Congratulations Iain, that’s great news! To 2033 and beyond…

Post doc position available ! We are looking for someone who can model existing datasets or create mathematical models to answer questions about the role of mutualism in social evolution. Field work opportunities in Papua New Guinea.Pls get in touch with questions. jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job-invite/2...

Thank you #BerlinBerlin, it has been great and I hope to be back soon! 🙃🤗🐟🍻

Apply here is you want to learn about behavior with great people and have fun! 🐟🙃

WildBotics - Recruitment We are looking for you!

Interested in a multidisciplinary PhD that integrates robotics, computer vision, ecology and conservation?

We are looking for 12 Doctoral Candidates to join the WildBotics MSCA Doctoral Network!

Positions are fully funded for 36 months!

More info & apply @ www.wildbotics.eu/recruitment

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Each dyad (a, b) moves through four discrete states over time, represented by coloured circles. The dyad remains in a given state for a certain duration, or "holding time", before transitioning to a new state according to state-specific transition probabilities, indicated by arrows showing all possible (non-zero) transitions. Paintings by Sofia M. Pereira & Judith von Nordheim.

New paper!

We propose a framework to empirically study animal social relationships by modelling social network (SN) data as time-series—that is, without the need to aggregate them over time.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

image showing a plot of fish trajectories, with contour lines overlaid colored in bright yellow, magenta and cyan. everything seems pretty chaotic but looks kind of flashy all in eighties colors

Sheesh, gotta love the eighties! 😜🐟👾🪩🕺 #sciart #overplotting #matplotlib #behavior

Field work , makes the dream work! If you want to join our integrative lab we are looking for postdocs in neuroscience that want to take things wilder. Expertise in neurophysiology appreciated, rodents, rats, NHP. Just email or go to neuroetho.com

The Proceedings of the Third Digital Naturalism Conference - Batticaloa, Sri Lanka 2022 : Andrew Quitmeyer, Kit Quitmeyer, Sid Drmay, Various Authors : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ... The Third Digital Naturalism Conference ran for all 31 days of July 2022 in the town of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka with Dreamspace Academy. It brought together...

New Publication!
It's taken 3 years due to lots of delays from our most difficult conference we ever put on, but the Proceedings of the Third Digital Naturalism Conference are out!
300 pages of cool projects led by artists, biologists, and designers in Sri Lanka!

archive.org/details/dina...

The Organizations That Measure Democracy Have Reclassified America as Authoritarian The facts that make it clear just how far the US has fallen in 2025.

Check this REALITY.

47 Reasons why America is no longer a functioning democracy

Just a regular day, in a behavioralist’s life….when the camera does its thing while you are huffing the fumes 🐟🫠

To be a pigeon, one must think like a pigeon! 🕊️ 🧐 Check out our recent work from the www.thekaolab.com, led by the flocking amazing @knaticat.bsky.social in @elife.bsky.social: A tale of two birds: cognitive simplicity drives collective route improvements in homing pigeons doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

I have a personal interest in „the brightest it can be“ and would love to build this, as we always seem to need good (bright) lighting solutions in the lab and field! 👌

I have not been able to get conda/pip to reliably work across platforms. Now when starting a new project, I create a dockerfile with all the dependencies. Works best for my cases and you can serve jupyter or other GUIs on local ports to be opened in any browser….
…uv above does appealing too though

Picture showing the book “The Evolution of Social Behaviour” by Michael Taborsky, Michael Cant and Jan Komdeur

Whoop
Whoop
Is the sound of the evolution of social behaviour!!! 🤗🐟🚨
…excited to start reading up on policing in animal groups!

📣 We're on the lookout for a creative postdoc with strong computational skills!

Be the go-to person in the lab for building simple but powerful simulations that test wild ideas on biological rythems: from daily cycles of mussel groups at deep sea, to firefly flash synchronization!

More info below👇

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation.

Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants:

1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process.
2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers.
3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

Stand up for science 🧪

bsky.app/profile/stan...

A tale of two birds: cognitive simplicity drives collective route improvements in homing pigeons Cognitive abilities are central to how animals navigate complex environments. Beyond individual cognition, group living can also enhance navigation by pooling individually acquired information. One wa...

🚨Pre-print alert!🚨
Excited to share our recent study that explores the navigation mechanism(s) pigeons 🐦 use to improve homing efficiency and if these fit the criteria of cummulative cultural evolution. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Hey folk in higher ed in Massachusetts! Please help push forward this bill in the state legislature to end the practice of 'pass-the-harasser' by requiring disclosure of past sexual misconduct. rallystarter.com/rally/2574/s... Thanks to @laurakgee.bsky.social for her efforts on this!

The future is pink 💗! A pair of Spine-cheek Anemomefish in their host Bubble-tip anemone. I only did minor edits and this is the actual color of the anemone! 🐟🌴

Darren Beattie is a white nationalist and Uyghur genocide denier. He is wholly unqualified to serve as the top diplomat representing American values and cultures on the world stage. That’s why I led 43 colleagues in a letter to Secretary Rubio calling for Beattie's immediate dismissal.

Very cool opinion piece on multi-level societies and division of labour! 🐟🐠

Want to know more about Elacatinus colini? Like when he initiates the hatching of his offspring by picking them up with his mouth and spitting them out to conquer the world? Check out this paper by @gobywan.bsky.social in @royalsocietypublishing.org: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Nobody: How many post-docs can one person do at the same time?
Me: THIS IS SPARTA!!!!

These look like incredibly cool projects and a great team to address them! ☺️

FUCK ANTICIPATORY OBEDIENCE!!!!

Just arrived in Boston. Very much looking forward to giving the Winston Chen Lecture at Harvard on Friday!

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This a great opportunity as research to policy fellow at UW CIP

uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/candidat...