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Dr Sophia Daoudi-Simison @sophiadaoudi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Kicking off Day 2 #ECBB2026 A wonderful plenary by @ljnbrent.bsky.social 🐒 introducing her Adaptive Relationships Framework - there's more than one way to be well connected!! @crab-exeter.bsky.social

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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#ECBB2026 Day 2 kicks off with a plenary from Prof @ljnbrent.bsky.social!

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Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB) @crab-exeter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Thanks to our colleagues from around the world who signed the Open Letter against redundancies in CRAB. The letter surpassed 700 signatures in just over 1 wk. We hope execs will now see the harm they are doing to the University of Exeter's global reputation. sites.google.com/view/save-cr...

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Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB) @crab-exeter.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

CRAB Summer Bash & Croquet Tournament in the beautiful Devon "sunshine"! Congratulations to Lisa, Una, @libbychaps.bsky.social and Sophie- inaugural winners of the coveted BLUE CRAB trophy.

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Libby Chapman @libbychaps.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Super happy to share some work from my masters project with @cogwild.bsky.social 🪺 Using six years of data from blue tits, we show that wild birds make decisions about their nest design based on their reproductive success in the previous year. 📄 doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Graphic showing the results of the research article in cartoon birds and nest illustrations.

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ASAB @asab.org · 30/03/2026

We asked the researchers at #ASABSpring2026 if they could summarise their posters in 10 words or less - and they stepped up to the challenge 😍 (Also watch to the end for a celebrity cameo⭐️)

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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Reminder from @helephantmylne.bsky.social to get involved with this year's City Nature Challenge #ASABSpring2026 www.citynaturechallenge.org

What is the CNC 2026?
• One of the biggest global citizen science projects
• Uses Naturalist as its recording software
• In the past it has even brought species back from extinction!
• Last year 102945 individuals helped to record and ID 73,765 species, which is amazing!

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Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB) @crab-exeter.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

CRAB are at @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social in Bristol in strength for the next couple of days. Today @libbychaps.bsky.social presented work from her PhD on rabbit social ontogeny. More CRABers to come tomorrow!

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Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB) @crab-exeter.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Last week we celebrated Dr Yavanna Burnham successfully passing her viva. Congratulations @yavannab.bsky.social ! (And proud supervisors Lisa Leaver and Andy Higginson) Yavanna is staying on in CRAB as postdoc on the squirrel project so stay tuned for more squirrels!

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Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB) @crab-exeter.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Late-reporting, but last year some of our CRABbers headed up to Edinburgh to present their posters at the @asab.org Winter meeting. Well done all! @libbychaps.bsky.social @charli-ocean.bsky.social and @ Manuela Carona R

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Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB) @crab-exeter.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Very successful CRAB Staff and Post-Docs Research Away Day yesterday- great discussions and feedback about upcoming grant plans. Lots of really cool work in the pipeline (we think so anyway). Accompanied by a selection of French-style sweet treats.

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Natalie Hempel @nataliehempel.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Looking for an interdisciplinary funded #PhD in #bees and #physics, #behaviour, #physiology, #neuroethology, modelling? Call open now. International students eligible. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... Centre for Research in Aimal Behaviour @crab-exeter.bsky.social Exeter campus.

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Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB) @crab-exeter.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Festive Season in CRAB, which we celebrate with a quiz and by rediscovering the password to the CRAB Bluesky account.

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Tim Fawcett @timwfawcett.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Fully funded #PhD studentships, start Sept 2026: 1. Weaponry and aggression in wild fiddler crabs, with me, Safi Darden, Martin How tinyurl.com/weaponsPhD 2. The emotional basis of behaviour, with me, Danny Williamson, Andy Higginson tinyurl.com/emotionsPhD #AnimalBehaviour @crab-exeter.bsky.social

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Helen Mylne @helephantmylne.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Happy #PhotographyFriday! End of my first week as a postdoc in @crab-exeter.bsky.social and safe to say I think I've landed on my feet here 😁 some sun would be nice though.....

Sign for University of Exeter on a granite rock, in front of a university building. There is a large grassy area surrounded by trees in front of the building.

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Lauren Brent @ljnbrent.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Bake your paper! Research tech extraordinaire, Macaela Skelton, made a cake of (some of) the study sites in the MacaqueNet database. She ran out of decorations before she could do them all 😆. Link to the paper that's been cake-ified: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Darren Croft @darrencroft.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

5 exciting PhD opportunities to join the Center for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter in Sept 2025. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro...

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Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB) @crab-exeter.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The annual CRAB-mas quiz was a great success! The staff team won for the first time ever in the history of CRABmasses and received a crisp high five as reward.

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Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB) @crab-exeter.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

If our PhD studentships from NERC weren't enough, we've also got this one on offer on 🐇. Deadline Dec 11th

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Lauren Brent @ljnbrent.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

New PhD opportunity on social behaviour in the context of ecological disturbance with me, @mdekauwe.bsky.social, and others. Sept 2025 start, funded by NERC Apply by Jan 13. Project and application details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

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Darren Croft @darrencroft.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Exciting new NERC funded PhD opportunity available with us on #killerwhale #orca #behaviour and #conservation, co-supervised by Stephanie King, Sam Ellis and Dan Franks in partnership with The Center for Whale Research USA exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... - deadline 13th January 2025 #killerwhale

Post reproductive mother and Son copyright David Ellifrit Center for Whale Research

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Natalie Hempel @nataliehempel.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Pls RT: Interested in doing a PhD on the behaviour of #bees & other animals at CRAB Uni Exeter and Bristol Uni? Check out SWBio swbio.ac.uk www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/pr... (apply by 11.12.) & NERC GW4 www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/projects-202... @seanrands.bsky.social @bethbees.bsky.social apply by 13.01.

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Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB) @crab-exeter.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Come do a PhD in CRAB! Check out the studentships on offer below and apply by the 13th of Jan 🦀🐝🦊🐋🐒🐓

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Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB) @crab-exeter.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

the Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour is now posting here! Follow individual members and alumni via the CRAB starter pack 🦀 go.bsky.app/LSJ3ZBD

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