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Coming soon(ish)... ...till then a preprint. 🪶🦜 A small project from long ago with the awesome @pizzakyc.bsky.social

Like macroevolution *and* living animals? Want to do a PhD in avian morphology? Want to live in Newcastle, a very cool city surrounded by beautiful landscapes? Shoko Sugasawa, Sue Healy, and I are advertising an IAPETUS PhD studentship. International enquiries welcome! iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

New paper out! 🌍 Six decades of warnings, and CO₂ emissions are still climbing. In the last 20 years, we’ve emitted >1/4 of all greenhouse gases ever. A failure on that scale is unlikely if humans were united. So we looked at climate change through a conflict lens. 📄 shorturl.at/aG8UV 🧵 1/8

🔔PhD Position!🔔 Interested in collective behavior and communication? Want to use quantitative approaches to analyze animal behavior? Come join us @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social My group is looking for a PhD student to join our team in 2027, apps due Nov 22! imprs-qbee.mpg.de/132695/analy...

We're hiring! 🚨 PDRA at MMU on our NERC project, using AI for depth estimation and 3D reconstruction from camera traps. With @chesterzoosci.bsky.social and @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social Seeking computer vision/ML expertise from computational or biological backgrounds! Details: shorturl.at/YoH00

Job Alert! I am recruiting for a post doc in my group. The position will focus on establishing how changes in climate cause population change in birds and mammals. @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social

PhD at Swansea/Exeter investigating how urban living shapes reproductive decisions and success in herring gulls. Details: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo... How to apply: www.swbio.ac.uk/agriculture-... Please share. Supervisors listed below for more info.

I will be taking applications for one fully funded PhD student starting in September(ish) 2027 to work on one of 2 projects in @livingingroups.bsky.social and the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social Deadline for submission is Dec 1. imprs-qbee.mpg.de/133244/commu...

We are excited to advertise two phenoweb PhDs through the e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk @edinburghbiology.bsky.social. Both projects focus on better understanding the impacts of climate change on birds and involve fieldwork on nestbox populations of blue tits across Scottish woodlands #phenology #ornithology

Excited to share CASE PhD opportunities supervised by me at @edinburghbiology.bsky.social & @uoe-eid.bsky.social in collaboration with @iaciac.bsky.social , @samellisq.bsky.social and the wonderful team at Woodchester Park. Please share widely and get in touch to find out more! Links to ads below.

Same weight, different energy bill. An Andean condor uses 79% less energy per kilometer than a trumpeter swan, even though both weigh roughly the same. Why? Find out in a new study in Science, which rewrites the costs of flight for wild birds and bats: doi.org/10.1126/scie... 1/3

I am recruiting for a 2-year postdoc position with our group at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior! Learn more & apply here: tinyurl.com/3n88uv2p Deadline: 20 Dec 2026 Start date: Flexible in 2027 @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social

Ellie Bath, one of my all-time favourite scientists, is advertising a PhD at Durham on the evolution of aggression. This looks like a kickass project combining a bunch of approaches and skills -- and, bonus, Durham is gorgeous. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

We are searching for a #postdoc to join a project studying the role of the gut #microbiome in thermal adaption of wild #birds 🐦🌡 Would appreciate if you could share in your networks! Join @kruthsatz.bsky.social and I @biologylu.bsky.social. Apply by 30 October 👇 shorturl.at/mZWrk

Why do different bird species arrive at the same stopover site on the same day during spring migration? 🐦🐦‍⬛ 🔗 Read the full story: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

New episode!! 🎙️🔨 A conversation w/ @auersperga.bsky.social about tool use in cockatoos, crows, cows, and other animals. What counts as tool use? Does using a tool always require cognitive sophistication? And why are tool-using species so often found on islands? Listen: disi.org/island-of-th...

We are offering 3 #PhD positions in our Ecology of Animal Societies Department @livingingroups.bsky.social at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior - check them out! imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/current

Interested in the role of gut microbiomes in bird thermal resilience? 🥚⚡🐣🌡️🐥🧫 Come join us as a #postdoc in the #HOTGUT project at @biologylu.bsky.social ! Supervisor me, @cyanistesnord.bsky.social as co-supervisor. 💫 Please spread! Apply here 👇: lu.varbi.com/what:job/job...

#HotOffThePress 🔥🖊️ “Vocal identity and information content in the flight initiation calls of greylag geese (Anseranser)” 🪿🔊 Sept 2026. Bioacoustics. D.A A. Mostafa & @ebriefer.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0952...

Ravens (Corvus corax) use conspecifics and heterospecifics to navigate risky foraging scenarios #Foraging #Scavenging #Birds doi.org/10.1093/behe...

New paper led by @lucahahn.bsky.social! Jackdaw partners coordinate & accept short-term costs to stay together. Relationships promote access to food & info. @uniexecec.bsky.social @shoalgroup.bsky.social @guillmcivor.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org @swbiodtp.bsky.social tinyurl.com/rrv483hb

📣 PhD opportunity in my lab 📣 Are you interested in the effects of climate change on social behaviour? 🌡️🔥 This PhD project will examine these effects in the amazing burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Informal enquiries welcome. Please share widely!

Job Alert! 🐦🎧🚁 We are seeking a #Postdoc in #Bioacoustics to join our EU-funded project investigating the impact of #Drones on #Birds. Position: 18 months (expected start Feb/Mar 27) Deadline: November 3rd University of Salford, UK @salforduni.bsky.social jobs.salford.ac.uk/en/sites/CX_...

Funded 3.5 year PhD🎺 The effects of gamebird release and management on the lowland ecosystems of S England Lots of fieldwork. A robust and resilient student is required. Focus on reptiles and ecto-parasites Any Qs, please DM or email me Please RT www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The 2026 Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (@sortee) #Conference will take place virtually on 13th October across time zones. Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/sortee-conference-2026 Program: https://conf-sortee.shinyapps.io/2026-program-app/

FINE 6th October 2026. 17:00 Paris Thomas Bugnyar, University of Vienna, Austria Title: Testing social cognition in animals: lessons from ravens I review what we know about the social life and socio-cognitive skills in a large-brained bird, the common raven. wits-za.zoom.us/j/9672789095...

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

Our latest microgrant funding round is ongoing! The deadline to apply is the 30th of October. Spread the word, and donate if you can! Student microgrants are only possible because of each donation to ABC! For more information and to apply and donate: opencollective.com/animal-behaviour-collective

Monash University is offering a fully-funded PhD scholarship to an outstanding student in animal behaviour/evolutionary ecology. Choose from eight project areas. For information about what project I'm offering, please DM me or see application form: forms.gle/ia9t4KPD3FKT.... Deadline: 15 Nov.

Join us for your bachelor or master projects on Japanese macaque affect & cognition at the Affenberg Research Station in Austria. Details in the photo 👇 Write to us: affenberg.lewi@univie.ac.at / debottam.bhattacharjee@uni-goettingen.de Project abstract link: gepris.dfg.de/project/5630...

New year, new conference! Registration for the next Annual Meeting of the Ethological Society is officially open! 🤩 Save the date, sign up, and join us in beautiful Konstanz 24–27 February, 2027 @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social www.ab.mpg.de/etho-2027

Come and work with us.... jobs.lincoln.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

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

!! New in @science.org !! How do animals learn broad skills necessary for survival in the wild? Our latest study on wild Sumatran orangutans at Suaq provides answers. 1/11 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I'm so excited to finally see the special issue "Addressing Biases in Animal Behaviour" fully published: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu.... Huge thanks to my brilliant co-editors @viveknityananda.bsky.social & @nicolakoyama.bsky.social. Special issue grew from @asab.org's 2024 Winter Meeting 🧵

📣🎓 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!

Do you have experience working with meerkats or in animal affect/ welfare science? Are you UK based? If so, we may be able to offer you 1-2 hours of PAID work coding footage of zoo-housed meerkats for a project on meerkat-keeper relationships! Register your interest here: tinyurl.com/ntumeerkats

🐦‍⬛🎥 Check out this teaser! Join Dr. Thomas Bugnyar (uni. of Vienna, Austria) for a fascinating talk on:💬 “Testing social cognition in birds: lessons from ravens” 📆 Tuesday 29 Sept. 2026 at 2:00 PM GMT 📍 Live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQoB... 💡 Free & open to all – no registration needed!

We have a 4 year PhD position available @ebdonana.bsky.social in our project “Connecting key wetland sites through waterbirds: implications for plant populations”. We seek candidates with interest in plant ecology, waterbirds and/or movement ecology. Details attached @sibecol.bsky.social

🚨 PhD position in human, nonhuman primate, and/or dog cognition! I am thrilled to be reviewing applicants this year for a new PhD student to join the Social & Cognitive Origins Group in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins @jhu.edu @jhuartssciences.bsky.social 1/

Got caught by surprise with the award! Thank you @ecbb2026.bsky.social !! Forgot to take a photo of my poster, but here's a glimpse of it featuring the showstopper Paul. ✨😁

🚨Preprint alert! 🚨What if your study animal doesn't know the landscape yet? Standard movement models such as SSA assume it does. In our new study we let it learn instead, and put "learner" against "omniscient" head to head (1/4) doi.org/10.64898/202...

📣 📣 📣 UPDATE: The 2026-2027 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resource! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

We 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...

New PhD opportunities in behavioural ecology at the University of Tasmania and Macquarie University working with Geoff While and Martin Whiting plus multiple international collaborators on lizard sociality and communication. Please spread the word! #phd

We’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

All four books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use: - Bayesian Workflow at avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor... Links to other three books are in the quoted post 👇 (too many books to fit in one post!)

The special issue is out, including our contribution: "Social information about affective states in a human-altered world." Led by @lucahahn.bsky.social, @jackdawjordan.bsky.social & @margauxvanhussel.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/hyhfvmjn. @wildanimals.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social.

#HotOffThePress 🔥🖊️ “Ravens (Corvus corax) use conspecifics and heterospecifics to navigate risky foraging scenarios”🐦‍⬛ July 2026. Behavioral Ecology. @silviadamini.bsky.social, A. Lindeman , @awanib.bsky.social, @pesumas.bsky.social & T. Bugnyar doi.org/10.1093/behe...