ASAB Education Committee

The winners of our 2025 infographic competition are up! Visit our website for the results www.asab.org/education-news . Here are some of the judges favourite to wet your whistles! Well done to all the entrants.

You are invited to the buffalo project meeting (online) on November 26th at 4 PM Hong Kong Find out about social science and behavioural ecology research on Hong Kong feral water buffalo.
www.hkbuffaloresearch.org/research-hig... for free registration. Or use the QR code on the attached flyers.

A 3D model of a copepod on a stool. Background is ripped up yellow paper. Text says Biology Week, Biocraft Competition. Create a biology-inspired 3D artwork from recycled, or other, materials and send RSB a photo to enter! #BioCraftComp. Submissions close: 12 November

Have you taken part in our BioCraft Competition yet?

The competition encourages participants to combine art & science by creating a biology-inspired 3D artwork from recycled, or other, materials.

Closing date: 12 Nov 2025

Open to anyone UK & worldwide

Learn more: www.rsb.org.uk/biocraft-com...

👀DEADLINE APPROACHING!!! 🪲🐢🐍🦎🐸Submit your entry by midnight on Saturday🦇🦉🐈‍⬛#biologyweek 🤞🤞🤞

Explore behavioural and cognitive indicators of positive emotion from vertebrates to invertebrates.
Participation is free, but registration is required. All early-career researchers and interested persons are invited.
@affect-evo.bsky.social

Last week to enter the infographic competition! 🎨

BioCraft Competition The Royal Society of Biology's BioCraft competition encourages participants to create a biology-inspired 3D artwork from recycled, or other, materials.

If you're looking for #BiologyWeek activities to do this week, why not take part in our BioCraft Competition & create a
biology-inspired 3D artwork from recycled, or other, materials?

Find out more: www.rsb.org.uk/biocraft-com...

#BioCraft #BioCraftComp #ArtCompetition

We 💚💚💚#biologyweek and are celebrating with our inforgraphic comptition. Find out more here - www.asab.org/education-news

This 2025 competition is for young people to design a poster that contains images and information about the animal behaviour of one, or multiple species of non-human animals. You can draw, paint, sketch or digitally create artwork that captures, describes and explains the behaviour of animals. There are no restrictions on the type of drawing, painting or poster that you create, it must include information on the behaviour of the animals you are highlighting. The winning infographic in each category will be published in our scientific journal Animal Behaviour.

We are very excited to see the entries are coming in... make sure we have yours by the 18th October, the end of #biologyweek. Help us to celebrate animal behaviour. 🦧🦩🐸🕷️🦋

This 2025 competition is for young people to design a poster that contains images and information about the animal behaviour of one, or multiple species of non-human animals. You can draw, paint, sketch or digitally create artwork that captures, describes and explains the behaviour of animals. There are no restrictions on the type of drawing, painting or poster that you create, it must include information on the behaviour of the animals you are highlighting. The winning infographic in each category will be published in our scientific journal Animal Behaviour.

Reminder! The deadline for our infographic competition is the 18th of October. The last day of #biologyweek You can find out more information here www.asab.org/education-news There are three age categories: 7-10 years old, 11-14 years old and 15-21 years old.

🚨Please circulate🚨 The #BritishCarnivoreProject has a #free booklet, entitled Urban Tails, to help young people (ages 9-14) engage with #nature. It includes #stories, #outdoor activities, and other fun #educational materials. 🦊🏙️🌳🍃Download here: www.blakemorton.co.uk/download/129...

Plain Language Summary: Understanding Hong Kong residents’ views on free-ranging semi-urban water buffalo on Lantau Island. How do people view semi-urban feral buffalo in Hong Kong?Credit: Danhe Yang. By Danhe Yang, Debottam Bhattacharjee, Kate J. Flay, Yifu Wang, Hannah. S. Mumby, and Alan G. McElligott. This Plain Lan…

Plain speaking to help save the remaining 115 free ranging water buffalo in Hong Kong 😍 🐃 @amcell.bsky.social
relationalthinkingblog.com/2025/06/17/p...

Transgender flag: Lilac-breasted Roller

📷 Jean-Louis Carlo, eBird

Bisexual flag: Purple-breasted Cotinga

📷 Tomaz Melo, eBird

Birds as pride flags, meticulously researched by my wonderful student Griffin ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Rainbow flag: Eastern Rosella

📷 David Irving, eBird

Happy PRIDE month! 🌈🏳️‍🌈🎉 www.cityu.edu.hk/jcc/about-us...

Traffic Noise Provokes ‘Road Rage’ In Male Galápagos Warblers Yellow warblers near busy roads become increasingly aggressive when traffic drowns out their territorial songs, and noise pollution could trigger fights.

Traffic Noise Provokes ‘Road Rage’ In Male Galápagos Warblers | @angliaruskinuni.bsky.social & University of Vienna, published by Animal Behaviour @animbehsociety.bsky.social

by @grrlscientist.bsky.social

#ornithology🪶 #birds🦉 #behavior #conservation🌎 #SciComm🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...

Ethiopian wolves have a sweet tooth. These flowers are their lollipops  | CBC Radio Ethiopian wolves are carnivores but new research suggests they supplement their diet with the sweet, sticky nectar from native flowers. And scientists say they may even be acting as pollinators in the...

Flowers can be wolf-pollinated, apparently. BRB doing some extreme gardening for rewilding purposes
www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

What a great day at Wapping High School. Fantastic support from Robyn and Alex of QMUL @preparedmindslab.bsky.social scientists. There were lots and lots of engaged young people, who were absolutely as clever as crows!

Meerkat and crow engagement activities

ASAB education science stand

It’s raining outside so we’re doing science inside at Swindon’s Festival of Tomorrow.

Show us some love, keep your #abstracts pouring in, like the #Hogwarts offer letter for #Harry. Less than 24h before the portal closes! @asabeducation.bsky.social @spetologia.bsky.social @animalopps.bsky.social @animalbehaviour.live @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @ethologyenthusiast.bsky.social

A gelada monkey with red heart shaped markings on his chest, sat next to a rock, looking wistful.

Happy #ValentinesDay Geladas are superb mountain climbing primates. The unusual reddish skin of their chests is a sexual cue, indicative of hormone levels. They can be sneaky, covering up their infidelities... Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/nco... Photo by Jim on Unsplash

Student Subcommittee — ASAB

Here’s the updated link www.asab.org/student-subc...

Happy #womenandgirlsinscience day. To celebrate, you can now view the profiles introducing the new ASAB Student Subcommittee (including my own). @asabeducation.bsky.social is also putting them up on their Instagram story, so you can check them out there too.

www.asab.org/expertvisitors

Let's celebrate all of the female scientists we know! Who is the woman in science that inspires you the most? :) Recommended reading on Women in Animal Behaviour and Welfare: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11047719/#B10-animals-14-01184

Let's celebrate all of the female scientists we know! Who is the woman in science that inspires you the most? :)

Recommended reading on Women in Animal Behaviour and Welfare: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

On this International Day of #womenandgirlsinscience we celebrate the XX chromosome bearers of #TheDogLab over the last 15 years.

Happy #WomenAndGirlsInScience Day. To celebrate we have some free worksheets to share with your young people. asab.org/education-news Thank you to these brilliant women for taking part - Professor Dorothy Cheney, Professor Anindita Bhadra, Dr Danielle Lee and Professor Sue Healy #WomeninSTEM

Just brilliant 😍 We hope you all had a great time and the young people learnt lots!

Day 1 of the Nature watching like a scientist workshop was great! Endless questions, outdoor activities, a talk on variation, campus walk. The kids had fun and so did we. @asab.org @asabeducation.bsky.social

The Royal High School & Edinburgh College attended our plenary talk at The #ASAB24 winter conference. Malin Ah-King, Associate Professor in Gender Studies -Örebro University, brilliantly answered the students questions after her talk and then the students went on to judge the ECR’s posters.