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And the last prize goes to Kai Ting Ng for the best Pollinator poster prize. Congrats!! You deserve it !!! #ASSAB2026

And here comes Patricia Slattery winning the best pollinator full length talk prize second place. Congrats!! I think she cheated by adding so many bee species #ASSAB2026

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Great work Maddison C. Randall won the prize for the best pollinator full length talk prize. Unfortunately they weren't here to collect the prize, so please pretend that Aubrey Keirnan collecting the prize on their behalf is Maddison #ASSAB2026

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Great work Caitlin Dwyer for winning the People Choice Award and making us imagine what fairy tern looks like naked #ASSAB2026

And the best art display was really Jaws dropping! Good work Brendan Ebner

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Great job Panduka Amarasekara for his amazing poster about spiders and winning second prize for best student poster

And the best student poster prize first place poster goes to ... Charlotte Sutton!! Her poster about keeping finches up all hours of the night had so much work on it!! Good work!!

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Congrats Noah Tan for winning the best student lighting talk prize!! #ASSAB2026 thanks for keeping it brief for us at the end of a long day

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Best Student full Length talk Prize for third place goes to .... Anuja Josep for teaching us the flight paths of bees!! #ASSAB2026

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Best Student Full Length Talk Prizes second place goes to Rob Boddington. He really is leading the way in fish behavior!

Best Student Full Length Talk Prize first place Oakleigh Wilson!! Congrats for asking us "how fast does an Impala run !!" #ASSAB2026 unfortunately she had already left and missed it 🫣

Special thanks to Pablo Recio for doing the last talk at #ASSAB2026 about "Hormonal mechanisms of pair bonding in long-term monogamous reptiles"

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Great and terrifying discussion showing what happens when you get stung by a bee by Fiorella Esquivel @fiorella.bsky.social and their talk "The honey Bee stinger: From high speed filming to 3D printing" #ASSAB2026

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Fantastic talk and asking the hard hitting questions about future climate conditions by Caity Dwyer and her talk "Hot Summers, Cold Deaths: Moult Conditions and Winter Mortality in Superb Fairywrens" #ASSAB2026

We got to watch some awesome footage of slow motion spider jumps because Noelia Calderon and her talk "Scaling the Jump: Sexual Dimorphism in Jump Kinematics in Peacock spiders" #ASSAB2026

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Another great 3 min talk about house selection of fish by Brendan Ebner with "Does the Eastern freshwater cod select for small or large cavities in which to spawn" #ASSAB2026

To finish up mite talks with a 3 minute talk by Emily Lynch with "The Ideal Female for Picky Mites? Whether polyphenic males have a preference on female mating status" #ASSAB2026

Now some more talk about intrasexual competition in mites by Incheol Shin by "Sperm precedence patterns of potential post-copulatory mate guarding in bulb mites" #ASSAB2026

Another great talk about mites and sexual selection by Sneha Kumar with "High risk, high reward? Male mate choice in weapon used mites" #ASSAB2026

Getting some steamy talks about mites by Anastasia Shavrova with "Sex conflict in bulb mites mediated by polymorphisms? #ASSAB2026 and be sure to check out her podcast "Convos with Chordates"

A fantastic look at the lives of birds of prey by Mick Wakefield with "Nest camera insights and factors impacting the best success of Square-tailed Mites and Little Eagles " #ASSAB2026

More discussions about climate change impacts, and his time in sheep! Thanks Stephan Lei with "Modelling climate change impacts: Heat stress conditions after transmission networks and population disease prevalence" #ASSAB2026

Wow, what a futuristic discussion by Chris R. Reid in "Exploring mechanisms of cooperative prey transport and near construction from Weaver ants to robots and back again"

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Entertaining as usual, thanks Russell D.C. Bicknell with "Exploring the complexity of crab claw behaviour and ecology" #ASSAB2026 check out the papers on the slide too!!!

Patricia S. Slattery conducted a fantastic talk asking how bees get busy with her talk "Fancy Facades and Pigment Preferences: Are the colourful faces of male bees sexy?" #ASSAB2026

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Kia ora Kahurangi Cronin for that fantastic talk about integrating Western and traditional knowledge in "Recognizing taonga with AI recognition for kākā #ASSAB2026

Another fantastic talk about the fairywren by Samuele Ramellini @sramellini.bsky.social #ASSAB2026 make sure to check out his paper!

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Caitlin R Nicholles did a fantastic talk looking at the sociality of dolphins in "Diverse Social Lives, Inter- and Intra-Specific Variation in Australian Inshore Dolphins" #ASSAB2026

Thanks for the fun talk about boundaries in fairy wrens by Xingyi Jiang "Collective movement decisions in a multilevel bird society" @xingyij.bsky.social #ASSAB2026

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Another great talk about an Aotearoa New Zealand bird species vocization by Júlia Kovács called "Fragmented melodie: the effects on vocal culture of the korimako" #ASSAB2026

Great start on the third day of ASSAB2026 with Andrew B. Barron and his talk "Why the honey bee is smarter than ChatGPT #ASSAB2026

Last talk of the second day. Thanks Karin Nordström for finishing the day with "Sexual dimorphism in sensorimotor transformation of optic flow" #ASSAB2026

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Yuri Ogawa discussed the cool and hi-tech topic of watching how hoverlies flyas they use VR with her talk "Head orientation aligns before landing commitment in hoverlies" #ASSAB2026

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So fun to see a rodent talk about memory by Tasmin Rymer with "Do fawn footed mosaic-tailed rats experience age-related cognitive decline in novel object recognition?" #ASSAB2026 check out the paper too

Andrew Blunsden conducted such a fun experiment looking at puzzle solving in a less social subspecies or magpies in his talk "Social system predicts observational spatial memory performance in Australian magpies" #ASSAB2026

Thanks to Rob Boddington coming from UK Research and Innovation to discuss how animals follow the leader in his talk "How Information Influences the Emergence and Persistence of Leadership in Animal Groups" #ASSAB2026

Fairy wrens can apparently solve puzzles as seen in the fabulous talk"Investigating the repeatability of problem-solving in the wild superb fairy-wrens" by Yazmin Rizk #ASSAB2026

Another great talk about the complexity and intelligence of cockatoo by Lisa Fontana and her talk "Experimental evidence for innovation and social learning in wild cockatoos" #ASSAB2026

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A fun talk by Lee DeSouza regarding the intelligent cockatoo with "Birds in the burbs: A cocka-two choice learning experiments" #ASSAB2026

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The surprisingly large size and shape of Parrot brains talked about in"Evolutionary Drivers of Parrot Neuroanatomy" by Aubrey Keirnan #ASSAB2026

An indepth and fantastic talk by Sarah Nicholas about the brain powers of hoverlies called "Target sensitivity in two classes of hoverfly descending neurons" #ASSAB2026

Curious about how native bees and wasps interact? Check out Liying Nikki Chin’s poster at #ASSAB2026

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What an awesome poster by Rihana Woods on best architecture of white-winged choughs! #ASSAB2026

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Check out this awesome poster by Jerom Stocks at #ASSAB2026

Thanks Therésa Jones for your talk about how artificial lights impact cricket and other insect behaviour "Population variation in behavioral responses to artificial light at night" #ASSAB2026

An awesome poster on the Rakali by Hannah McKennall at #ASSAB2026