IMPACT OF PARENTHOOD ON UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT. Line graph shows how the probability of holding a research position changes from four years before to seven years after having children.
Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s
Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ
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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Want to gain hands-on experience using STBayes?
Join our pre-conference workshop on 25/02, led by @mchimento.bsky.social 🤩
Two PhD positions in dolphin genomics and behavioral ecology are available at the University of Zurich, starting May/June 2026. Applicants must have relevant degrees and experience. More info: www.michaelkruetzenlab.org. #phd
New (competition funded) PhD opportunity with me,
@iaciac.bsky.social and @dralgernon.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Higher-order networks and animal communication. Suited to someone keen on network science theory/computational modeling and keen to adapt this to ecology & evolution.
What role(s) can non-human animal culture play in conservation? Much has been written on this topic in recent years, but Dawn Barlow, Taylor Hersh, & I offer some new perspectives: "Integrating space, time, and culture in animal conservation practice" @behavecol.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/bdfe9k3j
NEW PAPER in #ornithology shows that some #raptors switched foraging strategy when #COVID19 lockdowns reduced the availability of #roadkill: buff.ly/jUug7Yj
I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).
Dwarf mongoose
Rhesus macaques grooming
Meerkat
❓ Want to join us?
📢 Fully funded #PhD for UK-domiciled Black heritage candidates
🐵 Biological market monitoring & manipulation in social animals #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork
👥 With me, #LaurenBrent & #PatrickKennedy
🎓 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
ℹ️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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A juvenile great tit solves a foraging puzzle by pushing a sliding door to the left while being observed by two other juvenile birds. Image credit: Sonja Wild.
@sonjawild.bsky.social @galarconnieto.bsky.social & @lucymaplin.bsky.social show that young #GreatTits, which have limited #ParentalCare, learn to solve a foraging #puzzle socially, but rather than parents, siblings & non-parental adults are preferred role models @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/46JZn6n
Juvenile songbirds acquire key life skills primarily from siblings and non-parent adults, with sibling influence surpassing that of parents in species with limited parental care. doi.org/g9578b
You don't have to tell me about the power of siblings. My big sis is the best ever. But it's very cool to see this bond is so important in other species, too, like these songbirds, according to a new @ucdavis.bsky.social study from @sonjawild.bsky.social. www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...
We are grateful to @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social and @cbehav.bsky.social for funding the study, and to four reviewers for their incredibly constructive comments. Rev #2 – whoever you are – a heartfelt thank you for the most positive review I have (and probably ever will) receive. (5/5)
Our study demonstrates alternative pathways to direct cultural inheritance from parents in species with multiple offspring and limited periods of parental care that can lead behavioral similarities within family units. (4/5)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4u1...
Presenting juvenile songbirds with sliding door foraging puzzles, we found that while the first learners of a sibling cohort did so from non-parental adults and partially from parents, subsequent siblings almost exclusively learned from their already knowledgeable sibling. (3/5)
Juveniles of many animal species with extended parental care rely on their parents for learning skills and behavior necessary for survival. What happens in species in which dependence periods are more limited? (2/5)
Out today in @plosbiology.org (1/5)
Siblings and non-parental adults provide alternative pathways to cultural inheritance in juvenile great tits 🐦🧩
Link to study:
10.0.5.91/journal.pbio...
Co-authors:
@lucymaplin.bsky.social
@galarconnieto.bsky.social
Golden eagle on the nest in Finland (by O. Karlin)
🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
Apparently, when life gives you voles, that's what you eat.
📷 by @sonjawild.bsky.social/UC Davis
🖋️ Vishal Subramanyan
baynature.org/2025/03/06/e...
Reposting this starter pack for new users.
If you are doing research on animal social networks and would like to be added to the pack, just let me know.
If you are doing research on other types of networks, it would be great if you could help sharing this - many thanks!
go.bsky.app/39p1ccZ
Friends, plz repost and share! We are hiring a lab technician with exp in mol biology and general lab management. BS or MS degree and good org skills are required. Deadline Feb 1, 2025. We are a welcoming and equitable lab community. Details at link below. 🐸🐢🐍🦎
zamudiolab.org/2024/12/18/k...
Study by: Jennifer E. Smith; Joey E. Ingbretson; Mackenzie M. Miner; Ella C. Oestreicher; Mari L. Podas; Tia A. Ravara; Lupin M. L. Teles; Jada C. Wahl; Lucy M. Todd; Sonja Wild
Check out the video footage taken by Team Squirrel here:
A juvenile california ground squirrel consuming a California vole
We observed 74 events of squirrels hunting, killing, consuming and competing over voles at our long-term field site at Briones Regional Park. Squirrels of all age and sex classes engaged in the predatory behavior, highlighting their dietary and behavioral flexibility.
An adult California ground squirrel holding a California vole between its paws and consuming its head
Vole hunting: novel predatory and carnivorous behavior by California ground squirrels
In our new video article in the Journal of Ethology we document the emergence of this exciting behavior following a population explosion of California voles doi.org/10.1007/s101...
5 exciting PhD opportunities to join the Center for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter in Sept 2025. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro...
Would love to be added! Studying social networks (and learning) in 🐬🐦🐿️
Behavioral ecologist here - could you add me please?
Post reproductive mother and Son copyright David Ellifrit Center for Whale Research
Exciting new NERC funded PhD opportunity available with us on #killerwhale #orca #behaviour and #conservation, co-supervised by Stephanie King, Sam Ellis and Dan Franks in partnership with The Center for Whale Research USA
exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... - deadline 13th January 2025 #killerwhale
