We are delighted to announce that the 2026 Tinbergen Prize Winner (@ethoges.bsky.social) @ahanaaurora.bsky.social
is joining our list of plenary speakers for #ECBB2026.

Dwarf mongoose group in South Africa

Zebra finches on wire in Australia

⏰Time running out - deadline 19th April - to apply for funded #PhD:

🪶Quantifying animal movement patterns & behavioural interactions in a changing world

👥Joint with us @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #SimonGriffith #MacquarieUniversity

#modelling #birds #mammals #Australia

ℹ️ tinyurl.com/343acaev

We're launching a new initiative: Primatology Profiles! 📢 Each month, we are interviewing a Primatologist to discuss their work and background, ultimately showcasing who they are and what they do. Our first profile is live, featuring an interview with Prof. Jacob Dunn: www.psgb.org/pages/primat...

The left-hand side shows a header for a news article in the journal Nature with the title "Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?" and sub-header "Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests" above an artistic rendering of flying pigs and a rainbow unicorn bursting out of a waste paper basket, in a chaotic cloud of manuscript pages. The right-hand side shows the landing page of Nature's "AI-powered research assistant" which promises to "help you save time reading, understanding and writing research papers", and encourages people who don't have an account to "join the waiting list".

Nature: Hallucinated citations generated by AI are polluting the scientific literature. What on earth can be done?
Also Nature: Our revolutionary AI-powered research assistant saves you from investing time & effort in reading, understanding & writing.

Extremely excited to start my 8-year @royalsociety.org Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship @uniexecec.bsky.social focussing on understanding the role of individual cognitive variation in reintroduction biology. With 2x 4-year Postdoc and PhD positions being advertised shortly - do get in touch if interested!

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.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🚨 Two postdoc positions open in the #LHOSA team at
@palevoprim.bsky.social! Passionate about Australopithecus and hominin paleobiology? Skilled in virtual study of long bones or #GIS applied to hominin-bearing sites? Join us 👇

Have a look at this great #PhD opportunity on Road Ecology at Aarhus University, Denmark 👇 Timely topic, and a great supervisor! 📅DL: 30.04 phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...

(📸: coloradosun.com/2025/12/07/p...)

Two great postdoc opportunities with @eesaupe.bsky.social in Oxford on macroecology/extinction/conservation through a paleobiological lens

📣📣Abstract deadline extended!

While we've received a number of abstracts already, we've decided to extend the submission deadline to 30 April.

For more information about the conference, or to submit your abstract, visit our ECBB page!
www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe...

#PHD #summerschool in #bioacoustics 🦇🐬🐦🐘🔉- Application open NOW

If your PhD studies 🧑‍🎓👩‍🎓involve #acousticcommunication in terrestrial or marine animals, we highly recommend participating in this biennial international 14-days intensive graduate course by @sdu.dk

www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

Sociobiology and the transformation of evolutionary behavioral biology - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology -

James Traniello and I, and Associate Editors of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, have prepared editorials commemorating the semicentennial of Wilson's Sociobiology. Check it out!
link.springer.com/article/10.1... and
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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. 🦜🐳🦗🦇

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!

www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe...

We know there are a lot of conferences this year and unfortunately we can't attend them all. Don't worry, we've got a helpful wheel to assist in deciding how to spend your time.

Find out more: www.aru.ac.uk/science-and-...

#AcademicConference #ECBB2026

Predators hide against similarly coloured species to camouflage on the move Abstract. Many predators aim to approach prey without being detected or identified. Ambush predators often achieve this through camouflage, such as backgro

Work brilliantly led by #ECR @sammatchette.bsky.social

With @nadia-hamilton.bsky.social @christiandrerup.com
#JeroenSchneider @sandrawinters.bsky.social @marinebehavecol.bsky.social

@camzoology.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

#predator #marine #fish #ocean

doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Evidence for representation of pretend objects by Kanzi, a language-trained bonobo Secondary representations enable our minds to depart from the here-and-now and generate imaginary, hypothetical, or alternate possibilities that are decoupled from reality, supporting many of our rich...

Find the paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

And here is an accessible explanation in JHU's Hub: hub.jhu.edu/2026/02/05/a...

We are grateful to CIFAR, @jhu.edu, and @templetonworld.bsky.social for providing the funds to enable this discovery!

@jhuartssciences.bsky.social

🦎 Funded 4-year PhD position on Lizard Evolutionary Ecology in our lab at UCLouvain (Belgium)! Apply before 9 March! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...

🚨Roll up, roll up, fully-funded #PhD deadlines approaching...

6th Jan: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6

8th Jan: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp

Social monitoring & manipulation
#meerkats #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork #long-termdata

@patrick-kennedy.bsky.social @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social

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...

Top left ECBB logo, yellow text with blue outline next to it reads 'Did you hear' Background image of a black British bird looking inquisitive. Bottom text, yellow with blue outline, reads 'Symposia submission extended to 15 February'.

January can be tough enough without an extra deadline looming. That's why we've extended our #ECBB2026 call for symposia to 15 February 2026!

For more information and for the submission form click the link: www.aru.ac.uk/science-and-...

⏰ DEADLINE APPROACHING...

...for the 2026 BOU Summer Placement Scheme

Financially supporting undergraduate students to carry out summer #ornithology research placements

Application deadline: 30 January 2026

Guidelines & application form: bou.org.uk/funding/s...

A few more days left to apply for our PhD studentship in primate cognition at NTU - join us!

Distress calls as social stressors affecting chicken welfare Abstract. Social signals about current environmental risks can shape development in young animals. Distress calls made by young chickens (Gallus gallus dom

2026. New from us: “Distress calls as social stressors affecting chicken welfare.” Well done Team! 👏🐥 url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

Background image: blue-and-yellow macaw ECBB2026 logo and image title ECBB Registration Middle table reads Registration - Early bird (until 31 Mar) - General Registration Prices listed are Early Bird Students £250 | General Registration £300 Early Bird Students from developing countries £200 | General Registration £250 Early Bird Non-Students £340 | General Registration £390 Early Bird Non-Students from developing countries £300 | General Registration £350 Excursions, dinner, and additional items available to add on Registration opening soon 1-4 September 2026 | Anglia Ruskin University

With ten days to go to submit your symposia proposal, we're here to answer your most burning question: What is the registration cost?

#AcademicTwitter #Conferencechatter #ECBB2026

Image background: a Javan slow loris in the jungle of Java, Indonesia on the right. Left hand is a close up blur of jungle greenery. Text reads: Organising a symposium related to animal cognition? If you would like to develop/guest edit a special collection in the journal Animal Cognition to accompany it, please get in touch with us at ecbb2026@aru.ac.uk Conference dates at the bottom read 1-4 September 2026, Anglia Ruskin University

If you are organising a symposium related to animal cognition for #ECBB2026, and would like to develop/guest edit a special collection in the journal Animal Cognition to accompany it, please get in touch with us at ecbb2026@aru.ac.uk

#academicconference #academicsky #animalbehaviour

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That means where we post helps determine which infrastructures survive (2/7)

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

A reminder that we have MSc/MA bursaries for home fee students at UCL Anthropology!

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.

www.aru.ac.uk/science-and-...
#academicsky #ecbb2026