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Andrew @andrewdunn10.bsky.social · Aug 20

There is still time to meet @royalsocietypublishing.org at booth #2612 during the @acs.org Fall 2025 meeting. We may not be able to offer a #MoleMoment, but we do have some very good #journals. You should check them out.

royalsociety.org/Journals/

Journals | Royal Society

Discover new research from across the sciences.

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Kai Caspar @nomascus.bsky.social · Jul 26

We are currently testing highly underrated and understudied colobus monkeys for @manyprimates.bsky.social at Zoo Krefeld.
It's a start - but ManyPrimates needs more colobines (and gibbons) for fair representation!

Colobus monkey (Colobus guereza) approaching a two-choice set up to test for its ability to infer the hiding location of a bait by exclusion.

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · Jul 26

Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job

Animal Behaviour - Bielefeld University

With a team of over 50 people, the different research groups study animal behaviour within the framework of the four questions of Tinbergen, both in the lab and in the field. Current model systems include laboratory studies on zebra finches (

www.uni-bielefeld.de

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Zegni Triki @zegnitriki.bsky.social · Jun 30

Thanks @nomascus.bsky.social
I wouldn’t have said it better 😌

Kai Caspar @nomascus.bsky.social · Jun 28

Is there a cognitive hierachy between ecto- and endotherms driven by brain size/neuron counts? Probably not.

Very interesting opinion piece by @zegnitriki.bsky.social et al., shifting focus to sensory–motor integration to explain brain size differences.🧪

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

The fish challenge to vertebrate cognitive evolution | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

There is tremendous taxonomic variation in the size, shape and structure of vertebrate brains. While many studies use cross-species comparisons to aim at identifying the ecological factors (social and...

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Kai Caspar @nomascus.bsky.social · Jun 28

Is there a cognitive hierachy between ecto- and endotherms driven by brain size/neuron counts? Probably not.

Very interesting opinion piece by @zegnitriki.bsky.social et al., shifting focus to sensory–motor integration to explain brain size differences.🧪

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

The fish challenge to vertebrate cognitive evolution | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

There is tremendous taxonomic variation in the size, shape and structure of vertebrate brains. While many studies use cross-species comparisons to aim at identifying the ecological factors (social and...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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Behaviour 2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social · Jun 30

#behaviour2025 #AnimalBehavior #Conference #Announcement #RegistrationOpen #SaveTheDate

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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · Jan 7

PhD position on the ecology and evolution of animal memory! Please get in touch if you’re interested in joining us

Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · Dec 9

PhD position available! Are you interested in how natural selection shapes the evolution of animal memory? Be part of our experimental evolution plans at UCL @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @treesdla.bsky.social , co-supervised by Flo Camus @fcamus.bsky.social. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo...

Evolutionary ecology of animal memory | UCL Trees

This project seeks to explore how memory evolves in response to the ecological tasks that animals face in their natural environment. Associative memory exists in some form in almost all animal species...

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Zegni Triki @zegnitriki.bsky.social · Jan 17

🚨JOB alert 🚨
We are looking for a technician at full time 100% and permanent position 🙌🏽

The job is in the Behavioural Physiology lab @unineuchatel

Please see detailed description (in French) 👉🏼

recruitingapp-3040.umantis.com/Vacancies/60...

Deadline end of February

Spread the word 🙏🏽🧪

Offres d'emploi

Université de Neuchâtel - Suisse. Formation, recherche, étudiant, formation, études, sciences, lettres et sciences humaines, droit, sciences économiques, théologie

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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · Jan 15

Come to the UK to do your best 🧪! We’re not that bad by some comparisons 😊

The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · Jan 14

The Royal Society's Newton International Fellowships will open for applications next week on 21 January. These fellowships are for non-UK early career scientists who wish to conduct research in the UK. Find out more on our website: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/newto...

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Roberto Toro @r3rt0.bsky.social · Nov 21

🚨 Come work with us, we’re hiring! 🚨
See below our 2 postdoc positions at @institutpasteur.bsky.social in Paris.
Funded by our ERC Synergy grant, this is a collaboration with the labs of Víctor Borrell in Spain ( @borrell-lab.bsky.social), Laurent Nguyen in Belgium and Kristian Franze in Germany
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Adrian Jaeggi @jaeggiadrian.bsky.social · Jan 15

Reminder to send in your application and/or tell your students and colleagues about this PhD position! Review of applications will begin in a few weeks, though the position will remain open until filled

Adrian Jaeggi @jaeggiadrian.bsky.social · Dec 2

🚨 JOB ALERT!! We're looking for a PhD student to join our group! Are you interested in evolutionary medicine / anthropology? Already have a master's? Apply with your own project ideas! See link: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... #EvMed @bioanth.org @ehbea.bsky.social Please RT!

UZH: PhD position in evolutionary anthropology and medicine

The Human Ecology Group of the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine (IEM) Institute of Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich, led by Prof. Adrian Jaeggi, is inviting applications from prospe...

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Hannes Rusch @hannesrusch.bsky.social · Nov 21

🚨 Postdoc position in Public Economics at Marburg University 🚨

Having worked on pretty much exactly that position, all I can say is: apply, apply, apply!

Nice city with all you need, great economics & business faculty, wonderful public econ group.

▶️ stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/0...

Postdoc

stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de

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Zegni Triki @zegnitriki.bsky.social · Nov 20

Deadline extended until 30th Nov!! Send your application through if you’re interested 🙌🏽

#PhD
🧪

Zegni Triki @zegnitriki.bsky.social · Oct 24

Excited to share I will be joining @UniNeuchatel as an assistant professor early 2025.

OFFER: 2 #PhDposition in the new lab. #1 is on zoo animals🐺🐒🦧 and saliva hormones, and #2 is on 🐠 cognition and brains 🧠
Deadline 20 Nov 2024 shorturl.at/NYvVd

Spread the word 🙏🏽🧪

Two fully funded PhD positions.pdf

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Zegni Triki @zegnitriki.bsky.social · Oct 24

Excited to share I will be joining @UniNeuchatel as an assistant professor early 2025.

OFFER: 2 #PhDposition in the new lab. #1 is on zoo animals🐺🐒🦧 and saliva hormones, and #2 is on 🐠 cognition and brains 🧠
Deadline 20 Nov 2024 shorturl.at/NYvVd

Spread the word 🙏🏽🧪

Two fully funded PhD positions.pdf

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Gerry Carter @gerrycarter.bsky.social · Nov 14

Princeton is hiring faculty in data science (all stages) in STEM, social sciences, humanities, and/or interdisciplinary research: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

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Zegni Triki @zegnitriki.bsky.social · Oct 24

Excited to share I will be joining @UniNeuchatel as an assistant professor early 2025.

OFFER: 2 #PhDposition in the new lab. #1 is on zoo animals🐺🐒🦧 and saliva hormones, and #2 is on 🐠 cognition and brains 🧠
Deadline 20 Nov 2024 shorturl.at/NYvVd

Spread the word 🙏🏽🧪

Two fully funded PhD positions.pdf

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Dr Sophia Daoudi-Simison @sophiadaoudi.bsky.social · Jul 19

Last Plenary of #ECBB2024 and Tinbergen award winner by @zegnitriki.bsky.social 🐠 @asaborg.bsky.social

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ASAB @asab.org · Jul 19

Finishing the #ECBB2024 conference with a plenary by Ethoges Tinbergen Award winner @zegnitriki.bsky.social ! We’ve learned that fish have very plastic brains, and their cognitive abilities are affected by factors like social enrichment and ecological selective pressures during ontogeny 🐟🐟🐟

Zegni Triki receiving the Ethoges award certificate

Zegni Triki at the lectern with a slide reading “The brain cognition and ecology relationships: empircal evidence from fishes” Zegni triki university of bern switzerland

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Zegni Triki @zegnitriki.bsky.social · Apr 22

🌟New🌟 paper in @BehavEcol
We tested whether rearing fish 🐟 in different social environments for 6 months affects their brain 🧠 development and cognition 🧪

open-access
👉🏼 doi.org/10.1093/behe...

@snsf-ch.bsky.social
#fishSci
#brain #cognition

Social complexity affects cognitive abilities but not brain structure in a Poeciliid fish

Abstract. Some cognitive abilities are suggested to be the result of a complex social life, allowing individuals to achieve higher fitness through advanced

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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · Apr 9

Postdoc and PhD positions with Guido Makransky and Ingo Zettler @sodas.bsky.social, on curiosity in children and adults. Mix of VR, psychometrics, experiments. Guido and Ingo are great and Copenhagen is a fantastic city.

PD: employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
PhD: employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

One Post-doctoral Position (100%, 36 months) at the Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), with a focus on psychometrics from Virtual Reality and ...

employment.ku.dk

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ASAB @asab.org · Apr 9

!!!Animal behaviour students!!!🐷🐵🐻🐦🐯

Would you like to become involved in a new student subcommittee for ASAB? We are looking for some enthusiastic students from all levels to form this important new representation for the student voice.

More details ⬇️

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Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social · Apr 11

Our brand new 2-year international Evolutionary Biology MSc program here in Mainz*) starts in October. Apply by May 15th ...or why not today or tomorrow?
www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-biologi...
*) a city that our today's visitor Audrey Proenca called "adorable". See how happy she looks with us!

Our visitor Audrey Proenca with local researchers at an outside table, with everyone in a good mood

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Zegni Triki @zegnitriki.bsky.social · Mar 11

Glad to be part of the #ProcB team
#RoyalSociety

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Meet behavioural ecologist Zegni Triki | Royal Society

We welcome Associate Editor Zegni Triki to the Proceedings B editorial board.

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Stuart K Watson @chimpsahoi.bsky.social · Feb 28

Interested in doing a PhD on what meerkats mean? Or know someone who might? Check out this great opportunity from with Marta Manser at the University of Zürich.
Deadline March 15th.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Mar 2

Deadline coming up for proposals to edit an issue of Philosophical Transactions B: 18 April. Wide range of topics accepted and, as editorial board member & previous co-editor & contributor for issues, can confirm the process is efficient & even pleasant :)

THE ROYAL SOCIETY PUBLISHING PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS B Submit a proposal to edit an influential themed issue in your field by 18 April. For more information, visit bit.ly/PTBproposals

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