Eleanor just got back from #asabspring2026 and she’s started a new blog series taking you through attending your first conference- from submitting an abstract through to packing up your poster on the last day. Read Part 1 here: sites.google.com/view/deville...
Nothing beats the energy of a poster session where unexpected questions spark entirely new research directions! ✨ Loved sharing "Flexible Foragers" at #ASABSpring2026.
Tuhin Subhra Pal presenting his research poster on Indian free-ranging dog foraging strategies at the ASAB Spring 2026 conference. He is engaging in a discussion with attendees in a busy conference hall.
Tuhin Subhra Pal presenting his research poster on Indian free-ranging dog foraging strategies at the ASAB Spring 2026 conference. He is engaging in a discussion with attendees in a busy conference hall.
Tuhin Subhra Pal presenting his research poster on Indian free-ranging dog foraging strategies at the ASAB Spring 2026 conference. He is engaging in a discussion with attendees in a busy conference hall.
Do free-ranging dogs play it safe, or do they strategize for a better meal? 🐕
Grateful to have presented my poster at #ASABSpring2026! 🐕💡
Sincere thanks to the @asab.org conference organizers, @bristoluni.bsky.social, and volunteers for fostering such a stimulating and welcoming environment.
We asked the researchers at #ASABSpring2026 if they could summarise their posters in 10 words or less - and they stepped up to the challenge 😍
(Also watch to the end for a celebrity cameo⭐️)
Congratulations #ASABSpring2026 - Winners 🍀🔬📝📚
🔹 @mariafilippou.bsky.social
🔹 @charlotte9080.bsky.social
🔹 @mlysmac.bsky.social ?
🔹 @aylamanguala.bsky.social
🔹 Taruna Verma
🔹 Amaia Alcalde
@asab-meetings.bsky.social
The #ASABSpring2026 ceilidh at Zerodegrees in Bristol! 🪩
Don’t forget, there will be more dancing fun at the gala dinner ceilidh at @ecbb2026.bsky.social, make sure you register for it!
We know you already miss #ASABSpring2026, but if you want to keep up with the cool research at the meeting, you can follow the speakers!
(If you were missed or just started an account, let us know so we can add you)
go.bsky.app/86N72m5
Really excited to have presented work from my Master’s on the fitness benefits of polyandry at the #ASABSpring2026 Conference in Bristol - and proud to have won best student speaker! ✨
It was a great few days meeting other researchers and listening to all the exciting work happening in the field! 🦋
Professor Elva Robinson, Biology, UoY, gave a plenary at the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour's #ASABSpring2026 meeting this week - she presented her research on dynamic intergroup cooperation and gave some career tips to ECRs
Eleanor has had a busy week at #ASABSpring2026 in Bristol. Watch this space for an article with helpful advice for making an academic poster and attending your first conference coming soon...
I had a brilliant time presenting my first-ever poster on the first experiment of my PhD at #ASABSpring2026. It was such a friendly and welcoming atmosphere and it was a pleasure meeting so many like-minded students all working on exciting projects in animal behaviour.
PhD student Ayla Webb presenting her prize-winning poster at the ASAB Spring Conference in Bristol in March 2026.
🥇Poster prize awarded to #AylaWebb at @asab.org #ASABSpring2026
🐝Reproductive hierarchies & queen succession in paper #wasps
🌟CONGRATULATIONS Ayla 🎉
@patrick-kennedy.bsky.social #ProudSupervisors
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social @asab-meetings.bsky.social
#fieldwork #ECR #PhD #experiments #evolution
It's always useful having the person who actually did the fieldwork 10 years ago (@samellisq.bsky.social) present in the audience... helps with answers to questions when you can see the person involved nodding along! #ASABSpring2026
Thanks #ASABSpring2026 for a great time and the opportunity to speak 🐸s
Another fab conference #ASABSpring2026 😊 ASAB Spring always one of my favourites (and not JUST because of the ceilidh, though it's definitely a big perk!) and this was no exception! Thanks to the organisers from Bristol Uni for hosting 😊
I’ve had a wonderful time at #ASABSpring2026 @asab-meetings.bsky.social learning about lots of interesting things (and sharing some stuff about my crickets and pesticide exposure 🧪)
Really excited to be heading to @isbe2026.bsky.social in July too to share some other work from my first chapter 🦗🦎
First time doing a big talk about my research! Thank you for your support and all the insightful questions @asab.org
#ASABSpring2026
Sophia and Jen making funny faces into mini mics after the conference
Conferences like #ASABSpring2026 are fun but theyre a lot of bloody work. My partner-in-crime @sophiadaoudi.bsky.social and I are shattered 😵 (or maybe it’s just from climbing that bloody hill every morning)
I’m very excited to put the videos together though. I think they’ve turned out well!
Well done to both @victoriamallinson.bsky.social and Kath for presenting their research at #asabspring2026
@chrisleduck.bsky.social @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social
Group of volunteers with Sean in the centre on a patio with a view of Bristol
And #ASABSpring2026 is finished! A huge thank you to the organizer Sean Rands, his big group of volunteers, and Uni Bristol for hosting👏
Don’t forget ECBB (@ecbb2026.bsky.social) Sept 1-4 in Cambridge and our joint #ASABWinter2026 meeting with PSGB (@asabpsgb2026.bsky.social) Dec 8-10 in Edinburgh
Lauren Vane giving her talk at the ASAB Spring Conference 2026 in Bristol
James Robertshaw giving his talk at the ASAB Spring Conference 2026 in Bristol
CONGRATULATIONS to @laurenvane.bsky.social and #JamesRobertshaw on delivering such great talks at the #ASABSpring2026 conference. #ProudSupervisor
#ECRs #PhD #Masters #meerkats #mammals #bioacoustics
@asab.org @asab-meetings.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Amaia Alcalde in front of a slide reading "ASAB Video Competition Winner Amaia Alcalde What did I leave in the fridge?" Taruna Verma in front of a slide reading "ASAB Video Competition Runner Up Mate finding strategies in Nasonia males." Poster winners Ayla Webb and Maria Maclaren. Talk winners Charlotte Wiltshire and Maria Filippou
Big congrats to our video contest winner Amaia Alcalde and runner up Taruna Verma, poster winners Ayla Webb (PhD) and Maria Maclaren (MSc), and talk winners Charlotte Wiltshire (PhD) and Maria Filippou (MSc)! #ASABSpring2026
What is the CNC 2026? • One of the biggest global citizen science projects • Uses Naturalist as its recording software • In the past it has even brought species back from extinction! • Last year 102945 individuals helped to record and ID 73,765 species, which is amazing!
Reminder from @helephantmylne.bsky.social to get involved with this year's City Nature Challenge #ASABSpring2026
www.citynaturechallenge.org
Collage of students with presentations
Last talks of #ASABSpring2026, covering wasp host detection, fish mate choice, frog individual variation, mouse daytime activity, bird nest entrances, chimp tool use & sparrow polyandry! 🐝🐟🐸🐁🪺🐵🐦
CRAB Posters at #ASABSpring2026 from @helephantmylne.bsky.social , Bryony Jenkins, Eleanor Benson, Sophie Pettit , and Henry Moreau-Smith
(Pictures taken in the very rare gaps when they didn't have customers)
If you're new to bluesky, here is a great list of folks to follow to get you started! #ASABSpring2026
The problem with consuming three coffees, a can of coke and a massive can of Monster energy drink in order to function on #ASABSpring2026 day three is that we're still a bit off from the break and I NEED TO GO NOW 🚽🏃♀️🚽🏃♀️🚽🏃♀️🚽🏃♀️
A collage of students in front of slides
Another great talk session this morning at #ASABSpring2026 : We covered meerkat sunning calls, fish colour patterning, cricket insecticide exposure, moth same-sex sexual behaviours, cold snap and heatwave effects on bees & farm bird song learning ☀️🐠🦗🦋🥶 🥵🐦⬛
Slide with ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Dr Liam R Dougherty Tabitha Beesley Prof Zenobia Lewis Kupyrova, E., Dougherty, L.R., Beesley, T, Lewis, Z. (2025). Reduced male pheromone production and an increased female sex ratio promote same-sex sexual behaviour in male Indian meal moths. Animal Behaviour, 227, 123291. https://doi.org/10.1016/.anbehav.2025.123291 www.linkedin.com/in/erika-kupyrova https://bsky.app/profile/ekupyrova.bsky.social
We love to see that more info about @ekupyrova.bsky.social's research can be found at ASAB's #AnimalBehaviourJournal 😁
Our well-respected flagship journal, founded in 1953, is a major part of how we can support such amazing meetings like #ASABSpring2026 - we encourage all of our members to submit!
Brilliant plenary from @elvarobinson.bsky.social at #ASABSpring2026 . Science! Advice! Ants! And a mention of me! In short everything you could want in a talk.
