@wendelvandersluis.bsky.social
Associate Editor, De Gruyter Brill Life Sciences: animal/human behaviour, cognition, anthropology, primatology, amphibians, crustacean research, zoology, sensory perception, (edible) insects and related fields.
🎭🎶 In the study “Masks in Sight & Sound”, Rivka Elkoshi examines the intriguing link between visual art and music. From viewing masks to drawing inspired by “Pierrot Lunaire”, responses were deeply personal – and often unsettling.
Read in full #OpenAccess: brill.com/view/journal...
Love fungi? Then Mushroomology is the book for you. 🍄
This new book covers the full range of modern #Mushroom #Science in 30 chapters.
Mushroomology offers fresh and fascinating insights into the world of #Fungi.
Find out more here: brill.com/edcollbook/t...
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
'... whose remarkable variation in colour, size and behaviour reveals a crucial dimension of biodiversity: the variation within species'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#ElkeDagEenInsect
Meestal staan ze het me niet toe, maar deze roofvlieg wilde wel even voor me pauzeren.
#Entomologie #Entomology🪰
🎨 The 2026 issue of Art & Perception blends art history, psychology, neuroscience and music research. From emotional expressions in Pietà paintings to translating sound into drawings, it explores how we perceive and create art. 🖌️🧠
Read: brill.com/view/journal...
@maartenw.bsky.social
🕒 The first 2026 issue of Timing & Time Perception explores how humans & animals perceive and act on time – from flash frequency biases to rats’ waiting behaviour. Spanning perception, cognition & neuroscience. ⏳🧠
Read: brill.com/view/journal...
@van-rijn.org
🐾 New fully #OpenAccess issue of Contributions to Zoology is live: brill.com/view/journal.... Featuring
🦦 Sardinian pine marten & the island rule
🐚 Taxonomic reassessment of Acuticosta (+ new genus)
🐛 Five new Rhopalomeris species from Thailand
Explore the latest in zoology!
New study in #FloridaEntomologist shows long-lasting vial-lures can match or beat TYB in capturing Ceratitis capitata, cutting trap servicing and costs. 🌎🍊 #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1515/flae...
@flaentomosociety.bsky.social
Diagram of crop fields A (left) and B (right): all tests were performed on field A, excepting tests with diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella and its parasitoid Diadegma insulare. Not to scale.
New research in #FloridaEntomologist shows how field behaviour shapes biological control. 🐜🌱Solenopsis geminata retrieved pest eggs & pupae, tended aphids, & ignored a parasitoid, revealing limits of “generalist” predation in IPM. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1515/flae...
@flaentomosociety.bsky.social
📢 Call for Papers!
Special Issue: Maternal Behaviour, Mother–Young & Sibling Relations in the Felidae 🐾
We welcome empirical studies, reviews, perspectives & anecdotal reports (wild & domestic species).
🗓️ Deadline: March 2026
Full details in the document below.
@copan-leiden.bsky.social
Looking to sponsor a conference this year?
With a variety of benefits, different packages available, and opportunities for bespoke sponsorship, #ECBB2026 is great choice for any company, NGO, and organisation to support!
For more info, visit our conference webpage www.aru.ac.uk/science-and-...
📢 @multisensoryres.bsky.social Time to submit your #Abstracts for talks and posters at #IMRF2026 in Genoa, Italy!!!
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2026 starts with curiosity! 🌍🐾 The first #Behaviour issue is now live: from cooperative fish and dog “smiles” 🐶 to humans in urban spaces 🏙️ – diverse species, methods & shared insights. Explore the full issue: brill.com/view/journal...
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Black howler monkeys
Black howler monkeys #PaigntonZoo #howlermonkeys #primates
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This reveals species-specific social attention: faces matter for bonobos, emotions grab humans. Evolution & context shape how we notice the world.
#OpenAccess: brill.com/view/journal...
@copan-leiden.bsky.social #Behaviour
Example images of the bonobo stimuli. Negative face paired with neutral face (upper left), Neutral face paired with positive face (upper right), Neutral body paired with negative body (bottom left), Neutral body paired with positive body (bottom right).
Humans & bonobos may be close relatives – but their attention works differently! 🐒👀
Eye-tracking shows humans focus on emotional faces & bodies, while bonobos often fixate on neutral faces, ignoring emotional cues.
@evy-van-berlo.bsky.social
📸 Example images of the bonobo stimuli.
Using Pulliam’s vigilance model, results show even brief glances reflect social and evolutionary mechanisms. Context subtly shapes how we watch the world around us.
#OpenAccess: brill.com/view/journal...
@copan-leiden.bsky.social
👀 Humans scan their environment in everyday life – but how much does context matter?
A study observed 45 people in three urban spots: library, study house and refectory. Scanning was highest in the refectory, lowest in the library.
@janpdehaan.bsky.social @frankeggert.bsky.social
⏳ Reminder: Submit by 28 Feb 2026!
Special Issue “Visually Induced Motion Sensations” in Multisensory Research is nearing its deadline. Topics: VIMS, vection, visual fatigue, VR, optic flow, neurophysiology etc.
Details: brill.com/view/journal...
@multisensoryres.bsky.social @kiteuhn.bsky.social
The Critically Endangered Nosy Be sportive lemur 🐒 shows 14 distinct calls with graded structure. 🎶 Insights for behaviour & conservation. 🌿 Published in Folia Primatologica.
📖 Open Access: brill.com/view/journal...
@queenfireface.bsky.social @littlefireface.bsky.social
Cover illustration: Neopetrolisthes maculatus (H. Milne Edwards, 1837), an Indo-Pacific sea anemone commensal. Photo by Arthur Anker.
February’s 2nd issue of Crustaceana – International Journal of Crustacean Research is now online. 🦀📚
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Discover new research on crustacean diversity, taxonomy & biology worldwide. 🌍🔬
@nephropseu.bsky.social
Saw it. Craved it. Booked it. 🍕📱
New study reveals that it’s not follower count that drives diners – it’s quality, credibility and mouth-watering visuals. 🤳
Food content that feels authentic = real restaurant visits.
Read more:
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Welcome Dr Kayan Ma as a new Associate Editor for #Crustaceana!
An Associate Professor at Sun Yat-Sen University, her research spans crustacean phylogenomics, systematics & biogeography, with a particular focus on decapods. Her expertise in molecular and phylogeny-based studies will be invaluable. 👏
Articles:
• Science: www.science.org/content/arti...
• de Volkskrant: www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/n...
🧠🐒 Monkeys can pretend too.
A Science study shows bonobo Kanzi understood imaginary juice & grapes − the first experimental proof of pretend play in great apes.
Mariska Kret calls it elegant but nuanced: Kanzi was exceptional. As Frans de Waal long argued, the human–animal line is blurry.
Artikelen:
• de Volkskrant: www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/n...
• Science: www.science.org/content/arti...
🧠🐒 Ook apen kunnen doen alsof. Een Science-studie laat zien dat bonobo Kanzi denkbeeldig sap begreep: 1ste experimentele bewijs voor fantasiespel bij mensapen.
Mariska Kret nuanceert: mooi onderzoek, maar Kanzi was uitzonderlijk. Zoals Frans de Waal liet zien, is de mens–diergrens minder scherp.
Palaemon bijagosensis spec. nov., live specimen. Photos by Peter Wirtz.
Fieldwork in Guinea-Bissau’s Bijagós Islands has uncovered a new Palaemon species! 🌍🦐 By combining morphology and molecular data (16S, COI, H3), researchers have clarified its place among tropical Atlantic shrimp. #Crustaceana
🔗 Read full #OpenAccess study: brill.com/view/journal...
