Ivo Jacobs

📢We have a brilliant #PhD opportunity on collective animal behaviour across vertebrates! Deadline early 2026 so plenty of time to prepare, feel free to reach out for more info if you are interested in applying 👀

All details below👇

🚨Job Alert plz RT!

Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition!

We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals

Open-rank

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Interested in #RaptorResearch and #MovementEcology? 🧪
The #AnimalEcology Lab at @utu.fi has an open #PhDposition!

We’ll be tagging WTEs with cutting-edge #GPS devices to study their early-life journeys.

Curious to learn more? See the advert: shorturl.at/HMZ84

#PhDOpening #PhDChat #BioLogging

Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Full Professor of Cognitive Science - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University

Come join the wonderful CogSci dep at Aarhus Uni, Denmark! Fantastic students, wonderful colleagues, and great work/life balance! We are looking for applicants with teaching experience in the field of computational modelling of cognitive and/or social processes.
international.au.dk/about/profil...

For the people in the back:
- String pulling isn't tool use.
- Categorising a behaviour as tool use doesn't inherently make it more interesting or "intelligent".

Ella holds a fluffy and sleepy looking toutouwai chick during banding and fits an orange band to its leg

PhD scholarship alert! Are you interested in cognitive evolution? Do you want to know how development influences cognitive traits? Do you love hanging out with birds in the forest? If the answer to these questions is yes, please apply to work with us! 1/2 🧪
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...

Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social.
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.

All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
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We're hiring! Post-doctoral fellow in evolutionary ecology w/focus on ecophysiology.
Uncover why global warming and heatwaves reduce reproductive success and cause excess mortality in wild birds. Work with @cyanistesnord.bsky.social 👏

Please apply no later than 25 November.
👉 lnkd.in/dkAh9jnc

A galah perched on a branch with wing outstretched and head missing (because it's preening)

A late galah for headless bird Halloween
#photography #birds

Side view of a small Egyptian gosling with a foot up, walking over a street

Walk like an Egyptian (gosling)
#photography #birds

Close-up of a mute swan preening itself, showing only its head with closed eyes rubbing against a sea of white feathers

Swan in heaven
#photography #birds

A male tufted duck, in black and white plumage, preens his back while floating on a lake, with the vibrant yellow eye halfway closed.

Tufted duck is suspicious
#photography #birds

Eight brown-and-white Egyptian goslings on a small wave in a river facing the observer

Crashing wave of Egyptian goslings
#photography #birds

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Interested in fossils? Brains? Reptiles?

Want to study how reptile (particularly squamate) brains and senses changed over time?

Want to be part of an international team studying the evolution of cognition?

Then apply for our Univ of Edinburgh PhD project!

e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...

Two geese flying low over a lake - one flying to the side of the frame and the incoming goose flying in from the top of the frame, ready to attack with wings spread and bill open. The background reflections on the lake form streaks of light.

Fight club - Egyptian geese edition got an update: now with anime backgrounds
#photography #birds

APA is offering paid editorial fellowships for early-career researchers. 🧪

I was the editorial fellow at Journal of Comparative Psychology last year and I can highly recommend it!

www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

Vacancy — Postdoc Position in Decision Making in Birds Are you an expert in animal behavior? Do you have experience working with birds? The Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) is looking for a motivated researcher to investigate the ro...

I have a job opening in my lab. If you are interested in bird behaviour and predator prey interactions please take a look! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

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Do you love research & writing & all things animal behavior? Well our journal, Animal Behavior, recruiting up to 5 (count em!) new Associate Editors!

Editors serve three-year terms beginning January 2026. If you're interested, email Exec Editor Scott Sakaluk (sksakal@ilstu.edu) by Oct 31!

Two little wild boars, seen through thick foliage with a lake in the background, having a nap against a tree

Don't disturb the wild boarlet lakeside siesta
#mammals #photography

A long-tailed tit perched on a leafy branch, seen from the side in blue morning light

Tiny dinosaur in the form of a long-tailed tit early in the blueish morning
#photography #birds

Thank you! I was always shocked how unfazed most Australian birds are. So much that they don't even fit in the frame when suddenly spreading their wings :)

Celebratory galah! 🪶

Close-up of a small Egyptian gosling, in white-brown plumage, on the ground looking towards the viewer.

Befuddled Egyptian gosling
#photography #birds

A carrion crow with a piece of bread in its beak on a grass field, being watched by another crow far away as a blurry, dark shape

The bread thief is ever watching from afar
#photography #birds

A fluffy, brown-white gosling stepping out of a river, with head turned sideways and one foot off the ground.

Egyptian gosling
#photography #birds

An adult common starling seen from behind, with its head turned sideways towards the camera, showing its iridescent spotty plumage while standing in a grass field.

Starlings are always unbelievable
#photography #birds

Two adult grebes on a lake, one preening in the foreground, the other surrounded by two swimming offspring and two on its back, on of which curiously looking at a sibling.

Great crested grebe parents with their four grebelets
#photography #birds

A Eurasian coot perched on a submerged stick on a lake while preening, its eye closed and bill under the wing.

Preening coot trying to distract me from its feet
#photography #birds

An Eurasian coot skipping over the surface of the lake captured at high frame rate, as if it's hovering over its reflection with a splash of water where it stepped.

New ballet coming soon: Coot Lake

#photography #birds