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Fragkiskos Darmis @fragdarm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Excited to share that I’ve been awarded a Walter Benjamin Fellowship to study how genetic variation and population density shape life-history in wild mice at the University of Zurich! 🐭🧬 Grateful to the @dfg.de for supporting this work. Looking forward to the collaborations and discoveries ahead! 🎉

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Fragkiskos Darmis @fragdarm.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Our new paper out on @behavecol.bsky.social We show that multiple paternity is driven by the social environment females experience, the abundance of roaming and territorial males. Polyandry and male reproductive tactics might be locked in a feedback loop. doi.org/10.1093/behe...

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Polyandry is shaped by male mating behavior in house mice living in semi-natural conditions

In house mice, males use different mating strategies—some defend territories, while others roam to sneak matings—and these tactics influence paternity. We

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Valeria Mazza @valmazza.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Can behaviour and cognition support conservation efforts? 🐭💡🌍In this new paper we offer some insights into how dietary innovation and neophobia can help assess small mammals' responses to human disturbance in a protected area. It was a long journey, but I'm so proud of this! doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

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Marina Papadopoulou @marinapapa.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

💥After 3 full days, it's a wrap for our early career workshop for the study of social behaviour and evolution in Greece! A huge thank you to all our brilliant participants for coming, to @biologists.bsky.social for making it possible, and HCMR for hosting us!

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Danai Papageorgiou @danaipapageorgiou.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

🎓📢 PhD Alert 🎓📢 Three weeks left to apply for the PhD position on maintaining the balance of power in animal societies! www.hu-berlin.de/en/universit... @animalopps.bsky.social

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Dr Rachael Miller (Harrison) @drrmiller.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

PhD Opportunity! 4-year funded PhD @uniexecec.bsky.social: “From cognition to conservation: using cognitive and behavioural research to enhance animal reintroductions”. Closes: 5 June 2026. Funding: @royalsociety.org (UK/Home students only). More info & to apply: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 1/

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From cognition to conservation: using cognitive and behavioural research to enhance animal reintroductions, PhD (Funded) | University of Exeter

The University of Exeter’s Centre for Ecology and Conservation, Penryn Campus, Cornwall, is inviting applications for a 4-year PhD studentship (UK fees), ideally commencing Sept 2026.

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Alexandros Vezyrakis @avezyrakis.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Very excited (and proud!) to see @anustupb.bsky.social's MSc thesis work finally out on how the reproductive tactics males follow can have cascading effects on their problem-solving!! 🐭

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Alexandros Vezyrakis @avezyrakis.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Are innovators born that way, or does solving problems come from experience?🐭 In our recent(ish) paper in @asab.org with @valmazza.bsky.social & Anja Guenther, we show innovation may be inherent in wild house mice and experience makes innovators better! paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123441

a house mouse interacting with a problem-solving setup in a seminatural enclosure

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Marina Papadopoulou @marinapapa.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

📢One week left to apply! To promote research on #animal #behaviour in Greece, we are organizing a 3 day workshop on methods, from social evolution to collective behaviour 🐭🐟🐦🐒✨ 📍 Crete☀️ 🗓️ July 13-15 🌐 marinapapa.github.io/TRASEworksho... Supported by @biologists.bsky.social 🙏 DM for questions!

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Alexandros Vezyrakis @avezyrakis.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Are you an early-career researcher from Greece/ Eastern Mediterranean interested in animal social behaviour? Join us this summer (13-15/7) in Heraklion for a hands-on, three-day workshop on methods and tools in social behaviour and evolution! Apply here: cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for... Website: ↓↓↓

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TRASE Workshop 2026

July 13th-15th, Heraklion (Greece)

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Nikos Smit @nikos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026

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 Website […]

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Danai Papageorgiou @danaipapageorgiou.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

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TRASE Workshop 2026

July 13th-15th, Heraklion (Greece)

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ISSABC @issabc.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Just 🚨TWO WEEKS🚨 until the deadline of our language barriers survey! Don't miss out on the opportunity to share your experiences of language barriers in academic conferences. Take our short survey at: forms.gle/u8ESktcJP8Y6...

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Amplifying global voices: Removing language barriers in academic conferences

We invite you to share your experiences with language barriers at academic conferences. Your insights will help shape more inclusive and multilingual events across disciplines and formats. This survey...

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Alexander Schakowski @alexschakowski.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Very happy to see our ice-fishing paper on the cover of @science.org this week! 🎣🎉 We tracked large groups of Finnish competitive ice-fishers to study how social foragers use social information when searching for resources. 🐟 Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (contact me for open access)

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Alexandros Vezyrakis @avezyrakis.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Amazing finding with an awesome video but also my favourite line from a paper in a while: "Perhaps the real absurdity lies not in imagining a tool-using cow, but in assuming such a thing could never exist."🐮

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Alexandros Vezyrakis @avezyrakis.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

🎉 What a way to end the year! Very excited to see our new paper on 🐭 innovation and mate choice out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.11.077 With the amazing @fragdarm.bsky.social, @valmazza.bsky.social & Anja Guenther

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ESLR @eslr.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Would you like to share your research skills with the ESLR community? Starting next year, we will be hosting regular online sessions serving as a platform of mutual exchange and support among early-career researchers. Please do get in touch if you are interested in hosting a session!

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Marina Papadopoulou @marinapapa.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Interested in sensory information & animal behaviour but you are in Germany (or close by) and Edinburgh is far? We are hosting a @asab-meetings.bsky.social Hublet in Berlin! Join us for free next week (15-16/12) to follow the conference together😁 More👉 www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/hublet...

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Hublet at SCIoI: Winter Conference of the Association For the Study of Animal Behavior (ASAB) - scienceofintelligence.de

How does sensory information shape animal behaviour?

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Alexandros Vezyrakis @avezyrakis.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Was language ever an issue in an academic conference for you or are you too cool to admit it? @janirecas.bsky.social @christopherwmiller.bsky.social and I are collecting experiences and opinions to make conferences more comfortable for everyone, regardless of their language proficiency!

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Janire Castellano Bueno, PhD @janirecas.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

🌍 Have you experienced language barriers at academic conferences, or not at all? 📝 Take our short survey and help make conferences more inclusive and multilingual: forms.gle/u8ESktcJP8Y6... #DEI #JEDI #EDI #Academia #AcademicChatter

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Valeria Mazza @valmazza.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Really proud of this one. Our first study on innovative problem-solving in free-ranging small mammals is fresh off the press of Animal Cognition rdcu.be/eOHl3. We looked at what happens with human disturbance in a protected area...without disturbing our most precious collaborators!

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Ethological Society @ethoges.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

🧪ETHOLOGY: Condition-dependent risk-taking in mice! 🐭💥🍔 Lopez-Hervas et al. show that diet quality and body mass shape mice’s reactions to risk — heavier or better-fed individuals play it safer, supporting the asset-protection hypothesis! Read here, it's #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1111/eth....

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Condition‐Dependent Responses to Risk in a Small Mammal

Responses to a predation risk gradient vary as a function of the resource environment and individual condition in a small mammal.

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Janire Castellano Bueno, PhD @janirecas.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

It was a pleasure to host a workshop on #LanguageBarriers yesterday at #Behaviour2025! Thank you to everyone who came along! @asab.org @behaviour2025.bsky.social @christopherwmiller.bsky.social @avezyrakis.bsky.social

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Janire Castellano Bueno, PhD @janirecas.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined our #LanguageBarriers workshop! 🎉 We had fantastic discussions and brainstormed practical solutions. We will work on these and bring them together, so watch this space! @christopherwmiller.bsky.social @avezyrakis.bsky.social #Behaviour2025

Workshop on Language Barriers Chris Miller, Janire Castellano and Alexandros Vezyrakis

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Janire Castellano Bueno, PhD @janirecas.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Our workshop on Language Barriers at academic conferences is tomorrow! 📅 27th August 2025 1.10pm 📍Hall 7 Hope to see you all there! #Behaviour2025 #LanguageBarrier #DEI #EDI #JEDI

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Alexandros Vezyrakis @avezyrakis.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Does language have to be a barrier for academic conferences? If you think that we can do things better, join our workshop at #Behaviour2025 and fill out this short survey - we'd love to hear your experiences and ideas!

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Marina Papadopoulou @marinapapa.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Excited (& a bit terrified) to officially share our #R #package with the world 🤩 swaRmverse provides a pipeline to analyze #collective #motion #data, promoting more comparative work across the Swarm-Verse 🐐🦬🐦🐒🐟 🦖🐑🕸️ With @sjmgarnier @SHOALgroup 🙏

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MPI for Evolutionary Biology @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Think bold animals are the best problem-solvers? Think again. 🐭 New research shows shy mice are more persistent—and that makes all the difference. 🔍 Innovation is about showing up, not just being brave. 🔗 More Info: www.evolbio.mpg.de/3813083/mice... #AnimalBehavior #Science

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Alexandros Vezyrakis @avezyrakis.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Hello Bluesky! Beyond excited to share my first post here about our new paper on wild house mouse 🐭problem-solving with Anja Guenther and Valeria Mazza, published open access in @oikosjournal.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1111/oik....

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