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There is still time to meet @royalsocietypublishing.org at booth #2612 during the @acs.org Fall 2025 meeting. We may not be able to offer a #MoleMoment, but we do have some very good #journals. You should check them out.

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Colobus monkey (Colobus guereza) approaching a two-choice set up to test for its ability to infer the hiding location of a bait by exclusion.

We are currently testing highly underrated and understudied colobus monkeys for @manyprimates.bsky.social at Zoo Krefeld.
It's a start - but ManyPrimates needs more colobines (and gibbons) for fair representation!

Animal Behaviour - Bielefeld University With a team of over 50 people, the different research groups study animal behaviour within the framework of the four questions of Tinbergen, both in the lab and in the field. Current model systems include laboratory studies on zebra finches (

Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job

Thanks @nomascus.bsky.social
I wouldn’t have said it better 😌

The fish challenge to vertebrate cognitive evolution | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences There is tremendous taxonomic variation in the size, shape and structure of vertebrate brains. While many studies use cross-species comparisons to aim at identifying the ecological factors (social and...

Is there a cognitive hierachy between ecto- and endotherms driven by brain size/neuron counts? Probably not.

Very interesting opinion piece by @zegnitriki.bsky.social et al., shifting focus to sensory–motor integration to explain brain size differences.🧪

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#behaviour2025 #AnimalBehavior #Conference #Announcement #RegistrationOpen #SaveTheDate

PhD position on the ecology and evolution of animal memory! Please get in touch if you’re interested in joining us

🚨JOB alert 🚨
We are looking for a technician at full time 100% and permanent position 🙌🏽

The job is in the Behavioural Physiology lab @unineuchatel

Please see detailed description (in French) 👉🏼

recruitingapp-3040.umantis.com/Vacancies/60...

Deadline end of February

Spread the word 🙏🏽🧪

Come to the UK to do your best 🧪! We’re not that bad by some comparisons 😊

🚨 Come work with us, we’re hiring! 🚨
See below our 2 postdoc positions at @institutpasteur.bsky.social in Paris.
Funded by our ERC Synergy grant, this is a collaboration with the labs of Víctor Borrell in Spain ( @borrell-lab.bsky.social), Laurent Nguyen in Belgium and Kristian Franze in Germany
🧵⬇️

Reminder to send in your application and/or tell your students and colleagues about this PhD position! Review of applications will begin in a few weeks, though the position will remain open until filled

🚨 Postdoc position in Public Economics at Marburg University 🚨

Having worked on pretty much exactly that position, all I can say is: apply, apply, apply!

Nice city with all you need, great economics & business faculty, wonderful public econ group.

▶️ stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/0...

Deadline extended until 30th Nov!! Send your application through if you’re interested 🙌🏽

#PhD
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Excited to share I will be joining @UniNeuchatel as an assistant professor early 2025.

OFFER: 2 #PhDposition in the new lab. #1 is on zoo animals🐺🐒🦧 and saliva hormones, and #2 is on 🐠 cognition and brains 🧠
Deadline 20 Nov 2024 shorturl.at/NYvVd

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Princeton is hiring faculty in data science (all stages) in STEM, social sciences, humanities, and/or interdisciplinary research: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

Excited to share I will be joining @UniNeuchatel as an assistant professor early 2025.

OFFER: 2 #PhDposition in the new lab. #1 is on zoo animals🐺🐒🦧 and saliva hormones, and #2 is on 🐠 cognition and brains 🧠
Deadline 20 Nov 2024 shorturl.at/NYvVd

Spread the word 🙏🏽🧪

Last Plenary of #ECBB2024 and Tinbergen award winner by @zegnitriki.bsky.social 🐠 @asaborg.bsky.social

Zegni Triki receiving the Ethoges award certificate

Zegni Triki at the lectern with a slide reading “The brain cognition and ecology relationships: empircal evidence from fishes” Zegni triki university of bern switzerland

Finishing the #ECBB2024 conference with a plenary by Ethoges Tinbergen Award winner @zegnitriki.bsky.social ! We’ve learned that fish have very plastic brains, and their cognitive abilities are affected by factors like social enrichment and ecological selective pressures during ontogeny 🐟🐟🐟

Social complexity affects cognitive abilities but not brain structure in a Poeciliid fish Abstract. Some cognitive abilities are suggested to be the result of a complex social life, allowing individuals to achieve higher fitness through advanced

🌟New🌟 paper in @BehavEcol
We tested whether rearing fish 🐟 in different social environments for 6 months affects their brain 🧠 development and cognition 🧪

open-access
👉🏼 doi.org/10.1093/behe...

@snsf-ch.bsky.social
#fishSci
#brain #cognition

One Post-doctoral Position (100%, 36 months) at the Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), with a focus on psychometrics from Virtual Reality and ...

Postdoc and PhD positions with Guido Makransky and Ingo Zettler @sodas.bsky.social, on curiosity in children and adults. Mix of VR, psychometrics, experiments. Guido and Ingo are great and Copenhagen is a fantastic city.

PD: employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
PhD: employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

!!!Animal behaviour students!!!🐷🐵🐻🐦🐯

Would you like to become involved in a new student subcommittee for ASAB?  We are looking for some enthusiastic students from all levels to form this important new representation for the student voice.

More details ⬇️

Our visitor Audrey Proenca with local researchers at an outside table, with everyone in a good mood

Our brand new 2-year international Evolutionary Biology MSc program here in Mainz*) starts in October. Apply by May 15th ...or why not today or tomorrow?
www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-biologi...
*) a city that our today's visitor Audrey Proenca called "adorable". See how happy she looks with us!

Glad to be part of the #ProcB team
#RoyalSociety

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Interested in doing a PhD on what meerkats mean? Or know someone who might? Check out this great opportunity from with Marta Manser at the University of Zürich.
Deadline March 15th.

THE ROYAL SOCIETY PUBLISHING PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS B Submit a proposal to edit an influential themed issue in your field by 18 April. For more information, visit bit.ly/PTBproposals

Deadline coming up for proposals to edit an issue of Philosophical Transactions B: 18 April. Wide range of topics accepted and, as editorial board member & previous co-editor & contributor for issues, can confirm the process is efficient & even pleasant :)

Oxytocin and shared intentionality drive variation in cooperation in children bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

💥NEW Preprint💥

When allowed to talk and communicate, children (10-14 yo) show higher levels of cooperation facilitated by higher oxytocin levels 🤝 🧪

t.co/r1j1aSuhFN

#SocialBehaviour
#Oxytocin
#Cooperation
#PrisonerDilemma
#Children

@snsf-ch.bsky.social

Zurich ECBB 2024 with the outlines of a mountains and the silhouettes of guineafowl, a meerkat, a cockatoo and a mouse

A reminder that the abstract deadline for the ECBB "Long Term Studies in Animal Behaviour" conference is coming up on March 15!

More info here: www.ecbb.uzh.ch

Join us! I am looking for a Postdoc to join my WWTF VRG Group at the University of Vienna investigating nut-dropping behaviour in crows using biologging technology. Funding available for 3 years! All info here: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... Application deadline March 20th.
Please share widely!

This is a wonderful opportunity. Don't miss it out. #openscience #codereview #opencode

Thanks ☺️