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Catarina Vila-Pouca

@catarina-vp.bsky.social
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Behavioural & cognitive ecology 🏞️🧠💡 Mostly fish 🐟🐠🦈 Enthusiastic about science communication and outreach 📢 perso website: catarinavilapouca.wordpress.com

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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Do you teach or comparative/evolutionary neurobiology/anatomy? 🧪🧠 Are you in need of a fun practical? Do you have a few brains lying around? Look no further! junejournal.scholasticahq.com/article/1545... - cheap accessible techniques ✅ - improved conceptual understanding ✅ - happy students ✅
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Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠 @jutfelt.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The Thermal Ecology Alliance is growing rapidly and we are now at 51 countries! Join here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org/participation
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Nicholas Wu @nicholaswu.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Want to join a global 🌎 initiative to test the thermal limits of 🐟 using standardised approach? Led by @patricepottier.bsky.social, we are planning a globally distributed experiment to collect data on fish embryonic heat tolerance 🌡️. Make this experiment global! 🔗: www.thermalecologyalliance.org
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Alizée Vernouillet @vernouilleta.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Excited to announce that Eli Garcia-Pelegrin and I are co-editing a special collection for Animal Cognition on "Social Cognition in a Human World". Do you study how urbanization, pollution, heat stress, fragmentation, ... affects cognition? We want to hear from you! link.springer.com/collections/...
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Social Cognition in a Human World
As humanity exploits and reshapes the environment to accommodate for development and population growth demands, animals need to adapt to these human-induced ...
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Catarina Vila-Pouca @catarina-vp.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Very insighful piece on how to design and run cognitive experiments 🧠💡
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Nick Jones @nickarjones.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
🐟 Our special issue "Measuring Fish Cognition: Empirical-based Guidance for Designing Cognition Assays" is out! From acclimation protocols to automated tracking, these studies tackle a range of methodological issues. Check it out: tinyurl.com/vdprfbf4 #FishCognition #AnimalBehaviour
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Special Issue: Measuring fish cognition: Empirical based guidance for designing cognition assays: Journal of Fish Biology: Vol 107, No 4
The <em>Journal of Fish Biology</em> is a leading international ichthyology journal, addressing all aspects of fish biology, their exploitation and importance to human society.
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Catarina Vila-Pouca @catarina-vp.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
It was a pleasure talking to Mary about our apparatus to take fish cognition research into the wild! 🐟🧠 Read it on Psychology Today ⬇️⬇️ with @kotrschal.bsky.social and @amydeacon.bsky.social
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Nancy C. Saavedra-Sotelo @nsaavedra.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
🚨The 2nd circular for the 1st Mexican Congress of Evolution is out! Join us this November 19-21 in CDMX to celebrate evolutionary biology across Latin America. 📅 Save the date! #MexEvol2025 #EvolutionaryBiology #ReMBE
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Catarina Vila-Pouca @catarina-vp.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The International Student Conference on Animal Behavior and Cognition (ISCABC) - run by students, for students - will be kicking off today 😀 I'm very honored to be one of its plenary speakers, talking about 🐟🦋 on June 7th. Check all talks and posters ➡️ www.instagram.com/iscabc/?igsh...
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Paco Majic @hhydrochaerus.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
🔊 ¡Llamado a pensar la evolución desde el sur! Invitamos a estudiantes de maestría y doctorado en biología evolutiva de Sudamérica a postularse a EvoSur. 🧬 Un espacio para intercambiar ideas, debatir evolución y tejer redes científicas con todas las voces, todas: sites.google.com/view/evosur2...
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Richard Merrill @dickmerrill.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Just over a week left to apply for this. Please get the word out there and tell your students :)
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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
It's #BiodiversityDay today! Bask in this bloom of beautiful botanicals illustrated by Dorothy Fernando in 'Wildflowers of Ceylon' 1954.
Watercolour illustration of orange flowers, several different species, and bold green leaves.Watercolour illustration of a range of yellow flowers, some as buds and some in full bloom.Watercolour illustrations of white flowers and dandelions with long green stems.Watercolour illustration of blue flowers, crowded in with their green leaves.
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Catarina Vila-Pouca @catarina-vp.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Procuramos cientistas lusófonos em Toulouse! 📍 Esta é a tua oportunidade de criar impacto e aproximar crianças migrantes da ciência através da sua língua de herança 📅 24 de Maio às 10h30 para crianças 7- 12 anos 📥 Inscreve-te (código 376) ou envia-me mensagem bit.ly/4iDpQWA tinyurl.com/j8n45bje
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#native_migrant #scienceforall #scicommforgood #scicomm4good… | Native Scientists
Procuramos pessoas cientistas lusófonas em Toulouse! 📍 A Native Scientists está a organizar uma nova oficina científica em português, desta vez em Toulouse, e estamos à procura de pessoas cientistas ...
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
📖Published📖 Check out our recent research article, presenting YOLO-Behaviour, a flexible framework for identifying visually distinct behaviours from video recordings 🌎 🧪 👇 buff.ly/4gJxtsL
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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Are you a member of the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE)? I'm holding zoom chats during which I will get your feedback and thoughts about what the society can do for you and for the field! Everyone is welcome to join -- sign up for a time and pls RT this!!
Join the conversation with incoming SSE President! Have thoughts about the future of evolutionary biology? Want to provide feedback on how the Society for the Study of Evolution can best serve its members? Join one of our guided chats with SSE President-Elect Regina Baucom!

Upcoming Sessions:
4/4, 4/11, 4/25, 5/2, 5/23, 5/30
Where: Zoom (link provided upon RSVP)
Who: SSE members of all career stages
Topics include:
Vision for SSE's future
How SSE can best advocate for evolutionary biologists
Ways to get involved in SSE, build community, & network!

RSPV Now! https://forms.gle/ef6adb9rtUTHVoPv8
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
And now, we also have a 2-year postdoc position in the Stelkens Lab! 🧪 If you are interested in parallel evolution, genomics, yeast, and climate adaptation, this could be for you! Please apply through U Stockholm's job platform here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Catarina Vila-Pouca @catarina-vp.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Também escrevi um post em 🇵🇹 no Methods Blog sobre este projecto! PT: tinyurl.com/yfndv6fn I also wrote a blog post in Portuguese & English in the Methods Blog about this project! EN: tinyurl.com/yn9ku32m
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Para além do laboratório: estudar aprendizagem em peixes directamente no meio selvagem
Post fornecido por Catarina Vila Pouca. This post is also available in English Olá! O meu nome é Catarina Vila Pouca e investigo como e por que razão os animais apresentam diferentes comportamentos…
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Catarina Vila-Pouca @catarina-vp.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
An idea that's been on the works for a long time has finally made it to the surface! We designed a foraging board to test cognition 🧠💡 and ➕ in multiple 🐟 species and habitats. ➡️ besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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A novel apparatus for studying fish cognition in the wild
Fish show a huge variation of ecological, anatomical and behavioural traits, which makes them prime subjects for studying behaviour, cognition and their evolution. Lab-based studies allow a contro...
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Anahí Espíndola (she/ella) @analyssi.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Get your application in before the deadline (Mar 31)! Sistematicos hispanohablantes! Postulen a estos fondos para poder cubrir potencialmente la totalidad de los costos de participacion en Evolution 2025! La fecha limite es el 31 de marzo! www.systbio.org/early-career...
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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Two job openings helping massive native reforestation projects here in Panama! 1 - 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (𝐌𝐑𝐕) 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝 Lead a team tracking reforestation progress across Panama. 2 - 𝐅𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Ponterra on LinkedIn: #reforestation #panama #mrv #fielddata #engineer #teamlead #ponterra…
Want to work at the forefront of large-scale reforestation? Ponterra is hiring! Ponterra is hiring two key roles in Panama - perfect for hands-on problem…
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Catarina Vila-Pouca @catarina-vp.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Glad to see that academic publishers are being challenged, let's see what will come out of this. In the meanwhile, let's try to publish in society journals where profits go back into supporting our research community!
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Animal Behaviour Collective @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
It is spring and time for a new round of mentorship matching! This time we are also looking for new mentors, so if you are interested in supporting animal behaviours students do join us! Mentee sign up here: forms.gle/zPgk4Nwq2znE... Mentor sign up here: forms.gle/cD3cEqoXHaLT...
Looking for a mentor? Sign up to our next Animal Behaviour Mentorship-Matching Event, March 26th 2 pm UK time on ZoomWant to support a student? Sign up as a mentor to our next Animal Behaviour Collective: Mentorship-Matching Event March 26th 2 pm UK time on Zoom
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Ana S. L. Rodrigues @ana-sl-rodrigues.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Call for abstract is now open, until March 28! 🧪
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Thomas Lenormand @thomaslenormand.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🚨If you fancy evolutionary genomics, theory, my lab now offers *two* fully-funded #PhD #genomics #popgen #evolution ℹ️One on sex-asex transitions with Christoph Haag bit.ly/4hp1q1A ℹ️One on allele-specific expression with Sylvain Glémin bit.ly/4iuKLuQ Part of #ERC RegEvol In #CEFE lab, Montpellier
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Catarina Vila-Pouca @catarina-vp.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
A good read on where APC fees go to: "is it better to publish in journals that profit your academic community or profit *from* that community?"
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
We have a 4-year fully funded PhD position available! Research topics include but are not limited to 1) Parallel evolution of climate adaptation in Europe and South America 2) The genetic architecture of temperature adaptation 3) The evolution of pathogenicity su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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PhD student in Evolutionary Genomics with Yeast
The Department of Zoology of Stockholm University includes ca. 80 employees, including researchers, PhD students, and administrative staff. Research and education at the department occurs in an intern
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Linköping University offers a two-year postdoc in avian brain size evolution using quantitative genetics and phylogenetics. PhD required. Apply by April 15, 2025: rie.henriksen@liu.se. liu.se/en/research/henriksen-group #postdoc
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Genetic architecture of brain structure - Henriksen Group
We use populations of both wild and domestic chickens to identifying the genetic architecture underlying variation in avian brain size and composition, as well as elucidating the effects and pathways of maternal stress.
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Catarina Vila-Pouca @catarina-vp.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Very well phrased text on a topic that I have discussed countless times at different universities... All the hours and money we have lost to useless bureaucracy 🤫
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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 06/03/2025
Deadline reminder! 📅 Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA)'s Catalytic Awards Program offers grants up to $15k for initiatives that drive open science, community engagement, & innovation in traditionally under-resourced U.S. institutions. Applications due: 3/15/25. 🔗: orcaopen.org/work/cap
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Open Scholarship Catalytic Awards Program — Open Research Community Accelerator
Round 1 Deadline: March 15 at 11:59 PM pacific time! The Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA), with generous support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, is pleased to launch the Open Scholarship Catalytic Awards Program.&nbsp; The program aims to stimulate a culture of open scholarship
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Jeremy De Bonville @jaydebon.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
The deadline to submit abstracts is approaching!!! ⏰ (March 7th) Consider submitting an abstract for a talk or poster in our session (A14) if you study the vulnerability of early life stages to environmental stressors! 🐣 The early bird registration deadline is May 16th.
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Michael Lee (Evolutionary Biologist) @michael-s-y-lee.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Job announcement - we're hiring! Postdoctoral Fellow, 2 yrs, Adelaide Uni Plastic brains: Neural adaptations to changing environments in reptiles Team led by @jcroweriddell.bsky.social with @draliceclement.bsky.social‬ Shaun Collin & myself. Details here: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
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Shoko Sugasawa @shokosugasawa.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
🚨Fully-funded PhD studentship on insect behaviour, cognition & muscles with me & @viveknityananda.bsky.social at @newcastleuni.bsky.social 🐝🍀🎓🙌Application deadline April 30, start date in September. Drop me an email if you have questions! www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Image of a PhD position advert entitled "PhD studentship in Brain, Brawn, and Bugs: cognitive and physical factors of insect dexterity" with images of a praying mantis and a bumblebee foraging.
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
We are hiring!! 🦎🧠🐍 2 year postdoc to work on on the evolution of brains in snakes and lizards (on our current ARC Discovery project). Applications close 25th March 2025! careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
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Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.
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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Do you have a project in ecology and evolution that exemplifies open science? If so nominate the project for a SORTEE Commendation Award: More details about the SORTEE Commendation Award:
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SORTEE awards
Awards of Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)
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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Paid internship at a reforestation org in Panama! Ponterra está contratando a un pasante de entomología. Este pasante recibirá capacitación sobre identificación y microscopía de invertebrados del suelo
Ponterra is hiring an entomology intern. This intern will receive training on soil invertebrate identification and microscopy, then help process soil invertebrate samples collected across the Azuero Peninsula. This work is part of a larger biodiversity monitoring initiative to collect baseline data prior to reforestation. Experience with terrestrial arthropod taxonomy and/or microscopy highly desired. Compensation is $1300 a month, with a 5-month contract starting in March. The work will take place at the new Biodiversity Lab at Finca Vivero Oria in Azuero. The intern can stay at the Vivero or daily transport can be arranged from nearby Pedasi. Please send CVs and questions to hubert@ponterra.ecoPonterra está contratando a un pasante de entomología. Este pasante recibirá capacitación sobre identificación y microscopía de invertebrados del suelo, y luego ayudará a procesar muestras de invertebrados del suelo recolectadas en toda la península de Azuero. Este trabajo es parte de una iniciativa más amplia de monitoreo de la biodiversidad para recopilar datos de referencia antes de la reforestación. Se desea experiencia en taxonomía y/o microscopía de artrópodos terrestres. La compensación es de $1300 por mes, con un contrato de 5 meses que comienza en marzo. El trabajo se llevará a cabo en el nuevo Laboratorio de Biodiversidad en Finca Vivero Oria en Azuero. El pasante puede quedarse en el Vivero o se puede organizar el transporte diario desde la cercana ciudad de Pedasí. Envíe su CV y preguntas a hubert@ponterra.eco
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
🚨 Calling from #RoyalSocietyPublishing! 🚨 We are excited to share that the #BiologyLetters Early Career Researcher Competition is open for submissions until April 30, 2025! Grand prize: £1000 2 runners-up: £500 each. 🔗 More details: royalsociety.org/journals/aut...
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Biology Letters early career researcher Competition | Royal Society
Open for entries to early career researchers until 30 April 2025.
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Catarina Vila-Pouca @catarina-vp.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Useful for things like latency to respond or other types of time-to-event censored data!
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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Long-term memory formation impacts dietary energy intake but not metabolic rate in honeybees www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute #DISI @divintelligence.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Review of applications starts March 1st! Apply here: disi.org/apply/
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Apply - DISI
The Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) is building a new community: a vibrant network of early-career scholars who are devoted to bold, transdisciplinary inquiry into the origins, nature, a...
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Melissah Rowe @melissahrowe.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Come work with me! #sparrows #microbiomes #reproduction
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
2025. Experiments show wild fish can recognize individual divers phys.org/news/2025-02...
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Experiments show wild fish can recognize individual divers
For years, scientific divers at a research station in the Mediterranean Sea had a problem: at some point in every field season, local fish would follow them and steal food intended as experimental rew...
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 12/02/2025
A paper in Nature reports that the loggerhead turtle can learn and remember the magnetic signature of an area and does a ‘turtle dance’ when in a location that they associate with food. go.nature.com/4jSQEDo 🐢 🧪
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Learned magnetic map cues and two mechanisms of magnetoreception in turtles - Nature
Loggerhead sea turtles, which undergo long-distance migrations, can learn magnetic signatures associated with different geographic areas and have two different magnetic senses, each based on a different underlying mechanism.
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Catarina Vila-Pouca @catarina-vp.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Worth the read! In addition to the problematic they discuss, I find that some of these worries also apply when you are a foreigner in a lab and don't master the local language - this might exclude you from coffee or lunch conversations and make you have less scientific exchanges 😔
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Portuguese Ethological Society (SPE) @spetologia.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Since 1987, we've been promoting the study of animal behaviour in Portugal. From organizing national congresses to publishing our journal acta ethologica, we’re here to connect researchers, educators, and anyone passionate about Ethology. Follow us! 🐒🦉🐺 #Ethology #AnimalBehaviour #Portugal
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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Excited to share the first paper from our COST Action! 🎉 This PAW definition paper has been a huge collaborative effort that we hope will help shape research directions and inspire scientific progress for the benefit of animals and humans alike. 🐾🌍 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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A consensus on the definition of positive animal welfare | Biology Letters
The concept of animal welfare is evolving due to progress in our scientific understanding of animal biology and changing societal expectations. Animal welfare science has been primarily concerned with...
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Tim Janicke @timjanicke.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Hey BlueSkyers, we’re finalizing a #meta-analysis 📚 on comparative studies examining the link between #SexualSelection and #Speciation. If you have unpublished data or know of studies that might not surface in a systematic search, please reach out - we’d love to include them! Please share!
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Alexander Kotrschal @kotrschal.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
We are organizing the 1st European Lionfish Conference in Crete 15.-17. May 2025. Join us! Everybody working on or interested in lionfish is most welcome. A joint effort of Wageningen University and the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research: www.wur.nl/en/research-...
logo of the 1st Mediterranean lionfish conference in Gournes, Crete, 15.-17.5.2025. It shows a cartoon lionfish looking to the left above text
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ASSAB @animbehav.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The 4th International Student Conference on Animal Behaviour and Cognition will be held in Universiade Federal de Alagoas in the city of Maceió, Brazil. The conference will cover animal welfare, ethology, behavioral ecology, new techniques and much more. iscabc.com/registration
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ISCABC
June 4th-7th 2025 Maceió, Brasil
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