Here is a very good book about playing by @mikeldelgado.bsky.social! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/714477...

Play With Your Cat! by Mikel Maria Delgado. PhD: 9780593541333 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A fun, comprehensive guide to the key to cat happiness—play! Millions of households in the United States have at least one cat as part of their family. Yet despite their popularity, cats continue...

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2026. Using the STRANGE framework to improve replicability in animal behaviour research and allied fields www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... via @asab.org cc @asabeducation.bsky.social

Using the STRANGE framework to improve replicability in animal behaviour research and allied fields

Many research fields rely on assessing the behaviour of wild or captive animals, using observational and experimental protocols. This work is highly s…

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Letters to a Pre-Scientist is looking for enthusiastic STEM role models! Share your story and inspire the next generation. I've participated the last three years and enjoyed connecting with my middle school pen-pals. Learn more & register: prescientist.org/volunteers/ #Science #Outreach

The Mara Hyena Project is running a plushie fundraiser! Adopt Waffles- Queen of Serena North Clan as a soft plushie! www.gimmeswag.com/products/waf...

Waffles, Queen of Serena North Clan

Why Support? Normally, we wouldn't recommend snuggling a hyena! Here is one you can! Take home one of the Mara Hyena Project's most famous hyenas AND support the research and conservation of spotted h...

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Looking for an Associate Prof position? Interested in behavioural ecology & cultural evolution? Come join us at the Dpt of Ecology and Evolution in Lausanne🇨🇭 @dee-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! Great department & great place to live. Pls RP. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

This fall, the Dept of Ecology and Evolution @ the Univ of Lausanne will be looking for an associate professor in behavioral ecology and cultural evolution. If that sounds like you, please apply. CH is an outstanding place to live and work. ⛰️🚄🔥 wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

I am happy to share that the second paper of my PhD has been published 🥳 I got to work with dog puppies at the age of 6 to 8 weeks 🐶😍 and test them in an Overimitation task: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

Open position of Associate Professor in Behavioral ecology and cultural evolution at the @dee-unil.bsky.social! You can toggle the ad to English on top right: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

1/7 Like us, bumblebees “lick their lips” when they drink something they enjoy After drinking a sugar solution, they repeatedly protrude their glossa, but they do not do so after tasting water. What is particularly interesting is that this response is flexible. (paper) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Managing wildlife to maximize individuals' welfare is a novel idea — so ensuring that wild animal welfare interventions are net positive will require careful monitoring. So far, we have identified three ways to approach this.👇️

How can we make sure wild animal welfare interventions have positive outcomes? — Wild Animal Initiative

Intervening in ecosystems can have unintended effects. Ensuring that interventions intended to improve the welfare of wild animals have positive outcomes will require careful monitoring.

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Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a #PhD student and a #Postdoc to investigate #innovation in great #apes: PhD ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Postdoc ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Application deadline: August 17th. Please share widely!

The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter in Support of the Cognition Group, University of Exeter

To Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...

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Join Xerces and make art that supports conservation! 🐝✍🏽 Job Title: Science Illustration Intern 🌎Location: Remote 💲Compensation: $24/hr, 20hrs/week 📅Duration: Sep-Dec 2026 ❗Apply by: July 31, 2026 Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs

In a longitudinal study of 59 litters of dog puppies, we found evidence for maternal & other early rearing effects on various behavioral & cognitive measures at ~8 weeks, as well as 6-16 months. 🐕 #CanineScience #AnimalBehavior Free access: authors.elsevier.com/c/1nCYWmjMDu0w

Can behaviour and cognition support conservation efforts? 🐭💡🌍In this new paper we offer some insights into how dietary innovation and neophobia can help assess small mammals' responses to human disturbance in a protected area. It was a long journey, but I'm so proud of this! doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Do you have a background in behavioural ecology and are you interested in doing a PhD in Australia? I’m looking for new grad students so check out our website (BobWongLab.org) or come find me in Torino at #ISBE2026. 🐟🐠

New paper on sheep vocal expression of negative arousal using behaviour and eye thermal profiles as independent indicators for validation 🐑🐑🐑 @behaveco.bsky.social

Acoustic markers of negative arousal in lambs: Evidence from behavioural and eye thermal profiles

Vocalisations are known indicators of emotional arousal in animals, but their assessment using simultaneously collected physiological and behavioural …

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Please share! This fully-funded postdoc position at the UCLA La Kretz Center allows candidates to design their own projects in California conservation, and offers mentorship from both academics and conservation practitioners. drive.google.com/file/d/1K2Qi...

📢 We're hiring! I'm looking for a **Junior Researcher** to join my team at @EuracResearch (Bolzano, Italy) and work on bird monitoring, bioacoustics, Passive Acoustic Monitoring, and biodiversity research. Apply here: eurac.onboard.org/jobs/dGXQ9qe... Please share! 🙏 🐦‍⬛🎙️ #Ecology #Ornithology

Junior Researcher to conduct passive acoustic monitoring and point count of birds.

Eurac Research · Bozen/Bolzano

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I compiled a list of 350 #funding opportunities for #postdoctoral research #fellowships: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J2M_tQgoqV4ivpfEClh9qs9f2KQN2O1G3Jpda2aoHfQ/edit?usp=sharing I realized I should share this again after mentioning it to some folks at the #EFP2026

📢 @asab.org Conference Attendance Grants for developing country applicants: deadline 1st AUGUST 📢 Up to £2500!!! Joint Winter Conference of ASAB and PSGB: “Social Learning and Culture” @asabpsgb2026.bsky.social #ASABWinter2026 @asab-meetings.bsky.social Full details: www.asab.org/conference-g...

1/3 Cat allogrooming may conceal aggressive intentions It seems that grooming between cats is not always positive. In this study, the authors examine how cats may sometimes groom another individual in order to displace it from a preferred location. (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨*New Paper Alert*🚨 Excited to share our latest paper, published today in @asab.org, showing that #exploration and #problem-solving behaviours in #wild red #foxes are explained by length, not rate, of #urbanisation 🦊🧠🧩🌃 #CoexistProject Link to paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

Naturalistic everyday experiences are a blind spot in developmental psychology. Our theories assume they matter - but we know very little about them. Nele's paper is a super important contribution to overcoming this paradox - she developed an automated pipeline to classify social experiences.

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Happy to share our new preprint exploring the everyday social ecology of preschoolers! We applied an automated multimodal pipeline to 267 hours of naturalistic egocentric video from 107 children (ages 3–5) to capture the changing natural statistics of everyday interactions: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Last fall, we received 400 expressions of interest in our call for proposals. Here are the 13 projects we selected to fund👇️ We're excited to share these researchers' progress with you over the coming months and years, and for the work they'll do to help accelerate science that helps wild animals.

Wild Animal Initiative awards 13 grants for wild animal welfare research — Wild Animal Initiative

This year, Wild Animal Initiative awarded $727,658 in grants to support high-priority research in wild animal welfare science.

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🚨New primate urbanization paper🚨We looked at weather anthropogenic experiences link to within population innovativeness. Our new results from @urbanvervetproject.bsky.social can be found here 👇🏼 Behavioral flexibility and its drivers in semi-urban vervet monkeys academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

Behavioral flexibility and its drivers in semi-urban vervet monkeys

Monkeys bring their own skills to the city. Urban animals are often seen as especially flexible or innovative—but do urban environments make them that way?

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We are excited to announce that #Behaviour2027 (XXXIX International Ethological Congress) will be taking place in Vienna, Austria! We are looking forward to having you all join us next year from August 23-27. Please follow and share!

The APEX Awards are now open for applications. In partnership with @britishacademy.bsky.social and @raeng.org.uk and supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk, the scheme offers independent researchers the opportunity to pursue genuine interdisciplinary research. Find out more: royalsociety.org/grants/apex-...

Very excited to hear this talk! Join us on July 17

Dream PhD opening! Innovation in wild falcons! Application deadline Aug 1🦅