs intérêts, même à l'étranger. ✊Avec #ConsulairesInsoumises, appelons à voter pour la liste LFI “Royaume-Uni Populaire, Écologique et Social”, leadée par Nina Séron et soutenue par La France Insoumise et Jean-Luc Mélenchon !!!

🎙️ New Meet the P.I. podcast with VV Binoy (NIAS, India) is out! From fish cognition to conservation, citizen science, navigating unconventional research paths, and focusing on understudied species ✨🐟 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4hWZ... 📺 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCms...

📢 It’s time to cut the chemicals from our food and fields ✍️ PETITION - soilassociation.co/cutthechemsb... In the UK, just before harvest, some crops are sprayed with glyphosate to dry them out. It helps meet food system demands for speed and uniformity, letting farmers plan harvests in advance

⏮️ Missed our last seminar? No worries! You can still catch Dr. Anna Dornhaus’s talk “What we learned about the world from studying collective behavior: algorithms, replicators, and strong inference” on YouTube! 🐜🐝 @dornhaus.bsky.social 🎥 Watch the replay now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oioL...

As the weekend turns 100, we need to rethink work itself. Average weekly working hours have reduced from 60 in the late 19th century to about 32 today. The challenge today is not just about how long we work, but also what work is for - and who gets to decide.

Helping bumblebees never tasted so good – by growing your own food, you can help feed bumblebees too 🍅🐝 Bumblebees love the flowers of many fruit and vegetable plants, including tomatoes, strawberries and beans. They will also pollinate your crops for free! Get started: https://ow.ly/FUv650YKQfc

It starts in 10 minutes ! See you there ! ☺️🐜🐝

Another senseless, illegal war is driving up oil and gas prices - while BP's profits have more than doubled. And today's figures are likely to pale in comparison to BP's profits for the rest of this year. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Discover the hidden algorithms behind collective behavior in social insect societies. 🐜🐝 See you soon! 🌟 #AnimalBehaviour #CollectiveBehaviour #OnlineSeminar

🐜🗣️ It's today! Join us in just a few hours for "What we learned about the world from studying collective behavior: algorithms, replicators, and strong inference" with Dr. Anna Dornhaus (@dornhaus.bsky.social) on YouTube! 🎥🌍 📅 Time: Today, 2pm GMT 📺 Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oioL...

NOTE: "women with comparable scientific capital to men face a 35% higher risk of leaving academia, a disparity that cannot be explained by differences in parenthood, career stage, productivity, or academic recognition."

Note, 2021:  "Replacing the leaky pipeline metaphor with that of a hostile obstacle course demands that those with power take the lead." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

✅ Free & open to all! #AnimalBehaviour #OnlineSeminar #CollectiveBehaviour

📣 SEMINAR SERIES 2026 – 1 week to go!📣 Join us Tuesday 28 April at 2pm GMT to listen to Dr. Anna Dornhaus @dornhaus.bsky.social on “What we learned about the world from studying collective behavior: algorithms, replicators, and strong inference”🐜🐝 📍Live on YouTube→ www.youtube.com/watch?v=oioL...

📣 SEMINAR SERIES 2026 📣 Our first seminar of the year is coming up fast! 🐜🐝 🎥 Check out this teaser! Come listen to Dr. Anna Dornhaus ( @dornhaus.bsky.social ) to hear about “What we learned about the world from studying collective behavior: algorithms, replicators, and strong inference”

📆 Tuesday 28th April 2026 at 2pm GMT 📍 Live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oioL... 💡 Free & open to all – no registration needed!

As a reminder, this event is free, no registration required.

📣SEMINAR SERIES 2026📣 Our 1st seminar of this year ! 📆Tuesday 28th April 2026 at 2pm GMT on Youtube: Dr. Anna Dornhaus (@dornhaus.bsky.social) on “What we learned about the world from studying collective behavior: algorithms, replicators, and strong inference” 🐜 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oioL...

🎙️ New Meet the P.I. podcast episode with Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social is out! From vision to interdisciplinary science, navigating new fields, dealing with rejection, and finding your own path ✨ 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1DGh... 📺 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iemB...

Last month, the government announced changes to the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), a scheme which pays farmers and land managers to adopt or maintain environmentally sustainable land management practices ⚠️🐝 Find out what the changes mean for farmers and bumblebees: https://ow.ly/Xo4750YybxE

Have you ever wondered how bumblebees collect pollen? 🌻 👑💼 Queen and worker bumblebees have pollen baskets – stiff hairs on a bald, flattened leg. A bumblebee mixes the pollen with nectar and glues the mixture onto the hind leg. 🔎🐝 Great Yellow bumblebee 📷 Pieter Haringsma

2025 saw bumblebees bounce back from 2024’s worst year on record. But, for many species, numbers are still below average🚨 The latest findings from BeeWalk shows: ⚠️5 species declined even further 📉15 species are below average 📊2 rare species had promising numbers Read on: https://ow.ly/rPgn50YtjhB

OpenAI agreed to help Trump spy on you, and agrees to help Hegseth build killer AI robots. And they “donated” a ton of $$ to Trump. If you need to use AI, other options out there. #BoycottChatGPT www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Median amount of time spent under review is 7.4–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles and the differences remain significant after controlling for several factors - analysis of >36.5 million articles in >36,000 journals doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Signez la pétition pour convaincre la Commission européenne de changer d’avis sur My Voice, My Choice. Selon des infos non officielles, le projet de réponse a une attitude négative. Décision le 26 février. Il est encore temps. Signez et partagez app.sosha.ai/s/pzsVFBJI

🎙️ New Meet the P.I. podcast episode with Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy (@avispatica.bsky.social) is out! Becoming a P.I., building a lab culture, navigating academia as an international researcher and more ✨ 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/24sj... 📺 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iswt...

📢 Missed Amir Patel’s plenary at #ABL2025 ? “Studying Cheetahs Through the Lens of Robotics” is now available on replay, exploring how robotics helps us understand animal locomotion 🐆🤖 ▶️ Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwNY...

🎙️ New Meet the P.I. podcast episode with Amir Patel (UCL) is out! From engineering to animal behaviour & robotics, cheetahs, career advice, Global South research, and finding your unique strengths ✨ 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/13uO... 📺 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhWu...

UCU is deeply concerned by the length of time people connected to alleged actions involving Palestine Action are being held on remand. Read the full statement 👇

New PhD position available! For applicants keen to combine evolutionary ecology, neuroscience and animal cognition. Based at UCL with me, @maxreuter.bsky.social, @fcamus.bsky.social and Tamara Boto (Bristol). Directly funded, see here for details and eligibility: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...