Nick Jones

Annual Meeting coming up in Grünau in February - don't miss out!

#JFB: Bumblebee on the rocks: Massive aggregation, migratory and climbing behaviour of a small Neotropical catfish doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70158 #FishSci

From preferences to pollination: do hummingbirds and bees differ in how they choose flowers?

#PhD position!

Comparing #foraging and #cognition in #hummingbirds and #bumblebees

Fieldwork in the Canadian Rockies, lab experiments at @newcastleuni.bsky.social, and ecological modelling at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

Details (including my email) here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Oxygen supersaturation has been reported to protect aquatic animals from heat waves. We tested this in a large collaborative experiment on many species of fish and crustaceans. Our new paper in @plosbiology.org shows that the effect of hyperoxia on thermal tolerance is negligible. Unfortunately.

My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com

Fish embryos under the microscope

Interested in thermal biology? Please join our new and growing grass roots initiative, the Thermal Ecology Alliance, initiated by @patricepottier.bsky.social. 🧪🐟🦑🌡️

Sign up here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org#participation

Check who already signed up:
www.thermalecologyalliance.org#community

Our new study: territorial cichlids ramped up metabolic rate around conspecifics, while cardinal tetras showed little change. And only in tetras did individual sociability relate to metabolic rate. Energetic consequences of “social living” depend on social system. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

ACCE+ DLA Programme: Harnessing the power of mate choice to improve conservation breeding outcomes at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - ACCE+ DLA Programme: Harnessing the power of mate choice to improve conservation breeding outcomes at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com

Interested in pursuing a PhD in animal mating behaviour and zoo conservation? Want to help understand whether mate choice can improve conservation breeding outcomes? I'm advertising a project with colleagues at the amazing Chester Zoo, see: tinyurl.com/47zjtj8e

Please share!

Award alert! 🎖️🚨 Every other year, the Ethologische Gesellschaft awards the Niko Tinbergen Award to outstanding post-doc level researchers in Behavioural Biology (<=6yrs post PhD exam).
...and this year is one of these years! Please send us your nominations! 🫵 Infos: www.etho-ges.de/wordpress/aw...

The blood–brain barrier Here, Audrey Chagnot and Axel Montagne discuss the structural and functional features of the blood–brain barrier and the association of its disruption with various pathologies.

The #brain is often viewed as rather separate from the rest of body. One way it is separated somewhat is the BBB — the blood-brain-barrier.

Fabulous primer by @axelmontagne.bsky.social and Audrey Chagnot

www.cell.com/current-biol...

FSBI Medals - Fisheries Society of the British Isles Fisheries Society of the British Isles have four FSBI Medals. Three medals are awarded to nominated candidates and one to a EC journal author

⚠️ ONE WEEK TO GO! Are you an FSBI member and know someone who should be nominated for an FSBI medal (Beverton, Le Cren and FSBI medals)? We need you! Nominate them here fsbi.org.uk/fsbi-medals/ and nominees don't have to be FSBI members! Deadline 5/11/25

New research shows that rearing #environment influences morphology and asymmetry in an #endangered salmonid: a natural #river rearing environment results in the most symmetrical #salmon doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70149 #hatcheries #aquaculture #JFB

Your chance to contribute to an exciting special issue on personality research in Personality Science!
Don't hesitate to contact the guest editors (see below) to propose a manuscript

Check out our new methods paper for automated length and body shape measurements in animals!

Excited to share our latest publication: "Diversity and Biological Characteristics of Anguillid #Eels in Tanzanian #River Systems: Implications for #Conservation." Dive into the fascinating world of these unique eels and learn how we can protect their #habitats! #BIOEELS doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70123

Very timely special issue! If you’re working on how human altered environments impact social cognition (social learning, decisions in a context, communication…) or how social cognition can help deal with the challenges and opportunities of human altered environnements, consider submitting!

FSBI Medals - Fisheries Society of the British Isles Fisheries Society of the British Isles have four FSBI Medals. Three medals are awarded to nominated candidates and one to a EC journal author

Are you an FSBI member and know someone who should be nominated for an FSBI medal (Beverton, Le Cren and FSBI medals)? We need you! Nominate them here fsbi.org.uk/fsbi-medals/ and nominees don't have to be FSBI members! Deadline 5/11/25

A range of cogntive assays and fish species, illustrated by Dr Tiffany Ernst (www.linkedin.com/in/tiffany-r-ernst)

And of course hugely grateful to all contributing authors and reviewers whose efforts made this collection possible.
Don't miss Stefan Schuster's opinion piece challenging the "golden rules" of cognitive testing tinyurl.com/bde3wuwy.

Big thanks to @thefsbi.bsky.social for supporting this special issue, and to my amazing co-editors Joachim Frommen, Theodora Fuss, Cait Newport, Cairsty DePasquale, @mikemwebster.bsky.social, @catarina-vp.bsky.social, Libor Závorka & Anne Gro Vea Salvanes.

Special Issue: Measuring fish cognition: Empirical based guidance for designing cognition assays: Journal of Fish Biology: Vol 107, No 4 The <em>Journal of Fish Biology</em> is a leading international ichthyology journal, addressing all aspects of fish biology, their exploitation and importance to human society.

🐟 Our special issue "Measuring Fish Cognition: Empirical-based Guidance for Designing Cognition Assays" is out! From acclimation protocols to automated tracking, these studies tackle a range of methodological issues. Check it out: tinyurl.com/vdprfbf4 #FishCognition #AnimalBehaviour

#JFB: The nuclear-follower association between the zoobenthivorous Asian sheephead wrasse 𝘚𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘺𝘱𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴 and the piscivorous Japanese amberjack 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘢 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘯𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘢 doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70140 #FishSci

Abstract submission for #CO32026 is now open, join us next April in Montreal 🎉🍁🦫 Submit for a symposium by November 14th, or for an individual talk or poster by December 12th.
Information on the conference and a link to the member portal where you can submit: comparativecognition.org/conference.php

Exciting ASAB news: increased grant money 💰💰 😍😍

Almost 75,000 farmed salmon in Scotland escaped into the wild after Storm Amy – why this may cause lasting damage Scientists warn escaped farmed salmon could interbreed with wild fish, further endangering Scotland’s fragile populations.

After the calamitous news last week that 75,000 farmed #salmon had escaped in #Scotland, I wrote this Conversation article exploring why this is such bad news and what it means for wild salmon: doi.org/10.64628/AB....
#Environment #Aquaculture #FishFarming #Fish #Pollution #Genetics

📣 @asab.org grants BOOSTED! 📣

We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026.

Check out what we offer here:
www.asab.org/grant-overview

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

With just 5 years remaining to protect 30% of our land for nature, we urgently need to boost nature in our National Parks and National Landscapes.

Any weakening of laws protecting these vital areas for nature recovery would be a serious backwards step.
🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

These beautiful aliens are really helpful for understanding the role of behaviour in biological invasions and responses to climate change. So happy about our work on distinct strategies for coping with thermal stress in native and non-native nudibranchs, just published here doi.org/10.1007/s105...

Zebra finches produce soft laryngeal whistles during thermal panting that are not adaptive vocal signals Zebra finch heat calls are suggested to have close-range communicative relevance in the global temperature rise context. Anttonen et al. identify the biophysical mechanism underlying these vocalizatio...

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Yo #teamfish, major dream job alert!

New study in #JFB shows that small temperature increases can profoundly alter the growth rates and influence the shape of our temperate freshwater species. Read more, here: doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70066 #FishSci