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PostDoc at IEE -
@unibe.ch
studying
#acoustics
in frogs barbarafreitas.netlify.app
pinned post!
📢 New preprint from my PhD project (while in
@mncn-csic.bsky.social
& CRBE-Toulouse) available:
doi.org/10.64898/202...
Can song differences split populations? We tested this in the Canary Islands Chaffinch from La Palma Island, using playback experiments.
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Jacob C. Dunn
3 days ago
Coming to
@ecbb2026.bsky.social
? Then get your
@asab.org
travel grants submitted by June 1st! Fantastic opportunity for support from our brilliant society. See you
@angliaruskin.bsky.social
in Cambridge!
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Jingyi Yang
5 days ago
Happy to see my PhD work on birdsong complexity published today!
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
🐦⬛ 🎶 ⬇️ Why are some birdsongs simple and some extremely complex? The answer is long thought to be ‘sexual selection favouring complex signals’. But - really?
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Song complexity in suboscine birds: evolutionary drivers and ecological constraints
Abstract. Acoustic signal complexity varies widely in animals, from single notes to highly sophisticated vocal displays. In birds, vocal complexity can evo
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2026.0429
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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar
4 days ago
Still time to apply for the Meta-Science summer school!
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Olivier Morin
3 months ago
CALL: a PhD grant (3 years) to do a PhD with me at
@cognitionens.bsky.social
on the evolution of graphic codes.
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/410213
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PhD student grant (3 years) on the evolution of written communication
My team recruits a PhD student to work under the supervision of Olivier Morin on the evolution of written communication, within a project jointly led by Olivier Morin, Hugo Mercier, and Marc Allassonn...
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/410213
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Royal Society of Biology
18 days ago
Applications for our two assistant vacancies close this Sunday 10 May! We're looking for a part-time Engagement and Grants Assistant and a Membership Engagement Assistant to join our team! 📆 Applications for both roles close on 10 May Find out more:
my.rsb.org.uk/services.php...
#Vacancy
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Elodie Mandel-Briefer
21 days ago
I am reposting this with a working link:
www.survey-xact.dk/LinkCollecto...
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Dr Alex Bond
about 1 month ago
Roll up, roll up! Looking for a postdoc? Want somewhere that's academia adjacent? Interested in seabirds, plastics, and conservation? Come work with me and
@adriftlab.bsky.social
! If you want to help develop an application, get in touch!
#ornithology
#seabirds
#PhDjobs
#PostdocJobs
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Steffen Oppel
about 1 month ago
NEW PhD studentship in
#ornithology
to calculate how much power
#birds
need to fly, and how power varies among species and speeds:
buff.ly/oS56wm1
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Çağlar Akçay
29 days ago
Abstract deadline (April 30th) for the European Congress for Behavioural Biology fast approaching!! Don't miss out!
www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe...
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Edward Grey Institute
29 days ago
Some new work from us, led by
@davididiaquez.bsky.social
(see thread ⬇️). We ask what happens if instead of measuring on calendar dates, we measure bird responses to climate defined by the temperature at which annual events happen. It turns out they keep stable T˚!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Common Tern Project
28 days ago
Some very happy news on this Monday: over the weekend, two of our GPS-tagged gull-billed terns returned to Neufelderkoog and started uploading their data to the hub. Although the data transfer is not yet complete, both seem to have spent their winter in Guinea-Bissau.
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Wolfgang Viechtbauer
28 days ago
A new version (5.0-1) of the metafor package has been released on CRAN. It includes some smaller updates, including more ways to visualize prediction intervals / distributions. Further details here:
www.metafor-project.org/doku.php/new...
#Rstats
#MetaAnalysis
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Claudia Wascher
5 months ago
If you work on corvid ecology, behaviour, cognition, or conservation, this might be useful for you 👇 I’ve just published CORVIDATA in Scientific Data 🐦
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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CORVIDATA: A global dataset of morphology, ecology, sociality, and life-history in Corvidae - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - CORVIDATA: A global dataset of morphology, ecology, sociality, and life-history in Corvidae
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-06471-x
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Anna N Osiecka 🍉
about 1 month ago
🔊Out now with
@lsburchardt.bsky.social
@marcosqoliva.bsky.social
, Kouřil & Petrusková: Yellowhammer males sing using individual isochronous rhythms & maximise rhythmic dissimilarity with their neighbours.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Pauline Provini
about 2 months ago
🚨 Job alert!
#PhD
in
#Biomechanics
×
#Neuroscience
to study birdsong 🎵🐤
@mecadev.bsky.social
and
@neuropsi.bsky.social
We are pre-selecting a candidate by April 15 to compete to InLife & IPV 2026 doctoral program (interview: May 20) 🔗 Full offer:
sites.google.com/site/pauline...
Please share!
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AKA NickleDave
about 2 months ago
Paper on the ethics of using AI/ML to decode animal communication, from
@marriah.bsky.social
@kristinandrews.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Addresses work of
@earthspecies.bsky.social
@projectceti.bsky.social
& others
#bioacoustics
#prattle
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Can we talk to the animals? The ethics of using machine learning to decode animal communication - Topoi
There is currently much scientific and public interest in using machine learning to uncover the meaning of animal signals, which could ultimately lead to two-way communication systems between humans a...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11245-026-10409-2
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Limor Raviv 🐘🤗🦒🍄🦄
about 2 months ago
I'm hiring! 📢 Fully funded 4-year PhD position in Language Evolution using Communication Games at
@mpi-nl.bsky.social
. Come work with me on how different social pressures shape the evolution of new communication systems in the lab! Deadline for application is May 18th!
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Fully funded 4-year PhD position in Language Evolution using Communication Games | Max Planck Institute
https://share.google/fGTKbFS4v4Gb8vvaz
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Lundy Bird Observatory
about 2 months ago
An excellent opportunity for 14 young birders to visit Lundy, boat and board included --
lundybirdobs.org.uk/news-and-sig...
Additional funding for young people to get out to a bird obs, through the BTO here --
www.bto.org/our-work/you...
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology
about 2 months ago
URGENT! ⏰ BTO is looking for one or more part-time bird surveyors able to work in east Fermanagh (Northern Ireland) between mid-April and mid-July. Time and mileage costs will be paid. If you are interested, please contact
[email protected]
by Thursday 9 April for further details.
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Animal Behavior Society
about 2 months ago
Do you love animal behavior & want to share that joy with younger folks? Write a short article on animal behavior for Frontiers for Young Minds (ages 8–15), co-authored with an undergrad! Part of an international ABS collection. Expression of interest due April 30.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Dr Rachael Miller (Harrison)
about 2 months ago
Extremely excited to start my 8-year
@royalsociety.org
Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship
@uniexecec.bsky.social
focussing on understanding the role of individual cognitive variation in reintroduction biology. With 2x 4-year Postdoc and PhD positions being advertised shortly - do get in touch if interested!
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IslandBiologyJAPAN
about 2 months ago
📢 Island Biology 2026 📢 An international conference on island biology November 2–6, 2026 Atami, Japan Registration is now open! Early-bird deadline: April 9 We’re also planning a special issue in Ecological Research!
#IB2026
#Special_Issue
@ecologicalresearch.bsky.social
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Maria Moiron
2 months ago
If you enjoyed the paper below👇👇, you might also be interested in our symposium on “Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in a Changing World” at the Nordic Oikos-GfÖ conference! The amazing Viktoriia Radchuk will be giving a talk, and we still have a few spots open, reach out to if interested!
#NSO2026
🐦🌴🐝🌡️📉
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David López-Idiáquez
2 months ago
With
@mmoiron.bsky.social
, we are organising a symposium on Eco-evolutionary dynamics in a Changing World at the Nordic Oikos-GfÖ conference. There are still a few spots left, so if you are doing research on eco-evolutionary dynamics and would like to contribute to the Symposium, contact us!
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Çağlar Akçay
2 months ago
New paper led by
@alperyelimlies.bsky.social
(1st chapter of his thesis!) in Animal Behaviour: Alper discovered that female Galapagos yellow warblers commonly sing solo songs and duets with their mates but mostly during the non-breeding season.
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
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Elodie Mandel-Briefer
2 months ago
Registrations are now open for the renowned PhD Summer school in acoustic communication organised by SDU from 2-15.8 Denmark. Deadline 15.4. More info in picture below. 🦜🐳🦗🦇
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Ecology of Animal Societies
3 months ago
3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama! Three positions, each including salary & a research budget. Applications due April, 15th. DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us!
stri.si.edu/academic-pro...
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3 Year Postdoctoral Fellowships in Animal Behavior
https://stri.si.edu/academic-programs/fellowships/tropical-animal-behavior-3-year-fellowship
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📢 New preprint from my PhD project (while in
@mncn-csic.bsky.social
& CRBE-Toulouse) available:
doi.org/10.64898/202...
Can song differences split populations? We tested this in the Canary Islands Chaffinch from La Palma Island, using playback experiments.
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Nicolas Mouquet
3 months ago
🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉
www.biodiful.org#/forest
This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag
@biodiful.bsky.social
to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
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Mark A. Hanson
4 months ago
With data from >100k special issues, we set out to tackle this problem. Guest editors publishing in their own issues is a form of "endogeny". In this study, we define special issues with extreme endogeny as Published In Support of Self (PISS). So, how much of this literature is PISS? 4/n
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Ane Liv
3 months ago
Have you considered whether animals differ in their perception of density? We explored how differences in our senses, interpretation and past experiences shapes density perception, causing behavioral differences and affecting fitness outcomes. 🧪
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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José Cerca
3 months ago
We have published a preprint entitled “Island species as models for small population biology and conservation.” 🏝️🩵🌍 1/3
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Island species as models for small population biology and conservation
https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/12012/
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Danai Papageorgiou
2 months ago
Workshop on Animal Social Evolution! July 13th-15th, Heraklion (Greece) We are inviting early-career researchers from Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean to a hands-on, three-day workshop dedicated to methods and tools in social behaviour and evolution
marinapapa.github.io/TRASEworksho...
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TRASE Workshop 2026
July 13th-15th, Heraklion (Greece)
https://marinapapa.github.io/TRASEworkshop2026/
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Dan Stowell
3 months ago
Pleased to announce the BioDCASE Challenge 2026 - the Bioacoustics Data Challenge! Now with 6 different tasks to choose from, each an open-data computational challenge of its own: https://biodcase.github.io/challenge2026/
#machinelistening
#biodcase
#bioacoustics
#DCASE
#sound
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BioDCASE Challenge - BioDCASE
Tasks We are excited to announce the 2026 BioDCASE task line up! Multi-Channel Alignment Alignment Task 1 Bioacoustic and environmental recordings are often captured using multiple devices operating simultaneously, for example with passive autonomous recorders or animal-borne loggers. When such recordings are not temporally aligned, analyses that rely on relative …
https://biodcase.github.io/challenge2026/
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Joseph Tobias
2 months ago
🚨 Bulbul project update: we are now measuring specimens in several collections in Asia, Europe and USA. The data will be used in a family-wide analysis of intraspecific variation and are destined for the next global dataset release (AVONET 2.0). If you want to join the project, get in touch. 🪶🌐🌎🧪
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Steffen Oppel
3 months ago
NEW JOB in
#ornithology
chasing
#nutcrackers
in Switzerland to understand seed dispersal patterns:
buff.ly/Cx0OOQy
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Kate Laskowski
3 months ago
How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications. My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/
academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
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Replication studies: a win-win for early-career training and behavioral ecology
Replicating previous research builds confidence that results are real and meaningful. But close replications are rare due to limitations in resources and d
https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/37/2/araf158/8470710?login=true
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Matthew Silk
3 months ago
New (competition funded) PhD opportunity with me,
@iaciac.bsky.social
and
@dralgernon.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Higher-order networks and animal communication. Suited to someone keen on network science theory/computational modeling and keen to adapt this to ecology & evolution.
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3 months ago
The Birdsong Lab is recruiting graduate students to study vocal communication in tropical birds. The deadline to apply is less than a week away!
#birds
#birdsong
#ornithology
#animalbehavior
#BirdsCanada
#AcademicSky
#SciComm
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José Cerca
4 months ago
Let's look at some numbers 2022: 7 044 applications submitted. 17.9 % success rate 2023: 8 039 applications submitted. 15.8 % success rate 2024: 10 360 applications submitted. 16.6 % success rate 2025: 17 058 applications submitted (record high). 9.7% success rate (preliminary numbers).
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Spurn Bird Observatory
4 months ago
We’re recruiting at Spurn Bird Observatory 🐦 Head Little Tern Warden + 2 Assistant roles available at Beacon Ponds this season. Details here 👉
spurnbirdobservatory.co.uk/news
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ASAB Spring 2026
5 months ago
Registration for
#ASABSpring2026
is now open!
asab-spring-conference2026.github.io
Don't forget the travel grant AND abstract deadlines are Feb 1!
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Richard Lenski
6 months ago
The 2026 Guarda Summer Course in Evolutionary Biology is now accepting applications. Amazing place, amazing course, amazing opportunity for early grad students.
tb.ethz.ch/education/gu...
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Summer school:<br> Evolutionary Biology in Guarda
Information about the annual summer school Evolutionary Biology in Guarda
https://tb.ethz.ch/education/guarda.html
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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics
7 months ago
Join us tomorrow for two great neuro-eco-evo talks! Sign up here:
braincoustics.com
#bioacoustics
#neuroskyence
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Harry Siviter
7 months ago
PhD position at the University of Bristol (with me!) entitled 'The legacy impacts of extreme climate events on animal behaviour, physiology, and fitness'. Fully funded and is available for UK-domiciled students of black heritage. Please reach out with any questions.
tinyurl.com/5n7s8yp9
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Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage - The legacy impacts of extreme climate events on animal behaviour, physio...
PhD Project - Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage - The legacy impacts of extreme climate events on animal beh...
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/funded-phd-open-to-uk-domiciled-home-fee-applicants-of-black-african-black-caribbean-or-other-black-or-mixed-black-heritage-the-legacy-impacts-of-extreme-climate-events-on-animal-behaviour-physiology-and-fitness/?p188201
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Charley Wu
7 months ago
Fully-funded 4-year
#PhD
in Cultural Evolution! Join my
@erc.europa.eu
project exploring how compression & compositionality drive cultural innovation:
hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur...
Apply by Nov 12! Maybe of interest to folks from
#COSMOS2025
or
@eslr.bsky.social
? Please feel free to share! 🙏
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ERC funded PhD position on Cultural Evolution
ERC funded PhD position on Cultural Evolution posted on October 16, 2025 We are currently seeking a highly motivated individual for a ful...
https://hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCulturalEvolution.html
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Catherine Sheard
7 months ago
Sweet-looking postdoc with Chris Cooney (who is awesome) on perceptual bias and animal communication signals. FWIW, Sheffield seems to be a genuinely great place to live.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPB994/r...
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Research Associate (Biodiversity & Evolution) at University of Sheffield
Apply now for the Research Associate (Biodiversity & Evolution) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPB994/research-associate-biodiversity-and-evolution
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Ferran Sayol
7 months ago
PhD offer on island extinctions. Last week to apply! 👇🏼
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Ben Sheldon
7 months ago
Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in
@biology.ox.ac.uk
in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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