@tomerczaczkes.bsky.social
Social insects (mainly ants). Cognition. Comparative psychology. Collective behaviour. Invasive ants. Information use. Professor of Applied Zoology and Animal Ecology at the Freie Universität Berlin.
06.12.2025 09:06 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
We publish *imaginary* research abstracts!
The Journal of Imaginary Research is now accepting submissions of new short fictional pieces. Click to read:
Why Abstract fiction?
The theme
How to get started
What to submit to us
What *not* to submit
journalofimaginaryresearch.home.blog/2025/10/28/c...
Apply for an ISBE travel award until December 15!
25.11.2025 10:24 — 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Come and join our lab! We have TWO fully funded PhD positions AND a paid field assistant opportunity in our Behavioral Ecology group @uni-goettingen.de & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Projects will be part of @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social & @sfb1528.bsky.social!!
Details in thread. Please re-post!
📢I would like to share with you two opportunities to work in urban ecology with birds. The urban group at University of Granada is looking for a PhD candidate and a postdoc. More info in the attachments! #urbanEcology #birds #PhDcandidate #Postdoc #ResearchOpportunities
24.11.2025 19:57 — 👍 5 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0Got some nice work about ant foraging? Can't decide where to send it? We have a special issue just for you!
And, as a bonus, it's in (afaiac*) the best journal in the world @insectessociaux.bsky.social
link.springer.com/collections/...
*As Far As I Am Concerned
Deadline 17 December 2025
Full project description: www.iit.it/documents/20...
Listing page Uni Trento: www.iit.it/en-US/phd-po...
Listing page Uni Genoa: unige.it/en/students/...
PhD position - How jumping spiders see
- Put cute spiders on trackballs!
- Program fancy automated experiments!
- Do cutting edge research!
- Hang out in beautiful Italian cities!
- Be supervised by a super nice chap!
Like invertebrate behaviour and computation stuff? You'll love this.
Link in 🧵
🚨Who wants to work with Kalahari meerkats? A MSc project with @mathildemartin.bsky.social at the University of Zurich.
#bioacoustics 🧪
My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com
05.11.2025 16:56 — 👍 50 🔁 79 💬 3 📌 2Lecturer/ Assistant professor Entomology, University College Dublin:
my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...
Deadline 1st December!
Well, while it breaks my heart: if your main customers are going to be US Americans, and you yourself are a US American, it's justifiable to prefer US American ants.
Certainly prefer weird ant facts every time.
Lasius niger surely must be in there. In many ways, it _is_ the standard ant.
15.11.2025 13:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
2 year position (Indiana, USA) studying the Neurobiology of insect welfare in the Barrett lab. Sort of a pre-doc position for someone with a BSc (and ideally) MSc in a relevant discipline. An excellent opportunity to gain (paid) research experience!
www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...
The program of day 2 of #ABL2025 is here!
Another exciting lineup of plenaries, talks, poster sessions and exchanges on animal behaviour 🦋🐙
💻 Free, online & open to all worldwide
🚨Don’t miss it, it’s the last day to register! 🚨
🔗https://ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org/
A few panels from the coloring guide: a scorpion, an isopod, and a tachinid fly (along with their info).
It's almost the weekend! 🥳
If you're looking for something for you and/or your kids to do, I've recently re-uploaded my arthropod coloring guide 🎨
Please feel free to share, print, and [definitely] have fun with it!!!
drive.google.com/file/d/1V59i...
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
03.11.2025 10:04 — 👍 4466 🔁 1412 💬 54 📌 137
A Dracula figure in the style of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. There is a neck with two holes removed from it in the style of the book. The book title is"The Very hungry Dracula"
Some of the entries here made me literally laugh out loud.
@b3ta.com is often very amusing
This was an especially amusing image challenge:
b3ta.com/challenge/tw...
Cool rotifer feeding with it's cilia beating
🐙🧪
Review request from an MPDI journal.
#AcademicSky
snapshot from a ChatGPT conversation which lists words increasingly used in academic writing since the rise of large-language-models
I asked chatGPT about this (irony is not lost on me) and it seems like I was onto sth there 😅
01.11.2025 10:58 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Recently, whenever I read 'intricate' on a scientific abstract or other published work I immediately think 'AI'... #AcademicSky
01.11.2025 10:58 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
New #PhD ad alert!
Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England?
Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information.
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
2️⃣weeks to go!
Join us online on 13–14 November for two days of talks and discussions on animal behavior 🐝🐙🐘
💻 It’s free & open to everyone worldwide, don’t miss out!
The full program is out now, have a look 👇
ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
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...
29.10.2025 08:36 — 👍 20 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 1
Examples of some recent papers from graduate students in my group - a full list of recent papers and preprints can be found here (https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=pTdxVdIAAAAJ) and profile of the group here: https://egioxford.web.ox.ac.uk/members
The annual Wytham Field Team Photo!
Celebrating a successful field season with great food & good company - May 2025
Front view of the Life & Mind Building, which opened in Oct 2025: The new home of Biology at Oxford
Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Reposting for the Monday morning scrollers! Funded PhD opportunity with me @multipleye-lab.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social - spiders, their eyes, and their babies under long- and short-term light pollution!
20.10.2025 07:37 — 👍 16 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 0🚨🚨Job! 🚨🚨Permanent (75% time) job! We are a pretty awesome research group & seek a manager who deals with everything: personnel tasks, organizing retreats, preparing code for teaching / data structures for research... Fluency in German & English essential. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/51527
17.10.2025 07:38 — 👍 37 🔁 42 💬 0 📌 0Join us! Oxford is advertising an Associate Professorship in Animal Behaviour. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
15.09.2025 12:32 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Trying to work from home with my kids around
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