Insects share affective states : emotional contagion revealed by transfer of positive judgment bias between bumblbees 📄 Romero-González et al. (2025) Positive affective contagion in bumble bees. Science 390:377–380 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.adr0216 […] [Original post on mamot.fr]

Open-source, low-cost, Raspberry Pi-based experimental setup for implementing stochastic time series for temperature, oxygen concentration or pH in mesocosms. #Science #Biology #Ecology #raspberrypi #opensource #Stochasticity #Temperature #climatechange #Fish 📄 […] [Original post on mamot.fr]

If you conduct research in behavioural biology, you may be familiar with the excellent automatic tracking software for analysing ethological videos : AnimalTA http://vchiara.eu/index.php/animalta, developed by Violette Chiara. If you use it in classrooms, would you […] [Original post on mamot.fr]

Tenure track position (CPJ CNRS) in functional ecology of lotic systems in now open in my lab, in Lyon, France. #science #ecology #job #career #academic #tenure 🔗 https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CPJ/CPJ-2025-019/Default.aspx?lang=EN

The Royal Society is dead A few months ago, Dorothy Bishop resigned her fellowship in the Royal Society in protest at Elon Musk's continuing fellowship. This was a highly principled stand. Eight weeks ago, Steven Curry wrote an open letter to the President of the Royal Society asking him to […]

Try to explain scientific journal publishing fees to non-academics... https://xkcd.com/2085/

Postdoctoral research fellowship in insect ecology and behaviour of forest-living ground beetle species, in Wiebke Schuett's group, Brighton, UK 🔗 https://jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/c64a6156-cac4-427a-bebd-c195f21e280e #science #biology #ecology #insect #carabid #career #postdoc #PostdocFellowships

#standupforscience in Lyon, France, on Friday March 7 at 4PM, place des Terreaux, Lyon 🔗 FR : https://standupforscience.fr 🔗 USA : https://standupforscience2025.org/ #science @standupforscience_paris

International commercial trade is a major driver of ecological invasions. Unlike Suez canal, the Panama Canal had a lock system opened in 1914 which limited introduction of marine species. Recent expansion work has enabled the transit of mega-vessels. In this […] [Original post on mamot.fr]

In behavioural biology and animal personality, we constantly need to assess the #repeatability of temporal data (latency time for change of state) typically analysed with survival model (Cox model). Shinichi Nakagawa and colleagues have published an ICC-based […] [Original post on mamot.fr]

A permanent position as Professor of Ecology is available in my laboratory in Lyon, France. 🔗 Profile description in English and French: https://sdrive.cnrs.fr/s/E3fc2nKoD8ECpJL/download/prof_ecology_univ_lyon_2025.pdf #career #job #ecology #cnrs #lehna #LEHNA_lab #univlyon1

Good science doesn't always require elaborate protocols. Maëlan Tomasek, a PhD student in Alex Jordan's group in Konstanz, published a simple but elegant study of the cognitive abilities of wild fish. The sample size is modest, but it's a proof of concept: some […] [Original post on mamot.fr]

Wild drunk: evolution of #alcohol consumption in animal species in natural population. High concentration of sugar in fruits favours fermentative yeasts and natural ethanol production. #Science #Biology #Ecology #Evolution #AnimalBehaviour #Foraging 📄 Bowland et […] [Original post on mamot.fr]