Reposted by Michael ReichertGabrielle Davidson @drgdavidson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026HELP! ‼️🙏 I’m looking for animal behaviour/cognition videos for teaching students to record behaviour using different tools. Are there any open source resources, or do you have animal behaviour videos in the field or the lab that I could use? 318 8
Reposted by Michael ReichertPortuguese Ethological Society (SPE) @spetologia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026We are very excited to be joined by four great invited speakers for #SPE2026! 153 5
Reposted by Michael ReichertPortuguese Ethological Society (SPE) @spetologia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026We are excited to announce that BIOPOLIS-CIBIO @biopolis-cibio.bsky.social , Universidade do Porto, will host the 2026 Conference of the Portuguese Ethological Society (hashtag#SPE2026)! 175 7
Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I'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...reichertlab.comRecruiting grad students for fall 2027The 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… 02832 32
Reposted by Michael ReichertLaurenGuillette.bsky.social @laurenguillette.bsky.social · 20/08/2026We’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 13037 37
Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Candidates discouraged from using weird AI suggestions 001 1
Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026We are hiring a #postdoc to work on our NSF funded project on metabolic rate as a driver of individual variation in treefrog acoustic communication. Please spread the word to potentially interested candidates (or apply if you are one of them): jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/postdoc...jobs.okstate.edu 12534 34
Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Attention Europe! I am on sabbatical this fall and will be on a Fulbright Fellowship from Sep-Dec at BIOPOLIS-CIBIO in Portugal. Hoping to reconnect with old friends, build new connections/collaborations & give some seminars in the EU, so let's be in touch. news.okstate.edu/articles/art...news.okstate.eduOSU biology professor named Fulbright U.S. Scholar to study animal communication behavior | Oklahoma State UniversityAn Oklahoma State University professor will be traveling to Portugal in August to study animal communication behaviors after being named a Fulbright Scholar for 2026-27. 010 1
Reposted by Michael ReichertLaurenGuillette.bsky.social @laurenguillette.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Nearly 100 years ago, naturalists Henry & Felicia Williams noticed that birds in their Connecticut garden seemed to have favourite colours for their nest-building materials. We've now shown that they were was onto something in a new paper our today in Learning & Behavior 1/3 193 9
Reposted by Michael Reichertmathotlab.bsky.social @mathotlab.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Please share! I have two positions for graduate students in my lab, starting Fall 2027. Details on the position s and application process can be found here: kjmathot.wordpress.com/opportunities/kjmathot.wordpress.comOpportunities********************************************************************************************************* ***Two graduate student positions in the Mathot Lab**** I am recruiting two new graduate st… 02847 47
Reposted by Michael ReichertJenny Stynoski @stynoski.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Interested in a postdoc position? Olfaction in poison frog tadpoles! Based in Germany with some field work in Costa Rica (bilateral funding, 3 years). Please share with your froggie and neuro/behavior contacts 🐸 www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns... 06166 66
Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 29/06/2026As part of this effort we contributed to the development of SoundLab, a free online program for spectrogram visualization and sound analysis. This is a great teaching tool and has a ton of features soundlab.sciencemusic.orgsoundlab.sciencemusic.orgSoundLabExplore sound like a pro with no installation! Record, visualize, and analyze audio in your browser. 000 0
Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Balancing Act introduces students to trade-offs in biology and includes audio and video of our work with gray treefrogs #bioacoustics teach.galacticpolymath.com/units/en-US/14teach.galacticpolymath.comBalancing Act STEM Unit | Galactic PolymathTradeoffs in frogs, humans, and other animals. Standards-aligned Science unit for Grades 9-12. Students will follow in the soggy footsteps of scientists wadi... 110 1
Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Check out this video highlighting our research and explaining how scientists use spectrograms to study animal communication! In collaboration with @galacticpolymath.com as part of our Balancing Act lessons for high school biology students www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLPL...youtube.comSpectrogram Explained: Seeing the Sounds of a SwampYouTube video by Galactic Polymath Education Studio 143 4
Reposted by Michael ReichertNeil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · 04/06/2026recruiting a couple new grad students to start in january, please share! www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities 13135 35
Reposted by Michael ReichertJournal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 15/04/2026New research using spatially-nested hierarchical species distribution models to estimate current and future distributions of a cryptic species at a regional scale🌍 🐸 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/E3tsUzA 072 7
Reposted by Michael ReichertCamille 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 28398 98
Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Agreed! And you're in good company with your magnet questionsmedia.tenor.coma man wearing a white shirt and a mask says magnets how do they workALT: a man wearing a white shirt and a mask says magnets how do they work 110 1
Reposted by Michael ReichertShaun Killen @shaunkillen.bsky.social · 19/02/20261 of 2 new postdocs in our group! Looking for an integrative fish physiologist for our Amazon ornamental fish project, linking stress & welfare across supply chain. Partnership with fishers and Brazilian collaborators. Field work and applied impact. Please share!: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research... 088 8
Reposted by Michael ReichertCamille Troisi @camilletroisi.bsky.social · 12/02/2026🚨Not one, but two papers now out on response inhibition (also called motoric self-regulation or inhibitory control in the field of animal cognition). Many studies find no link between individual performance on different tasks supposedly measuring response inhibition. 1/6 26610 66
Reposted by Michael ReichertElizabeth Hobson @elizabethhobson.bsky.social · 06/01/2026I am recruiting postbacs for my parakeet sociality and cognition project, ideally to start in Feb/Mar this year. Help spreading the word would be appreciated! More information and application link available here: ornithologyexchange.org/jobs/board/s... 12932 32
Reposted by Michael Reichertbirdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · 13/01/2026The Birdsong Lab is recruiting graduate students! Links in the comments. Please repost! 11321 21
Reposted by Michael ReichertJulia Saltz @juliasaltz.bsky.social · 05/11/2025My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com 35079 79
Reposted by Michael ReichertVladimir Pravosudov @cognitiveecol.bsky.social · 28/10/2025I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).chickadeecognition.comPOSITIONSdefault description 24078 78
Reposted by Michael ReichertKatie Cronin, PhD @katieacronin.bsky.social · 17/10/2025What an honorable title! @okstate.edu is hiring a Temple Grandin Endowed Professor in Applied Animal Behavior & Well-Being. 75% research 25% teaching. #job #phd #animalwelfare #agriculture #farmanimalwelfare jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/temple-...jobs.okstate.eduTemple Grandin Endowed Professor (Assistant/Associate) in Applied Animal Behavior and Well-Being - Stillwater, Oklahoma, United StatesTemple Grandin Endowed Professor in Applied AnimalBehavior and Well-Being Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural ResourcesOklahoma State University – Stillwater, Oklahoma The Department of Anim... 056 6
Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 15/10/2025We're also hiring a department head! jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/departm...jobs.okstate.eduDepartment Head of Biology - Stillwater, Oklahoma, United StatesCampus OSU-Stillwater Contact Name & Email Dr. Jay Schweig, jay.schweig@okstate.edu Work Schedule TBD Appointment Length Regular Continuous/Until Further Notice Hiring Range $150,000 - $200,000 Sa... 000 0
Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Oklahoma State Department of Biology is hiring an assistant professor in comparative biology (very broadly defined)! We have a great department, come join us. And please spread the word. jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/assista...jobs.okstate.eduAssistant Professor of Biology - Stillwater, Oklahoma, United StatesCampus OSU-Stillwater Contact Name & Email Dr. Michael Reichert, michael.reichert@okstate.edu Work Schedule TBD Appointment Length Regular Continuous/Until Further Notice Hiring Range $85,000 - $8... 129 9
Reposted by Michael ReichertGabrielle Davidson @drgdavidson.bsky.social · 30/09/2025📢🚨Please share! We’re hiring! 📢🚨Have a strong interests in wildlife ecology and gut microbiome bioinformatics? 3 year Senior Research Associate for NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant. Apply here: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18.... Informal enquiries welcome! drgldavidson.github.io/ACMEresearch 13838 38
Reposted by Michael ReichertAnimal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Do you love research & writing & all things animal behavior? Well our journal, Animal Behavior, recruiting up to 5 (count em!) new Associate Editors! Editors serve three-year terms beginning January 2026. If you're interested, email Exec Editor Scott Sakaluk (sksakal@ilstu.edu) by Oct 31!media.tenor.comron burgundy from parks and recreation says " you 'd be a fool not to pick me "ALT: ron burgundy from parks and recreation says " you 'd be a fool not to pick me " 02623 26
Reposted by Michael ReichertElizabeth Hobson @elizabethhobson.bsky.social · 23/09/2025**PhD POSITIONS** I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work on sociality and cognition in Monk Parakeets, starting Fall 2026. Full ad is here: hobsonresearch.com/index.php/20... (please help spread the word!) 25883 83
Reposted by Michael ReichertLaurenGuillette.bsky.social @laurenguillette.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Accepting applications for Graduate Students! PhD & MSc I am seeking highly motivated individuals to join my research team. Application details here: bit.ly/4mlBd6x Deadline 01 Dec 2025 Please share widely! (1/3) 1/3 11616 16
Reposted by Michael ReichertGalactic Polymath Education Studio (GP) @galacticpolymath.com · 09/09/2025"...it checks all the boxes — authentic science, student-led inquiry, & ready-to-go NGSS-aligned materials..." 😊 Check out this guest post from @brewerbiology.bsky.social after teaching our free unit about @reichertfroglab.bsky.social's research 🐸🔊🧪 www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/what-ca...galacticpolymath.comWhat Can Singing Frogs Teach Us About Evolutionary Tradeoffs? — Galactic PolymathWill female frogs be attracted to males who produce many short calls or to males with fewer, longer calls? This evolutionary tradeoff was the question my high school biology students investigated in t... 083 8
Reposted by Michael ReichertNed Dochtermann @neddochtermann.bsky.social · 08/09/2025New preprint out from the lab, including @rroyaute.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... In this we test what we refer to as the "standard model" of behavioral variation. This was inspired by recent work identifying intra-genotypic variation as a major contributor to "individuality". 1/biorxiv.orgGenetic and environmental sources of behavioral individuality: a test of the standard modelBehavioral variation is typically assumed to arise from the combination and interaction of genetic and environmental variation. However, recent work with genetically identical individuals has found th... 12920 29
Reposted by Michael ReichertChris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Postdoc advertisement! Hi all, I'm looking to hire a Postdoc in BIOACOUSTICS for work on Owls. Your job would be to collect & analyze bioacoustics data, and write papers. 🦉🦉🦅🐦🦜🦉🦉 37854 78
Reposted by Michael ReichertAndre Moncrieff @andremoncrieff.bsky.social · 26/08/2025🐦🔬 Recruiting PhD students! 🌎🧬 I’m looking for 1–2 PhD students to join our team starting Fall 2026 at the Sam Noble Museum & University of Oklahoma. Our research: 🐦 birds • 🌍 biogeography • 🌴 Neotropics • 🧬 population genomics • 🌱 speciation 👉 Learn more: www.moncriefflab.org Please share!moncriefflab.orgMoncrieff Lab | Bird EvolutionThe Moncrieff Lab is a research lab based at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History on the campus of the University of Oklahoma. Research in the lab involves museum specimens, fieldwork, and... 12637 37
Reposted by Michael ReichertJenny Coomes @jaycee161.bsky.social · 18/07/2025New publication! 🚨 If you're looking for a paper on what great tits eat then this is for you! 🦋🐛🐞🪲🐦 We looked at variation in diet using DNA metabarcoding and found lots of differences between adult and young birds and between habitat types. @ucc.ie onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 1198 19
Reposted by Michael ReichertJenny Coomes @jaycee161.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Many thanks to my co-authors John Quinn, Gabrielle Davidson @drgdavidson.bsky.social Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social and Jordan Cuff @jordancuff.bsky.social . Also remembering Bill Symondson who I really enjoyed working with and who would have been pleased to see this work out there. 011 1
Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 08/07/2025I was proud to take part in this event! (Even if very annoyed that a terminated NSF grant got me there) Every effort to communicate the importance of scientific research matters 010 1
Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 25/06/2025This is an excellent tool, I'm really happy to have contributed to its development! I think it will be especially useful for teaching #bioacoustics 021 2
Reposted by Michael ReichertNeil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · 16/05/2025I'm looking for a postdoc in quantitative ecology / macroecology to start in summer/fall 2025 in my lab at Oklahoma State University. Please spread the word www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities 05941 59
Reposted by Michael ReichertGalactic Polymath Education Studio (GP) @galacticpolymath.com · 09/05/2025We love it! 🤩🐸 Great to see students diving into data in our Balancing Act unit based on @reichertfroglab.bsky.social's NSF funded research! #SaveNSF 🧪 073 7
Reposted by Michael ReichertRebecca Brewer @brewerbiology.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Students listened to 🐸 calls and analyzed their spectrograms to learn about tradeoffs in nature: frogs can have long calls or frequent calls, not both! Then tried to figure out which call attracts more ladies. Great lesson set called Balancing Act by Galactic Polymath! www.galacticpolymath.com 032 3
Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Please DM or email me also, in the same boat 300 3
Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 24/04/2025This is a really exciting app for #bioacoustics, especially for teaching. Please support if you can. 051 5
Reposted by Michael ReichertGabrielle Davidson @drgdavidson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025🚨 🪺🐦🦠 PhD opportunity in my lab for UK home fee students. Feel free to contact me for informal enquiries. Please share! shorturl.at/wUo8rbiodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.ukDesigning Microbial Interventions to Study Behavioural Effects in Wild Birds (DAVIDSON_U25DTPR) | Doctoral Training PartnershipThis project is open to Home Fee Status applicants only. The gut microbiome influences how animals behave and interact with their environment via the microbiome–gut–brain axis (MGBA). 21824 24
Reposted by Michael ReichertMatt Wilkins @mattwilkins.galacticpolymath.com · 06/04/2025Humans are visual creatures. We're missing out on so much because it's currently expensive & technical to visualize sounds. Please help @galacticpolymath.com finish a web app to change this! 👇 $10 gets you access to the beta app. (Public release will be free, if we can reach our goal!) 🧪🔊 #edusky 73514 35
Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Great writeup on our educational outreach work with @galacticpolymath.com @okstate.edu news.okstate.edu/articles/com...news.okstate.eduOSU biology professor partners with education studio to develop free lessons for high schools nationwide - Oklahoma State UniversityThe calls of gray treefrogs are making their way from Oklahoma wetlands to high school biology classrooms nationwide, thanks to Oklahoma State University professor Dr. Michael Reichert. 030 3
Reposted by Michael ReichertGalactic Polymath Education Studio (GP) @galacticpolymath.com · 04/03/2025🔦Exciting fundamental biological research sponsored by NSF 🧪 🔉 🐸⚖️ Our free high school unit "Balancing Act" connects students to @reichertfroglab.bsky.social's big Qs & real data! Research & free lessons only possible through NSF Broader Impacts funds! ▶️🔥 New Trailer youtube.com/shorts/qqrVt...youtube.com“Balancing Act” Unit Trailer: Free lessons about tradeoffs in life #bioacousticsYouTube video by Galactic Polymath 172 7
Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 20/02/2025This is a great write up on a really cool study and I was happy to be able to chime in with some thoughts. It's really a shame that the great science in the article is overshadowed by the attacks on federal science funding in the US. We risk losing so many people and so much knowledge. 042 4