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Tyler Bonnell
@tylerbonnell.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor, University of Calgary: evolution and development of social animals, statistics, ML/AI.
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ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social · 7d
#ISBE2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your abstract by 15 December 2025 on www.isbe2026.com

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Ben Kawam @benkawam.bsky.social · 8d
Are you studying animal sociality?

My (now published) first PhD chapter proposes a Bayesian + causal framework to infer the factors shaping the social relationships that animals form with one another.

journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
A causal framework for the drivers of animal social network structure
Author summary Behavioural ecologists ask mechanistic questions about behaviour—causal questions. When studying animal societies, these questions often concern the drivers of social network structure....
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Elizabeth Hobson @elizabethhobson.bsky.social · 14d
**PhD POSITIONS** I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work on sociality and cognition in Monk Parakeets, starting Fall 2026. Full ad is here: hobsonresearch.com/index.php/20... (please help spread the word!)
Image showing Hobson Lab logo (with parakeets, a social network, and R code), two Monk Parakeets, and several individually-marked parakeets with the text "Now recruiting PhD students!!"
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Darren Croft @darrencroft.bsky.social · 14d
We are hiring - PDRA position exploring how information access shapes social dynamics in killer whales. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social Prof Dan Franks (York) start 1st Nov (or ASAP) end 31st Oct 2028. Apps close on 19th Oct.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/p...
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Lauren Brent @ljnbrent.bsky.social · 16d
Postdoc job alert! We are hiring a NYU-based postdoc to work on our project on the social and environmental determinants of aging. The 3 year post will be based in James Higham's lab and will focus on endocrine, immune, and inflammatory aspects of aging. Please share! apply.interfolio.com/173938
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Edoardo Pietrangeli @edoardopietrangeli.bsky.social · 19d
🚨 PhD Opportunity – Primate Social Behavior
We’re looking for a PhD student to analyze 20+ years of #SpiderMonkey behavioral data

🗓 Apply ASAP
💬 DM me for questions!
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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · Aug 12
Seeking a PhD in landscape ecology & applied conservation?

Funded PhD project at @forestry.ubc.ca w/ Dr. Matthew Mitchell:

* Stipend $32k/yr + benefits x 4 yrs
* Start Jan or May 2026
* Collaborate w NCC & Metro Vancouver
* Open until filled

mgemitchell.weebly.com/opportunitie...
Opportunities
Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Researcher Positions   There are currently two open graduate student position in the lab, please see details below! PhD Position : We are currently seeking a...
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Daniel Redhead @danielredhead.bsky.social · Aug 4
🐒🕸️ New preprint! Confused about how to model animal social networks?

ASNA can be confusing—but also full of opportunity. We break down 5 common misunderstandings in animal social network analysis and share solutions from behavioural ecology, anthro, stats, & network science. Hope it helps!

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Five misunderstandings in animal social network analysis
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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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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · Jun 26
Looks like a fascinating volume of Phil. Trans.
"Traditionally, attempts to understand animal cognition have often focused on existence of basic elements of human abilities in other species. [But]..."
royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1929
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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · Jun 13
💫 PLEASE SHARE 💫

I’m hiring a short-term program manager:

* Flexible location in 🇨🇦
* Start date ASAP
* Apply by Fri June 20
* Must already be legally allowed to work in 🇨🇦
* www.natureconservancy.ca/en/who-we-ar...

#ConservationJobs
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michael chimento @mchimento.bsky.social · Jun 12
been a long time coming, there's now a preprint along with Will Hoppitt describing our new R package for creating, fitting and interpreting bayesian NBDA models (STBayes). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Documentation is here michaelchimento.github.io/STbayes/inde...
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birdsonglab.bsky.social @birdsonglab.bsky.social · Jun 11
Exited about our first dynamic map of Adelaide's warblers' dawn chorus! Males sing many song types (colors & numbers) from the tops of tall trees in their territories. Here, you can see how they match one anothers' song types, causing songs 8, 3, 9, 21, and 5 to spread around the neighbourhood.
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Brendan Barrett @bjjbarrett.bsky.social · Jun 6
this paper about measuring dyadic paper in the context of causal inference which makes me weep with joy by @benkawam.bsky.social and is an example of what all should strive for doi.org/10.1101/2024...
A causal framework for the drivers of animal social network structure
A major goal of behavioural ecology is to explain how phenotypic and ecological factors shape the networks of social relationships that animals form with one another. This inferential task is notoriou...
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Paddy Tkaczynski @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social · May 31
Marie Curie Fellowships are open (tinyurl.com/bdewf876) - if interested in studying how wild Barbary macaques are adjusting to human impacts (tinyurl.com/5n6hxwwz), please get in touch! We're particularly keen for someone to work with all the metagenomic data we have!
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Elizabeth Hobson @elizabethhobson.bsky.social · May 27
My PhD student Sanjay Prasher will be giving his dissertation defense talk this week! Anyone interested is welcome to join! Thursday, 1:00pm eastern. Visit link tinyurl.com/mr2rfpwj -- click “Join this meeting” to join the Zoom. More info: tinyurl.com/38tbska9
Image showing the text “Sanjay Prasher PhD Defense: An empirical and computational investigation of relationship dynamics and emergent social structure. Hobson Lab, Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati. May 29th, 2025 1:00-2:00pm eastern”. Image also shows several pictures of Sanjay (one holding a “bob”/bobwhite quail, one soldering electronics for his research) as well as pictures of bobwhite quail, and several plots from Sanjay’s dissertation chapters (networks, heatmaps, scatterplot)
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Animal Behaviour Collective @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social · May 13
🥁New #ABCMicrogrants Funding Round!!🥁
More details to follow 🐝🐝🐝
Help us spread the word 🐝🐝🐝
Our second round of microgrant applications will open on May 26th..
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Lauren Brent @ljnbrent.bsky.social · May 2
Postdoc job alert! I'm hiring a 3-yr postdoc to work on our Social Modifiers of Primate Lifespans grant. Job info and how to apply below. Deadline June 1. Pls share! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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Kaja Wierucka @kajawierucka.bsky.social · Apr 29
📢 Fully-funded PhD opportunity!

Explore the links between social & communication networks in ring-tailed lemurs!

Exciting fieldwork, interdisciplinary team, and innovative technologies! Apply now and join @primatenzentrum.bsky.social & @unigoettingen.bsky.social for this cutting-edge research!
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Amanda Melin @amelinlab.bsky.social · Apr 28
We asked how behavioral diversity & agonistic behaviors relate to group size in wild capuchins. We analyzed >65,000 behavioral scans collected over 15 yrs on 214 capuchins (8 groups) & controlled for # inds sampled. We found behavioral richness, diversity & agonism was higher in larger groups.
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Vivek V. Venkataraman @vivek123.bsky.social · Apr 28
Our new paper on Arsi gelada feeding ecology!

This is the southernmost living population of geladas. Their envt is lower elevation and thus hotter compared to other sites.

Activity budget data suggest this is a pretty marginal envt for geladas.

brill.com/view/journal...
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Nick Huntington-Klein @nickchk.com · Apr 1
The second edition of The Effect is now available for preorder! This version has a whole new chapter on Partial Identification, a considerable update on staggered treatment and control variables in DID, and zillions of other little updates throughout. www.routledge.com/The-Effect-A...
The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality
The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality, Second edition is about research design, specifically concerning research that uses observational data to make a causal inference. It is s...
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Julie Duboscq @connectthedots.bsky.social · Apr 17
New Postdoc position!
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On the socioecology of cognition in primates, based in Paris @mnhn.fr @cnrs.fr, with field work
It has it all:
- the best science
- the best macaques
- the best beaches
- the best people
- the best office view #Eiffeltower

Join us!
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Vivek V. Venkataraman @vivek123.bsky.social · Apr 21
I recently did a thoroughly enjoyable two-part podcast with David Sloan Wilson at ProSocial World (@prosocialworld.bsky.social).

The topic was Hunter-Gatherer Societies, Human Origins, and Modern Democracies.

Feedback welcome!
Hunter-Gatherer Societies, Human Origins, and Modern Democracies with Vivek Venkataraman (Part 1)
YouTube video by ProSocial World
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CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · Apr 15
Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encountering difficulties crossing the border, CAUT strongly recommends that academic staff travel to the U.S. only if essential and necessary.

Read more: www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...
CAUT advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S.
Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encou
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