Urban wildlife interactions aren’t straightforward🐿️🏘️
In #Berlin gardens, red squirrels occur more with higher tree cover and in autumn. Plus they tend to avoid cats🐱 but show no clear patterns with foxes, raccoons, or martens🦊🦝***New paper out @wildlifebiology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/wlb3...
Great tit perched on a branch, with beak slightly open. Photo credit: Alizée Vernouillet
📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us:
🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦
Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social
📆29th May deadline
More info: tinyurl.com/yz28s96x
Apply: tinyurl.com/2wpkb64y
#cognition #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #birds
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📌Save the date: from 30.09-02.10.2026 the Joint Graduate Meeting in Animal Behaviour will take place @uni-muenster.de, sponsored by @ethoges.bsky.social and the DZG. No registration fees🤗
Take the chance, visit Münster, present your research, build and grow your peer network. More information soon
🐦 New PhD position!
@prfju.bsky.social @ckecz.bsky.social
Nest defence in passerine birds
Interested in animal behaviour, fieldwork and evolutionary ecology?
📅 Start July 2026 | ⏳ 4 years | 💰 Fully funded
Apply by May 10 → veselp03@jcu.cz / krausl07@jcu.cz
#PhDjobs #PhDchat #PhD #ornithology
ETHOLOGY - Call for papers - Special issue "Wildlife in Urban Spaces – Adaptations and Human Perceptions" 🦌🏙️💁♀️
Submission deadline: Saturday, 31 October 2026
We are offering two 4-year PhD positions in our new SNF project "The Evolutionary Roots of Altercentrism"
New paper out: this is the 3rd ch. from my M.Sc.-thesis that started in 2019! How did the toxin glands as well as the composition of the toxins secreted from these glands change after an African toad invaded novel ranges and what are potential drivers of these changes?
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
a house mouse interacting with a problem-solving setup in a seminatural enclosure
Are innovators born that way, or does solving problems come from experience?🐭
In our recent(ish) paper in @asab.org with @valmazza.bsky.social & Anja Guenther, we show innovation may be inherent in wild house mice and experience makes innovators better!
paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123441
📢One week left to apply! To promote research on #animal #behaviour in Greece, we are organizing a 3 day workshop on methods, from social evolution to collective behaviour 🐭🐟🐦🐒✨
📍 Crete☀️
🗓️ July 13-15
🌐 marinapapa.github.io/TRASEworksho...
Supported by @biologists.bsky.social 🙏
DM for questions!
Rhythm is everywhere! Big congrats to Chloé, Yannick, and Andrea for this smashing new paper, and thanks for putting Laura and me in the gang! Read more at nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
💶🧿 Value illusions in insects 🐝🐜🦗
Insects make many of the same weird choices we do, and fall for many of the same marketing tricks - but not all!
A very short piece by Tanya Latty and me
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
📢 Mark your calendars for the Joint Graduate Meeting 2026, sponsored by @ethoges.bsky.social and the German Zoological Society (DZG)!
Don't miss this fantastic opportunity to showcase your research & network with peers!
📆 30.09. - 02.10.2026
🌍 @uni-muenster.de
Abstract submission will open soon.
New PhD alert! We'll be applying animal welfare ideas to look at how stress affects bees, looking at the effect on bee brains with @lenariab.bsky.social, and working with @sensibee.bsky.social developing new monitoring methods.
Please spread the word! #bees #PhD 🧪
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
*New paper* 🚨 We explore how #spatialfactors reflect people’s reported #attitudes, encounters (public #feeding & #bin-raiding), & pest control towards the world's most #urbanised #carnivore, calling for more locally-tailored #coexistence strategies 🦊 🌍 🌃
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Interested in understanding how bumblebees are responding to climate change?
Well look no further than a competition funded PhD position with me and Rachael Dudaniec at Macquarie University, Sydney 🇦🇺
Details below ⬇️
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Two PhD positions in fish physiology with an amazing supervisor, @rachaelmorgan.bsky.social ! 🧪🐟
Tell your friends!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Zebra finches in Australia; one of the study organisms for the PhD
Dwarf mongoose staring at a camera in South Africa; one of the PhD study organisms
📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us
❓Quantifying animal #movement patterns & behavioural #interactions in a changing world
👥Joint position in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #MacquarieUniversity
📆19th April deadline
tinyurl.com/343acaev
#maths #modelling #data #fieldwork #Australia
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🚨Job alert!🚨 The Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS announces 2 junior Professor (W1) positions:
A W1 Tenure track Professorship in Evolutionary Modelling (shorturl.at/FN102) and a W1 Professorship (non Tenure-track) in Primatology (shorturl.at/sH0Mk)
Deadline: April 6 2026! Please share! 🔄
🧪 ETHOLOGY: Who makes roe deer more vigilant? 👀🦌
Torretta et al. found that human disturbance, not wolf presence, is linked to higher vigilance in roe deer. Deer were also less vigilant in natural habitats and in larger groups. Read here, it's #OpenAccesss: doi.org/10.1111/eth.... #PredationRisk
Workshop on Animal Social Evolution! July 13th-15th, Heraklion (Greece)
We are inviting early-career researchers from Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean to a hands-on, three-day workshop dedicated to methods and tools in social behaviour and evolution
marinapapa.github.io/TRASEworksho...
Please repost! We are looking for two field technicians to work on our deer mouse project in the Colorado Rockies this spring-fall. Learn about physiology, ecology, and evolution, all in one project! Not to mention that you get to be in the ⛰️. Reach out if you have any questions.
New paper out on the decision strategies of bumblebees. When using visual cues to make flower choices, they switch strategy with sensory context, learning as much as necessary, but as little as possible. Based on their training time, we propose a mechanism for this switch. tinyurl.com/2r9d4jrs 🌸🐝🧠
Is your cat truly happy? New research provides answers 🥼
We all think our cats are doing great 🐈 our study of 400+ caretakers found an average quality of life score of 89/100. But when we looked more closely, the picture was more nuanced
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...
#CatWelfare #AnimalWelfare #Cats
How and why does cognition vary so greatly between individuals and species? In @natrevbiodiv.nature.com, we propose the "Predatory Intelligence Hypothesis" which posits that the cognitive challenges associated with predator–prey interactions drive a cognitive co-evolutionary arms race
rdcu.be/e5KIj
🦎 Funded 4-year PhD position on Lizard Evolutionary Ecology in our lab at UCLouvain (Belgium)! Apply before 9 March! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...
🚨 Job Alert: Professorship in Evolutionary Anthropology / Primatology at University of Zurich, focused on understanding evolutionary and cultural evolutionary foundations of gender-based inequality and violence, with research in non-human primates.
jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
A fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) sitting on pavement with forearms strethced out.
Are individuals with more flashy aposematic coloration bolder? We asked this question using fire salamanders! Check out our new study in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology:
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
