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ASAB @asab.org · 09/07/2026

It's official: #Behaviour2027 is happening in Vienna next summer!

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Behaviour 2027 @behaviour2027.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

We are excited to announce that #Behaviour2027 (XXXIX International Ethological Congress) will be taking place in Vienna, Austria! We are looking forward to having you all join us next year from August 23-27. Please follow and share!

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ASAB @asab.org · 14/04/2026

🎊 Congrats as well to the runner up of the ASAB Video Competition, Taruna Verma, for “Mate Finding Strategies in Nasonia Males” 🎊 #ASABSpring2026

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ASAB @asab.org · 14/04/2026

🎉 Congratulations to the ASAB Video Competition winner Amaia Alcalde Anton! Check out her video: “What Did I Leave in the Fridge” 🎉 #ASABSpring2026   Want to know more? Read the paper this entry was based on: doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

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Tuhin Subhra Pal @tuhinpal98.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Do free-ranging dogs play it safe, or do they strategize for a better meal? 🐕 Grateful to have presented my poster at #ASABSpring2026! 🐕💡 Sincere thanks to the @asab.org conference organizers, @bristoluni.bsky.social, and volunteers for fostering such a stimulating and welcoming environment.

Tuhin Subhra Pal presenting his research poster on Indian free-ranging dog foraging strategies at the ASAB Spring 2026 conference. He is engaging in a discussion with attendees in a busy conference hall.

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ASAB @asab.org · 30/03/2026

We asked the researchers at #ASABSpring2026 if they could summarise their posters in 10 words or less - and they stepped up to the challenge 😍 (Also watch to the end for a celebrity cameo⭐️)

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Tuhin Subhra Pal @tuhinpal98.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Grateful to attend the @asab.org Spring Conference 2026 at the @bristoluni.bsky.social, my first international conference! Thanks to ASAB for the conference travel grant. Inspiring talks across diverse systems and great discussions. Thanks IISER Kolkata & Prof. @abhadra7.bsky.social for the support.

The Life Sciences Building, University of Bristol, UK, during the ASAB Spring Conference.

Tuhin Subhra Pal attending a workshop session at the ASAB Spring Conference at the University of Bristol, UK, participating alongside fellow attendees.

Tuhin Subhra Pal attending the poster session at the ASAB Spring Conference at the University of Bristol, UK, while researchers present and discuss their work around him.

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I had a brilliant time presenting my first-ever poster on the first experiment of my PhD at #ASABSpring2026. It was such a friendly and welcoming atmosphere and it was a pleasure meeting so many like-minded students all working on exciting projects in animal behaviour.

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Devilled Toads @devilledtoads.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Eleanor has had a busy week at #ASABSpring2026 in Bristol. Watch this space for an article with helpful advice for making an academic poster and attending your first conference coming soon...

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Maria Filippou @mariafilippou.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Really excited to have presented work from my Master’s on the fitness benefits of polyandry at the #ASABSpring2026 Conference in Bristol - and proud to have won best student speaker! ✨ It was a great few days meeting other researchers and listening to all the exciting work happening in the field! 🦋

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scienceartnews.bsky.social @scienceartnews.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Congratulations #ASABSpring2026 - Winners 🍀🔬📝📚 🔹 @mariafilippou.bsky.social 🔹 @charlotte9080.bsky.social 🔹 @mlysmac.bsky.social ? 🔹 @aylamanguala.bsky.social 🔹 Taruna Verma 🔹 Amaia Alcalde @asab-meetings.bsky.social

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Dr Jen Colbourne 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @raccoonologist.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I was dragged out for a song by @sophiadaoudi.bsky.social who then proceeded to throw me across the floor like a discus 💀

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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The #ASABSpring2026 ceilidh at Zerodegrees in Bristol! 🪩 Don’t forget, there will be more dancing fun at the gala dinner ceilidh at @ecbb2026.bsky.social, make sure you register for it!

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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

We know you already miss #ASABSpring2026, but if you want to keep up with the cool research at the meeting, you can follow the speakers! (If you were missed or just started an account, let us know so we can add you) go.bsky.app/86N72m5

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Department of Biology, University of York @biologyatyork.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Professor Elva Robinson, Biology, UoY, gave a plenary at the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour's #ASABSpring2026 meeting this week - she presented her research on dynamic intergroup cooperation and gave some career tips to ECRs

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Jamie Dunning @j-dunning.net · 27/03/2026

Well done Maria who presented her MRes, on the fitness consequences of female extra-pair mating in sparrows, at @asab-meetings.bsky.social. Paper to follow later this year 🤞 #ornithology

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Elva Robinson @elvarobinson.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

It's always useful having the person who actually did the fieldwork 10 years ago (@samellisq.bsky.social) present in the audience... helps with answers to questions when you can see the person involved nodding along! #ASABSpring2026

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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

🥇Poster prize awarded to #AylaWebb at @asab.org #ASABSpring2026 🐝Reproductive hierarchies & queen succession in paper #wasps 🌟CONGRATULATIONS Ayla 🎉 @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social #ProudSupervisors @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @asab-meetings.bsky.social #fieldwork #ECR #PhD #experiments #evolution

PhD student Ayla Webb presenting her prize-winning poster at the ASAB Spring Conference in Bristol in March 2026.

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Helen Mylne @helephantmylne.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Another fab conference #ASABSpring2026 😊 ASAB Spring always one of my favourites (and not JUST because of the ceilidh, though it's definitely a big perk!) and this was no exception! Thanks to the organisers from Bristol Uni for hosting 😊

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Erika Kupyrova @ekupyrova.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

First time doing a big talk about my research! Thank you for your support and all the insightful questions @asab.org #ASABSpring2026

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Emily Gilford @emilygilford.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I’ve had a wonderful time at #ASABSpring2026 @asab-meetings.bsky.social learning about lots of interesting things (and sharing some stuff about my crickets and pesticide exposure 🧪) Really excited to be heading to @isbe2026.bsky.social in July too to share some other work from my first chapter 🦗🦎

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Dr Jen Colbourne 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @raccoonologist.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Fun fact: just as I was taking this photo, it began to hail… HARD 🌨️😆 oh British weather!

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Julia Machado @juliammachado.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Spent the last two days in Bristol for @asab-meetings.bsky.social where I presented my PhD research on facial expressions and affect in bonobos 🐵🌡️ Thank you to the organizers and everyone who attended for such a fun and interesting conference - can’t wait for the next one!!

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Josie McPherson @josiemcpherson.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Thanks #ASABSpring2026 for a great time and the opportunity to speak 🐸s

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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

And #ASABSpring2026 is finished! A huge thank you to the organizer Sean Rands, his big group of volunteers, and Uni Bristol for hosting👏 Don’t forget ECBB (@ecbb2026.bsky.social) Sept 1-4 in Cambridge and our joint #ASABWinter2026 meeting with PSGB (@asabpsgb2026.bsky.social) Dec 8-10 in Edinburgh

Group of volunteers with Sean in the centre on a patio with a view of Bristol

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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Big congrats to our video contest winner Amaia Alcalde and runner up Taruna Verma, poster winners Ayla Webb (PhD) and Maria Maclaren (MSc), and talk winners Charlotte Wiltshire (PhD) and Maria Filippou (MSc)! #ASABSpring2026

Amaia Alcalde in front of a slide reading "ASAB Video Competition
Winner Amaia Alcalde What did I leave in the fridge?" Taruna Verma in front of a slide reading "ASAB Video Competition Runner Up Mate finding strategies in Nasonia males." Poster winners Ayla Webb and Maria Maclaren. Talk winners Charlotte Wiltshire and Maria Filippou

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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Reminder from @helephantmylne.bsky.social to get involved with this year's City Nature Challenge #ASABSpring2026 www.citynaturechallenge.org

What is the CNC 2026?
• One of the biggest global citizen science projects
• Uses Naturalist as its recording software
• In the past it has even brought species back from extinction!
• Last year 102945 individuals helped to record and ID 73,765 species, which is amazing!

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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Last talks of #ASABSpring2026, covering wasp host detection, fish mate choice, frog individual variation, mouse daytime activity, bird nest entrances, chimp tool use & sparrow polyandry! 🐝🐟🐸🐁🪺🐵🐦

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Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB) @crab-exeter.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

CRAB Posters at #ASABSpring2026 from @helephantmylne.bsky.social , Bryony Jenkins, Eleanor Benson, Sophie Pettit , and Henry Moreau-Smith (Pictures taken in the very rare gaps when they didn't have customers)

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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

If you're new to bluesky, here is a great list of folks to follow to get you started! #ASABSpring2026

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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Another great talk session this morning at #ASABSpring2026 : We covered meerkat sunning calls, fish colour patterning, cricket insecticide exposure, moth same-sex sexual behaviours, cold snap and heatwave effects on bees & farm bird song learning ☀️🐠🦗🦋🥶 🥵🐦‍⬛

A collage of students in front of slides

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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

We love to see that more info about @ekupyrova.bsky.social's research can be found at ASAB's #AnimalBehaviourJournal 😁 Our well-respected flagship journal, founded in 1953, is a major part of how we can support such amazing meetings like #ASABSpring2026 - we encourage all of our members to submit!

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Sam Ellis @samellisq.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Brilliant plenary from @elvarobinson.bsky.social at #ASABSpring2026 . Science! Advice! Ants! And a mention of me! In short everything you could want in a talk.

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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Last plenary of #ASABSpring2026 by @elvarobinson.bsky.social about ant nest networks and inter-group cooperation 🐜 🐜 🐜 🐜 🐜 Thanks also for sharing such valuable advice to students/ECRs! 🙏

Elva Robinson standing in front of a slide with ant nests on it reading “Dynamic Inter-group Cooperation in Ant Nest Networks” Elva Robinson University of York

What I wish l'd known as a PhD student/ECR
Frequent rejections and failures are normal at all levels of academia
It's still networking even if it is with your peers!
Combining hands-on-parenting and academia is possible
Studying 'pure' research questions really can result in applied outcomes
You get to set your own career success criteria - only you, no-one else!

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Dr Jen Colbourne 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @raccoonologist.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

TIL at #ASABSpring2026 that I cannot tell the difference between ants and spiders 🙈 Loved the plenary from @elvarobinson.bsky.social this morning!

A slide with an Among Us picture and various spiders that look like ants

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William Russell @robotowilliam.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Seeing so many brilliant early-career scientists and hearing about their research at #ASABSpring2026 is a privilege. Very interesting! It did make it more understandable why it's so hard to get a funded PhD anywhere 😅😭

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Dr Sophia Daoudi-Simison @sophiadaoudi.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

What an afternoon! #ASABSpring2026 🌸 it was nice catching and chatting to students at the poster session + more great talks on a variety of topics & species - conflicts, microbiomes, reciprocity, predator-prey strategies, poop & olfaction 🦗🦠🐀🐇🦅💩👃

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Ashleigh Messenger @ashmessenger.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

This is my QR code! So glad people are enjoying it 😂💜 #ASABSpring2026

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jfrobertshaw.bsky.social @jfrobertshaw.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Really pleased to have had the opportunity to talk about my work on meerkat intergroup conflict and pre-emotive behaviour at #ASABSpring2026 yesterday. Thanks to everyone who asked great questions!

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Thomas MacGillavry @thomasmacgillavry.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

If you look closely you can see him blush #ASABSpring2026

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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Hope everyone had a great time at the ceilidh last night, and that nobody is too late for the plenary 😉🍻💃🕺 #ASABSpring2026 #ASABAfterDark

Collage of folks dancing and the ceilidh band

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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Hope everyone is looking forward to the last day of #ASABSpring2026 😊 Please note that we are on the other side of the physics building in the Frank Theatre for the talks today!

Wednesday March 25
LS: Atrium of the Life Sciences Building
F: Frank Theatre in the Physics Building

9:00 Registration opens (LS)
9:25 Introduction (F)
9:30 Plenary Talk By Elva Robinson (F)
10:30 Talk Session I (F)
11:00 Coffee break (LS)
11:30 Talk Session II (F)
12:45 Lunch (LS)
13:45 Talk Session III (F)
15:00 Poster Session II (LS)
15:40 Film Competition (F)
16:10 Talk Session IV (F)
16:40 Closing Remarks and Prizes (F)
17:00 Conference End

Frank Lecture Theatre entrance at the other side of the H.H. Willis Phyiscal Laboratory

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Sean Rands @seanrands.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Thanks to the lovely staff in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social who have been helping run this! Day 1 an absolute treat. Will day 2 be even better? #ASABSpring2026

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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Don’t forget there will be live music and a ceilidh starting from 6:30pm at Zerodegrees (53 Colston St, Bristol BS1 5BA). The last ceilidh we had at #ASABSpring2024 was a true delight, don’t miss out! #ASABSpring2026

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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Afternoon #ASABSpring2026 talks on termite conflicts, baboon microbiomes, rat reciprocity, rabbit social associations, bird predation strategies, meerkat faecal intrusions & mongoose scents 🦗🦠🐀🐇🦅💩👃

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Dr Jen Colbourne 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @raccoonologist.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I must say, the zodiac skylight of the Uni Bristol Tyndall lecture theatre is super cool! #ASABSpring2026

A decorative skylight with tiny zodiac symbols

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Dr Sophia Daoudi-Simison @sophiadaoudi.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I couldn't help myself!!! Had to get a photo with this guy 🦍 thanks for taking the photo @raccoonologist.bsky.social #ASABSpring2026 @bristoluni.bsky.social

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William Russell @robotowilliam.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Interesting advice from animal behaviour scientist Dr Patrick Kennedy (if you're a selfish gene)! #ASABSpring2026

Dr Patrick Kennedy presenting in a lecture theatre. The slide says in large bold letters: "HOLD YOUR NERVE. TRY BLACKMAIL. CLIMATE MATTERS."

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