New 🦍 💭 paper in @psychscience.bsky.social
We continue to ask simple questions that are hard to answer
"Individual Differences in Great Ape Cognition Across Time and Domains: Stability, Structure, and Predictability"
Bonus: Rasch models in the supplement 🤓
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The Unfolding World: Causal & Physical Cognition in Humans and Other Animals (April 24-25)
We're bringing together comparative, computational, developmental, vision science & philosophy for a workshop on causal reasoning + intuitive physics!
If you're in the Cambridge (UK) area, check it out! ⬇️
Support PSGB Through Crafts and Souvenirs! Are you heading into the field this year? If so, we invite you to bring back more than just data and memories. (see 🧵)
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
🙏Please Share
🔁 REA_research
The #MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 call is open!
€399M in EU funding will support around 1,600 researchers: link.europa.eu/t6jYb3
🔵 European fellowships: 12-24 months in Europe
🔵 Global fellowships: 12-24 months abroad + return
Deadline: 9 September (17:00 CEST)
Want to switch countries for a postdoc? Specifically, are you European, or are you non-European wanting to come to Europe? Now's the time to reach out to potential host labs!
(It's very normal to cold-email a PI about potentially hosting -- don't be shy!)
I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸
We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto.
The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.
We are offering two 4-year PhD positions in our new SNF project "The Evolutionary Roots of Altercentrism"
We’re recruiting!
Exciting opportunities in our lab supported by a
@wellcometrust.bsky.social Discovery Award.
• Postdoctoral researchers
• Research assistant/PhD students
Join us to study how neural circuits drive decision-making.
Deadline 26/04
Learn more and Apply here: rezavallab.org
📢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!
TEN post-doc openings at the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity. Yes, you read that right. TEN.
We've extended this study to see how many responses we can get in one week! 👉 tinyurl.com/55vjsbxr Don't miss out on fun #science participation right at your fingertips. Help us understand how we perceive and interpret #elephant behaviour 🐘 💻 🌍
Study link: tinyurl.com/55vjsbxr
📢 Update: We’ve extended our survey deadline! During 2026, we will undertake a major renewal of the Movebank system. Help us build a more scalable, sustainable database for your projects. Your feedback will directly shape the future of Movebank. Survey: survey.academiccloud.de/f/221856?lan...
Some lunar vocabulary in case you're following along with the #Artemis II flyby:
* albedo: reflectiveness (high albedo=very shiny)
* mare/maria(plural): from Latin for "sea," dark regions on the Moon, which are dried lava basins
* terminator: the line of the transition between sunlight & darkness
Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country
🌿Apply now! 🌿🦒🐘🦓🌍
We’re thrilled to announce that applications for Animove are NOW OPEN
This year our workshop will take place in Africa @mpalarc.bsky.social . Learn cutting-edge methods in animal movement analysis. We can't wait to see your application come through. See you at #Mpala 🇰🇪
This project (with Stacy Rosenbaum and Nick Grebe) began in the dark days of Covid, and is finally ready to share. We've built a living database of primate paternity data (52 species, 3000 paternities) and completed first wave of analyses of paternity distribution. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
📣📣Abstract deadline extended!
While we've received a number of abstracts already, we've decided to extend the submission deadline to 30 April.
For more information about the conference, or to submit your abstract, visit our ECBB page!
www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe...
I've really enjoyed this series on Philosophy of Biology from @closertotruth.bsky.social: closertotruth.com/project/phil...
Videos are 25min each, consist mainly of interviews with experts, and cover topics ranging from units of selection to biological information to evolution of cognition
New #OpenAccess educational resource: "Teaching Animal Mobilities: (How to) Move Animals into Your Classroom" 🐛🪼 🐘
Modules include historical sources, discussion questions, assignment ideas, and readings to explore key themes in animal mobility.
🔗 animalmobilities.org
#HistSci #AnimalMobilities
Forest #science peeps : does anyone have recommendations for a good budget lightsaber.. (ok fine, laser rangefinder) for distances of up to 80m in forests… 🧪🙏🤓
Flyer advertising special collection of stories for Frontiers for Young Minds. We invite expressions of interest for a curated collection of short articles on animal behavior to be published in Frontiers for Young Minds, an open-access journal for readers ages 8–15. This international collection, developed in collaboration with the Animal Behavior Society, will introduce young readers to how scientists explain behavior using Tinbergen’s four questions. Each article will be co-authored by a researcher and an undergraduate, with an emphasis on clear, engaging communication. Articles will be ~1,500 words and designed for a broad student and classroom audience. Contributors will work with an undergraduate co-author and participate in iterative editorial development prior to submission. We anticipate selecting approximately 10–12 articles, depending on the strength and diversity of submissions.
Do you love animal behavior & want to share that joy with younger folks?
Write a short article on animal behavior for Frontiers for Young Minds (ages 8–15), co-authored with an undergrad! Part of an international ABS collection. Expression of interest due April 30.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
PhyloPic now has 12,197 free silhouettes! The latest batch includes geckos, prehistoric mammals, early archosauromorphs, marine turtles, snakes, early flying insects, and more! #sciart www.phylopic.org/images
I'll only join virtually and miss out on beautiful Leiden, but if you're at @ehbea2026.bsky.social do join our symposium on Thursday afternoon and chat about big data and big team science.
Looking forward to it and to representing @manybabies.org
Applications are now open for our #BasicR Course followed by the two week #Animove workshop @mpalarc.bsky.social. Perfect for African-affiliated students and researchers-with funding available for eligible participants! 👉 Apply now: animove.org/basic-r-cour...
See you in Kenya! 🇰🇪
#AfricanResearchers
🚨📣 Calling everyone who lives or works with #elephants !! 📣🚨 help us to share, spread the word and find those to complete a short study on #elephant #posture for some fab research by @tapintothewild.bsky.social 🩵 how many responses can we get in a week? 🐘🌍🧠
Link: tinyurl.com/55vjsbxr
Extremely excited to start my 8-year @royalsociety.org Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship @uniexecec.bsky.social focussing on understanding the role of individual cognitive variation in reintroduction biology. With 2x 4-year Postdoc and PhD positions being advertised shortly - do get in touch if interested!
🚨REPOST PLEASE! 🙏🏻
Calling all South African 🇿🇦 zoology students! You have ONE more week to apply to our Collective Behaviour Field Course
📍Two weeks at the Kalahari Research Centre
🗓️ June 2026
💸 Fully funded
Application details are at www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/cbfc
DM for any questions
Post-doc opportunity on comparative cognition and movement dynamics in corvids with the brilliant Prof Debbie Kelly at the University of Manitoba
Culture was assumed to be unique to humans, but recent scientific discoveries have revealed that it's in fact widespread in the animal kingdom. This #PhilTransB issue is the first to present a comprehensive picture of the science & implications of this: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...