📣ATTENTION!!! Postdoc position on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees and Bonobos 🤩 With the APE Group & Wildminds Lab @nakedprimate.bsky.social Come join us!!! ✨Please RT✨ @efprimatology.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social

🦇 Ever caught a glimpse of a bat darting through the night with precision? What if sound is all they need to navigate and connect? 🚀

🎤 @berlinbatlab.bsky.social Mirjam Knörnschild (Evolutionary Ethology Lab, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin) explores echolocation, social calls & even bat dialects.

We have an open MSc Project Position at the Urban Vervet Project, and are currently looking for a
motivated teammate to discover species interactions in a human altered environment 👇🏼 For more INFO👇🏼

🔊Cornell K. Lisa Yang Centre for Conservation Bioacoustics:
Assistant Director positions open.

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31941

Come and join our team! With an application deadline in 1 week, we're hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Ecology in the Department of Biology at University of Windsor: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
@ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

Context-dependent variation in meerkat short note calls reflects emotional arousal Many animals produce the same call type in distinct contexts, yet acoustic variation can encode additional information, such as the producers’ emotion…

New meerkat paper with Marta Manser, by former PhD student Isabel Driscoll, showing that short note calls acoustic structure differs between sentinel and sunning contexts: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🔊Out now with @lsburchardt.bsky.social @marcosqoliva.bsky.social, Kouřil & Petrusková:

Yellowhammer males sing using individual isochronous rhythms & maximise rhythmic dissimilarity with their neighbours.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We're looking for an Associate Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology (mainly teaching Evo Med and Stats at UCL Anthro) as maternity cover! Please share - closing date 30th April

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

"Many animals communicate using sequences of signals, but identifying recurrent, non-random signal combinations remains methodologically challenging"

New from @ehowaspi.bsky.social addresses limitations of current statistical methods

Code + data: osf.io/6cgbm/overview

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#bioacoustics
#prattle 💬

Less than a month left to apply for our summer course!

You are welcome to contact us if you are unsure if the course is for you or have any other questions.

📖 Published!

Ecoacoustics for context-rich direct and indirect trophic interaction data and ecological network construction

This paper offers a scalable, cost-effective tool for identifying species interactions, biomonitoring and constructing trophic networks🌍🐐

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Identifying practical pathways from animal culture theory to conservation practice Wildlife conservation has traditionally focused on the maintenance of population size, preserving genetic diversity and protecting habitats, with success typically measured through stable or increasi...

🎉 New paper out in Biological Reviews! 🎉

With 19 brilliant co‑authors from the IUCN SGA's Working Group on Chimpanzee Cultures, led by Crickette Sanz and me, we provide a much needed toolkit on how animal cultures can be built into conservation.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🎸 You may have heard a piercing scream in a horror movie or a deep growl in a metal track. Are you curious to know why these harsh sounds are so difficult to ignore?

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...

We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Our job ad: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Message me if you have questions. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social

[➡️ #Bioacoustique]🎶🐴 Le hennissement du #cheval est produit par "bi-phonation" annonce @currentbiology.bsky.social. La découverte d'une stratégie de communication vocale aussi sophistiquée chez cette espèce commune relance les recherches. @ebriefer.bsky.social & David Reby (Univ. J-M. Saint-Etienne)

Seeking a motivated postdoc (2+3 yrs) to study links between cognition, behavior, and fitness in lemurs at our long-term field site in Kirindy Forest, Madagascar. Join an interdisciplinary team working on wild populations. @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Apply here: www.dpz.eu

🚋 You may have heard the trembling voice of someone anxious or the jolly tone of a friend sharing good news. Are you curious to know if animals also express their emotions through their voices?

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Do humans share a sense of acoustic beauty with other animals? According to a new study in Science, the answer may be yes.

In a global citizen-science experiment, researchers show that humans tend to prefer many of the same animal sounds that animals themselves favor. https://scim.ag/41jFG1u

Description of the field position and duties

Job Alert 🚨: We are looking for field assistants to join our research projects in South Africa studying chacma baboons. Expenses coved. Please get in touch if interested and share widely. See attached advert 👇

@tylerbonnell.bsky.social

Join us for a great PhD course in R programming!

Registrations are now open for the renowned PhD Summer school in acoustic communication organised by SDU from 2-15.8 Denmark. Deadline 15.4. More info in picture below. 🦜🐳🦗🦇

Despite their contrasting reputations, bonobos and chimpanzees show similar levels of aggression in zoos Chimpanzees have a reputation for being aggressive, while bonobos are often seen as their peaceful counterparts. This contrast has frequently been used to explain different sides of human nature. Howe...

2026. Despite their contrasting reputations, bonobos and chimpanzees show similar levels of aggression in zoos phys.org/news/2026-03...

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Our new paper on how pinniped (seal and sea lion) brains evolved to unlock vocal plasticity is this week's @science.org cover.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

⭐New paper!⭐

About generative network modelling - a key approach for understanding network structures.

First half:
We give a general introduction to generative network models

Second half:
We consider their use in animal behaviour research

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Feral horses and cattle create more resilient nature, rewilding study reveals Protected natural areas across Europe are changing. Climate change, with rising temperatures and heavy rainfall, is turbocharging the growth of shrubs and trees, choking the flowers and insects that n...

2026. Feral horses and cattle create more resilient nature, rewilding study reveals phys.org/news/2026-03...

How and why does cognition vary so greatly between individuals and species? In @natrevbiodiv.nature.com, we propose the "Predatory Intelligence Hypothesis" which posits that the cognitive challenges associated with predator–prey interactions drive a cognitive co-evolutionary arms race

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2026. Reliability and precision of thermal imaging measurements to study animal behaviour and welfare. www.researchgate.net/publication/... led by @debottam1991.bsky.social

Nyt, dansk studie løser mysterie om hestens unikke vrinskelyd Forskere fra Københavns Universitet er dykket ned i de særlige mekanismer, som skaber hestenes hvinende vrinsk. Den nye viden kan hjælpe os med at forstå hestene bedre, siger forskere.

Nyt, dansk studie løser mysterie om hestens unikke vrinskelyd #dkvid #dkforsk

Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review The process of peer review is vital to contemporary science, but is also under enormous strain. This study uses mathematical models to dissect the threats to the long-term viability of peer review, su...

1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology.

We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.