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🚨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
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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!

A great opportunity to get involved in discussing biodiversity!

Worlds that collide: conservation applications of behaviour and culture in human–wildlife interactions | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences The behaviour of both humans and wildlife is central to the conservation of biodiversity because conservation requires human actions at multiple scales. In species with evidence of socially learned be...

Read about the interactions of human and animal behavior👤🐦👤🐘: doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

Exciting news! We can now confirm our incredible plenaries and workshops. We are also announcing a photography and art competition. There is still time to get for Early Bird Registration. Deadline is Friday 16 May.

All the details are available on the conference website www.assab.org/assab-2025

Reminder: Tomorrow (14 May) is the last day for submitting abstracts to #ASSAB2025

See you all in Armidale!

We are extending the deadline for submitting abstracts to Wednesday, the 14th of May, and the early bird registration to Friday, the 16th of May. #ASSAB2025
Check out our website for more updates: www.assab.org/assab-2025

Are you a researcher publishing a study developed in the global south? Check out the New Zealand Journal of Zoology!
www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/nzjz-so...

NZJZ Call for Papers: Special issue on invertebrate conservation This special issue of the New Zealand Journal of Zoology invites submissions focused on the critical importance of invertebrate conservation in Aotearoa New Zealand and the broader Australasian region...

Looking to publish your work on invertebrates? Check out this special issue of New Zealand Journal of Zoology on invertebrate conservation!

www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/nzjz-in...

🐦Post-doctoral position in Avian Behaviour.🐦

Examining the evolution of escape behaviour in threatened bird species as part of an ARC-funded project

Deakin Careers: careers.pageuppeople.com/949/cw/en/jo...

Seek: www.seek.com.au/job/83533248

The Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour conference is thus June in Armidale, NSW! Register to attend here: www.assab.org/assab-2025

If you are keen to present, we are also accepting abstract submissions until the 9th of May : docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...