📢CALL FOR COLLABORATION📢
My PhD student Warre is looking for flies infected with #Laboulbeniales fungi. Especially Musca domestica!
If you have any, store in 96% ethanol or in the freezer, record on @inaturalist.bsky.social, and/or contact Warre.
#TeamLaboul #LFEE #LuminaQuaeruntur
Students of ASSAB!
⭐The 2026 round of ASSAB grant applications are now open⭐
If you are conducting research on animal behaviour in the Australasian region, apply here: www.assab.org/grants-2026
Reminder: Don’t miss the upcoming webinar on decolonising the bioscience curriculum 🌱
Explore how to make teaching more inclusive, diverse, and globally relevant.
Book your place now:
www.sebiology.org/resource/boo...
Next #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk: 08.04. | 2:00 PM with Kaja Wierucka @kajawierucka.bsky.social @primatenzentrum.bsky.social
📍@klivvvienna.bsky.social , 1160 Wien or online 👩💻
→ vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar...
📢 Tip for students: The participation is recognised as an elective! (KV 128 804)
Apply for a fully funded PhD in evolutionary biology at Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia. Focus on cavefish adaptation. Info: https://bilandzija.irb.hr/Projects-and-Funding Deadline: April 10, 2026. #phd
Fascinating PhD project on the match between insect sperm and eggs across different insects. Great team too!
#PhDAlert #insects
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🚨NEW paper in @asab.org #AnimalBehaviour - field #experiments testing how elevated within-group aggression & intergroup threat combine to affect mongoose #behaviour
Led by @josharbon.bsky.social with @juliekern.bsky.social & #AmyMorris-Drake
#mammals #bioacoustics #conflict
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
GREAT PhD opportunity at La Trobe University in Melbourne: domestic Australian student only.
Deep-red vision and infrared sensing in jewel beetles. Field and lab studies, inc. electorphys, microscopy, behavioural assays. Team led by Dr Amanda Franklin.
PM me for more info!
The full-fat formatted version of our recent mongoose paper is now online in Animal Behaviour:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Interested in automating lab experiments or tasks with camera-trackable animals? We (@vivekhsridhar.bsky.social, @domroche.bsky.social, @iplanass.bsky.social) are launching TracktorLive, a real-time #python package for tracking and response. Video below by @iplanass.bsky.social [1/4]
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!
Screenshot of article Animal Behaviour Volume 232, February 2026, 123426 Chronic fungal infection accelerates age polyethism in ants without altering immune response Michał Kochanowski, Anna Dubiec, Aleksander Juszczak, Igor Siedlecki, Piotr Ślipiński, Marta Wrzosek, Enikő Csata, Magdalena Witek
🐜Ants! 🍄🟫Fungal parasites! 👷♂️Task switching! 🏥Immune function!
Our #EditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:
“Chronic fungal infection accelerates age polyethism in ants without altering immune response”
Read here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123426
The Society for Experimental Biology is promoting the upcoming @senseaboutsci.bsky.social “Standing up for Science” workshop in Norwich 📢
Find out more & how to join:
www.sebiology.org/resource/joi...
Have you taken part in our #PhotographyCompetition yet? As the weather gets warmer, why not get out with your phone or camera and take a photo that sums up the theme of 'colours of nature.'
📆 Deadline is 5 May
Find out more: www.rsb.org.uk/photo-compet...
#BiosciencesForAll #NaturePhotography
🎙️ New Meet the P.I. podcast episode with Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social is out!
From vision to interdisciplinary science, navigating new fields, dealing with rejection, and finding your own path ✨
🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1DGh...
📺 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iemB...
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...)
Also - shout out to our comms officer @sophiadaoudi.bsky.social for filming!
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...
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⭐️)
Facebook post by Vice reading “A study published in the journal Animal Behavior says that birds from all over the world, from the Galápagos to New Zealand, are weaving discarded cigarette butts into their homes. Sometimes, they're even nesting directly in actual, literal ashtrays. Why? Because they provide a kind of natural/completely unnatural pesticide, with the nicotine and heavy metals a human drags into the butts that seem to naturally repel parasites. Photo of a hooded crow with a cigarette “by Andrei Sidorov on Unsplash” and the headline “ARE BIRDS DEVELOPING AN ADDICTION TO CIGARETTES?”
Read the original article in #AnimalBehaviourJournal here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The deadline applications to the CES New Investigator Award has been extended until April 2 - don't miss out getting your application in!
🐦 Interested in movement ecology and urban pollution?
Apply for the #JAEIntro26 fellowship “Urban Gulls as Pollution Sentinels” at ICM-CSIC
Work with GPS tracking, lab analyses and risk‑mapping tools.
Deadline: April 11, 2026 👉 sede.csic.gob.es/tra...
Víctor Martín-Vélez
New postdoc position on bioaccumulation and effects of PFAS in arctic-breeding seabirds. Field sites in coastal Norway and Svalbard. Advisors will be Veerle Jaspers and Bjørn Monroe at NTNU in collaboration with ecologists at NINA. Application deadline 26 April 2026. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Post-doc opportunity on comparative cognition and movement dynamics in corvids with the brilliant Prof Debbie Kelly at the University of Manitoba
The #ASABSpring2026 ceilidh at Zerodegrees in Bristol! 🪩
Don’t forget, there will be more dancing fun at the gala dinner ceilidh at @ecbb2026.bsky.social, make sure you register for it!
We know you already miss #ASABSpring2026, but if you want to keep up with the cool research at the meeting, you can follow the speakers!
(If you were missed or just started an account, let us know so we can add you)
go.bsky.app/86N72m5
In a world where humans and animals can make so many decisions, more people should follow Kristy's lead.
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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