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The next ECBB will take place at Anglia Ruskin University in 2026! www.aru.ac.uk/science-and-engineeri…

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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Thank you so much for your excellent talk!! We got a great one of you and Chris in the poster session. ☺️
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#ECBB2026 and thank you to our plenary speakers!
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#ECBB2026 We hope everyone had a fantastic time over these past four days! We would like to take a moment to thank our volunteers for their outstanding help and our organising committee for their monumental efforts! See you in Dublin for #ECBB2028
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#ECBB2026 the penultimate talk in our primate symposium from @queenfireface.bsky.social and her talk Advances in studying the behaviour of a critically endangered primate in a complex agroforestry mosaic landscape in Indonesia
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#ECBB2026 @vitorhbf.bsky.social closing out Symposium 10: Social cognition in a human world with his talk Humans as social partners? Experience and selection history shape responses in domestic chickens
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#ECBB2026 following Yasmin's and Anita's talks on heatwaves, Chiara Morosinotto delivered a talk on Heatwaves on reproduction and sexual selection: cryptic and transgenerational effects
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Dietmar Zinner delivering his talk, Smart monkeys, wasteful humans: lessons from urbanisation on baboons in Saudi Arabia as part of our symposium on Primates
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#ECBB2026 @agnesfrancila.bsky.social presenting her work on parental care in urban house sparrows
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#ECBB2026 @yasminwho.bsky.social delivering a timely talk on the impacts of heatwaves in a population of field crickets
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Our Primates in the Anthropocene symposium continues with Adrian Barnett and his talk Primate social structure drivers across climatic gradients
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Symposium 11: Primates in the Anthropocene: the ecology of adaptive behavioural responses opened by Bruna Bezzera with her talk Shaping the future: effective public policies and primate survival in the Anthropocene
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#ECBB2026 The first keynote of Symposium 12: Pre- and post-copulatory sexual selection under thermal stress from @liamdougherty.bsky.social and his topic, Is sperm the weak link in stress tolerance?
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Day 4 opened by @biobiiana.bsky.social with her talk on poison frog behaviour, morphology and life history under anthropogenic stress
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Day 3 comes to a close with our conference dinner and ceilidh at the beautiful Homerton College
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Kai Amino delivering their talk as part of the Communication and Cognition symposium, Deep learning reveals ultraviolet -dependent shifts in mimicry under predation
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Louise Tovey exploring the stress response of Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) to tourism in Gibraltar with some excellent sign posting to their nose
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Doli Borah continuing our Communication and Cognition symposium Coordination and communication of cooperative offspring care behaviour (babysitting) in meerkats
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 when he's not planning the Pub Quiz Paleo Round, @krishsubramaniam.bsky.social can also be found studying meerkats. This afternoon he's sharing his work Kinship effects on gut microbiomes among wild meerkats (Suricata suricatta) in the Kalahari
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Back to our symposium Health, Welfare & Fitness, Miguel Silva shares his work Elevated testosterone increases impulsivity in a social bird
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 @bensecker.bsky.social using a top quality pun to introduce his work on nest-site competition. No notes. We appreciate title humour.
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Moving over to Movement, foragaing and ranging, Arik Dorfman shares his work on Lunar cycle-driven exploration-exploitation dynamics in wild gerbils
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Katherine Todd up in the Communication and Cognition symposium with a talk on Vibrissal sensory discrimination training in South African fur seals
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Communication and Cognition symposium continues with Ontogenetic changes in colour and body size shift a non-toxic poison frog from cryptic to conspicuously mimetic by Ailis Wynne
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 @williamohearn.bsky.social following boar-riding ravens with his work on Discrimination between third party friendly relationships in rhesus macaques with some bonus pop culture.
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Sensory processing sensitivity shapes environmental perception and behaviour in horses from @melissapeignier.bsky.social with a small detour to frogs
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Thomas Bugnyar winning today's best research question on a slide: Why do Ravens Ride Boars? (this is not a real competition but if it was...)
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 @annaek.bsky.social sharing her work on tool use in Goffin cockatoos and how arboreality may facilitate tool use
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Opening the first talk of the second Cognition and Communication symposium is Grant Doering and his work The evolutionary origin of group recruitment in acorn ants
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 @giuliaseverino.bsky.social opens the Health, Welfare, and Fitness symposium speaking on the role of personality in capuchins
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Opening the afternoon sessions on Day 3 is @mherberstein.bsky.social with her talk titled The evolution of deception: ant mimicry in spiders and the power of museum collections.
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 @nishantkumar.bsky.social with some amazing works on black-eared kites and rapid environmental change to close our symposium From minds to populations: functional links in coexistence in the Anthropocene
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Jiaqing Cai staying on Artificial Light and specifically how artificial light at night alters earthworm behaviour and soil processes
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 staying in the spotlight, we had @gregoryeckhartt.bsky.social sharing his works on how streetlights may decrease predation of ground-based insects
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Christian Rutz in his talk Using animal-tracking data to investigate human–wildlife interactions and promote sustainable coexistence asking the crucial question, "Why do humans find it so difficult to coexist with wildlife?"
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Are all snaps equal? Characterising species-specific acoustic behaviour in coral reef snapping shrimp delivered by Hannah Gower
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Symposium 5 Social transfers and socially transferred materials in a changing world joined by @adriatica.bsky.social and her talk on Inverse lactation: larval secretions control reproductive division of labour in ants
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Across the LAB this morning, Dan-Eric Nilsson is sharing his works on Multiple roles of photoreception cause multiple threats to animal life on earth as part of Symposium 8: In the spotlight: impacts of artificial light at night on invertebrate behaviour
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Shout out to Angela's anonymous team member for their excellent dedication to studying wildlife responses to tiger presence
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Angela Dassow opens our symposium on Leveraging new bioaccoustics advances for behaviour- informed conservation with her talk: Applications of real-time AI for conservation and human-wildlife coexistence
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Day 3 opening with @queenfireface.bsky.social introducing the one and only Tim Caro for his plenary talk on Mammalian Colouration.
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#ECBB2026 @drblakemorton.bsky.social following on from Dr Chris Schell's talk opened our Anthropogenic Effects symposium with a talk on wild red foxes!
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#ECBB2026 kicking off the Communication and Cognition symposium, we have Tamal Roy sharing works on zebrafish!
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#ECBB2026 This afternoon we kick off with Chris Schell and his talk on societal legacies and urban animal behaviour.
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Don't forget to stop by LAB028 today from 1-1:45pm for our #ECBB2026 LGBTQIA+ Meet Up
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#ECBB2026 From feathers into four paws, our penultimate symposium on curiosity-like behaviour in animals is from Dániel Rivas-Blanco sharing how wolves and dogs interact with human-created objects.
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#ECBB2026 @coldbloodedcog.bsky.social answering the question Do reptiles know what another reptile can see? as part of this morning's symposium on practical and theoretical challenges in reptile and amphibian cognition.
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Megan Lambert delivering the second keynote of curiosity-like behaviours in animals, Animal Curiosity: context, causes, and consequences. (Possibly also getting the unofficial award for best videos of the morning?)
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#ECBB2026 still in Sensory landscapes in the Anthropocene and we hear all about electrosmog on orientation behaviour and migratory restlessness in songbirds from Matteo Guidotti!
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Sensory landscape in the Anthropocene kicked off with @ulrikacandolin.bsky.social speaking on behavioural responses to artifical-light-at-night!
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Crocodile cognition? Say more, @stephanreber.bsky.social, please!
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