Cini Gall

Strongly recommend you watch the video Abstract for this @currentbiology.bsky.social paper about Veronika the tool-using cow 🐮🧹
The last 30 seconds is particularly heart-warming.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

We are hiring – postdoc position exploring how kinship shapes social ageing in killer whales. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social and Prof Rufus Johnstone (Cambridge) starts 1st April 2026 and ends 31st March 2029. Apps close 2nd Feb. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ788/p...

This work was done together with amazing collaborators Cecilia Baldoni (@cecibaldoni.bsky.social), Pranav Minnasandra (@pminasandra.bsky.social), Vlad Demartsev (@animal-sounds.bsky.social), Kristal Cain and Jim Quinn

Examining combinatoriality within the pūkeko vocal repertoire Most animals use various vocalizations to communicate with others and coordinate activities. However, animals are limited in the number of sounds they…

My latest article is finally published:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

we examine how Australasian swamphen (Pukeko) combine different sounds into all the different calls. We also examine call sequences and find that calls become longer along some calling sequences

Left: Live Millepora colony encrusting a large boulder in Lameshur Bay, St. John, in March 2024. Right: The same Millepora colony, now dead on the same large boulder in Lameshur Bay in March 2025. CREDIT: Peter J. Edmunds

Marine heatwaves in 2023 and 2024 killed 84% of fire coral colonies around St. John in the US Virgin Islands, causing the collapse of a species that had previously been considered a hardy “winner” that could handle thermal stress. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/XiSh50Xx2t8

Alerting components in animal vocalization Effective communication relies on signals that are detectable and informative, yet the structural acoustic properties supporting these qualities are n…

New paper, led by Vlad Demartsev:
Alerting components in animal vocalization
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Animals know things — important things! — and we must conserve their ability to pass these lessons down through generations, or their ways of living will fade away.

🚨🚨Job! 🚨🚨Permanent (75% time) job! We are a pretty awesome research group & seek a manager who deals with everything: personnel tasks, organizing retreats, preparing code for teaching / data structures for research... Fluency in German & English essential. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/51527

A collage featuring some laboratory analyses, a schematic of the structure of DNA, a pocket watch in an elderly person's hand, and a family of wild meerkats.

🚨Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my group🚨

🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?🐾

Find out by studying meerkats!

🧪Epigenetic clocks
✨Bioinformatics
📊Long-term data
🌍Kalahari fieldwork
💡Big evolutionary questions

Get in touch or APPLY NOW
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www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

Golden eagle on the nest in Finland (by O. Karlin)

🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

Analysis of communication and collective behavior in animal groups

⭐PhD position available!⭐
Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets
imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...

TRAVEL AWARDS - Apply for a travel award to support your trip, accommodation and registration! Application guidelines on www.isbe2026.com

#ISBE2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your abstract by 15 December 2025 on www.isbe2026.com

@behavecol.bsky.social

The new episode of #InTheSwarm is now available for listening. In this #podcast, Gabriella Gall talks about #communication among #eggs 😊

The #Egg #Translator
What is it like being inside an egg? Can you feel your sibling eggs nearby? Do you – can you – try to talk to them? Let them know you are […]

Thomas Deininger uses plastic waste to create sculptures,or should I say,works of Genius!!!!!!

Twenty years of tuberculosis-driven selection shaped the evolution of the meerkat major histocompatibility complex - Nature Ecology & Evolution Immune genetic and disease surveillance of a wild meerkat population over 20 years shows that tuberculosis imposes strong pathogen-mediated balancing selection on the meerkats’ major histocompatibilit...

Immune genetic and disease surveillance of a wild meerkat population over 20 years shows that tuberculosis imposes strong pathogen-mediated balancing selection on major histocompatibility complex and identifies underlying mechanisms

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I keep staring at this video showing the movement of aerosols in the atmosphere. It's so mesmerizing! That and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

A pair of puffin against the green coastal backdrop of Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, Wales copyright W L Davies/iStock

🚨 We’re hiring!

Join JNCC as our Science & Policy Liaison Officer for Wales 🌿

Work with Welsh Gov & ‪@natreswales.bsky.social‬ to shape nature policy with science at its heart 💚

Apply now 👉 bit.ly/JNCCjob-202539

Applications close 31 August 2025

#ConservationCareers #PolicyAndScience

Interested in doing a 3-month #internship on treehopper vibrational communication at STRI in Panama? 🤩 Check this out:

stri.si.edu/academic-pro...

Contact me for more info! #AnimalBehavior

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We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝

Applications are due October 6 2025.

careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C...

#AcademicJobs #EvoBio

Could you lead a scientific meeting dedicated to your area of research?
Fast-forward scientific progress in your field by assembling global scientists for two days of discussion and collaboration. Proposals are considered twice a year.
Submit by 24 September 2025: royalsociety.org/science-even...

And here's @jgmussoi.bsky.social's @aunz.theconversation.com story theconversation.com/sleepy-birds...

Disruption of an ant-plant mutualism shapes interactions between lions and their primary prey Ant invasion reduces lion predation on zebras by disrupting a mutualism that protects trees against elephants.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

YouTube video by MitWissen Welche Gemeinsamkeit haben Hyänen, Erdmännchen und Nasenbären?

Unser Studie zu Verhaltenssequenzen wurde auf YT Channel MitWissen vorgestellt: youtu.be/5fT-lwwfmZE

MitWissen (auf Deutsch) wird von meiner Kollegin @cinig.bsky.social betrieben.
Schaut euch das Video an und abonniert gerne ihren Channel!

Current Vacancies

4 year fixed term postdoc position in Tasmania, Australia. Drones, camera traps, population monitoring.

careers.utas.edu.au/en/job/50114...

We are still looking for a postdoc to join this project!

🚨New PrePrint out on the Kalahari Meerkats. In this study we quantified two axes of sociality to explain how developmental needs of pups shape meerkat social life. @zoejturn.bsky.social Neumann Christof & Tommaso Sacca
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/vie…

MitWissen

MitWissen is the youtube channel where I present already published animal behaviour research - in german. Next wednesday it will restart with new studies after a two months break. Note that the first 15 videos have subtitles, which can be translated into most languages: www.youtube.com/@MitWissen

MitWissen

MitWissen ist der youtube Kanal in dem ich jeden Mittwoch eine bereits publizierte Studie aus der Verhaltensbiologie auf Deutsch vorstelle. Die letzten zwei Monate war Sendepause, aber nächsten Mittwoch gehts wieder los. Bis dahin gibts hier: www.youtube.com/@MitWissenbe... 28 videos zum angucken!