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The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) has an Education Committee that supports colleagues teaching animal behaviour from schools through to higher education.

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ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Stars of the show #ECBB2026 @viveknityananda.bsky.social @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social and Sam’s socks! Hooray for apt conference fashion. Get your outfits ready for the @asab.org winter meeting 💚
Photo pin board of everyone wearing animal fashion
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ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The @asab.org dream team rocking up for the final day at #ECBB2026 @raccoonologist.bsky.social and @sophiadaoudi.bsky.social for all your social media and communication happenings 💚
Photo of the ASAB social media secretary Jan and communications sec Sophia
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ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Design a poster that explains an interesting animal behaviour. Your infographic will be inspired by observation of animals in real life or online. Entry age categories: 7-10 years 11-14 years 15-21 years More information and the entry form: www.asab.org/education-news Spread the word #ECBB2026
Poster advertising the ASAB infographic competition 2026
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ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A fantastic reminder to use museum collections @mherberstein.bsky.social we have a primary school resource. Pupils can use this resource to make careful observations of animals. Published with the support of Manchester museum. You can download it for free here: www.tes.com/teaching-res... #ECBB2026
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A museum in your classroom | Teaching Resources
A Manchester Museum Science teaching resource for Key Stage 2 pupils - Life processes and living things. From the dark corridors and dusty cabinets in the far recess
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Dr Sophia Daoudi-Simison @sophiadaoudi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If you're wearing anything with an animal on it then we want to see you!! Come and visit the @asabeducation.bsky.social @asab.org desk in the Science Centre by the revolving door! We'd 💚 to be able to fill this board before the end of the conference! 🦊🐟🐺🦜🐼🐻🦀🪲🐙🕷️🪸🐛🐵 #ECBB2026
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ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🤯🤯 again! Tim Caro explains more things… American black bears not always black… of course, we teach within every population there is huge variation of characteristics, but who knew?! The second photo is an American brown bear. #ECBB2026
American black bears - photos of various colour types, black, cinnamon and pale.American brown bear.
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ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🤯 listening to Tim Caro’s talk on colouration. Didn’t realise how camouflaged a giant panda was! Crypsis - to be specific www.nature.com/articles/s41... #ECBB2026
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The giant panda is cryptic - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - The giant panda is cryptic
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Dr Jen Colbourne 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @raccoonologist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Extremely proud we managed to pull 3rd prize at the #ECBB2026 pub quiz with the @asabeducation.bsky.social student subcommittee 🏆 🙌 My only regret is that we didn’t beat @viveknityananda.bsky.social 🥲
Selfie with a group of 5 women holding a 25 pound voucher
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ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
On the other side of the post for a change @raccoonologist.bsky.social ASAB’s social media secretary talking about Rock Star Cockatoos. A box is still a box if it has six sides and Goffin Cockatoos can use a whole toolkit to succeed. #ECBB2026
Photo of Jennifer Colbourne and 3 cockatoosVideo shot of a Goffin Cockatoo opening a window on a six sided box
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ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Look at this motley crew! Track them down… Ask them questions… find out about the ASAB Student subcommittee! #ECBB2026
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ASAB @asab.org · 02/09/2026
The previous executive editor of #AnimalBehaviourJournal, @andyradford.bsky.social, makes it clear at #ECBB2026 that they're not desk rejecting work for the sake of it - if it meets the basic conditions, it'll go to review! And don't be discouraged if you're asked to revise, that's normal 😊
* Executive Editor
*   Decides whether the paper should be assigned to an Editor or rejected without further review (upfront rejection)
*   What is the basis for an upfront rejection?
*   Content does not fall with the remit of the journal
*   Too narrowly focused taxonomically and lacking in any clear broad theoretical advance (absence of general hypotheses on evolution and mechanisms of behavior
*   Guide to Authors: Work should test explicit hypotheses rather than being purely descriptive... preference is given to studies that are likely to be of interest and/or applicable to the broad readership of the journal
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ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Free stickers, free animal behaviour colouring books. Find out about the student subcommittee. The ASAB table is in the foyer of the SCI building. #ECBB2026
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Dr Sophia Daoudi-Simison @sophiadaoudi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Come and visit the @asab.org @asabeducation.bsky.social table! Especially if you're wearing anything with animals on it!! 🐾🦒🦡🐠🐘🐒🐦🪲🐛🦋🐝 We're located by the revolving door in the science centre! We'd 💚 to fill this board with 📷 of you rocking your animal! #ECBB2026
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Jeroen Zewald @zewaldj.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Thank you for featuring our study! 😄🐒🐒
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ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Two macaques had to pull both rope ends at once to get snacks 🐒 With one apparatus available, one male pair monopolised it - 86% of all pulls. With five apparatuses, just 4% and more pulls with others. @zewaldj.bsky.social in doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2026.123632
Proximity in macaques Macaques grooming Photo of Jeroen Zewald (photo credit Thomas Suchanek)
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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The science of happier dogs: 5 tips to help your canine friends live their best life
Science from a four-paw perspective can help us reconsider our everyday interactions with dogs and influence positive changes so we can live well, together.
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Head In The Clouds @head-in-the-clouds.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Yr 9: Ecosystems Yr 9: Human Impact Melting sea ice Cetaceans take advantage Feeding migration #BiologicalHaiku #ChatBiology @chatbiology.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Giant whales move into Greenland waters as ice disappears
Melting sea ice from climate change has opened up the region for giant whales to undertake "feeding frenzies".
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ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
It’s Big Bang 💥in Schools! We’re here in Hackney - what young people know about animal behaviour and why studying it is important. Inspired by @jowimpenny.bsky.social ‘s book Beauty of the Beasts. Vultures, slow loris, wasps and rats - cute? or not? And why we should think about it 🐝🐀🦅🙊
Wasp face Selfie of our education officer and her pptBig Bang poster and sponsors
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Role of the #EDIA Committee is to provide leadership for ASAB and its members, to encourage learning, discussion and understanding about EDIA, and provide support and opportunities to underrepresented groups www.asab.org/edia-overview via @asab.org cc @asabeducation.bsky.social #HappyPride2026
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EDIA Overview — ASAB
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
2026 version. "Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching" via @asab.org cc @asabeducation.bsky.social - #AnimalEthics #AnimalWelfare - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching
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ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The winners of our 2025 infographic competition are up! Visit our website for the results www.asab.org/education-news . Here are some of the judges favourite to wet your whistles! Well done to all the entrants.
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ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
You are invited to the buffalo project meeting (online) on November 26th at 4 PM Hong Kong Find out about social science and behavioural ecology research on Hong Kong feral water buffalo. www.hkbuffaloresearch.org/research-hig... for free registration. Or use the QR code on the attached flyers.
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Royal Society of Biology @rsb.org.uk · 27/10/2025
Have you taken part in our BioCraft Competition yet? The competition encourages participants to combine art & science by creating a biology-inspired 3D artwork from recycled, or other, materials. Closing date: 12 Nov 2025 Open to anyone UK & worldwide Learn more: www.rsb.org.uk/biocraft-com...
A 3D model of a copepod on a stool. Background is ripped up yellow paper. Text says Biology Week, Biocraft Competition. Create a biology-inspired 3D artwork from recycled, or other, materials and send RSB a photo to enter! #BioCraftComp. Submissions close: 12 November
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ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
👀DEADLINE APPROACHING!!! 🪲🐢🐍🦎🐸Submit your entry by midnight on Saturday🦇🦉🐈‍⬛#biologyweek 🤞🤞🤞
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ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Explore behavioural and cognitive indicators of positive emotion from vertebrates to invertebrates. Participation is free, but registration is required. All early-career researchers and interested persons are invited. @affect-evo.bsky.social
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ASAB @asab.org · 14/10/2025
Last week to enter the infographic competition! 🎨
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Royal Society of Biology @rsb.org.uk · 13/10/2025
If you're looking for #BiologyWeek activities to do this week, why not take part in our BioCraft Competition & create a biology-inspired 3D artwork from recycled, or other, materials? Find out more: www.rsb.org.uk/biocraft-com... #BioCraft #BioCraftComp #ArtCompetition
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BioCraft Competition
The Royal Society of Biology's BioCraft competition encourages participants to create a biology-inspired 3D artwork from recycled, or other, materials.
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ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
We 💚💚💚#biologyweek and are celebrating with our inforgraphic comptition. Find out more here - www.asab.org/education-news
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ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
We are very excited to see the entries are coming in... make sure we have yours by the 18th October, the end of #biologyweek. Help us to celebrate animal behaviour. 🦧🦩🐸🕷️🦋
This 2025 competition is for young people to design a poster that contains images and information about the animal behaviour of one, or multiple species of non-human animals.

You can draw, paint, sketch or digitally create artwork that captures, describes and explains the behaviour of animals. There are no restrictions on the type of drawing, painting or poster that you create, it must include information on the behaviour of the animals you are highlighting. The winning infographic in each category will be published in our scientific journal Animal Behaviour.
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ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Reminder! The deadline for our infographic competition is the 18th of October. The last day of #biologyweek You can find out more information here www.asab.org/education-news There are three age categories: 7-10 years old, 11-14 years old and 15-21 years old.
This 2025 competition is for young people to design a poster that contains images and information about the animal behaviour of one, or multiple species of non-human animals.

You can draw, paint, sketch or digitally create artwork that captures, describes and explains the behaviour of animals. There are no restrictions on the type of drawing, painting or poster that you create, it must include information on the behaviour of the animals you are highlighting. The winning infographic in each category will be published in our scientific journal Animal Behaviour.
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Dr Blake Morton @drblakemorton.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
🚨Please circulate🚨 The #BritishCarnivoreProject has a #free booklet, entitled Urban Tails, to help young people (ages 9-14) engage with #nature. It includes #stories, #outdoor activities, and other fun #educational materials. 🦊🏙️🌳🍃Download here: www.blakemorton.co.uk/download/129...
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ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Plain speaking to help save the remaining 115 free ranging water buffalo in Hong Kong 😍 🐃 @amcell.bsky.social relationalthinkingblog.com/2025/06/17/p...
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Plain Language Summary: Understanding Hong Kong residents’ views on free-ranging semi-urban water buffalo on Lantau Island.
How do people view semi-urban feral buffalo in Hong Kong?Credit: Danhe Yang. By Danhe Yang, Debottam Bhattacharjee, Kate J. Flay, Yifu Wang, Hannah. S. Mumby, and Alan G. McElligott. This Plain Lan…
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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Transgender flag: Lilac-breasted Roller 📷 Jean-Louis Carlo, eBird
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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Bisexual flag: Purple-breasted Cotinga 📷 Tomaz Melo, eBird
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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Birds as pride flags, meticulously researched by my wonderful student Griffin ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 Rainbow flag: Eastern Rosella 📷 David Irving, eBird
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Happy PRIDE month! 🌈🏳️‍🌈🎉 www.cityu.edu.hk/jcc/about-us...
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Sitting on a corn flake @grrlscientist.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Traffic Noise Provokes ‘Road Rage’ In Male Galápagos Warblers | @angliaruskinuni.bsky.social & University of Vienna, published by Animal Behaviour @animbehsociety.bsky.social by @grrlscientist.bsky.social #ornithology🪶 #birds🦉 #behavior #conservation🌎 #SciComm🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
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Traffic Noise Provokes ‘Road Rage’ In Male Galápagos Warblers
Yellow warblers near busy roads become increasingly aggressive when traffic drowns out their territorial songs, and noise pollution could trigger fights.
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Flowers can be wolf-pollinated, apparently. BRB doing some extreme gardening for rewilding purposes www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
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Ethiopian wolves have a sweet tooth. These flowers are their lollipops  | CBC Radio
Ethiopian wolves are carnivores but new research suggests they supplement their diet with the sweet, sticky nectar from native flowers. And scientists say they may even be acting as pollinators in the...
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ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
What a great day at Wapping High School. Fantastic support from Robyn and Alex of QMUL @preparedmindslab.bsky.social scientists. There were lots and lots of engaged young people, who were absolutely as clever as crows!
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ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
It’s raining outside so we’re doing science inside at Swindon’s Festival of Tomorrow.
Meerkat and crow engagement activitiesASAB education science stand
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Anindita Bhadra @abhadra7.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Show us some love, keep your #abstracts pouring in, like the #Hogwarts offer letter for #Harry. Less than 24h before the portal closes! @asabeducation.bsky.social @spetologia.bsky.social @animalopps.bsky.social @animalbehaviour.live @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @ethologyenthusiast.bsky.social
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ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Happy #ValentinesDay Geladas are superb mountain climbing primates. The unusual reddish skin of their chests is a sexual cue, indicative of hormone levels. They can be sneaky, covering up their infidelities... Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/nco... Photo by Jim on Unsplash
A gelada monkey with red heart shaped markings on his chest, sat next to a rock, looking wistful.
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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Happy #womenandgirlsinscience day. To celebrate, you can now view the profiles introducing the new ASAB Student Subcommittee (including my own). @asabeducation.bsky.social is also putting them up on their Instagram story, so you can check them out there too. www.asab.org/expertvisitors
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Animal Behaviour Collective @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Let's celebrate all of the female scientists we know! Who is the woman in science that inspires you the most? :) Recommended reading on Women in Animal Behaviour and Welfare: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Let's celebrate all of the female scientists we know! Who is the woman in science that inspires you the most? :) 

Recommended reading on Women in Animal Behaviour and Welfare: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11047719/#B10-animals-14-01184
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Anindita Bhadra @abhadra7.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
On this International Day of #womenandgirlsinscience we celebrate the XX chromosome bearers of #TheDogLab over the last 15 years.
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ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Happy #WomenAndGirlsInScience Day. To celebrate we have some free worksheets to share with your young people. asab.org/education-news Thank you to these brilliant women for taking part - Professor Dorothy Cheney, Professor Anindita Bhadra, Dr Danielle Lee and Professor Sue Healy #WomeninSTEM
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Anindita Bhadra @abhadra7.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Day 1 of the Nature watching like a scientist workshop was great! Endless questions, outdoor activities, a talk on variation, campus walk. The kids had fun and so did we. @asab.org @asabeducation.bsky.social
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ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The Royal High School & Edinburgh College attended our plenary talk at The #ASAB24 winter conference. Malin Ah-King, Associate Professor in Gender Studies -Örebro University, brilliantly answered the students questions after her talk and then the students went on to judge the ECR’s posters.
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Anindita Bhadra @abhadra7.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Calling all ethology enthusiasts! #Behaviour2025 #ethology #conference #ecology @asab.org @asabeducation.bsky.social @animalbehaviour.live @animalopps.bsky.social @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social @social-ethologist.bsky.social
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
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