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Sourabh Biswas

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Behaviour Biologists | Postdoc | Indian Institute of Science | Naturalist | Shutterbug | Travaholic | He/him Website | sites.google.com/view/sourabhbiswas…

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Sourabh Biswas @sourabhb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
New paper in Animal Behaviour 🐕 In 650 free-ranging dogs, social context and sex shaped begging more strongly than immediate gaze or food cues. Big thanks to the whole team! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Begging for morsels: social context and sex shape begging in free-ranging dogs
Interspecific communication plays an important role in mediating human–animal interactions, particularly in contexts involving access to anthropogenic…
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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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Sourabh Biswas @sourabhb.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Excited to present my digital poster at #ISAZ2026 tomorrow, July 1 at 4:30 PM! 🐾 We found free-ranging dogs use scent marks to distinguish sex & group identity to navigate territory. 🐕👃 Work from abhadra7.bsky.social's lab. See you there isazofficial.bsky.social! #AnimalBehavior #CanineScience
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Sourabh Biswas @sourabhb.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
New paper alert: How Much Is Enough? An Empirical Test of the Resource Dispersion Hypothesis -Ecology and Evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Testing the Resource Dispersion Hypothesis in free-ranging dogs shows urban resources reshape space, not group size. @abhadra7.bsky.social.
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How Much Is Enough? An Empirical Test of the Resource Dispersion Hypothesis
We provide evidence in support of the Resource Dispersion Hypothesis in free-ranging dogs of India.
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Steve Portugal @sjportugal.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
New paper out today in Ecology and Evolution! Link below. Congrats PhD student @smthmpsn.bsky.social, on your first paper. All about how wild birds learn to avoid a novel aposematic warning signal. And a nice nod to Britney Spears in the paper title.
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Sourabh Biswas @sourabhb.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Humbled by the reviewers’ comments—and inspired to keep pushing forward! After years of fieldwork, learning, failing, growing—this is the kind of moment you hold on to. Grateful beyond words. Huge thanks to my supervisor @abhadra7.bsky.social for the unwavering guidance through it all. #PhDLife #FRD
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Sourabh Biswas @sourabhb.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Love this! Arting Science is a brilliant initiative bringing together Indian folk art and scientific concepts. Check out how students at IISc are using art to convey complex research. #ArtMeetsScience #IISc #ScienceCommunication www.iisc.ac.in/arting-scien...
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IISc is the premier institute for advanced scientific and technological research and education in India.
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Behaviour 2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
✨Planning for a Rakhi gift? Why not give a day pass to a delegate as a gift? ✅Covers everything for a day- all talks, symposia, workshops and food of an international conference! Hurry, limited passes available for each day!
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International Biodiversity @ibioconsultants.com · 03/08/2025
Want to know where to start to make your garden more nature friendly? Start here with advice from phys.org 🌍 #UrbanEcology #GardenEcology #BiodiversityAction phys.org/news/2025-08...
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Sourabh Biswas @sourabhb.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
🦋 New from #WikiLovesButterfly: A Little Girl and the Secret World of Butterflies — a magical story to spark curiosity in young minds. Co-written & designed with love, now available under CC BY 4.0. Read, share, adapt! Let us know your thoughts! #ButterflyOutreach #SciComm #CCBY4 #Outreach
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Behaviour 2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
📣Hurry up, the registration deadline is near! Regular Registration deadline for Behaviour 2025 has been extended to 31st July, 2025. Register here: conferenceindia.in/behaviour202... We welcome registrations from experts and enthusiasts in the field and look forward to seeing you in Kolkata soon!
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Behaviour 2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
📢 Last 2 days left for Ethology in Focus!!! Submit here: behaviourindia2025.in/Ethology-in-... 📌 Don't miss the chance to showcase your photographs globally. Scan the QR code mentioned in the post to access the submission form. bsky.app/profile/beha...
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Matthew Holden 🏳️‍🌈 @matthholden.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Please share: PhD scholarship opportunity in mathematical ecology on the value of information for improving ecological management, open to international students, with a great team @hugepossum.bsky.social, Katriona Shea, Kate Helmstedt, & me at UQ, Australia 🌍 🧮, study.uq.edu.au/study-option...
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The value of information for ecological management
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Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground! 🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome. 🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13 🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq Please share! @elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social
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PhD Researcher (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 75%)
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
PhD positions in bird cognition and behavior at the University of Hong Kong are open for motivated candidates. Applicants should have a biology background. Apply to Dr. Simon Sin at sinyw@hku.hk. More info: www.simonywsin.com. #phd
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Animal Behaviour Live @animalbehaviour.live · 19/06/2025
📢 Abstract submissions for Animal Behaviour Live Annual Conference are now OPEN! 🗓 Deadline: 7 Sept 2025 🎤 Choose from: 🔹 15-min live or recorded talk 🔹 5-min pre-recorded video poster (our classic format!) 📄 Submit here: ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org #ABL2025
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Celtic Karla @celtickarla.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution Award: $265,800 for 3 years worth of full time support Eligibility: entering or applying for Ph.D. programs in biology or a subfield of the life sciences during fall 2025 Deadline: LOI due July 31, 2025 www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... 🧪 🧠
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Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution
The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...
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Sourabh Biswas @sourabhb.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
This is fascinating!
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Behaviour 2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
✨Introducing the Jury members for Ethology in Focus.✨ behaviourindia2025.in/Ethology-in-... We are pleased to have Gabriela Staebler and Dhritiman Mukherjee as our jury members.
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Sourabh Biswas @sourabhb.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Capture behaviour in a frame. Submit your best shot to the Behaviour 2025 Photography Competition! Submission extended!
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Samantha Patrick @samanthacpatrick.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Looking for #PhD in behavioural and applied ecology? Our project will determine the importance individual level variation in #seabird #foraging for assessing the impact of wind farms @jon-seabirds.bsky.social @jaycee161.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 04/06/2025
Fundamental Interaction Niches: Towards a Functional Understanding of Ecological Networks' Resilience | doi.org/10.1111/ele.... | Ecology Letters | #ornithology 🪶
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Sourabh Biswas @sourabhb.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Our article just got accepted!🥳 Pre-prof: Fair game: Urban free-ranging dogs balance resource use and risk aversion at seasonal fairs url:https://academic.oup.com/cz/article/doi/10.1093/cz/zoaf030/8156446 #FRDs #dogs #doghumaninteractions #urbanadaptation @abhadra7.bsky.social
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Sourabh Biswas @sourabhb.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Witnessed begging in free-ranging dogs? What’s behind their strategies? How do they read us? Our new preprint uncovers how social context and human gaze shape dog-human communication. @animalcognition.bsky.social #DogBehaviour #InterspeciesCommunication #UrbanEcology arxiv.org/abs/2505.17770
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An Eye for a Treat: Human Gazing Modulates Begging by Free-ranging Dogs
Interspecific communication plays a critical role in mediating human-animal interactions, particularly in contexts involving access to anthropogenic resources. This study investigates the influence of...
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
2025. Individual decision-making and collective animal behavior | PNAS www.pnas.org/post/podcast...
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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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Shawan Chowdhury @shawan-chowdhury.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Please share. We are hiring domestic/international #PhD students to work on citizen science, insect migration/conservation at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. If interested, please email me. You can find more about our research interests here. shawanchowdhury.com.
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Sourabh Biswas @sourabhb.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Pre-print alert! We've tested the Resource Dispersion Hypothesis in #FRDs. A huge shout out to all my co-authors. Looking forward to submitting our work soon!! arxiv.org/abs/2504.11557
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How Much is Enough? An Empirical Test of the Resource Dispersion Hypothesis
Free-ranging dogs (Canis familiaris) thrive in diverse landscapes, including those heavily modified by humans. This study investigated the influence of resource availability on their spatial ecology a...
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Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Eusociality evolves more readily in haplodiploid #insects because of an inflated #genetic relatedness between sisters - the transition rate from solitary to eusocial life was 15-100 times higher in haplodiploid than diploid lineages www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Eusociality evolved at a much higher rate in haplodiploid insects
As a corollary to inclusive fitness theory, W.D. Hamilton’s famous haplodiploid hypothesis proposed that eusociality evolves more readily in haplodiploids because of an inflated genetic relatedness be...
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