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Animal Behaviour
Volume 231, January 2026, 123423
Sex Specific nutritional requirements of mating in insects with contrasting mating systems
C. Ruth Archer, Matthew R. Carey , Charles E. Grant , Clarissa House, Amy Molotoks , Enrique del Castillo, Zeya Wagner, John Hunt
π¦Insects! π₯Nutrient ratios! βοΈSex differences! π₯Reproductive investment!
Our #EditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:
βSex-specific nutritional requirements of mating in insects with contrasting mating systemsβ
Read here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123423
23.01.2026 15:39 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Call for Papers
Dipterans for Biological Control and Pollination
Submission deadline: Saturday, 28 February 2026
Many flies (order Diptera) are beneficial to humans and provide valuable ecosystem services. In particular, various dipterans act as biological control agents of pest insects and/or as pollinators of crops, and their role in ecosystems is increasingly recognized. Traditionally, the focus of biological control and pollination has been on a restricted number of species, mainly hymenopterans, such as parasitic wasps and bumblebees. However, there exists an enormous natural diversity of insect species, in particular dipterans, that may be used for such services as well. The main entomophagous flies that prey on or parasitize agricultural pests are hoverflies (Syrphidae) and tachinid flies (Tachinidae). Other examples of predatory or parasitoid groups are robber flies (Asilidae), phorid flies (Phoridae), bee flies (Bombyliidae), flesh flies (Sarcophagidae) and elephant mosquitoes (Culicidae). In addition to hoverflies, the main dipterans that pollinate plants are bee flies, flesh flies and blow flies (Sarcophagidae and Calliphoridae), midges (Ceratopogonidae), tangle-veined flies (Nemestrinidae) and tachinid flies.
Few efforts are being directed towards developing these alternative species for exploitation and application in pest control and crop pollination. With this Special Issue, we aim to contribute to filling the knowledge gaps about the biology, production, exploitation and application of dipterans that are useful for biological control and pollination, often playing both ecosystem services. We aim to cover both fundamental studies on the biology and ecosystem role of these flies as well as applied research into their rearing and application.
We welcome mini-reviews and original research articles that advance our understanding of dipterans in biological control and pollination.
The journal @ento-ea.bsky.social has a Call for Papers on the topic of Dipterans for Biological Control and Pollination.
Submission deadline: Saturday, 28 February 2026
#Entomology
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π¨ Postdoctoral Opportunity for Female Scientistsπ¨
The University of Vienna is awarding at least 20 fully funded 4 year postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists
Interested? Get in touch via direct message
careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...
#MicroSky π§ͺ
#PostDoc @univie.ac.at
19.12.2025 00:24 β π 97 π 116 π¬ 0 π 3
Associate Professor in Zoology with focus on ecology and evolution
Associate Professor in Zoology with focus on ecology and evolution
Stockholm University's Department of Zoology seeks an Associate Professor in Animal Ecology and Evolution. Deadline: Feb 28, 2026. More info: https://su.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:883922/where:4/ #job
17.12.2025 05:50 β π 9 π 17 π¬ 0 π 1
Header: ECBB 2026 Plenary Speakers
Image of Dr Bibiana Rojas, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna
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Main interests in the interface between behavioural and evolutionary ecology
Aspects of communication, animal colouration, predator-prey interactions, aggression, parental care, and life history trade-offs
The effects of anthropogenic activities such as habitat alteration and contamination on the life history, health and behaviour of amphibians
We know you're jumping with excitement to find out the penultimate ECBB 2026 plenary speaker so we won't keep you waiting much longer!
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It's the marvellous @biobiiana.bsky.social!
16.12.2025 13:44 β π 16 π 8 π¬ 0 π 1
Caption: Every December, the team of marine biologists draw lots to decide who will take Mister Wiggles home with them for the holidays.
Image: Five small figures take small pieces of paper from a hat. Behind them a colossal squid waits in an enormous tank set upon a gigantic trolley.
A Christmas cartoon from my new book of science cartoons PHYSICS FOR CATS. In good bookshops and online now: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
17.12.2025 12:56 β π 844 π 215 π¬ 7 π 7
A new PhD opportunity in Melbourne!
12.12.2025 02:29 β π 9 π 10 π¬ 0 π 0
Thrilled to announce a Postdoc opportunity in our group on the evolutionary genetics and ecology of colour. Wonderful system, great collaborators, and room to shape your own ideas.
Apply by 7 Jan: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...
12.12.2025 14:56 β π 74 π 63 π¬ 0 π 4
Really fun venue at the ZOOlogy conference 2025!
09.12.2025 11:13 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
π¨Two funded PhDs on the evolutionary ecology of antipredator colouration π¦ with myself and Iliana Medina.
One in Swansea tinyurl.com/4thtbph6 deadline Jan 12th @crocus-dla.bsky.social
The other in Melbourne - deadline Jan 1st
Please share among potential students!
01.12.2025 14:39 β π 38 π 48 π¬ 0 π 0
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 π§΅
21.11.2025 15:48 β π 28 π 12 π¬ 3 π 0
Funded PhD NERC GW4+ DLTP - Social monitoring and manipulation of cooperative exchanges at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Funded PhD NERC GW4+ DLTP - Social monitoring and manipulation of cooperative exchanges at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com
πFully funded #PhDπ
Social monitoring and manipulation of cooperative exchanges.
#NERC funding
With @ljnbrent.bsky.social, #PatrickKennedy & me.
Based in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#LongtermData #Fieldwork
#Mongooses #Macaques
Deadline: 8th Jan 2026
Please share!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
20.11.2025 14:00 β π 12 π 14 π¬ 0 π 0
Back working with the birds!
06.11.2025 19:05 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and applyπ
shorturl.at/WA1Qa
Would appreciate a re-post!
@evoldir.bsky.social
05.11.2025 08:38 β π 51 π 79 π¬ 0 π 4
Colour-ringed long-tailed tit
π¨ Come join the fantastic long-tailed tit team π¨
π¦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds).
πͺΆ20 months contract in Sheffield, UK.
π²Deadline: 23/11/2025.
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...
05.11.2025 09:32 β π 48 π 49 π¬ 2 π 0
Awards β Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V.
Award alert! ποΈπ¨ Every other year, the Ethologische Gesellschaft awards the Niko Tinbergen Award to outstanding post-doc level researchers in Behavioural Biology (<=6yrs post PhD exam).
...and this year is one of these years! Please send us your nominations! π«΅ Infos: www.etho-ges.de/wordpress/aw...
31.10.2025 14:59 β π 19 π 23 π¬ 0 π 0
Excellent project led by @disnatalie.bsky.social Come and work with us at @niooknaw.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social!
24.10.2025 11:34 β π 6 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
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...
20.10.2025 19:43 β π 101 π 152 π¬ 5 π 2
Career Opportunities: Posdoctoral researcher in toxin susceptibility and evolution of resistance in insects (22517)
I'm looking to recruit a post-doc to help push forward our growing interests in insect ecotoxicology.
Apply here by Nov 30th!
(thanks for reposting)
career5.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...
16.10.2025 12:18 β π 31 π 37 π¬ 0 π 2
Postdoctoral Researcher in Chemical Ecology
Postdoctoral Researcher in Chemical Ecology
A postdoc position on evolutionary chemical defence in ladybird beetles is available with Dr. John Sloggett at Maastricht University. Apply by Nov 2: https://vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Chemical-Ecology/1329272957/ #postdoc
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Front cover of the European Butterfly Red List, showing Polyommatus humedasae. The report can be downloaded at https://www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?name=red-list-butterflies-2025
The new European Butterfly Red List is published today, with worrying findings. Over 1/4 (28%) of Europeβs 442 species are threatened with extinction or are close to being so. The situation is far worse for our 148 endemic species, 40% are now threatened or nearly so www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...
11.10.2025 09:17 β π 166 π 107 π¬ 3 π 5
A Museum specimen of now extinct Madeiran Large White, Pieris wollastoni (Photo: Sam Ellis)
We are also deeply saddened that the Madeiran Large White, Pieris wollastoni, is now officially extinct: it was last seen in 1986. The full report can be downloaded here www.bc-europe.eu/documents/68...
11.10.2025 09:34 β π 50 π 22 π¬ 1 π 1
Out today in @plosbiology.org (1/5)
Siblings and non-parental adults provide alternative pathways to cultural inheritance in juvenile great tits π¦π§©
Link to study:
10.0.5.91/journal.pbio...
Co-authors:
@lucymaplin.bsky.social
@galarconnieto.bsky.social
09.10.2025 18:06 β π 68 π 25 π¬ 2 π 1
π¨ Calling researchers, students, technicians in cognition π¨
Weβre running a 10-min anonymous survey on how animal cognition is defined and studied across disciplines (from ecology, ethology, psychology, neurology, etc). π§ β¨
Scan the QR code & share widely
#AnimalCognition #ResearchSurvey #Science
10.09.2025 09:01 β π 10 π 15 π¬ 0 π 1
Professor of Behavioural Ecology @ Bristol | social behaviour, vocal communication, cooperation, conflict, global change biology | love teaching and mentoring | love family time more
https://www.bio.bris.ac.uk/research/behavior/Vocal_Communication/
Ornithologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno
https://www.ivb.cz/en/person/michal-sulc/
Weβre the museum looking deeper into the Earthβs past to shape a new future where both people and planet thrive.
Protecting the planet, itβs in our nature. π
Behavioural ecologist interested in sensory ecology of social behaviour and predator-prey interactions. Royal Society University Research Fellow.
University of Oxford
Movement ecologist @ecobird.bsky.social at Universiteit Gent. Behaviour of birds, spatial statistics. PhD on European nightjar individual variation. Runner, crocheter, Border Terrier owner.
Postdoc in elephant behavioural ecology at The University of Hong Kong π π± π³οΈβπ
Technically an anthropologist. Postdoc at the Data Diversity Lab, University of Arizona. Building a database of animal cultures.
https://kiranbasava.weebly.com/
Professor of Animal Behaviour. www.SHOALgroup.org
We promote the study of animal behaviour, organise conferences, fund research & support the teaching of animal behaviour. Co-publisher of #AnimalBehaviourJournal. Posts by @raccoonologist.bsky.social. For meeting posts, follow @asab-meetings.bsky.social
Lecturer, Newcastle University
ASAB Communications Officer
PhD, MSc Primate Conservation, BSc Psychology: Specialisms - animal behaviour, behavioural ecology, cognition, animal welfare, conservation, primatology & human-animal interactions.
PhD student researching birds of paradise |
Interested in avian rhythm and βdanceβ ππ»πΊπΌ|
Love music, nature, bouldering, and exploring wild places π΄ |
he/him |
University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna
We are a collective of animal behaviour researchers organising microgrants and mentorship for undergraduate & graduate students in animal behaviour
PhD Candidate studying the neural mechanisms of empathy at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
Energized by the synergy of teamwork and interdisciplinary collaboration
Planned to defend in 2026
π¦ animal colour, phenotypic plasticity, PCMs, anti-predator, looking for Postdoc | runner
PhD student at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge; studying biomechanics and evolution of insect-plant interactions
Postdoc at Andy Clark and Mariana Wolfner Labs @Cornell. PhD at University of Arkansas. Phenotypic plasticity, sexual selection, social environments, plant-insect interactions, πͺ°π¦π. πββ¬π± parent!
Animal social behaviour and cognition.
https://caglarakcay.wordpress.com/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sZ4qvtwAAAAJ&hl=en
Behaviour 2025 is the 38th International Ethological Congress to be hosted at Kolkata, India. Save the dates: 25-30 August, 2025. #Behaviour2025
For more details, check out our website: https://behaviourindia2025.in
Behavioural Ecologist. PhD student, University of St Andrews. She/Her. I watch bugs eat each other (research area: evolutionary ecology of sibling cannibalism).
Interested in sensory & thermal ecology, animal colouration, biomechanics and more :P | Copious drinker of chai | πΈπ¦π‘οΈ| β½
Current - Research Fellow @ STRI Panama studying tropical butterflies
