TODAYS FINE, May 13th 2025, 11 AM NYC / 5 PM Paris
Erin Siracussa, University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Title: Social ageing: Toward a deeper understanding of the intersection between sociality and senescence

YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

Eight things scientists can do right now to stand up to the Trump administration’s attacks on research, public health, and the environment A guest post by Dr Anne Toomey, author of the book "Science with Impact: How to Engage People, Change Practice, and Influence Policy".

Excellent resource: christinapagel.substack.com/p/eight-thin...

Join us—mentee or mentor—for our next mentorship matching event! 🐝 We'll briefly introduce the ABC mentorship scheme & then there's plenty of time for mentees & mentors to get to know each other and decide if they'd like to start mentorship!

If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti...
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Bake your paper! Research tech extraordinaire, Macaela Skelton, made a cake of (some of) the study sites in the MacaqueNet database. She ran out of decorations before she could do them all 😆. Link to the paper that's been cake-ified: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Social networks of birds are often constructed from spatio-temporal data streams of feeder visits, but how do we define ‘connection’ and does it matter?
While common definitions yield similar patterns, do consider context of systems and research Qs!
Well led by co-first authors Alex and Jamie!
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T-helper cell phenotypes are repeatable, positively correlated and associated with helminth infection in wild Soay sheep AbstractBackground. T-helper (Th) cells co-ordinate immune responses to ensure that infections with diverse parasites are controlled effectively. Helminth

📢 Paper alert! 📢 🐑🪱📝Our latest work studying the immune system of the Soay sheep in St Kilda has just been accepted and is available online on the special collection "Ecoimmunology" of Discovery Immunology! #SoaySheep #Thelpercells #parasites #SoaySheepProject

Animal social networks are robust to changing association definitions - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology The interconnecting links between individuals in an animal social network are often defined by discrete, directed behaviours, but where these are difficult to observe, a network link (edge) may instea...

New paper out in BEAS! Co-first with @j-dunning.net : we compared three different ways of defining social associations from RFID data across four avian study systems.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

It’s never been more important to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩‍🔬

Here’s a collection of posts from last year about some of the remarkable historical #WomenInSTEM in the animal field:

MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large‐scale collaboration We present MacaqueNet, a global community of macaque researchers who developed the first publicly searchable, standardised database on affiliative and agonistic behaviour. This cross-species database...

So exciting to see MacaqueNet out into the world! 🤩

Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365...

Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/

Congrats Helen!! 🍾 🎊 Looking forward to you joining us in Exeter soon 😀

We are very excited for #Behaviour2025 this summer! Don’t forget ASAB has special funding for this conference:

www.asab.org/kolkata-conf...

What the science of baby-speak can tell us about whale songs A new study reveals that whale song and human languages share features that make them easier to learn.

My latest story for National Geographic, about the similarities between whale song and human language, featuring @inbalarnon.bsky.social, @simonkirby.bsky.social, @ellengarland.bsky.social, @masonyoungblood.bsky.social and @rferrericancho.bsky.social!

Machine learning algorithms can predict emotional valence across ungulate vocalizations Vocalizations can vary as a function of their context of production and provide an immediate measure of an animal’s affective states. If vocal express…

Very proud of this one: new paper using AI to classify emotional valence from 7 ungulate species my team has recorded over the years. We also publish the database of call open access along the paper :-) @behaveco.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Timing matters for maternal effects on offspring HPA-axis in wild macaque. New paper out from the Assamese macaque Project at Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary!
link here 👇👇
tinyurl.com/yc6k5dvf

@primatenzentrum.bsky.social @unigoettingen.bsky.social @primatecognition.bsky.social @dfg.de

Stress responsiveness in a wild primate predicts survival across an extreme El Niño drought White-faced capuchins with a stronger stress response to previous droughts were more likely to survive a severe El Niño drought.

🧪 Check out our new paper in Sciences Advances! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🐒 When a severe drought hit a population of wild monkeys in Costa Rica, individuals with a stronger stress response were more likely to survive

@jbeehner.bsky.social @irene-godoy.bsky.social

We just updated the #AnimalBehaviourJournal guide for authors 📝

Did you know that we have three types of research papers? In addition to primary research, we also accept methods papers and data set papers!

More info:

www.sciencedirect.com/journal/anim...

A Red Deer Stag on the Isle of Rum. Photo by Sean Morris

Genomic analysis reveals a polygenic architecture of antler morphology in wild red deer (Cervus elaphus) Paper by Peters, Huisman, Kruuk, Pemberton and @susanjohnston.bsky.social antler morphology is highly repeatable over an individual's lifetime 🧪 #mammals onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Just returning from excellent visit to @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social.

Lots of good science conversations and even got to see a bit of the city! Thanks to Eli Strauss for hosting & everyone who took time out of their busy schedules to chat!