Camille Troisi

🦎 Funded 4-year PhD position on Lizard Evolutionary Ecology in our lab at UCLouvain (Belgium)! Apply before 9 March! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...

Hiring for 3 positions: Research Assistant, Field Research Coordinator, and Postdoc I am looking to hire 3 people into my lab this year. I am still doing the paperwork to get the jobs officially posted but I want to send the word out and screen potential applications right away. R…

I am hiring a research assistant (vampire bats), a Panama fieldwork coordinator (vampire bats), and also considering postdoc apps (social behavior, any species): socialbat.org/2026/02/19/h...

Nest box for great tits hanging in the modèle of an old tree covered in ivy

New nest boxes installations on campus. A bit late in the season, but lets hope the great tits find them useful!
Thanks to the CNER for their help in following the population this year.

Recent breeding experience improves egg ejection behaviour Abstract. Recognizing one’s own eggs is crucial for birds, especially for hosts of brood parasites that must identify and reject different-looking parasiti

Hot off the press 🐣 Do birds have any idea of what their eggs look like? Contrary to our expectations, we show that barn swallows don't, nor do they learn it over time. Yet that doesn't stop them from successfully ejecting foreign eggs!
🔗 Read more here: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... #OpenAccess

L’AUBE & le CNER s’associent pour vous proposer une série de 3 mini-conférences ! 🤗

🗓️ Rendez-vous le mardi 17 février à 18 h 30 dans l’amphi C du bâtiment 2A (campus de Beaulieu) pour écouter 3 étudiants en master présenter des thèmes qui les passionnent.

Welcoming cocktail

Poster session

Ana Rodrigues talk

Nature excursion

The Ecology & Behaviour conference is still looking for a new French organizing team for a future edition.
An inclusive, international & free conference run by early-career researchers, let’s keep it alive!
👉 Get in touch with us and check the website: ecobhvr2025.sciencesconf.org

Many thanks to all co-authors involved: @vernouilleta.bsky.social and members of the @ecobird.bsky.social lab (not on bluesky), especially those with whom I've shared long hours in the field! Massive thanks to reviewers and editor who really invested time and energy help improve these papers
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In part 2 we apply this framework across three tasks, and test the performance of herring and lesser black-backed gulls in the detour task, the thwarting task (often used with fish) and the stop-change task (developed from the human cognition literature) 🐦
Part 2: rdcu.be/e2pyI
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We explain how this framework applies to the main tasks used to measure response inhibition in the field of animal cognition
Part 1: rdcu.be/e2pyN
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the nature of the ’stop’ stimulus (external vs internal), the timing of this ‘stop’ stimulus relative to the ‘go’ stimulus (do both appear at the same time vs one after the other) and the type of response that needs to be inhibited (single discrete action vs repetitive ongoing action)
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In part 1 we build up a framework that could explain the lack of consistency between task. We highlight the importance of both the going and stopping processes. But within the stopping process, there are important task features that can impact individual performance:
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Close up of a herring gull, with red around the yellow eye, and a red spot on the lower beak

🚨Not one, but two papers now out on response inhibition (also called motoric self-regulation or inhibitory control in the field of animal cognition). Many studies find no link between individual performance on different tasks supposedly measuring response inhibition.
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Replication studies: a win-win for early-career training and behavioral ecology Replicating previous research builds confidence that results are real and meaningful. But close replications are rare due to limitations in resources and d

How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications.

My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/

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🔬 C'est la Journée des femmes et filles de science ! #FemmesEnSciences #11février

Envie de découvrir (ou faire découvrir) des femmes scientifiques ? J'ai rassemblé plein de ressources ici ⬇️
www.linkedin.com/pulse/envie-...

Et mon starter pack de chercheuses sur bluesky go.bsky.app/TBEzKC

When studying animal physiology we carefully control temperature, oxygen…but often ignore who animals live with.

Social context such as parents (1), social environment (2), litter mates (3) can shape physiology and later plasticity (4). We discuss it in this commentary 👉 doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Open PhD position - please share with potential candidates.
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The relationship between childhood exploration and population-level innovation in cultural evolution Abstract. The societal effects of children’s learning in cultural evolution have been underexplored. Here, we investigate using agent-based models how a pr

"The relationship between childhood exploration and population-level innovation in cultural evolution" with @ndersen.bsky.social @sheinalew.bsky.social @felixthehauskat.bsky.social out in Proc B

royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Humans are transforming the natural world at an unprecedented scale and rate. We, at #UCLouvain 🇧🇪, are organizing a symposium on how organisms, populations, and communities respond to these human-induced environmental changes. April 29–30, 2026! Join us: www.uclouvain.be/en/research-...

Have you ever wondered how animals were using affective states to cope with our activities?

Here's our NEW PAPER (and my first) that tells you everything you need to know and how much should we feel concerned by the consequences of our activities besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

There is still some time to submit for our Special Collection on social cognition and anthropogenic environments! We are looking forward to hear from you! link.springer.com/collections/... Please do get in touch if you have any questions.
#openaccess #socialcognition

Woman in brown shirt in front of poster on recruitment and contact calls in zosterops

Great work from @estelle-meaux.bsky.social on the use of contact calls in a recruitment context in white-eyes (and support from former lab member @mdiquelou.bsky.social ) #ASABWinter2025
@ethos-research.bsky.social

"Excuse-me, I think you dropped something : Unexpected factors involved in physical understanding of hands movements by mangabeys"
If you missed my poster this evening, come chat with me about it tomorrow #ASABwinter2025 @ethos-research.bsky.social

I'm recruiting a PhD student to study how predation shapes animal cognition and the conservation opportunities of animal cognition. Lots of fun field work in beautiful places : )

Please share !!

www.eifwooster.org/opportunities

📣Please share: We are looking for a field assistant to join our team in studying #ruffs on coastal meadows at Botnian Bay in Finland. The job will provide fantastic insights into lekking behaviour and provide essential skills in field ornithology. Details here www.bi.mpg.de/2790786/2512...

📢We have a brilliant #PhD opportunity on collective animal behaviour across vertebrates! Deadline early 2026 so plenty of time to prepare, feel free to reach out for more info if you are interested in applying 👀

All details below👇

Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage - Biological market monitoring and manipulation in social animals at Unive... PhD Project - Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage - Biological market monitoring and manipulation in social an...

Looking for a #PhD?
Interested in #SocialBehaviour #BiologicalMarkets #Fieldwork?
Want to be based in #Bristol?
Check out this project with me, @ljnbrent.bsky.social & #PatrickKennedy:

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For UK-domiciled Black-heritage applicants
Get in touch for more information
Please #share

The cognitive ecology of wild bumblebees

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...

#CrowCoG is hiring🚨MULTIPLE PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS 🚨for our 2026 field season (May - Sep)! Field and aviary-based positions - come help us study the remarkable tool-making New Caledonian crows. Apply here: bit.ly/3WlxxHE

Very timely special issue! If you’re working on how human altered environments impact social cognition (social learning, decisions in a context, communication…) or how social cognition can help deal with the challenges and opportunities of human altered environnements, consider submitting!