Flyer advertising special collection of stories for Frontiers for Young Minds. We invite expressions of interest for a curated collection of short articles on animal behavior to be published in Frontiers for Young Minds, an open-access journal for readers ages 8–15. This international collection, developed in collaboration with the Animal Behavior Society, will introduce young readers to how scientists explain behavior using Tinbergen’s four questions. Each article will be co-authored by a researcher and an undergraduate, with an emphasis on clear, engaging communication. Articles will be ~1,500 words and designed for a broad student and classroom audience. Contributors will work with an undergraduate co-author and participate in iterative editorial development prior to submission. We anticipate selecting approximately 10–12 articles, depending on the strength and diversity of submissions.

Do you love animal behavior & want to share that joy with younger folks?

Write a short article on animal behavior for Frontiers for Young Minds (ages 8–15), co-authored with an undergrad! Part of an international ABS collection. Expression of interest due April 30.

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PhyloPic now has 12,197 free silhouettes! The latest batch includes geckos, prehistoric mammals, early archosauromorphs, marine turtles, snakes, early flying insects, and more! #sciart www.phylopic.org/images

She slept pretty well to start with (excluding those first couple of weeks) so naively I thought it would stay like that. What a fool. Got any tips?! And I have to keep doing more of these?!

Come join us! We're recruiting 3 new academic posts in the School of Biology, University of Leeds, closing 23/04/26.

Assoc Prof Plant Science tinyurl.com/4x48jc78
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Lecturer in Ecology, Zoology, Biodiversity or Ecosystem Management: tinyurl.com/39dwp47j

📣 JOBS!!! We're looking for new colleagues in the School of Biology @bioscienceleeds.bsky.social - two associate profs (plant sci and animal biology) and a lecturer (ecology/zoology)...

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Sigh. Guinea Baboon babies. All cuteness and mischief. Will she do it? Wait for it . . .

Selfie of me on the left holding my baby daughter, the back of her head to the right of me. She is wearing a cardigan and on the back it says 'hello world'

Hello world...

It's been a busy 2026 so far, with my daughter arriving at the end of 2025. She keeps amazing me every day. Although that 4 month sleep regression is hitting pretty hard at the moment

Only 1 week before its start, the 2020 Spring mtg was cancelled due to COVID. Figuring out how to switch to virtual meetings was not easy – thankfully ASAB had already been looking into online options and @cassandraraby.com took the helm! /4‬‬‬‬

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A very apt workshop for these times! Abstract submission has been extended to Aug 15:

Tweet from 2023 saying: 'I resigned as an Associate Editor for a Frontiers journal because of the way their automated system took away much of my editorial autonomy. some details that might also explain odd reviewer/author experiences:' (1/7)

Originally posted on Twitter in 2023—reposting after a chat with a colleague about possibly publishing in an MDPI journal (whose review practices are similar to Frontiers). Not sure if either has since addressed the issues raised, but I feel process should be public knowledge.

Ecstatic, during cooling (11°C) swim, after @rspb.bsky.social Volunteer Monitoring of Farm Wildlife at a Legge Farm in Norfolk Fens, to meet my 1st ever European/Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio), complete with barbels at the mouth. Big beauties. bsky.app/profile/nume... #MySwim #carp #commoncarp 1/6

Always a privilege to be teaching out at Mpala Research Centre
Our MSc Biodiversity and Conservation students are having a great time so far

Oh goodness. I'm not sure I needed to go through any of this faff. I could have manually calculated UDOI when it was in raster form.

Ah ha! I think I might have cracked it 🤞

I love seeing the tube mice! What a cutie

Post a warning

Map of two habitats in black and white, looking pixelated. Some home ranges in yellow and purple are shown in the black habitat.

I'm currently trying to crop utilisation distributions by habitat type (without recalculating the UD). I've done it before, but I can't seem to replicate it well enough for me to make the conversion back to an estUDm for the UDOI calculations

If you live in Leeds or Bradford, please complete our Parks survey- whether you use parks or not! As a thank you, you can win a £100 voucher!
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PhD opportunity with me (RSPB) at Sheffield Hallam combining ecology (building-nesting birds esp. Swift) + building design & planning (Net Zero goals & retrofit). We need a strong student interested in both! Is that you? url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/cNyjCR636C... Please repost.

Thermal image of a hen

Hi Bluesky, we are looking for a PhD student for an interdisciplinary project on thermal imaging & welfare in hens. Applicants from diverse scientific backgrounds welcome -if you're interested in welfare, physiology, machine learning, imaging tech..get in touch :-) www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear...

There are concerns that Bluesky's impact has faded since the initial hype. This is false.

That impression results from reading headlines about social media instead of the hard data.

The five HIGHEST points of Bluesky posts mentioning research all occur in the last 2 weeks.

How to use a histogram as a legend in {ggplot2} | Andrew Heiss Land isn’t unemployed—people are. Here’s how to use R, {ggplot2}, {sf}, and {patchwork} to create a histogram legend in a choropleth map to better see the distribution of values.

Really useful tip highlighting the flexibility of map visualisations in R and use of the excellent Patchwork package.
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In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.

I’m very struck by the fact that kids who grow up in the TFL zone have basically free and highly efficient transport over a huge area whereas in other parts of the country our kids have to pay a lot of money for infrequent and unreliable transport. The impact that has on your horizons must be huge.

Are big bad badgers driving hedgehog declines in Britain? Hot off the press.. short answer is no says @richardyarnell.bsky.social. Very weak -ve relationship between the species but absolutely dwarfed by other factors, esp. road casualties. Read whole paper here: doi.org/10.1002/ece3... #hedgehogs 🦔

📢 VACANCY

Could you be our next Social Media Support Officer?

We're looking for a social media whizz to support our output across multiple platforms

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#ornithology 🪶

Using 3D Photogrammetry to Quantify Usable Space in Zoo‐Housed Primate Habitats Studies of zoo animal space use typically use ground-level measurements as a proxy for “usable space,” but this method ignores above ground areas that are behaviorally relevant to arboreal species. P...

Several years ago I worked with Terry Maple to quantify usable space in zoo exhibits, but we were limited by what was technologically possible for us at the time. I'm very excited to see this new paper successfully using 3D photogrammetry to build the models more efficiently
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Amazing - both the photos and the place. I'll have to give it a visit some day

Are these your photos? They look incredible! What a beautiful place to do fieldwork

Selfie of me in the bottom left of the photo, with a baboon sat nicely on a rock in the top of the photo. The baboon is doing a great job at looking cute for a selfie

Throwback to my PhD fieldwork as I join the Tsaobis group meeting today

Love hearing about what these baboons have been up to since I was last out there