It’s official (get it in your diary!) 📅 🦅
The 16th Pan-African Ornithological Congress (PAOC16) will take place in Marrakech, Morocco, from 12 to 17 April 2027.
The website is being updated—check back for details on symposia and abstract calls soon: paoc.africa
#Ornithology #AfricanOrnithology
🚨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
Statement by the Senate of Tel Aviv University For a long time now, we have been witnessing acts of violence by Jewish residents in the West Bank against Palestinian residents. These acts, which include severe harm to persons and property, intimidation, humiliation, and displacement, have in some cases escalated into shocking acts of murder. These phenomena have intensified over the past month, under the cover of the war with Iran. As citizens of the State of Israel, we bear a heavy moral responsibility and feel deep shame in the face of this rampant Jewish terrorism. We protest the failure of the government and security forces to act with the necessary resolve against this phenomenon by using all means at their disposal. Terror directed against innocent civilians does not change according to the identity of the perpetrator or the victim; terror is terror, and it must be eradicated. The State of Israel, as the authority responsible for the territories, bears a clear obligation under both international and Israeli law: to ensure the safety and well-being of all residents, Jews and Palestinians alike. Beyond this legal duty, the government bears a paramount moral obligation: not to permit the shedding of blood in the West Bank, whether by action or by failure to act. As a people who have experienced pogroms and persecution driven by racism, we are bound to remember where such a path may lead. We must not stand idly by. History teaches us that in times of war, human rights are often pushed to the margins in the name of the demands of the moment or the pursuit of victory. We refuse to accept this reality. Jewish terrorism serves no legitimate purpose; on the contrary, it erodes the very foundations of our existence. Silence in the face of terror from within is a moral stain that cannot be erased, for the strength of the State of Israel is measured not only by its military power but first and foremost by the integrity of its values.
Statement by the Senate of Tel Aviv University
We're thrilled to announce the Ctrl-Z Award, a US$2,500 prize for researchers “who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record."
Covered by @nature.com today; read more here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/03/10/a...
A summary of the current Iran war in 2 minutes
youtu.be/S-sqsvcZJ2w?...
Next in line "Greenland operation"...
Field encounters when studying the #Arabian_babbler
www.instagram.com/p/DTz13vaABlQ/
Right, but it is not that "associat" editors were trained to be like that. It is because editors (like reviewers) are not being paid for their job. If we want professional editors, we should make such a paid professional...
How many cooperatively breeding bird & mammal species are there??? an ongoing research... follow @co-breed.bsky.social for updates!
A nice graphical abstract of our recent #ProcB paper (royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...)
How global warming affects #sleep and activity patterns of even desert specialist birds #Arabian_babbler 👇
If you work on corvid ecology, behaviour, cognition, or conservation, this might be useful for you 👇
I’ve just published CORVIDATA in Scientific Data 🐦
doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/4)
Nature Climate Change @natclimate.nature.com nicely covered our recent #ProcB paper (royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...).
Read if interested in how global warming affects the #sleep of desert birds #Arabian_babbler 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation.
I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.
May your year be blessed with accepts subject to minor corrections.
🐧🧊 Incredible underwater footage of penguin life, shot from the first person of one of them.
🇺🇦 This beauty was captured thanks to Ukrainian scientists from the Vernadsky Station in Antarctica, who put a GPS tracker and a tiny camera on the bird.
Fabulous @anticac.bsky.social wrote a beautiful highlight on our first #Co-BreeD dataset. She was also worried about how often Co-BreeD would be updated. Well, time will tell, but meanwhile, the second dataset about #allonursing (& update) is already under review ;)
🌟 New research highlight for a paper that introduces a Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD), which is an open, peer-reviewed resource that collects data on cooperative breeding across birds and mammals, including humans.
📖 Read the full paper ➡️ buff.ly/DAE9htT
"Behavioural scientists are increasingly calling for context as a key to addressing pressing problems caused by human behaviour. However, despite its powerful ability to generate contextual hypotheses on the basis of relatively simple rules, ecological thinking is rarely applied to human behaviour"
same ⬇️👏
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🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨
#AnimalBehaviour #Ethology
"Multi-generational fidelity, ecological and social determinants of roosting in a cooperatively breeding bird (Argya squamiceps)"
Ben Mocha et al. with SPE members Yitzchak Ben Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social @ Royal Society Open Science
Our second Co-BreeD manuscript was submitted. Follow @co-breed.bsky.social for updates!
With @andyradford.bsky.social @maikewoith.bsky.social @michael-griesser.bsky.social @nataliekes.bsky.social @luciabruscagnin.bsky.social and more..
WANTED! body mass data of wild #Arabian_babbler from any part of the world. Contribute data and join our study as co-authors.
Contact: yitzchakbm@gmail.com
Follow Co-BreeD (@co-breed.bsky.social) to get updated estimates about how many cooperatively breeding birds and mammals there are!
Marwan Barghouti's lawyer Ben Marmarelli: there are reports that Barghouti was badly assaulted in prison, they "broke his ribs, teeth, fingers and cut part of his ear". Israeli Prison Service refused to comment or let the lawyer meet with him.
❗️New paper co-authored by MIZ PAS researchers ❗️
ℹ️Roman Gula & Jörn Theuerkauf contributed to a new cooperative breeding database for birds and mammals, Co-BreeD, published recently in animalecology.bsky.social. 👇
📢Out in the NEW issue of @animalecology.bsky.social is our hugely #collaborative paper:
An integrative, peer-reviewed and open-source cooperative-breeding database (Co-BreeD)
#mammals #birds #cooperation #openscience #datasets #alloparents
Led by @benmocha.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
3/3 "He did not agree to tell what he did. Either he was ashamed of shooting, or he was ashamed of feeling sorry for them and not shooting. Which is worse?"
2/3 "... that he saw a father and a girl walking on a road they weren't supposed to be on. He got on the phone. They told him: Shoot the Dad. Immediately after, another officer called him over the red, classified line, and ordered: Take down the girl too..."
