How an all-female fish species defies evolutionary expectations Asexual reproduction should be an evolutionary dead end. A study of asexual fish shows that a genetic ‘copy and paste’ helps to overcome the predicted costs of asexuality.

These are the first asexual vertebrate species known to science

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For decades biologists assumed ravens follow wolves to their kills.
Our paper @science.org shows something different: ravens rarely follow wolves far. Instead they remember areas where wolf kills are common and return to them—sometimes from >150 km away.
doi.org/10.1126/science.adz9467
📷Dan Stahler

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION DETAILS (ends 31 March) 🐾Full registration including conference dinner and ceilidh 🐾*,**Student from developing country £260 🐾**Student £310 🐾*Non-student from developing country* £360 🐾Non-student £400 🐾Basic registration excluding dinner and ceilidh 🐾*,**Student from developing country £200 🐾**Student £250 🐾*Non-student from developing country* £300 🐾Non-student £340 Basic registration includes: conference admission, wine reception, tea/coffee breaks, lunch (days 2 & 3). *A limited number of reduced price tickets are available for participants from developing countries. Please e-mail ecbb2026@aru.ac.uk to request a reduced price ticket. Tickets are issued on a first‑come, first‑served basis. **Please email ecbb2026@aru.ac.uk with confirmation of your student status to obtain a discount code for registration. 🦚ASAB To encourage attendance at conferences, @asab_org award Conference Attendance Grants of up to £750 to standard applicants, and up to £2,500 to ‘Developing Country Applicants’. The award provides a contribution towards the cost of registration, accommodation, as well as the cost of travel to and from the conference. 🦚Ethologische Gesellschaft Members of the Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V. may apply for a contribution of up to €500 for active participation (poster or talk) at the conference.

We are delighted to announce #ECBB2026 registration and abstract submission are now open!

Conference Attendance Grant are also available, thanks to @asab.org and @ethoges.bsky.social support!

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DIJKSTRA LAB - Social behavior and physiology Postdoc positions available! For details, please go here. Welcome to the Dijkstra lab at Central Michigan University! We study how social competition and oxidative stress shape brain function, stress resilience, and evolutionary processes. Using African cichlid fish as our primary model system, we

The Dijkstra lab at CMU seeks postdoctoral researchers in evolutionary biology and behavioral ecology, focusing on cichlid fishes. Apply by March 20. Info: https://sites.google.com/site/peterdijkstrausnl/home #postdoc

Künstliche Intelligenz in der Begutachtung

Die DFG wird den Einsatz von #KI in der Begutachtung künftig unter klar definierten Bedingungen zulassen. Grundlage sind eine nun veröffentlichte Leitlinie sowie das Whitepaper "Künstliche Intelligenz in der wissenschaftlichen Begutachtung“. Die Regelungen treten ab 16.04. in Kraft.1/4 sohub.io/wjt6

SORTEE Webinar: On what makes good sharable and reproducible R code, how to do it, and why it’s good for science For this month's SORTEE webinar, Dr. Dax Kellie from the Atlas of Living Australia will present on good, sharable, and reproducible R code in science

In one week I'll be talking about tips for reproducible R code and why science would love you to try these tips on your own code too 🧪😍🌏

It's an online talk, so feel free to watch comfortably from your couch. Hope to see you there!
@sortee.bsky.social #rstats

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📣 Interested in a 4-year postdoc in the movement ecology group? @univie.ac.at is recruiting outstanding female researchers through the E-STEEM programme. @pesumas.bsky.social is a registered host and welcomes applications from potential candidates.
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🦎 Funded 4-year PhD position on Lizard Evolutionary Ecology in our lab at UCLouvain (Belgium)! Apply before 9 March! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...

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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🚨JOB alert🚨

We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol.

Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology

⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026
🙏Please circulate widely

😊Come join us!

Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc

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...

#ECCB2026 deadline extended!
The deadline for parallel (regular) sessions is now March 1, 2026.

📍 July 6th-10th, Leiden, NL
👉 Submit here: eccb26leiden.eu/parallel-ses...

Share this opportunity with colleagues and collaborators who might be interested in participating!
#conservation #networking

NEW JOB in #ornithology chasing #nutcrackers in Switzerland to understand seed dispersal patterns: buff.ly/Cx0OOQy

JOB ALERT! Lecturer in Biological Sciences Come and join us in the world class Life Sciences Building at the University of Bristol! Closing date: Sunday 8 March

JOB ALERT! Lecturer in Biological Sciences Interested in our research areas? Click the link in our bio to discover more! Closing date: Sunday 8 March

JOB ALERT!

We are excited to announce that we are recruiting three new academics at lecturer level!

Click the link below for more info on how to apply, and don’t forget to explore our research themes too!

We look forward to receiving your applications!

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Flyer describing the Topical Collection, with an image of a cheetah and journal information. Full details in the link.

Excited to announce our Topical Collection at @ibe.pensoft.net on Individual‑based Conservation!

We aim to highlight approaches integrating individual heterogeneity into management and conservation practice.

Please submit, share, & reach out with any questions!

Details: ibe.pensoft.net/news/1106

iDiv Leipzig is organizing a symposium for early career researchers from all fields interested in scientific integrity & reproducibility.
Some good stuff, e.g.: @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social on generative AI for science, @rmcelreath.bsky.social on a guerilla approach to scientific workflow.>

The first round of microgrants for 2026 is open! Apply here : https://opencollective.com/animal-behaviour-collective.

Attention - the first round of microgrants for 2026 is running!
Apply and read terms and conditions here : opencollective.com/animal-behav...

Job advertisement

I am looking for a PhD working on tracking trait changes in insects/spiders at the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity change @leibnizlib.bsky.social and the University of Hamburg.
Apply here: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

Island Biology 2026 - Registration & Key Information Registration & Key Information

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Women and girls are shaping science worldwide 🌍🔬
Send us a short video introducing yourself and your work and help us spotlight our global community.
⏰ Submissions close Feb 9

Job alert! The University of Zurich is hiring a professor for Evolutionary Anthropology and Primatology. Learn more here: www.appointments.mnf.uzh.ch/auth/Apply/0...

Special call: Travel Grant for New Investigators to Berlin 2026 The German Society for Mammalian Biology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Säugetierkunde e.V.) is pleased to announce the full funding for travel grants to the 99th Annual Meeting of the German Society for…

1/4 📢 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹: 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 📢

The German Society for Mammalian Biology (DGS) is offering three fully funded travel grants for the 99th Annual Meeting, taking place in Berlin, 21–25 September 2026!

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ASAB

A lot of deadlines this week! Abstract submission and conference travel grants for #ASABSpring2026 are due Feb 1, as are ASAB research grants and undergraduate scholarships! ✍️ 💰

Also #ECBB2026 symposia proposals are due Jan 31!

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🚨 PhD offer (please share)
Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species

Deadline: 20 Feb 2026
Starting: June 2026
Supervision: Martins Briedis & me

Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh

A selection of studied species is shown, with each inset giving information for that species on its generation time (T, in years; also depicted by the black bar next to it), its diet (carnivore: C, herbivore: H, and omnivore: O) and whether the species is a migrant (M) or a resident (R). The inset shows the number of studies per taxon and trait category. Illustration credits for the species pictures taken from Wikipedia: Svalbard reindeer—Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, four-striped grass mouse—C.R. Selvakumar, silver gull—JJ Harrison, snow petrel—Samuel Blanc, northern giant petrel—Liam Quinn, green turtle—Brocken Inaglory, green-rumped parrotlet—Jam.mohd, Columbian ground squirrel—Martin Pot, red-winged fairy-wren—John Anderson, grey-headed albatross—John Harrison. Two species pictures were provided by the co-authors of this study: painted turtle (credit: FJ) and Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross (credit: SOp). The remaining pictures were taken from Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/photos/).

In Nature Communications, our paper led by Viktoriia Radchuk shows that phenological change mediates global vertebrate responses to temperature. The study compiles 213 time series of phenotypes and population sizes, including data from Bylot. Read: urls.fr/w7ZKp9 @natcomms.nature.com 🧪🌿🌎🌐🦉🦑🦊🐻‍❄️

FÖRDERENTSCHEIDUNGEN und TERMINE 2026 25.-26.03. Senat / Hauptausschuss 27.03. neue / verlängerte Forschungsgruppen 27.03. neue Schwerpunktprogramme SPP 15.05. neue / verlängerte SFB 01.06. neue / verlängerte Graduiertenkollegs 29.06.-01.07. DFG-Jahresversammlung in Bonn 29.-30.06. Senat / Hauptausschuss 01.07. neue / verlängerte Forschungsgruppen 01.07. DFG-Jahresbericht 2025 16.-17.09. Senat / Hauptausschuss 18.09. neue / verlängerte Forschungsgruppen 16.11. neue / verlängerte Graduiertenkollegs 26.11. neue / verlängerte SFB 09.-10.12. Senat / Hauptausschuss 10.12. Forschungsimpulse FIP 11.12. neue / verlängerte Forschungsgruppen

Termine! 📅 2026 tagen die DFG-Gremien turnusmäßig wieder 4 Mal – und beraten sich über Anträge in der Einzelförderung, von Forschungsgruppen und andere Entscheidungsvorlagen. Die Ausschüsse der Graduiertenkollegs (GRK) und Sonderforschungsbereichen (SFB) kommen an gesonderten Terminen zusammen.

Right side: A group of meerkats representing the researchers that submitted a symposia proposal for ECBB 2026. Left side: The sad, lonely meerkat representing the one that forgot. All by themself. Submission deadline 31 January!

We know you don't want to start your year by forgetting to submit a symposia proposal before the 31 January deadline.

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Bewirb dich als Volontär*in in der Stabsstelle Kommunikation am DPZ! 🎤📣
Vielfältige Einblicke in die Wissenschaftskommunikation warten auf dich.
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Blue and grey text on white background. Early Career Fellowships. Three images and current project titles in the arts and humanities, social sciences and sciences. Leverhulme Trust logo and URL media.leverhulme.ac.uk/features.

The Trust's Early Career Fellowships offer a three-year salaried post for researchers at the beginning of their academic career to undertake a significant piece of research. Interested? Apply here: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career... Closing date: 19 February 2026, 4pm

If you are organising a symposium related to animal cognition @ecbb2026.bsky.social and would like to develop/guest edit a special collection in the journal Animal Cognition to accompany it, please get in touch #ecbb2026 #AnimalCognition #AcademicPublishing #SpecialCollection