Nicola Koyama

The amazing field skills workshop! 👀 Funds go directly towards helping those in need attend:

📢 Call for abstracts! Want to present your animal behaviour research online & for free? Submit a 5-min video poster for #ABL2025. Hosted on YouTube with live Q&A on Discord!

📅 Nov 13–14 | Free, online, worldwide 🌍
🔗 Learn more, register, submit ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org
#animalbehaviorresearch

A great opportunity for in-country community-based primate conservationists to share experiences and challenges in our online Panel Discussion (30 Aug '25). Send in your expression of interest by 10 Aug!
@lemurnetwork.bsky.social @neoprego.org
@ips-primatenews.bsky.social

Elephants gesture to signal what they want—just like us.

Learn more: scim.ag/3IyDRrq

Conservation tech without Indigenous knowledge and local context has limits (commentary) Technology can be a powerful ally in conservation, but it’s not a silver bullet. Too often, tools like drones, GPS apps or satellite imagery are introduced as standalone solutions, disconnected from…

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Tools like drones & GPS apps allow local & indigenous communities to track deforestation & respond to territorial threats quickly.

But these tools must be introduced with local realities and cultural wisdom in mind.

** The views expressed are author's, not necessarily Mongabay's.

Marie Curie Fellowships are open (tinyurl.com/bdewf876) - if interested in studying how wild Barbary macaques are adjusting to human impacts (tinyurl.com/5n6hxwwz), please get in touch! We're particularly keen for someone to work with all the metagenomic data we have!

An amazing opportunity for UK-based students who've faced challenges developing field skills: deadline 15 June.

Could you help support a student attend? Check the justgiving link below!

Applications are now open for our 2025 Field Skills Workshop! The Field Skills Workshop is a 3-day workshop aimed to develop theory and practice in field skills. See 🧵

Great activity Danni!

🌱 Unravel the plant mechanisms involved in plant-microbe interactions in Priya Reddy's winning entry for this year's #DanceYourPhD #biology category.

Watch the entire video—and learn more about the other category winners: scim.ag/4lSpjCl

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1/13 The Consciousness of Corvids

Using @birchlse.bsky.social `s 5 dimensions of consciousness, this study assesses the subjective experience of corvids. While they share some characteristics with us, it differs in important ways

(paper) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
by @walterveit.bsky.social

@oshitabukie.bsky.social

A talk on Meeting the challenges of drill monkey conservation in Nigeria on 30 April 2025 at 4.30pm WAT

Looking forward to hearing all about drill conservation tomorrow with Dr James Bukie
jamesbukie.com @asab.org @primatesocietygb.bsky.social

MDPI is often accused of:
➡ Prioritizing profit over quality.
➡ Rapid peer-review processes that raise concerns about rigor.
➡ Aggressively soliciting articles and editors.

Great graphics of the development of goals in the modern conservation movement over the past 70 years, highlighting which are pre-dated by underlying cultural values, with a call to make tradeoffs in values explicit to clarify management priorities and better understand animal welfare outcomes.

What birds can teach us about the ‘biological truth’ of sex Part of our job as educators is to give students a deeper understanding of the true diversity of sex and gender in the natural world.

"Understanding the well-studied science of the developmental process of sexual differentiation is especially important now, given widespread misinformation about—and the politicization of—sex and gender." 🧪 on @thetransmitter.bsky.social

Attachment has a Nerve.,,,

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Scientific naming conventions should keep in step with contemporary science A three-part Nature Podcast series explores the importance of scientific naming conventions — and talks to researchers looking at how to make them more inclusive.

How are researchers around the world tackling problematic names that persist in science today?

https://go.nature.com/44JYhXs

First page of our letter - full text can be found on the linked google docs (sorry I can't include here because of the character limit)

Second page of our letter - full text can be found on the linked google docs (sorry I can't include here because of the character limit)

as some of you may be aware, we have been dealing with considerable transphobia (among other issues) in our department at the uni of aberdeen.

we are sharing this letter publicly to raise awareness and ask for your support. please sign and share 💕🏳️‍⚧️

tinyurl.com/UoATransphobia

#LGBTQinSTEM

Liran Samuni giving the Christopher Barnard Award lecture at ASAB spring conference 2025

Fascinating talk from Christopher Barnard Medal winner @lirsamuni.bsky.social contrasting chimpanzee and bonobo cooperation and conflict
#ASABSpring2025 #ASAB

A collage of six slides from the flash talks

Great flash talks 💥 sleep in fish @helenanorman.bsky.social, the friendship paradox @eloisenewman.bsky.social, parental care in roaches: Georgia Cash, behavioural plasticity in bees: Gifty Jacob, social inheritance in red deer: Hannah Lemon, motion tracking: Nikoloz Sirmpilatze #ASABSpring2025 #ASAB

Photo of slide showing the study species Artemia franciscana

Great talk from @martafavero.bsky.social about the often overlooked 'individual-level' negative effects of the pollutant phenanthrene on behavioural plasticity in wild-caught brine shrimps.
#ASABSpring2025 #ASAB

Fascinating talk from Helga Fourie from CIBIO Portugal at the #ASABSpring2025 conference: Proximity promotes social partner choice in weaver birds.
#asab

Great first talk to open the student presentations today at the #ASABSpring2025 Conference from Axelle Delaunay @utu.fi on the physiological stress of allomaternal care in Asian elephants #asab

Amazing short film workshop 🎥 at the LJMU hosted #ASABSpring2025 Conference today, thanks to Dr Tom Fletcher and Tom Land from #SilverbackFilms

@asab.org @ljmuimpact.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social

Our #ASABSpring2025 conference kicked off with a blast (from the past) today🔥

We had an incredible talk by Dr. Tom Fletcher and Tom Land from Silverback Films 🦍, accompanied by Camilla Affleck from Liverpool Screen School 📽️ and Prof. Peter Falkingham from LJMU 🦖

Conference organizer Susi introducing the seated sci comm speakers in front of a slide reading ASAB Liverpool 23rd-25th April 2025

Starting #ASABSpring2025 with a day long science communication workshop!

Don’t forget to also follow @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social for more conference highlights and to use the #ASABSpring2025 hashtag 😁

EDICa Flexible Fund Symposium: Mitigating the effects of Covid-19. Free on zoom 12 March 13:30-15:30 GMT. More info and register at link and QR code. 3 circles have 3 topics - Closing the degree grade awarding gap for Black and other minoritised students. The impact on early career researchers. The impact on career progress of disabled researchers. EDICa logo in top left corner.

Seminar: Mental Health in the research & innovation ecosystem: understanding the lived experiences of women. Free on Zoom - 19 February 12:30-14:00 GMT. More info and register here - link and QR code. Cartoon graphics of white woman pulling her brown hair out in frustration looking at a desk covered in laptop, papers and a book. Cartoon of a brown woman with curly black hair and glasses with her head in her hand in sadness, a hazy cloud above her head. EDICa logo in top right corner.

Welcome back folks!
Reminder of our two upcoming events:
Seminar on Mental health in the research & innovation: understanding lived experiences of women. 19 Feb 12:30-2 https://buff.ly/4gicrSS
Symposium of findings on mitigating Covid's impact. 12 Mar 13:30-15:30 https://buff.ly/3DkMumY

YouTube video by Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour ASAB Winter Meeting Edinburgh 2024 (Day 2)

Watch here the latest overview of how #languagebarriers influence science and what we can do to address their multiple consequences. My plenary (and all other exciting presentations on bias in animal behaviour research) at @asab.org Winter Meeting Edinburgh 2024.
youtu.be/Dz8SI5KQAaQ?...

Forest cover 🌳 *and* the presence of protective humans ♥️ predict wild bonobo density in a comprehensive new study of 20 years of data. Beautiful science to protect our fellow great apes and their home ecosystem. ☀️ From Mattia Bessone, Barbara Fruth et al: link.springer.com/article/10.1...