Christoph Grüter

Winter ASAB 2025 December 15-16 Edinburgh How sensory information affects behaviour.

ICYMI : #ASABWinter2025 will take place from December 15-16, once again in lovely Edinburgh!

Registration is now open 🎉 Abstract submission deadline for posters and talks is August 29 🏃‍♀️🏃🏃‍♂️

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

In his first year Archie suffered a serious spinal injury threatening his daily life and education.

Despite this he never gave up and has achieved a first-class Biological Sciences master's! 🙌

Archie has been an inspirational student, read about his many accomplishments here: brnw.ch/21wUdq9

We are looking for a Postdoc (up to 5 years) who wants to study neural mechanisms of spatial memory in honeybees.

This includes tetrode recordings in behaving honeybees.

Application Deadline is 1st of October 2025.

More details:
www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/services/...

A photo of a man at a protest with the words: DEFEND SAM WEINSTEIN, JUAN ORGANISER & ANTI-ZIONIST JEW CHARGED WITH INCITEMENT TO JOIN A PROTEST AT THE BBC International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network STARVATION I PART OF US-BRAEL PLAN TO PESTIDY GAZ ZIONISM: RACIST IMPERIALIST GENOCIDAL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6™ 9:30 AM RALLY OUTSIDE WESTMINSTER MAGISTRATES' COURT NW1 5BR INTERHATIONAL IJAN NETWORK

On a very serious note, my dad Sam Weinstein is being persecuted by the UK government because of his pro-Palestine organizing. If you’re in the London area this week, please consider coming out to support him as he faces what is a brazen attack on Palestinians and civil rights.

Want to learn to recognise some pollinators?

Here are some butterfly species you should look out for this summer! 🦋

‘We are dying slowly, save us’: starvation takes hold in Gaza after a week of appalling milestones Parents watch children waste away as deliberate aid restrictions from Israel mean hunger is becoming a killer, as experts confirm famine is currently playing out The people of Gaza did not need this week’s official confirmation from UN-backed hunger experts that the “worst-case scenario of famine” was unfolding there. For months they have watched as their children waste away. “All my children have lost nearly half of their body weight,” said Jamil Mughari, a 38-year-old from Maghazi in central Gaza. “My daughter, who is five years old, now weighs only 11kg. My son Mohammad has become just skin and bones. All my children are like this. Continue reading...

‘We are dying slowly, save us’: starvation takes hold in Gaza after a week of appalling milestones

My department @utoronto.ca (www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/) is hiring a molecular biologist in any field (e.g., ecology, evolutionary biology, etc.). Please encourage any excellent finishing PhD students, postdocs or assistant professor to apply here:
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...

Excited to share that we have just been awarded a NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant to work on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins. We will soon advertise a 3 year post-doc to join the team - drop me an email if you might be interested! Pls share widely 🙏🏻

I'm very happy to have been invited to chat about my work with our lovely Brazilian stingless bees, especially with Jonas Guajajara and the Meli Network members. Excited for our next steps!! 🐝

Famine now unfolding in Gaza, says UN-backed monitor – Middle East crisis live Airdrops are not enough to avert the humanitarian catastrophe, says the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Initiative

Famine now unfolding in Gaza, says UN-backed monitor – Middle East crisis live

Image credit: Hosny Salah RECOGNISE PALESTINE A step toward dignity, justice, and peace Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Every day that our government fails to recognise the state of Palestine is another day wasted on more empty words instead of actions.

What is Keir Starmer waiting for? Recognise Palestine.

Tetragonisca angustula hovering guard 😍

‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly * Starvation in Gaza is destroying communities – and will leave generational scars Mohammed’s skeletal arms stick out of a romper with a grinning emoji-face and the slogan “smiley boy”, which in a Gaza hospital reads as a cruel joke. He spends much of the day crying from hunger, or gnawing at his own emaciated fingers. At seven months old, he weighs barely 4kg (9lbs) and this is the second time he has been admitted for treatment. His face is gaunt, his limbs little more than bones covered in baggy skin and his ribs protrude painfully from his chest. Continue reading...

‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza

Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens Malnourished medical staff say they are struggling to provide care to injured civilians, while recovery rates are also hit by

This shames all of us.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE More than nine in 10 renewable power projects globally are now cheaper than fossil fuel alternatives. International Renewable Energy Agency. Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

🛢️ Fossil fuels: Dangerous. Expensive.

☢️ Nuclear: Too expensive. Too slow.

💡 Renewables: Cheap, clean and fast.

🤔 Why is our government continuing to back outdated and expensive electricity generation when renewables would bring down bills AND emissions fast?

"What we're seeing now is the most horrific stage of Israels starvation campaign... Israel has been using aid as a way to bait civilians & has been killing civilians who have been seeking aid..."

Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food

An unbearably sad statement from the Editorial Committee (SDJ) of the AFP news agency, please read:

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die.
AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip… /1

🚨 Don't miss your last chance to submit your abstract until sunday 27th July!

🎉 You can continue to register even though the early bird prices are over.

🤔 Do consider joining SPE and becoming a member to benefit from reduced prices in the registration.

What do ants prefer to eat?

A new assay designed to sensitively test for food preference in ants. Hopefully useful when designing baits for controlling #invasivespecies

From Thomas Wagner @tiberian1986.bsky.social, Henrique Galante and me

#bioinvasions #biologicaInvasions

OA link next post!

🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers! In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken…

Did you know that students in Gaza are still doing their uni degrees?

This space hosts dozens of students daily as they continue LIFE—and getting degrees that allow them to work remotely to feed their families.

Stop scholasticide. Invest in them. 0/350 chuffed.org/project/spar...

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. An average of 27 children have been killed in Gaza every day since October 7, 2023. An entire classroom of children murdered, every day, for 646 days. Source: UNICEF Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Since 7 October 2023 an average of 27 children have been killed in Gaza by Israel every single day.

A whole classroom of children wiped out everyday by a genocidal regime, even while queuing for food and water.

And still the UK government sells them weapons. Shame on them.

This New Yorker piece is the most hopeful I've felt about the world in a long time.

I had no idea solar was booming like this. And if you live in the same world as me, dominated by oil & gas guys maintaining that solar and wind are inefficient gimmicks, you might not've known some of this either.

Nice job at Aarhus University @au.dk: we need more professorship in genetic biodiversity!
tech.au.dk/en/about-the...

📌 We would like to invite you to the 52nd #conference of our society, which will take place from November 13th to 16th, 2025 at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague. Save the date! 🗓️

🔗 For accommodation options and more, follow our website csets.sk 🤩

Unlocking the hidden biodiversity of Europe’s villages | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

3-year #Postdoc opportunity at the University of York!
I am #hiring a Postdoc to join my URF project on exploring how #biodiversity change is unfolding in the #Anthropocene.

Deadline: 10th August 2025.

All details and the link to apply: shorturl.at/qOQst

@anthropocenebio.bsky.social #ecology

SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT!
You only have 15 days 😱
Don't miss your opportunity to show your research in beautiful Portugal!

#SPEmembers #animalbehaviour #ethology #science #animalbehavior #sciencemeetings #cognition #animalwelfare #evolution

Opportunities — ASAB

We are seeking a full-time Managing Editor for our journal Animal Behaviour. This editor will be involved in all stages of the publication process & must have a general understanding of the topics covered. Position starts Oct 1, application deadline July 31.

More details:
www.asab.org/opportunities

Honey bees nearly double their foraging distance by shifting and consolidating their preferred sites to remaining, isolated habitat patches within the larger land use changes. (A) Aerial imagery in 2022 of the study area in Blacksburg, VA, USA. Grey polygons represent all the lands converted in 2020-2021. Orange represents small patches of undisturbed microhabitat left within the developments. Black circle denotes the location of the hives. (B) Honey bees nearly double their communicated foraging distance in 2022 (sample size n=502) compared to 2018-2019 (sample size n=382) (mean±c.i, two-tailed likelihood ratio test used for analysis). Here each datapoint is a decoded waggle dance. (C) Honey bee foraging, as determined by dance decoding before (2018-2019, blue) and after (2022, red) the land use change, demonstrated that the bees shifted recruitment to the more distant, remaining orange patches within the grey, especially in the northern corner of the new housing development.

Robert Ostrom, @schuemaa.bsky.social and co show concrete consequences of changing land, as honey bees need to travel almost twice as far during foraging flights after construction. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air.

"Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com.

Here's the trailer: