Portuguese Ethological Society (SPE)
@spetologia.bsky.social
Society founded in 1987 to promote the study of animal behaviour | Follow us for new research of #SPEmembers, new #actaethologica issues, and updates of activities
Organização não governamental e sem fins lucrativos
Portugal
www.etologia.pt
@spe.etologia
Organização não governamental e sem fins lucrativos
Portugal
www.etologia.pt
@spe.etologia
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Celebrating a symposium of @behaviour2025.bsky.social, call for article submission for a special issue "Animal Intelligence: From Individual to Social Cognition" in Acta Ethologica.
Submissions are open to everyone!
Information at link.springer.com/collections/...
#Behaviour2025 #actaethologica
Submissions are open to everyone!
Information at link.springer.com/collections/...
#Behaviour2025 #actaethologica
Birds and environment: exploring the interconnections and conservation challenges - Part II
with #SPEmember Sandra Trigo @trigosandra.bsky.social as Guest Editor
with #SPEmember Sandra Trigo @trigosandra.bsky.social as Guest Editor
November 28, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Birds and environment: exploring the interconnections and conservation challenges - Part II
with #SPEmember Sandra Trigo @trigosandra.bsky.social as Guest Editor
with #SPEmember Sandra Trigo @trigosandra.bsky.social as Guest Editor
🎉 The 22nd Congress of the Portuguese Ethological Society (SPE) took place 1 month ago at the University of Algarve. The congress highlighted recent research in animal behavior, cognition, and welfare.
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#Ethology #AnimalBehaviour #SPEmembers #SPEetologia
FishEthoGroup, @ccmar.bsky.social , SPE
#Ethology #AnimalBehaviour #SPEmembers #SPEetologia
November 28, 2025 at 8:54 AM
🎉 The 22nd Congress of the Portuguese Ethological Society (SPE) took place 1 month ago at the University of Algarve. The congress highlighted recent research in animal behavior, cognition, and welfare.
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#Ethology #AnimalBehaviour #SPEmembers #SPEetologia
FishEthoGroup, @ccmar.bsky.social , SPE
#Ethology #AnimalBehaviour #SPEmembers #SPEetologia
🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨
#AnimalBehaviour #Ethology #AnimalAcoustic
"Auditory representation of conspecific calls improves throughout ontogeny in a singing fish"
Vasconcelos et al. with SPE members Raquel Vasconcelos, M Clara Amorim, and Paulo Fonseca @ Biology letters
#AnimalBehaviour #Ethology #AnimalAcoustic
"Auditory representation of conspecific calls improves throughout ontogeny in a singing fish"
Vasconcelos et al. with SPE members Raquel Vasconcelos, M Clara Amorim, and Paulo Fonseca @ Biology letters
November 27, 2025 at 8:42 AM
🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨
#AnimalBehaviour #Ethology #AnimalAcoustic
"Auditory representation of conspecific calls improves throughout ontogeny in a singing fish"
Vasconcelos et al. with SPE members Raquel Vasconcelos, M Clara Amorim, and Paulo Fonseca @ Biology letters
#AnimalBehaviour #Ethology #AnimalAcoustic
"Auditory representation of conspecific calls improves throughout ontogeny in a singing fish"
Vasconcelos et al. with SPE members Raquel Vasconcelos, M Clara Amorim, and Paulo Fonseca @ Biology letters
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SEA WOLVES!!!! This is cool. After Haíɫzaqv Guardians saw damaged crab traps, video cameras were set. Great article: Tool use by wolves (Canis lupus): crab trap pulling in Haíɫzaqv Nation Territory! It has videos: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
(also here www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMSY...) 🦀🐺
(also here www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMSY...) 🦀🐺
Wolves Caught on Camera Pulling in Crab Traps in B.C.
YouTube video by The Weather Network
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November 27, 2025 at 8:35 AM
SEA WOLVES!!!! This is cool. After Haíɫzaqv Guardians saw damaged crab traps, video cameras were set. Great article: Tool use by wolves (Canis lupus): crab trap pulling in Haíɫzaqv Nation Territory! It has videos: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
(also here www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMSY...) 🦀🐺
(also here www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMSY...) 🦀🐺
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✨️Call for abstracts✨️
Excited to be organizing together with @leonarddung.bsky.social, @birchlse.bsky.social and Albert Newen the RUB-LSE joint workshop
"Animal Minds: New Theories and New Observations"
Bochum 9-10 Feb 2026
Join us! 🦧🐦🐙🐀🐬🦀🐜
Abstracts due 1 Dec 2025
philevents.org/event/show/1...
Excited to be organizing together with @leonarddung.bsky.social, @birchlse.bsky.social and Albert Newen the RUB-LSE joint workshop
"Animal Minds: New Theories and New Observations"
Bochum 9-10 Feb 2026
Join us! 🦧🐦🐙🐀🐬🦀🐜
Abstracts due 1 Dec 2025
philevents.org/event/show/1...
Ruhr-University Bochum & London School of Economics joint workshop “Animal Minds: New Theories and New Observations”
The following speakers are confirmed: Colin Allen, Kristin Andrews, Jonathan Birch, Tomer Czaczkes, Rebecca Dreier, Leonard Dung, Albert Newen, Simone Pika, Sanja Sreckovic, and Daria Zakharova.
philevents.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
✨️Call for abstracts✨️
Excited to be organizing together with @leonarddung.bsky.social, @birchlse.bsky.social and Albert Newen the RUB-LSE joint workshop
"Animal Minds: New Theories and New Observations"
Bochum 9-10 Feb 2026
Join us! 🦧🐦🐙🐀🐬🦀🐜
Abstracts due 1 Dec 2025
philevents.org/event/show/1...
Excited to be organizing together with @leonarddung.bsky.social, @birchlse.bsky.social and Albert Newen the RUB-LSE joint workshop
"Animal Minds: New Theories and New Observations"
Bochum 9-10 Feb 2026
Join us! 🦧🐦🐙🐀🐬🦀🐜
Abstracts due 1 Dec 2025
philevents.org/event/show/1...
SPE president José Ricardo Paula @josericardopaula.bsky.social gave the Observador an interview, in which he highlights that fish intelligence should be a central consideration in conservation strategies.
Read the full interview at
observador.pt/especiais/po...
Read the full interview at
observador.pt/especiais/po...
observador.pt
November 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM
SPE president José Ricardo Paula @josericardopaula.bsky.social gave the Observador an interview, in which he highlights that fish intelligence should be a central consideration in conservation strategies.
Read the full interview at
observador.pt/especiais/po...
Read the full interview at
observador.pt/especiais/po...
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The XXII Congress of the Portuguese Society of Ethology once again brought two days dedicated to debate and knowledge sharing on animal behavior.
MARE was present, reflecting the diversity, quality, and impact of the research we carry out in this field
www.mare-centre.pt/en/ethologyc...
MARE was present, reflecting the diversity, quality, and impact of the research we carry out in this field
www.mare-centre.pt/en/ethologyc...
November 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The XXII Congress of the Portuguese Society of Ethology once again brought two days dedicated to debate and knowledge sharing on animal behavior.
MARE was present, reflecting the diversity, quality, and impact of the research we carry out in this field
www.mare-centre.pt/en/ethologyc...
MARE was present, reflecting the diversity, quality, and impact of the research we carry out in this field
www.mare-centre.pt/en/ethologyc...
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📣CALL FOR PAPERS - NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 30 JUNE 2026📣
Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives
More info: vist.ly/4fn5i
Guest editors: @jj255.bsky.social #RoxanaTorres, @brittheidinger.bsky.social @jaime-muriel.bsky.social @toblermichi.bsky.social
Please repost 🙏
Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives
More info: vist.ly/4fn5i
Guest editors: @jj255.bsky.social #RoxanaTorres, @brittheidinger.bsky.social @jaime-muriel.bsky.social @toblermichi.bsky.social
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November 23, 2025 at 12:04 AM
📣CALL FOR PAPERS - NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 30 JUNE 2026📣
Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives
More info: vist.ly/4fn5i
Guest editors: @jj255.bsky.social #RoxanaTorres, @brittheidinger.bsky.social @jaime-muriel.bsky.social @toblermichi.bsky.social
Please repost 🙏
Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives
More info: vist.ly/4fn5i
Guest editors: @jj255.bsky.social #RoxanaTorres, @brittheidinger.bsky.social @jaime-muriel.bsky.social @toblermichi.bsky.social
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Intrigued by animal innovation and avian cognition? My PI Dr. Megan Lambert is advertising a new shiny PhD position studying innovation in kea parrots! Info attached 🤩🦜
For inquiries: [email protected]
For inquiries: [email protected]
November 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Intrigued by animal innovation and avian cognition? My PI Dr. Megan Lambert is advertising a new shiny PhD position studying innovation in kea parrots! Info attached 🤩🦜
For inquiries: [email protected]
For inquiries: [email protected]
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#jobalert
Postdoctoral position in Applied animal ethology and animal perception
Department of Biosystems and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
More information: www.applied-ethology.org/Postdoctoral...
Postdoctoral position in Applied animal ethology and animal perception
Department of Biosystems and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
More information: www.applied-ethology.org/Postdoctoral...
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
#jobalert
Postdoctoral position in Applied animal ethology and animal perception
Department of Biosystems and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
More information: www.applied-ethology.org/Postdoctoral...
Postdoctoral position in Applied animal ethology and animal perception
Department of Biosystems and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
More information: www.applied-ethology.org/Postdoctoral...
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I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).
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October 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).
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We’re so excited to launch the website for the EOU Fledglings Meeting 2026 and to share that pre-registration is officially open! 🎉
👉 Scan the QR code or visit our website (eou-fledglings.github.io/2026/registr...) to pre-register now!
Photo: Tom Koerner / USFWS (CC BY 2.0)
👉 Scan the QR code or visit our website (eou-fledglings.github.io/2026/registr...) to pre-register now!
Photo: Tom Koerner / USFWS (CC BY 2.0)
November 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
We’re so excited to launch the website for the EOU Fledglings Meeting 2026 and to share that pre-registration is officially open! 🎉
👉 Scan the QR code or visit our website (eou-fledglings.github.io/2026/registr...) to pre-register now!
Photo: Tom Koerner / USFWS (CC BY 2.0)
👉 Scan the QR code or visit our website (eou-fledglings.github.io/2026/registr...) to pre-register now!
Photo: Tom Koerner / USFWS (CC BY 2.0)
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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...
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Postdoc position in individual-level incentives, social
learning, and payoff-biased imitation shape group-level accuracy in complex prediction and decision-making tasks in Konstanz
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learning, and payoff-biased imitation shape group-level accuracy in complex prediction and decision-making tasks in Konstanz
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November 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Postdoc position in individual-level incentives, social
learning, and payoff-biased imitation shape group-level accuracy in complex prediction and decision-making tasks in Konstanz
files.newsletter2go.com/l3slzozn/s_i...
learning, and payoff-biased imitation shape group-level accuracy in complex prediction and decision-making tasks in Konstanz
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🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨
#AnimalBehaviour #Ethology #Bioacoustic
"The evolution of extreme sound frequencies in bird songs"
Cardoso et al. with SPE members Gonçalo Cardoso @mostlywaxbills.bsky.social , and Pedro Santos @pedrobsky98.bsky.social @ Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social
#AnimalBehaviour #Ethology #Bioacoustic
"The evolution of extreme sound frequencies in bird songs"
Cardoso et al. with SPE members Gonçalo Cardoso @mostlywaxbills.bsky.social , and Pedro Santos @pedrobsky98.bsky.social @ Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨
#AnimalBehaviour #Ethology #Bioacoustic
"The evolution of extreme sound frequencies in bird songs"
Cardoso et al. with SPE members Gonçalo Cardoso @mostlywaxbills.bsky.social , and Pedro Santos @pedrobsky98.bsky.social @ Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social
#AnimalBehaviour #Ethology #Bioacoustic
"The evolution of extreme sound frequencies in bird songs"
Cardoso et al. with SPE members Gonçalo Cardoso @mostlywaxbills.bsky.social , and Pedro Santos @pedrobsky98.bsky.social @ Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social
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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...
...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
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...
...and this year is one of these years! Please send us your nominations! 🫵 Infos: www.etho-ges.de/wordpress/aw...
#SPEetol2025
The SPE conference came to an end.
A huge thank you to the organising committee @fishethogroup for their amazing work putting together this year's conference! 👏👏
Thank you to all attendees, speakers, Plenary speakers, and poster presenters 👏👏👏
See you all next year!
The SPE conference came to an end.
A huge thank you to the organising committee @fishethogroup for their amazing work putting together this year's conference! 👏👏
Thank you to all attendees, speakers, Plenary speakers, and poster presenters 👏👏👏
See you all next year!
November 1, 2025 at 11:31 AM
#SPEetol2025
The SPE conference came to an end.
A huge thank you to the organising committee @fishethogroup for their amazing work putting together this year's conference! 👏👏
Thank you to all attendees, speakers, Plenary speakers, and poster presenters 👏👏👏
See you all next year!
The SPE conference came to an end.
A huge thank you to the organising committee @fishethogroup for their amazing work putting together this year's conference! 👏👏
Thank you to all attendees, speakers, Plenary speakers, and poster presenters 👏👏👏
See you all next year!
The Vitor Almada Award is the society prize for best student talk. It is never easy to select one from the great talks we had from students!
The 12th Vítor Almada Award recipient was Pedro Santos with the work "Noise shapes collective anti-predator response".
The 12th Vítor Almada Award recipient was Pedro Santos with the work "Noise shapes collective anti-predator response".
November 1, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The Vitor Almada Award is the society prize for best student talk. It is never easy to select one from the great talks we had from students!
The 12th Vítor Almada Award recipient was Pedro Santos with the work "Noise shapes collective anti-predator response".
The 12th Vítor Almada Award recipient was Pedro Santos with the work "Noise shapes collective anti-predator response".
There was so many great posters and the decision for the best poster was hard.
The best poster award goes to João Grave, with the work "Indirect effects of cleaner gobies on fish grazing and benthic community structure" .
Well done and congratulations! 🥳
The best poster award goes to João Grave, with the work "Indirect effects of cleaner gobies on fish grazing and benthic community structure" .
Well done and congratulations! 🥳
November 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
There was so many great posters and the decision for the best poster was hard.
The best poster award goes to João Grave, with the work "Indirect effects of cleaner gobies on fish grazing and benthic community structure" .
Well done and congratulations! 🥳
The best poster award goes to João Grave, with the work "Indirect effects of cleaner gobies on fish grazing and benthic community structure" .
Well done and congratulations! 🥳
Last talk of #SPEetol2025 from Peter McGregor talking about the last year of Acta Ethologica journal! #actaethologica
October 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Last talk of #SPEetol2025 from Peter McGregor talking about the last year of Acta Ethologica journal! #actaethologica
The last session of #SPEetol2025 conference, the "Sociality and behavioural interactions" session, included amazing talks regarding how sociality influence behaviours and changes across time, and also how different behaviours interact!
October 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The last session of #SPEetol2025 conference, the "Sociality and behavioural interactions" session, included amazing talks regarding how sociality influence behaviours and changes across time, and also how different behaviours interact!
José Ricardo Paula @josericardopaula.bsky.social the last plenary speaker of the #SPEetol2025 examining complex behaviour in cleaning mutualisms. Such a great start!
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October 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
José Ricardo Paula @josericardopaula.bsky.social the last plenary speaker of the #SPEetol2025 examining complex behaviour in cleaning mutualisms. Such a great start!
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fishethogroup
@ccmar.bsky.social
@spetologia.bsky.social
fishethogroup
@ccmar.bsky.social
The last morning session of the last day of #SPEetol2025 , the "Behaviour in a changing world" session, included amazing talks on how behaviour is affected by extreme temperatures and heat waves, climate change and artificial light polution!
October 31, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The last morning session of the last day of #SPEetol2025 , the "Behaviour in a changing world" session, included amazing talks on how behaviour is affected by extreme temperatures and heat waves, climate change and artificial light polution!
The second morning session of the last day of #SPEetol2025 conference, the "Cognition" session, included amazing talks regarding the cognition in fish variation and evolution! Thank you to all the speakers, it was great to know more about your research 😊
October 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The second morning session of the last day of #SPEetol2025 conference, the "Cognition" session, included amazing talks regarding the cognition in fish variation and evolution! Thank you to all the speakers, it was great to know more about your research 😊