Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

„The only remaining way to mitigate this situation is to reduce the number of applications.“

They’ve tried nothing and are all out of ideas? Whether this is good or bad, it is unjustified. There is no impact analysis, no engagement with research on funding procedures. Government by vibes

PLS RT📣

Two Postdoc jobs at #mpaib with Serena Ding on collective behavior of worms

(Never seen a "wormuration"? That's them in green)

🪱 social dynamics of collective dispersal: bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/2...

🪱 sensory ecology of worm towers: bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/7...

The paper's framing: Human violent conflict has been explained by different theories in different places and times, including cultural identities. Chimps have violence but don't have cultural identity, so maybe cultural identity isn't so important to human conflict!

Illogical Darwinist slop.

Bright red-coloured maps gain a lot of traction during summers. In and of themselves, these maps say little because summers are a thing, as are tropical countries. This time, there are maps marked "close to 40°C" for India. Because the actual numbers do not meet personal scare tactic thresholds?

In the interest of science communication that is both accurate and useful: Heatwaves are defined by temperature anomalies. Only an abnormal 35-40°C is a heatwave. Outdoor/factory workers suffer from heat stress and therefore need support, regardless of whether it is a heatwave or not

Lebanon death toll surpasses 200 after Israel launches assault despite U.S.-Iran ceasefire | CBC News A wave of Israeli airstrikes swept across Lebanon on Wednesday, leaving at least 112 dead and hundreds wounded, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.

1/ Hours after Iran and the U.S. reached a ceasefire deal, Israel launched one of its most devastating attacks on Lebanon to date.

Over a hundred strikes in ten minutes - carnage in Beirut, where hundreds of thousands of displaced people are sheltering.

www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

Activity budgets shape parent–offspring conflict expression: Evidence from mantled howler monkeys - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology - Parent–offspring conflict (POC) is a cornerstone of evolutionary theory, yet empirical tests have concentrated on cercopithecine primates, limiting our...

Conclusion is cool: "Mother-offspring conflict peaks during rest periods, not during feeding as observed in more active species. This finding suggests that conflict concentrates whenever maternal activities are most critical to the mother's own well-being." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This project (with Stacy Rosenbaum and Nick Grebe) began in the dark days of Covid, and is finally ready to share. We've built a living database of primate paternity data (52 species, 3000 paternities) and completed first wave of analyses of paternity distribution. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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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Call for a PhD position in Cognitively inspired natural language processing with Lisa Beinborn and me. Part of the new SPP "Robust Assessment & Safe Applicability of Language Modelling: Foundations for a New Field of Language Science & Technology” (LaSTing). huds.uni-goettingen.de/assets/Call_...

Israel abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes in 1954.

Today they voted to bring it back — exclusively for Palestinians.

More than 100 Palestinian detainees have already died in Israeli custody since October 2023. Dozens are still disappeared.

Over 9,300 Palestinians sit in Israeli detention right now, including 350 children. Hundreds could face execution under this law.

BREAKING: Israel's Knesset has passed a law to execute Palestinian detainees.
Death by hanging. Mandatory sentencing. No pardon. 90 days to carry out.

It applies through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. It does not apply to Israelis.

White-thighed black-and-white colobus monkey adult males sitting peacefully in a tree.

These colobus monkey males might look like harmless, adorable teddy bears, but think again…👺 😨 Read about how male coercion and reproductive strategies stress out females in our new article: rdcu.be/favqS @intjprimatol.bsky.social 🧪🏺 #Primates #AcademicSky #AnimalBehavior

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

So, like, we’re going to start having mass protests at some point, right? Against this horrific US-Israeli war of unfathomable consequence? I mean, that’s on the agenda, right?

Pencil sketches of shrews

Some shrews crawling around. Work in progress. I love shrews! #sciart #wip #art #mammals

Israel wouldn't have a reason to invade, bomb and occupy countries in West Asia, and the US wouldn't have a reason to support Israel if the world were not reliant on fossil fuels? The problem with such analyses is that they sidestep fundamental questions about imperialism which have a long history

A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.

Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels:

www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a...

Deadline: May 4th, 2026

Funny how Springer Nature never gets mentioned in the "predatory publishers" debates (MDPI, Frontiers...).

Maybe it's different if you're the top predator.

Also Nature journals' customer service sucks, review times are eternal, and they just racked in insane profits (and expect more growth):

Workshop on Animal Social Evolution! July 13th-15th, Heraklion (Greece)

We are inviting early-career researchers from Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean to a hands-on, three-day workshop dedicated to methods and tools in social behaviour and evolution

marinapapa.github.io/TRASEworksho...

West Asia absolutely needs, and can create, a regional security framework that removes and prohibits any US military bases going forward. This is a *minimal* condition for regional peace and stability.

Ontogenetic evidence of socially learned call sequences in Western Australian magpies Abstract. Combinatoriality is the capacity to combine discrete vocal elements into larger structures. Previously thought unique to human language, combinat

Young magpies learn to combine calls into "sentences" much like human toddlers: through listening to family and friends!

Now available to read at @royalsocietypublishing.org
@mandyridley.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social @ceb-uwa.bsky.social

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🚨 ACE Seminar
We’re excited to host Dr. VPS Ritwika in our upcoming ACE Seminar!

🗓 Tuesday, Mar 17, 2026
🕖 7:00 PM JST (UTC+9)
💻 Online via Zoom

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The same technological pinpoint accuracy that was used to slaughter children in Gaza now being used to slaughter children in Iran.

Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11.
www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...

Anyone who is an expert in #gutmicrobiome research is interested in collaborating with us to study #free-rangingdogs in India? Please get in touch!

Is the UK's intervention in Iran war legal? Starmer said Britain would intercept Iranian missiles and allow US to use its bases in defensive action. Does that make the UK complicit in an illegal war?

British PM Starmer says that U.K. bases will only be used for ’defensive’ operations and not ‘offensive’ ops. But how can that be so when they are being used by the aggressor?
Great discussion here with Milanovic, @adhaque.bsky.social @janinadill.bsky.social
www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/u...

“India’s silence on the blatantly illegal assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is not the foreign policy volte-face that it seems to be at first sight. It is the natural and predictable outcome of the path that Indian foreign policy has been on for the last decade.”

m.thewire.in/article/dipl...