Save the date information for the upcoming European Conference on Behavioural Biology: Animal Behaviour in the Anthropocene. 1-4 September 2026 at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.

Save the date for the next European Conference on Behavioural Biology!
Animal Behaviour in the Anthropocene, 1-4 September 2026 at Anglia Ruskin University.
Watch this space for updates on speakers, plenaries, and calls for abstracts!

#AcademicSky #UpcomingConferences

We think of pollution as plastic floating or oil leaking… but what about ✨light✨?

Artificial light at night can disrupt insects moving between water 💧 and land 🌲 with ripple effects across ecosystems.

The Behavioural Ecology Lab @helsinki.fi is studying just this! 🔬

#LightPollution #Biodiversity

Celebration of project funding: Impact of light pollution on stream invertebrates. 🍾🎉🤩
Clio Hall @clio-bio.bsky.social starting as post-doc and Erika Ojala as PhD student. Thank you @koneensaatio.fi

Welcome Clio – delighted to have you join us. Clio will work on the impact of light pollution on stream invertebrate communities, focusing on the use of molecular methods, eDNA and eRNA to assess effects. #lightpollution #eDNA @helsinki.fi

Delighted to be joining as 🤓postdoc @helsinki.fi with @ulrikacandolin.bsky.social group on the impacts of light pollution on Finnish stream communities! 🪰Check out the project here: koneensaatio.fi/en/grants-an...
#eDNA #macroinvertebrates #pollution #freshwater💡

Congrats Hanna!! They surely picked the right person 😍🎉🍾

NEW PAPER on impact of #lightpollution, led by Yuhan He who recently defended her PhD thesis.
Historical Exposure to Artificial Light at Night Shapes Daphnia Responses: An Experiment Across an Urban–Rural Gradient - He - 2025 - Ecology and Evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Grateful for received #funding from @koneensaatio.fi for our project on impact of light pollution on the flux of insects between aquatic and terrestrial habitats. Will be looking for a #postdoc and a #PhD for 4 years – take contact if interested.
koneensaatio.fi/apurahat-ja-...

Shrimps and water fleas in distress - Artificial light at night disrupts freshwater ecosystems | University of Helsinki A new study from the University of Helsinki reveals that artificial light at night significantly affects freshwater invertebrates and their ecosystems.

Congratulations to Yuhan for successful PhD defence: Shrimps and water fleas in distress - Artificial light at night disrupts freshwater ecosystems www.helsinki.fi/en/news/anim...

Lighting the way to safer, smarter and sustainable roads A new European research initiative, SAFELUX – The Light We Need, is set to transform how we light our roads at night - improving safety while reducing energy use and environmental impacts.

If you are interested in helping us to mitigate the impacts of light pollution #ALAN on biodiversity, and work on street lighting mitigation and road safety, consider joining our Knowledge Network: www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...

Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism Nature Climate Change - The authors combine light intensity data with eddy covariance observations from 86 sites to show that artificial light at night increases ecosystem respiration and alters...

Artificial light pollution is enhancing ecosystem respiration, which can influence the carbon-climate feedback.

More attention should be given to this largely neglected pollutant!
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🌙🔊 How do we perceive light and noise pollution?
Your experience matters! ✨

Take part in this survey 👉 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/salford/pl...

Your input will help better understand these growing problems. The survey is part of the European project PLAN-B.

#lightpollution #noisepollution

New paper: #lightpollution suppresses diel migration in #Daphnia, but no detectable difference between urban and rural populations. rdcu.be/eNVwb
So no adaptation to light pollution? We discuss different plausible explanations for this lack of differentiation.

Fish embryos under the microscope

Interested in thermal biology? Please join our new and growing grass roots initiative, the Thermal Ecology Alliance, initiated by @patricepottier.bsky.social. 🧪🐟🦑🌡️

Sign up here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org#participation

Check who already signed up:
www.thermalecologyalliance.org#community

New paper: #lightpollution suppresses diel migration in #Daphnia, but no detectable difference between urban and rural populations. rdcu.be/eNVwb
So no adaptation to light pollution? We discuss different plausible explanations for this ack of differentiation.

📣 @asab.org grants BOOSTED! 📣

We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026.

Check out what we offer here:
www.asab.org/grant-overview

Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...

Not only artificial light, such as #ALAN, influences animal behaviour, but also the lack of light – highly interesting study that shows the importance of light conditions in structuring behaviour. | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Warmer light colours are often put forward as the solution to the #lightpollution issue. However, some species are attracted to warmer colours, such as #glowworms, suggesting that filtering out blue light has limited capacity to solve the light pollution problem rdcu.be/eJDB4

New paper on the demographic history of the European #glowworm, revealing strong population structure and low gene flow. Adult females sedentary and only males fly, and adults live for only a couple of weeks.

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New paper showing the importance of accounting for species interactions when investigating the impact of non-native species on ecosystems. Single-species manipulations may fail to capture full ecological consequences. rdcu.be/egjJS

New paper: “Studying and comparing eucalypt plantations with other types of monocultures can provide important insights into the potential evolutionary and conservation consequences of human-made habitats for wildlife.”

Eucalypts are among the most important trees used for forestry purposes worldwide, but how do these exotic plantations affect native wildlife? Check out our new Open Access paper in Biological Reviews led by Maider Iglesias-Carrasco.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

📸 Pat Tomkins

Cover of the book 'Behavioural Responses to a Changing World: Challenges and Applications'.

Hurrah - it's arrived! 🎉 Congratulations to @bbmwong.bsky.social & @ulrikacandolin.bsky.social (Editors) and all the authors. Delighted to have contributed the #noise #pollution chapter, enlivened with beautiful drawings by Martin Aveling.

#ChangingWorld #behaviour
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Over the moon to receive my copy of 'Behavioural responses to a changing world'! 😁🥳🤗😍 @bbmwong.bsky.social @ulrikacandolin.bsky.social 🙏 Huge kados to the brilliant minds behind it (too many to tag)!🏆 Slightly less happy about my mailman's creative delivery - now featuring a bonus dog-ear 📖📫🐶😅

Deadline for submissions: 1 March 2025. APC waivers available (contact me for these).

As a bonus, this chapter comes with the nicest conceptual figure I've ever made!

Thanks for all the hard work getting this book across the line @bbmwong.bsky.social @ulrikacandolin.bsky.social!

Proud to present the accompanying book to the one published in 2012. Successful team effort with @bbmwong.bsky.social and excellent chapter authors.

"current lack of knowledge of their responses to the growing global pervasiveness of light pollution is a barrier to their effective conservation - their responses could translate into ecosystem-level alterations through top-down effects, as have been observed for other species."