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🕷️PhD position: Homemakers; web building behaviour in New Zealand sheet-web spiders 🕷️

Please email Dr Leilani Walker - leilani.walker@aut.ac.nz

Meet Chrissie Painting the new ASSAB president!

@cpaintingnz.bsky.social is a Senior Lecturer and behavioural ecologist at the University of Waikato. Her research seeks patterns in animal behaviour and morphology, with a particular focus on insect and arachnid mating systems.
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The deadline has been extended! You still have until the 7th of September to apply!

Cover image of Terry's graphic novel "Understanding Animal Behavior". The title is written along the lefthand vertical edge and there is a kangaroo peeking out from behind the text. Several other critters like bats, ants and birds are also on the cover

Big congrats to Terry Ord for receiving this year's Penny Bernstein Distinguished Teaching Award! While Terry is an avid animal behavior researcher, he also is passionate about teaching and published a (free!) graphic novel explaining topics in animal behavior! www.ordlab.unsw.edu.au/understandin...

A great opportunity for communicating your research!

Mental representation of the locations and identities of multiple hidden agents or objects by a bonobo | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Humans are adept at navigating the social world in part because we flexibly map the locations and identities of agents around us. While field studies suggest primates can track individual conspecifics...

When an animals' groupmates go out of sight, do they also go out of mind?

In a new paper in Proc B @royalsocietypublishing.org, Luz Carvajal and I show that a bonobo (Kanzi) can keep mental tabs on the whereabouts of multiple hidden social partners

royalsocietypublishing.org/eprint/4GI7G...

So happy to see this out in @funecology.bsky.social! We (@mothprof.bsky.social @crisottocento.bsky.social @jmappes.bsky.social et al.) studied whether the wing coloration of female wood tiger moths is an honest indicator of the quality of their chemical defences (1/3) @klivvvienna.bsky.social

A great read for your Friday!

Are you an emerging scientist or do you know one? EMCRs can apply now to meet Nobel laureates & 600 rising scientists in Germany.
The prestigious annual Lindau Nobel Laureate meetings provide a platform for young scientists to share research, experiences & ideas.
http://bit.ly/3HEBfIt

🚨Job Alert 🚨
Charles Darwin University is looking for a research project coordinator! Apply here: cdu.t1cloud.com/T1Default/Ci...

Students of ASSAB! You can now apply for the 2025 student research grants here: www.assab.org/grants-2025

We have two grants available for up to AUD$2500, we will also select two highly commended applications.

Deadline: August 31st 2025

Ranger (Orange-fronted parakeet/kākāriki karaka) (Permanent Seasonal) – Department of Conservation – Rangiora Be at the frontline of conservation— undertake work to protect and help recover one of New Zealand’s rarest native birds, the critically endangered kākāriki karaka.   Work in remote valleys— …

🚨Job 🚨
Monitoring kākāriki karaka (orange-fronted parakeet) populations

apply here:

conservationjobs.co.nz/job/ranger-o...

Do long-billed curlews eavesdrop on prairie dog alarm calls?

Read about it here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New meta-analysis researching the role of eyespots!

Read here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#science #animalbehaviour

Hello Bluesky followers, did you know that ASSAB is also on Instagram? We post opportunities, upcoming events, recent publications and more! Follow us here:
www.instagram.com/animbehav/

Another job opportunity!

🚨Ecology lecturer job🚨

EcoQuest Centre – Whakatīwai is looking for a fixed-term lecturer in ecology! If you are based in Auckland and are keen for the job, send your CV and cover letter here:

office@ecoquest.co.nz

🚨ecologist job🚨
Ausecology is looking for a senior/principal ecologist based in Queensland. If you are interested in applying for a role in an ecological consultancy, send your cover letter and resume here:

HR@ausecology.com

🚨Ecology lecturer job x 2🚨

Monash university currently has two openings for ecology lecturers! Apply here:

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#science #sciencejobs #ecologyjobs

Are you a behavioural researcher?

Participate this survey from the University of New South Wales.
The research aims to learn more about why researchers choose organisms for research.

For more information, please contact p.pollo@unsw.edu.au
#science #ecology
unsw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Read about orangutans napping after shorter nights of sleep! 🦧🦧🦧

doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

We hope you are ready - the ASSAB conference is NEXT WEEK!

See you all in the lovely Armidale.

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

PhD student grants for research in ecology and evolution: www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Two major ecological shifts shaped 60 million years of ungulate faunal evolution - Nature Communications Here, the authors analyze a fossil dataset spanning 60 million years to investigate ecological stability. Their network analysis identifies prolonged stability interrupted by two major functional tran...

Read about 60 million years of ungulate evolution : www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Did you know that the ASSAB 2025 conference, has a photo competition? You can submit your entries once you have registered. Click the link below to register

www.assab.org/assab-2025

Ding J, Lei W, Haryono H, Shi W, Zhang W (2025) Phylogenetic analysis of 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑐𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑎 complex (Teleostei, Osphronemidae) from Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra Island with descriptions of two new species. ZooKeys 1238: 161-181. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1238.142857

#NewSpeciesAlert - 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑎 𝑖𝑎𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑠 and 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑎 𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑦𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑖, two new species of 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑎 are described from Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra, Indonesia, both part of the 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑐𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑎 complex. #WildBetta #Betta
🔓 zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1428...

Calling PhD Students!!!!!

PhD students in STEM: Nature wants to hear from you Buried in lab work or drowning in data? Take a break and help shape the future of PhD education.

📢 Calling PhD students 📢 we want to hear from you!

Help shape the future of PhD education. Take our survey to tell us all about your experiences

https://go.nature.com/43iJAsi

Rainbow Research: Contribute to our Pride Month Blog Series! To celebrate Pride Month in June, we are relaunching our Rainbow Research blog series! This series aims to promote the visibility and inclusion of ecologists and evolutionary biologists from the LG…

To celebrate UK Pride Month 2025, we are relaunching our Rainbow Research series to promote the work of LGBTQIA+ researchers around the world🌈

Find out here how to contribute!👇

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Do you work on energy processes in animals? Check out the latest special feature of the British Ecological Society's Journal of Animal Ecology! Open to proposals now!