Post-doc opportunity in raptor conservation at The FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology in Cape Town, South Africa - with @megmurg.bsky.social and me.
South African Citizen or have a valid work visa.
science.uct.ac.za/fitzpatrick/...
#Ornithology #RaptorResearch #AfricanOrnithology
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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Dwarf mongoose group in South Africa
Zebra finches on wire in Australia
⏰Time running out - deadline 19th April - to apply for funded #PhD:
🪶Quantifying animal movement patterns & behavioural interactions in a changing world
👥Joint with us @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #SimonGriffith #MacquarieUniversity
#modelling #birds #mammals #Australia
ℹ️ tinyurl.com/343acaev
New review paper on bird #microbiome methods out!
Bridging the gap: improving methodologies for future avian microbiome research
🐦🦠🧬 #OA @avianbiology.bsky.social @charlisdavies.bsky.social @kbodawatta.bsky.social
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Artificial nest box with a well lined nest, including 6 small eggs
We've restarted the population monitoring in Rennes this year, and the birds rapidly adopted the new nest boxes! Several already have eggs, with this year being the earliest on record (estimated lay date 21st March) 🐦
Our new preprint is ready! Enjoy, comment if you think we can improve this study and how (do not forget to be nice, criticism doesn't have to be aggressive ❤️) and share 🐦 with Dr. Pierre Bize and Dr. Blandine Doligez
🦎 Funded 4-year PhD position on Lizard Evolutionary Ecology in our lab at UCLouvain (Belgium)! Apply before 9 March! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...
I am hiring a research assistant (vampire bats), a Panama fieldwork coordinator (vampire bats), and also considering postdoc apps (social behavior, any species): socialbat.org/2026/02/19/h...
Nest box for great tits hanging in the modèle of an old tree covered in ivy
New nest boxes installations on campus. A bit late in the season, but lets hope the great tits find them useful!
Thanks to the CNER for their help in following the population this year.
Hot off the press 🐣 Do birds have any idea of what their eggs look like? Contrary to our expectations, we show that barn swallows don't, nor do they learn it over time. Yet that doesn't stop them from successfully ejecting foreign eggs!
🔗 Read more here: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... #OpenAccess
L’AUBE & le CNER s’associent pour vous proposer une série de 3 mini-conférences ! 🤗
🗓️ Rendez-vous le mardi 17 février à 18 h 30 dans l’amphi C du bâtiment 2A (campus de Beaulieu) pour écouter 3 étudiants en master présenter des thèmes qui les passionnent.
Welcoming cocktail
Poster session
Ana Rodrigues talk
Nature excursion
The Ecology & Behaviour conference is still looking for a new French organizing team for a future edition.
An inclusive, international & free conference run by early-career researchers, let’s keep it alive!
👉 Get in touch with us and check the website: ecobhvr2025.sciencesconf.org
Many thanks to all co-authors involved: @vernouilleta.bsky.social and members of the @ecobird.bsky.social lab (not on bluesky), especially those with whom I've shared long hours in the field! Massive thanks to reviewers and editor who really invested time and energy help improve these papers
6/6
In part 2 we apply this framework across three tasks, and test the performance of herring and lesser black-backed gulls in the detour task, the thwarting task (often used with fish) and the stop-change task (developed from the human cognition literature) 🐦
Part 2: rdcu.be/e2pyI
5/6
We explain how this framework applies to the main tasks used to measure response inhibition in the field of animal cognition
Part 1: rdcu.be/e2pyN
4/6
the nature of the ’stop’ stimulus (external vs internal), the timing of this ‘stop’ stimulus relative to the ‘go’ stimulus (do both appear at the same time vs one after the other) and the type of response that needs to be inhibited (single discrete action vs repetitive ongoing action)
3/6
In part 1 we build up a framework that could explain the lack of consistency between task. We highlight the importance of both the going and stopping processes. But within the stopping process, there are important task features that can impact individual performance:
2/6
Close up of a herring gull, with red around the yellow eye, and a red spot on the lower beak
🚨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.
1/6
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...
🔬 C'est la Journée des femmes et filles de science ! #FemmesEnSciences #11février
Envie de découvrir (ou faire découvrir) des femmes scientifiques ? J'ai rassemblé plein de ressources ici ⬇️
www.linkedin.com/pulse/envie-...
Et mon starter pack de chercheuses sur bluesky go.bsky.app/TBEzKC
When studying animal physiology we carefully control temperature, oxygen…but often ignore who animals live with.
Social context such as parents (1), social environment (2), litter mates (3) can shape physiology and later plasticity (4). We discuss it in this commentary 👉 doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
Open PhD position - please share with potential candidates.
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"The relationship between childhood exploration and population-level innovation in cultural evolution" with @ndersen.bsky.social @sheinalew.bsky.social @felixthehauskat.bsky.social out in Proc B
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Humans are transforming the natural world at an unprecedented scale and rate. We, at #UCLouvain 🇧🇪, are organizing a symposium on how organisms, populations, and communities respond to these human-induced environmental changes. April 29–30, 2026! Join us: www.uclouvain.be/en/research-...
Have you ever wondered how animals were using affective states to cope with our activities?
Here's our NEW PAPER (and my first) that tells you everything you need to know and how much should we feel concerned by the consequences of our activities besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
There is still some time to submit for our Special Collection on social cognition and anthropogenic environments! We are looking forward to hear from you! link.springer.com/collections/... Please do get in touch if you have any questions.
#openaccess #socialcognition
Woman in brown shirt in front of poster on recruitment and contact calls in zosterops
Great work from @estelle-meaux.bsky.social on the use of contact calls in a recruitment context in white-eyes (and support from former lab member @mdiquelou.bsky.social ) #ASABWinter2025
@ethos-research.bsky.social
"Excuse-me, I think you dropped something : Unexpected factors involved in physical understanding of hands movements by mangabeys"
If you missed my poster this evening, come chat with me about it tomorrow #ASABwinter2025 @ethos-research.bsky.social