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Vesta Eleuteri @vestaeleuteri.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

8 years ago I started monitoring the Marakele wild elephants and dreaming of one day studying their communication. Today my first wild elephant paper exploring intentional gestural communication in the Marakele and Addo populations is out, marking a key personal moment 🐘❤️. rdcu.be/87qLLG6DSs7a 1/4

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Michael Haslam @twigtechnology.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sea turtles using fixels 🪸

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Yitzchak Ben Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

3/3 ii) Standardise the weighing times of animals in comparative studies. Both are necessary to avoid compromising data accuracy and animal welfare. Funds: @uni-konstanz.de @cbehav.bsky.social @zukunftskolleg.bsky.social @klaus-tschira-stiftung.de @gso-forresearchers.bsky.social

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Yitzchak Ben Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

2/3 Myself @andyradford.bsky.social @odedkeynan.bsky.social & @josharbon.bsky.social examined temporal variation in the body mass of #birds and #mammals to demonstrate that one must consider i) the lowest body mass expected during the period when the animal should carry devices (e.g., GPS tags) &

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Yitzchak Ben Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

1/3 If your research involves #biologging of #wild_animals or comparative research on their body mass, this new @royalsociety.org paper is for you: doi.org/10.1098/rsos.260127

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Josh Arbon @josharbon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Great use of the tens of thousands of dwarf mongoose body mass measurements collected over the years. Animals vary substantially in mass across days and seasons - when determining if a tag is too heavy we need to think about how light an animal might become, not just its mass right now.

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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

📢NEW paper out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org #RSOS. 📖Practical implications of temporal body mass variation for biologging and comparative studies. 🌟Showcasing the value of #long-term studies - 1000s of body-mass measures analysed. 👥Led by @benmocha.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

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Yitzchak Ben Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

4/4 This Co-BreeD @co-breed.bsky.social ky.social paper includes #open_access demography and reproduction datasets for🐦& 🐒 Great work with @michael-griesser.bsky.social , Zitan Song and Tal Dahan! Funds: @uni-konstanz.de @cbehav.bsky.social @zukunftskolleg.bsky.social & @klaus-tschira-stiftung.de

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Yitzchak Ben Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

3/4 Using data from 101 wild cooperatively breeding populations of #birds and #mammals, our study highlights the need to (i) uncover the conditions that favour the formation of multi-female groups, and only then (ii) to identify those conditions that support the realisation of female cooperation.

The proportion of multi-female groups in populations of cooperatively breeding birds and mammals

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Yitzchak Ben Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

2/4 In contrast to the view that breeding monopolisation is common among #cooperative_breeding, we show that when multiple adult females co-reside in the same group, they often alloparent each other’s offspring and share reproduction, rather than monopolise it.

The proportion of multi-female social groups with more than one breeding female

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Yitzchak Ben Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

NEW #ProcB paper! Scholars sought to understand why, in #cooperative_breeding species, females care for the offspring of others while a dominant female monopolises reproduction Yet, we show that females more often share, rather than monopolise reproduction! royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

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Females cooperate, rather than monopolize reproduction, in multi-female groups of cooperatively breeding birds and mammals

Abstract. Scholars have long sought to understand why, in some cooperatively breeding species, females care for the offspring of other group members while

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Danai Papageorgiou @danaipapageorgiou.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

We are looking for a motivated and collaborative MSc student to join us @humboldtuni.bsky.social for their thesis on body mass inequality in Arabian babblers. Preferably based in Berlin. Co-supervised with brilliant @benmocha.bsky.social Call: danaipapageorgiou.weebly.com/join-us.html

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Yitzchak Ben Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Join our session in this great conference at a great location! Please DM me for questions! (also yitzchakbm@gmail.com)

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Universität Konstanz @uni-konstanz.de · 24/06/2026

Do chimpanzees reflect on the beauty of dawn when they gaze at the sky? This is one of the questions that occupy @benmocha.bsky.social in his photographic work. @zukunftskolleg.bsky.social presents his photo exhibition "The Animal’s Inner World" in the library of #UniKonstanz. t1p.de/dpwb2

A monkey is craning its neck upward. The left side of its face and its left shoulder are facing the camera. The background is black.

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Yitzchak Ben Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Hiring volunteers... Not very much respectable for a UN agency

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Yitzchak Ben Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

So true. Especially the uncertainty regarding the presence of alloparental care!

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FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology @africanornithology.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

It’s official (get it in your diary!) 📅 🦅 The 16th Pan-African Ornithological Congress (PAOC16) will take place in Marrakech, Morocco, from 12 to 17 April 2027. The website is being updated—check back for details on symposia and abstract calls soon: paoc.africa #Ornithology #AfricanOrnithology

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Vlad Demartsev @animal-sounds.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

🚨REPOST PLEASE! 🙏🏻 Calling all South African 🇿🇦 zoology students! You have ONE more week to apply to our Collective Behaviour Field Course 📍Two weeks at the Kalahari Research Centre 🗓️ June 2026 💸 Fully funded Application details are at www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/cbfc DM for any questions

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Statement by the Senate of Tel Aviv University

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 10/03/2026

We're thrilled to announce the Ctrl-Z Award, a US$2,500 prize for researchers “who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record." Covered by @nature.com today; read more here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/03/10/a...

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Keep calm and be transparent: advice from scientists who retracted their papers

Retractions correct the scientific record, but they have stigma attached to them. Some in the research community want that to change.

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Yitzchak Ben Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

A summary of the current Iran war in 2 minutes youtu.be/S-sqsvcZJ2w?... Next in line "Greenland operation"...

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Putin's "Special Military Operation" Bop | PUPPET REGIME

YouTube video by GZERO Media

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Yitzchak Ben Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Right, but it is not that "associat" editors were trained to be like that. It is because editors (like reviewers) are not being paid for their job. If we want professional editors, we should make such a paid professional...

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Yitzchak Ben Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

How many cooperatively breeding bird & mammal species are there??? an ongoing research... follow @co-breed.bsky.social for updates!

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Yitzchak Ben Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

A nice graphical abstract of our recent #ProcB paper (royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...) How global warming affects #sleep and activity patterns of even desert specialist birds #Arabian_babbler 👇

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Claudia Wascher @wascherclaudia.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

If you work on corvid ecology, behaviour, cognition, or conservation, this might be useful for you 👇 I’ve just published CORVIDATA in Scientific Data 🐦 doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/4)

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CORVIDATA: A global dataset of morphology, ecology, sociality, and life-history in Corvidae - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - CORVIDATA: A global dataset of morphology, ecology, sociality, and life-history in Corvidae

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

May your year be blessed with accepts subject to minor corrections.

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

🐧🧊 Incredible underwater footage of penguin life, shot from the first person of one of them. 🇺🇦 This beauty was captured thanks to Ukrainian scientists from the Vernadsky Station in Antarctica, who put a GPS tracker and a tiny camera on the bird.

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Co-BreeD (Cooperative Breeding Database) @co-breed.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Fabulous @anticac.bsky.social wrote a beautiful highlight on our first #Co-BreeD dataset. She was also worried about how often Co-BreeD would be updated. Well, time will tell, but meanwhile, the second dataset about #allonursing (& update) is already under review ;)

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

🌟 New research highlight for a paper that introduces a Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD), which is an open, peer-reviewed resource that collects data on cooperative breeding across birds and mammals, including humans. 📖 Read the full paper ➡️ buff.ly/DAE9htT

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

"Behavioural scientists are increasingly calling for context as a key to addressing pressing problems caused by human behaviour. However, despite its powerful ability to generate contextual hypotheses on the basis of relatively simple rules, ecological thinking is rarely applied to human behaviour"

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Behavioural sciences need behavioural ecology - Nature Human Behaviour

Behavioural scientists want to see more consideration of context — so why are they not using tools derived from ecology, the science of all life in context? We invite behavioural scientists to align t...

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

same ⬇️👏

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Portuguese Ethological Society (SPE) @spetologia.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨 #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology "Multi-generational fidelity, ecological and social determinants of roosting in a cooperatively breeding bird (Argya squamiceps)" Ben Mocha et al. with SPE members Yitzchak Ben Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social @ Royal Society Open Science

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Yitzchak Ben Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

WANTED! body mass data of wild #Arabian_babbler from any part of the world. Contribute data and join our study as co-authors. Contact: yitzchakbm@gmail.com

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Yitzchak Ben Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Follow Co-BreeD (@co-breed.bsky.social) to get updated estimates about how many cooperatively breeding birds and mammals there are!

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Marwan Barghouti's lawyer Ben Marmarelli: there are reports that Barghouti was badly assaulted in prison, they "broke his ribs, teeth, fingers and cut part of his ear". Israeli Prison Service refused to comment or let the lawyer meet with him.

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS @mizpas.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

❗️New paper co-authored by MIZ PAS researchers ❗️ ℹ️Roman Gula & Jörn Theuerkauf contributed to a new cooperative breeding database for birds and mammals, Co-BreeD, published recently in animalecology.bsky.social. 👇

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Yitzchak Ben Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

3/3 "He did not agree to tell what he did. Either he was ashamed of shooting, or he was ashamed of feeling sorry for them and not shooting. Which is worse?"

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Yitzchak Ben Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

2/3 "... that he saw a father and a girl walking on a road they weren't supposed to be on. He got on the phone. They told him: Shoot the Dad. Immediately after, another officer called him over the red, classified line, and ordered: Take down the girl too..."

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