MagBBB Research Group

Are migratory birds born with a magnetic map, or do they learn it? In our @currentbiology.bsky.social study, Eurasian reed warblers caught in autumn/tested in spring did not compensate for a virtual displacement of over 1,000 km. Magnetic maps in songbirds may develop through migratory experience.

How I spent my morning: designing 3D-printable enclosures for a Raspberry Pi-based video system with synchronised recording from three cameras. #3dprinting #diy

#NavigationNews Another interesting paper on 🧲🧭magnetoreception in migratory frogs

“This social, chonky creature 'sees' magnetic fields with its near-blind eyes to navigate its hand-dug, kilometers-long subterranean tunnels; the longest built by any mammal, save ourselves.” #scicomm #sensoryecology #neuroskyence #magnetosensation www.sciencealert.com/mole-rats-ge... 🧪 🦊 🧲

How do migratory butterflies find their way? In our new paper in @royalsocietypublishing.org Journal of the Royal Society Interface, we show that European red admirals use solar cues for orientation, with no clear evidence of a magnetic compass, in contrast to monarch butterflies. 🦋 Read more:

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

⏰️ One month to go!!! #ABL2026 Studying Animal Behaviour in a Changing World is happening on 12 Nov 🎉 3 plenaries • 18 talks • 40+ posters • 2 workshops • lively Discord chats 👉️ Join us! Register now for FREE: https:// ablaoc.sciencesconf.org

New PhD opportunity to study vectors, pathogens, birds and urbanisation with @dmdominoni.bsky.social and I @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk and #LuigiSedda @lancasteruni.bsky.social The impact of urbanisation on vector-borne transmission: avian malaria as a case study Deadlines: 🌍 1/10 to 30/11 🇬🇧 2/11 to 4/1

🧪 Considering an HFSP Research Grant? Join our webinar on the 2028 call for application guidance and a live Q&A! 📅 17 Nov | Two sessions: 🕘 09:00 CET 🕓 16:00 CET 🔗 Register: zurl.co/qHCzP #HFSP #FrontierScience #sts

Brilliant #postdoc opportunity on the role of gut microbiomes in bird thermal resilience #HOTGUT project at Lund University (Dept. of Biology)! Supervisor is the awesome @kruthsatz.bsky.social , Andreas Nord as co-supervisor. Please repost Apply here: lu.varbi.com/what:job/job...

OMG, #PhDs. THREE! 👇

Please share! My lab is recruiting a postdoctoral scholar in evolutionary development. For more details feel free to email me.

📣 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!

Death’s-head hawkmoths equipped with ultralight radio tags to study their migration. #insect_migration #moths #radiotracking

How long does a butterfly live? 🦋 A few weeks for most, but pollen-eating Heliconius can live up to a year – and have much bigger brains. @ebablab.bsky.social from @camzoology.bsky.social is exploring how brains and behaviour can drive the evolution of new species 👉 bit.ly/4jFJJzG

youtu.be/joosKZ3HygE?... @jtroscianko.bsky.social Has edited together this video of us explaining our butterfly research. I must admit I didn't quite realise how under the weather I was at the time. So forgive my slightly zombified appearance!

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.

Animal Navigation Publications: September 2026 Articles, reviews and preprints published online during the month. magbbb.com/2026/10/03/a...

In vivo electrophysiology in head-fixed and freely moving mole-rats

Your favorite website for illustrations of almost all organisms is looking for donations to help cover its running costs! Please consider donating to help keep this open-source platform running: www.phylopic.org/images

Usually, the orientation behaviour of migratory butterfly/moth species are tested when tethered in flight simulators at ground level. In this new study, monarch butterflies are tethered on a balloon to test their orientation behaviour at a height of 30 m. 🦋 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🦋 Butterfly wing patterns create motion illusions that protect them from predators! Our new study (8 years in the making) is out in Nature today doi.org/10.1038/s415... @grahancock.bsky.social @esbriolat.bsky.social @scienceanna.bsky.social @lauraakelley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social

Female hoverflies dominate migratory assemblages but males still migrate. In our new paper, we investigate when migratory hoverflies mate and its effect on flight muscle mass. 🪰💪🌐🧪🌍 doi.org/10.1098/rsos... www.researchgate.net/publication/...

#NavigationNews A new and interesting study on magnetoreception in mammals. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Exciting conference coming up in Vienna this August!! Safe the date 🦉🎡

Hello visual ecologists! Are you studying how human activities (urbanization, deforestation, climate change, pollution, etc) affect animal coloration? I want to talk to you! 🧪 I've found some interesting reviews & older papers, but I want to find out more about research currently in progress!

Two funded MSc positions are available with us thanks to an NSERC-Alliance grant. Working with the McDonald lab, the focus will be on the neurobehavioural effects of chronic exposure to microplastics in rodents. If you or anyone you know are interested, contact us! #neuroskyence #neuroethology

📢Apply now! Join our IMPRS for Brain&Behavior to pursue a #PhD in #neuroethology. Learn how brain circuits are linked to interesting animal behaviors! 📅 Deadline: October 15, 2026 🔗 imprs-brain-behavior.mpg.de #neuroscience #Neuroskyence #neurojobs #sciencejobs #PhDsky #PhDOffers #FundedPhD

Where did bats come from?🦇🌍 After decades of debate, the biggest bat genome + fossil study ever done has an answer - and it’s not where anyone expected! 🤩OUR PHASE 1 FLAGSHIP is out today in nature! doi.org/10.1038/s415... A thread 🧵

New paper: do GPS tags affect small shorebirds? In Kentish plovers, solar-powered devices showed no detectable effects on behaviour, reproduction, or short-term survival. ➡️ vist.ly/4xcxr #ornithology #biologging #birds #survival #reproduction

Many scientists dream of writing a book with mainstream appeal, but where do you start? In the latest issue of The Biologist, nine researcher-authors give their tips. Read the article: biologist.rsb.org.uk/from_lab_to_... #ScienceWriting #PopularScience #TheBiologist

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! 🙏

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

Miniscope Zero, the first fully wireless Miniscope, is on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! Wireless power + data enable neural recordings in enclosed mazes, 3D environments & from two animals at once! @miniscope.bsky.social Paper: doi.org/10.64898/202... Wiki: miniscope.org/wiki/Minisco...

hello wonderful network, especially all of you in the #Doñana region - we are looking for someone who could check the island specified in Sandra's thread for a GPS logger and gull-billed tern chick that has died on an island in this area. please share in your networks to multiply our chances

Desert ants navigate using landmarks around them to find home and now it turns out that they also use the location of fights with intruder ants as mental GPS markers to help them navigate when off course to find home @mpi-ce.bsky.social doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Learn how artificial intelligence can hone your research skills as well as the potential pitfalls of relying too heavily on it go.nature.com/3Sxxv1a

#NavigationNews A new study in @currentbiology.bsky.social finds that free-ranging diurnal Manx shearwaters can home accurately without relying on geomagnetic cues as either a compass or map. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Over 80% of insect species live in the tropics, yet these are often the species we know least about. Our new BioScience paper asks why and how we can change this. We cannot conserve insects if tropical species remain invisible to science and policy. doi.org/10.1093/bios... @monashbiol.bsky.social

Are you a mathematical modeller in ecology and evolution looking for a job? My department has an opening! Please spread the word! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

My lab is ALSO recruiting a new postdoc to work on an exciting NIH-funded project. Start date ideally by early 2027. Please share with any recent or soon-to-defend neuro/psych PhDs with experience in rodent labs. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

I am looking for potential candidates interested in applying for an external postdoctoral fellowship in my lab at Uppsala University. If you want to work on buzz pollination please get in touch. Reach me by email. More about our current work here: plant-evolution.org/wp/

🚨 I AM HIRING a 3-year postdoc & 4-year PhD student 🚨 [PLEASE SHARE WIDELY] My Emmy Noether @dfg.de funded Neural Circuit & Systems Evolution lab (🌟) at the @unimainz.bsky.socialÍ wants to start existing. So..., what do we need? WELL... we need you! APPLY UNTIL 21 SEPTEMBER.

🦌💩🦠 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!

A new paper is out! We revisited a 25-year-old hypothesis that magnetic cues trigger increased fuelling in young migratory birds before crossing the Sahara. In thrush nightingales, we found no robust effect, suggesting that this response may be context-dependent rather than universal.

So far I have only visited 4 of these but this is great for creating an academic bucket list! #academicsky

We currently have TWO collections-based vacancies at National Museums Scotland! As part of the upcoming DiSSCo UK program, we’re seeking a Digitiser and Senior digitiser to work with our insect collection: careers.nms.ac.uk/vacancies (Apply by 31st August) #Digitisation #Insects #MuseumJobs

Shape the programme for SEB Annual Conference 2027 in Glasgow! 🧬 Session proposals are open for ideas showcasing exciting research, emerging topics and interdisciplinary collaboration. 📅 Deadline: 1 October 2026 More information: www.sebiology.org/resource/ses...