Who gets to tell the world’s most urgent environmental stories? Mongabay’s Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship is expanding in 2026. 🌍 ✨ Deadline extended to Feb 14. Paid, remote. 11 fellows. Six published stories. Apply NOW: buff.ly/pTCVXXB Learn more: buff.ly/ZZCG7M2.

Elefantenbabys knüpfen früh soziale Bindungen! 🐘💞 Revathe & Vidya zeigen, dass asiatische Elefantenkälber bereits früh differenzierte Beziehungen aufbauen: Sie interagieren eng mit Mutter und „Begleitkühen“, die allomaternale Fürsorge leisten, meiden jedoch meist andere Weibchen. #Sozialverhalten

🧪 ETHOLOGY: Baby elephants build social bonds early! 🐘💞 Revathe & Vidya show that Asian elephant calves form differentiated relationships early on: they interact closely with mothers and “escorts” who provide allomaternal care, while largely avoiding other females. Read: doi.org/10.1111/eth....

The 12th season of FINE starts the 24th of February with an exciting program. To register for weekly reminders and the video link email [email protected]

what makes something "vulnerable to AI" is not the capacity of machines but the credulity of management.

CES will give out at least seven travel awards of up to $4000 per person for researchers from low-and-middle income countries to attend the upcoming @ces2026.bsky.social CES 2026 Rabat conference. Applications must be submitted via this form by 20 February 2026, 9:00 AM AoE, to be considered.

But importantly, how do we disseminate these results? Well, you send them to Behavioral Ecology! We are building a new section of the journal devoted solely to publishing close replications! These will be short-format so another great training opportunity for ECRs. 4/

Incorporating replications into research training puts up useful guardrails for the trainee and focuses on developing good research skills and takes the focus away from novelty or a need to find a 'positive' result. Plus you work out all the kinks before you invest in a more intensive experiment 3/

Funding rates are consistently low since 2022, and for the first time below 10%. In my view, any proposal evaluated with >90-85% will be excellent and it will come down to details that the candidates do not control: If the reviewer had a good day, a good breakfast, etc. Pure and arbitrary luck.

Let's look at some numbers 2022: 7 044 applications submitted. 17.9 % success rate 2023: 8 039 applications submitted. 15.8 % success rate 2024: 10 360 applications submitted. 16.6 % success rate 2025: 17 058 applications submitted (record high). 9.7% success rate (preliminary numbers).

Annual Meeting of the Ethologische Gesellschaft 2026 Keynote: Rosemary Grant In her keynote speech, Rosemary Grant discusses the role of #behavior in the #evolution of Darwin’s finches. 📍 Grünau | 📅 Feb 18–21, 2026 Four days of science and exchange—where ethology made history. @ethoges.bsky.social

In northern Mozambique, honey-hunters use vocal calls to work with wild honeyguide birds — and the birds learn local “dialects.” New research shows calls vary by village, but honeyguides adapt, keeping this rare human-animal partnership alive across generations.

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 2-year postdoc in canine behaviour at Linköping University, Sweden. #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs liu.se/en/work-at-l...

@markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy really good overview of the drain, strain, and 'special-issuefication' of publishing "Special issue is like a fast food menu with relaxed editor control" "MDPI has a massive impact inflation, more than anything else" #horizondiamond2026 Check out the app!

@markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy on the drain and strain of publishging: "After plan S and gold open access, journals changed their business model... Now your marketing to the authors not the readers, incentivizing volume rather than quality" #horizondiamond2026 www.horizondiamond.nl

New #PhD on #bees (BeeHd?)! Despite the ad saying "UK Students only", a limited number of scholarships are available for international candidates. So please apply!

I love working on illustrations that allow me to play around with composition #sciart #birds

Join the Women in Evolutionary Biology II workshop from June 1-3, 2026, at the Max Planck Institute in Plön, Germany. Open to all genders. More info: https://workshops.evolbio.mpg.de/event/144/overview. Registration closes on Feb 20, 2026. #workshop

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

🚨 Job alert! The University of Tübingen announces a W3 (Full) Professorship in Early Hominin Evolution in the framework of the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS': uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... Application deadline: 11.03.2026 🚨

All my #rstats ebooks are now in the quarto format, and hosted on Quarto Pub. Their old bookdown links will all be dead by the weekend. 1/3

Are you (or do you know someone) recently graduated from undergrad looking to beef up your skills and experience prior to starting grad school/career? Do you like social drama and parakeets? Come join my team! I'm looking for two people to start very soon!! tinyurl.com/59rf8jcy

Looking for #culturalevolution methods advice. We will run a survey to estimate the degree and nature of #sociallearning in a local population (a US country). Are there any standard survey instruments or social psychology scales for this? I can find only partly relevant stuff. Please help!

Academic publishing is broken due to for-profit actors. Time to explore alternatives as researchers → A Diamond Open Access conference, Feb 5-6, 2026 in Nijmegen NL. Free registration (limited seats): horizondiamond.nl Let's build a sustainable publishing infrastructure together.

I'm #colorblind and I use https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/ frequently. Randall 'xkcd' Monroe did a survey of over 100,000 readers where he showed them random rgb colors and said "what would you call this?" and afterwards he did his best to sort the results into the most popular color names and the […]

In 13% of special issues produced by several major publishers over the past decade, the guest editor contributed more than 1/3 of the papers themselves As usual, MDPI and Frontiers journals are among the worst offenders.

Post 1/13 📢🧵 Call for activities proposals ! You are invited to submit proposals for three activities to be held during the upcoming CES2026 conference:

Q&A with Patrícia Izar, who is a Professor of Ethology at the University of São Paulo, where she studies the behavioral ecology, plasticity, and cognition of Platyrrhine primates, especially robust capuchin monkeys (Sapajus). www.cell.com/current-biol...

Our new review of beluga sociality and culture just dropped at Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology! Some of our key conclusions summarized 🧵 doi.org/10.1007/s002... @marine-valeria.bsky.social @dmennill.bsky.social @raincoast.org

A plea from an editor: postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍

"We are totally aligned on bombing brown people, let's just keep doing that"

We have a new paper out in @cp-iscience.bsky.social reporting that more socially integrated female chimpanzees have lower offspring mortality 🧪 #evosky #primates #primatology #anthropology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Predatory pubs are bad. Another threat to science is that more people are not doing their share of reviewing. I looked at my reviews over the last 30 yrs. I reviewed on average 2.9 mss per paper I coauthored. Weak annual correlation between number of pubs and reviews, r2=.12

Call for papers for conference on "The Cultural Evolution of Migration and Diversity”. This is the 12th Annual WZB Conference on Migration and Diversity, to be held at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, from September 25-26, 2026.

It's that time of year! Please reach out if you'd like to give a (paid) guest lecture (on zoom) in my Primate class this semester :) Currently looking for speakers for 20 or 23 Feb!

The Royal Society's Newton International Fellowships are now open for applications, aimed at non-UK early career scientists who wish to conduct research in the UK. Find out more and apply by 11 March: #RSGrants https://royalsociety.org/grants/newton-international/

The Trust's Early Career Fellowships offer a three-year salaried post for researchers at the beginning of their academic career to undertake a significant piece of research. Interested? Apply here: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career... Closing date: 19 February 2026, 4pm

Shared among some EEB groups, there is a new affinity group for trans scientists: transscientistcollective.carrd.co Please share.

It's easier to tear down than build up, and in science we have a bad case of that. So: how to lead a journal club that actually finds value in what you read. scientistseessquirre... 🧪

Tues Jan 20, 6:30pm Stephen Kapos and Hugh Brody A Holocaust survivor and an anthropologist oppose all genocides All welcome LIVE in Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak

✨New paper✨ How do juvenile ravens find social groups? We describe how juvenile common ravens, who have left their natal territories seeking to join non-breeder flocks, use space with respect to other birds, and discuss what this means for social integration. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

"When Ben Hania heard Hind’s voice, it brought her to an abrupt halt in the airport terminal, as travellers milled around her. This was a young child calling on adults to protect her amid the appeal of Palestine to be saved from genocide – and on both counts, the world had failed."

People are recollecting George H W Bush signing the UNFCCC in 1992. Yes, he did. At the same Rio Earth summit he also said "the American way of life is not up for negotiation." International law has always had near-zero relevance among both political parties in the US

Four days left to apply for two postdocs in social evolution with me and @dustinrubenstein.com Based at the University of Bristol (UK), conducting fieldwork with wasps in Cameroon, Kenya, and South Africa.

The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing theconversation.com/the-5-stages...

And our work is one of three papers published in Current Biology showing importance of social dynamics on sleep. Commentary here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Our paper is published today in Current Biology and is featured on the cover! We report a neat, and somewhat counter-intuitive, finding: higher-ranking baboons get less and more interrupted night-time rest.

I wrote about reporters’ refusal to use “act of war,” “invasion” or “coup” when covering Trump’s brazen attacks on Venezuela, instead echoing WH-approved euphemisms, and the broader trend of our press dutifully giving Trump’s lawlessness the vague whiff of international legitimacy when it has none.