@awanib.bsky.social
PhD candidate at @univie.ac.at working on social integration and object play in common ravens. Interested in social behaviour, cognition, evolution.
π¨ JOB ALERT π¨
2-year postdoc in canine behaviour at LinkΓΆping University, Sweden.
#AcademicSky #ScienceJobs
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The first round of microgrants for 2026 is open! Apply here : https://opencollective.com/animal-behaviour-collective.
Attention - the first round of microgrants for 2026 is running!
Apply and read terms and conditions here : opencollective.com/animal-behav...
I am looking for a PhD student to join my new Socio-Eco-Evo group, hosted in Katie Peichel's Evolutionary Ecology Division @ University of Bern. We're offering a fully funded 4-year position, studying social plasticity and behavioral adaptation among stickleback in Greenland. Please share around!
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The University of Helsinki seeks a postdoctoral researcher in Statistical Ecology. Apply by Feb 28, 2026. Salary β¬3800-4000/month. Details: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/faculty-science/faculty/mathematics-and-statistics. #postdoc
01.02.2026 09:06 β π 6 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0Very happy to see our ice-fishing paper on the cover of @science.org this week! π£π
We tracked large groups of Finnish competitive ice-fishers to study how social foragers use social information when searching for resources. π
Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (contact me for open access)
Cow Tools!
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
π¨ PhD offer (please share)
Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? π¦π Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species
Deadline: 20 Feb 2026
Starting: June 2026
Supervision: Martins Briedis & me
Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh
Internships are now available with the Cornish Jackdaw Project! π¦ββ¬
Duties will include assisting with nest monitoring, bird ringing, data entry, and the potential to help with ongoing research projects.
New paper out!
Early-life social instability increases aggression in chickens, but does not affect response inhibition π€
We discuss what this means for developmental links between social environments, cognition, and social behaviour, highlighting strong context dependence
Full text: rdcu.be/eYOzC
Paper alert β οΈβ οΈβ οΈ. Check out our last preprint on bird gestures. Great work By Mylene and collegue and my first empirical paper on non-primates :-). Not only do we confirm that the "after-you" gesture is indeed symbolic in tits but we also found that nestlings use this gesture for another function.
09.01.2026 20:41 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0Thank you! π
12.01.2026 14:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you for reposting the working link! π Not sure what went wrong with the first one.
12.01.2026 10:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The product of a long and intense project, but an excellent collaboration and learning experience with @varalikajain.bsky.social
11.01.2026 14:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
β¨New paperβ¨
How do juvenile ravens find social groups?
We describe how juvenile common ravens, who have left their natal territories seeking to join non-breeder flocks, use space with respect to other birds, and discuss what this means for social integration.
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Another new year job opportunity! Join the Isle of May @ukceh.bsky.social team in #Edinburgh, studying six species of #seabird π¦
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Deadline is 16th January. #ecology #seabirds #scotland
Please repost: π¨Field assistant position π§
We offer a 14-months field assistant position through the French Polar Institute to work on king penguin ecophysiology and behavioral ecology.
Requirements: EU citizen < 30yo having experience with harsh fieldwork & wild bird/mammal handling/sampling.
I had the honour of working to bring @auersperga.bsky.socialβs baby to life. Itβs a VERY heavy baby - over 200 references (and yes I read them all) - but necessary to do justice to our new hypothesis of combinatory tool use origins ππΆπ οΈ
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A very nice end to the year: my PhD work on the development of differentiated social relationships in wild Asian elephants is now published in Ethology!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Looking for a Postdoc position and have a background in bioacoustics and animal cognition? Interested in whether other animals might have something akin to language? Join our team: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeaw-home...
19.12.2025 14:08 β π 20 π 18 π¬ 0 π 0Excited to share that the second paper of my PhD is now published!
Kea but not cockatoos are susceptible to a bait-and-switch magic trick. And check out that thermal imaging! β€οΈβπ₯
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Fully funded #PhD studentships, start Sept 2026:
1. Weaponry and aggression in wild fiddler crabs, with me, Safi Darden, Martin How tinyurl.com/weaponsPhD
2. The emotional basis of behaviour, with me, Danny Williamson, Andy Higginson tinyurl.com/emotionsPhD
#AnimalBehaviour @crab-exeter.bsky.social
Job alert! Fully funded PhD position on the link between curiosity and cognition in lemurs at our long-term field site Kirindy Forest in Madagascar @kirindy.bsky.social & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. This project is part of @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social.
Apply here: www.dpz.eu
JOB ALERT! π¦ππΏ
Are you passionate about #Birds, #Ecology, #Fieldwork, #Research?
The University of Salford is looking for a #ResearchTechnician to assist with ecological monitoring of #Ringneckedparakeets in Manchester, UK.
More info & how to apply π
Hurry! Closes 15 Dec
@salforduni.bsky.social
The University of Exeter has 4 fully funded PhD studentships starting September 2026. Details and deadlines: "Weaponry in Fiddler Crabs" (1/8/26) https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/award/?id=5758. More info on other projects available. #phd
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The Newton International Fellowships will open on 15 January.
Changes to the eligibility criteria and selection process for this early career scheme have been made to ensure we can continue to run the scheme in a sustainable way:
#RSGrants
https://royalsociety.org/grants/newton-international/
Ella holds a fluffy and sleepy looking toutouwai chick during banding and fits an orange band to its leg
PhD scholarship alert! Are you interested in cognitive evolution? Do you want to know how development influences cognitive traits? Do you love hanging out with birds in the forest? If the answer to these questions is yes, please apply to work with us! 1/2 π§ͺ
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
Interested in #RaptorResearch and #MovementEcology? π§ͺ
The #AnimalEcology Lab at @utu.fi has an open #PhDposition!
Weβll be tagging WTEs with cutting-edge #GPS devices to study their early-life journeys.
Curious to learn more? See the advert: shorturl.at/HMZ84
#PhDOpening #PhDChat #BioLogging
Affenberg Research Station is looking for motivated students ready for their master internship! Want to work with Japanese macaques in Austria? Write to us at aο¬enberg.lewi@univie.ac.at and apply! affenberg.univie.ac.at
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The problems with academic publishing in one graph. The big for-profit publishers get product for free and sell it back to us. Their profits rival those from the big tech companies. This is money that could have supported research, teaching and graduate students.
From: danielroelfs.com/pos...
We kindly invite every PhD candidate to present their research to the CoBeNe community at the PhD academy. It is an excellent opportunity to practice presenting in a friendly environment and receive input on the topic.
Abstract Submission Deadline: 01.12.2025!
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