Dom Cram

I'm hiring a postdoc for our NSF IntBIO project on songbird behavior, physiology and fitness! Start date as early as April 1 or as late as Sept 2027. Emphasis on behavioral endocrinology and transcriptomics, plus field ornithology based on applicant interests: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/33216.

🔔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...

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...

A PhD project in my group to work on the sequencing of whole animal genomes from mosquito blood meals is open to applications, through the @nrpdtp.bsky.social.

🐱Meerkats! 🪏Burrows! 🛒Foraging! 🏜️Space use! Our #EditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: “The bind of the burrow: trade-offs between refuge and foraging shape space use in Kalahari meerkats” Read at doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2026.123696

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

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

New big collaborative paper out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Biology Letters. "Frequency of plastic occurrence varies across phylogeny but not ecology in seabirds". Title says it all really. Congrats @saverygo.bsky.social and @nhcooper123.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

🚨 The Grieshop Lab is hiring at all levels!!! 🚨 Oct 2027 start: 👉 4-year BBSRC-funded PhD position (closes 30 Nov) 👉 3.5-year NERC-funded PhD position (closes 16 Dec) Feb 2027 start: 👉 3-year NERC-funded post-doc 👉 3-year NERC-funded lab tech 👉 (part-time) 3-year NERC-funded tech

2026. Big dogs age faster than little ones — rogue ‘jumping genes’ might be to blame. Study of almost 900 dogs from roughly 120 breeds finds that rapid ageing of large canines is linked to changes in the epigenome. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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

Interested in the ecological consequences of gamebird releases? Join us for a 3.5-year PhD project @exeter.ac.uk and @uniexecec.bsky.social. This project will investigate how gamebird releases affect (a) tick abundance and tick-borne disease risk (Lyme disease), and (b) reptile populations.

🔔Fantastic PhD opportunity here in #Norwich From Brain to Germline: How Perception Affects Genetic Inheritance aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships... Come work with the amazing 🤩 @immler.bsky.social @zebrafishrock.bsky.social

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

🚨🐵Primate Job: @plasticprimates.bsky.social have teamed up with @monkeyforest.bsky.social and we have a postdoctoral researcher position opening to explore Barbary macaque population and conservation genomics. Details are here (tinyurl.com/mr275rrm) but feel to reach out to me with any questions!

Why do some animals continue to live long after they have stopped reproducing? And what about sex differences in lifespan? Apply here to find out 😀: I have ARIES DTP PhD position together with Tracey Chapman, Simone Immler, see below! aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships...

🧑‍🎓 [Jan-June 2027] We offer two 6-month research projects (Master's thesis or gap-year internship) on meerkat vocal communication 🎤 at the University of Zurich 🇨🇭 Check it out! mathildemartin-research.com/wp-content/u...

Margaret Hamilton, trailblazer whose software powered Apollo 11 moon landing, dies at 90

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

2026. Animal Social Network Structures Across the Fast‐Slow Continuum. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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_...

Butterfly wing patterns in flight create illusions that misdirect predator attacks 🦋 www.nature.com/articles/s41... with @grahancock.bsky.social @jtroscianko.bsky.social @scienceanna.bsky.social @esbriolat.bsky.social

Are you a #NewPI in Ecology & Evolution? Would you like to meet with peers to chat about work, the future and life as a new PI? 🍪☕️ Then I have the form for you! 📋 Help us gauge interest in a new network/event by filling in this short survey: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/K4wUiuLuFn Please RT! 🙏

A longitudinal study tracked wild meerkat pups into sub-adulthood and found that cognitive abilities show distinct developmental trajectories: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... @sofiaforss.bsky.social #ProcB #cognition Image credit: Sara Joachim Mebe

Can sex help save species? Our new paper in PNAS suggests it can. lnkd.in/esc4fidf www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/a... Implications for evolution and conservation @mdpointer.bsky.social @nashalselection.bsky.social @alexeimaklakov.bsky.social

🦌💩🦠 PhD opportunity! I am recruiting a fully-funded PhD student at the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine to study the causes and consequences of gut microbiome variation in caribou. Start date is flexible. Please share!

I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...

New from me: Britain’s graduate earnings premium is falling, cue “too many go to university!” But non-university outcomes are also bad, cue “we must reform vocational routes!” Both miss the point: people used to think education drove economic outcomes, but the economy drives educational outcomes.

📢 JOB ALERT 📢 Exciting opportunity to join us as a Lecturer in Ecology. 3 year post @ 0.5FTE. Application deadline 18/09/26 - see below for details. @biouea.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/23...

Open position of Associate Professor in Behavioral ecology and cultural evolution at the @dee-unil.bsky.social! You can toggle the ad to English on top right: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

Trade-offs Between Intergenerational and Transgenerational Effects: experimental data and demographic simulation model of multigenerational trade-offs in evolution: academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

Do all traits age together? A long-term study of wild Seychelles warblers shows ageing is surprisingly asynchronous, with some traits senescing while others remain unchanged. doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a #PhD student and a #Postdoc to investigate #innovation in great #apes: PhD ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Postdoc ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Application deadline: August 17th. Please share widely!

A new resource with funding opportunities for evolutionary biologists https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-m88lOiv1VVX89Twmjan6qIdy4NBamCg/edit?gid=1459587946#gid=1459587946 put together by Prothama(“Pro”) Manna from the SSE Grad Student Advisory Council […]

🌟🌟 Postdoc position in Disease Ecology & Nature-Based Solutions 🌟🌟 We are looking for a creative and highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher to join the UKRI @netpositivecentre.bsky.social and the @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall, UK. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/11... 🦠🌳🏙️🌍🗺️🐝 🦌🕷️

For me this paper is a career highlight..truly astonishing biology! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

2026. The secret language behind animal cooperation. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... via @asab.org #AnimalBehaviour

I compiled a list of 350 #funding opportunities for #postdoctoral research #fellowships: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J2M_tQgoqV4ivpfEClh9qs9f2KQN2O1G3Jpda2aoHfQ/edit?usp=sharing I realized I should share this again after mentioning it to some folks at the #EFP2026

Who wants to spend 6 months at the Kalahari Research Centre?

@crab-exeter.bsky.social are a fantastic group of researchers, and a real beacon of excellence for Exeter. What a huge and deeply sad act of self sabotage this would be. Please consider signing their open letter👇🏻

Higher education policy under the last few UK governments seems to be shaping up into an experiment in how you sustain a knowledge economy without knowledge

New paper just out - where we describe the 'Breeding Home Range of the Pygmy Falcon: The Smallest GPS-Tracked Diurnal Raptor' #RaptorResearch #AfricanOrnithology bioone.org/journals/jou...

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 out now in TREE @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social "Constraint and convergence in the evolution of vertebrate sound production". Thanks to Christian Herbst, Coen Elemans, and @tecumsehfitch.bsky.social for a great collaboration. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I am recruiting a #postdoc to work on assembling and analyzing #genomes of the amazing Furnariidae. Let’s unlock the secret behind their #evolution. The official application portal will be available soon at www.uno.edu/careers. Feel free to contact me for details at sclaramu@uno.edu