It was a pleasure talking to Mary about our apparatus to take fish cognition research into the wild! 🐟🧠 Read it on Psychology Today ⬇️⬇️ with @kotrschal.bsky.social and @amydeacon.bsky.social

🚨The 2nd circular for the 1st Mexican Congress of Evolution is out! Join us this November 19-21 in CDMX to celebrate evolutionary biology across Latin America. 📅 Save the date! #MexEvol2025 #EvolutionaryBiology #ReMBE

The International Student Conference on Animal Behavior and Cognition (ISCABC) - run by students, for students - will be kicking off today 😀 I'm very honored to be one of its plenary speakers, talking about 🐟🦋 on June 7th. Check all talks and posters ➡️ www.instagram.com/iscabc/?igsh...

🔊 ¡Llamado a pensar la evolución desde el sur! Invitamos a estudiantes de maestría y doctorado en biología evolutiva de Sudamérica a postularse a EvoSur. 🧬 Un espacio para intercambiar ideas, debatir evolución y tejer redes científicas con todas las voces, todas: sites.google.com/view/evosur2...

Just over a week left to apply for this. Please get the word out there and tell your students :)

It's #BiodiversityDay today! Bask in this bloom of beautiful botanicals illustrated by Dorothy Fernando in 'Wildflowers of Ceylon' 1954.

Procuramos cientistas lusófonos em Toulouse! 📍 Esta é a tua oportunidade de criar impacto e aproximar crianças migrantes da ciência através da sua língua de herança 📅 24 de Maio às 10h30 para crianças 7- 12 anos 📥 Inscreve-te (código 376) ou envia-me mensagem bit.ly/4iDpQWA tinyurl.com/j8n45bje

📖Published📖 Check out our recent research article, presenting YOLO-Behaviour, a flexible framework for identifying visually distinct behaviours from video recordings 🌎 🧪 👇 https://buff.ly/4gJxtsL

Are you a member of the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE)? I'm holding zoom chats during which I will get your feedback and thoughts about what the society can do for you and for the field! Everyone is welcome to join -- sign up for a time and pls RT this!!

And now, we also have a 2-year postdoc position in the Stelkens Lab! 🧪 If you are interested in parallel evolution, genomics, yeast, and climate adaptation, this could be for you! Please apply through U Stockholm's job platform here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

New preprint w/ @lmchev.bsky.social 🐦 How can we infer breeding phenology and reproductive success from bird counts or captures? We developed a model linking juvenile proportion in populations to reproductive timing and success. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Também escrevi um post em 🇵🇹 no Methods Blog sobre este projecto! PT: tinyurl.com/yfndv6fn I also wrote a blog post in Portuguese & English in the Methods Blog about this project! EN: tinyurl.com/yn9ku32m

An idea that's been on the works for a long time has finally made it to the surface! We designed a foraging board to test cognition 🧠💡 and ➕ in multiple 🐟 species and habitats. ➡️ besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Get your application in before the deadline (Mar 31)! Sistematicos hispanohablantes! Postulen a estos fondos para poder cubrir potencialmente la totalidad de los costos de participacion en Evolution 2025! La fecha limite es el 31 de marzo! www.systbio.org/early-career...

Two job openings helping massive native reforestation projects here in Panama! 1 - 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (𝐌𝐑𝐕) 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝 Lead a team tracking reforestation progress across Panama. 2 - 𝐅𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Glad to see that academic publishers are being challenged, let's see what will come out of this. In the meanwhile, let's try to publish in society journals where profits go back into supporting our research community!

It is spring and time for a new round of mentorship matching! This time we are also looking for new mentors, so if you are interested in supporting animal behaviours students do join us! Mentee sign up here: forms.gle/zPgk4Nwq2znE... Mentor sign up here: forms.gle/cD3cEqoXHaLT...

Call for abstract is now open, until March 28! 🧪

🚨If you fancy evolutionary genomics, theory, my lab now offers *two* fully-funded #PhD #genomics #popgen #evolution ℹ️One on sex-asex transitions with Christoph Haag bit.ly/4hp1q1A ℹ️One on allele-specific expression with Sylvain Glémin bit.ly/4iuKLuQ Part of #ERC RegEvol In #CEFE lab, Montpellier

A good read on where APC fees go to: "is it better to publish in journals that profit your academic community or profit *from* that community?"

We have a 4-year fully funded PhD position available! Research topics include but are not limited to 1) Parallel evolution of climate adaptation in Europe and South America 2) The genetic architecture of temperature adaptation 3) The evolution of pathogenicity su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Linköping University offers a two-year postdoc in avian brain size evolution using quantitative genetics and phylogenetics. PhD required. Apply by April 15, 2025: [email protected]. https://liu.se/en/research/henriksen-group #postdoc

Very well phrased text on a topic that I have discussed countless times at different universities... All the hours and money we have lost to useless bureaucracy 🤫

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Deadline reminder! 📅 Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA)'s Catalytic Awards Program offers grants up to $15k for initiatives that drive open science, community engagement, & innovation in traditionally under-resourced U.S. institutions. Applications due: 3/15/25. 🔗: orcaopen.org/work/cap

The deadline to submit abstracts is approaching!!! ⏰ (March 7th) Consider submitting an abstract for a talk or poster in our session (A14) if you study the vulnerability of early life stages to environmental stressors! 🐣 The early bird registration deadline is May 16th.

Job announcement - we're hiring! Postdoctoral Fellow, 2 yrs, Adelaide Uni Plastic brains: Neural adaptations to changing environments in reptiles Team led by @jcroweriddell.bsky.social with @draliceclement.bsky.social‬ Shaun Collin & myself. Details here: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

🚨Fully-funded PhD studentship on insect behaviour, cognition & muscles with me & @viveknityananda.bsky.social at @newcastleuni.bsky.social 🐝🍀🎓🙌Application deadline April 30, start date in September. Drop me an email if you have questions! www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...

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...

Do you have a project in ecology and evolution that exemplifies open science? If so nominate the project for a SORTEE Commendation Award: More details about the SORTEE Commendation Award:

Paid internship at a reforestation org in Panama! Ponterra está contratando a un pasante de entomología. Este pasante recibirá capacitación sobre identificación y microscopía de invertebrados del suelo

🚨 Calling from #RoyalSocietyPublishing! 🚨 We are excited to share that the #BiologyLetters Early Career Researcher Competition is open for submissions until April 30, 2025! Grand prize: £1000 2 runners-up: £500 each. 🔗 More details: royalsociety.org/journals/aut...

Useful for things like latency to respond or other types of time-to-event censored data!

Long-term memory formation impacts dietary energy intake but not metabolic rate in honeybees https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.17.638520v1

Review of applications starts March 1st! Apply here: disi.org/apply/

Come work with me! #sparrows #microbiomes #reproduction

2025. Experiments show wild fish can recognize individual divers phys.org/news/2025-02...

A paper in Nature reports that the loggerhead turtle can learn and remember the magnetic signature of an area and does a ‘turtle dance’ when in a location that they associate with food. https://go.nature.com/4jSQEDo 🐢 🧪

Worth the read! In addition to the problematic they discuss, I find that some of these worries also apply when you are a foreigner in a lab and don't master the local language - this might exclude you from coffee or lunch conversations and make you have less scientific exchanges 😔

Since 1987, we've been promoting the study of animal behaviour in Portugal. From organizing national congresses to publishing our journal acta ethologica, we’re here to connect researchers, educators, and anyone passionate about Ethology. Follow us! 🐒🦉🐺 #Ethology #AnimalBehaviour #Portugal

Excited to share the first paper from our COST Action! 🎉 This PAW definition paper has been a huge collaborative effort that we hope will help shape research directions and inspire scientific progress for the benefit of animals and humans alike. 🐾🌍 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Hey BlueSkyers, we’re finalizing a #meta-analysis 📚 on comparative studies examining the link between #SexualSelection and #Speciation. If you have unpublished data or know of studies that might not surface in a systematic search, please reach out - we’d love to include them! Please share!

We are organizing the 1st European Lionfish Conference in Crete 15.-17. May 2025. Join us! Everybody working on or interested in lionfish is most welcome. A joint effort of Wageningen University and the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research: www.wur.nl/en/research-...

The 4th International Student Conference on Animal Behaviour and Cognition will be held in Universiade Federal de Alagoas in the city of Maceió, Brazil. The conference will cover animal welfare, ethology, behavioral ecology, new techniques and much more. iscabc.com/registration

Do you have a project that exemplifies open science in ecology and evolution? If yes, nominate the project for a SORTEE Commendation Award: More details about the SORTEE Commendation Award:

Killifish are great in general, but this one: jumping through the jungle and breathing through its tail while doing so...the jumping guabine of Trinidad. @amydeacon.bsky.social and friends created some spectacular footage: www.iflscience.com/tail-breathi...