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Lysanne Snijders @lysannesnijders.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

New paper @oikosjournal.bsky.social! Wild #guppies become twice as social in response to ephemeral food resources, helping individuals find these fleeting foraging opportunities. doi.org/10.1002/oik.... With @ralfkurvers.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social @igb-berlin.de @gedragsbiologie.bsky.social

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Damien Farine @damienfarine.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Cool video by National Geographic Society on the dolphin-fisher wildlife intelligence project. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlbV... Great footage from our latest field season 'blocking out all the noise' to discover how dolphins and fishers work together. @oregonstate.edu @scienceanu.bsky.social

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Understanding how dolphins and humans cooperate

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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Check out the multiple PhD positions in our department currently open for applications!

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MBARI @mbarinews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The @calacademy.bsky.social has named MBARI Senior Scientist Kelly Benoit-Bird a 2026 Fellow, recognizing her contributions to advance the Academy’s mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. Learn more: www.mbari.org/news/mbari-s...

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MBARI Senior Scientist Kelly Benoit-Bird named a California Academy of Sciences Fellow • MBARI

The California Academy of Sciences has named MBARI Senior Scientist Kelly Benoit-Bird a 2026 Fellow, recognizing her contributions to the field of marine ecology to advance the Academy’s mission to re...

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Brendan Barrett @bjjbarrett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Our paper on how orangutan mothers plan and alter their space use at personal costs so their offspring may play with similarly aged offspring (independent of kinship and fruit productivity) has transitioned from preprint to peer reviewed publication doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Maternal ranging strategies facilitate offspring social play at energetic cost in the most solitary ape | PNAS

In most vertebrates, social play among peers is considered essential for behavioral development. Yet in solitary species bearing single offspring, ...

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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I am recruiting a PhD student to work with our group at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior! Learn more & apply here: tinyurl.com/kd4xx4ku Deadline: 15 Nov 2026 Start date: Flexible (summer-fall 2027) @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social

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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

3 continuous years of acoustic vector sensing enables large-scale assessment of blue and fin whales' use of pelagic habitats. Stronger upwelling expands blue whale foraging habitat, increasing overlap with fin whales and shipping vessels. Led by John Ryan @mbarinews.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yc73dbvh

A blue whale surfacing to breath in the foggy air above the cold water offshore of Monterey Bay, California, USA. Photo by William Oestreich.

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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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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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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How do orangutans build their huge diet profiles before adulthood? @revathe.bsky.social and colleagues show, for the first time, how multiple forms of learning interact over many years to build broad, survival-relevant ecological skills in a wild great ape. Paper: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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Systems Ecology @systems-ecology.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🌱 Systems Ecology is now live! A new independent, researcher-run, diamond OA journal for ecological research through systems science. Free to read. Free to publish. No APCs. We are now open for submissions: systems-ecology.org Please help spread the word!

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Systems Ecology

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Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Often an adolescent female chimpanzee will, one day, strike off from her home territory and try to join the neighbors. She may face rejection and violence and yet try to stay. Why? Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ @rachnare.bsky.social! Listen: disi.org/coming-of-ag...

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 17/09/2026

A study in Communications Biology shows that Antarctic krill ecology may be more closely connected to hydrothermal vents than previously recognized. go.nature.com/4gVMUBE 🌊🌎🧪

This is figure 2, which shows screenshots taken from ROV dives aboard RV Falkor (too).

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/

A book cover featuring a beautiful closely cropped portrait of an Anna's hummingbird. The cover says LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale, by Ed Yong. The image also says US: 4/06/27 and UK: 4/29/27

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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Revised preprint: tinyurl.com/mr7km2pv We find a physical -> biological -> social cascade linking ocean physics (upwelling) to prey (krill) distribution & predator (blue whale) communication, providing insight into the biophysical drivers of social information use in Earth’s largest living space.

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MBARI @mbarinews.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Not your average worm 🔥⁠ ⁠ Gossamer worms call the expansive waters of the ocean’s twilight zone home. Living up in the water column, thousands of feet above the seafloor, has made Tomopteris effective swimmers. They swish their bodies side to side while rowing paddle-like parapodia.

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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

These findings arise from our multi-year, concurrent, detailed measurements of physical oceanography, krill distribution, and blue whale communication (www.mbari.org/project/blue...) @mbarinews.bsky.social

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Blue Whale Observatory • MBARI

This project is exploring the behavioral ecology of Earth’s largest animal species—the blue whale—and the krill that sustain them.

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George Matsumoto @georgeimatsumoto.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 @mbarinews.bsky.social invites applications for in-person postdoctoral fellowships in the fields of biological, chemical, and physical oceanography, marine geology, and ocean engineering. Deadline to apply is 5pm PT on December 2, 2026. www.mbari.org/about/career...

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Postdoc Fellowships • MBARI

Each year, MBARI invites applications for several in-person postdoctoral fellowships in the fields of biological, chemical, and physical oceanography, marine geology, and ocean engineering. MBARI also...

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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Osa Magic

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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

How do blue whales search for and locate feeding opportunities in their vast, fluid 3D foraging habitat? Check out our new paper, led by John Ryan, which provides a high-resolution answer to this question using a remarkable confluence of bio-logging and oceanographic data tinyurl.com/wa4usbpp

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High-precision localized feeding by blue whales

Ryan et al. use biologging and satellite remote sensing to show how blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) can precisely and persistently localize feeding within a favorable foraging habitat by sensing a...

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 23/08/2026

Female sperm whales form large groups which usually contain between ten and one hundred members. New research in #BiologyLetters studies the costs and benefits of group size for sperm whales of the open ocean: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... #ecology

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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Thank you, Scott! Hopeful to provide others with opportunities like I was given over the years (like at WHOI!!)

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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My research group will be moving to and growing at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in early 2027 with support from @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social! Keep an eye out for upcoming graduate student and postdoc opportunities @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social

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Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🎂Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom was born on this day in 1933! Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics for her research on "collaborative governance, especially the commons." She showed how communities of users could work together to sustain their shared resources. 1/9

Elinor Ostrom receiving the Nobel Prize in Economics. She is a older white woman with gray hair and glasses, wearing a long batik dyed dress, and holding the certificate and medal (in a box).

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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

squirrel monkey (Saimiri oerstedii) sighting!

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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

jungle bat, Panama

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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Grateful to get to know a few bats (and a woolly opossum) in Panama

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Grateful to get to know a few bats (and a woolly opossum) in Panama

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Natural history on canvas: Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats Just published in @pnas.org, OA for all eyes Led by the one-and-only @romero-vidal.bsky.social, with the amazing @elena-tena.bsky.social and Sonia Sánchez-Navarro @ebdonana.bsky.social LINK: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Dr Angel Borja @drangelborja.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Rocks falling from melting icebergs host deep-sea oases of biodiversity A ripple effect of climate change is providing habitat for corals, sponges and other Arctic animals. #marineecology www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Rocks falling from melting icebergs host deep-sea oases of biodiversity

A ripple effect of climate change is providing habitat for corals, sponges and other Arctic animals.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

To see how important US science is, consider measurements of changes in ocean heat content. US data are ~53% of the total. Over half! But removing the US data is worse than randomly removing 80% of the total data, because unlike other countries, the US makes measurements everywhere. 🧪🌊

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Critical dependence of global ocean heat monitoring on the ocean observing system - Nature Climate Change

International collaboration has facilitated a global ocean observing system, providing data to measure ocean heat content at a resolution that enables the tracking of climate change. This study looks ...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

As an ocean scientist, I'm frankly amazed at the attention the dismantlement of OOI has gotten, while the removal of the RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer (our only Antarctic icebreaker) and the failure to replace the JOIDES Resolution (our only scientific drilling ship) were met with near silence. 🌊

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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System

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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The concluding paragraphs of this essay by Ted Chiang are particularly thoughtful.

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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Still early in the process of working through this collection on "World models in natural and artificial intelligence", but so far, finding these pieces very thought provoking: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/issue/3...

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Volume 384 Issue 2320 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A | The Royal Society

Influential themed journal issues across the physical mathematical and engineering sciences.

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Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

New paper in @pnas.org - using playback experiments we provide further evidence that bottlenose dolphins can use individual identity signals + social memory to guide decision-making. Female dolphins use individual vocal labels to track coercive males | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Science Magazine @science.org · 28/05/2026

Researchers have identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation. scim.ag/4nTQ3nq

How animals sense Earth’s magnetic field is one of biology’s enduring mysteries. Researchers have now identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons (Columba livia) to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation.

Photo: Andreas Teichmann/laif/Redux

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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

When the North Atlantic ocean meets Ireland...

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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

An addition (and a favorite): backlighting for complex visual communication in low-light conditions www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Our paper about how resource variability shapes the ecology of social information is out in this issue of TREE! This eco-evolutionary lens helps explain why collective sensing has evolved across such a wide range of lifeforms, from microbes to blue whales. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Amazing creatures! @aptshadow.bsky.social gives stomatopods a glorious science fiction stage in his recent "Children of Strife"

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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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Robert Finger @robertfinger.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Excellent inaugural lecture by Millie Chapman today at ETH Zürich on ‘Biosphere governance in the age of algorithms’. 🥳 Well done and big congratulations 👏 epl.ethz.ch @milliechapman.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social

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Eamonn Wooster @predator-smarts.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Our recent paper on human-induced trait shifts and predator–prey interactions is on the cover of the May issue of Trends in Ecology & Evolution 😭😵‍💫 The paper is available open access here -> www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Finished the latest in @aptshadow.bsky.social 's "Children of..." series over the weekend. Spectacular exploration of interdependence in ecology, "bottom-up" and "top-down" intelligent design, cultural evolution, and the complex inner life of a stomatopod. Give it a read!

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