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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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Jon Aguiñaga @jon-aguinaga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Peter is great! He was the chair of my qualifying exam committee and helped me get through theat entire process. His students are some of best pals, and I just saw his son, Dylan, give a seminar in the EEOB department here at Brown 😎

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Jolyon Troscianko @jtroscianko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🦋 Butterfly wing patterns create motion illusions that protect them from predators! Our new study (8 years in the making) is out in Nature today doi.org/10.1038/s415... @grahancock.bsky.social @esbriolat.bsky.social @scienceanna.bsky.social @lauraakelley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social

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Jon Aguiñaga @jon-aguinaga.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Submitted two fellowships today, PRFB and LSRF. Super thankful to my letter writers and my co-sponsors! Fingers crossed for good news in the future, but will keep chugging along regardless.

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Jon Aguiñaga @jon-aguinaga.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just whispered it to my dog 🐶 Perfect time to look over my PRFB one last time.

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Jon Aguiñaga @jon-aguinaga.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Huge storm passing over Rhode Island soon! I can't wait for the first rain to start falling so I can whisper to myself, 'So it begins.'

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Helm'S Deep King Theodin

ALT: Helm'S Deep King Theodin

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Félicie Dhellemmes @felicie-dhellemmes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Proud to present our latest work "Tracking human foragers and their prey reveals adaptive predator-prey dynamics", now hosted on BioRxiv! 🧵 doi.org/10.64898/202... @ralfkurvers.bsky.social @scioi.bsky.social @arc-mpib.bsky.social @alexschakowski.bsky.social @dominikdeffner.bsky.social

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Annemarie van der Marel @annemariemarel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Our paper is out in Ecology @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social! We found that an extreme drought year drove a local population of a social rodent to extinction. A sobering example of how climatic extremes can drive population collapse. Read it here 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

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Ammon Perkes @alltheperkes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🐟🚨 Fish paper alert! 🚨🐟 You might already know that individuals are unique, even when they’re genetically identical clones raised in identical environments. But what about groups? Groups of clones are distinct from birth, but (unlike individuals) those differences do not predict later behavior!

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Group-level phenotypes are idiosyncratic yet unpredictable over development in a clonal fish

Behavioral differences among groups can have profound impacts on individual fitness,1 yet how group-level phenotypes arise and change during developme…

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Matt Lovett-Barron @mlovettbarron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Our lab's latest paper on the neurobiology of collective behavior is now published www.nature.com/articles/s41... This is the work of a great team in the lab - led by Jo-Hsien Yu, with Geoff Meyerhof, Jimjohn Milan, and Julia Napoli @nature.com @danionella.bsky.social

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Jay Gallagher @jay-gallagher.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🐟🚨 New paper! 🚨🐟 Where do behavioral differences come from? Early life environment clearly matters... ...or not? Early environment affected behavior, but NOT how different individuals became from each other. Those differences were seeded before birth through factors OTHER than genetic variation 🤯

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Born This Way: Individuality Is Seeded Before Birth and Robust to Ecological Stress

We reared and recorded behaviours of clonal Amazon mollies in standardized environments, with and without predation stress, from birth through week four of life, to understand how the developmental e...

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Tom Ratz @tomratz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Our new paper is out in @jevbio.bsky.social! Body size shapes aggression as well as how strongly individuals influence their opponents and how responsive they are to social interactions. @cdegroot.bsky.social @roriwijnhorst.bsky.social @dingemanselab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Size-mediated differences in social responsiveness (left) and social impact (right). Here, individual i is smaller, more responsive to variation in opponent body size and elicits more aggression from opponents than individual j.

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Kirsten Sheehy @ksheehy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of the best things to come out of this (very hot) field season?? The Gatorade Unicorn cooling technique 🦄🧊😎

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Jon Aguiñaga @jon-aguinaga.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just a PSA, Costco allegedly had the churro back for a limited time. 🤤

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Jon Aguiñaga @jon-aguinaga.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Anotha one! 🐟 This one is special to me. Kirsten conceptualized this cool experiment and brought me along to Texas, where we learned field methods on sampling our fish in the wild and measuring their behavior. Glad to see this out! This is also the first time my photos have been used in a pub!

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Jon Aguiñaga @jon-aguinaga.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ammon is my computer vision mentor, so you should read his new paper and look at his cool tracking work on the Amazing Amazons. Figure 1 highlights 4 distinct hypotheses about how group behavioral variation plays out over time. Laskowski lab strikes again! 🐟

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Jon Aguiñaga @jon-aguinaga.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I was pretty excited to head to a Mexican Independence day celebration in Providence today. Me, my gf, and best pal planned our day around it. We drove to the site of the event and noticed it was completely empty. I wondered why...?

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Jon Aguiñaga @jon-aguinaga.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Happy Mexican independence day! On this day in 1810, a Catholic priest named Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla called upon Mexican people to rebel against Spanish control. 🇲🇽 Go enjoy some delicious Mexican food today 🙂‍↕️ ¡Viva México!

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Jay Gallagher @jay-gallagher.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Huge thanks to my co-authors, especially @katelaskowski.bsky.social and @alltheperkes.bsky.social, for all their hard work on this marathon project, and to Ecology Letters for publishing it! And here's an awesome photo of our clonal Amazon mollies, taken by @jon-aguinaga.bsky.social

A photograph of a group of Amazon mollies, the naturally clonal fish species used in the study.

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Jon Aguiñaga @jon-aguinaga.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Amazing work from Jay and the Laskowski lab! 🐟

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Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you know me, you know that Am Nat 🐌 is one of my fav journals. So I am delighted (and a little terrified) to say I've recently accepted a role as one of its Senior Editors! Be sure to keep us in mind as home for your favorite work (including behavior) 😉! @asn-amnat.bsky.social

Screenshot of masthead for the journal The American Naturalist - lists Volker Rudolk as EiC and my name has been added as one of the Senior Editors (along with Jill Anderson and Sebastien Lion).

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Ajay Narendra @pipilika.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We have a fully funded 3-year PhD position to study jumping spider navigation. Open to both domestic and international candidates. Details below. Join us! @animbehav.bsky.social @austentsoc.bsky.social @ausevosoc.bsky.social @neuroethology.org @asab.org

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Ana Ignatieva @anaignatieva.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We are advertising a 3 year postdoc position for a project on ARGs and structural variation! Based at Oxford stats. Closing date noon 12 October, full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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JL Weissman @jlw-ecoevo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My lab is hiring two(!) postdocs interested in (1) building trait prediction models capable of resolving complex microbial traits from genomes and metagenomes, and/or (2) building mathematical models of microbial community dynamics www.microbialgamut.com/mGAMUT_postd...

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm looking to hire a postdoc to work on the RepAdapt + MacroMar projects, analysing genomic data from >130 species of plants, animals, and fungi (VCFs are processed, ready to go). Lots of potential for creativity and collaboration! yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...

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Molly Schumer @mollyschumer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If anyone looking for a postdoc with fantastic genomics/bioinformatics skills + strong intellect + great energy, please let me know! Preferably West Coast or remote/hybrid options & the candidate is open to a short (1 year) or longer term appointment

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Jon Aguiñaga @jon-aguinaga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Graham is one of the best! He works on amazing research, has mentored equally amazing people and is a champion for his mentees. He's hiring a postdoc! Holler at me if you want to learn more about living in Davis 🙂‍↕️

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Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Some resources and advice for those considering applying to the NSF GRFP this year (3 year grad school stipend: first year grad students, post-bachelor, and seniors might consider applying): brianomeara.info/posts/grfp_2... 🧪 #AcademicSky

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Jon Aguiñaga @jon-aguinaga.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Been using @jtroscianko.bsky.social 's BehaveAI for nearly a year now! Very powerful tool to automatically classify behaviors... and now orientation! Great new update just in time for my #NSF #PRFB draft revision.

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Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm recruiting new grad students for fall 2027, looking for students motivated by animal behavior and animal communication. Our main study system is acoustic communication in treefrogs. More details here, please spread the word: reichertlab.com/2026/09/07/r...

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Recruiting grad students for fall 2027

The Reichert Lab in the Department of Biology at Oklahoma State University is recruiting 1-2 graduate students (MS or PhD) for Fall 2027. Our lab does integrative research in animal communication a…

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Andrew Straw @andrewstraw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We are hiring! Come join us in the Straw Lab at the @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social . Seeking a scientist to work on the neural and computational mechanisms of visual navigation in honey bees. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

Bee trajectories in agricultural landscape and two photon microscope for in-vivo calcium activity imaging.

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Maria Moiron @mmoiron.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

📢 My colleague Daniela Perez (not on Bluesky) is looking for a postdoc! The position is for 2 years, working on cooperation, competition & collective decision-making in 🪱. More info: tinyurl.com/mr2vd57n 📅 Deadline: 25 September 2026 📩 Interested? Contact Daniela directly!

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Research Position (m/f/d) (Postdoc)

<div style="margin:0;">The Department of Evolutionary Biology explores how organisms' traits and behaviours evolve in response to envi...

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Philipp Brand @pbrand.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We are looking for a research assistant to join our team. brain.mpg.de/brand Apply using the link below if you are interested in doing research on the neural and genetic underpinnings of behavioral evolution. jobs.brain.mpg.de/jobposting/6...

Description of job ad for Research Assistant in the lab of Evolutionary Neuroscience and Behavior Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research.

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Jon Aguiñaga @jon-aguinaga.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I just discovered Angine de Poitrine two days ago.... Wow, holy moly!! 👨🏽‍🎤🤘🏽

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Jon Aguiñaga @jon-aguinaga.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology department at Brown U made a cool sci-comm video and I pop up a few times :^) www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKJ9...

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Graduate Program in Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology.

YouTube video by The Warren Alpert Medical School

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Martin Whiting @lizardlab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

New PhD opportunities in behavioural ecology at the University of Tasmania and Macquarie University working with Geoff While and Martin Whiting plus multiple international collaborators on lizard sociality and communication. Please spread the word! #phd

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Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Come and work with us (the Kokkonuts) as a postdoc! Our research within (theory-evo-eco) is broad; let's say it's implicitly defined by the journal club papers we read. Which is why the application process includes a JC-related task, I hope it'll be a fun one for you! www.evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...

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Gerry Carter @gerrycarter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Please help spread the word: Wilkinson lab at U Maryland, College Park, is hiring a postdoc to join our collaborative ongoing NIH-funded project titled “Social stress, epigenetic and immune function across bat lifespans.” umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Uni...

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Post-Doctoral Associate

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...

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Jon Aguiñaga @jon-aguinaga.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Hard to focus on writing the PRFB when such devastating news is coming out of Nepal. I've definitely noticed a trend that this type of news hits me harder the older I get... not for the faint of heart.

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Jon Aguiñaga @jon-aguinaga.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

First postdoc paper just submitted, ty to folks who provided photos! :) An empirical paper is just about ready to go soon too.. feels good.

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LaurenGuillette.bsky.social @laurenguillette.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We’re seeking highly motivated MSc and PhD students to join the Animal Cognition Research Group at the University of Alberta in Fall 2027! 🐦 All positions are funded: MSc: 2.3 years PhD: 5 years Applications: Sept. 1–Dec. 1, 2026 sites.psych.ualberta... PsychUAlberta 🧪 1/2

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Jon Aguiñaga @jon-aguinaga.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The 20th anniversary poster of @realgdt.bsky.social 's Pans Labyrinth (my favorite movie ever, yes above LOTR) is so visually stunning. James Jean designed it. Has also done the posters to Shape of Water, Bladerunner 2049, and Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. I wonder when we'll be able to buy?

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Rob Denton @rddenton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

[JOB!] I'm hiring for a really exciting postdoc position. A combination of breeding experiments, conservation genomics, and student mentorship. Room/board at the @amnh.org Southwestern Research Station each summer, 40 months of support, new science building at BSU. Share broadly! ad: bit.ly/4hKaUIL

A human hand holds a medium sized green frog with distinct gray spots and yellow eyes. This is a Chiricahua Leopard Frog, a threatened species native to the southwest US and Mexico.

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Nature @nature.com · 18/08/2026

The US National Institutes of Health has proposed overhauling how it decides which research projects to fund, and how it reports the outcome of those deliberations. go.nature.com/4wy2A2k

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NIH proposes major revamp of how it scores research grant proposals

Proponents argue that the current system creates a false sense of precision, but critics fear that the change could increase political interference.

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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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Joe Brennan @biologyjoe87.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Looking for sci comm opportunities? Join us as a writer for American Naturalist press releases! These write-ups are primarily written by graduate students and other early-career scientists. No experience required; we have editors to help along the way. Apps due Sept 1. Please share widely :D

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Looking for Press Release Writers & Editors for The American Naturalist

Sign up for the opportunity to write and/or edit for The American Naturalist! We are seeking authors to write press releases for new journal articles. See examples of recent press releases here. We a...

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