Bob Wong

After the fight: post-contest acoustic signalling | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Animal contests often involve acoustic signals at different stages, but empirical work has primarily focused on usage before and during antagonistic interactions. Far less attention has been paid to post-contest acoustic signals (PCAS): those occurring ...

#Conflict is rife in the natural world & lots of animals use #vocal #signals before & during #contests. But what about in their aftermath? Wonder no more - read our #review on post-contest acoustic signalling:
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@bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Excited to be part of the #QueersInScience (Vic) Symposium line up during LGBTQIA+ STEMM Day this year hosted at Swinburne University of Technology on 18 November! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Register here:

queersinscience.org.au/events/

📸 Brian Gratwicke

New study funded in part by our Rosemary Grant Advanced Award - congratulations @yukihaba.bsky.social !!

Check out new paper led by @jackmanera.bsky.social on impacts of noise pollution. @monashscience.bsky.social @monashbiol.bsky.social #BobWongLab

Such an honour and pleasure to supervise @gabrielmelhado.bsky.social on his PhD studying the effect of pharamacutical pollution on behaviour and immunity in native rainbowfish with @annempeters.bsky.social & @bbmwong.bsky.social
Gabe presented his final milestone today @monashbiol.bsky.social!

Let’s celebrate nature’s spookiest and freakiest animals this Halloween From blood-squirting lizard eyes to zombie cockroaches, the natural world is ready for a truly terrifying Halloween.

Happy #Halloween!

Check out some 'spooky' wildlife, and find out ways to celebrate 🎃 in an environmentally-friendly way!

Why not let nature inspire your costume? Ghost bat, thorny devil, goblin shark, southern blue devil, vampire squid, Tasmanian devil...

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A black background with images of a ghost bat, goblin shark, horned lizard squirting blood from its eye, and an assassin bug with killed bugs on its back. Text overlay says: Celebrate Halloween with some of nature's spookiest creatures.

🎃 You don’t have to look to the supernatural for nightmares - nature has plenty of its own. But far scarier than the most bizarre animals is the toll Halloween takes on the environment, particularly the surge in single-use plastics 🧪

What animal sends chills down your spine?

#Halloween #Wildlife

Genomic architecture of egg mimicry and its consequences for speciation in parasitic cuckoos Host-parasite arms races facilitate rapid evolution and can fuel speciation. Cuculus cuckoos are deceptive egg mimics that exhibit a broad diversity of counterfeit egg phenotypes, representing host-ad...

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Chinese national interested in a PhD using fish?

Fully-funded scholarships @bristolbiosci.bsky.social from the China Scholarship Council-University of Bristol

Success rates are high, check out the details here and get in touch:
www.bristol.ac.uk/students/sup...

Please circulate widely!

A young PI here in Mainz has a fabulous PhD position that will be filled soon! By you? Keywords: Social insects, ageing, gene expression. www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-evoluti...

Is sustainability a luxury? Thought provoking panel discussion at our Sustainability Forum led by students in our Master of Environment and Sustainability course. @monashscience.bsky.social

Jack Manera and Rhiannon Eastment representing the lab talking about their research on pollution impacts on wildlife at the Monash Sustainability Forum. @monashbiol.bsky.social

@monashuniversity.bsky.social inaugural sustainability forum off to a creative start as participants reflect on what sustainability means to them.

How ecologists turned fish 'hotels' into 'bungalows' to save a species Follow the latest news headlines from Australia's most trusted source. Read in-depth expert analysis and watch live coverage on ABC News.

Happy environmental story www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

So good 🥰🐠

Happy to share our new review in @royalsocietypublishing.org on the role of chemical pollutants in shaping biological invasions

Part of our upcoming Special Feature issue on 'Wildlife behaviour and movement ecology in a human-dominated world'!

Available Open Access 👉 tinyurl.com/ptsjmbpn

Excited to share our latest paper in Behavioral Ecology! 🐟 🦐 🚤
doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Fieldwork on the Great Barrier Reef revealed species-specific responses to noise pollution from different boat engines.

@jake-m-martin.bsky.social
@bbmwong.bsky.social

Exciting ASAB news: increased grant money 💰💰 😍😍

Admittedly, I did have second thoughts when the art removalists came to take it away. 😢

This shark took form in Aurukun, spent ten years in my living room in Melbourne and has now finally found its rightful home in Canberra among other First Nations masterpieces in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia. 🥰

Min Thapangumpan (shark) by Leigh Namponan (Wik Peoples).

Start planning your stay in Turin! Accommodation can be easily booked directly on our website ➡️ isbe2026.com/accommodation/

This week members of the @isbe2026 Local Organizing Committee are sharing their own favourite impressions of the host city! Discover Turin through their eyes!

Jack Manera and co-authors investigate the impacts of boat noise pollution on the 5 behavioural interactions between two susceptible marine taxa: fish and crustaceans. They found different boat noises affect the taxa differently. doi.org/10.1093/behe... @bbmwong.bsky.social

Whimsical photo of a karure | kakaruia | Chatham Island black robin courtesy of Kevin Parker. Features as a wee black bird with four leg bands: white over orange on the left leg and red over white on the right leg. Sneaky tufts of feathers peak out from otherwise borb-like body, encouraged by the unseen wind.

What are the ‘social dimensions’ of moving species for conservation and why does engaging with them matter?

This is the focus of our new paper doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... published in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social olevo.bsky.social led by ever talented @aisrayne.bsky.social

📷 Kevin Parker

Sexual selection drives sex difference in adult life expectancy across mammals and birds Sexual size dimorphism and mating system contribute to male and female life-span differences across wild and zoo populations.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🐸Poison frog chemical defences are influenced by environmental availability and dietary selectivity for ants ➡️ buff.ly/NyBIPVP

Rodriguez et al., link spatial variation in leaf litter ant communities to frog chemical defences.

Global Scholar Recruitment Campaign - Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong job with CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG | 399559 We are now seeking exceptional scholars to join us as Assistant Professors/Associate Professors/Professors/Chair Professors ...

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🪸Habitat loss triggers a social chain reaction: adult reef fish crowd onto remaining coral, then spill over onto dead coral - and juveniles follow. This study reveals a novel, socially driven “bandwagon effect” that may lead to ecological traps. ➡️ buff.ly/MnxFMFK

Of course I had to visit a weird plant nursery before leaving Brisbane.

Jia Ba Way on George St. It’s pretty authentic.