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Ted Stankowich @tedstankowich.bsky.social · 4h

Eclipses fool birds into thinking it's morning!
Congrats to @rosvall-lab.bsky.social for this amazing work!

Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science

On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...

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Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 5h

Hey grad students studying animal behavior! Need a little extra research $$? (Don't we all?)

Apply for an ABS Student Research Grant! We award grants up to $2,000 to grad students & give feedback on the proposals. Deadline Dec 15.

More info here: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-s...

ABS Student Research and Developing Nations Grants! ABS offers the following grants to support graduate student research: Student Research Grants, ABS Conservation Award and Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Awards. The ABS also offers an Early Career Grant in Conservation Behavior and Developing Nations Grant to support students and other researchers from developing nations.

Applicants for student grants must be enrolled in a graduate program and must be active members of ABS (student membership fees cost $17-$34). Research grants range from $500-$2,000 USD, depending on the category of the grant and evaluations. Individuals may receive only one ABS research grant during their lifetime. More details on how the grants and how to apply in the link in the post.

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Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 5h

Attention ABS members 🚨! Are you organizing or attending a conference in Latin America 🌎? If so, you might for financial support from the society! Two types of funds are available (details in pics below/alt text). Act quick - deadline Oct 10!

Form to apply can be found here: bit.ly/3VYeoeB

Funds to support Latin American Conferences: ABS can contribute to the costs of conferences held in Latin American and organized by Latin Americans. These conferences are not ABS-related conferences but rather organized by animal behavior groups in Latin America. Only 1 or 2 requests can be awarded each year as funding is limited. There may be restrictions on how the money can be spent and ABS may make special requests with regard to the conference (e.g. may request organizers to present slides advertising the Animal Behavior Society). Each request will be evaluated and assessed by ABS based on the proposal submitted in the link. Funding for each round will be available for conferences held before June 14 of the subsequent year. To apply, please fill out the online application form (link in the post). Deadline Oct 10

Funds to support travel of ABS members from USA/Canada to Latin American conferences: ABS can pay airfare for an ABS member from the USA or Canada to participate (as a speaker, lecturer, instructor) in special courses or workshops organized by Latin Americans and held in Latin America. Typically, ABS has funds for 1 or 2 such speakers every year. To apply, please follow the link in the post. Deadline Oct 10

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Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 11h

On the other hand: 8/9 fellow success rate is amazing

Siara Rouzer @siararouzer.bsky.social · 11h

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Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 1d

Need something fun to look forward to? Get involved in the publishing process at one of your favorite society journals! Apply to be an editor at Animal Behavior by Oct 31!

Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 15d

Do you love research & writing & all things animal behavior? Well our journal, Animal Behavior, recruiting up to 5 (count em!) new Associate Editors!

Editors serve three-year terms beginning January 2026. If you're interested, email Exec Editor Scott Sakaluk ([email protected]) by Oct 31!

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ALT: ron burgundy from parks and recreation says " you 'd be a fool not to pick me "

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Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 2d

Postdoc job alert!!

Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 2d

Apply to become the next MSU EEB Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow!

These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here:

eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

eeb.msu.edu

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 9d

@skypeascientist.bsky.social connects scientists and classrooms. It's amazing, simple and fun for all. if you are a teacher or a scientist check out skypeascientist.com and find a match.

Want to connect your students with real scientists?
Skype a scientist matches groups with scientists for virtual Q and As. It's free
Get a match at skypeascientist.com

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Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology @sicb.bsky.social · 3d

#SICB job share- an opening for

Assistant #Professor of #Vertebrate #Physiology

towson.taleo.net/careersectio...
Email Dr. Vonnie Shields
[email protected] with any questions

#biology #physiology #anatomy #research #PhD

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Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · 13d

New episode!! 🎉🎙️

A chat w/ @evoneuro.bsky.social & Georg Striedter about their new book, 'Bird Brains and Behavior.'

Birds do some astonishing things. They sing, fly, migrate, cache food, and hunt in total darkness. How do their brains make all this possible?

Listen: disi.org/brains-of-a-...

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Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social · 6d

Yo #teamfish, major dream job alert!

Justine A Smith @justineasmith.bsky.social · 7d

Job Alert! Assistant Prof of Fish Ecology at
@wfcbucdavis.bsky.social, with a focus on freshwater and anadromous coldwater fishes. This is a wonderful and supportive place to work. Please share with your fishy friends! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07351

Assistant Professor of Fish Ecology

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 3d

Tiktaalik decides to take a chance on land and now we have to answer emails all day. THANKS BUDDY

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Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 7d

We're all fish at heart and apparently at jaw too

Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social · Nov 24

Your reminder that many of the muscles, nerves and bones you use to hear and talk with correspond to gill structures in fish. 🧪 #evolution #paleontology

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 8d

Despite These Times...my department is hiring! I really like my department, we have a good mix of disciplines and organisms and we're really low-drama. We also get pizza at faculty meeting. So if you're a computational and structural biologist, join us! 🧪 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...

Assistant Professor - Tenure Track Faculty

The Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is inviting applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. The position requires a doc...

jobs.rutgers.edu

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Behavioural Ecology Bielefeld @behavecobie.bsky.social · 7d

MSc internship / Field Assistant position available in our group!
Impact of urbanisation on avian reproduction 🐦🏙️ 🌳
Deadline: 7 Nov 2025
All details 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
Please share it around!

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Science Magazine @science.org · 8d

Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91.

In 2020, Goodall spoke with Science Editor-in-Chief H. Holden Thorp for a #ScienceEditorial reflecting on the 60th anniversary of her arrival in Gombe to study wild chimpanzees. Read more: https://scim.ag/472Chb8

"… Goodall’s … is a story of genuine scientific curiosity, determination, and respect for
nature and humanity …" H. Holden Thorp, Editor-in-chief, Science journals

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ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social · 9d

#ISBE2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your abstract by 15 December 2025 on www.isbe2026.com

@behavecol.bsky.social

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Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · Aug 1

We are looking for a Postdoc (up to 5 years) who wants to study neural mechanisms of spatial memory in honeybees.

This includes tetrode recordings in behaving honeybees.

Application Deadline is 1st of October 2025.

More details:
www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/services/...

Postdoctoral Position (f/m/d) at the Chair of Behavioral Physiology & Sociobiology

Biocenter of the University of Würzburg Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg

www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 9d

The American Society of Naturalists is looking for a new Editor-In-Chief to begin Jan 2027. Info here:
www.amnat.org/announcement...

Call for new Editor-in-Chief (2027–2030)

<p>The ASN is seeking applicants for Editor-in-Chief, to begin in January 2027</p><br/>

www.amnat.org

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ASAB Winter 2025 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 9d

🚨Reminder that tomorrow is the deadline for grants to attend #ASABWinter2025, (which includes receiving the e-mailed referee statement!)

ASAB Winter 2025 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 16d

For those that have registered for #ASABWinter2025, you should have received an email last week asking you to confirm your attendance. If you haven't, please check your spam folders!

And don't forget, only one week left until the conference grant deadline (Oct 1)

www.asab.org/conference-g...

Conference Attendance Grants — ASAB

Conference Attendance Grants help PhD students and others with limited funds to attend ASAB conferences and workshops

www.asab.org

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 10d

NSF unexpectedly changed (at the last minute) who is eligible to apply for the Grad Research Fellowship, dropping 2nd year students. We started a petition to reverse this unfair change, Sign here:
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
and please spread the word!!!!

Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition

laurenkuehne.github.io

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Ben Kawam @benkawam.bsky.social · 9d

Are you studying animal sociality?

My (now published) first PhD chapter proposes a Bayesian + causal framework to infer the factors shaping the social relationships that animals form with one another.

journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

A causal framework for the drivers of animal social network structure

Author summary Behavioural ecologists ask mechanistic questions about behaviour—causal questions. When studying animal societies, these questions often concern the drivers of social network structure....

journals.plos.org

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American Institute of Biological Sciences @aibsbiology.bsky.social · 9d

Join #NSF on Oct 16 @ 1pm ET for a special BIO Directorate Virtual Office Hour on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. GRFP will present on the recently released solicitation & address questions from potential applicants, reference writers, & reviewers. nsf.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi...

nsf.zoomgov.com

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Gabrielle Davidson @drgdavidson.bsky.social · 9d

📢🚨Please share! We’re hiring! 📢🚨Have a strong interests in wildlife ecology and gut microbiome bioinformatics? 3 year Senior Research Associate for NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant. Apply here: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18.... Informal enquiries welcome! drgldavidson.github.io/ACMEresearch

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Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology @sicb.bsky.social · 10d

#SICB er @noahwithfish.bsky.social wants to share this job:
"Applicants must hold a #PhD. in a relevant area of #Biological #Sciences or closely related #science and must provide evidence of potential for excellence in #teaching and #research."
read in full

www.higheredjobs.com/institution/...

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Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 10d

Scuba lizards!

Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 29d

Water anoles take a bubble of air down when they submerge, which they breathe like a tiny scuba tank, and now @lindseyswierk.bsky.social & co reveal that the reptiles may also be using the bubble like a gill, to breathe oxygen directly from the water

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

A submerged water anole (Anolis aquaticus) with a bubble of air held on its head. Photo credit: Lindsey Swierk.

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