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Sonja Wild

@sonjawild.bsky.social

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Dr Wild • postdoc affiliate @ucdavis • behavioural ecology • env. change, animal cognition, social learning, personality, animal culture 🐬 🐦 🐿 • 🏳️‍🌈 ally • hobby photographer • she/her • https://sites.google.com/view/sonjawild

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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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Bay Nature Institute @baynature.org · Mar 7

Apparently, when life gives you voles, that's what you eat.
📷 by @sonjawild.bsky.social/UC Davis
🖋️ Vishal Subramanyan
baynature.org/2025/03/06/e...

Even Ground Squirrels Got In On the Vole Feast Last Summer - Bay Nature

For the first time, scientists documented concerted carnivory by California ground squirrels. But why were there so many voles?

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Josefine Bohr Brask @jbbrask.bsky.social · Mar 4

Reposting this starter pack for new users.

If you are doing research on animal social networks and would like to be added to the pack, just let me know.

If you are doing research on other types of networks, it would be great if you could help sharing this - many thanks!

go.bsky.app/39p1ccZ

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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · Dec 18

Friends, plz repost and share! We are hiring a lab technician with exp in mol biology and general lab management. BS or MS degree and good org skills are required. Deadline Feb 1, 2025. We are a welcoming and equitable lab community. Details at link below. 🐸🐢🐍🦎

zamudiolab.org/2024/12/18/k...

KZLab is Seeking a Lab Technician!

The Zamudio Lab (zamudiolab.org) in the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin seeks a highly motivated and detail-oriented laboratory technician to play a key role in supporting the resear…

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Sonja Wild @sonjawild.bsky.social · Dec 18

Study by: Jennifer E. Smith; Joey E. Ingbretson; Mackenzie M. Miner; Ella C. Oestreicher; Mari L. Podas; Tia A. Ravara; Lupin M. L. Teles; Jada C. Wahl; Lucy M. Todd; Sonja Wild

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Sonja Wild @sonjawild.bsky.social · Dec 18

Check out the video footage taken by Team Squirrel here:

Vole hunting: Novel predatory and carnivorous behavior by California ground squirrels

YouTube video by Sonja Wild

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Sonja Wild @sonjawild.bsky.social · Dec 18

We observed 74 events of squirrels hunting, killing, consuming and competing over voles at our long-term field site at Briones Regional Park. Squirrels of all age and sex classes engaged in the predatory behavior, highlighting their dietary and behavioral flexibility.

A juvenile california ground squirrel consuming a California vole

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Sonja Wild @sonjawild.bsky.social · Dec 18

Vole hunting: novel predatory and carnivorous behavior by California ground squirrels

In our new video article in the Journal of Ethology we document the emergence of this exciting behavior following a population explosion of California voles doi.org/10.1007/s101...

An adult California ground squirrel holding a California vole between its paws and consuming its head

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Darren Croft @darrencroft.bsky.social · Dec 5

5 exciting PhD opportunities to join the Center for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter in Sept 2025. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro...

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Sonja Wild @sonjawild.bsky.social · Dec 4

Would love to be added! Studying social networks (and learning) in 🐬🐦🐿️

Sonja Wild @sonjawild.bsky.social · Dec 4

Behavioral ecologist here - could you add me please?

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Darren Croft @darrencroft.bsky.social · Nov 29

Exciting new NERC funded PhD opportunity available with us on #killerwhale #orca #behaviour and #conservation, co-supervised by Stephanie King, Sam Ellis and Dan Franks in partnership with The Center for Whale Research USA
exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... - deadline 13th January 2025 #killerwhale

Post reproductive mother and Son copyright David Ellifrit Center for Whale Research

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Meghie Rodrigues @meghier.bsky.social · Nov 26

Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Starter packs

BIOLOGY General Science community https://go.bsky.app/HVYAMEA Research Institutions in Life Sciences https://go.bsky.app/LxXpcvJ LGBTQIA+ in STEM https://go.bsky.app/BFc4wgf LGBTQIA+ in STEM 2 h...

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Brendan Barrett @bjjbarrett.bsky.social · Nov 26

JOB: Caroline Schuppli, I, and others at @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social are hiring a research tech to develop short term, remote tag attachment mechanisms for wild primates that do not require capture or handling stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/7...

Academic Staff Member in Animal Behavior

Deadline: December 6th, 2024

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Sonja Wild @sonjawild.bsky.social · Nov 16

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · Nov 15

Two amazing jobs at Uni Bern. Assistent professorships in conservation biology and computational ecology. Bern is a wonderful place to live and work in!
www.iee.unibe.ch/about_us/job...

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Sam Ellis @samellisq.bsky.social · Nov 20

Funded PhD Available at the University of Exeter.

Loneliness is a global epidemic. We want to use field experiments in wild rabbits to understand why our social connections change with age.

Deadline: 11th Dec

More info & how to apply here: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...

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Sonja Wild @sonjawild.bsky.social · Nov 12

Great way to connect with other animal behavior researchers!

georgia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @blahttodea.bsky.social · Nov 12

I made a starter pack for animal behaviour researchers / ethologists! please share and feel free to self-nominate or suggest others to be added as this is very much still a work in progress and not an exhaustive list 🌍🧪😊 #SciSky #BioSky #AnimalBehaviour #AnimalBehavior #Ethology
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Sonja Wild @sonjawild.bsky.social · May 11

Siblings... 🐿️ 🐿️ The first California ground squirrel pups of the year have emerged and are exploring the surroundings of their home burrow. Can't wait to kick off the 12th field season of the long-term research project at Briones Regional Park in June! #squirrel #research

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Gerry Carter @gerrycarter.bsky.social · Mar 25

Interested in a 3-year postdoc fellowship to study neotropical bat behavior with me at @stri_panama? If so, email me. Deadline July 15 stri.si.edu/nomis

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Sonja Wild @sonjawild.bsky.social · Mar 18

While initially preferring to associate with siblings and peers, by autumn, first-year birds establish stable ties with familiar individuals that persist across seasons, highlighting the importance of long-term social bonds based on familiarity in this species. (2/2)

Sonja Wild @sonjawild.bsky.social · Mar 18

Our new OA article is out in Behavioral Ecology! Tracking juvenile great tits across their first year of life, we document the dynamic changes in social strategies during transition to independence in a species with limited parental care. (1/2)

doi.org/10.1093/behe...

A great tit equipped with a plastic leg ring containing a passive integrated transponder tag is perched on a circular radio-frequency identification antenna attached to a feeder column containing sunflowers seeds and kibbled peanuts

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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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