Congratulations to both of you. Lovely photos :)

Hi folks! Does anyone have experience banding killdeer? Please reach out, if so! I have a friend who would love to pick your brain about techniques

Horrible, and yet another example of free speech fans found wanting when it comes to certain issues.

Grey and white cat sticking her tongue out

Her mocking me.

Laughing at the cat for checking behind the tv for the animals on the screen, but craning my neck in desperation when interesting behaviours go out of the frame in the videos I’m watching.

I don’t think I’ll get used to the idea of casually seeing marmosets while walking to work.

New OA paper @royalsocietypublishing.org: What can we learn from bonobos and bottlenose dolphins about the evolution of between-group cooperation?

royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Lovely collab with @lirsamuni.bsky.social Martin Surbeck and Richard Connor.

rememberinggazascholars.org

cOMPaRatiVe cOGNitiONHumans share acousticpreferences with other animalsLogan S. James1,2,3,4* Sarah C. Woolley 1,2, Jon T. Sakata1,2,Courtney B. Hilton5,6, Michael J. Ryan3,4, Samuel A. Mehr5,7,8Many animals produce courtship sounds, and receivers prefersome sounds over others. Shared ancestry and convergentevolution may generate similarities in preference across speciesand underlie Darwin’s conjecture that some animals “havenearly the same taste for the beautiful as we have.” In this study,we show that humans share acoustic preferences with a rangeof animals, that the strength of human preferences correlateswith that in other animals, and that humans respond fasterwhen in agreement with animals. Furthermore, we foundgreatest agreement in preference for adorned, ancestral, andlower-frequency sounds. humans’ music listening experiencewas associated with preferences. These results are consistentwith theories arguing that biases in processing sculpt acousticpreferences, and they confirm Darwin’s century-old hunchabout the conservation of aesthetics in nature

out now in Science: @loganjames.bsky.social collected pairs of sounds in 16 species where we *know* which sound is more attractive (to that species)

he played them to ppl on themusiclab.org, asking, in each pair, which was nicer. humans agreed w other animals

doi.org/10.1126/science.aea1202

I bought this when it came out in part because I’m an insect fan. I now recommend buying it as a Kuzhali Manickavel fan.

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friends you can now pre-order my novel from Waterstones and get 25% off if you use the code FEB26! support weird fiction about government girls schools today!

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The 12th season of FINE starts the 24th of February with an exciting program.
To register for weekly reminders and the video link
email social.evolution.seminar@gmail.com

Endemic koloa maoli (Hawaiian Duck, Anas wyvilliana) shows preferential social associations, but not based on plumage or genetic relatedness www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01...

🎉 Celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Join my inaugural lecture Social by Nature — exploring how social worlds shape animal minds
11 Feb 26 • 18:00–19:00 GMT • Cambridge + Online
Register: www.aru.ac.uk/events/inaug...
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Sifting through Animal Behavior Society newsletters and came across a castigation of the field made by Dutch ethologist Adriaan Kortlandt in 1990. He states, "Ethology is supposed to be the study of behaviour, but the behaviour has become invisible." He also used to fight goats during lectures.

Trying to decide what I want to put up in the new place, the prettier prints or the creepy ones.

Strategic third-party interventions in feral ungulate affiliation Abstract. Third-party interventions in agonistic behaviour play a key role in the maintenance of social relationships, but very little is known about how i

one of my favs paper from our Team in 2025: Strategic third-party interventions in feral ungulate affiliation url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... via @royalsocietypublishing.org 🐂

A black rumped flameback who spent time outside my parents’ house in Coimbatore.

A bookmark with some surreal themes and a little barn swallow.

An Indian grey hornbill. They were everywhere in Delhi, much to my delight.

A woman watching a bee eater. She missed her bus looking at the bird. Relatable.

Some bird art I made and liked in 2025.

Journal of Field Ornithology: Song-type sharing between male Rock Wrens in northern Colorado We examined song-type sharing and song-type co-occurrence among broadcast songs in a migratory population of a songbird with large and highly variable repertoire sizes, the Rock Wren (<em>Salpinctes o...

New paper examining song type sharing between Rock Wrens in NoCo, with @laurynbenedict.bsky.social journal.afonet.org/vol97/iss1/a...

I feel better not watching it, now.

What’s the worst one you saw this year?

A small but concrete task for today:

Sameer Project told us on 12/25 that it costs $38 for 1 blanket, which can help keep a family that is in their 3rd winter in genocide (😢) warm.

Can anyone join us today in donating the cost of one blanket to Sameer? Can you get 1 other person to join you?

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

A new year is a chance for new commitments. There's one you can make on any survival fund: click "weekly" or "monthly" (or stick the link in your calendar app) to ensure no family is forgotten.

Help SIX families & a displacement camp of fifteen more: chuffed.org/project/hope...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

Our friend Mai is facing a scary, lonely time with a high-risk pregnancy. She’s due in the next few days. Please continue to stand by her.

Help with nutritious food, medicine, diapers. It matters.

10 HOURS LEFT. Give/find her link here. 211/1000

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

Ten hours left; PLEASE SHARE. This goal is big because no one cared at all this week, but we need to make these weekly goals based on cost estimates from all six families & a camp—for their survival. Food, blankets, shelter.

This, or death. Our choice.

400/2482

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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

Friends, support had stopped before this news, and the needs are ongoing, and survival funds are still about survival, and we have to distribute to the families today and tomorrow, ok?

SIX families, food, water, medicine, 16 hours left. 0/640 chuffed.org/project/hope...

All I want is for them to remain this joyful always.