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A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.

This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

Help us improve Movebank: During 2026, we will undertake a major renewal of the Movebank system to build scalability and sustainability. What does Movebank mean for you? How could it better support your work? Your feedback will be highly appreciated! Survey: survey.academiccloud.de/f/221856?lan...

The value of close replications and how to get more of them: interview with Kate Laskowski Welcome to our latest interview with the author of a recent interesting paper. Today’s interview was conducted by email with behavioral ecologist Kate Laskowski, first author ofLaskowski et a…

Stoked about the new Replication Studies section in Behavioral Ecology? Me too!

Jeremy Fox over at Dynamic Ecology interviewed me about our recent commentary on this topic and I'd love to hear the community's thoughts!

dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/t...

Duration between rewards controls the rate of behavioral and dopaminergic learning - Nature Neuroscience Cue–reward learning rate scales proportionally with the time between rewards. Consequently, learning over a fixed duration is independent of the number of trials. This challenges trial-based dopamine ...

Very excited to post our paper led by @daburke.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... where we uncover a simple mathematical rule underlying how brains learn that a cue predicts a reward. 1/26

High-precision tracking of human foragers reveals adaptive social information use in the wild Foraging complexity and competitive social challenges are considered key drivers of human cognition. Yet, the decision-making mechanisms that underlie social foraging in the real world remain unknown....

By tracking anglers during real-world ice fishing competitions in Finland, a new study in Science shows that human foragers—previously thought to be solitary decision makers—rely heavily on social information in shaping decisions.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/4qcViOH

When the city comes to you, get flexible; when you go to the city, be persistent Researchers find that foraging behavior breadth, persistence, and variability of flexibility could facilitate a rapid geographic range expansion

Urban #bird species' key to success: flexibility & persistence. New studies on #grackles by Corina Logan, @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy‬, Kelsey McCune & colleagues in @peercomjournal.bsky.social. #TheGrackleProject tinyurl.com/yh5ruyr8 & doi.org/10.24072/pcj... & doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

Is there a recording of this one could watch? 👀

René with some good suggestions during his workshop on peer review and scientific criticism on when and how to ignore suggestions by reviewers or editors, such as when they ask to drop non-significant results, or add hypotheses.

Coming up! iRISE (improving Reproducibility In SciencE) is hosting 3 free virtual train-the-trainer workshops:

2/4: Intro to Reproducibility
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2/18: Preregistration
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3/4: Equity, Diversity & Inclusion in Research
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Improving human–wildlife coexistence at University of St Andrews on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Improving human–wildlife coexistence at University of St Andrews, listed on FindAPhD.com

Anyone looking for a PhD in movement ecology, check this out!

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The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis

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Want your modelling to save birds? PhD with me at UvA (Amsterdam): build spatial integrated population model for black-tailed godwits with world-class dataset and strong team here & @birdeyes-gfn.bsky.social/RUG). werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... Apply by 1 Dec 2025: #Ecology #Bayesian #Conservation

PhD Fellow in Ecology/Ecosystem-Based Management (289259) | UiT The Arctic University of Norway Job title: PhD Fellow in Ecology/Ecosystem-Based Management (289259), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Sunday, December 7, 2025

We are hiring: #PhD fellow in Ecosystem-based management and marine connectivity🐋🧪🛰️

Want to work with tracking data from migratory species to identify ecological corridors and help inform biodiversity conservation priorities?
Apply by Dec 7th!
@bioprotectproject.bsky.social
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Welfare and biologging - this one is going straight to the top of my reading list

Check out our new preprint, led by @melinaleite.bsky.social “Dispersion tests in generalised linear mixed-effects models - a methods comparison and practical guide” ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

It's #FlourescenceFriday ! This is the optic tectum of a ring-billed gull brain. The red areas are made up of very young neurons, while the green are mature. The egg-shaped structure in the top left part is the nucleus pretectalis principalis, which plays a role in processing visual information.

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Male caregiving experience alters hippocampal neuroplasticity and transcription independent of reproduction in a biparental species - Communications Biology Caregiving in male California mice induces hippocampal neuroplasticity and transcriptional changes independent of reproduction.

If some right-wing pundit says that "men are not biologically made to care for children" or similar BS, show them this paper by Colt et al 2025: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

It's #FossilFriday again! 🙂 Another fossil from Akpatok Island, Northern Québec (Inuit Land).

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

Happy #FossilFriday ! I found these a few days ago on Akpatok Island, Northern Québec. This island, which is Inuit land, is crawling with all kinds of fossilized creatures. 🥰

Today is International Women’s Day! It’s an important day for us (although the R-Ladies mission is not limited to women). 💜Who are we? R-Ladies is a worldwide organization whose mission is to promote gender diversity in the R community.

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This is one reason why I encourage all my trainees to do at least one meta-analysis. It changes the way you report your results because you'll never forget tearing your hair out trying to calculate effect sizes and variances from papers that don't report their results in sufficient detail

Happy #FluorescenceFriday from an ecologist dabbling in neuroscience 😉 On this image you see a ring-billed gull hippocampus (posterior end; DAPI stained). We are investigating the relationship between fine-scale foraging movement and hippocampal measures - results coming soon!
#birdbrains
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So glad that @nature.com is publicly standing strong against Trumpmania: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

As a person on the autism spectrum, this feels relevant to share now more than ever

How can we make sound replication decisions? | PNAS Replication and the reported crises impacting many fields of research have become a focal point for the sciences. This has led to reforms in publis...

Nice read from @pnas.org: "How can we make sound replication decisions?"

Recruiting a #PhD student to work on collective behaviour in real and artificial systems. Oct 2025 start. Working with @shoalgroup.bsky.social, Rob Heathcote, @willallennz.bsky.social, @joefresna.bsky.social, @marinapapap.bsky.social Advert: www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Deadline: 24.02