If you work on corvid ecology, behaviour, cognition, or conservation, this might be useful for you 👇
I’ve just published CORVIDATA in Scientific Data 🐦
doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/4)

🔊Out now with @lsburchardt.bsky.social @marcosqoliva.bsky.social, Kouřil & Petrusková:

Yellowhammer males sing using individual isochronous rhythms & maximise rhythmic dissimilarity with their neighbours.

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

a small white bird is standing on one leg on a beach . ALT: a small white bird is standing on one leg on a beach .

🚨 Job alert!
#PhD in #Biomechanics × #Neuroscience to study birdsong 🎵🐤 @mecadev.bsky.social and @neuropsi.bsky.social

We are pre-selecting a candidate by April 15 to compete to InLife & IPV 2026 doctoral program (interview: May 20)

🔗 Full offer: sites.google.com/site/pauline...

Please share!

Can we talk to the animals? The ethics of using machine learning to decode animal communication - Topoi There is currently much scientific and public interest in using machine learning to uncover the meaning of animal signals, which could ultimately lead to two-way communication systems between humans a...

Paper on the ethics of using AI/ML to decode animal communication, from @marriah.bsky.social @kristinandrews.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Addresses work of @earthspecies.bsky.social @projectceti.bsky.social & others

#bioacoustics
#prattle 💬

I'm hiring! 📢 Fully funded 4-year PhD position in Language Evolution using Communication Games at @mpi-nl.bsky.social. Come work with me on how different social pressures shape the evolution of new communication systems in the lab! Deadline for application is May 18th! share.google/fGTKbFS4v4Gb...

An excellent opportunity for 14 young birders to visit Lundy, boat and board included -- lundybirdobs.org.uk/news-and-sig...

Additional funding for young people to get out to a bird obs, through the BTO here -- www.bto.org/our-work/you...

Alt - A Yellowhammer perches on a branch with its bill open as it sings. Wording over the image reads: We're hiring. Field Ornithologist/Survey Mentor (BBS Surveys) - Northern Ireland. Field Ornithologists (EFS Surveys) - Northern Ireland. Field Surveyors (LandSpAES Project) - England. The logo for the Northern Ireland Environment Agency and BTO feature at the bottom of the image.

URGENT! ⏰

BTO is looking for one or more part-time bird surveyors able to work in east Fermanagh (Northern Ireland) between mid-April and mid-July.

Time and mileage costs will be paid. If you are interested, please contact gavin.siriwardena@bto.org by Thursday 9 April for further details.

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...

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!

📢 Island Biology 2026 📢
An international conference on island biology
November 2–6, 2026
Atami, Japan

Registration is now open!
Early-bird deadline: April 9

We’re also planning a special issue in Ecological Research!

#IB2026
#Special_Issue
@ecologicalresearch.bsky.social

If you enjoyed the paper below👇👇, you might also be interested in our symposium on “Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in a Changing World” at the Nordic Oikos-GfÖ conference! The amazing Viktoriia Radchuk will be giving a talk, and we still have a few spots open, reach out to if interested! #NSO2026 🐦🌴🐝🌡️📉

With @mmoiron.bsky.social, we are organising a symposium on Eco-evolutionary dynamics in a Changing World at the Nordic Oikos-GfÖ conference.

There are still a few spots left, so if you are doing research on eco-evolutionary dynamics and would like to contribute to the Symposium, contact us!

a female and a male Galápagos yellow warbler

New paper led by @alperyelimlies.bsky.social (1st chapter of his thesis!) in Animal Behaviour: Alper discovered that female Galapagos yellow warblers commonly sing solo songs and duets with their mates but mostly during the non-breeding season. doi.org/10.1016/j.an... #ornithology

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. 🦜🐳🦗🦇

3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama!

Three positions, each including salary & a research budget.

Applications due April, 15th.

DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us!

stri.si.edu/academic-pro...

👏 Thanks to @diegogil.bsky.social & @cjtheb.bsky.social & @borjamila.bsky.social

📢 New preprint from my PhD project (while in @mncn-csic.bsky.social & CRBE-Toulouse) available: doi.org/10.64898/202...

Can song differences split populations? We tested this in the Canary Islands Chaffinch from La Palma Island, using playback experiments.

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🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲

👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest

This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity!

Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚

🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

With data from >100k special issues, we set out to tackle this problem.

Guest editors publishing in their own issues is a form of "endogeny". In this study, we define special issues with extreme endogeny as Published In Support of Self (PISS).

So, how much of this literature is PISS?

4/n

Have you considered whether animals differ in their perception of density?

We explored how differences in our senses, interpretation and past experiences shapes density perception, causing behavioral differences and affecting fitness outcomes. 🧪

nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We have published a preprint entitled “Island species as models for small population biology and conservation.” 🏝️🩵🌍

1/3

ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

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...

Pleased to announce the BioDCASE Challenge 2026 - the Bioacoustics Data Challenge! Now with 6 different tasks to choose from, each an open-data computational challenge of its own: https://biodcase.github.io/challenge2026/ #machinelistening #BioDCASE #bioacoustics #DCASE #sound

🚨 Bulbul project update: we are now measuring specimens in several collections in Asia, Europe and USA. The data will be used in a family-wide analysis of intraspecific variation and are destined for the next global dataset release (AVONET 2.0). If you want to join the project, get in touch. 🪶🌐🌎🧪

NEW JOB in #ornithology chasing #nutcrackers in Switzerland to understand seed dispersal patterns: buff.ly/Cx0OOQy

Replication studies: a win-win for early-career training and behavioral ecology Replicating previous research builds confidence that results are real and meaningful. But close replications are rare due to limitations in resources and d

How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications.

My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/

academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

New (competition funded) PhD opportunity with me,
@iaciac.bsky.social and @dralgernon.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Higher-order networks and animal communication. Suited to someone keen on network science theory/computational modeling and keen to adapt this to ecology & evolution.

The Birdsong Lab is recruiting graduate students to study vocal communication in tropical birds. The deadline to apply is less than a week away! #birds #birdsong #ornithology #animalbehavior #BirdsCanada #AcademicSky #SciComm

Let's look at some numbers

2022: 7 044 applications submitted. 17.9 % success rate
2023: 8 039 applications submitted. 15.8 % success rate
2024: 10 360 applications submitted. 16.6 % success rate
2025: 17 058 applications submitted (record high). 9.7% success rate (preliminary numbers).

We’re recruiting at Spurn Bird Observatory 🐦

Head Little Tern Warden + 2 Assistant roles available at Beacon Ponds this season.

Details here 👉 spurnbirdobservatory.co.uk/news