Ana Cristina Gomes

We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below!

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New paper! 🦎
Urbanization reshapes the social behaviour of wall lizards

Now out in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org
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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...

Job Alert!

Come and join our team at our field site CRP Simenti in Senegal. Julia Fischer @julxf.bsky.social (@primatenzentrum.bsky.social) is recruiting a #Research_Manager. Work with the wonderful lovely Guinea baboons and manage our long-term data collection.

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Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Exeter Apply for the Postdoctoral Research Associate role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

3yr PDRA at @exeter.ac.uk with @york.ac.uk and Centre for Whale Research, studying how killer whale social relationships change with prey availability, partner loss and social info. A fantastic team & unique longterm dataset. Deadline 19 Oct!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/postdoctoral-research-associate

Another #SPEmebers paper as #ASABEditorsChoice

João Pacheco
Patrícia Beltrão
@trigosandra.bsky.social
@mostlywaxbills.bsky.social

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To lead or to follow: disentangling the genetic and cultural contributions to long-distance seabird migration at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - To lead or to follow: disentangling the genetic and cultural contributions to long-distance seabird migration at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com

Delighted to be cosupervising this funded PhD with @joewynnbirds.bsky.social on #migration in #birds #seabirds @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Start in early 2026! Register for our online briefing session. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

with SPE members João Pacheco, Patrícia Beltrão, Sandra Trigo @trigosandra.bsky.social , and Gonçalo Cardoso @mostlywaxbills.bsky.social @ Animal Behaviour

🚨 PhD position in behavioural evolution 🚨

Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve.

Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs

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Excited to share that I've joined Anna Qvarnström lab @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social at Uppsala University 😁 Looking forward for the 2 years ahead and to share the cool things I'll be doing with the flycatchers at Öland and its long-term data 🤩

João Pacheco's new paper - doi.org/10.1016/j.an... - continues a story of fear, reputation, show-off and aggression in waxbills.
Here are all chapters:
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Comunicado da SPE | Reforma do Ministério da Educação, Ciência e Inovação
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SPE statement | Change of the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation

Yesterday was my last day as PostDoc at Stockholm University! I'm so grateful for what I learned and developed at John Fitzpatrick lab! Many cool research will come soon 😀 For now the colleagues and collaborations stay, and a very well deserved time off is ahead. But not for long! more news soon 😁

Winter ASAB 2025 December 15th-16th Edinburgh ASABwinter.github.io/2025/ How sensory information affects behaviour Logo of a moth

Join us for #ASABWinter2025 in Edinburgh Dec 15-16 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Abstracts for posters/talks due Aug 29

More details here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/

Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution International Remote Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution (FINE) • Meet weekly with people worldwide who are fascinated by social evolution. • Hear talks about sociality of naturally occurring p...

Last week season 10 of Fine finished.
You can watch each of the exciting talks we had in this and all previous seasons on our YouTube channel

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1929

Selection Shapes Diverse Animal Minds: our special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org Phil Trans B on the diverse evolutionary processes underlying cognitive evolution is out today. Thanks to all our contributors! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

Excited (& a bit terrified) to officially share our #R #package with the world 🤩 swaRmverse provides a pipeline to analyze #collective #motion #data, promoting more comparative work across the Swarm-Verse 🐐🦬🐦🐒🐟 🦖🐑🕸️
With @sjmgarnier @SHOALgroup 🙏

Capturing the behaviour of animals in their natural habitat with high detail? #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social researchers developed a unique outdoor camera system to measure 3D movements and postures of wild birds: https://t1p.de/m0kzr

Very excited to see our paper using historical data to infer toothed whale lifespans published this week in the Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society (@biojlinnsoc.bsky.social)

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w. @darrencroft.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social @mialybkaer.bsky.social, Dan Franks

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PhD studentship! Comparative Analysis and Modelling of Collective Behaviour in Natural and Artificial Systems.

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