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Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · 17h

This bower was located next to a nursery, something tells me the male bowerbird owner has been pinching from the kids 😆

Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · 17h

Back in the land of bowers this week! Investigating how male courtship signals are affected by urbanisation #greatbowerbirds @uniexecec.bsky.social

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ASAB Winter 2025 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 15d

For those that have registered for #ASABWinter2025, you should have received an email last week asking you to confirm your attendance. If you haven't, please check your spam folders!

And don't forget, only one week left until the conference grant deadline (Oct 1)

www.asab.org/conference-g...

Conference Attendance Grants — ASAB

Conference Attendance Grants help PhD students and others with limited funds to attend ASAB conferences and workshops

www.asab.org

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Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · Aug 26

Deadline for submitting an abstract to give a talk or poster is this Friday!

ASAB Winter 2025 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · Aug 5

ICYMI : #ASABWinter2025 will take place from December 15-16, once again in lovely Edinburgh!

Registration is now open 🎉 Abstract submission deadline for posters and talks is August 29 🏃‍♀️🏃🏃‍♂️

More information here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/

Winter ASAB 2025 December 15-16 Edinburgh How sensory information affects behaviour.

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Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · Aug 1

We are looking for a Postdoc (up to 5 years) who wants to study neural mechanisms of spatial memory in honeybees.

This includes tetrode recordings in behaving honeybees.

Application Deadline is 1st of October 2025.

More details:
www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/services/...

Postdoctoral Position (f/m/d) at the Chair of Behavioral Physiology & Sociobiology

Biocenter of the University of Würzburg Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg

www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de

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Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · Jul 31

Whilst ASAB Winter is FREE to attend, ASAB offer conference grants to contribute towards travel and accommodation costs. Deadline 1st October shorturl.at/LmmkA

Conference Attendance Grants — ASAB

Conference Attendance Grants help PhD students and others with limited funds to attend ASAB conferences and workshops

shorturl.at

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Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · Jul 29

Any questions, just get in touch!

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Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · Jul 29

‪Come join us at the @asab.org Winter Conference 2025: how sensory info affects behaviour.

15th & 16th Dec, abstracts due end Aug. More info and registration asabwinter.github.io/2025

Co-hosted with @jtroscianko.bsky.social and Innes Cuthill

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Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · Jul 28

Accept; no revisions 😉

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Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · Jul 11

Noooooooo

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Apr 23

New from #ProcB: Immediate and longer-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on scientific productivity in #ecology and #evolution royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #COVID #COVID19

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Gabrielle Davidson @drgdavidson.bsky.social · Apr 16

🚨 🪺🐦🦠 PhD opportunity in my lab for UK home fee students. Feel free to contact me for informal enquiries. Please share! shorturl.at/wUo8r

Designing Microbial Interventions to Study Behavioural Effects in Wild Birds (DAVIDSON_U25DTPR) | Doctoral Training Partnership

This project is open to Home Fee Status applicants only. The gut microbiome influences how animals behave and interact with their environment via the microbiome–gut–brain axis (MGBA).

biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · Mar 23

It may feel as though we live in dark times, but here in the UK there are LOADS of science festivals celebrating ideas, sparking curiosity & sharing the latest research (for both adults & kids). Someone told me recently they didn’t know where to look, so I made a list. Here goes… [deep breath]:
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Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · Mar 5

In the current challenging climate of finding reviewers, how long is too long to wait for a manuscript to be reviewed? My PhD student has had her first manuscript in review for six months now, journal has only managed to obtain one review so far 🤷‍♀️

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Shoko Sugasawa @shokosugasawa.bsky.social · Feb 21

Job alert🐦 2yr post-doc position with Prof. Sue Healy on project "Mistakes in Action: From the Normativity of Goal-Directedness to Novel Investigations of Avian Nest Construction"🪺 Start asap. Contact: sdh11[at]st-andrews.ac.uk @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

A pair of zebra finches sitting in a nestbox. The male is holding a cotton string in its bill.

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Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · Jan 29

I'm so sorry Rob, what a stressful time it must be for you all.

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Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · Jan 29

Black margins are important for size discrimination - female green swordtails prefer larger males but preference is lost when black margins on tail are absent. Seems they can't judge which male is bigger without black margin! shorturl.at/6GKA2
@uniexecec.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org

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Ajay Narendra @pipilika.bsky.social · Jan 17

We have a fully funded International 4-year position (combined Master of Research+PhD) to study visual navigation in jumping spiders. Project will be supervised by @pipilika.bsky.social, @mherberstein.bsky.social, @dinrao.bsky.social & Ximena Nelson. At Macquarie University, Sydney. Details below

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Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · Jan 9

Sign up for ASAB spring meeting, the best conference for early career researchers in my humble opinion!

ASAB 2025 @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social · Jan 8

Don't forget, our ASAB 2025 conference is open for registration! Sign up now to make sure you don't miss a spot 📝

🔗https://tinyurl.com/884wzzsy

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Hosken Lab Cornwall @evol-lab-ex.bsky.social · Dec 17

Postdoc @ evol-lab. A Leverhulme funded 3-year postdoc studying body shape evolution (through a sexual conflict lens) on Exeter's Penryn (UK) campus. Starts April 2025. Contact David Hosken @ U of Exeter for detail.

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Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · Dec 9

5) Like your organisms smaller? PhD studentship with @padpadpadpad.bsky.social on understanding how temperature may alter the ecology and evolution of AMR.

Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · Dec 9

4) More cool immunity stuff, this time with rodents! @btschirren.bsky.social

Autoimmunity gone wild: understanding the interactive effects of environmental stress and genetic risk in the development of autoimmune disease in a wild rodent 🐭🦠
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

www.exeter.ac.uk

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Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · Dec 6

Blimey, thank you so much! ☺️

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Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · Dec 6

If it's any consolation, rural bowers still look like the one on the right. Although even these males have a pretty strong preference for the brighter colours of anthropogenic objects if given the choice!

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Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · Dec 6

Congratulations Emma! 🥳

Emma Inzani @crazygulllady.bsky.social · Dec 6

I have just passed my viva with minor corrections and can now officially now a Dr of gulls 😍🕊️ Big thank yous to profs @stubearhop.bsky.social and Judy Sharmoun-Baranes for being my examiners, and Nelly too 🐕 (every viva should come with impromptu therapy good girl!!). It was brilliant!! 1/2

A chocolate cake with white chocolate stars on top and print out herring gull cocktail sticks looking like a gaggle of gulls (one brown juvenile at front), glasses in the background. Thanks Laura for creating this masterpiece!

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