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Hugh Harrop @hughharrop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Over the moon (to put it mildly) to find this first year male SIBERIAN BLUE ROBIN in our garden at Hillwell, Shetland this morning. The fifth record for Britain and a first for Shetland. #BirdingScotland #UKbirding #RareBirdsUK #Birds #UKWildlife
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Jeremy Van Cleve @vancleve.theoretical.bio · 29/09/2026
My group is recruiting a Ph.D student for Fall 2027! We're a friendly group of mathematically-minded and computationally-inspired biologists studying topics including social evolution, host-pathogen interactions, genetics, and demography. See vancleve.theoretical.bio for more info!
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Van Cleve Research Group – theoretical evolution & ecology at the University of Kentucky
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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Behaviour 2027 @behaviour2027.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Spread the word! Behaviour 2027 will be taking place in Vienna, Austria, from August 23-27.
Galapagos short-eared owl with text "Who is excited about behaviour 2027? Join us in Vienna August 23-27"
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Claudia Wascher @wascherclaudia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The editorial 'Beyond bias: building a more inclusive and rigorous research culture in animal behaviour' summarises the 13 papers on how bias (taxonomic, geographic, observer, statistical,...) shapes our field, and how to address them. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Claudia Wascher @wascherclaudia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The scientific impact of gender in behaviour, ecology and evolution: authorship and citation performance @marinapapa.bsky.social & Afruni: 20 years on, male-dominated author teams still prevail and solo female authorship remains rare www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The scientific impact of gender in behaviour, ecology and evolution: authorship and citation performance
Over the last few decades, gender bias across scientific disciplines has been revealed in the form of skewed gender ratios among invited speakers in c…
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 23/09/2026
Why do we not see evolutionary change in heritable, fitness-related traits in free-living populations? @erikpostma.bsky.social &co use the #evolution of clutch size in great tits to show the importance of gene flow in explaining contemporary evolutionary change and stasis 🧪 buff.ly/ngAKH6r
Scatter plot comparing individual breeding values at year t−1 and year t, with blue dots = survivors, orange dots = non‑survivors, green dots = native recruits and magenta triangles = immigrant recruits. The genetic change attributable to local adaptation (i.e., the net effect of breeder mortality and the recruitment of local-origin individuals) is represented by a grey dashed line, which differs from the total genetic change in the breeding population (solid black line) that additionally includes the contribution of immigrant recruitment.
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Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Using AI to ‘talk to animals’ might make us feel clever – but what, if anything, does it do for them?
As animal behaviorists increasingly use AI in their research, they grapple with how to wield the technology responsibly
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ZSL @zslofficial.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Nearly sold out - grab your free ticket before they're gone! Join us on 6th October to hear how ZSL experts use technologies to protect species; from using AI to improve conservation outcomes to democratising deep-sea science. Find out more 👇 www.zsl.org/news-and-eve...
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Conservation by Design: Technology & the Future of Wildlife Protection | The Zoological Society of London
Join us to hear about how advances in technology impact wildlife conservation outcomes.
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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...
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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
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Dmitry Grinko @dmitry-grinko.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you turn it off in "Settings"->"Data controls"->"Improve model for everyone", it is not enough, go to "Learn more" and Privacy center there. It is kinda sneaky from OpenAI, they should not make it that tricky! It can also explain avalanche of concurrent results more generally... 2/3
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Ruhr-Universität Bochum @ruhr-uni-bochum.de · 08/09/2026
Für seine herausragenden Beiträge zum Verständnis der Evolution von Gehirn und Kognition wird Prof. Dr. Onur Güntürkün von der @dzg-gerzoolsociety.bsky.social ausgezeichnet.
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Onur Güntürkün erhält die Karl-Ritter-von-Frisch-Medaille
Die Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft zeichnet den Biopsychologen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum für seine hervorragenden und originellen Leistungen aus.
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Bibiana Rojas @biobiiana.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
So proud of Edina Nemesházi for this fantastic work about the consequences of sex reversal for the reproductive success of wild frogs, which is now out in Science Advances! 🥂💥🥳Congrats to all of the authors 👏 @klivvvienna.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Dr Blake Morton @drblakemorton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Thanks again @ecbb2026.bsky.social @asab.org for a fantastic conference! So many great talks and posters, looking forward to the next one. For anyone interested in knowing more about the talk we gave, check out our latest paper below 🦊 🌃 #CoexistProject www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Time in the city: long-term urban exposure predicts greater exploration and problem solving in wild red foxes
Urbanization is one of the most important forms of human-driven landscape change, altering wildlife populations in unprecedented ways. In terms of beh…
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Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I'm recruiting new grad students for fall 2027, looking for students motivated by animal behavior and animal communication. Our main study system is acoustic communication in treefrogs. More details here, please spread the word: reichertlab.com/2026/09/07/r...
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Recruiting grad students for fall 2027
The Reichert Lab in the Department of Biology at Oklahoma State University is recruiting 1-2 graduate students (MS or PhD) for Fall 2027. Our lab does integrative research in animal communication a…
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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Eavesdropping on migration: Insights from a continent-wide acoustic monitoring network." Congratulations to Madison for presenting her preliminary Master's findings on migratory flyways at the European Conference for Behavioural Ecology. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @ecbb2026.bsky.social
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Ahana Aurora Fernandez @ahanaaurora.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
See you in Vienna for the next ECBB in 2027 🤗🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
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University of Exeter, Cornwall @cornwall.exeter.ac.uk · 03/09/2026
Congratulations to @drrmiller.bsky.social, who has been awarded a five-year £1.25 million Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant for a study entitled “Avian Minds: Investigating the Evolution of Executive Function" she'll be based in @uniexecec.bsky.social news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
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Dr Rachael Miller awarded ERC Starting Grant
Dr Rachael Miller (Harrison) has been awarded a five-year £1.25 million European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant for a groundbreaking study into the minds of birds. The project, based at the Cen...
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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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Krishna Balasubramaniam @krishsubramaniam.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Brilliant, entertaining, but above all eye-opening stuff from Christopher Schell, on how redlining and structural racism has impacted the urban ecology of #coyotes in American cities! @ecbb2026.bsky.social #ECBB2026 🐺
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Dr Jen Colbourne 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @raccoonologist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If you're at #ECBB2026 and want to learn more about our work with Goffin's cockatoos, check out my session today (Weds) at the Communication & Cognition 1 session (LAB026) later this afternoon. My labmate @annaek.bsky.social also has a talk tomorrow afternoon at Communication & Cognition 2 (LAB026)!
A goffin's cockatoo holding a tool to knock a cashew off a plinth. Photo by Bene Croy
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Dr Sophia Daoudi-Simison @sophiadaoudi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Always nice to see a fellow NCL researcher! Great talk by Fletcher Noble, talking about some of his PhD work studying the impact of a heatwave🌡️and coral bleaching on clown fish behaviour 🪸🐠 @asab.org #ECBB2026 @theresarueger.bsky.social
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Dax Kellie @daxkellie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
3 decades of data 😮 on this fairy-wren population showed how many cumulative effects of climate change (lower food supply, chick rearing, higher pesticides) can lead to population decline, even for a species categorised as “least concern” on the IUCN Red List 🥺 🌏🧪🦜 news.mongabay.com/2026/08/supe...
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Superb fairywrens disappearing in Australia’s capital: Conserving insects could help save them
If you sit in an Australian park or garden for long enough, chances are you might catch a flash of brilliant feathers out of the corner of your eye: the superb fairywren. With its bright blue and soft...
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Really tried of the genre of bsky discourse that goes: "Here is an incredibly pointless thing I use LLMs for, now please bsky be normal about it." >>
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/08/2026
There is nothing honourable here and the press knew: > The Guardian‘s editor Katharine Viner and its head of national news Archie Bland were warned in advance that late academic Jason Arday was endangered by its planned attack on him, according to a newly-released email. They published anyway. 5/
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BREAKING: Guardian's Katharine Viner was warned Arday was at risk - yet published anyway
Author Kelechi Okafor has released a series of internal emails showing the Guardian knew how vulnerable Arday was - yet continued anyway
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A thread on the dispute at Exeter Uni. #ucu #defendexeteruni @ucu.org.uk On 15 June HR called Exeter UCU into a confidential meeting and informed us they would be putting over 500 colleagues at risk of redundancy and expected to loose around 200 staff. The number of c.150 you’ll have seen is FTE.
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 24/08/2026
Hummingbirds.
A four panel comic. In panel 1, a rufous hummingbird flies down toward a large hummingbird feeder with as many as 6 holes on top. He thinks "The humans put up a new feeder!" In panel 2, he lands on the feeder and gazes down at it. He thinks "It's huge. Many of us could feed here at once." In panel 3, we see a close up view of the hummingbird, and he's thinking "This could end the ancient rivalries. Usher in an era of peace. Interesting." In panel 4, an Anna's hummingbird hovers over the feeder and says "Hey, can I have some necta-" and the rufous hummingbird says "No."
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LaurenGuillette.bsky.social @laurenguillette.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
We’re seeking highly motivated MSc and PhD students to join the Animal Cognition Research Group at the University of Alberta in Fall 2027! 🐦 All positions are funded: MSc: 2.3 years PhD: 5 years Applications: Sept. 1–Dec. 1, 2026 sites.psych.ualberta... PsychUAlberta 🧪 1/2
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21/08/2026
Cofnas is not "an outspoken critic of DEI". he is an outspoken racist and a vile human being. any academic institute that harbors him is complicit in his racism and makes academia a hostile place for the rest of us
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026
I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Call me old-fashioned, but I do think we could be losing our sense of proportion. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’
Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach
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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
TIL that Bombardier stopped production of the firefighter planes used in France and Spain in 2015 and De Havilland had to rebuild its supply chain in 2022 🙃 www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
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Canada built an iconic wildfire-fighting plane. Can it keep up with demand? | CBC News
The hand-built planes are unmatched in the firefighting aircraft market and are built to last for decades. Europe wants more of them than ever.
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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Zoe Says Nothing! (Mohawk Girls)
Alt: A woman very excitedly says "Nothing!"
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/07/2026
13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.
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Andrew Iwaniuk @evoneuro.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
New paper out today led by @gallinaciega.bsky.social We show that seed-eating songbirds have enlarged a somatosensory nucleus, especially the part associated with the tongue, suggesting that seed-cracking is dependent on a fine sense of touch. #ornithology #neuroethology doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
A multipanel figure showing a cartoon of a songbird head, a cartoon diagram of a songbird brain, and three black and white images showing the cellular structure of the brain region we focused on, PrV. The following is the legend that accompanies the figure. (a) Shows in different colours the areas of the innervation in the head, beak and tongue by the three branches of the trigeminal nerve (V1-V3) and the hypoglossal nerve (XII) in a songbird and the respective areas of innervation in the principal sensory nucleus of the trigeminal nerve (PrV; based on Faunes & Wild [26]). (b–d) Microphotographs of Nissl-stained coronal sections through the principal sensory in nucleus of the trigeminal nerve (PrV) in three species of songbirds: (b) the pine grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator, Fringillidae); (c) the field sparrow (Spizella pusilla, Passerellidae); (d) the Carolina chickadee (Poecile carolinensis, Parulidae).
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/07/2026
Y'all remember how they were going to put an AI teacher robot into a high school serving the Seneca Nation of Indians? OF COURSE it was built by a sexbot company. Gift link.
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Sally the Robot Was Coming to a New York School. Then the Plug Was Pulled. (Gift Article)
Students helped design the A.I.-powered creation as a young female with dark hair and an upbeat personality. Then came the outrage.
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Juliane Gaviraghi Mussoi @jgmussoi.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
How do birds cope with bright and noisy nights?🐦🌃 In our study, after just one night of experimental light or noise, common mynas slept ~50% less and sang ~20% fewer songs, yet their contact calls remained unchanged. doi.org/10.1016/j.an... 🌏🧪 @asab.org @ecostanley.bsky.social @kecain.bsky.social
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Michael Greshko @michaelgreshko.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This is an absolutely devastating story, told expertly by Reaction Watch's Brendan Borrell. Proud of my @science.org colleagues for their work collaborating with Reaction Watch to bring this story to the world.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/07/2026
1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.
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The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science
As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...
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Thomas MacGillavry @thomasmacgillavry.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Ever wondered what the bizarre dances of male birds of paradise look like to females? Check out our new preprint! @izziehb.bsky.social @fusanilab.bsky.social “The geometry of visual signaling in a bird-of-paradise” ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
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Mohammed Khallaf @khallaf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Our new paper is out in @nature.com! We uncovered how a naked mole-rat queen 👑 controls an entire colony: a natural contraceptive scent that suppresses reproduction in other females! A remarkable mammalian parallel to bees and ants! 🐝🐜 @garyrlewin.bsky.social youtu.be/enfv3zJrWKM?...
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Naked mole-rats are ruled by a queen: this chemical puts her in power
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Alper Yelimlieş @alperyelimlies.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
New preprint from our Galápagos Yellow Warbler project! Functions of duet answering seem to be sex specific in this species. doi.org/10.64898/202... @caglarakcay.bsky.social @klf-univienna.bsky.social
A yellow bird with brown chest streaks (male Galapagos yellow warbler) is singing perched on a branch.
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ARAA @araa.at · 15/07/2026
2nd European Bird Song Network Meeting Austria 2026, Nov 2-4 More info here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
2nd European Bird Song Network Meeting Austria 2026
We are pleased to officially announce the opening of the registration period for the 2nd in-person meeting of the European Bird Song Network (EBSN). The meeting will take place between the 4th and 6th of November at the College Garden Hotel in Bad Vöslau (Johann Strauß-Straße 2, 2540), approximately one hour from Vienna.
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Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com · 16/04/2026
It's out now! Please send me pics of my book (Up - a scientist's guide to the magic above us) out in the wild (be imaginative if you've got it on audio book or e-reader!) If you hadn't yet got it, it's available at all good bookstores (UK). uk.bookshop.org/shop/DrLucyR...
Cover of book "Dr LUCY ROGERS UP - 
A Scientist's Guide to the Magic Above Us"

It's looking up with butterflies, condors, kites, clouds etc.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 13/07/2026
absolute classic "I am 50 years old and have run large chunks of government and the boss has told us we have to listen this child on an away day" look
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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Our new commentary rdcu.be/ftx6h in @natecoevo.nature.com written with folks from @inaturalist.bsky.social and @cornellbirds.bsky.social shows that use of AI to manipulate existing or create new wildlife images undermines the huge value of vast citizen science databases. 🌍🪰🪶 #Ornithology 🧵 1/10
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Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI
Nature Ecology & Evolution - Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI
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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!
Logo of a gosling looking up at a bee on its beak. "Behaviour" underneath.
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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Do you have a background in behavioural ecology and are you interested in doing a PhD in Australia? I’m looking for new grad students so check out our website (BobWongLab.org) or come find me in Torino at #ISBE2026. 🐟🐠
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