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Thibault Boehly
@thibhly.bsky.social
PhD student at the Cognitive Zoology Group of Lund University. I study the evolution of cognition in crocodylians, dinosaurs ands birds. | he/him

Also on Mastodon: @[email protected]
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My PhD co-supervisor @stephanreber.bsky.social has been interviewed on the @wildbehaviorpod.bsky.social podcast. Listen to it to know more about alligators and the kind of stuffs we do in our lab to study their behaviour. 🐊
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New episode 📢 ALLIGATORS

Professional alligator wrangler and IG Nobel prize winning scientist @stephanreber.bsky.social joins us to tell us all about alligators 🐊

Links to listen: linktr.ee/wild_behaviour_pod

Photo: Anna Wester
#alligator #crocodile #podcast #ignobelprize #dinosaurs #helium
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This female Northern Bentbill was busy building her nest at @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica

#birdoftheday #nestbuilders #birds #nature
December 9, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐃𝐎𝐂 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐍𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐘

I am recruiting a postdoc to join the lab in summer/fall 2026! This is a fully funded, 2-year position. Please share with your networks!

Application details: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55...

Photo is of a rattlesnake I found on campus today (in Dec!)...
December 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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I'm recruiting a Ph.D. student for Fall 2026.

Interested in comparative studies and trait evolution in fishes?

Send me an email with a CV and research interests. Please take a look at my website (jcorush.github.io ) for more information about my research.

#hybridization #minnows #mudskippers
Corush Lab
jcorush.github.io
December 4, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist. For more information, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet...
We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist
We are looking for 4 PhD Positions and one Scientific Programmer / Ecological Data Scientist to join the AG Hartig (Theoretical Ecology)
www.uni-regensburg.de
November 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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📣Please share: We are looking for a field assistant to join our team in studying #ruffs on coastal meadows at Botnian Bay in Finland. The job will provide fantastic insights into lekking behaviour and provide essential skills in field ornithology. Details here www.bi.mpg.de/2790786/2512...
December 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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New PhD position available! For applicants keen to combine evolutionary ecology, neuroscience and animal cognition. Based at UCL with me, @maxreuter.bsky.social, @fcamus.bsky.social and Tamara Boto (Bristol). Directly funded, see here for details and eligibility: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
How Memory Evolves: Integrating Cognitive Ecology, Neuroscience, and Experimental Evolution in Drosophila at University College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - How Memory Evolves: Integrating Cognitive Ecology, Neuroscience, and Experimental Evolution in Drosophila at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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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
November 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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I’m recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! 🦉

gavinmjones.com/opportunities/
Opportunities
***PhD and MSc openings – Movement ecology and conservation*** I will periodically support graduate students, postdocs, and other staff through the Biology Department at the University of New…
gavinmjones.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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🚨Job Alert plz RT!

Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition!

We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals

Open-rank

apply.interfolio.com/178146
December 2, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Interested in a multidisciplinary PhD that integrates robotics, computer vision, ecology and conservation?

We are looking for 12 Doctoral Candidates to join the WildBotics MSCA Doctoral Network!

Positions are fully funded for 36 months!

More info & apply @ www.wildbotics.eu/recruitment

🧪👩‍🔬🌍
WildBotics - Recruitment
We are looking for you!
www.wildbotics.eu
December 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Interested in #RaptorResearch and #MovementEcology? 🧪
The #AnimalEcology Lab at @utu.fi has an open #PhDposition!

We’ll be tagging WTEs with cutting-edge #GPS devices to study their early-life journeys.

Curious to learn more? See the advert: shorturl.at/HMZ84

#PhDOpening #PhDChat #BioLogging
December 1, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Hi! I'm Francesca (Xisca), MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow working on crocodiles' cognition evocroproject.github.io, passionate about natural sciences, shows, fantasy books and music, you can easily find me with headphones on, and I host a science news channel called @dropsofsciencenews.bsky.social
EvOCRO — Evolutionary Origins of Cognition in Crocodiles
Evolutionary Origins of Cognition in Crocodiles
evocroproject.github.io
November 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Bird wing anatomy crash course, key feather groups (axilliaries coming Later...)

#art #tutorial #arttutorial #anatomy #birds
December 4, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Looking for a PhD at the intersection of animal cognition, acoustics & machine learning?
We offer 3 PhD projects at the Acoustics Research Institute (Vienna) and IT:U Linz:

Info: it-u.at/en/research/...
Apply: career.it-u.at/en/Job/73280
Deadline: Jan 31, 2026 | Start: Mar 2026
it-u.at
December 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Relatable Corvid
December 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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I am pleased to announce that from Jan 1 2026 I take over as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Biological Theory. My first act, with the support of the editorial team, is to bring the journal to BlueSky from X.

Please follow us @biologicaltheory.bsky.social. We will be posting about all our articles.
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Make sure you don’t miss our key dates for abstract submission and registration!
December 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social
Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought
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November 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier.

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Things that can happen while filming Portia in the field: we had a (not so) little visitor wandering by with his chicks! Not sure who was more surprised… #cassowary #portia #daintree #storiesfromthefield
November 29, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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There's still time left to apply to join us for the 2026 field season! Deadline: Dec 1 👇🏝️🏕️📊👥
#CrowCoG is hiring🚨MULTIPLE PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS 🚨for our 2026 field season (May - Sep)! Field and aviary-based positions - come help us study the remarkable tool-making New Caledonian crows. Apply here: bit.ly/3WlxxHE
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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⚠️ New Postdoc or PhD position open (3 years+) ⚠️

🚩Developmental milestones across cultures 🌍

Based @leuphana.bsky.social , in collaboration with @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social

Please share/apply!

Link: tinyurl.com/58dsn43u
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November 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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and finally, we offer a field assistant opportunity at our Assamese Macaque Project at Phu Khieo WS in Thailand
👉 tinyurl.com/5n77797r
⏰ deadline 18 Dec 2025
a paid student assistant position
The Primate Social Evolution Group at the German Primate Center (DPZ) is searching for a motivated research assistant to conduct behavioral observations of wild Assamese macaques at Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary in Thailand.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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second PhD position is on social and ecological cognition in wild Assamese macaques at our long-term field site in the beautiful Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand
👉 tinyurl.com/ypefnbxp
⏰ deadline 20 Dec 2025
Stellenanzeigen - Georg-August-University Göttingen
Website of the Georg-August-University Göttingen
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November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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First PhD position is on the evolutionary basis of empathy using infrared thermography in Barbary macaques at Affenberg Salem, southern Germany
👉 tinyurl.com/2e8wzkfz
⏰ deadline 20 Dec 2025
Stellenanzeigen - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Webseiten der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM