Yitzchak Ben Mocha

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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 292, No 2058

Teaser! 🐦 ☀️ 😴
Our paper about #sleep and #climate_change in desert birds will be published next week in #ProcB of the @royalsocietypublishing.org Meanwhile, you can enjoy the issue's cover featuring our magnificent #Arabian_babbler:
royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rspb/cur...

"Co-BreeD is the first updatable and open-source database dedicated to cooperative breeding. It enables continuous, non-binary measurement of cooperative breeding, transforming how we study breeding systems across taxa..."
Read the full paper here: buff.ly/pIjeNRR
@co-breed.bsky.social

I have some brilliant news to share! I recently received a DFG-funded Emmy Noether 6-year grant to establish my own group in Germany. I will soon be looking for a PhD student and a research assistant to join the team and investigate how the balance of power is maintained in animal societies.

מחפש את השמות של המתנחלים מהסרטון שהתעללו ורצחו באכזריות כבשים וטלאים בסמוע. מי שיודע/ת בבקשה כתבו לי בפרטי. חשאיות מובטחת. תודה

#speetol2025 attendees! If you have parental care data from wild birds or mammals, please discuss cooperation with @co-breed.bsky.social.
We offer FAIR co-authorship for data contributors.
I will be available during today's poster session.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Cooperative-Breeding Database is online!
Get your own copy of the unprecedented data on cooperative breeding in birds and mammals!
@maikewoith.bsky.social @carsten-schradin.bsky.social @michael-griesser.bsky.social @dustinrubenstein.com @luciabruscagnin.bsky.social @vbaglione.bsky.social

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.

86% of those who voted among the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars support this: "Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)".

Hi, the @co-breed.bsky.social project will be there (with a talk and an accompanying poster) and will be happy to discuss data contribution about parental care.

Trump ambushes South African president in Oval Office with video | CNN South African President Cyril Ramaphosa sat in awkward silence as he listened to a video US President Donald Trump played in the Oval Office. CNN’s Larry Madowo reports that Trump was pushing debunked...

staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

PowerPoint slide that says: “does America do it, if yes, then no”

Just passing along some friendly advice on how to approach potential changes to the Australian health care system @drruthmitchell.bsky.social

Bik had reported the Oncogene papers to the journal in 2019. In February 2024, Bik sought an update and Springer Nature told her the investigation was still ongoing.

Israeli drones hit Gaza aid flotilla in international waters off Malta, NGO says A ship carrying humanitarian aid and activists heading for Gaza was attacked by Israeli drones while in international waters off Malta early Friday, said Freedom Flotilla Coalition, an international…

"Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims." (Wikipedia) = Israel is a terrorist state!
www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...

International Workers' Day (1 May) was established as a labor holiday in memory of the Haymarket Massacre in Chicago that occurred during a workers' demonstration in May 1886.

The demonstrators were demanding to legally limit workdays to eight hours.

Stop Israel!

The Cooperative Breeding Database has a logo!
Hopefully, the first dataset on the prevalence of breeding events with alloparents across bird and mammal populations will be made public soon!
Made by nataliekes.bsky.social

Mama with her little daugther ... See the foot hanging out.

On Sunday, April 6, Mama gave birth to her first offspring, a little female. She sits relaxed lent against a tree and the babies foot dangles out between her legs. Mama is daughter to Mystere, one of our oldest females (ca. 50 y) in the North Group, observed since 45 years! Welcome to the world.

Could not believe this post until I opened the link and read it myself... insane

Now in its sixth year, the KT Boost Fund – a collaboration between the @klaus-tschira-stiftung.de and GSO* – provides postdoctoral researchers in the Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Computer Science with the freedom to think boldly at a crucial career stage.

אוניברסיטת חיפה ביטלה הקרנה של הסרט "אין ארץ אחרת" הארץ

The University of Haifa actively denies the ethnic cleansing being carried out by the State of Israel and censors *evidence* of it!
Boycott the University of Haifa!
www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/cine...

Mass starvation. Ethnic cleansing. Genocide.

That is what our government is enabling — and it should be eternally ashamed.

End all arms sales to Israel now.

Saving the cultural legacy of wild animals Loss of biodiversity threatens the study of tool use and other cultural behaviors in animals

Happy to have a new piece in @science.org with my friend Lydia where we draw attention to the significance of animal material culture for understanding human technical evolution and why we should digitally preserve and protect primate tools and tool use sites. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Six-decade research bias towards fancy and familiar bird species | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Human implicit biases towards visually appealing and familiar stimuli are well documented and rooted in our brains’ reward systems. For example, humans are drawn to charismatic, familiar organisms, bu...

"from 1965 to 2020, nearly half the variation in publication trends among 293 North American male passerine & near-passerine birds was explained by 3 factors subject to human bias: aesthetic salience (visual appeal), range size (familiarity) & number of universities within ranges (accessibility)"

For decades the Jewsih people in Israel asked (themselves) and the world "how could the world stoodby while the Nazis genocide our people?". Now, many of the Jews in Israel are silent while the many other Jews of Israel slaughter the Palestinians.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Do you want to know more about allonursing in pinnipeds? Check out our last open access publication in Marine Mammal Science doi.org/10.1111/mms.... @bioacteam.bsky.social @marinemammalogy.bsky.social

PhD opportunity in the thread!

🏆 Research integrity consultant and image forensics expert @elisabethbik.bsky.social has uncovered fraudulent data in over 7,600 scientific papers and exposed the practices of ‘paper mills’ that produce counterfeit scientific articles. She is honoured with the €200K Individual Award. Congrats!