Want to learn about shorebird food chains?π€
Read
"Stable isotopes show that across non-breeding sites migratory shorebirds rely on different primary producers"
doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
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π¨Grant Alertπ¨
Conducting concervation research in Victoria? Apply here!
28.01.2026 20:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
π Research highlight - Do large carnivores fare better in savannas when they get drier?
π Read the paper here β‘οΈ buff.ly/a9v23Dz
28.01.2026 13:01 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Read about the diets of Australian rays here!!!
"Stable isotope analysis reveals resource use by rays in an Australian temperate estuary"
doi.org/10.1111/jfb....
27.01.2026 02:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Our newest paper is out! "Beluga societies: the social and cultural lives of an enigmatic odontocete" is now published in Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology.
doi.org/10.1007/s00265-025-03630-3
Led by @jaclynaubin.bsky.social with our collaborators @raincoast.org & GREMM. Check out Jaclyn's thread π.
22.01.2026 15:03 β π 20 π 5 π¬ 0 π 1
The awesome evolution of egg camouflage!π₯
Read "Matching Multiple Backgrounds: Egg Camouflage Across Different Habitats in a Shorebird"
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
22.01.2026 22:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Learn about PΕ«keko vocalisations in this awesome new paper
"Examining combinatoriality within the pΕ«keko vocal repertoire"
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
22.01.2026 22:04 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Formatted version out at last! βDefensive colouration is not a reliable indicator of π infection in aposematic poison πΈβ academic.oup.com/beheco/artic... @klivvvienna.bsky.social @behavecol.bsky.social
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08.01.2026 19:26 β π 16 π 11 π¬ 0 π 0
Screenshot listing the available career awards from the Animal Behavior Society: Distinguished Animal Behaviorist, Exemplar Award, Outstanding New Investigator, Quest Award, Exceptional Service Award, Penny Bernstein Distinguished Teaching Award and the Richard Buchholz Conservation Behavior Award
If you need something positive in your life right now, then how about nominating one of your favorite researchers for an award??
The Animal Behavior Society's Career Award nominations are due January 15th! Find more info here:
www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-c...
08.01.2026 19:34 β π 8 π 11 π¬ 0 π 0
Happy 2026 ASSABers!
We hope you had a stunning holiday break and a very happy New Year.
A reminder that our conference is a little over 5 months away!
08.01.2026 20:41 β π 4 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
Our Summer 2025 magazine is now online featuring:
π§ New research on kiwi + long-tailed cuckoo koekoeΔ
π¦ Tips on finding unusual terns
π₯ Good news for pukunui southern NZ dotterels
π¦ News on new species of extinct penguins + shelduck & much more!
www.birdsnz.org.nz/wp-content/u...
27.12.2025 21:40 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
A new PhD opportunity in Melbourne!
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Did you publish with researchers outside your lab during grad school? Or published as faculty with a student not under your supervision?
Iβm collecting examples of cross-lab collaboration in graduate training.
Please share your experience & this post!
Repository: bit.ly/4pT66BE
06.12.2025 20:05 β π 21 π 19 π¬ 6 π 1
Opportunities
***PhD and MSc openings β Movement ecology and conservation*** I will periodically support graduate students, postdocs, and other staff through the Biology Department at the University of Newβ¦
Iβm recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! π¦
gavinmjones.com/opportunities/
05.12.2025 19:30 β π 94 π 77 π¬ 3 π 0
βΌοΈanother PhD opportunityβΌοΈβΌοΈ
06.12.2025 04:10 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
π¨ PhD position π¨
04.12.2025 20:46 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
YouTube video by Royal Society of Biology
Letter P | Pollinator Interaction Researcher Dr Dave Lawson | A to Z of the Biosciences
In our latest A-Z of the Biosciences video, Dr David Lawson talks about his role as a senior lecturer inc his research into the interactions between flowering plants and their pollinators, particularly bumblebees π.
Watch the full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QMQ...
Supported by BBSRC
20.11.2025 08:53 β π 8 π 3 π¬ 0 π 2
ππ¦ Across 6 continents, 21 sites & 15,000 paper moths, we joined a worldwide experiment led by @wlallen.bsky.social & Iliana Medina, showing how ecological context shapes the evolution of animal colouration.
Proud to be part of this global team effort: doi.org/10.1126/scie...
25.09.2025 18:39 β π 86 π 29 π¬ 4 π 4
Very cool paper on orangutan behaviour π¦§
24.11.2025 18:41 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
I've been pretty agnostic about mantis colour vision given the evidence so far. This new paper makes a convincing case they have the processing to do so. Mantises (probably) see in colour folks!
24.11.2025 12:48 β π 9 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
π£ New paper out!
We explored how fungal infection π affects the bright warning colours of wild poison frogs πΈ. Neither melanin nor carotenoid colouration reliably signals infection status. Defensive signals may remain consistent even under pathogen pressure π©βπ¬π§ͺ
Thread from @biobiiana.bsky.social π
24.11.2025 14:29 β π 15 π 7 π¬ 0 π 1
Female superb fairywren in Australia.
Male superb fairywren in Australia.
π’NEW paper out NOW in @asab.org Animal Behaviour on how a novel #call changes subsequent responses to #alarms in #fairywrens
πCONGRATULATIONS #NatalieTegtman on #first paper from #PhD
π₯With #RobMagrath
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#animalcommunication #birds #fieldwork #ECR
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
24.11.2025 16:30 β π 30 π 18 π¬ 0 π 1
Graphic showing the paper title βMonk parakeets βtest the watersβ when forming new relationshipsβ in the journal Biology Letters. Also features photos of the co-authors (Claire, Annemarie, Gerry, and Liz) as well as the issue cover photo of two marked monk parakeets from Claireβs work grooming each other. Also shown are some of the main plots of the paper showing how the parakeets escalate their behaviors from low risk/low investment (like proximity) to higher risk/higher investment interactions (like preening/grooming)
In an increasingly divided world, how do strangers become friends? Parakeets might have something to teach us! New paper on formation of affiliative relationships, led by Dr. Claire OβConnell doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
12.11.2025 13:39 β π 82 π 35 π¬ 2 π 3
π¨PhD opportunity!π¨
20.11.2025 21:43 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A very cool opportunity!
19.11.2025 19:21 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
New Zealand nature photographer with an inordinate fondness for birds balancing the stresses of a profession as a rural Family Physician/Skin Cancer Doctor. Follow my blog for a weekly post on something photographic.
www.tonywhitehead.com
Senior Lecturer in Terrestrial Ecology at Flinders University, South Australia
www.lyrebirdlab.org
Our lab focuses on the behavioural ecology of the Superb and the Albert's lyrebird (family: Menuridae), and other Australian songbirds. Led by Dr Anastasia Dalziell and Prof Justin Welbergen. Based at the HIE, Western Sydney University
Research Fellow @University of St Andrews -Neuroethologist/behavioural neuroendocrinologist.
Birdsπ¦π₯π¦, Brain π§ ,Hormones, Nest building πͺΊ, Courtship, and more!
drmariehebert.wordpress.com
We promote and advance the scientific study of animal behavior and publish the journal Animal Behaviour. Website: http://animalbehaviorsociety.org.
Senior Lecturer. Anything collective behaviour - ants, slime moulds, fish, robots. Complex systems, emergence and self-organisation.
Long-term study of superb fairywrens in the Australian National Botanic Gardens by researchers at the Australian National University #superbfairywren #SFW_ANU
PhD Student at ANU studying foraging and habitat use in the superb fairy-wren π¦
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MRes Animal Behaviour, MSci Bioacoustics, BSc Neuroscience
Everything about the fishes we love.
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A monthly journal aimed at collating top-quality research across the Earth and planetary sciences. Twitter/X: @NatureGeosci
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A @britishecologicalsociety.org journal, publishing papers that significantly advance the field of ecology, including physiological, behavioural and evolutionary ecology.
Journal of Animal Ecology publishes the best #AnimalEcology research that develops, tests and advances broad ecological principles. A @britishecologicalsociety.org journal.
The Victorian Biodiversity Conference is an annual student-run event bringing together research and practice | Celebrating 10 years at #VicBioCon26!
We care for nature on our land and in partnership with private landholders throughout Tasmania.
PhD standardising ML for animal accelerometery
Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
www.thepeergroup.org.uk
PEER Group research is focused on primate evolution and ecology, with a particular emphasis on vocal communication and the evolution of language.
phd student studying the evolution of sociality in subsocial insects (aka cockroach whisperer) @ the uni of aberdeen π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ
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We promote the study of animal behaviour, organise conferences, fund research & support the teaching of animal behaviour. Co-publisher of #AnimalBehaviourJournal. Posts by @raccoonologist.bsky.social. For meeting posts, follow @asab-meetings.bsky.social
We are a collective of animal behaviour researchers organising microgrants and mentorship for undergraduate & graduate students in animal behaviour
