🎉 Congratulations to the ASAB Video Competition winner Amaia Alcalde Anton! Check out her video: “What Did I Leave in the Fridge” 🎉 #ASABSpring2026 

Want to know more? Read the paper this entry was based on: doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

Een vreedzame machtswisseling in de grootste chimpanseepopulatie ter wereld eindigt in een gewelddadige breuk.

Jaren van conflicten volgen, met tientallen doden. De studie laat zien hoe snel sociale spanningen kunnen ontsporen.

Lees meer: bionieuws.nl/grootste-chi...

World’s most dangerous bird has bizarre, glowing headgear Structures on cassowaries’ skulls fluoresce under UV light, hinting at a hidden visual signal

Often labeled “the world’s most dangerous birds,” cassowaries just got even more intriguing. https://scim.ag/4bNnfIT

New paper alert:
>80k nacelle-height recordings and stereo-thermal 3D tracks show that bats sing in the rotor-swept zone and circle turbine nacelles. We need smarter, species-sensitive curtailment that aligns both climate and biodiversity goals.
#Bats #Conservation
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Sociobiology and the transformation of evolutionary behavioral biology - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology -

James Traniello and I, and Associate Editors of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, have prepared editorials commemorating the semicentennial of Wilson's Sociobiology. Check it out!
link.springer.com/article/10.1... and
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

You know both these people….and both are 2026 National Geographic 33 honorees 🎉 These are people tackling the world's most pressing challenges and driving meaningful breakthroughs. To Martin, Harrison + 31 #NatGeo33 changemakers: may the force be with you ⭐
on.natgeo.com/NG33EXMWHL
@uni-konstanz.de

Photo of a blue-green lichen growing on a birch tree. The lichen is in sort of an octopus shaped mound, with frilly edges instead of tentacles. It’s covered in numerous disc shaped apothecia which have blue-grey edges and dark brown centres.

Physcia sp lichen on a birch tree.
NWT, Canada. Photo covers about 5cm, left to right. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Come join NVG's 2026 Spring Lecture (in Dutch): “Diergedrag en natuurbescherming” on how animal behaviour insights support conservation.

28 May 2026, 20:00, Utrecht

Q&A with presenters afterwards

Please sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Location: maps.app.goo.gl/vVfrZn5SBu9V...
Zaal ATLAS

New preprint: an undergrad in my lab Stella DiPippo tested out vivio-morpholinos as a means for transient targeted knockdown of gene expression in adult threespine #stickleback. It worked, but a bit inconsistently. A useful start testing a new method for this species

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Redder stickleback males produced male-biased offspring sex-ratio. Check out our latest publication in Evolutionary Ecology.
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New cover image for Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
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Agonistic interaction between two male adult brown bears at Cabarceno Nature Park, Spain.
Manrique-Revuelta P, Álvarez M, López-Urueña E et al (2026) Behav Ecol Sociobiol 80:11
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Photo credit: P. Manrique-Revuelta

Melissa in front of a plaque reading "Emily Williamon née Bateson, 1855-1936, RSPB founder, conservationist and pioneer of women’s education was born at Highfield opposite here. RSPB.org.uk." Photo from RSPB

One last little fun fact: Emily Williamson (née Bateson), founder of the RSPB was Melissa’s great, great aunt! It looks like a love of birds may run in families… 😉 🐦 6/6

Melissa and Elisa giving the camera thumbs up at a conference

The last 2 years, Melissa has been working with the other trustees to increase the professionalisation of ASAB operations, as well as advocating for open science practices, such as pre-registration in animal behaviour.

It’s not easy being president & she has done a wonderful job so far 🤗 5/6

A collage of Melissa handing out awards

As president, Melissa also needs to make decisions (but not about foraging). She chairs ASAB council and is also a trustee financially responsible for the charity, the law of which is quite complex.

She also gets the far more fun job of handing out awards!... 4/6

Melissa freeing a starling from a bag

There are also some ecological parallels between humans & starlings: both are invasive, omnivorous and opportunistic.

Looking at foraging decisions & food unpredictability in starlings, including physiological, developmental & cognitive effects, can give us insight into human food insecurity... 3/6

Melissa in a labcoat holding up a starling. ASAB logo is in the corner

This #MeetASAB features Madam President herself: Melissa Bateson (@melissabateson.bsky.social)

Melissa was elected as ASAB president in 2024. In the past, she has also been on council as grants secretary and as an ordinary member. She has been an ASAB member since she was a PhD in the 90s… 1/6

Rembrandt lion drawing fetches nearly €13 million for big cats - DutchNews.nl A tiny drawing of a young lion by Rembrandt has sold for a record €12.7 million to an undisclosed buyer at Sotheby’s on Wednesday, with the proceeds going to wildlife charity Panthera. The drawing, A…

A tiny drawing of a young lion by Rembrandt has sold for a record €12.7 million to an undisclosed buyer at Sotheby’s on Wednesday, with the proceeds going to wildlife charity Panthera.

Does selection favor the most limnetic source lake genotypes in limnetic recipient lakes? And favor the most benthic source lake genotypes in benthic recipient lakes?

um... No.
Instead, certain source lakes seem to *always* win at selection regardless of the habitat they are introduced into

New preprint from our big collaborative evolution experiment in 9 whole lakes in Alaska, written by McGill grad student @lucaseckert.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
What happens if you put a mixture of multiple source populations together to complete & evolve in multiple new lakes?

Monet avoided outlines, believing they betrayed light. For him, form existed only where light revealed it.

EEN BIJZONDER JAAR BEGINT
100 jaar geleden werd kunstenaar Piet Pijn geboren. Dit feit willen wij vieren met een JUBILEUMTENTOONSTELLING: 11 JULI tot en met 2 AUGUSTUS 2026 in PULCHRI STUDIO, DEN HAAG.
Kerstgroet: Maria en Josef met Jesuskind, St. Theresia, Ulo, Oisterwijk, Dec. 1960, Piet Pijn

EEN BIJZONDER JAAR BEGINT
100 jaar geleden werd kunstenaar Piet Pijn geboren. Dit feit willen wij vieren met een JUBILEUMTENTOONSTELLING: 11 JULI tot en met 2 AUGUSTUS 2026 in PULCHRI STUDIO, DEN HAAG.
Kerstgroet: Maria en Josef met Jesuskind, St. Theresia, Ulo, Oisterwijk, Dec. 1960, Piet Pijn

Zwei Bilder Paris 2007 und Paris 2024, Unterschied und Entwicklung der Luftverschmutzung

Rückgang der Luftverschmutzung in Paris !
Umweltzonen, Reduzierung von Parkplätzen, Ausbau der Rad-Infrastruktur, Transit- und Luftreinhalteregeln, Verdreifachung der SUV-Parkgebühren,
➡️ #Verkehrswende #Mobilitätswende zum Wohl der Bürger in der Stadt

#Berlin

A card showing James Watson on one side, and the headline "DNA pioneer James Watson has died ― colleagues wrestle with his legacy" on the other

Watson – who won the Nobel Prize for his role in divining the structure of DNA; was instrumental in initiating and propelling the Human Genome Project; and who became notorious for his history of racist and sexist comments – has died at 97

Read the full story: go.nature.com/47NJ6wy

I am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇
shorturl.at/WA1Qa

Would appreciate a re-post!

@evoldir.bsky.social

Boom erneuerbarer Energien:
#China schafft in sechs Monaten doppelt so viel Solarkraft wie Deutschland in 25 Jahren

Die Volksrepublik bricht beim Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien diverse Rekorde. Eine gute Nachricht für das #Weltklima.
Von Claus Hecking

Fotos ohne jeglichen Erkenntnisgewinn aber schön anzusehen.

Cyclopoider Ruderfußkrebs:

7 basic science discoveries that changed the world Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.

Scientists point to a long list of findings that emerged out of fundamental research, the type of studies the US government is cutting, and went on to change the world. Nature lists a few of their examples. 🧪

Carnivorous 'Death-Ball' Sponge Among 30 New Deep-Sea Weirdos Discovered In The Southern Ocean Just wait until you see this thing...

Carnivorous 'Death-Ball' Sponge Among 30 New Deep-Sea Weirdos Discovered In The Southern Ocean