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Melanie Dammhahn
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Professor for Behavoural Biology, Münster University
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We are happy to announce that registration for ISBE2026 is now open! We encourage you to register as soon as possible to take advantage of reduced fees and to plan your trip and accommodation in advance.

Please read the information on www.isbe2026.com before proceeding with your registration.
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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🚨Job opportunity🚨

We are hiring a 3yr research technician. If you love fieldwork, are passionate about forests & mountains, and want to up-skill in remote sensing, sensor networks and running field experiments this could be the dream job for you!
🧪🌳⛰️🛰️🌡️🍄

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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In Münster, der Stadt des Westfälischen Friedens, haben sich die Physikalischen Gesellschaften von Japan und Deutschland im Quantenjahr 2025 mit einer „Erklärung für die Zukunft“ an die Öffentlichkeit gewandt. Die Physiker warnen eindringlich vor einer nuklearen Aufrüstung. @dpgphysik.bsky.social
Physik-Fachgesellschaften unterzeichnen „Erklärung für die Zukunft“
In Münster, der Stadt des Westfälischen Friedens, haben sich die Physikalischen Gesellschaften von Japan und Deutschland im Quantenjahr 2025 mit einer gemeinsamen „Erklärung für die Zukunft“ an die Öf...
www.uni-muenster.de
November 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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🐆📷African large carnivores in space and time: insights from camera-traps on the fine-scale spatio-temporal dynamics of lions, spotted hyaenas and leopards

vist.ly/4egy8

November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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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...
Postdoctoral fellow
www.ugent.be
November 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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NINA-Tromsø has an open job search for four research scientist positions working in arctic ecosystems, including freshwater, marine, and vegetation ecology. Application deadline 8 Dec 2025. @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social nina-english.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/83-nina...
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research | NINA Tromsø is recruiting Researchers/Senior Researchers in Arctic Ecology and Environmental Social Science
The Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) is aiming to further strengthen our dynamic Arctic research group through recruitment of several researchers/senior researchers within Arctic ecology...
nina-english.attract.reachmee.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Don’t miss this opportunity to attend #ISBE2026 next year!
TRAVEL AWARDS - Apply for a travel award to support your trip, accommodation and registration! Application guidelines on www.isbe2026.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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📰Published📰Experimentally increased food availability allows for earlier departure in a long-distance migratory shorebird🐦

buff.ly/RRfxBPw

🧪🌍
Experimentally increased food availability allows for earlier departure in a long-distance migratory shorebird
Thomas K. Lameris, Allert I. Bijleveld, Roeland A. Bom, Julia Karagicheva, Hidde Kressin, Eva M.A. Kok, Sander Lagerveld, Luc G. G. de Monte, Barbara Helm, Theunis Piersma This is a plain language …
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November 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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We are looking for contributors to our series on the Methods Blog, exploring the experiences of ecologists conducting research in remote field stations during the holiday season 🎄

See previous blogs here 👉 buff.ly/MnMcRqG (1/2)
November 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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🚨 Come join the fantastic long-tailed tit team 🚨
🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds).
🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK.
🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025.
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...
November 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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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.
November 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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New research shows meerkat social group membership strongly shapes gut microbiomes and beneficial bacterial co-occurrence, beyond individual health or environmental exposure. ⬇️
buff.ly/neW6LHH
@krishsubramaniam.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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I have some brilliant news to share! I recently received a DFG-funded Emmy Noether 6-year grant to establish my own group in Germany. I will soon be looking for a PhD student and a research assistant to join the team and investigate how the balance of power is maintained in animal societies.
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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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
November 5, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Gestation length both shapes and is shaped by other life history traits in terrestrial eutherian mammals
doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Thodoris Danis et al.
Gestation length both shapes and is shaped by other life history traits in terrestrial eutherian mammals
Abstract. The length of gestation in eutherian mammals, which is key to their reproductive success, is closely connected to other life history traits, body
doi.org
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Next PhD chapter of Paul Berry is out: Environmental cues and individuality shape diel and seasonal antelope behaviour. Movement Ecology
November 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Somewhat troubling:

Suzgun et al. in Nature Machine Intelligence

Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact

www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact - Nature Machine Intelligence
Suzgun et al. find that current large language models cannot reliably distinguish between belief, knowledge and fact, raising concerns for their use in healthcare, law and journalism, where such disti...
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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PhD studentship on antimicrobial resistance in wild baboons! Fully-funded by @swbiodtp.bsky.social Application deadline: Wed 3 Dec 2025. More details: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo.... Apply here: www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/ho...
@inesfuertbauer.bsky.social @xavh.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Did a Travelling Fellowship change your future? Which is your favourite JEB paper?

Tell us about your experience of @Co_Biologists

www.biologists.com/100-years/me...
Message in a bottle
Message in a bottle – send us your stories Here at The Company of Biologists, we remember George Parker Bidder III as the man who founded our Company. But by many, Bidder is remembered for his pioneer...
www.biologists.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐
November 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Still a few days to apply!
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!
November 2, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Award alert! 🎖️🚨 Every other year, the Ethologische Gesellschaft awards the Niko Tinbergen Award to outstanding post-doc level researchers in Behavioural Biology (<=6yrs post PhD exam).
...and this year is one of these years! Please send us your nominations! 🫵 Infos: www.etho-ges.de/wordpress/aw...
Awards – Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V.
www.etho-ges.de
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Remember…
Bats aren’t spooky, they’re adorable 💕Here, an Ectophylla alba pup chilling under a leaf tent gets a surprise visit… from a katydid.
Happy Halloween 🦇🦇🦇
October 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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New for #Evol2026: Research Synthesis Working Groups! Each funded group will present a symposium at the meeting, collaborate on a publication, and establish a lasting research network. Submit your proposal by January 6! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...
October 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM