Ari Strandburg-Peshkin

Golden eagle on the nest in Finland (by O. Karlin)

🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Analysis of communication and collective behavior in animal groups

⭐PhD position available!⭐
Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets
imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...

Detail of two hyenas
#SciArt
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

🚨 Junior Research Fellow position (+possible PhD conversion) studying Emergent Collective Intelligence for Ephemeral Resource Tracking. Based with Akanksha Rathore at BITS Pilani (India) and including visits to Konstanz (Germany) to collaborate with us! Apply by 12 September. More info 👇

We know some animals nap. But do they do it to make up for lost sleep?

Our joint study with Caroline Schuppli and the Suaq team dives deep into the sleep patterns of wild orangutans to find out their strategy for sleep homeostasis 🦧 💤

Paper @cellpress.bsky.social ▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

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And just like that, the 2025 @cbehav.bsky.social Field Course has come to an end! What an incredible journey.

Ecology needs a causal overhaul Ecology has yet to embrace causal inference, yet most questions in ecology are causal. Despite the common use of terms that imply causation, such as “shapes”, “drives”, or “impacts”, many studies shy...

there has been a bunch of (many good) papers coming about about integrating Causal Inference and DAGS into research about behavior and ecology (i.e. doi.org/10.1111/brv....) but i thought it might be useful to show some example empirical papers that do so (see growing thread)...

Day 4 is ON! 🇿🇦 Kicked things off with a talk from our former @cbehav.bsky.social Field Course student & TA Siyabonga Sangweni. He spoke about his work combining minimaly invasive and non-invasive methods for studying animals and also shared his inspirational professional journey.

Day 2 of the @cbehav.bsky.social Field Course: things are officially getting real! 😎 Kicked off with an early morning start, heading to the field. Today's mission: building ethograms and classifying behaviours.

Our 2025 @cbehav.bsky.social Field Course is officially underway! We rolled into the Kalahari Research Center, 🇿🇦 yesterday evening and kicked things off with our first group dinner. So excited for what's to come!

Ever feel like our culture has gone wrong? If so, we're maybe not alone. Check out this mind-bending story of the emergence of a behavioral tradition where capuchin monkeys abduct infant howler monkeys led by @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social and @bjjbarrett.bsky.social of @livingingroups.bsky.social !

Very different mammals follow the same rules of behavior Research hints at an underlying architecture that orders the movements of animals

Cross-species teamwork from @livingingroups.bsky.social reveals unexpected similarities in three social mammals 🤔

By lead author @pminasandra.bsky.social with Emily Grout, Katrina Brock, Meg Crofoot, Vlad Demartsev, Amlan Nayak, Eli
Strauss, Ari Strandburg-Peshkin🧵1/2

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Hot off the press 📣: one of the most surprising and unsettling findings of my PhD. A novel social tradition emerged in the tool-using white-faced capuchins of Jicarón island… abducting and carrying the infants of another species. Thread with gifs, videos, and all the bizarre details 👇

An illustration of a white-faced capuchin monkey carrying a howler infant on their back while cracking nuts with a stone

Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)

Fascinating new results from @pminasandra.bsky.social have us scratching our heads here @livingingroups.bsky.social! Looking forward to seeing if these patterns hold across an even more diverse set of species.

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🚨 Out this week in @pnas.org 🚨
The flagship paper from my PhD @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social - We show surprising statistical similarities in animal behaviour across states, individuals, and even species.
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📢 Fully-funded PhD opportunity!

Explore the links between social & communication networks in ring-tailed lemurs!

Exciting fieldwork, interdisciplinary team, and innovative technologies! Apply now and join @primatenzentrum.bsky.social & @unigoettingen.bsky.social for this cutting-edge research!

YouTube video by Collective Behaviour Collective Behaviour Field Course

Curious about what this course is like? Here is a glimpse into the experience
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@cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de

📢Gain hands-on experience in animal behavior research! Fully funded field course opportunity for South African university students. www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/cbfc/ Spend two weeks at the Kalahari Research Centre learning about collective behavior and communication. Register until March 16th! 🧪

Technical Assistant (m/f/d) | Moveapps Help maintain and improve existing apps, create new apps, help maintaining the user manual up to date, support other developers if they encounter issues when developing their apps

We are hiring! We look for a person with programming skills in R and/or Python. Application deadline is March 14th 2025. All details here: www.ab.mpg.de/654153/job_f...

YouTube video by MitWissen Wie finden Australenten neue Nahrungsplätze?

The animal behavior channel "Mit Wissen" has a new episode out. Cini Gall takes you on the trail of the grey teal, a nomad that can navigate thousands of kilometers across Australia to greener pastures.

As was once said by a great Australian scientist "Why is it so?"

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Only a few more days left to apply to our PhD positions 🏁

📢 JOB ALERT ‼️
Interested in animal behaviour and ecology?🔎🦗🐛🐒🐝
👉 Then check out our webpage imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/current 👀 for exciting PhD positions 👨‍🎓
Application deadline is Nov 24th, 2024 📨