We asked the researchers at #ASABSpring2026 if they could summarise their posters in 10 words or less - and they stepped up to the challenge 😍
(Also watch to the end for a celebrity cameo⭐️)
What is the CNC 2026? • One of the biggest global citizen science projects • Uses Naturalist as its recording software • In the past it has even brought species back from extinction! • Last year 102945 individuals helped to record and ID 73,765 species, which is amazing!
Reminder from @helephantmylne.bsky.social to get involved with this year's City Nature Challenge #ASABSpring2026
www.citynaturechallenge.org
CRAB Posters at #ASABSpring2026 from @helephantmylne.bsky.social , Bryony Jenkins, Eleanor Benson, Sophie Pettit , and Henry Moreau-Smith
(Pictures taken in the very rare gaps when they didn't have customers)
CRAB are at @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social in Bristol in strength for the next couple of days.
Today @libbychaps.bsky.social presented work from her PhD on rabbit social ontogeny.
More CRABers to come tomorrow!
Yavanna also impressed everyone with her quick thinking during the traditional cork popping ceremony, rescuing what could have been an embarrassing moment with aplomb.
Last week we celebrated Dr Yavanna Burnham successfully passing her viva. Congratulations @yavannab.bsky.social ! (And proud supervisors Lisa Leaver and Andy Higginson)
Yavanna is staying on in CRAB as postdoc on the squirrel project so stay tuned for more squirrels!
Late-reporting, but last year some of our CRABbers headed up to Edinburgh to present their posters at the @asab.org Winter meeting. Well done all! @libbychaps.bsky.social @charli-ocean.bsky.social and @ Manuela Carona R
Very successful CRAB Staff and Post-Docs Research Away Day yesterday- great discussions and feedback about upcoming grant plans. Lots of really cool work in the pipeline (we think so anyway). Accompanied by a selection of French-style sweet treats.
Looking for an interdisciplinary funded #PhD in #bees and #physics, #behaviour, #physiology, #neuroethology, modelling? Call open now. International students eligible. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... Centre for Research in Aimal Behaviour @crab-exeter.bsky.social
Exeter campus.
Congratulations to the winners of the CRAB trophy, and thanks to our excellent 2nd Year PGRs for organising brilliant quiz.
Festive Season in CRAB, which we celebrate with a quiz and by rediscovering the password to the CRAB Bluesky account.
Fully funded #PhD studentships, start Sept 2026:
1. Weaponry and aggression in wild fiddler crabs, with me, Safi Darden, Martin How tinyurl.com/weaponsPhD
2. The emotional basis of behaviour, with me, Danny Williamson, Andy Higginson tinyurl.com/emotionsPhD
#AnimalBehaviour @crab-exeter.bsky.social
Sign for University of Exeter on a granite rock, in front of a university building. There is a large grassy area surrounded by trees in front of the building.
Happy #PhotographyFriday! End of my first week as a postdoc in @crab-exeter.bsky.social and safe to say I think I've landed on my feet here 😁 some sun would be nice though.....
Bake your paper! Research tech extraordinaire, Macaela Skelton, made a cake of (some of) the study sites in the MacaqueNet database. She ran out of decorations before she could do them all 😆. Link to the paper that's been cake-ified: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
5 exciting PhD opportunities to join the Center for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter in Sept 2025. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro...
The annual CRAB-mas quiz was a great success! The staff team won for the first time ever in the history of CRABmasses and received a crisp high five as reward.
If our PhD studentships from NERC weren't enough, we've also got this one on offer on 🐇. Deadline Dec 11th
New PhD opportunity on social behaviour in the context of ecological disturbance with me, @mdekauwe.bsky.social, and others. Sept 2025 start, funded by NERC
Apply by Jan 13. Project and application details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Post reproductive mother and Son copyright David Ellifrit Center for Whale Research
Exciting new NERC funded PhD opportunity available with us on #killerwhale #orca #behaviour and #conservation, co-supervised by Stephanie King, Sam Ellis and Dan Franks in partnership with The Center for Whale Research USA
exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... - deadline 13th January 2025 #killerwhale
Pls RT: Interested in doing a PhD on the behaviour of #bees & other animals at CRAB Uni Exeter and Bristol Uni? Check out SWBio swbio.ac.uk www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/pr... (apply by 11.12.) & NERC GW4 www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/projects-202... @seanrands.bsky.social @bethbees.bsky.social apply by 13.01.
Come do a PhD in CRAB! Check out the studentships on offer below and apply by the 13th of Jan 🦀🐝🦊🐋🐒🐓
the Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour is now posting here! Follow individual members and alumni via the CRAB starter pack 🦀 go.bsky.app/LSJ3ZBD
