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Elodie Mandel-Briefer
@ebriefer.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in vertebrate social behaviour, University of Copenhagen. Research: animal behaviour, bioacoustics, emotions, cognition, welfare. Mom of 2
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aosiecka.bsky.social
🔊Negative valence overrides identity information in ungulate vocalisations.
Happy to share new work by @ebriefer.bsky.social Romain Lefèvre & myself
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November 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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andyradford.bsky.social
📢NEW paper out NOW in @asab.org Animal Behaviour on how a novel #call changes subsequent responses to #alarms in #fairywrens

🌟CONGRATULATIONS #NatalieTegtman on #first paper from #PhD
👥With #RobMagrath

@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#animalcommunication #birds #fieldwork #ECR

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Female superb fairywren in Australia. Male superb fairywren in Australia.
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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bridgetwaller.bsky.social
Fully funded PhD studentship on human dominance hierarchies and non-verbal behaviour, with lead Eithne Kavanagh. Join us at NTU! @eithnekavanagh.bsky.social

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Physiological health outcomes of dominance hierarchies in team-based contexts
Find out more about this fully funded PhD studentship opportunity.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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yarwanaw.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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stephanielking.bsky.social
New paper on dolphin motor synchrony led by master's student Sam Hill-Cousins with a fantastic team of co-authors @danaipapageorgiou.bsky.social @emmachereskin.bsky.social @researchdolphin.bsky.social 🐬🐬🐬: Male dolphins use synchrony to both maintain and strengthen their social bonds
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Allied male dolphins use synchronous displays to strengthen social bonds in a cooperative context
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November 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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katieacronin.bsky.social
#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
November 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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andyradford.bsky.social
📢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
Meerkat pups in the Kalahari, South Africa Rhesus macaques in Cayo Santiago Dwarf mongoose staring at a camera, South Africa.
November 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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efvogel.bsky.social
We are hiring: #PhD fellow in Ecosystem-based management and marine connectivity🐋🧪🛰️

Want to work with tracking data from migratory species to identify ecological corridors and help inform biodiversity conservation priorities?
Apply by Dec 7th!
@bioprotectproject.bsky.social
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PhD Fellow in Ecology/Ecosystem-Based Management (289259) | UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Job title: PhD Fellow in Ecology/Ecosystem-Based Management (289259), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Sunday, December 7, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
November 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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bjjbarrett.bsky.social
For your consideration, our paper about how we can build a better error culture around biologging is now out in Animal Behavio(u)r. A collaborative effort between researchers the veterinarians at @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

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Burden of a failed error culture in biologging
Driven by technological advancement and low cost, biologging has rapidly transformed the study of animal behaviour and ecology, providing unprecedente…
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November 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
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The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
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November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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andyradford.bsky.social
#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
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...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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lrrenner.bsky.social
These numbers are sickening. At a time when UK grant success rates are so low and uni libraries are making cuts, let's dare to dream about how we could change the system. What we could do with that money!
stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 12d
Why? 🤑
In just the last 5 years, 4 publishers made $US 41 billion in revenue and $14.7B in profit - money that largely comes from taxpayer-funded research budgets.

For context: the entire 2024 NSF budget was $9B USD.
@elsevierconnect.bsky.social made $3.9B that year at a 38% profit margin. 2/n
November 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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larschittka.bsky.social
The earliest mature debate about animal consciousness occurred around 1900 and centred on the insects. We cover this rich history in this new article, as well as some more recent developments on the topic: royalsocietypublishing.org/.../10.../rs...
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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nywolforg.bsky.social
🚨 Wolves still need your voice! Congress is considering bills that could strip protections from gray wolves in 44 states. Losing these safeguards would leave wolves vulnerable to hunting and persecution.

Tell your Senators & Representative: oppose anti-wildlife riders. Take action: 👉 bit.ly/3VIlH9Z
November 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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benkawam.bsky.social
New paper!

We propose a framework to empirically study animal social relationships by modelling social network (SN) data as time-series—that is, without the need to aggregate them over time.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Each dyad (a, b) moves through four discrete states over time, represented by coloured circles. The dyad remains in a given state for a certain duration, or "holding time", before transitioning to a new state according to state-specific transition probabilities, indicated by arrows showing all possible (non-zero) transitions. Paintings by Sofia M. Pereira & Judith von Nordheim.
November 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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christophvoelter.bsky.social
Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social.
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.

All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
www.eva.mpg.de
November 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
ebriefer.bsky.social
New paper out by PhD student @damaris-riedner.bsky.social, on southern white rhinoceroses, showing that zoo and wild populations do not sound too different 🦏🦏🦏 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@behaveco.bsky.social
Contact calls of zoo and wild southern white rhinoceroses do not differ acoustically
Large mammal species are declining globally, and zoo populations may help support or re-establish wild populations through reinforcement or reintroduction. However, zoo environments differ from nat...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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nccrlanguage.bsky.social
📰Researchers from the UNINE compared the preference of humans and chimpanzees for individuals acting prosocial. The results uncover similarities that add to our knowledge on the origins of the extraordinary human collaborative and communicative abilities.

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A shared preference in humans and chimpanzees - NCCR Evolving Language
A new study from researchers at the University of Neuchâtel, published in The Royal Society Open Science, compared the preference for prosocial behaviour, e.g. cooperation, in humans and chimpanzees. ...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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mfhansen.bsky.social
Read more about our new research on the importance of human-other animal co-construction of behavior for coexistence
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Towards coexistence: human-animal co-construction of behaviour in shared spaces
Humans and animals have always shared spaces, food and lives, but little research sheds light on this coexistence. In a new study, AIAS Fellow, cultural biologist Malene Friis Hansen and Professor Agu...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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elizabethhobson.bsky.social
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...
Graphic showing the paper title “Monk parakeets ‘test the waters’ when forming new relationships” in the journal Biology Letters. Also features photos of the co-authors (Claire, Annemarie, Gerry, and Liz) as well as the issue cover photo of two marked monk parakeets from Claire’s work grooming each other. Also shown are some of the main plots of the paper showing how the parakeets escalate their behaviors from low risk/low investment (like proximity) to higher risk/higher investment interactions (like preening/grooming)
November 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Forskere på KU:Det er grotesk, at skandalebyggeri nu fører til fyringer
Uddannelse | Politikens dækning af uddannelsesområdet med temaer som Studeliv og Højskoleliv samt klummer om livet som studerende, reformer og meget andet.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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animal-sounds.bsky.social
🚨Who wants to work with Kalahari meerkats? A MSc project with @mathildemartin.bsky.social at the University of Zurich.
#bioacoustics 🧪
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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stephanielking.bsky.social
3 year postdoc funded by @ukri.org NERC on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins is now live - please share widely 🙏 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
ebriefer.bsky.social
Great new paper by @mfhansen.bsky.social and Agustin Fuentes on human-macaque co-existence link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Human-macaque Co-construction of Behaviours: Sharing Spaces, Sharing Food, Sharing Lives - International Journal of Primatology
Humans and other-than-human-animals (animals) share spaces, food, and lives. This gives rise to possibilities of interspecific learning, social facilitation and interspecific communication, and the po...
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November 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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emilymsanford.bsky.social
Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs
The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...
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October 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM