Garance Barbier

What a range they have! From the demonic sounding "tickle tickle" to the whimsical "lalalala🎵".

🗺️ Questionnaire en préparation du prochain Workshop Parlons terrain English below [FR] Chères et chers futur·es participant·es, L’équipe de Parlons terrain souhaite répondre au mieux à vos attentes pour notre prochain workshop. Nous prévoyons d’organiser une session e...

📢 Upcoming Workshops (FR/EN) “Preparation to the field” early December 📢 We will cover all the essential points to know before your first trip, but we would also like to know the topics that matter most to you via this short form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Merry early Christmas! May I ask what kind of data you are searching for?

Love soil? Great with communications? Join us as a communications representative - apply by 17 Nov!

Extract from the FT AI Shift newsletter: Another way of putting all of this is that the use of LLMs in job applications made the market much less meritocratic, with a 19 per cent fall in hiring for the most capable workers and a 14 per cent boost for the least capable. Oh, and the number of applications and length of cover letters roughly doubled, meaning more time needed to sift through less useful and often actively unhelpful submissions. Good job, everyone!

From the always interesting AI Shift newsletter by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com and @sarahoconnorft.ft.com:

AI is maximising job applications and word counts, in vicious circle of doom kind of ways

Postdoctoral fellow

🐦 EcoBird is hiring a Postdoc in animal cognition!

Join us + @themanybirds.bsky.social to investigate innovation & problem-solving in birds.

📅 Start: as early as Jan 2026
🌍 Funded through UGent’s international mobility scheme

More info & how to apply ↓
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#jobalert

Postdoctoral position in Applied animal ethology and animal perception
Department of Biosystems and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden

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Rise of terrestrial isopods in the pet trade and the need for their inclusion in trade regulation Wild animals sold as pets are at a higher risk of extinction than animals that are not traded. Invertebrates are often overlooked in national and international laws designed to control the global pet....

I don't have access to this article, but the abstract makes very good points. It's also applicable to millipedes and centipedes, which have increased in popularity as pets, which presents similar issues. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Screenshot of a PNAS article titled “The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds,” authored by Gerald Schweiger, Adrian Barnett, Peter van den Besselaar, Lutz Bornmann, Andreas De Block, John P. A. Ioannidis, Ulf Sandström, and Stijn Conix. Edited by Neil Shubin. Published December 2, 2024, in volume 121, issue 50, article e2407644121.

Research funds are scarce & competition is fierce. A recent paper by @andreasdeblock.bsky.social & colleagues explores how this competition shapes science—its practices, risks & ethics—and proposes ways to make funding fairer & more effective👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #AcademicSky #HPS #scipol 🧪

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I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).

The cognitive ecology of wild bumblebees

New #PhD ad alert!
Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England?

Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information.

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There is such a thing as 'settled science' — anyone who says otherwise is trying to manipulate you How bad-faith arguments sow doubt by weaponizing scientific humility.

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Animal Wise is a consultancy for #tourism professionals who work with wild animals. They have a questionnaire about how we perceive responsible tourism.
The more people answer the better, please share!
#animalwelfare
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I am looking for an intern to work with captive crows this winter semester. Please feel free to share, or contact me if interested !

You are now 43% bearded tit, congrats!

👋 The International #Bioacoustics Society (#IBAC) is now on Bluesky!
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Fascinating topic! Do you want primary sources, or look up the existing research?
If you want primary sources, you could look at textbooks/manuals, magazines aimed at girls (Girls' World for example).
The National Diet Library has digitized archives, hope this helps!
ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp

Very cute and well behaved research assistant ❤️

🧪 tagging

I'd love to help you but as my profile picture shows I am a red wood ant kinda person, so no Camponotus pics from me!
If you are into Formica rufa let me know

Communiqué de presse : financement de la recherche publique : la communauté scientifique alerte sur un système à bout de souffle. #veilleESR, @info.gouv.fr @agencerecherche.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @franceuniversites.bsky.social @inserm.fr @inrae-france.bsky.social @enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr

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Gorgeous work, I feel like an aphid's butt just looking at these pics!
Which species did you base these sculptures from?

Picture of a scientific poster. It has a big drawing of a Red Wood ant singing in a microphone in the middle. The top part represents the ecological services that Red Wood ants perform, from seed transport to soil fertilization. On the right side of the singing ant is a drawing representing a recording booth. Two ants are being recorded in the booth. Below the booth drawing is a spectrogram of the sound that has been recorded, it looks like a rattle with several short pulses. The sound is called stridulation. On the left of the big singing ant, there is a drawing representing a playback setup. An ant is standing above a microphone that plays, its trajectory is being analyzed with a video recording setup. Below the playback drawing is a graph showing that Red Wood ants slow down when they hear sounds, particularly when they hear their own stridulation sounds. At the bottom of the poster are the take home messages. This ant species belonged to a family that did not stridulate according to the literature. We do not know how the stridulation is produced yet, neither what it is used for. This work is exploratory and raises more questions that it answers, but it could prove very useful for soil health monitoring.

Presented this poster at #ibac2025. Thank you to all the people who went to chat with me about #ant stridulation, all your compliments were so encouraging! I hope the people who missed the conference/poster session will have fun reading through the poster online.
Ask me anything about it!

They are so smart and curious; they probably want to know why us humans spend so much time watching our computer screens.
I also had a magpie follow me during fieldwork!
Very cute pic

Great poster, and very good talk we had together! It is so nice to find someone who understands your struggles :,)

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🟣 Appel à participation

👉 Enquête nationale d'évaluation de la place du #consentement dans les consultations gynécologiques, par @stopvogfr.bsky.social.

Temps nécessaire : environ 10 min.

📢 Faites circuler !

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Communicating science - Publications Office of the EU

Thanks for the tips! I want to share my go-to guide in scientific outreach: op.europa.eu/en/publicati.... Can be downloaded for free.
It makes similar points as you: making citizens little experts does not mean gaining their support. Listening is priority!

Increasingly I need to prepare scientists to deal with negative interactions with the public. Some tips:
• Listening is often more effective than correcting “I hadn’t heard that, tell me more”
• Anti-sci to pro-sci is a spectra: Anti➡️questioning➡️neutral➡️interested➡️supportive. Nudge 1 place only

Unfortunate, but thank you for the reply!