Measuring Behavior

Submission is open for Measuring Behavior 2027! You can read our Call for Papers on the website: www.measuringbehavior.org/call-for-pap.... Deadline 6th November 2026.

The Program Committee for Measuring Behavior 2027 has approved 11 symposia & workshop applications. We were delighted with the range and quality of the proposals. You can see the symposia here: www.measuringbehavior.org/symposia-mb2... and workshops here: www.measuringbehavior.org/workshops-mb....

When a fish sees the world move, it immediately swims with it. This is the optomotor response: a visual reflex found across animals that helps us maintain our position and orientation as our surroundings appear to drift. 🐟👀

Looking for a postdoc in comp neuro and human brain imaging? Interested in foraging? Join our international collaboration with Jon Rubin, @jyotikab.bsky.social, & @davidrobbe.bsky.social be.bsky.social to study the neural basis of foraging behavior! cmu.wd115.myworkdayjobs.com/CMU/job/Pitt...

Mountain chickadees rely on spatial memory to forage in unpredictable environments and on song to defend their territories. Watch #ProcB author Sofia Haley talk about research that suggests overall song output may be an indicator of cognitive ability: cassyni.com/events/Mw4c4... #ecology

📣 Save the date! RLDM 2027, the Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making, is coming to Paris, July 6-9, 2027 🎉 Stay tuned for submission deadlines and more updates on our website rldm.org 👀

My institute is hiring a group leader in Neuroethology! Bonn is a wonderful place to do neuroscience. Check it out! jobs.b-ite.com/jobposting/4...

Please share widely, especially to researchers in disaster and war zones. Proud to launch the 2nd round of the Max Planck mentoring program for researchers (including students) at risk due to natural disaster or war. Deadline 18 October. www.maxminds.mpg.de/3630/apply

🧠 Applications for the Brain Awareness Week grants are now open! 🌟 This is an amazing opportunity for you to plan and execute an outreach event, facilitating public engagement with neuroscience! 🗓️ Deadline: 15 October 2026 👉️ Read more and apply here: buff.ly/M3yuRb8

At the Measuring Behavior conference, we start each day with a keynote speech. We are happy to announce that our first keynote speaker has confirmed. Prof. Felix Wichmann will give a talk with the intriguing title “Estimating Internal Representations”. See www.measuringbehavior.org/keynote-spea...

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Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2

I'm recruiting new grad students for fall 2027, looking for students motivated by animal behavior and animal communication. Our main study system is acoustic communication in treefrogs. More details here, please spread the word: reichertlab.com/2026/09/07/r...

Reminder: #NeuroAlliance2026 🧠 Early bird registration Don’t miss this opportunity to join us in Sydney to present at this landmark ANS, ACNS & BPA joint meeting. Early bird registration closes in two weeks time on the 26th of September. Get in now to save money and secure your spot!

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!

ECCV 2026 @eccv.bsky.social is in full swing! 🇸🇪 First stop: Visual Persuasion workshop sites.google.com/view/eccv-20...

Postdoctoral Research Associate role at Cambridge studying STING driven inflammation as a potential therapeutic target for Parkinson’s disease. Closing date: 27th September www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/postdoc-...

🎉 That’s a wrap on abstract submissions for #ABL2026! We’re thrilled to announce that we received 65 abstracts! 🐝🦎🐟🐒A huge thanks to everyone who shared their work with us. Your research will help bring our theme, “Studying Animal Behaviour in a Changing World,” to life! 🌍 ✨ Stay tuned for updates!

Wow. Based on underwater footage and firsthand observations, scientists conclude orca whales, which have been ramming boats off the coasts of Portugal and Spain, aren’t trying to harm humans. Instead, they probably just want to play. www.science.org/content/arti...

My department is hiring! Come join a vibrant and thriving neuroscience group. New faculty are exceptionally well supported and we offer a very collaborative/collegial environment. employment.utah.edu/salt-lake-ci...

A reminder that the Call for Proposals for symposia and workshops for Measuring Behavior 2027 #MB2027 is open until 9th October (just over a month to go!) and the Call for Papers (oral and posters) until 6th November. www.measuringbehavior.org/timetable/

Landschaftspark (#landscape park) Duisberg-Nord is an incredible place, mixing industrial heritage with #rewilding. Here is an account of my #cycling trip there: findpenguins.com/andrewspink/.... #gravel #gravelbiking #bikesky

We have an excellent location for the next Measuring Behavior conference. Düsseldorf is at the heart of a thriving research community and is a modern city with a historic centre. The Clayton Hotel has nice meeting rooms and is close to the main station. See www.measuringbehavior.org/venue-2/.

The symposia and workshop proposals for Measuring Behavior 2027 are starting to come in! Perhaps you would also like to organise a session at the conference? www.measuringbehavior.org/call-for-sym...

Antonella Pomè has joined the organising committee for Measuring Behavior 2027 as chair of the human behaviour research track. Dr Pomè works at the Department of Perceptual Psychology, Heinrich Heine University and uses a variety of SotA techniques, including VR, eye data and multimodal physiology.

Assistant Professor (lecturer in old money) job! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Full time, permanent positions available in the School of Psychology at the University of Nottingham. Deadline Tuesday 18 August 2026 Please share!

Western Europe had its hottest June on record.🔥 Intense heatwaves broke temperature records, with peaks up to 9°C above average in France and Germany, according to Copernicus data. Only Cyprus and Malta had normal temperatures. Climate change is here and we are feeling its effects

Vacancy for an Industrial PhD position, at Noldus and the Dept of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht University. It is about developing new methods to semi-automatically detect and analyse behaviours in videos of human interactions, using AI methods: noldus.recruitee.com/o/phd-candid...

Measuring Behaviour 2027 will take place in the Clayton Hotel in Düsseldorf. That is a great venue, with excellent facilities and within walking distance of the main station. www.measuringbehavior.org/venue-2/

We have published the Call for Symposia and Workshops. See here: www.measuringbehavior.org/wp-content/u.... If you think that you might like to organise a symposium, workshop, or innovative program element, please send us a proposal. The call for papers will be published later.

I am recruiting an exceptional postdoc to join my lab at UC Irvine. Must be a productive researcher with experience in functional neuroimaging, network neuroscience, AI/ML, who is interested in aging, neuropsychiatric or neurodegenerative illness. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

We are very pleased to announce that the 14th Measuring Behavior conference will take place in Düsseldorf, Germany from 28 to 30 April 2027. We will publish a Call for Papers later this year, but in the meantime you can read more about the conference on the website, measuringbehavior.org.

We hope to be able to announce the location for Measuring Behavior 2027 #MB2027 before long. Keep an eye on this channel!

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Welcome to Measuring Behavior's new Bluesky feed! We are currently working on finding a host for the next conference, and once we have news about that, we will post that here, as well as our website (measuringbehavior.org) and LinkedIn group (www.linkedin.com/groups/91487/).

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...