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enourani.bsky.social
Elham Nourani
@enourani.bsky.social
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Postdoc at Uni Konstanz & Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Interested in how behaviors are learned during early life, in the context of the environment 🪺🦅 Incoming PI at Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne (Nov 2025)
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 1d
anyone looking for a job?
Global Scholar Recruitment Campaign job with
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Global Scholar Recruitment Campaign - Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong job with CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG | 399559
We are now seeking exceptional scholars to join us as Assistant Professors/Associate Professors/Professors/Chair Professors ...
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Ari Strandburg-Peshkin @arispeshkin.bsky.social · 5d
⭐PhD position available!⭐
Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets
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Analysis of communication and collective behavior in animal groups
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Elham Nourani @enourani.bsky.social · 3d
🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
Golden eagle on the nest in Finland (by O. Karlin)
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Danai Papageorgiou @danaipapageorgiou.bsky.social · 6d
This list can really assist peers in avoiding predatory publishers:

www.predatoryjournals.org @predatoryjournals.org

I have been receiving plenty of generic emails to join editorial boards in MDPI and Frontiers. At exactly the same time, friends receive the same generic emails..
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ESLR @eslr.bsky.social · 6d
📢🚀 Are you an early-career researcher working on anything related to culture, behaviour or learning? 🧠🌍 Join ESLR, an interdisciplinary research community! We have a NEW website and our membership is now FREE. 👉 Sign up here to get updates and become a member: www.eslrsociety.com/membership
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Animal-Environment Interactions Lab @safilab.bsky.social · 12d
Most people are right- some left-handed or ambidextrous - and so are honey buzzards when turning in thermals! But, unlike us, mastering flight means these birds must overcome laterality as they grow. A gem of a preprint led by @enourani.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 23d
Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...
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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 28d
This time tomorrow 🕒 15:00 CEST 🕒 / 9.00 am EDT

Don't forget to tune in to our second webinar on how to obtain ERC funding in 2025/26!

This particular session is designed for those who want to dive deeper into the specific changes, rules, and opportunities.

Watch it here👉 bit.ly/3V6C2VV
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Elham Nourani @enourani.bsky.social · Sep 7
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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · Sep 3
🚨 PhD position in behavioural evolution 🚨

Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve.

Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs

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Cecilia Baldoni @cecibaldoni.bsky.social · Sep 1
The secret to shrew brain shrinkage? 🤔
Not cell loss, but water loss!
Our new paper shows that brain cells shrink by losing water, a wild feat of brain plasticity 🤯

Check the paper!
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Programmed seasonal brain shrinkage in the common shrew via water loss without cell death
Brain plasticity, the brain’s inherent ability to adapt its structure and function, is crucial for responding to environmental challenges but is usual…
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Universität Konstanz @uni-konstanz.de · Aug 27
MELA — a short documentary on the Mating Ecology of Lek Breeding Antelope — takes you behind the scenes of an interdisciplinary #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social research journey. This film reveals how science is done, shared, and lived: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i4d...
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Samuele Ramellini @sramellini.bsky.social · Aug 17
🚨 My first #PhD chapter is now out in Biological Reviews @camphilsoc.bsky.social.

We explore the link between non-breeding sociality and territoriality. 🦉⚔️

Check it out here: doi.org/10.1111/brv....
Non‐breeding social behaviour as an investment in reducing future territoriality costs
Territoriality is costly, and animals should adopt strategies to cope with these costs. Seasonal territoriality for breeding – a common strategy in many groups of animals – can reduce costs during th...
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michael chimento @mchimento.bsky.social · Aug 14
some 🧊liquid dnb🧊 for this heatwave youtu.be/1YcTtrUOwCM #dj mix
ill-liquid marketz | drum'n'bass mix
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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · Aug 11
The High Seas Treaty is poised to be ratified, creating a legal instrument for protected areas in the high seas. We see a crucial role for "Collective Science" to provide robust biodiversity data and to help inform protection of this vast 3D space. Read more in Ecology Letters: tinyurl.com/33637jax
Collective Science to Inform Global Ocean Protections
Signatories are poised to ratify the UN High Seas Treaty, providing a legal mechanism to create protected areas in our greatest global commons. Robust, publicly accessible biodiversity data is needed...
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Joey Bernhardt @joeybernhardt.bsky.social · Aug 14
Please help us spread the word! Please amplify!

We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝

Applications are due October 6 2025.

careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C...

#AcademicJobs #EvoBio
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Biodiversity Genomics
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Biodiversity Genomics
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michael chimento @mchimento.bsky.social · Aug 13
📣 Interested in cultural evolution and artificial life? Call for abstracts for our upcoming workshop at @alife2025.bsky.social. Accepted abstracts will be presented as flash talks, and are not archival. Deadline is the September 12, w/ rolling acceptance. Details: sites.google.com/view/planetx... 🧪
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Jack A Brand @jack-brand.bsky.social · Aug 7
🚨 Proceedings B is recruiting new Data Editors!
Join our editorial board to help ensure data/code transparency across biology.
🗓 Term: 3 yrs from Jan 2026
📩 Apply by 30 Sep 2025 with a 2-page CV + cover letter: [email protected]
🔗 Info: [email protected] /[email protected]
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Patrick Lewin @plewin.bsky.social · Aug 6
Interested in animal navigation or machine learning?

New paper from Joe Morford using neural networks 🖥️🧠 to investigate how animals learn to navigate 🗺️🧭 Many animals can ‘true navigate’ using intersecting cue gradients. How do they learn to use these grid maps? Find out:

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michael chimento @mchimento.bsky.social · Aug 5
New mini mix, v proud of the thumbnail on this one youtu.be/odrx1QsFlVo
this dj mix hits like acid
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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · Aug 5
New work led by Martina Scacco @safilab.bsky.social and Tom Carrard @ethz.ch in collaboration with the Swiss Ornithological Institute and the Konrad Lorenz Institute ⬇️
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Swiss Ornithological Institute @vogelwarte.bsky.social · Aug 4
Combining high-resolution atmospheric analysis and global positioning system tracking data, @matthiastschumi.bsky.social and his team explored the role of gravity waves in soaring golden eagles, with results supporting the regular use of these waves. Read more here: doi.org/10.1098/rsif...
Golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos by Marcel Burkhardt
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Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social · Jul 31
Excited to share that we have just been awarded a NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant to work on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins. We will soon advertise a 3 year post-doc to join the team - drop me an email if you might be interested! Pls share widely 🙏🏻
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Universität Konstanz @uni-konstanz.de · Jul 23
Genau wie viele Menschen zeigen Tiere Anzeichen von Stress, wenn sie versuchen, für eine Gruppe von Artgenossen die Führung zu übernehmen. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt ein internationales Forschungsteam unter Beteiligung von #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social BiologInnen: t1p.de/zud05
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Hanja Brandl @hanjabrrr.bsky.social · Jul 23
New paper out 🥳
The physiological costs of leadership in collective movements. - Trying to lead the group can be stressful, so it might not always be worth it!#openaccess at @currentbiology.bsky.social @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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James Klarevas @jamesklarevas.bsky.social · Jul 23
Led by @hanjabrrr.bsky.social, @damienfarine.bsky.social, and I, we combined ECG and GPS tracking from a whole group of vulturine guineafowl to show that collective movements, and especially attempting to lead under disagreement greatly increased Heart Rates.

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The physiological cost of leadership in collective movements
Individuals can gain substantial benefits from collective actions.1,2,3,4,5,6,7 However, collective behaviors introduce new challenges, like coordinat…
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Patrick Lewin @plewin.bsky.social · Jul 22
Ever wondered how animals know where they are? Or how they find where they need to be?

The answer is that they have maps and compasses built into their heads! Excited to see this new review of map-and-compass navigation led by Joe Morford out in Animal Behaviour @asab.org

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Image description: figure from review titled Map and compass navigation: the mechanism and ontogeny of animal maps. The figure shows how environmental cues can vary in predictable gradients through space, generating unique cue combinations at each location. The second part of this figure shows how animals may respond to these cue combinations, either treating them as discrete cue-location associations, or as continuous gradients. These differences may lead to differences in navigational strategies and performance.
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