The sun did briefly shine in Cambridge today on my last day in @camzoology.bsky.social. It has been a monumental 5.5 years, both professionally and personally. Words can't express my gratitude towards both the Department and the @marinebehavecol.bsky.social group for making me feel so at home 🐠

📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We are hiring - PDRA position exploring how information access shapes social dynamics in killer whales. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social Prof Dan Franks (York) start 1st Nov (or ASAP) end 31st Oct 2028. Apps close on 19th Oct. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/p...

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...

Celebrating 10 years @aru-biology.bsky.social, now as Professor of Behavioural Biology! Endlessly grateful to the students and collaborators whose curiosity, mentorship, and teamwork made this journey so rewarding, whilst navigating and challenging academia's systemic hurdles #WomenInSTEM #ARUproud

Animal brains don’t think in a vacuum, they think in heatwaves & hypoxia, and around predators, parasites, and social groups. Our new review maps mechanisms, timescales, and gaps for understanding animal cognition in changing environments: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lau5Esvgs...

I ll be giving a workshop on our new swaRmverse package at #Behaviour2025, come to learn more about quantifying spatiotemporal patterns of animal groups, practical tips on analysis, and discussion on next new features 😁 💻 Package info👇 doi.org/10.1111/2041... & 🙏 to @asab.org for the travel grant🥰

Why do treehoppers look so weird?! Our latest paper, out this week in @pnas.org, suggests a perhaps unexpected reason - static electricity ⚡ We show that treehoppers can detect the electrostatic cues of predators and that their crazy shapes may boost their electrosensitivity! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

🔴New #trumpetfish content!🔴 This species is colour #polymorphic so we dove (pun intended) into how the relative abundance and saliency of each morph influences the #behaviour of their prey. Find out more via the link below! 🎺🐠 🔗 tinyurl.com/39vn5skp #behavioralecology

So very excited for the magnum opus of my #PhD to finally be out in @pnas.org. 🎉🎉 We demosntrate that mutualistic co-mimicking tropical butterflies not only converge in light microhabitat but, as a consequence, have also converged in visual system morphology! 1/n😀 www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Why do imperfect mimics (such as many hoverflies) exist? We created 3D printed replicas of flies, wasps and our own custom intermediates and then "asked" various predators what they thought of our 3D stimuli. Read all about it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NEW PAPER🎺 How does cognition determine an individual’s fitness? A systematic review of the links between cognition, behaviour and fitness in non-human animals Lots of studies try to explain how cognition might evolve, by taking a behavioural ecology approach Has this approach made any progress?🧵

How does predation shape evolution? We tested this with guppies, exposing them to real predators over 3 generations. Survivors evolved fast: bigger females with earlier broods, males with shorter tails and gonopodia. But... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Deadline tomorrow!!!

Honoured to be joining the next cohort of @ukri.org BBSRC Fellows! Excited to kick off my project asking whether signalling promotes cooperative cleaner-client interactions (with the help of robotic fish 🐟🤖)! Hugely grateful for all the support, advice, and encouragement that’s helped me get here!

🐠💥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...

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 in @behavecol.bsky.social (link: academic.oup.com/beheco/advan...) led by PhD student @marcofele.bsky.social using hard-won data from our amazing baboon team. Our @swanseauni.bsky.social press release: www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office... We introduce the idea of a "social spandrel".....

🚨Our new paper is out NOW in @ecol-evol.bsky.social 👀 Here we show that prior exposure to dynamic illumination can have a persisting effect on the visual perception of 🦀, reducing their ability to detect predators even after the dynamic illumination has ended. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

Congratulations to Jonathan Pattrick, who is joining the Schmidt AI in Science Fellowship! Jonathan's research will use 'bee backpacks' 🐝🎒 to find out how energetic factors influence how bees choose which flowers to visit 👇 bit.ly/3RSDOZc @mplsoxford.bsky.social

Interested in a PhD connecting sensory ecology and evolutionary genetics? Applications are now open for a project on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size Variation in Heliconius Butterflies in our lab at LMU Munich: www.evol.bio.lmu.de/research/mer... Please repost!

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...

Australia's recently established predators (since the LP) are entirely functionally novel. Read more in our recent paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social tinyurl.com/Auspreds

Just a few days left to sign up for our light pollution & insect declines workshop - FREE registration & meals - deadline for registration March 21st, and deadline for expert scan suggestions 22nd. www.visual-ecology.com/events/

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!

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

Our lab's first paper out in 2025! Led by the brilliant Ella Ackroyd in collaboration with Rob Heathcote Dynamic colour change in zebrafish (Danio rerio) across multiple contexts royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1... #openaccess #fishsci #zebrafish

Where are all the field studies? This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer. A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork) www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Closing this Monday 13th Jan - PhD funding to study bees, foxes, monkeys, orcas or pheasants with us in @crab-exeter.bsky.social Exeter

Applications are currently open for UNIQ 2025. UNIQ helps support UK state-school students from underrepresented backgrounds prepare for university, with support through the application process to help take those first steps to university life. www.uniq.ox.ac.uk

Fully-funded PhD: Comparative analysis of collective behaviour in natural and artificial systems. Supervised by Andrew King and myself at Swansea University, @rjpheathcote.bsky.social (Oxford) and Marina Papadopoulou (Tuscia). Come fly in the swaRmverse! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Check out our cool new findings showing how developmental temperature and corticosterone have long term impacts on mitochondrial efficiency that coincide with consistent differences in body size through life! A fantatsic team effort doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

🧪Why does warning signal variability persist in #aposematic species? Our new @sse-evolution.bsky.social paper explores this using data from 64,741 🤯 A.plantaginis, raised over 25 generations. Spoiler: no evidence that life-history traits constrain warning colours! academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Some lovely fish ecologists invited me to help them summarize the value of older individuals in animal societies and what we risk from their loss. Check it out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Loss of Earth’s old, wise, and large animals | Science

🚨 It's 5 WEEKS until the DPhil Biology deadline! If you or anyone you know has been thinking about a PhD, now's the last chance to get in touch with supervisors before the winter break We have 29 exciting projects spanning the biosciences 👇 bit.ly/DPhilBiol

Exciting new NERC funded PhD opportunity available with us on #killerwhale #orca #behaviour and #conservation, co-supervised by Stephanie King, Sam Ellis and Dan Franks in partnership with The Center for Whale Research USA exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... - deadline 13th January 2025 #killerwhale

Lots of great sounding PhD projects available from the NERC GW4+ DTP: www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk Including (a very flexible) one with us on the role of brain and behavioural adaptation, and hybrid disruption, in speciation: www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/projects-202... 🧪 #evolution #behaviour

I am advertising a fully-funded SWBio BBSRC PhD on the visual ecology of cabbage stem flea beetle with Patricia Ortega-Ramos and Sam Cook at Rothamsted Research. Exciting mix of basic and applied research. Please circulate to students who may be interested - I'm available for informal discussion.

Funded PhD Available at the University of Exeter. Loneliness is a global epidemic. We want to use field experiments in wild rabbits to understand why our social connections change with age. Deadline: 11th Dec More info & how to apply here: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...

Check out our new article! 🚨 “This is the first behavioral evidence that the facial coloration of predators might mask their gaze to potential prey.” #scicomm #primates #carnivore #sensoryecology #EHBEA onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🧪 🦊

This paper was a long time coming! Exploring the interaction between two convergent lizards who evolved separately on different Caribbean islands and were introduced to south Florida. Read all about how character displacement could play out in real time in the wild! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Projects are live for our DPhil in Biology! 'Should I do a PhD?' is a big question, and we have projects that span the biosciences to serve as inspiration. If you're considering a PhD, or know someone who is, take a look at all our projects! 👇 bit.ly/DPhilBiol

⚡️We are hiring! ⚡️ Interested in working with biologging data at the interface of meteorology and animal behavior? Postdoc position (deadline Nov 15th): smoton.com/ij1mwrtf-4ca... RP appreciated @ Max Planck of Animal Behavior

Systematic REVIEW: When and how does mate competition drive divergence and speciation? Lackey et al. @robinmting.bsky.social @rjpheathcote.bsky.social @oxfordbiology.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

Two weeks left to apply! Come join us!!🐟🐟🐟🐠🐠🐠🦈

💥Postdoc in sensory ecology💥 3 year position at @oxfordbiology.bsky.social on colouration in fish schools! If antipredator colouration, collective behaviour, fieldwork in nice places, and fun experiments with predatory fish is your thing, please get in touch! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DHJ328/p...

💥Postdoc in sensory ecology💥 3 year position at @oxfordbiology.bsky.social on colouration in fish schools! If antipredator colouration, collective behaviour, fieldwork in nice places, and fun experiments with predatory fish is your thing, please get in touch! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DHJ328/p...

Delighted that this paper by Nilo Merino Recalde et al. is now published as the first Dataset paper in Anim Behav. It describes a fully annotated open dataset of 1.1M acoustic units from 110 000 songs sung by >400 individual Great Tits www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...