No matter how small the possibility, or how inconvenient the topic, scientists must maintain the humility to acknowledge that we could be wrong. Our inability to remain open and engage in rational dis...

An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.

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Job Description Summary Organization's Summary Statement: The Wilkinson lab at the University of Maryland, College Park, is hiring a postdoc to join an ongoing NIH-funded project titled “Social stress...

Title: Assistant Professor - Evolutionary Biology Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Biology Work Location: Amherst Schedule: Full Time Work A...

Human cooperation among non-kin has long been accepted as being based on reciprocity: the idea that we return help from individuals that we re-meet. However, this paradigm has been challenged by Effer...

The Carleton Psychology Department is seeking candidates for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Developmental Psychology (preferably with a focus on social, personality, and/or identity de...

The capacity to adapt is essential for a population to avoid extinction in a changing world and is recognized as a global conservation priority. Ad...

Abstract. Socially mediated vocal plasticity, such as vocal accommodation, is an important mechanism for maintaining social cohesion and coordination in gr

Adaptive potential determines how populations respond to environmental change. This study compiles evolvability estimates from over 170 multicellular species, revealing substantial variation across th...

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The Gilliam Fellows Program supports PhD students and their faculty thesis advisors to advance cutting-edge research, facilitate the transition to postdoctoral scientist, and foster the development of...

Supervised learning of behavioural modes from body-worn sensor data, especially accelerometers, has become a transformative research tool in behavioural ecology over the past years. Due to the pop...

Replicating previous research builds confidence that results are real and meaningful. But close replications are rare due to limitations in resources and d

Recruiting parakeet research technicians!   The Hobson Lab at the University of Cincinnati is recruiting 2 research technicians on our Monk Parakeet sociality and cognition project at our rese…

In humans and other social mammals, more socially connected females often have higher fitness. Yet evidence linking female sociality to offspring surv…

The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.

The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.

In many group-living birds and mammals, the formation of affiliative relationships is hypothesized to cause vocal convergence (an increase in call similarity between individuals). However, testing this causal effect can be difficult, because it requires ...

Initiating and developing social relationships with strangers can provide fitness benefits, but it is an inherently risky process. To mitigate potential risks and develop trust, strangers may ‘test the waters’ by gradually escalating the type of social ...