We = @fragdarm.bsky.social @danaipapageorgiou.bsky.social @nikos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy @avezyrakis.bsky.social, Dimitra Georgopoulou, and I 🙌
🧨Application deadline: 15th of April 2026
🏛️ Kindly hosted by: the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research www.hcmr.gr/en/
📢One week left to apply! To promote research on #animal #behaviour in Greece, we are organizing a 3 day workshop on methods, from social evolution to collective behaviour 🐭🐟🐦🐒✨
📍 Crete☀️
🗓️ July 13-15
🌐 marinapapa.github.io/TRASEworksho...
Supported by @biologists.bsky.social 🙏
DM for questions!
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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📢 Reminder: Applications are still open for Summer Institute 2026 @mpib-berlin.bsky.social (June 8–16)!
This year's theme focuses on AI and decision-making — a great opportunity for early-career researchers in this space.
⏰ Application deadline: March 16
🔗 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/res...
📣 Applications for the 23rd Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality are now open!
✨Join us in Berlin @arc-mpib.bsky.social June 08–16, 2026, to explore the topic of “Decision Making in the Age of AI”.
✏️ More details + application form (deadline: March 16): www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/res...
Cover image with sleeping baboon
Our paper is published today in Current Biology and is featured on the cover!
We report a neat, and somewhat counter-intuitive, finding: higher-ranking baboons get less and more interrupted night-time rest.
🎉GELIFES is now on Bluesky!🎉
It took us some time, but Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences is now on Bluesky! Follow us here if you want to keep up with our newest scientific developments 😉
Schedule and Conference details here👉 asabwinter.github.io/2025/schedule/
Please reach out to @stacheljochen.bsky.social @maxlicht.bsky.social or myself for more Hublet details!
Interested in sensory information & animal behaviour but you are in Germany (or close by) and Edinburgh is far? We are hosting a @asab-meetings.bsky.social Hublet in Berlin! Join us for free next week (15-16/12) to follow the conference together😁
More👉 www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/hublet...
📢We have a brilliant #PhD opportunity on collective animal behaviour across vertebrates! Deadline early 2026 so plenty of time to prepare, feel free to reach out for more info if you are interested in applying 👀
All details below👇
Konstanz school of Collective Behavior will take place again from 20th July to 7th August , 2026. We have an amazing line up of speakers covering state of the art research on collective behavior across systems. Application deadline : March 15th
Details here: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/applica...
📢A very exciting #PhDposition with deadline in a couple of weeks!
baboons | human-wildlife interactions | social behaviour
+ a great team of supervisors with complementary expertise from @swanseauni.bsky.social & @exeter.ac.uk
Check it out 👇
Apply now to become a speaker at our Institute! We invite excellent postdocs in neuroscience, ecology and other fields related to our research to apply for our Emerging Scientist Talk Series. Apply by October 24: www.bi.mpg.de/ess
@chr-mayer.bsky.social @fleyes.bsky.social @michaelahau.bsky.social
Less than a week left to apply!
Which processes underlie collective intelligence in naturalistic human groups?
In new work led by Valerii Chirkov, we show that payoff selectivity is key in transforming a group of individuals into an intelligent collective 🤝🧠
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY7n...
Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
🚨 PhD alert! IMPRS brain & behavior in Bonn just opened their calls for applications. Great PhD funding opportunities. Check it out! PS- I just joined their faculty, meaning you could do a rotation in my lab or even a PhD with me on spider sleep 🙃 Apply! 🚨
I have a job opening in my lab. If you are interested in bird behaviour and predator prey interactions please take a look! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Submit your session proposals for the SEB Annual Conference in Florence 2026 (July 7–9).
Deadline: October 1, 2025.
Don't miss your chance to shape the future of experimental biology.
More information:
www.sebiology.org/resource/onl...
#SEBconference #ExperimentalBiology #FlorenceConference
We are hiring - PDRA position exploring how information access shapes social dynamics in killer whales. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social Prof Dan Franks (York) start 1st Nov (or ASAP) end 31st Oct 2028. Apps close on 19th Oct.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/p...
We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
After a very fun summer (👇), some personal updates: I am moving to @mpib-berlin.bsky.social @arc-mpib.bsky.social in Berlin next month with a Humboldt Fellowship @humboldt-foundation.de to join @ralfkurvers.bsky.social for some exciting collective decision-making work😁🐟🚶♀️
Any Berlin/DE tips welcome!
Primate Society of Great Britain (PSGB) Meeting
National Museum Cardiff, 27-28 November
www.psgb.org/pages/14-mee...
Registration and abstract submission coming soon! Please share!
@mckinneymonkey.bsky.social @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social @willallennz.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social
with @shoalgroup.bsky.social and @lostintheswarm.bsky.social ✨
Link to the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/2041...
Made possible by an @asab.org Conference Attendance Grant 🥰🙏
Poster with the workshop's title on the left: "Into the Swarm-Verse: a new R package to analyse trajectories of animals on the move". The speaker's name is indicated as 'Marina Papadopoulou' and the date/time as "Tuesday 26th of August, 2025, 1:10-2:40 PM.". On the right there is an example of a swarm space (points of different colors in 3 dimensions), the pictures of the animal groups that they represent, and the logo of the R package. At the bottom, there is the reference to the paper: "Papadopoulou M., Garnier S., & King A.J. (2024) swaRmverse: An R package for the comparative analysis of collective motion. Methods in Ecology and Evolution"
📢Coming up, workshop at #Behaviour2025 on our swaRmverse package!
🗓️Tue 26/8, 13:10–14:40
💻Theory & R practical (feel free to bring your data)
🎯Discussion on comparative analysis & metrics
🙏Come & recommend features for version 2.0!
👉RSVP on the app
More info: behaviourindia2025.in/workshops.html
Winter ASAB 2025 December 15th-16th Edinburgh How sensory information affects behaviour
Only two weeks to get your abstracts in for #ASABWinter2025 ⏰
Come join us in Edinburgh this December! 🏰 ❄️ 🏴
More info here:
asabwinter.github.io/2025/
We now have ONE new ASAB account completely dedicated to the Winter and Spring meetings. Rather than having to find and follow a new account for each conference, you can now follow @asab-meetings.bsky.social for all of the continuous up-to-date info and conference posting you crave 😀
Winter ASAB 2025 - 15th-16th of December in Edinburgh - with a special theme of "How sensory information affects behaviour". Register at https://asabwinter.github.io/2025/ deadline for abstract submission 29th of August.
Winter ASAB @asab.org on *Sensory Ecology* register and submit your abstracts now (abstract deadline just a month away)!
I'm organising the conference this year with @lauraakelley.bsky.social and Innes Cuthill
Register & get more info here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/
Excited to share that we have just been awarded a NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant to work on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins. We will soon advertise a 3 year post-doc to join the team - drop me an email if you might be interested! Pls share widely 🙏🏻
I ll be giving a workshop on our new swaRmverse package at #Behaviour2025, come to learn more about quantifying spatiotemporal patterns of animal groups, practical tips on analysis, and discussion on next new features 😁 💻
Package info👇
doi.org/10.1111/2041...
& 🙏 to @asab.org for the travel grant🥰