Nishant Kumar

In India, there is a dog bite victim at the hospital every 02 seconds. Read this recent work to familiarise yourself with complex canine conundrums:- The Indian street dog crisis and multispecies coexistence in tropical urban futures | Nature Cities www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🫣 When we look at our overflowing landfills and toxic ecologies, perhaps an obscure qualifier is more fitting: Homo sapiens sapiens, the ultimate waste-generating humans. Join us on Friday, 25 September 2026. Drop a DM for the Zoom link

#ECBB2026 had a special situation where a friend needed help with his prosthetic equipment. Since the spares were not available, we had to resort to being "tool makers" and innovators. Marvelous organisers ensured our fren was home, safely. @angliaruskin.bsky.social @ecbb2026.bsky.social @asab.org

Life is good when you meet your crew, again and again You are what your people are. So grateful for company at #ECBB2026 @sophiadaoudi.bsky.social @raccoonologist.bsky.social @fhillemann.bsky.social @krishsubramaniam.bsky.social @wascherclaudia.bsky.social @jacobcdunn.bsky.social @asab.org et al.

ICYMI at #ECBB2026... it has been announced that #ECBB2028 will be in Dublin Ireland🇮🇪 and the conference dinner will be at the Guinness Storehouse!🤩🤯 What about 2027? ECBB alternates every other year with Behaviour (which will be next summer in Vienna, follow @behaviour2027.bsky.social for details)

Thanks for the shout out at #ECBB2026 ! We’re looking forward to having everyone join us next summer for #Behaviour2027 in Vienna 🤗 Our call for symposia is now open: behaviour2027.eventsairsite.com

My socks! #ECBB2026

#ECBB2026 We hope everyone had a fantastic time over these past four days! We would like to take a moment to thank our volunteers for their outstanding help and our organising committee for their monumental efforts! See you in Dublin for #ECBB2028

The European Conference for Behavioural Biology #ECBB2026 always goes so fast! This was an exceptional conference at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. The organizers and volunteers did a fantastic job (with a special shout out to @jacobcdunn.bsky.social and @wascherclaudia.bsky.social) 🙌

#ECBB2026 and thank you to our plenary speakers!

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"...contemporary scientific systems progressively constrain high-risk and conceptually innovative research while being increasingly structured around short funding cycles, productivity-based evaluation criteria and risk-averse frameworks..." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cat People Only

@raccoonologist.bsky.social ... maybe yes if you have frens by the side. Like they say, I could go through hell with you. Wink wink ... @sophiadaoudi.bsky.social , @kaustabhbaruah.bsky.social and I shall oblige, alwayyyyyyys ;)

Just over a year later, reunion with my saviours @sophiadaoudi.bsky.social and @nishantkumar.bsky.social at #ECBB2026 (sadly no @kaustabhbaruah.bsky.social). Don’t drink ice coffee in Kolkata, friends.

JAWS of SAWS!!! When the conference draws to its end, our lovely organising committee has had it.... now, every help is bartered with a pound sawed off. Watch out, if you are near LAB 005 at @angliaruskin.bsky.social, during #ECBB2026 (just for pun!).

@Malay.Panday from UK, is delivering a talk in the UK... #ECBB2026 The pun is UK = Uttarakhand in India

There are unfortunate aspects of culturally entrenched livelihood practices that link very distant lands: India and Brazil. Fantastic keynote in the Primate Symposium #ECBB2026. मदारी

The @asab.org dream team rocking up for the final day at #ECBB2026 @raccoonologist.bsky.social and @sophiadaoudi.bsky.social for all your social media and communication happenings 💚

If you're wearing anything with an animal on it then we want to see you!! Come and visit the @asabeducation.bsky.social @asab.org desk in the Science Centre by the revolving door! We'd 💚 to be able to fill this board before the end of the conference! 🦊🐟🐺🦜🐼🐻🦀🪲🐙🕷️🪸🐛🐵 #ECBB2026

#ECBB2026 Christian Rutz in his talk Using animal-tracking data to investigate human–wildlife interactions and promote sustainable coexistence asking the crucial question, "Why do humans find it so difficult to coexist with wildlife?"

#ECBB2026 @nishantkumar.bsky.social with some amazing works on black-eared kites and rapid environmental change to close our symposium From minds to populations: functional links in coexistence in the Anthropocene

Dogs are having tough time @sophiadaoudi.bsky.social (at @ecbb2026.bsky.social) defending their food bounties, while humans and dogs settle their street scores since Aug 2025... Topsy turvy ;)

Great to present recent results on the mechanisms that enable changes in migratory behaviour in a long-lived species #ecbb2026. Thanks @nishantkumar.bsky.social for organising this interesting symposium

Great to see so many ECRs staying behind and chatting with some of the keynotes from the session: From minds to populations: functional links in coexistence in the Anthropocene 💚 @asab.org #ECBB2026

If you're at #ECBB2026 and want to learn more about our work with Goffin's cockatoos, check out my session today (Weds) at the Communication & Cognition 1 session (LAB026) later this afternoon. My labmate @annaek.bsky.social also has a talk tomorrow afternoon at Communication & Cognition 2 (LAB026)!

Honoured to have been trusted with the opening #plenary at #ECBB2026 in Cambridge. A chance to showcase the fantastic work of many #ECRs and colleagues who make research & academia so fun. Thank you! Looking forward to enjoying the rest of a great conference. @asab.org @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Black-eared kites 🐦‍⬛ appear to prefer snatching meat from the jaws of a dog 🐕 rather than off a polythene sheet on the ground... What's up with that?! 😂 @nishantkumar.bsky.social @asab.org #ECBB2026

I really love @nishantkumar.bsky.social's work on urban kites. It’s remarkable to think of human culture shaping 90% of the diet of an animal … and what 500 truckloads of waste can do to shape migration and congregation … #ECBB2026

Not only was he chairing the session, but he also gave a great final talk about his long-term research on black-eared kites 🐦‍⬛and how anthropogenic influences are impacting their behaviour @nishantkumar.bsky.social @asab.org #ECBB2026

Happening at 1030 hrs LAB 026 in #ECBB2026

#ECBB2026 This afternoon we kick off with Chris Schell and his talk on societal legacies and urban animal behaviour.

#ECBB2026 DAY2 Plenary 2 - Another fantastic talk delivered by Christopher Schell 🐺 I learned so much about coyotes - the heros, tricksters and disrupters! 🤘 Their ability to adapt to different environments is 🙌 but also what does their behaviour says about us! Find out more cjschell.com @asab.org

#ECBB2026 kicking off the Communication and Cognition symposium, we have Tamal Roy sharing works on zebrafish!

Come and visit the @asab.org @asabeducation.bsky.social table! Especially if you're wearing anything with animals on it!! 🐾🦒🦡🐠🐘🐒🐦🪲🐛🦋🐝 We're located by the revolving door in the science centre! We'd 💚 to fill this board with 📷 of you rocking your animal! #ECBB2026

While you can easily access @andyradford.bsky.social and his science, these pearls of wisdom were the parting gift from his plenary at #ECBB2026!

#ECBB2026 has Kickstarted woth @andyradford.bsky.social 's brilliant plenary. "Sounding" senses in Anthropocene!

In the most populated country in the world - and in a landscape changing with urbanisation - there is an ever-changing relationship between humans and dogs in India. @nishantkumar.bsky.social discusses his recent article in Nature Cities and this coexistence 👇

🧐On International #Dog Day🚨Academics Fear Reviewer #2. Then Comes Reviewer #2Billion. Academics spend years fearing Reviewer #2. Then your paper reaches the newspaper and suddenly peer review feels like soft music. From “bullshit” to questioning whether my mother fed me—welcome to public peer review

Urban wildlife and coexistence at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

When was the last time you got curious, for real?

🚨 🐕 Codes of human-dog coexistence 😇. A short video explaining how human-dog, dog-dog, and human-human social dynamic dyads work. Upcoming articles on solutions (ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...) and the ecology of urban, multispecies coexistence (ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...) as preprints.

Come along, in person/online, for this discussion on 24th Aug. 2026. Details in the poster.

😇🐕 Our work on “The Indian street dog crisis and multispecies coexistence in tropical urban futures” has made it to the cover & banner www.nature.com/articles/s44.... It is an ordinary Indian street, with people, dogs, food, traffic, homes, trees, and all the negotiations that make a city alive.

We are doing a series of field based Trash Talks. Here is the teaser! What do you think of it?

New paper: ravens use wild boars as “first tasters” to check if a foraging site is safe. They reduce risk by watching others eat first, foraging in groups, or stealing instead of taking chances. These tactics may help scavengers adapt to changing environments 🌍. doi.org/10.1093/behe... 📸 Daniel Koch

Our new Nature Eco Evo paper documents range shifts in 1,758 butterfly species across 105 countries, primarily due to climate change. 🦋80% expanded 🦋27% contracted 🦋22% shifted elevation 🦋342 showed multiple shift types. doi.org/10.1038/s415... @monashbiol.bsky.social @monashscience.bsky.social