This is absolutely a program you want to get involved with! Incredible support, mentoring and community!

Transformers! More than meets the eye!

This VERY ANGRY ROCK is actually a brown box crab (Echidnocerus foraminatus), a king crab found off the Pacific coast of North America.

The impressively compact shape is a defense posture, but there's an even neater feature not shown here.

(📷:zedasd)

This #PhilTransB theme issue, organised by @ellileadbeater.bsky.social and @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social, explores how and why animal minds have evolved to be so different from one another: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

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📢 Mark your calendars for the Joint Graduate Meeting 2026, sponsored by @ethoges.bsky.social and the German Zoological Society (DZG)!

Don't miss this fantastic opportunity to showcase your research & network with peers!

📆 30.09. - 02.10.2026
🌍 @uni-muenster.de

Abstract submission will open soon.

🐦 New PhD position!
@prfju.bsky.social @ckecz.bsky.social
Nest defence in passerine birds

Interested in animal behaviour, fieldwork and evolutionary ecology?
📅 Start July 2026 | ⏳ 4 years | 💰 Fully funded

Apply by May 10 → veselp03@jcu.cz / krausl07@jcu.cz

#PhDjobs #PhDchat #PhD #ornithology

The UC Center for Public Engagement with Science @ucpews.bsky.social is hiring a postdoc! Anyone who will earn a PhD in a related discipline with interest in public engagement is encouraged to apply.

Please share widely! More details and apply here: jobs.uc.edu/job/Postdoct...

#SciComm #philsci 🧪

ETHOLOGY - Call for papers - Special issue "Wildlife in Urban Spaces – Adaptations and Human Perceptions" 🦌🏙️💁‍♀️

Submission deadline: Saturday, 31 October 2026

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Hey are you into podcasts? Have you ever made one or know how to sound edit? Well then we have the job for you!

The Animal Behavior Podcast is hunting for more folks to help edit their podcasts! They have some interviews but need more expertise on the technical side. Email: arredondo .at. ou.edu

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Hey are you into podcasts? Have you ever made one or know how to sound edit? Well then we have the job for you!

The Animal Behavior Podcast is hunting for more folks to help edit their podcasts! They have some interviews but need more expertise on the technical side. Email: arredondo .at. ou.edu

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If you're in need of a bit of color this morning, here's a metallic green sweat bee who wants all the pollen. Anza-Borrego Desert, California.
#Bugsky 🌿🐙🐝🌼

Post Doc position alert! Come work with us on the evolution of cannibalism. Full job description in link below. Salary starts at $58k plus benefits. (Please help spread the word)
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Amazing initiative!

The combined effects of elevated within-group aggression and intergroup threat on dwarf mongoose behaviour Within-group aggression has well-established immediate effects on the contest-related behaviour of both participants and other group members (i.e. bys…

The full-fat formatted version of our recent mongoose paper is now online in Animal Behaviour:

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

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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Yep, the date is April 30th - sorry about the confusion!

Screenshot of the Visdeurbel.nl web page. Visdeurbel Did you spot a fish? Press the Fish Doorbell! [There’s a button that looks like a doorbell, plus a little icon of a bell, except it has an eye and a mouth, and the clapper is forked, so it looks like a little fish.] Then our lock keeper can let the fish through. [Livecam underwater view of the lock] You're watching the live stream with 1301 others

When I can’t sleep, I’ll occasionally watch the Visdeurbel cam. There’s something comforting about knowing that at any point, there are over a thousand other people willing to do something that’s objectively kind of silly just to help individual fish.

Last night I got to ring the bell three times!

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...

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Just a heads up that I will soon be advertising for a Postdoctoral position in my group to work on the evolution of cannibalism in Tribolium, starting ~September. Official Job ad to come soon. #academicjobs #postdoc #eeb

Screenshot of article Animal Behaviour Volume 232, February 2026, 123426 Chronic fungal infection accelerates age polyethism in ants without altering immune response Michał Kochanowski, Anna Dubiec, Aleksander Juszczak, Igor Siedlecki, Piotr Ślipiński, Marta Wrzosek, Enikő Csata, Magdalena Witek

🐜Ants! 🍄‍🟫Fungal parasites! 👷‍♂️Task switching! 🏥Immune function!

Our #EditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:

“Chronic fungal infection accelerates age polyethism in ants without altering immune response”

Read here:

doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123426

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

Job 🚨 Please share!!

We have a teaching track faculty opening in our undergraduate behavioral biology program at Johns Hopkins University

Teaching animal behavior plus self-developed courses

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I'm excited to announce that the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology are now published in Peer Community Journal peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

I hired these things to stare at you

Flyer advertising a special session at ABS2026! "Gadgets, Inventos & Gambiarras: Creative, budget-friendly DIY research methods in animal behavior"

Have you ever come up with a nifty solution to a research project (of course you have!) or maybe you *need* a nifty (and cheap!) solution for something. Planning to attend ABS 2026?

You can present in both the regular conference & this special session, or just attend to steal some creativity :D

Update: we've extended our timeline! Review of applications will now begin March 24. Still plenty of time to put together an app!

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Flyer advertising the ABS 2026 meeting in Cincinnati. Abstract submission deadline is March 23.

🚨Abstract deadline for ABS 2026 is quickly approaching (March 23)!

Join us at our annual meeting this summer in gorgeous Cincinnati. All the cool kids will be there 😎

Details and submission here: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/2026/abstrac...

Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Graduate Research Excellence Grants, Apply by May 18, 2026.

Proposals are due May 18 for this year’s Graduate Research Excellence Grants! Up to $2500 for 1st and 2nd year grad students and up to $3500 for 3rd years and above. Learn more and apply now! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

Yes! There is a virtual conference that starts on July 27 (~ a week after the in-person conference ends) so you can still get your fill of science online. More details forthcoming here: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/2026/