Animal Behavior Society
@animbehsociety.bsky.social
We promote and advance the scientific study of animal behavior and publish the journal Animal Behaviour. Website: http://animalbehaviorsociety.org.
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🚨 Important reminder for those who have an earlier grant deadline for #ASABSpring2025 March 23-25 in Bristol 🚨
@asab.org Spring, aimed at ECRs, is coming to Bristol!
Conference grant DEADLINE for Developing Country Applicants (<£2500) or anyone needing an early decision for visas (<£750) is in ONE WEEK, 1st December.
www.asab.org/conference-g...
Referee statement also needed by then! 🐝🐜🦟🦂🐠🐟🐬🦎🐸🦆🐿️🦓
Conference grant DEADLINE for Developing Country Applicants (<£2500) or anyone needing an early decision for visas (<£750) is in ONE WEEK, 1st December.
www.asab.org/conference-g...
Referee statement also needed by then! 🐝🐜🦟🦂🐠🐟🐬🦎🐸🦆🐿️🦓
November 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
🚨 Important reminder for those who have an earlier grant deadline for #ASABSpring2025 March 23-25 in Bristol 🚨
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Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social ASN President for announcements, please share widely!!!
8) The ASN Diversity committee is seeking 2 new members to start Jan 2026, Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
8) The ASN Diversity committee is seeking 2 new members to start Jan 2026, Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
ASN DC Membership Application 2025
The ASN Diversity Committee (DC) seeks to add 2 new members starting in January 2026. The DC works to promote diversity, equity, and inclusiveness to enhance the study of evolution, ecology, and behav...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social ASN President for announcements, please share widely!!!
8) The ASN Diversity committee is seeking 2 new members to start Jan 2026, Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
8) The ASN Diversity committee is seeking 2 new members to start Jan 2026, Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
We know a lot of our membership either works on, or at least cares, about endangered species. There are recent governmental efforts to alter the Endangered Species Act. If you're concerned about this then you might want to consider signing this letter:
defenders-cci.org/sign-on/safe...
defenders-cci.org/sign-on/safe...
Scientists' Call on Congress to Commit to Preventing Extinction, Safeguarding the ESA | Center for Conservation Innovation
Join this scientists' letter calling on Congress to commit to protecting species threatened with extinction by upholding the ESA and the science-based framework that underpins it.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
We know a lot of our membership either works on, or at least cares, about endangered species. There are recent governmental efforts to alter the Endangered Species Act. If you're concerned about this then you might want to consider signing this letter:
defenders-cci.org/sign-on/safe...
defenders-cci.org/sign-on/safe...
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We're currently looking for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board! 🌎🧪
If you're interested in contributing to the publishing landscape, check out the link below 👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
If you're interested in contributing to the publishing landscape, check out the link below 👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
November 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
We're currently looking for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board! 🌎🧪
If you're interested in contributing to the publishing landscape, check out the link below 👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
If you're interested in contributing to the publishing landscape, check out the link below 👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
Oh we def know some folks who would like to apply to this!
#Job in #animalwelfare at University of Rhode Island!
Tenure-track Assistant Professor position specializing in Animal Health and Welfare. Focus on farm, companion, or zoo/captive wildlife. #academic @universityofri.bsky.social
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15931
Tenure-track Assistant Professor position specializing in Animal Health and Welfare. Focus on farm, companion, or zoo/captive wildlife. #academic @universityofri.bsky.social
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15931
November 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Oh we def know some folks who would like to apply to this!
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📢Two fully-funded #PhD opportunities to work with us:
Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation
UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp
Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork
Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation
UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp
Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork
November 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
📢Two fully-funded #PhD opportunities to work with us:
Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation
UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp
Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork
Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation
UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp
Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork
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📢 JOB ALERT!
Interested in #Bioacoustics, #Linguistics and the #Evolution of #Language? We are seeking a #ResearchAssistant to join our project 'Convergent Evolution of Vocal Communication: Exploring the Parallels between #Birdsong and Human Speech'.👇 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
Interested in #Bioacoustics, #Linguistics and the #Evolution of #Language? We are seeking a #ResearchAssistant to join our project 'Convergent Evolution of Vocal Communication: Exploring the Parallels between #Birdsong and Human Speech'.👇 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
The University of Salford hiring Research Assistant in Bioacoustics in Manchester, England, United Kingdom | LinkedIn
Posted 10:02:26 AM. Research Assistant in BioacousticsUniversity of Salford, School of Science, Engineering &…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
📢 JOB ALERT!
Interested in #Bioacoustics, #Linguistics and the #Evolution of #Language? We are seeking a #ResearchAssistant to join our project 'Convergent Evolution of Vocal Communication: Exploring the Parallels between #Birdsong and Human Speech'.👇 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
Interested in #Bioacoustics, #Linguistics and the #Evolution of #Language? We are seeking a #ResearchAssistant to join our project 'Convergent Evolution of Vocal Communication: Exploring the Parallels between #Birdsong and Human Speech'.👇 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
New wolf behavior just dropped
Potential Tool Use by Wolves: Crab Trap Pulling in Haíɫzaqv Nation Territory: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
November 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
New wolf behavior just dropped
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Chinese national interested in a PhD with fish?
Join our lab with a fully-funded PhD from the CSC and UoB.
Success rates are high if you're eligible. More details, including application link (deadline 1st December!) here:
ioannougroup.com/china-schola...
@asab.org @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Join our lab with a fully-funded PhD from the CSC and UoB.
Success rates are high if you're eligible. More details, including application link (deadline 1st December!) here:
ioannougroup.com/china-schola...
@asab.org @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
China Scholarship Council PhD studentships - apply now! | Christos Ioannou
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November 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Chinese national interested in a PhD with fish?
Join our lab with a fully-funded PhD from the CSC and UoB.
Success rates are high if you're eligible. More details, including application link (deadline 1st December!) here:
ioannougroup.com/china-schola...
@asab.org @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Join our lab with a fully-funded PhD from the CSC and UoB.
Success rates are high if you're eligible. More details, including application link (deadline 1st December!) here:
ioannougroup.com/china-schola...
@asab.org @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
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We're Hiring! 📢 Join Team @whiteabalone.bsky.social and the CDFW Shellfish Health Lab at the @ucdavis.bsky.social Bodega Marine Laboratory in Bodega Bay as a Jr. Specialist.
Learn more and apply by the next review date, Nov 27th, here: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07397
Learn more and apply by the next review date, Nov 27th, here: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07397
BML White Abalone / Shellfish Health Jr. Specialist
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
November 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
We're Hiring! 📢 Join Team @whiteabalone.bsky.social and the CDFW Shellfish Health Lab at the @ucdavis.bsky.social Bodega Marine Laboratory in Bodega Bay as a Jr. Specialist.
Learn more and apply by the next review date, Nov 27th, here: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07397
Learn more and apply by the next review date, Nov 27th, here: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07397
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Incredibly honored and utterly excited to have been asked to give a plenary at @isbe2026.bsky.social hope to see you in Turin! #ISBE2026 #sleep #behavior
Meet our Plenary Speaker Daniela Rößler
Fueled by curiosity and a deep love of natural history Daniela discovered a REM-like sleep state in spiders and uses integrative field, lab and comparative approaches to investigate the function, ecology, and evolution of sleep across the spider tree of life.
Fueled by curiosity and a deep love of natural history Daniela discovered a REM-like sleep state in spiders and uses integrative field, lab and comparative approaches to investigate the function, ecology, and evolution of sleep across the spider tree of life.
November 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Incredibly honored and utterly excited to have been asked to give a plenary at @isbe2026.bsky.social hope to see you in Turin! #ISBE2026 #sleep #behavior
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#MongooseMonday is here again 🎉
Dwarf mongooses track what their groupmates are up to in the day using #vocal cues, altering their #grooming in the evening.
They reward helpful hounds (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...) & shun bullies (doi.org/10.7554/eLif...)
#bioacoustics #mammals #cooperation #conflict
Dwarf mongooses track what their groupmates are up to in the day using #vocal cues, altering their #grooming in the evening.
They reward helpful hounds (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...) & shun bullies (doi.org/10.7554/eLif...)
#bioacoustics #mammals #cooperation #conflict
Experimental evidence for delayed contingent cooperation among wild dwarf mongooses | PNAS
Many animals participate in biological markets, with strong evidence existing for
immediate cooperative trades. In particular, grooming is often ex...
doi.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
#MongooseMonday is here again 🎉
Dwarf mongooses track what their groupmates are up to in the day using #vocal cues, altering their #grooming in the evening.
They reward helpful hounds (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...) & shun bullies (doi.org/10.7554/eLif...)
#bioacoustics #mammals #cooperation #conflict
Dwarf mongooses track what their groupmates are up to in the day using #vocal cues, altering their #grooming in the evening.
They reward helpful hounds (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...) & shun bullies (doi.org/10.7554/eLif...)
#bioacoustics #mammals #cooperation #conflict
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Join us! 🧬🪰🎉🔬
We are currently advertising two #PhD projects to study the #evolution, #development and #genomics of sexual traits in stalk-eyed flies.
Deadline for applying is Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Get in touch for more info!
We are currently advertising two #PhD projects to study the #evolution, #development and #genomics of sexual traits in stalk-eyed flies.
Deadline for applying is Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Get in touch for more info!
November 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Join us! 🧬🪰🎉🔬
We are currently advertising two #PhD projects to study the #evolution, #development and #genomics of sexual traits in stalk-eyed flies.
Deadline for applying is Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Get in touch for more info!
We are currently advertising two #PhD projects to study the #evolution, #development and #genomics of sexual traits in stalk-eyed flies.
Deadline for applying is Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Get in touch for more info!
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In an increasingly divided world, how do strangers become friends? Parakeets might have something to teach us! New paper on formation of affiliative relationships, led by Dr. Claire O’Connell doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
November 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
In an increasingly divided world, how do strangers become friends? Parakeets might have something to teach us! New paper on formation of affiliative relationships, led by Dr. Claire O’Connell doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
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The winners of our 2025 infographic competition are up! Visit our website for the results www.asab.org/education-news . Here are some of the judges favourite to wet your whistles! Well done to all the entrants.
November 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The winners of our 2025 infographic competition are up! Visit our website for the results www.asab.org/education-news . Here are some of the judges favourite to wet your whistles! Well done to all the entrants.
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📢❗Last call!
The final day to submit an EOI for a Wild Animal Initiative #grant is this Friday, November 14.
#animalwelfare #science #CFP #wildlife #research
The final day to submit an EOI for a Wild Animal Initiative #grant is this Friday, November 14.
#animalwelfare #science #CFP #wildlife #research
Grants — Wild Animal Initiative
We have an open call for proposals on all grant types. Learn how to apply.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist. For more information, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet...
We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist
We are looking for 4 PhD Positions and one Scientific Programmer / Ecological Data Scientist to join the AG Hartig (Theoretical Ecology)
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November 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist. For more information, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet...
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🐦 EcoBird is hiring a Postdoc in animal cognition!
Join us + @themanybirds.bsky.social to investigate innovation & problem-solving in birds.
📅 Start: as early as Jan 2026
🌍 Funded through UGent’s international mobility scheme
More info & how to apply ↓
www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
Join us + @themanybirds.bsky.social to investigate innovation & problem-solving in birds.
📅 Start: as early as Jan 2026
🌍 Funded through UGent’s international mobility scheme
More info & how to apply ↓
www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
Postdoctoral fellow
www.ugent.be
November 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
🐦 EcoBird is hiring a Postdoc in animal cognition!
Join us + @themanybirds.bsky.social to investigate innovation & problem-solving in birds.
📅 Start: as early as Jan 2026
🌍 Funded through UGent’s international mobility scheme
More info & how to apply ↓
www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
Join us + @themanybirds.bsky.social to investigate innovation & problem-solving in birds.
📅 Start: as early as Jan 2026
🌍 Funded through UGent’s international mobility scheme
More info & how to apply ↓
www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
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Meet our plenary speaker Felicity Muth!
Assistant professor at the University of California Davis, her lab group are broadly interested in cognition, especially aspects of learning and memory that have a clear function in the natural world, focusing on captive and wild bumblebees.
Assistant professor at the University of California Davis, her lab group are broadly interested in cognition, especially aspects of learning and memory that have a clear function in the natural world, focusing on captive and wild bumblebees.
November 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Meet our plenary speaker Felicity Muth!
Assistant professor at the University of California Davis, her lab group are broadly interested in cognition, especially aspects of learning and memory that have a clear function in the natural world, focusing on captive and wild bumblebees.
Assistant professor at the University of California Davis, her lab group are broadly interested in cognition, especially aspects of learning and memory that have a clear function in the natural world, focusing on captive and wild bumblebees.
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Sorry not sorry 😅
via Gar Week fan👍
via Gar Week fan👍
November 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Sorry not sorry 😅
via Gar Week fan👍
via Gar Week fan👍
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If you're looking for a #postdoc but aren't quite a fit for my lab, check out this exciting opportunity via IU's Common Themes in Reproductive Diversity group! 2-year NIH traineeship to work on one of the group's core themes. Details here! ctrd.indiana.edu/how-to-apply/
How to apply
Learn how to apply to the Common Themes in Reproductive Diversity graduate program at Indiana University with detailed steps, requirements, and deadlines.
ctrd.indiana.edu
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
If you're looking for a #postdoc but aren't quite a fit for my lab, check out this exciting opportunity via IU's Common Themes in Reproductive Diversity group! 2-year NIH traineeship to work on one of the group's core themes. Details here! ctrd.indiana.edu/how-to-apply/
Behavior job alert!! 🚨🪰❤️
My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Behavior job alert!! 🚨🪰❤️
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#animalcommunication
A different view on #acoustic #signals used as part of #animal #contests - after rather than before or during the fight.
#birds #mammals
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
A different view on #acoustic #signals used as part of #animal #contests - after rather than before or during the fight.
#birds #mammals
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#Conflict is rife in the natural world & lots of animals use #vocal #signals before & during #contests. But what about in their aftermath? Wonder no more - read our #review on post-contest acoustic signalling:
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
@josharbon.bsky.social #AmyMorris-Drake
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
@josharbon.bsky.social #AmyMorris-Drake
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
After the fight: post-contest acoustic signalling | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Animal contests often involve acoustic signals at different stages, but empirical work has primarily focused on usage before and during antagonistic interactions. Far less attention has been paid to post-contest acoustic signals (PCAS): those occurring ...
doi.org
November 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
#animalcommunication
A different view on #acoustic #signals used as part of #animal #contests - after rather than before or during the fight.
#birds #mammals
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
A different view on #acoustic #signals used as part of #animal #contests - after rather than before or during the fight.
#birds #mammals
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social