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Lucy Aplin

@lucymaplin.bsky.social
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Certified bird brain, researching cognitive and social ecology of parrots and parids. Currently holding down a dual position at the Australian National University and the University of Zurich

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ASAB @asab.org · 15/09/2026
Don't forget that grant applications (attendance, accessibility, childcare) for the joint #ASABWinter2026 meeting with PSGB 🐒 @asabpsgb2026.bsky.social are due in 2 weeks (⏰ October 1!) 🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰 More info: www.asab.org/conference-g...
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Conference Attendance Grants — ASAB
Conference Attendance Grants help PhD students and others with limited funds to attend ASAB conferences and workshops
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Lucy Aplin @lucymaplin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The cutest of all spiders!
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
ACE Research Grant Alert 🚨! CES will give out two awards of up to $3000 each to support early career research projects in cultural evolution. The award is open to applicants worldwide, with an application deadline of October 9th 2026, 9:00 AM AoE. Applications: forms.gle/dsLdKQuNBH4W...
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ACE Early Career Research Grants
CES will give out two awards of up to $3000 each to support research projects in cultural evolution. To learn more about the Advancing Cultural Evolution (ACE) initiative, see here. Deadline: Appli...
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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Are you an ecologist/evolutionary biologist looking for an ongoing academic position? Monash University’s School of Biological Sciences is hiring! Come join us in Melbourne, Australia! Details here: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
RECRUITING 3 Senior Research Associates to develop responsible AI-enabled approaches to unlock animal behaviour for conservation. Roles include: 🧠 AI/Computer Vision 🐠 Behavioural Ecology 🌊 Marine Field Ecology Join @lec-reefs.bsky.social & @dsailu.bsky.social, Lancaster Uni, UK. Ads coming soon!
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Lucy Aplin @lucymaplin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
An exhausting but inspiring 5 days at #ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social. As always, a highlight was getting to bring the Uni Zurich and Australian National University halves of our lab group together, as well as catching up with past lab members! Even better if 1m long pizza is involved...
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Christos C. Ioannou @ccioannou.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
📢 @asab.org Conference Attendance Grants for developing country applicants: deadline 1st AUGUST 📢 Up to £2500!!! Joint Winter Conference of ASAB and PSGB: “Social Learning and Culture” @asabpsgb2026.bsky.social #ASABWinter2026 @asab-meetings.bsky.social Full details: www.asab.org/conference-g...
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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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Behaviour 2027 @behaviour2027.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We are excited to announce that #Behaviour2027 (XXXIX International Ethological Congress) will be taking place in Vienna, Austria! We are looking forward to having you all join us next year from August 23-27. Please follow and share!
Logo of a gosling looking up at a bee on its beak. "Behaviour" underneath.
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Elizabeth Hobson @elizabethhobson.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Are you (or do you know someone) recently graduated from undergrad looking to beef up your skills and experience prior to starting grad school/career? Do you like social drama and parakeets? Come join my team! I'm looking for two people to start very soon!! tinyurl.com/59rf8jcy
Graphical ad for Hobson Lab Parakeet sociality & cognition Postbac Research Technician, with a graphic showing a flock of monk parakeets flying towards a social network, two unmarked monk parakeets perched, and examples of our individually color-marked birds showing their dye marks and color codes
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Lucy Aplin @lucymaplin.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Read about how animal cultures interact with human cultures and some of our recent work to conserve animal cultures in this fascinating article ->
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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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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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ANU Research School of Biology @biologyanu.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Join us on campus & online on Friday, 17 July 2026 at 3:00pm for a seminar by Jay Nicholson, PhD candidate from the Nicotra Group at the Research School of Biology. Details: biology.anu.edu.au/news-events/...
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E&E PhD Exit Seminar: Vulnerability of culturally important plant species to drought and heatwaves in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
Over the last three years of my PhD, I have been working with Anangu researching why ecologically and culturally significant plants are dying during extreme heatwaves and drought
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Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The University of Exeter have announced a programme of academic staff cuts, including all of www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro... Sign the open letter of support at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @crab-exeter.bsky.social
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ASSAB @animbehav.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Special thanks to Pablo Recio for doing the last talk at #ASSAB2026 about "Hormonal mechanisms of pair bonding in long-term monogamous reptiles"
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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour has an Indigenous Student Membership Support Scheme. More info here: www.assab.org/index.cfm?mo... #assab2026 @animbehav.bsky.social 📸 artwork by Ginger Riley Munduwalawala
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ASSAB @animbehav.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A fun talk by Lee DeSouza regarding the intelligent cockatoo with "Birds in the burbs: A cocka-two choice learning experiments" #ASSAB2026
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ASSAB @animbehav.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Another great talk about the complexity and intelligence of cockatoo by Lisa Fontana and her talk "Experimental evidence for innovation and social learning in wild cockatoos" #ASSAB2026
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ASSAB @animbehav.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Talk 2: comparing urban bird populations called "Evidence of learned recognition of heterospecific calls among mixed-species flock participants" by Edward Lawrence #ASSAB2026
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ASSAB @animbehav.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
By explaining how an Australian bird responds to the same species calls on a speaker, Brendah Nyahuthii informed us of this experiment "Testing the dear evening effect on a non-territorial group-living bird" #ASSAB2026
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Susan Johnston @susanjohnston.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣 We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at Susan.Johnston@ed.ac.uk 🙂 Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
A female and male sparrow stand on a wooden post. Photo by Peter S. Ranke.
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
🚨 CES Elections 2026–2029 🚨 We’ve extended the nomination period for SIX Executive Committee positions: President-Elect, Treasurer, Secretary, 2x Executive Ordinary Members and Student Rep! 🗓 Nominations close: Jun14 🗳 Voting: Jun24–Jul8 📢 Results announced this summer forms.gle/9yX2SLcf82Vk...
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Cultural Evolution Society Elections 2026: Nomination Form
Please use this form to submit your nomination(s) for the Executive Committee's open positions. On this page we will ask you for general details. The next pages allow you to choose the position(s) ...
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Julia Penndorf @julia-penndorf.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
🎉New paper alert 🥳 Does proximity of breeding hollows influence foraging associations in wild cockatoos? doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... (🧵—1/2) With @lucymaplin.bsky.social , A. Csak
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Barbara Tschirren @btschirren.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
We are recruiting 🌟2 postdoctoral researchers🌟 for a NERC Large Grant project on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of badger - bovine tuberculosis (bTB) interactions.
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Ecological Society of Australia @ecolsocaus.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Some more good news! Karajarri celebrate Australia’s first ‘Sea Country’ Indigenous Protected Area comprising of 237,489 hectares (nearly 587,000 acres) of marine and coastal ecosystems. It includes part of Malumpurr, the Karajarri word for Eighty Mile Beach. #ecology #goodnews #biodiversity
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Karajarri celebrate Australia’s first ‘Sea Country’ Indigenous Protected Area
In northwestern Australia lies a remote and wildly diverse region called the Kimberley. There, the iron-red soils of the Pindan Country connect forests and the Great Sandy Desert, all bracketed by a v...
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
CONGRATULATIONS to Prof John Long on his election as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences! So well deserved! science.org.au/news-events/... #bigwiginthehouse
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Academy honours Australia's eminent scientists | Australian Academy of Science
The Academy has elected 28 new members for 2026, recognising outstanding contributions from ancient dinosaur discoveries to next-generation electronics.
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Dr. Susanne Hoffmann @susannehoffmann.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
We are inviting applications of motivated pre-doctoral researchers to join an exciting, HFSP-funded projct. 🧪🐦 🧠 @mpiforbi.bsky.social @hfspo.bsky.social FindAPhD.com share.google/eCgiK7GdjoQD...
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PhD Programmes, Research Projects & Studentships in the UK & Europe
FindAPhD is a comprehensive guide to PhD studentships and postgraduate research degrees
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Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Is bigger always better? For social animals, group size is a dilemma: big groups face more internal competition, yet hold an edge over smaller neighbors. 33 years of data on 12 wild capuchin groups reveals how these forces shape behavior. Out today in *Nat Eco & Evo*: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dr Rachael Miller (Harrison) @drrmiller.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Postdoc Opportunity! 4-year @royalsociety.org funded post @uniexecec.bsky.social: “Understanding the role of individual cognitive variation in reintroduction biology”. Closes: 5 June 2026. More info & to apply: careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/78... Wt: @paradiseparkhayle.bsky.social & Wildwood Trust
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Lucy Aplin @lucymaplin.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
A rewarding collaboration between @saltu.bsky.social @klarawanelik.bsky.social @hanjabrrr.bsky.social @damienfarine.bsky.social @mchimento.bsky.social and myself. While single parasite infection can reduce latency to socially learn in GTs, co-infection with multiple parasites has a negative effect.
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ASSAB @animbehav.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
🚨Another PhD opportunity🚨 Transgenerational heat stress effects on sheep behaviour Location: Adelaide University Contact: stephan.leu@adelaide.edu.au Details: stephanleu-ecology.com/phd-opportun... Application deadline: 17 May 2026
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Julia Penndorf @julia-penndorf.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
🎉🦜NEW PAPER ALERT 🦜🎉 Which social learning biases underly the acquisition of novel food in wild parrots ? We (@lucymaplin.bsky.social, @bjjbarrett.bsky.social, @sonjawild.bsky.social, @drjohnmartin.bsky.social) presented >700 cockies with a novel, artificial food (🧵1/6)
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The Clever Cockie Research Project @clevercockierp.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
New paper from @julia-penndorf.bsky.social and the clever cockie research team! A wild experiment shows that cockies adopt novel foods via social learning, with info. transmitted across social networks & over space This works gives insight into how social learning enables niche expansion in cities
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Camille Troisi @camilletroisi.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us: 🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦 Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆29th May deadline More info: tinyurl.com/yz28s96x Apply: tinyurl.com/2wpkb64y #cognition #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #birds 🙏Please Share
Great tit perched on a branch, with beak slightly open. 
Photo credit: Alizée Vernouillet
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Science Magazine @science.org · 06/04/2026
Often labeled “the world’s most dangerous birds,” cassowaries just got even more intriguing. scim.ag/4bNnfIT
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World’s most dangerous bird has bizarre, glowing headgear
Structures on cassowaries’ skulls fluoresce under UV light, hinting at a hidden visual signal
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Bibiana Rojas @biobiiana.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Have a look at this great #PhD opportunity on Road Ecology at Aarhus University, Denmark 👇 Timely topic, and a great supervisor! 📅DL: 30.04 phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican... (📸: coloradosun.com/2025/12/07/p...)
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The deadline applications to the CES New Investigator Award has been extended until April 2 - don't miss out getting your application in!
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us ❓Quantifying animal #movement patterns & behavioural #interactions in a changing world 👥Joint position in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #MacquarieUniversity 📆19th April deadline tinyurl.com/343acaev #maths #modelling #data #fieldwork #Australia 🙏PLEASE SHARE
Zebra finches in Australia; one of the study organisms for the PhDDwarf mongoose staring at a camera in South Africa; one of the PhD study organisms
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Fichtel-Kappeler-Lab @kirindy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Seeking a motivated postdoc (2+3 yrs) to study links between cognition, behavior, and fitness in lemurs at our long-term field site in Kirindy Forest, Madagascar. Join an interdisciplinary team working on wild populations. @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Apply here: www.dpz.eu
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Dr Christina N. Zdenek @cnzdenek.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The biggest conservation win ever for the endangered Palm Cockatoo! On the back of 18 years of my research on this difficult species, People for Wildlife and Indigenous rangers and I were able to make an install an artificial hollow that was immediately used! 💥 capeyorkweekly.com.au/artificial-h...
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Artificial habitat delivers world-first win for endangered palm cockatoo | Cape York Weekly
For a bird species relying on centuries-old trees and well-timed cyclones, nesting habitats are hard to come by, but an…
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SEAPOP.bsky.social @seapop.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Tracking #seabirds has become increasingly important to collect data about their space use - but how to attach the #loggers? Colleagues from @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social have developed a clamp system, which helps to keep loggers in place for several weeks to months. seapop.no/en/2026/03/n...
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Newly-developed attachment method for bird loggers
Short-term tracking of birds often involves glue or tape attachments, which frequently detach prematurely, leading to data loss and potential harm to the birds.
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Edward Grey Institute @egioxford.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
We've uploaded recordings of many of our seminars over the last few months to our You-tube channel, including from @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social, Kristen Ruegg, Daniel Field, @jon-slate.bsky.social, Paul Acker, @thelabandfield.bsky.social & @kokkonut.bsky.social - Enjoy! www.youtube.com/@EGIOxford
Screenshot of the EGI seminars You-tube Channel
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Kenji Itao @kenjiitao.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
🚨 ACE Seminar We’re excited to host Dr. VPS Ritwika in our upcoming ACE Seminar! 🗓 Tuesday, Mar 17, 2026 🕖 7:00 PM JST (UTC+9) 💻 Online via Zoom 🔗 To receive the Zoom link, please send a blank email to ace-seminar+subscribe@googlegroups.com
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Applications for the 2026 New Investigator Award are open! This award recognises outstanding ECR scholars who have contributed to the field of cultural evolution. The recipient is given the opportunity to give a plenary at a CES conference. Apply here until March 25: forms.gle/GycUhdFj7q6U...
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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🚀 Postdoc Alert! Are you passionate about social learning & cultural evolution? @dominikdeffner.bsky.social & I have a 3-year position with freedom to develop your research and work on cutting-edge multiplayer and immersive experiments. Apply by March 30! hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni... Pls share 🙏
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Postdoc position -- Social Learning and Cultural Evolution
Postdoc position -- Social Learning and Cultural Evolution posted on March 2, 2026 We are currently seeking a highly motivated individual...
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Culture Conference @cultconf.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
What a pre-conference workshop on Bayesian statistical methods—a powerful toolkit for our community! 📊 Many thanks to Daniel Redhead and Ramona Roller for guiding us through STRAND and to Michael Chimento for the introduction to STbayes. And thank you to all participants for their energy! 🙌
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Steffen Oppel @steffopp.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
NEW JOB in #ornithology chasing #nutcrackers in Switzerland to understand seed dispersal patterns: buff.ly/Cx0OOQy
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Lisa Fontana @lisafontana.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
New paper alert! 🦜 We gave wild cockatoos puzzle boxes across Canberra’s urban gradient. The finding? Urban birds approach faster, but are not better solvers. Our results suggest that urbanization shapes neophobia independently from cognitive performance. Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/behe...
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Social and ecological factors associated with innovation in urban sulphur-crested cockatoos (Cacatua galerita)
Cities are challenging places for wildlife, but some species, like sulfur-crested cockatoos, adapt by finding new ways to feed and solve problems. We studi
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Lucy Aplin @lucymaplin.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Not to be missed!
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