Come work with us!
Wide range of topics: #insect #emotions, #mantis stereo #vision and prey detection, insect active vision, cognition across species in the wild, bee reward perception, insect #attention.

If any of that appeals, get in touch! #fellowships #postdoc
(p.s. It's beautiful up North!)

🐦 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

🎉New paper out from the lab, led by @baptistepiqueret.bsky.social: ant larvae chemically suppress the reproduction of their caregivers. bit.ly/4t8uZLG
An example of how social interactions are regulated at the molecular level. The work was made possible by the unique environment @mpi-ce.bsky.social

photo of a green caterpillar with antlers with its mouth against a metal tube

lol apparently those cute little japanese emperor butterfly (sasakia) caterpillars that have antlers and a :3 face have such bad breath that they scare away predatory wasps. look they're making them take breathalyzer tests. the results are in: stinky!!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Any ECRs interested in joining a journal editorial board? I’m leaving an associate editor position due to upcoming maternity leave and other commitments and am happy to offer suggestions to the journal for a relacement. Broad zoology remit, reasonable workload.

A slightly different type of Easter egg. Unhatched eggs collected from last year's great and blue tit nests.

‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK The long read: Universities in Britain rely on overseas applicants paying full fees, which has given rise to some unscrupulous recruiters and left many hopefuls and their families deep in debt

Sobering and depressing story about the awful conditions faced by several international students, and how this stems from the terrible politics behind university fees and immigration.

www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

Early-life microbiome assembly and its effects on bird phenotypes We are looking for a motivated Masters/HBO/internship student to partake in upcoming microbiome manipulation experiments, investigating how this fascinating community impacts phenotypes in birds. Star...

Looking for MSc student(s) to be involved in some really cool germ-free experiments with house sparrows at @niooknaw.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social ! 🐣🦠Get in touch if you're interested and please share :)
nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

Testing for cryptic male mate choice in an insect with high mating failure - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology - Post-copulatory sexual selection is an important component of sexual selection. Whilst traditionally studied in terms of sperm competition and cryptic female...

Very excited to see my most recent paper out in Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 🥳. We asked whether the high rate of mating failure in a lygaeid seed bug can be explained by male driven cryptic mate choice. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Have a look at this great #PhD opportunity on Road Ecology at Aarhus University, Denmark 👇 Timely topic, and a great supervisor! 📅DL: 30.04 phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...

(📸: coloradosun.com/2025/12/07/p...)

Zebra finches in Australia; one of the study organisms for the PhD

Dwarf mongoose staring at a camera in South Africa; one of the PhD study organisms

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us

❓Quantifying animal #movement patterns & behavioural #interactions in a changing world

👥Joint position in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #MacquarieUniversity

📆19th April deadline
tinyurl.com/343acaev
#maths #modelling #data #fieldwork #Australia

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Looking for a postdoc? Letter of Intent deadline for the Human Frontiers postdoc fellowship is in early May!

www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp...
My husband had one of these and they were a great funder to work with.

Get in touch if you think I/my lab might be a good fit for your research ideas!

🚨🚨 Breaking news from Wytham Woods: The 80th year of data collection of the long-term tit study officially started today with this nest with 3 Blue Tit eggs (pic: @mcmahok.bsky.social). First egg inferred 23 March which is our earliest EVER nest - beating the previous record of 26 March by 3 days!🚨🚨

Nest containing a single egg

A nest containing multiple eggs

Another early season for urban tits in the Netherlands!

#chemicaldefence #volatiles #predators @aplantaginis.bsky.social
Cool work by my cool student!
💪👇👇👇

Hello! My name is Gabriella and in April '26 l will graduate with my PhD in compcog from VetMedUni Vienna🤩👩🏻‍🎓🦜🐒🐕🇦🇹

With this in mind, I am excited to soon extend my passion for animal behavior/cognition in a post-doc/job position, so any recs/ connections would be greatly appreciated!!
Website below☺️

The Impact of Environmental Pollution on Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) and the Role of Climate Change as an Interactive Stressor Abstract. Globally, 16% of dragonfly and damselfly species (Odonata) are threatened with extinction, primarily due to the loss and degradation of freshwate

Always great to have work by our masters students published! track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...

School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

This is utterly jaw-dropping.

A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils.

www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

What's My JND? Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

You can improve with practice (and a cleaner screen) What's My JND? 0.0066
Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

What's My JND? Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

What's My JND? 0.0147
Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

Principal Researcher in Human Evolution:South Kensington

Natural History Museum. Apply for Principal Researcher in Human Evolution jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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...

Last year, J. Endler published an inspiring essay in @behavecol.bsky.social on what we should be doing as behavioral ecologists 👉 doi.org/10.1093/beheco/araf029. According to him, "we need to put Ecology back into Behavioural Ecology: we need to make a lot more use of Natural History" (1/5)

I should have learnt Japanese...

Introducing the campest katydid of all time. 🦄💅🏽👸💞 Why would this animal (Arota festae) have evolved this way, other than to look utterly fabulous? We have unleashed some (slightly whacky) thoughts, now out in @esajournals.bsky.social. Photo credit: @zekerowe.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... 1/n

Excited to have you Marc!

✨ Starting a new postdoc ✨
I will study decision-making in great tits with @mothprof.bsky.social at the University of Amsterdam, conducting fieldwork with @jmappes.bsky.social in Finland. Very excited about this new adventure! 🤩

University of Warsaw seeks candidates for a post-doc and PhD positions in evolutionary biology, focusing on sunflower morphological innovations. Applications due by April 2026. Details: www.biol.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/sites... #postdoc

The value of close replications and how to get more of them: interview with Kate Laskowski Welcome to our latest interview with the author of a recent interesting paper. Today’s interview was conducted by email with behavioral ecologist Kate Laskowski, first author ofLaskowski et a…

Stoked about the new Replication Studies section in Behavioral Ecology? Me too!

Jeremy Fox over at Dynamic Ecology interviewed me about our recent commentary on this topic and I'd love to hear the community's thoughts!

dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/t...

📢📢📢Lectureships at Bristol!📢📢📢

We're hiring 3 x lecturers (=assistant professor) in Biological Sciences, across the discipline.

Great department, great colleagues, great building, great city

Details here:
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...