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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships call received "highest number of applications to date & highest number of proposals ever for any funding action in 40 years of EU research & innovation framework programmes...increase of 26.7% on previous year". Success rate expected to be ~7%

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MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 receives record number of applications

The 2026 call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 21,627 applications submitted.

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Corné de Groot @cdegroot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

New preprint! We show how plasticity, and modification of the behaviour of others (social responsiveness & impact) are integrated, and reduce individual variation in foraging pay-offs in producer-scrounger interactions @dingemanselab.bsky.social @roriwijnhorst.bsky.social @ali--wilson.bsky.social

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Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Sexier in the city? Urban male great bowerbirds decorate bowers with human-made objects, creating brighter and more varied displays than rural males. Males strongly prefer human-made objects over natural ones, possibly boosting their appeal to females! shorturl.at/lcNY2 @royalsocietypublishing.org

The ground is covered in leaf litter. On the ground are two parallel walls made of sticks that form a corridor. At each entrance there are objects scattered around including grey plastic, green pieces of glass, grey stones, white snail shells and red items.

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American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Antonson et al. show that cowbirds’ neck muscles are unusually fatigue-resistant, suggesting muscular innovation for exaggerated begging as a key driver for how brood parasites outcompete hosts. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Dr Mark E Hauber @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Now with pagination on cowbird vs. host begging muscles www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... by incoming Asst. Prof. of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo! Congrats @nickantonson.bsky.social

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Deryk Tolman @deryktolman.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

🥳🥳🥳 another thesis chapter accepted, and very happy it's in @journal-evo.bsky.social

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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is so, so well-articulated.

People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.

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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Paul Ehrlich has died. Most will remember him for "The Population Bomb." But for many of us, Ehrlich and Raven 1964 was a foundational read that influenced our careers. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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BUTTERFLIES AND PLANTS: A STUDY IN COEVOLUTION

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Sensory Ecology Lab @sensoryecology.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

“A newly discovered form of deception is more convoluted yet: The larvae of blister beetles emit a mix of volatile scents that resemble a flower, attracting bees. The beetles then latch onto the bee, hitch a ride to its nest, and eat the eggs.” #scicomm www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

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Bee-hunting beetles are the first animals known to fake the smell of flowers

Study of parasitic blister beetles reveals a new form of chemical deception

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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 24/11/2025

NEW on #theBOUblog from Malin Klumpp At EOU2025: Using genomics to study how birds are moving and redistributing behavioural traits across geographic space bou.org.uk/blog-klum... #ornithology 🪶

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Gloria Murari @gloriamurari.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Are you a bachelor's / master's student looking for a thesis project or Erasmus Internship? We’re looking for someone to come and help us collecting data! If you’re interested, feel free to contact me! :)

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Dieter Lukas @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/11/2025

"Monk parakeets ‘test the waters’ when forming new relationships" royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1… interesting new study by bsky.app/profile/elizabethhobson.bs… et al. J. Manson once reminded me that not […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

A cover for the journal Biology Letters of the Royal Society, displaying a photo of two monk parakeets (birds) preening each other

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Listen to Bob McDonald talking to @nickantonson.bsky.social on CBC's Quirks and Quarks about his research published in JEB into how downy woodpeckers brace themselves and grunt when pounding wood with their beaks www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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Deryk Tolman @deryktolman.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Scops owls deliver little insectivorous snakes alive to their nest, where the snakes (probably) eat ectoparasites, improving the success of the chicks!

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Melanie Brien @melbrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Funded PhD position available 🎉 Come and work with me in Helsinki to uncover the pathways producing colourful tiger moth wings. Lots of options for genomics, CRISPR, fieldwork, behaviour experiments… Email with questions! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Wood tiger moth on leaf. Photo: Juhani Maamela.

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Will Smith @willjsmith.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Reed Warbler range expansion paper just out, led by the amazing Nora Bergman 🧬🪶 with @informedbirds.bsky.social @katjaronka.bsky.social @fishcongen.bsky.social @rytikerttunen.bsky.social @frodefossoy.bsky.social and others doi.org/10.1111/mec.70077

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Deryk Tolman @deryktolman.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Thanks for inviting me to see your cool experiments @gloriamurari.bsky.social. Lots of fun despite the rain and 5 trillion mosquitoes

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Deryk Tolman @deryktolman.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I hope reed warbler chicks can't get seasick

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Deryk Tolman @deryktolman.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The first wave of reed warbler eggs is finally upon us in Finland, the northern edge of their range🥚🪹🇫🇮

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Petr Procházka @rytikerttunen.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

🚨 Postdoc opportunity! 🚨 Join @ecology-radboud.bsky.social in the #HABITRACK @horizoneu.bsky.social project, studying waterfowl movement for conservation impact 🦆🌍 📅 Apply by April 20, 2025 🔗 More info: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Please, repost! 🙏 #postdoc #postdocjobs #ornithology #birdmigration

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Hannah Scharf @hannah-scharf.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I haven't seen any starter packs made for behavioral ecology yet, so I decided to create one! If you are a behavioral ecologist (any career stage), please reply so I can add you to the list so we can more easily find each other. go.bsky.app/9mAuB6x

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