Hey gang! Exeter’s looking for a 4-year postdoc in philsci & AI. Sweet gig at a great place - share around :D #philsci #philjobs www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD641/p...

📣 SEMINAR SERIES 2026 📣
Our first seminar of the year is coming up fast! 🐜🐝

🎥 Check out this teaser! Come listen to Dr. Anna Dornhaus ( @dornhaus.bsky.social ) to hear about “What we learned about the world from studying collective behavior: algorithms, replicators, and strong inference”

📣New Lecture! Humans are often seen as an apex species, but is this accurate?

Join @christinewebb.bsky.social for “Scientific Speciesism: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism in Primatology and Beyond.”

📅Saturday, 25 April
🕓4 PM GMT |12 PM EST |9 AM PST
📍Online
🔗Register here: shorturl.at/fsYpx

📣 The 2026 #EinsteinFoundationAward is open for submissions until April 30: Researchers around the globe who advance quality, transparency, and reproducibility in research and #openscience are warmly invited to apply or to be nominated for the €150K Individual category.
award.einsteinfoundation.de

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📢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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Graphic announcing the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 call. It shows the opening date (9 April 2026), closing date (9 September 2026), and a budget of €399.05 million. The design features scientific visuals such as cells, a leaf, and lab elements on a dark background, with the European Commission logo at the bottom.

Big opportunities for researchers 🌍

We are investing nearly €400 million to help researchers share their work and collaborate with the best scientific teams across the EU.

The 2026 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships are now open.

More: link.europa.eu/PNxpxw

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Job Alert 📢 Join BTO as a Senior Research Ecologist! Apply now➡️ www.bto.org/jobs

This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of BTO’s climate change work!

📆 Application deadline: Sunday 26 April.
📝 £44,637 per annum.
📍 Hybrid, HQ in Norfolk or one of our country offices. #Ornithology

Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching

2026 version. "Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching" via @asab.org cc @asabeducation.bsky.social - #AnimalEthics #AnimalWelfare - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨PhD opportunity🚨

🪲Deep-red vision and infrared sensing in jewel beetles 🪲

Understand how jewel beetles detect and integrate deep-red light and heat information to drive behaviour.

Location: La Trobe University, Bundoora

Contact: a.franklin@latrobe.edu.au; www.amanda-franklin.com

Dwarf mongoose group in South Africa

Zebra finches on wire in Australia

⏰Time running out - deadline 19th April - to apply for funded #PhD:

🪶Quantifying animal movement patterns & behavioural interactions in a changing world

👥Joint with us @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #SimonGriffith #MacquarieUniversity

#modelling #birds #mammals #Australia

ℹ️ tinyurl.com/343acaev

We are offering two 4-year PhD positions in our new SNF project "The Evolutionary Roots of Altercentrism"

The SORTEE guidelines for data and code quality control in ecology and evolutionary biology are now published in the Peer Community Journal!

🔗 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

Cambridge University Library, University Museum of Zoology and the University of Cambridge - Collections Connections Communities

Here's an awesome natural history humanities PhD opportunity, working with Cambridge University Library & our insect & archive collections here at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social, exploring the links between entomology, life writing & environmental change. Please share!
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

🧠 Join this hybrid event advancing LGBTQIA+ inclusion in science!| 🌐 Led by the Institute of Psychology at the University of Frankfurt, together with the ALBA Network and NeuroCure at Charité Berlin, this event brings together researchers, policymakers and advocates to explore intersectionality and strengthen inclusion in psychology and #neuroscience. 🔬 Featuring key insights and community perspectives, including insights from the ALBA global LGBTQIA+ climate survey. 🤝 Focused on allyship, visibility and supporting early-career scientists while building stronger networks across Europe. 🗓️ 24 April 2026 🕘️ 09:00 - 13:00 CEST 💻 Hybrid event | 📍 Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany 👉 Be part of the conversation and join the event here: https://www.alba.network/alba-neurocure-event 💭 Interested in reading the ALBA study? 🔗 Read it here: https://www.alba.network/lgbtqia-climate-survey

🧠 Join this hybrid event advancing LGBTQIA+ inclusion in science!

🗓️ 24 April 2026
🕘️ 09:00 - 13:00 CEST
💻 Hybrid event | 📍 Frankfurt, Germany

👉 Be part of the conversation and join the event here: buff.ly/MGuwcuZ

JOB ALERT: PhD opening in my lab!

@cimecunitrento.bsky.social
in Italy, as part of an Italian FIS3 starting grant.

The project will use advanced analysis methods of MEG data to investigate how our world's naturalistic hierarchical structure facilitates predictive neural processing.

See below for practical information:

Details on the admissions process, link to call: phd.unitn.it/drcimec/116/...
Link to apply: webapps.unitn.it/Apply/it/Web...
Application summary: phd.unitn.it/drcimec/118/...
Deadline: Thursday May 7, 2026, at 4pm (Italian time)

We're excited to announce a brand new partnership with @westmidbirdclub.bsky.social, offering the chance to for two aspiring conservationists to visit the Obs for two weeks in August this year!

For more details and how to apply, see www.fairislebirdobs.co.uk/opportunitie...

🎺If you can teach Introductory Logic, or the History of Philosophy (Ancient, Medieval, or Modern), then come and by my colleague!

The Dept. of Philosophy at @tcddublin.bsky.social is looking for *two* Teaching Fellows (3 year posts).

For full details, see: universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...

Reminder: Don’t miss the upcoming webinar on decolonising the bioscience curriculum 🌱

Explore how to make teaching more inclusive, diverse, and globally relevant.

Book your place now:
www.sebiology.org/resource/boo...

Students of ASSAB!

⭐The 2026 round of ASSAB grant applications are now open⭐

If you are conducting research on animal behaviour in the Australasian region, apply here: www.assab.org/grants-2026

Insect eggs and sperm: evolutionary and biophysical interactions at University of Lincoln on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Insect eggs and sperm: evolutionary and biophysical interactions at University of Lincoln, listed on FindAPhD.com

Fascinating PhD project on the match between insect sperm and eggs across different insects. Great team too!
#PhDAlert #insects

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Apply for a fully funded PhD in evolutionary biology at Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia. Focus on cavefish adaptation. Info: https://bilandzija.irb.hr/Projects-and-Funding Deadline: April 10, 2026. #phd

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...

Our student @vinoj7.bsky.social published his first paper from a project undertaken as part of his Masters studies.

Vino was testing whether gaze and arrow cues influence working memory - check it out Open Access at
open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-355

Post-doc opportunity on comparative cognition and movement dynamics in corvids with the brilliant Prof Debbie Kelly at the University of Manitoba

Philosophy of Animal Welfare Conference | Duke University School of Law Conference to be held at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US, on Friday-Saturday November 20/21, 2026. This conference is organized by the Duke Center for Law, Economics, and Public Policy (CL...

Philosophers with an interest in animal welfare - call for abstracts now open for what promises to be a great workshop at Duke University. We welcome any work relating to the nature, measurement, and/or moral significance of animal welfare. Applications close June 1.
law.duke.edu/laweconomics...

PhilInBioMed-Seminar coming up:
March 17 | 5:00–6:30 pm (CET) | virtual (Zoom)

Join us for a talk by Lucie Laplane (IHPST, Panthéon-Sorbonne Univ., Paris)on "How Much Should Philosophers of Biology Engage with Biology?"

More information can be found here: philinbiomed.cnrs.fr/event/lucie-...

PhD Opportunity working with @shona-d.bsky.social and me on the development of children’s collaborative problem-solving skills. This is an Academic Associate position (PhD + teaching) for 4 years. Full details here: jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx.... Please get in touch with any queries.

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🔊 JOB VACANCY

Would you like to work at the heart of a global ornithological membership society?

BOU are seeking a Journal and Engagement Manager to play a central role in delivering our mission

⏰ Apply by 14 April

bou.org.uk/vacancy-j...

#ornithology 🪶