1/3 www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate... PhD studentship! Comparative Analysis and Modelling of Collective Behaviour in Natural and Artificial Systems. **this scholarship for UK residents only, as defined by UKCISA regulations** Details below! Please RT (AI-generated image)

Less than 2 weeks left to apply for this! Come join us in @crab-exeter.bsky.social and as part of team MacaqueNet, to do some comparative social network and life-history research 🤩

Don't miss the satellite on Game Theory on Complex Systems at #CCS2025, with Sergey Gavrilets and Katerina Stankova already confirmed as invited speakers! Join in Siena, Italy, and submit your abstract for a contributed talk this week to be part of it! 📬

The 'Complexity Research in Animal Behaviour' conference symposium (satellite) will be back at CCS this year! A great place for complex systems researchers and animal behaviour researchers to connect. Abstract submission is open! sites.google.com/view/crab202...

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...

What happens when a wood ant network is disrupted? New Open Access research shows that it depends on the resource. Networks are resilient to the loss of random resources, but a targetted removal of a key resource changes network structure 1/2 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Using the BISoN R package to analyse your social networks? Have a question? Post in our new bisonR github, in the Discussions section. github.com/bison-team/b...

I am hiring PhD students and Postdocs to join me in beautiful Copenhagen. Together, we will develop data science methods to improve epidemic preparedness. Copenhagen is amazing, salary is good, we have plenty of funding, and a great community. Read more..: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Reposting this starter pack for new users. If you are doing research on animal social networks and would like to be added to the pack, just let me know. If you are doing research on other types of networks, it would be great if you could help sharing this - many thanks! go.bsky.app/39p1ccZ

Apparently the doi doesn't work for some people, so here's the full link: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... ☺️

So exciting to see MacaqueNet out into the world! 🤩 Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365... Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/

Comparative research in animal social behaviour—where are we at, and what’s next? In our symposium at #Behaviour2025 (S20) we explore the power & pitfalls of comparative approaches—and how to unlock their full potential. Join us to brainstorm, share ideas, and push the field forward together!

Recruiting a #PhD student to work on collective behaviour in real and artificial systems. Oct 2025 start. Working with @shoalgroup.bsky.social, Rob Heathcote, @willallennz.bsky.social, @joefresna.bsky.social, @marinapapap.bsky.social Advert: www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate... Deadline: 24.02

We're organizing a NetSci'25 satellite workshop on Directed Acyclic Graphs — if you're working on, e.g., citation graphs, pedigrees, causality, temporal-network event graphs, network representations of spacetime, or any other areas where DAGs play a role, please contribute! www.dagshop.xyz

For those interdisciplinary students/scholars who are having identity crisis, this is for you (from 2018): "How to survive as an interdisciplinary being" www.slideshare.net/slideshow/ho... #NetSciX2025

Reposting this for the new users. A few people are having problems with the link. If clicking on it doesn't work, copy-paste instead. If you are a researcher who works on animal social networks and would like to be added to the pack, just let me know!

Resharing for new users to find collaborations or just people posting cool #animal #research! I think I've got a decent mix of taxonomic groups of interest, so hopefully this will be useful 🐟🦍🐠🦎🦗🦈🐧🦂🐬🕷️🐌🐢🐙🦟🐳🦁🦋🐊🐜🦆🐘🦃🦘🐛 DM to be added 😊 go.bsky.app/9CV3PAd #Behavior

New PhD opportunity on social behaviour in the context of ecological disturbance with me, @mdekauwe.bsky.social, and others. Sept 2025 start, funded by NERC Apply by Jan 13. Project and application details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

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I have created a starter pack for animal social networks. This is just the beginning - more people will be added. If you would like to be added, just let me know! go.bsky.app/39p1ccZ

⭐️ New paper ⭐️ What happens to the spread of cooperation if cooperators occupy well-connected positions in social networks? We investigated it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

⭐preprint alert! ⭐ In the first half, we give a general introduction to generative network models. In the second half, we consider the use of generative network models in investigations of animal social systems. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

🌟 Come work with us in wonderful Copenhagen on an exciting project on social networks!🌟 1 PhD and 1 postdoc position available. Deadline 6th October. More info: PhD: employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16... Postdoc: employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...