Really happy to have presented my work in this cognition session at #SPEetol2025 😁

📢 JOB VACANCY Marine Ornithologist - Scottish Government Application deadline: 7 Nov shorturl.at/tXeHn #ornithology

Ready for @spetologia.bsky.social conference #SPEetol2025 !

🐠💥2 year postdoc in fish sensory ecology!! 💥🐟 If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...

Part of the Phil Trans special issue "Selection Shapes Diverse Animal Minds", edited with @ellileadbeater.bsky.social. Thanks to co-authors Andoni Sergiou, @josharbon.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social & @shoalgroup.bsky.social and all the special issue contributors. tinyurl.com/35mn84ty

Postdoc job alert! We are hiring a NYU-based postdoc to work on our project on the social and environmental determinants of aging. The 3 year post will be based in James Higham's lab and will focus on endocrine, immune, and inflammatory aspects of aging. Please share! apply.interfolio.com/173938

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...

New paper! 🦎 Urbanization reshapes the social behaviour of wall lizards Now out in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org 🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @averymaune.bsky.social

I have a job opening in my lab. If you are interested in bird behaviour and predator prey interactions please take a look! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Job Alert! Come and join our team at our field site CRP Simenti in Senegal. Julia Fischer @julxf.bsky.social (@primatenzentrum.bsky.social) is recruiting a #Research_Manager. Work with the wonderful lovely Guinea baboons and manage our long-term data collection. 👉 www.dpz.eu/karriere/ste...

3yr PDRA at @exeter.ac.uk with @york.ac.uk and Centre for Whale Research, studying how killer whale social relationships change with prey availability, partner loss and social info. A fantastic team & unique longterm dataset. Deadline 19 Oct! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/postdoctoral-research-associate

Another #SPEmebers paper as #ASABEditorsChoice João Pacheco Patrícia Beltrão @trigosandra.bsky.social @mostlywaxbills.bsky.social Check out the work 👇👇👇👇👇

The Smith Bee Lab is HIRING! 🐝🐝🐝 - Postdoc (2-4yrs, flexible start-date) - 1-2 Graduate Students (to start Fall 2026) No prior experience with honey bees needed, we encourage people from diverse research areas to apply! (no jerks, plz)

Delighted to be cosupervising this funded PhD with @joewynnbirds.bsky.social on #migration in #birds #seabirds @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Start in early 2026! Register for our online briefing session. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

with SPE members João Pacheco, Patrícia Beltrão, Sandra Trigo @trigosandra.bsky.social , and Gonçalo Cardoso @mostlywaxbills.bsky.social @ Animal Behaviour

🚨 PhD position in behavioural evolution 🚨 Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve. Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs liu.se/en/work-at-l...

Excited to share that I've joined Anna Qvarnström lab @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social at Uppsala University 😁 Looking forward for the 2 years ahead and to share the cool things I'll be doing with the flycatchers at Öland and its long-term data 🤩

João Pacheco's new paper - doi.org/10.1016/j.an... - continues a story of fear, reputation, show-off and aggression in waxbills. Here are all chapters: doi.org/10.1016/j.an... doi.org/10.1098/rspb... doi.org/10.1093/behe... doi.org/10.1016/j.an... doi.org/10.1016/j.an... doi.org/10.1111/eth....

👇👇👇👇👇 etologia.pt/ for more information! #AnimalBehaviour #spemembers #speetologia #ethology #animalbehaviour #science #evolution #animalwelfare #cognition

Comunicado da SPE | Reforma do Ministério da Educação, Ciência e Inovação ------ SPE statement | Change of the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation

Yesterday was my last day as PostDoc at Stockholm University! I'm so grateful for what I learned and developed at John Fitzpatrick lab! Many cool research will come soon 😀 For now the colleagues and collaborations stay, and a very well deserved time off is ahead. But not for long! more news soon 😁

Join us for #ASABWinter2025 in Edinburgh Dec 15-16 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Abstracts for posters/talks due Aug 29 More details here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/

Last week season 10 of Fine finished. You can watch each of the exciting talks we had in this and all previous seasons on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@seminaronfr...

When registering in the congress, consider becoming a SPE member and access reduced fees to register in the congress More info here 👇👇👇👇 etologia.pt/members-en/ #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology #EthologicalResearch #BehavioralEcology #BehavioralScience #cognition #societymembership

Don't miss the last chance to submit an abstract and present it at SPE Congress! Final deadline is TOMORROW (the 27th)! Submit your abstract here 👇👇👇 ccmar.ualg.pt/activity/xxi... #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology #EthologicalResearch #BehavioralEcology #animalresearch #sciencemeetings

🤯 There are plenty of benefits to become SPE member! 👇👇👇👇 etologia.pt/members-en/ 📢 You can continue to register even just to attend the congress without submitting an abstract after the 27th! 👇👇👇👇👇 ccmar.ualg.pt/activity/xxi...

🚨 Don't miss your last chance to submit your abstract until sunday 27th July! 🎉 You can continue to register even though the early bird prices are over. 🤔 Do consider joining SPE and becoming a member to benefit from reduced prices in the registration.

Register at early bird prices until 18th of July (tomorrow!!) Submit your abstract until tomorrow!! ccmar.ualg.pt/activity/xxi... English is official language! Submitting authors need to register as well within dates to benefit from early bird prices. Students and researchers welcome!

1 WEEK to submit your abstract and regist in early bird prices! One reason to submit? That's easy! Students presenting can win an award! These awards can allow you to attend an international ethological congress. See more infos regarding our Vitor Almada Award in our website etologia.pt/about-en/

Selection Shapes Diverse Animal Minds: our special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org Phil Trans B on the diverse evolutionary processes underlying cognitive evolution is out today. Thanks to all our contributors! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

Excited (& a bit terrified) to officially share our #R #package with the world 🤩 swaRmverse provides a pipeline to analyze #collective #motion #data, promoting more comparative work across the Swarm-Verse 🐐🦬🐦🐒🐟 🦖🐑🕸️ With @sjmgarnier @SHOALgroup 🙏

Capturing the behaviour of animals in their natural habitat with high detail? #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social researchers developed a unique outdoor camera system to measure 3D movements and postures of wild birds: https://t1p.de/m0kzr

Very excited to see our paper using historical data to infer toothed whale lifespans published this week in the Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society (@biojlinnsoc.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1093/biol... w. @darrencroft.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social @mialybkaer.bsky.social, Dan Franks

📢📝 REGISTRATIONS OPEN! ⏰️📄 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS OPEN!

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)

New Paper published 🎉🎉 👇👇👇

SAVE THE DATE! We are pleased to announce the 22nd Congress of the Portuguese Ethological Society, taking place on October 30–31, 2025, at the University of Algarve (Penha Campus), in sunny southern Portugal. All ethology researchers welcome! Stay tunned for news! ccmar.ualg.pt/activity/xxi...

Hoje celebramos todos os que promovem a ciência e investigação em Portugal, avançando a ciência no nosso país! Feliz Dia Nacional dos Cientistas para todos os cientistas em Portugal! 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬👨‍💻👩‍💻🎉🎉

Our paper, on viewing condition and the evolution of plumage colour, is published! This was several years of work, building on our study of woodcock communication. Working with @sheardcat.bsky.social and John was a particular privilege. 🪶🧪#ornithology 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...

🐦 We are recruiting two field managers to work with us in South Africa on the fantastic sociable weaver system 🐦 Tasks include breeding monitoring and overseeing the field team activities 🪶 Deadline for applications: 20/04/2025 For more information: sociableweaverproject.com/recruitment/...

February was great for #SPEmembers. March will be even better! But in case you missed the amazing publications from our members, we are here for you! 👇👇👇

Great talk by Hal Whitehead about sperm whale clans yesterday. If you missed it, then watch it here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQbA...

📣 New PhD position on flycatchers with @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social — spread the word! Combine bioinformatics, long-term datasets and field work to explore climate adaptation and speciation in the lovely flycatchers. Join us in Uppsala, Sweden! Apply by Mar 18: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... #ecoevojob

We have an exciting new position in our lab for a PhD on parrot tool use! See below

🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨 #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology #Conservation "Characterising the behaviour of bait-attracted blue sharks Prionace glauca using pelagic drift video: Ríos et al. with SPE members Noélia Rios, Emanuel Gonçalves, and Maria Clara Amorim at MEPS www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...

MacaqueNet, a global community and FAIR database, is now also a @animalecology.bsky.social paper! Decades of research by 100+ ppl, 5yrs of data cleaning & standardizing, 2 workshops (+1 upcoming Kolkata '25), 4 active projects and counting. Contibute data, follow the newsletter, make a request!

Second paper out this week 😱😱 We present YOLO-Behaviour, a flexible, easy to implement, robust framework for automated behavioural annotation from videos, published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social!! [paper] doi.org/10.1111/2041... [documentation] alexhang212.github.io/YOLO_Behavio...

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/