Gabriella E. Smith, PhD

✨Four years later, officially a Dr✨ 🇦🇹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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.

We're hiring a 3-year postdoc at the University of Bristol to improve our ability to predict vegetation responses to fire in a changing world 🌍🔥🌱. Details: mdekauwe.github.io/join_us Please share, thank you.

Job alert for theoreticians! 2yr NERC-funded postdoc to model coevolution of learning & social structure. With Bram Kuijper, @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social @andyradford.bsky.social @ljnbrent.bsky.social Based @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall Deadline Dec 14. Apply: tinyurl.com/3ym39cuv

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

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

Heute um 15:00 Uhr am Karlsplatz (TU Wien): Noch einmal gemeinsam laut sein gegen die massiven Kürzungen des Unibudgets! ✊ Es geht um die Zukunft unserer Bildung und Forschung – jede Stimme zählt. Für die Unis, für uns alle! #UnisRetten

We have open MSc thesis/internship positions!! Come to study mother and offspring Asian elephants with us 🐘🐘🐘

Introducing our new crest! 🐾🌍Beautifully designed by @brendadegroot.bsky.social

Postdoc Alert! New Postdoc Position for 3 years (max 3 more)- offers the freedom to develop your own research projects in close interaction with my group. Research on invertebrates preferred. Apply by October 31. Please RP. zoologie.uni-greifswald.de/en/organizat... 🧪

Save the date! The animal behaviour community is coming to Vienna. XXXIX International Ethological Congress - Behaviour 2027 University of Vienna | 23–27 August 2027 behaviour2027.eventsairsite.com #behaviour2027 #animalbehaviour @univie.ac.at @behaviour2027.bsky.social

Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. https://scim.ag/4rTKck8

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

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.

Seeking a reliability coder of capuchin monkey videos! Great for the CV for students eager to get into the world of animal behavior and cognition. Write me at: gabriella.smith@vetmeduni.ac.at

Hola! Interested in doing a 3-month research #internship on treehopper vibrational communication with me at STRI in Panama? 🤩 More info: stri.si.edu/academic-pro... Application deadline Oct 15. Also many other cool projects! #AnimalBehavior

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

Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Spread the word! Behaviour 2027 will be taking place in Vienna, Austria, from August 23-27.

What does it take to understand another mind? Dogs, cats, apes, pointing, trust, AI—and why meaning may not be in the signal alone, but in what happens next. My full conversation with Hakeem Oluseyi for @wgbh.org NOVA Particles of Thought: youtu.be/XS3grn2h6DQ 📷 NOVA / Particles of Thought

📣🎓 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!

🚨Master’s project position available 🚨 Train gibbons to use touch screens as part of comparative and affective neuroscience research

2026. jobs - Max Planck Research Groups – Announcement www.mpg.de/career/max-p...

Please help us spread the word: Princeton University’s Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is hiring an Assistant Professor! I ❤️ this collegial and collaborative department full of inspiring people: eeb.princeton.edu/people Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/193474

Hey folks, I'll be considering PhD applications for the 2026-27 cycle over here at Duke Psych. To learn more about the lab, check us out at www.mindandculturelab.com and/or read through this short FAQ for prospective students: www.mindandculturelab.com/faq

We have a fully funded 3-year PhD position to study jumping spider navigation. Open to both domestic and international candidates. Details below. Join us! @animbehav.bsky.social @austentsoc.bsky.social @ausevosoc.bsky.social @neuroethology.org @asab.org

Applications for the 2027 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships are open! Marina Dubova just completed SFI’s Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowship, and she reflects on what the experience meant to her and her research. Deadline: September 30, 2026 Requirements & application: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

UCSD Cognitive Science Department is hiring an Assistant Professor incorporating novel computational approaches in the study of biological and/or artificial intelligence. I have had the privilege of working in this department for 10 years and the intellectual environment really is unique. 1/3

🚨Master's project on dog cognition🚨 Are you a Master's student? Into animal behaviour? Do you think dogs are cool? We've got a project for you. Check the flyer below 👇

🚨 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/

Interested in a postdoc at the University of Konstanz - maybe even to work with us on active sensing/bioacoustics/collective behaviour? Non-discipline specific postdoc fellowships @zukunftskolleg.bsky.social www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll... 12th October deadline!

Interested in doing a PhD in philosophy of animal minds in lovely Murcia? We have just published a call for expressions of interest to do a PhD as part of our research project on ecological validity in comparative cognitive science. Please consider applying if this is up your street!

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Our department @vuamsterdam.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience! Join our lovely community here in beautiful Amsterdam! 🧠🔥 Deadline: October 15 Apply: workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/as...

Fabulous new entry for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy just dropped! 🐝🐵 🐘🐠Animal Normativity 🦌🐶🦜🐬https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/animal-normativity/ authored by @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social

UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is hiring! Focus on social cognition, broadly construed. Come be my colleague :) I am not on the search committee but happy to talk about the campus, environment, careers, etc any time. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10411

We are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, with a research focus on developmental and/or social psychology. Please apply or forward to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

Hi #ECBB2026 @ecbb2026.bsky.social 👋 I have 3 UKRI-funded Senior Research Associate positions live at the intersection of behaviour, conservation + AI (coral reefs/UK waters) 2x2yr9mth; 1x2yrs. More info here sallykeith.weebly.com/team.html Wish I was there!

Two macaques had to pull both rope ends at once to get snacks 🐒 With one apparatus available, one male pair monopolised it - 86% of all pulls. With five apparatuses, just 4% and more pulls with others. @zewaldj.bsky.social in doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2026.123632

What does the dog community want to know? 🐶 Take our survey on canine science interests, which will help shape the direction of future ManyDogs studies. Open to all dog enthusiasts over 19! Survey: ssp.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cGhF6eGPOGJYHSS Please share! 🐾 #Dogs #DogScience #CanineScience

📢 We're hiring! I'm looking for a **Junior Researcher** to join my team at @EuracResearch (Bolzano, Italy) and work on bird monitoring, bioacoustics, Passive Acoustic Monitoring, and biodiversity research. Apply here: eurac.onboard.org/jobs/dGXQ9qe... Please share! 🙏 🐦‍⬛🎙️ #Ecology #Ornithology

Job posting: Associate Professor in behavioral ecology and cultural evolution within the Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) at the University of Lausanne. Deadline for applications is 30.09.2026: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli... (there is a button to switch to English at the top right)

#jobalert Assistant Professor in Applied Ethology University of Guelph, Canada More information: www.applied-ethology.org/Assistant_Pr...

#Postdocposition Postdoctoral position in applied ethology and welfare University of Pennsylvania, USA More information: www.applied-ethology.org/Postdoctoral...

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!

🚨🐒Join the Urban Vervet Project! We are currently looking for a research assistant to strengthen our on-site team at the beautiful Simbithi Eco Estate in South Africa. More info below 👇 @sofiaforss.bsky.social

Do you have a background in behavioural ecology and are you interested in doing a PhD in Australia? I’m looking for new grad students so check out our website (BobWongLab.org) or come find me in Torino at #ISBE2026. 🐟🐠

We are excited to announce that #Behaviour2027 (XXXIX International Ethological Congress) will be taking place in Vienna, Austria! We are looking forward to having you all join us next year from August 23-27. Please follow and share!

Dream PhD opening! Innovation in wild falcons! Application deadline Aug 1🦅

Our paper is out now! 🎉📝 We describe how we work to address barriers faced by students and early-career researchs in the animal behaviour field, through our mentorships and microgrants. We hope that this can inspire and provide practical resources for others hoping to do the same!

🚨🐵 Paid primate work: We are seeking a new camp and research coordinator for the Born To Be Wild Project; Tazekka National Park, Morocco: Details here (sadly due to funding constraints only available for EU, and potentially UK applicants at a push): groups.google.com/a/g-groups.w...

Interested in a postdoc position? Olfaction in poison frog tadpoles! Based in Germany with some field work in Costa Rica (bilateral funding, 3 years). Please share with your froggie and neuro/behavior contacts 🐸 www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...