Great tit perched on a branch, with beak slightly open. Photo credit: Alizée Vernouillet

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us:

🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦

Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social

📆29th May deadline
More info: tinyurl.com/yz28s96x
Apply: tinyurl.com/2wpkb64y

#cognition #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #birds

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Congrats! Super interesting study

1 of 2 new postdocs in our group! Looking for an integrative fish physiologist for our Amazon ornamental fish project, linking stress & welfare across supply chain. Partnership with fishers and Brazilian collaborators. Field work and applied impact. Please share!: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

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🚨Not one, but two papers now out on response inhibition (also called motoric self-regulation or inhibitory control in the field of animal cognition). Many studies find no link between individual performance on different tasks supposedly measuring response inhibition.
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Graphical ad showing Hobson Lab Postbac position: parakeet sociality and cognition, with a graphic showing a flock of monk parakeets flying towards a social network, two unmarked monk parakeets perched, and examples of our individually color-marked birds showing their dye marks and color codes

I am recruiting postbacs for my parakeet sociality and cognition project, ideally to start in Feb/Mar this year. Help spreading the word would be appreciated! More information and application link available here: ornithologyexchange.org/jobs/board/s...

The Birdsong Lab is recruiting graduate students! Links in the comments. Please repost!

My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com

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I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).

Temple Grandin Endowed Professor (Assistant/Associate) in Applied Animal Behavior and Well-Being - Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States Temple Grandin Endowed Professor in Applied AnimalBehavior and Well-Being Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural ResourcesOklahoma State University – Stillwater, Oklahoma The Department of Anim...

What an honorable title! @okstate.edu is hiring a Temple Grandin Endowed Professor in Applied Animal Behavior & Well-Being. 75% research 25% teaching.
#job #phd #animalwelfare #agriculture #farmanimalwelfare
jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/temple-...

We're also hiring a department head! jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/departm...

Oklahoma State Department of Biology is hiring an assistant professor in comparative biology (very broadly defined)! We have a great department, come join us. And please spread the word. jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/assista...

📢🚨Please share! We’re hiring! 📢🚨Have a strong interests in wildlife ecology and gut microbiome bioinformatics? 3 year Senior Research Associate for NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant. Apply here: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18.... Informal enquiries welcome! drgldavidson.github.io/ACMEresearch

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Do you love research & writing & all things animal behavior? Well our journal, Animal Behavior, recruiting up to 5 (count em!) new Associate Editors!

Editors serve three-year terms beginning January 2026. If you're interested, email Exec Editor Scott Sakaluk (sksakal@ilstu.edu) by Oct 31!

Image showing Hobson Lab logo (with parakeets, a social network, and R code), two Monk Parakeets, and several individually-marked parakeets with the text "Now recruiting PhD students!!"

**PhD POSITIONS** I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work on sociality and cognition in Monk Parakeets, starting Fall 2026. Full ad is here: hobsonresearch.com/index.php/20... (please help spread the word!)

Accepting applications for Graduate Students! PhD & MSc

I am seeking highly motivated individuals to join my research team.

Application details here: https://bit.ly/4mlBd6x

Deadline 01 Dec 2025

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What Can Singing Frogs Teach Us About Evolutionary Tradeoffs? — Galactic Polymath Will female frogs be attracted to males who produce many short calls or to males with fewer, longer calls? This evolutionary tradeoff was the question my high school biology students investigated in t...

"...it checks all the boxes — authentic science, student-led inquiry, & ready-to-go NGSS-aligned materials..." 😊

Check out this guest post from @brewerbiology.bsky.social after teaching our free unit about @reichertfroglab.bsky.social's research 🐸🔊🧪 www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/what-ca...

Genetic and environmental sources of behavioral individuality: a test of the standard model Behavioral variation is typically assumed to arise from the combination and interaction of genetic and environmental variation. However, recent work with genetically identical individuals has found th...

New preprint out from the lab, including @rroyaute.bsky.social:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

In this we test what we refer to as the "standard model" of behavioral variation.

This was inspired by recent work identifying intra-genotypic variation as a major contributor to "individuality".
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Postdoc advertisement!

Hi all, I'm looking to hire a Postdoc in BIOACOUSTICS for work on Owls. Your job would be to collect & analyze bioacoustics data, and write papers. 🦉🦉🦅🐦🦜🦉🦉

Moncrieff Lab | Bird Evolution The Moncrieff Lab is a research lab based at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History on the campus of the University of Oklahoma. Research in the lab involves museum specimens, fieldwork, and...

🐦🔬 Recruiting PhD students! 🌎🧬
I’m looking for 1–2 PhD students to join our team starting Fall 2026 at the Sam Noble Museum & University of Oklahoma.

Our research: 🐦 birds • 🌍 biogeography • 🌴 Neotropics • 🧬 population genomics • 🌱 speciation

👉 Learn more: www.moncriefflab.org

Please share!

Schematic of the structure of the paper. We looked at dietary differences between ages and sexes, seasons and habitat types. We looked at the identity of prey in the diet and the number of dietary items.

New publication! 🚨

If you're looking for a paper on what great tits eat then this is for you! 🦋🐛🐞🪲🐦

We looked at variation in diet using DNA metabarcoding and found lots of differences between adult and young birds and between habitat types.
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Many thanks to my co-authors John Quinn, Gabrielle Davidson @drgdavidson.bsky.social Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social and Jordan Cuff @jordancuff.bsky.social . Also remembering Bill Symondson who I really enjoyed working with and who would have been pleased to see this work out there.

I was proud to take part in this event! (Even if very annoyed that a terminated NSF grant got me there) Every effort to communicate the importance of scientific research matters

This is an excellent tool, I'm really happy to have contributed to its development! I think it will be especially useful for teaching #bioacoustics

I'm looking for a postdoc in quantitative ecology / macroecology to start in summer/fall 2025 in my lab at Oklahoma State University. Please spread the word

www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities

We love it! 🤩🐸
Great to see students diving into data in our Balancing Act unit based on @reichertfroglab.bsky.social's NSF funded research! #SaveNSF 🧪

Students listened to 🐸 calls and analyzed their spectrograms to learn about tradeoffs in nature: frogs can have long calls or frequent calls, not both! Then tried to figure out which call attracts more ladies.

Great lesson set called Balancing Act by Galactic Polymath! www.galacticpolymath.com

Please DM or email me also, in the same boat

This is a really exciting app for #bioacoustics, especially for teaching. Please support if you can.

Designing Microbial Interventions to Study Behavioural Effects in Wild Birds (DAVIDSON_U25DTPR) | Doctoral Training Partnership This project is open to Home Fee Status applicants only. The gut microbiome influences how animals behave and interact with their environment via the microbiome–gut–brain axis (MGBA).

🚨 🪺🐦🦠 PhD opportunity in my lab for UK home fee students. Feel free to contact me for informal enquiries. Please share! shorturl.at/wUo8r