#ESHE2025 Rhianna Drummond-Clarke ‘First documentation and quantification of wild chimpanzee rock climbing’ Camera traps, Issa Valley TZ & Moyen Bafing, Guinea chimps Rock vs tree climbing: more dynamic movements, biomech diff locomotor modes, reaching further- role of uneven substrates! Amazing 😍

We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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!

‼️📄 Two new papers out today in @jexpbiol.bsky.social lead by @jamescharles90.bsky.social, all about locomotion and load-carrying across different working dog breeds! ⤵️ 🐕 🏋️‍♂️ 🦮 (1/4)

Hey you. Wanna apply for a fellowship on collections? the AHRC Early career fellowships in cultural & heritage institutions are open! The Natural History Museum priorities are below. If you wanna talk birds, hit me up. Collectors, colonialism, Canada, Australia & more www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Very excited to receive an ERC Starting Grant to study the earliest archaeological and biomolecular evidence of Homo sapiens in NW Europe Watch this space for new positions in Bristol in 2026! 🎉 #HorizonEurope #ERCStG

🚨 Hiring! We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in computational fluid dynamics and structural simulations to investigate biomechanics and mechanosensory feedback in insect flight. Extreme agility ✔️ Morphological computing ✔️ Meshes! ✔️ jobs.rvc.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Evolution has produced an incredible array of ways to be male & female. In some tiny cave-dwelling insect species, the female is the one with a penis. She uses it to hook into the male's vagina-like structure (for up to 70hrs) while "voluminous & probably nutritious semen is passed to the female"🧪🧬🪲

New Comparative Anatomy Textbook! Completely free to read and open access! doi.org/10.59319/YHF...

New PhD alert! This funded PhD project will look at the effect of invasive Asian toads on Malagasy amphibian biodiversity, with a focus on acoustic communication - at @chesterzoosci.bsky.social and @manmetuni.bsky.social Please get in touch for more information! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

I know that job situations have likely changed for many in climate research. If you are looking for a new opportunity, maybe consider our current opening for the Chief Editor at Nature Geoscience. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

🚨JOB alert🚨 Full-time Managing Editor role for @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour. Applicants must have animal #behaviour background; previous editorial experience would be ideal. Apply by 31st July 2025. #publishing #editor #job More details: www.asab.org/opportunities PLEASE share widely.

Need to predict an unknown trait, like body size, for extinct species? Use phylogenies! A new paper by colleagues from the ‪@uniofreading.bsky.social‬ and Montana State demonstrates that phylogenetic prediction is more accurate than regression formulae. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Are you looking for a PhD project starting this year? I have a funded (UK rates) project on mammal skull diversity and function, looking at skull allometry and how mammal heads adapt to trade-offs in tissue demands during growth 🦌🦘🐘🦥 Please share and apply: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/buil...

The Braasch Lab @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social will soon post a position to replace manager of our *Ancient Fish Facility* at Michigan State. Looking for aquaculturist excited for unusual 🐟 species (gar, bowfin, paddlefish, polypterus) + zebrafish. Pls send candidates our way (DM or [email protected])!

Cassowaries are one of those birds that reminds you that birds are dinosaurs.

Are you interested in muscle #biomechanics and looking for #postdoc opportunities? If you have skills in (statistical) shape modelling, advanced data analyses or 3D imaging/model reconstructions, get in touch with me! I will be at #SEB2025 (Antwerp), #CNB2025 (Helsinki), and #ISB2025 (Stockholm).

Check out our new paper in @journalofanatomy.bsky.social with @cbrassey.bsky.social using FEA and bend tests to show that seal whiskers are stiffer - in both shape and material - than terrestrial species. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Final days to register join us, the @linneansociety.bsky.social and our wonderful panelists for a discussion on how increasingly politicised media is affecting biodiversity conservation! Thursday, June 12 at 18:00 BST, Burlington House, London Register: tinyurl.com/e8e4p5zt

An evening’s thermal imaging with our visitors from MMU plus @ambresalis.bsky.social. We were lucky enough to spot a Beaver swimming towards us before it finally noticed us and slapped its tail on the water. We also spotted a Coypu browsing, plus huge numbers of bats hunting. @cbrassey.bsky.social

Day 8 with MMU and the students are well underway with their projects. There’s moth-trapping, analysis of Pumpkinseed Sunfish behaviour, invertebrate surveys, frog behaviour, bat acoustic surveys, bird and butterfly behaviour. Lots of great studies. @cbrassey.bsky.social @parusradious.bsky.social

We spent a great day exploring the Causse Méjean with MSc students from MMU. This limestone upland is famous for its meadows of Feather Grass. We were lucky enough to see some of these producing their feathery fronds, plus Owly Sulphur owlflies that are now on the wing. @cbrassey.bsky.social

Yesterday we explored the wetlands of the Camargue with MSc students and staff from MMU. We spotted several species of heron and nesting White Storks in the freshwater areas, then Greater Flamingos and breeding Black-winged Stilts in the saltmarshes. @cbrassey.bsky.social @parusradious.bsky.social

Day 2 with MMU and the MSc students have been trialling their projects. There’s been moth-trapping, underwater filming of Pumpkinseed Sunfish, searching for butterfly territories as well as acoustic projects. Lots of innovative ideas taking place! @cbrassey.bsky.social @parusradious.bsky.social

Our first day with Manchester Metropolitan University and we’ve been touring the habitats while the MSc students decide on their projects. Highlights of our walks were butterflies, frogs and a couple of snakes, including this Viperine Snake. @cbrassey.bsky.social‬ @parusradious.bsky.social‬

Postdoc job alert! I'm hiring a 3-yr postdoc to work on our Social Modifiers of Primate Lifespans grant. Job info and how to apply below. Deadline June 1. Pls share! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

PhD opportunity in #Ecoacoustics at MMU - come and work with us! 🌍🌎🦗🐦🌱🪶🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

We have a fully funded MSc position at UofA, Canada "Ecological time machines: bridging paleontology and community ecology" www.i-deel.org/opportunitie... co-supervised by Christine Sosiak (scholar.google.com/citations?us...) Please repost!

I've currently got capacity for work, so get in touch via DM or website (link below) if I can help with anything or talk over new projects. Sci Comms specialist. Motion Graphics, 3D modelling and animation, Scientific Visualisation, Graphic Design.

I am looking for a PhD candidate to work on the morphological and functional evolution of the head shape of limbless squamates. The project will involve evolutionary biology, experimental and computational biomechanics, and a lot of scaly animals!!! More info here: adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...

Come join us in the Biodiversity, Ecology and Behaviour team at University of Waikato @waikatouniversity.bsky.social! We are advertising a 3-4 year Lecturer position in Animal Behaviour. Especially ideal for anyone specialising in vertebrates! 🌏🌐 www.seek.co.nz/job/83279795...

Really happy to see this paper out, using field biomechanics we show that wild chimpanzees don't just randomly select plants materials for termite fishing tools – they use a little “folk physics” choosing materials with specific properties! Study in iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful.... 1/5

Workshop and symposium on biomechanical simulation techniques for evolutionary morphology!! In Bordeaux!! 26th to 28th May!! Find out more and sign up here: www.eventbrite.fr/e/biomechani...

Brilliant news on a Friday afternoon: gov will launch new natural history GCSE. It's taken Mary Colwell, @carolinelucas.bsky.social & others years of campaigning. (I'm praying it'll be introduced quickly enough for my children!) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘which came first, the pun, or the research project?’ *academics, head hung low, whispering* ‘the… the pun’

We’re really excited to have Dani start her PhD with us. And wonderful to have the @dogstrust.bsky.social as partners!

Why does this dwarf goat look so goofy? If you want to be the person that finds out, why not apply for this funded PhD with me at UCL, @evoswami.bsky.social at the NHM and Jesse Hennekam at Maastricht: tinyurl.com/mphf2hd9

PhD studentship funded by the Anatomical Society at the UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social. Studying the functional morphology of sheep, goats and their relatives including the fossil island dwarf Myotragus: www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... Contact me for more details.

We are hiring!! 🦎🧠🐍 2 year postdoc to work on on the evolution of brains in snakes and lizards (on our current ARC Discovery project). Applications close 25th March 2025! careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

Our first extraordinary biologist this week is Holly Shiels, cardiac physiologist at the @official-uom.bsky.social , who is a Director of @biologists.bsky.social and Organisation Committee Chair for the Biologists @ 100 conference. #100biologists

Come and join us in @nhm-london.bsky.social's Biodiversity Futures Lab! We're looking for a geospatial analyst to join the #PredictsProject team for 12 months (with possibility to extend) to help us further develop the Biodiversity Intactness Index. #job deadline 3 Mar jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job...

The Tai Chimpanzee Project is making available microCT scans from their collections on human-fossil-record.org. All proceeds are used to support their mission of conservation and non-invasive research in Tai National Park (taichimpproject.org).

A great list of awesome women in science! And of course, let's not forget the wonderful @jaimiagray.bsky.social herself - CT extraordinaire who created this amazing tortoise anatomical atlas! 🐢 anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I am recruiting an #ERC funded PostDoc to work on the evolution of vertebral counts in cichlids. This is an experimental project & will be looking for candidates with experience generating reporter lines, live-imaging and experimental embryology. Application deadline: 25th Feb. tinyurl.com/33jbu8fa

Are you an undergraduate student looking for an Industry Placement Year? We are looking for someone to join us @chesterzoosci.bsky.social for up to a year as our Population Biology placement! Interested? Apply here 👇 www.jobtrain.co.uk/chesterzoo/J...

Just when you think this year can't get any worse... Researchfish turns up

Something to keep in mind for 2025 Written by James Miller of A Small Fiction

📣 Come work with us! Three year Research Associate position to work as part of Leverhulme Trust funded project collecting and studying amazing Jurassic mammal fossils from the Isle of Skye. PhD not necessary; CT segmentation skills essential. Contact me for details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLK473/r...