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Sabine Nöbel

@sabinenoebel.bsky.social
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Former research fellow at @iast.fr and EDB, now at Uni Halle working on cultural transmission of mating preferences in #Drosophila

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Culture Conference @cultconf.bsky.social · 12h
📢 The Call for Abstracts for the Culture Conference 2027 is OPEN! 🗓️ Deadline: 30 November 2026 We welcome submissions from all career stages and relevant disciplines. 🔎Details & submission info: culture-conference.com/abstract-sub... Keynote speakers will be announced soon - stay tuned!
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Abstract Submission
We invite participants to submit their abstracts by 30 November 2026. Please submit your abstract by email to: ccp_cultureconference2027@eva.mpg.de When submitting your abstract, please indicate wh…
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Zoë Goldsborough @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
📣🎓 Open #PhD Position (3.5 years) 🎓📣 Want to come work with me on culture and social bonds in apes? 🐵 Apply to join my new group in the @livingingroups.bsky.social at @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social. Full job posting: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/131133/cultu... Deadline 📅 23 October 2026 Please share widely!
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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you're an ECR or postdoc in need of funding to travel for an experiment or to learn a new technique, make sure you apply for a JEB Travelling Fellowship www.biologists.com/grants/trave... #PostdocAppreciationWeek #NPAW #PostdocAppreciation Find out more at doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
National Postdoc Appreciation Week logo. September 21-25, 2026
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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
GREAT opportunity for anybody interested in a PhD in animal behavior.
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Culture Conference @cultconf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
‼️SAVE THE DATE‼️ We are excited to welcome you for the next Culture Conference, taking place 31 March to 2 April 2027 at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social in Leipzig, Germany! Stay tuned for future announcements here & on the website 🔎 culture-conference.com
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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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Ben Hopkins @brhopkins92.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Quick plug for our new resource, the Drosophila Species Stock Exchange. This is a database and mailing list that documents species currently in culture and the labs holding them. If you want to know more or sign up then please get in touch. See attached for more info and please share!
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Sofia Forss @sofiaforss.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Interested in animal urbanization and human wildlife co-existence, join our team this fall 👇🏼
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Erin Wessling @northernlimitpt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
On the tail of the announcement of my new Behavioural Conservation group at @idiv-research.bsky.social, I can also say... I'm hiring! We're looking for a Project Assistant (60% FTE) to join our "Conserving Cultures" project. Job posting: uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/1...
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Project Assistant (m/f/d/x)
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Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Doing a short workshop about simulation-based inference on Thursday for @eslr.bsky.social! Come hang out :)
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Calling all animal culture enthusiasts! The Association for Study of Animal Behaviour and the Primate Society of Great Britain are holding a joint meeting this December on "Social Learning and Culture" 👇
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Olli Loukola @olliloukola.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees
Problem-solving using novel solutions without explicit training is often considered a hallmark of cognitive flexibility. We investigated whether bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) could solve a novel obj...
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Dr. Susanne Hoffmann @susannehoffmann.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Do you want to know if birds can use hair-like feathers as high-frequency sound receptors during echolocation? Join our team as PhD student or postdoc and find out! ⬇️ www.bi.mpg.de/2809383/job_...
Photo of a bird with large eyes sitting on a rock. The feathers are brown with white spots.
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Camille Troisi @camilletroisi.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
🚨We're hiring again, this time for a research assistant position 🚨 The position is to help with a project looking at learning and social behaviour in birds along an urban gradient Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆28th June deadline More info: shorturl.at/vBxiW #ringing #fieldwork
Great tit standing on a branch. 
Photo credit: Alizée Vernouillet
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ASAB @asab.org · 29/05/2026
Don’t forget to get these in by Monday ! 🚨
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ESLR @eslr.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Interested in how social information is transmitted in networks? 🚨Join ESLR Workshop happening this week! 🗓 May 28, 2026 ⏰ 2pm CET Online Introduction to Bayesian Network-based diffusion analysis (NBDA) with STbayes by @mchimento.bsky.social 🔗 Join at: calendar.app.google/mNSksgpimmrs...
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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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Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · 01/05/2026
@lfanpsych.bsky.social set up this participant-driven ride share sheet for @hbes2026.bsky.social attendees arriving to the Rabat airport for #HBES2026 This is not managed by the local organizers or @humbehevosoc.bsky.social, but we're happy to spread the word. 

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HBES Rabat Ride Share (Self-organized)
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Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · 30/04/2026
Conference update emails for #HBES2026 and #CESRabat will be sent soon. In the meantime, updated programs are live on both conference websites: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/hbes2026 airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026 Check them out! @ces2026.bsky.social @hbes2026.bsky.social
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Sofia Forss @sofiaforss.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
We have an open MSc Project Position at the Urban Vervet Project, and are currently looking for a motivated teammate to discover species interactions in a human altered environment 👇🏼 For more INFO👇🏼
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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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Kathelijne Koops @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
📣ATTENTION!!! Postdoc position on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees and Bonobos 🤩 With the APE Group & Wildminds Lab @nakedprimate.bsky.social Come join us!!! ✨Please RT✨ @efprimatology.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social
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Chaitanya Gokhale @gokhalecs.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Fantastic double feature seminar today by @sabinenoebel.bsky.social on tradition, culture and mate copying in #drosophila and a superb theory study of the same by @srishtipatil.bsky.social ! It’s been a pleasure hosting you both here @cctb-wue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de
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Sabine Nöbel @sabinenoebel.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Tomorrow I will give a joint talk with @srishtipatil.bsky.social at the @uni-wuerzburg.de to present our joint work with @gokhalecs.bsky.social just published in @pnas.org
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Sabine Nöbel @sabinenoebel.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Dear 🪰folks, for a project I am looking for D. buzzati, D. gaucha, D. recens and Z. sepsoides. Please get in touch if you have them in your lab and willing to share.
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Sabine Nöbel @sabinenoebel.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Looking forward to an amazing conference @cultconf.bsky.social
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Chaitanya Gokhale @gokhalecs.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Thrilled to share our new paper with the brilliant @srishtipatil.bsky.social & @sabinenoebel.bsky.social ! 🎉 Can mate copying maintain phenotypic diversity with multiple male options to choose from? find out @ doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @dkfz.bsky.social @unihalle.bsky.social @cctb-wue.bsky.social
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Dieter Lukas @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/02/2026
WILDLABS Awards 2026 "We are awarding $10,000 and $50,000 grants to up to 15 projects, each receiving up to one year of funding to advance their #conservation #technology work." wildlabs.net/funding-opportunity/wi… Deadline 18 March 2026
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Culture Conference @cultconf.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The Culture Conference 2026 is already starting next week! 🥳 If you plan to attend in-person, please register ‼️before Sunday 22/02‼️ We are almost full, so don’t wait 😊 Online registration will remain open 💻 See you next week in Utrecht 🌇 To register:👇 culture-conference.com/registration/
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Registrations for the conference and the pre-conference workshop are now OPEN! Register for the conference (26-27/02): Culture Conference 2026 – Registration form Register for the worksh…
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Marijn Keijzer @mrnkzr.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Travel grants 📣 For the 13th Toulouse Economics & Biology Workshop (June 1–2, 2026, @IAST) we have travel fellowships for PhDs & early-career researchers presenting a poster. Apply by Feb 27! Details: www.iast.fr/conferences/...
Poster of 13th Econ and Bio workshop on 'social influence and it's macro consequences'
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Alexandros Gelastopoulos @alexgelas.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Four travel grants available for PhD students and postdocs to present their posters at the 13th Toulouse Economics and Biology Workshop! Apply by Feb 27th. www.iast.fr/conferences/...
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13th Toulouse Economics and Biology Workshop
13th Toulouse Economics and Biology Workshop, Toulouse, TSE/IAST Building, June 1–2, 2026.
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Sabine Nöbel @sabinenoebel.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Visiting Guillaume Isabel and Etienne Danchin at @cbitoulouse.bsky.social to discuss some new 🪰 projects. Great to be back in Toulouse
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Culture Conference @cultconf.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The Culture Conference 2026 programme is out! 🎉 From keynotes to talks and posters, we are excited to share a diverse and interdisciplinary lineup. A big thank you to all contributors. With the conference coming up in two weeks, we’re very much looking forward to welcoming you in Utrecht 🙌
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Culture Conference @cultconf.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Want to gain hands-on experience using STBayes? Join our pre-conference workshop on 25/02, led by @mchimento.bsky.social 🤩
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Culture Conference @cultconf.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Want to socialise ahead of the conference? Join the Early Career Researchers drinks on the evening of 25th/02! 🍻 An excellent opportunity to meet fellow researchers in a relaxed way. Contact us to join. Reminder: conference and workshop registration is still open (forms on our website) 🔎
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Culture Conference @cultconf.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Happy New Year from the Culture Conference organisers 🎉 We wish you a year filled with kindness, curiosity, and fruitful research. We still have a few spots available for presentations. Feel free to send us your abstract if you’d like to share your work with us in February!
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ESLR @eslr.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
📣 Join us Wednesday 14 Jan at 1pm GMT 💻🌍 Early career researcher interested in culture, behaviour, and learning? Get involved, learn about ESLR, and meet others in the field. We'll cover 2026 activities including skill-sharing sessions. 🛠️💡 Join: meet.google.com/sun-ddcz-gky
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Culture Conference @cultconf.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
🎄Early Christmas present: we still have a few presentation spots available! If you’d like to share your research at the Culture Conference but haven’t submitted yet, you can send us your abstract until this Friday, 19 December. Submission details are on our website (link in bio).
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Culture Conference @cultconf.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Registrations are now open 📢 Want to join the conference and/or the workshop? Head to our website: culture-conference.com/registration/ As every year, attendance at the conference is free 🎉 (the workshop has a small fee). Reminder: Abstract submission closes soon—submit yours before Monday!
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Registrations for the conference and the pre-conference workshop are now OPEN! Register for the conference (26-27/02): Culture Conference 2026 – Registration form Register for the workshop (2…
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ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Make sure you don’t miss our key dates for abstract submission and registration!
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ESLR @eslr.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Would you like to share your research skills with the ESLR community? Starting next year, we will be hosting regular online sessions serving as a platform of mutual exchange and support among early-career researchers. Please do get in touch if you are interested in hosting a session!
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Culture Conference @cultconf.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The Culture Conference is (once again) indulging in that grand old tradition of EXTENDING the submission deadline‼️ The new deadline for abstract submissions is December 15th. Registration will open very soon—stay tuned! culture-conference.com/abstract-sub...
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Abstract Submission
The call for abstracts for Culture Conference 2026 is NOW OPEN! We call for submissions of abstracts of no more than 250 words, summarising the background, aims, methods and results of your work.&n…
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Culture Conference @cultconf.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Only a few days left before abstract submission closes! Don’t forget to submit your work 👉 culture-conference.com/abstract-sub...
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michael chimento @mchimento.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Are you working on a project where you need to infer whether individuals are socially learning? pathways, correlates of, and individual variation in sensitivity to social transmission? Consider joining the hand-on STbayes workshop to learn about the latest update to the NBDA framework
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Culture Conference @cultconf.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
⏰ Reminder: 10 days left to submit your abstract for Culture Conference 2026! 🧠 Workshop details are now live! Join us for a hands-on day on cutting-edge tools for analysing social networks & social transmission (registration opens soon). Find all details here: culture-conference.com/workshop/
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Eythan Cousin @eythancousin.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Come join this exciting workshop on social network analysis and social transmission, all within a Bayesian framework!! 💻 And many thanks to @danielredhead.bsky.social and @mchimento.bsky.social for conducting it, I'm looking forward 🤩 More information below 👇
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Maxime Derex @maximederex.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
🚨Only 2 days left to apply
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Culture Conference @cultconf.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
2nd keynote! Dr. Sabine Nöbel, from Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg! She studies how socially learned mating preferences spread and persist across generations in Drosophila and explores the evolutionary consequences of animal culture. Discover her work: sabinenoebel.wordpress.com
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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
PhD project on the evolution of animal memory now available in my research group, through the TREES DLA: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo.... Come and join us if you're interested in the evolution of animal minds and you want to do some cool experimental evolution!
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Evolutionary ecology of animal memory | TREES DLA
This project seeks to explore how memory evolves in response to the ecological tasks that animals face in their natural environment. Associative memory exists in some form in almost all animal species...
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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Just 1 week to apply! 4 year @erc.europa.eu funded PhD position working in an interdisciplinary team to study #culturalEvolution as a process of reuse, recombination, and creative re-engineering of past solutions. Details 👉 hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur... 🙏Please share!
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