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HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence @humanorigins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
📣 New opportunity! Come work with us as Postdoctoral researcher for the Ethics Laboratory, a fully funded position for three years to develop ethical standards and best practices for research in human origins! More: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/...
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Job advertisment: Postdoctoral researcher for the Ethics Laboratory (f/m/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)
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Dr Mark E Hauber @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Revealing the genetic mechanisms underpinning the parasite-induced water-seeking behaviour of insects through RNA-seq
Abstract. Water-seeking behaviour in arthropods infected by mermithid nematodes or nematomorphs is a classic example of host manipulation, yet its molecula
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Konrad Lorenz Research Center @klf-univienna.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Save the date! The animal behaviour community is coming to Vienna. XXXIX International Ethological Congress - Behaviour 2027 University of Vienna | 23–27 August 2027 behaviour2027.eventsairsite.com #behaviour2027 #animalbehaviour @univie.ac.at @behaviour2027.bsky.social
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Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE @fine-seminar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
FINE 6th October 2026. 17:00 Paris Thomas Bugnyar, University of Vienna, Austria Title: Testing social cognition in animals: lessons from ravens I review what we know about the social life and socio-cognitive skills in a large-brained bird, the common raven. wits-za.zoom.us/j/9672789095...
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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Monash University is offering a fully-funded PhD scholarship to an outstanding student in animal behaviour/evolutionary ecology. Choose from eight project areas. For information about what project I'm offering, please DM me or see application form: forms.gle/ia9t4KPD3FKT.... Deadline: 15 Nov.
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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I am recruiting a PhD student to work with our group at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior! Learn more & apply here: tinyurl.com/kd4xx4ku Deadline: 15 Nov 2026 Start date: Flexible (summer-fall 2027) @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social
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Bibiana Rojas @biobiiana.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This year has been very challenging for our research on #firesalamanders due to the very dry spring we experienced 😢 That’s why we celebrate every drop of rain 🙏🏼🌧️ Nothing like seeing this beauties out again! 😍 🟡⚫️🦎⚫️🟡 @klivvvienna.bsky.social
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Naturhistorisches Museum Wien @nhmwien.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#savethedate The early bird gets in for free. Bird Halls 29 and 30 at the Natural History Museum Vienna have a fresh new look! ⏰ Wed, 30.09. | 8-9 a.m. 🎟️ Must-have: Bird accessory 👉 More information: www.nhm.at/en/bird_life #nhmwien #wien #vienna #event #bird #vögel #museum
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Animal Behaviour Live @animalbehaviour.live · 15/09/2026
📣 SEMINAR SERIES 2026 📣 📆 Tuesday 29 September 2026 at 2:00 PM GMT on our YouTube channel: Dr. Thomas Bugnyar (University of Vienna, Austria) will present “Testing social cognition in birds: lessons from ravens” 🐦‍⬛ 📺 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQoB...
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Gerry Carter @gerrycarter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Please help us spread the word: Princeton University’s Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is hiring an Assistant Professor! I ❤️ this collegial and collaborative department full of inspiring people: eeb.princeton.edu/people Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/193474
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Journal of Avian Biology @avianbiology.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New paper: ecological divergence in nocturnal communication - coexisting forest #owls differ markedly in how lunar conditions, night structure, seasonality and weather shape vocal activity, with implications for acoustic survey design and detection modeling. ➡️ vist.ly/5hs2a #ornithology
Collared scops-owl. Photo: Jack Walf, Wikimedia commons.Fig. 2 from the article: Estimated smooth functions from generalized additive models showing the effect of lunar altitude ratio (scaled position of the moon relative to its maximum nightly elevation) on hourly vocal activity rate (VAR) for four owl species. Dashed lines represent 95% confidence intervals. Mountain scops-owl (MSO, Otus spilocephalus) and collared scops-owl (CSO, O. lettia) showed greater vocal activity when the moon was low, whereas collared owlet (CO, Taenioptynx brodiei) and northern boobook (NB, Ninox japonica) vocalized more frequently when the moon was higher in the sky.
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Christos C. Ioannou @ccioannou.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Just as the summer conference season ends, time to get your www.asab.org/conference-g... in for Winter 2026! ***DEADLINE 1ST OCTOBER*** asabpsgbwinter.github.io//2026/ @asab.org @asabpsgb2026.bsky.social Don't forget childcare grants and accessibility grants too: open to all career stages!
A Hanuman langur holding a baby.
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Awani @awanib.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Got caught by surprise with the award! Thank you @ecbb2026.bsky.social !! Forgot to take a photo of my poster, but here's a glimpse of it featuring the showstopper Paul. ✨😁
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ARAA @araa.at · 21/08/2026
#HotOffThePress 🔥🖊️ “Exploring Andean foothill connectivity: insights from population divergence in the white-tipped sicklebill”⛰️ Journal of Avian Biology. L. Rosado-Llerena, A. Perkins, @davidocampo.bsky.social, @jeffgarcialoor.bsky.social, @amcuervo.bsky.social, D.A. Prieto-Torres & E. Bonaccorso
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Exploring Andean foothill connectivity: insights from population divergence in the white‐tipped sicklebill, <i>Eutoxeres aquila</i>
The Northern Andes, acting both as barrier and corridor, exert strong influence in Neotropical biodiversity. Still, the diversification of foothill taxa inhabiting ecotonal zones between lowland rain....
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Complexity and Networks CORE @complexity-core.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology | Group Leader in Theoretical Biology - Application deadline 📆 Sep 01, 2026
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Group Leader in Theoretical Biology (m/f/d)
Experience in Theoretical Biology, Applied Mathematics, Theoretical Physics
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The Wildlife Society @thewildlifesociety.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Applications for the Native Student Professional Development program are closing on August 15th! To apply, visit forms.gle/bQoh91r7PXPcKC78A
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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This is so cool! Bird sounds gamified, yaay bird-times.lovable.app
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Dawn Chorus Quest - Guess the birdsong of Bath across time
Listen to birdsong through the ages. Guess the bird. Collect the chorus. Dawn Chorus Quest is a free to play educational game about birds, biodiversity and rewilding.
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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
🐦 Thrilled to share our latest research, a milestone: the first first-author paper from @shreyadimri.bsky.social, published in @royalsocietypublishing.org Why do birds add fresh green nest material to their nests? 🧵 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A Demographic Theory of Similarity-Biased Social Learning. Now out in PNAS, led by the incomparable @apvelilla.bsky.social . We use modeling to explore conditions for the (cultural) evolution of parochial (and anti-parochial) learning biases. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Humans adapt by learning from others, but risk acquiring maladaptive behaviors when learning from individuals facing different conditions. We present an evolutionary model exploring how individuals use social identity markers to select learning targets in diverse populations. Learners evolve biases that track reliable information sources: preferring similar individuals when in-group knowledge is adaptive, and dissimilar individuals when in-group behaviors are disadvantageous. Our framework demonstrates that this adaptive bias makes social learning viable even when it is costlier than individual learning. Additionally, we show that a minimum threshold of reliable cultural information is required for social learning to spread, providing a mathematical explanation for how demographic diversity drives population-level patterns of cultural segregation and assimilation.
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Nicholas Wu @nicholaswu.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I have a PhD project to look at the impact of climate change on an endangered WA skink 🦎. Applicants interested in herpetology, thermal ecology and collaborating with First Nations are encouraged to apply. Apply now: www.murdoch.edu.au/study/schola... Lab website: www.nicholaswulab.com
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Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Are city birds genetically adapting to urban life? A common garden experiment in great tits reveals hidden evolutionary changes masked by environmental effects in the wild. doi.org/10.1093/evle... Image by G. Laurent, wikimedia
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Christoph Völter @christophvoelter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a #PhD student and a #Postdoc to investigate #innovation in great #apes: PhD ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Postdoc ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Application deadline: August 17th. Please share widely!
A chimp solving a puzzle box problem. Photo credit: MPI-EVA
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scienceartnews.bsky.social @scienceartnews.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
#Agenda European Conference on Behavioural Biology: Animal Behaviour in the Anthropocene. 1-4 September 2026 Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. @ecbb2026.bsky.social Via @ulrikacandolin.bsky.social
European Conference on Behavioural Biology: Animal Behaviour in the Anthropocene. 1-4 September 2026 at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.
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Izzie Héjja-B. @izziehb.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
And for people at #ISBE2026, I'll be presenting our study on Friday at 1 pm, room 500. We're happy to hear your thoughts and to show pictures of those beautiful birds!
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I’m looking to recruit a postdoc to join my research group at University of Iowa to work on disturbance ecology and biodiversity! Start date flexible, lots of opportunity for skill development, collaboration, and mentorship. Will review applicants in mid-August! Link: gavinmjones.com/opportunities/
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BIG NEWS! The Jones Lab will be relocating to the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability (SEES) at the University of Iowa in Fall 2026. Our work on disturbance ecology and conservation sc…
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Gabriella E. Smith, PhD @explanimals.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Dream PhD opening! Innovation in wild falcons! Application deadline Aug 1🦅
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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Job opportunity alert: the Smithsonian is hiring an #ornithology curator! www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000
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Research Zoologist
The Smithsonian Institution is the worlds largest museum, education, and research complex, with 21 museums and the National Zoo. The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is a major bureau of the ...
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Barbara Klump @barbaraklump.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
More of a field person? We have a work contract available on walnut dropping in carrion crows within the @wwtf.at funded project on "The interplay between cognition and ecology in extractive foraging behaviours". More info: barbaraklump.com Application deadline July 24th. Please share widely!
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Barbara Klump @barbaraklump.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a PhD student and a Postdoc to investigate innovation in corvids within the “Comparative ecological innovation styles” project funded by @fwf-at.bsky.social. More info: barbaraklump.com Application deadline July 24th. Please share widely!
A carrion crow holding a walnut. Photo: @valentine-comin.bsky.social
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Alice Auersperg @auersperga.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
We have an exciting new position in our group for a PhD on parrot innovation !!! The position will be part of our new @fwf-at.bsky.social Emerging Fields project with @barbaraklump.bsky.social , @mohara.bsky.social , @christophvoelter.bsky.social and Justus Piater. Apply & share!!
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
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Darren Irwin (he / him) @darrenirwin.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Interested in mtDNA variation in birds, butterflies, snakes, or others with ZW sex chromosomes? Then this preprint is for you: "The Driving W Hypothesis as an Explanation for Low Within-Population Mitochondrial DNA Diversity and Between-Population Mitochondrial Transfer": doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Transmission of the W and Z chromosomes via female meiosis and the potential of a driving W to gain a bias in transmission, resulting in spread of the driving W and associated mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). (A) Two possible alternatives for the Z and W chromosomes during asymmetric cell division during meiosis I, with one set of spindle fibers leading to the large egg and the other set leading to a small polar body. (B) If a mutant W interacts more strongly with the spindle leading to the egg, it has biased transmission and rises in frequency compared to the non-driving W in the next generation. (C) Jumping up to the level of populations of individuals on a landscape, spread of the driving W carries along the associated mitochondrial type, causing low mtDNA diversity and between-species mitochondrial transfer and replacement (often termed “mitochondrial capture”).
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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
official ad to follow soon but heads up: 1-2 postdocs slots in my lab, hopefully w/fall start! reposts welcome, details to follow. babies! word learning! cognitive & linguistic skills! #CogSciSky #DevPsychSky 🐦🐦 (lab info: bergelsonlab.fas.harvard.edu/prospectives) also recruiting grads this fall!
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Ryan Norris @ryannorrissci.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
🦋 PhD position! 🦋 Join a newly funded research partnership working to conserve endangered butterflies in Canada. Details can be found below. @onehealthuofg.bsky.social @uofguelph.bsky.social
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 21/06/2026
This is us. Is it you? #WorldHumanistDay humanists.uk/quiz
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Thomas MacGillavry @thomasmacgillavry.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Very proud to present our paper on the spectacular “dances” of Victoria’s riflebirds! Out now in Current Biology. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Jefferson García-Loor @jeffgarcialoor.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Les compartimos este trabajo que explora la biogeografía histórica del colibrí picohoz coliverde (Eutoxeres aquila) doi.org/10.1002/jav.... We’d like to share this study with you, which explores the historical biogeography of the white-tipped sicklebill (Eutoxeres aquila) doi.org/10.1002/jav....
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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 01/06/2026
Professor Lars Chittka FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. His work has transformed our understanding of animal intelligence by demonstrating that bees, despite their tiny brains, exhibit advanced cognitive abilities such as counting, attention and others. #RSFellows bit.ly/49xJuRy
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Simply damning
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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
🚨Job claxon🚨 4-year #Postdoc available in our lab in @camzoology.bsky.social developing molecular and anatomical approaches to mapping evolutionary changes in the brain, using #Heliconiini butterflies. Come join us, we are nice. 🧪 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
An immunostaining section through a Heliconius brain. Staining and imaging by Dr Max Farnworth.
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Stefan Hartmann @stefanhartmann.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Out now: The full proceedings volume of this year's #Evolang @evolangconf.bsky.social - 575 pages full of interdisciplinary research on the origins and evolution of language! doi.org/10.17617/2.3...
Cover of the Evolang 2026 proceedings. The text reads "The Evolution of Language. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference. Editors: Stefan Hartmann, Marta Sibierska, Marlen Fröhlich, Yannick Jadoul, Mathilde Josserand, Theresa Matzinger, Katie Mudd, Jonas Nölle, Michael Pleyer, Sławomir Wacewicz, Przemysław Żywiczyński"
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Çağlar Akçay @caglarakcay.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Abstract deadline (April 30th) for the European Congress for Behavioural Biology fast approaching!! Don't miss out! www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe...
a brujo flycatcher from Santa Cruz island, Galapagos, Ecuador
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Bridget Waller @bridgetwaller.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Research Assistant position working on eye-tracking and parenting cognition in macaques, linked to Yuri Kawaguchi's BBSRC Fellowship. Join us at NTU! @yurikawaguchi.bsky.social vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Research Assistant in Primate Cognition:Hybrid
Research Assistant in Primate Cognition working with captive rhesus macaques to improve animal welfare.
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American Ornithological Society @amornith.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The AOS has launched a Bridge/Completion Grant program to support AOS members who recently lost previously awarded funding as a result of U.S. federal policy changes and grant cuts. Applications due by 15 May 2026. americanornithology.org/awards-grant... 1/3🧵
The text in the image matches the text in the posts exactly.
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Steffen Oppel @steffopp.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
NEW PAPER in #ornithology shows that #tropical #forest birds are moving higher up the mountain due to #climate change: buff.ly/5DQBiZN
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MPI for Biological Intelligence @mpiforbi.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Exciting new research published in @currentbiology.bsky.social by our guest scientist and former group leader @jmrko.bsky.social. The study highlights insights from connectomics research in songbirds. „Tunneling neurons“ open new perspectives on how adult neural circuits may regenerate.
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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Our job ad: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Message me if you have questions. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social
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Hyena Project @hyenaproject.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New #hyena study out @ecol-evol.bsky.social ! 📢🧪 What does it mean to be “high-ranking”? And does it always predict reproductive success? 🤔 Turns out: how you *measure* rank can change the answer. 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 1/5
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The Effect of Social Rank on Reproductive Traits Depends on Rank Metric: Evidence From a Group‐Living Carnivore
In animal societies, one's social rank determines access to resources like food, mates, and allies. Using longitudinal data on 481 spotted hyenas, we tested two common social rank metrics with differ...
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Mariella Herberstein (she/her) 🌈 @mherberstein.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Come to Hamburg and do a PhD on insect/spider traits with me!
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