Excited to share that I’ve been awarded a Walter Benjamin Fellowship to study how genetic variation and population density shape life-history in wild mice at the University of Zurich! 🐭🧬 Grateful to the @dfg.de for supporting this work. Looking forward to the collaborations and discoveries ahead! 🎉

Our new paper out on @behavecol.bsky.social We show that multiple paternity is driven by the social environment females experience, the abundance of roaming and territorial males. Polyandry and male reproductive tactics might be locked in a feedback loop. doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Polyandry is shaped by male mating behavior in house mice living in semi-natural conditions

In house mice, males use different mating strategies—some defend territories, while others roam to sneak matings—and these tactics influence paternity. We

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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...

💥After 3 full days, it's a wrap for our early career workshop for the study of social behaviour and evolution in Greece! A huge thank you to all our brilliant participants for coming, to @biologists.bsky.social for making it possible, and HCMR for hosting us!

🎓📢 PhD Alert 🎓📢 Three weeks left to apply for the PhD position on maintaining the balance of power in animal societies! www.hu-berlin.de/en/universit... @animalopps.bsky.social

PhD Opportunity! 4-year funded PhD @uniexecec.bsky.social: “From cognition to conservation: using cognitive and behavioural research to enhance animal reintroductions”. Closes: 5 June 2026. Funding: @royalsociety.org (UK/Home students only). More info & to apply: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 1/

🐾 Help run ISSABC! We’re looking for student organisers for the next animal behaviour conference 🎤 Great experience + great people 👀 Apply 👉 forms.gle/9Z2DtXjSXWHh... #AnimalBehaviour #PhDlife

Expression of interest to organise next ISSABC conference

The ISSABC is the International Student Symposium on Animal Behaviour and Cognition. The symposium is run by students, for students, and as such, the committee is entirely made up of student researche...

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Very excited (and proud!) to see @anustupb.bsky.social's MSc thesis work finally out on how the reproductive tactics males follow can have cascading effects on their problem-solving!! 🐭

Anustup Bandyopadhyay@anustupb.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Excited to share our paper in Animal Behaviour(@asab.org)! We show that in ♂ house mice with different reproductive tactics,innovation emerges when ecological constraints limit time & space. With @avezyrakis.bsky.social, @fragdarm.bsky.social & Anja Guenther. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Are innovators born that way, or does solving problems come from experience?🐭 In our recent(ish) paper in @asab.org with @valmazza.bsky.social & Anja Guenther, we show innovation may be inherent in wild house mice and experience makes innovators better! paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123441

📢One week left to apply! To promote research on #animal #behaviour in Greece, we are organizing a 3 day workshop on methods, from social evolution to collective behaviour 🐭🐟🐦🐒✨ 📍 Crete☀️ 🗓️ July 13-15 🌐 marinapapa.github.io/TRASEworksho... Supported by @biologists.bsky.social 🙏 DM for questions!

Are you an early-career researcher from Greece/ Eastern Mediterranean interested in animal social behaviour? Join us this summer (13-15/7) in Heraklion for a hands-on, three-day workshop on methods and tools in social behaviour and evolution! Apply here: cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for... Website: ↓↓↓

Workshop on Animal Social Evolution! July 13th-15th, Heraklion (Greece) We are inviting early-career researchers from Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean to a hands-on, three-day workshop dedicated to methods and tools in social behaviour and evolution Website […]

Workshop on Animal Social Evolution! July 13th-15th, Heraklion (Greece) We are inviting early-career researchers from Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean to a hands-on, three-day workshop dedicated to methods and tools in social behaviour and evolution marinapapa.github.io/TRASEworksho...

Just 🚨TWO WEEKS🚨 until the deadline of our language barriers survey! Don't miss out on the opportunity to share your experiences of language barriers in academic conferences. Take our short survey at: forms.gle/u8ESktcJP8Y6...

Amplifying global voices: Removing language barriers in academic conferences

We invite you to share your experiences with language barriers at academic conferences. Your insights will help shape more inclusive and multilingual events across disciplines and formats. This survey...

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Very happy to see our ice-fishing paper on the cover of @science.org this week! 🎣🎉 We tracked large groups of Finnish competitive ice-fishers to study how social foragers use social information when searching for resources. 🐟 Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (contact me for open access)

Amazing finding with an awesome video but also my favourite line from a paper in a while: "Perhaps the real absurdity lies not in imagining a tool-using cow, but in assuming such a thing could never exist."🐮

Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró)@biotay.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social

🎉 What a way to end the year! Very excited to see our new paper on 🐭 innovation and mate choice out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.11.077 With the amazing @fragdarm.bsky.social, @valmazza.bsky.social & Anja Guenther

Would you like to share your research skills with the ESLR community? Starting next year, we will be hosting regular online sessions serving as a platform of mutual exchange and support among early-career researchers. Please do get in touch if you are interested in hosting a session!

Interested in sensory information & animal behaviour but you are in Germany (or close by) and Edinburgh is far? We are hosting a @asab-meetings.bsky.social Hublet in Berlin! Join us for free next week (15-16/12) to follow the conference together😁 More👉 www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/hublet...

Hublet at SCIoI: Winter Conference of the Association For the Study of Animal Behavior (ASAB) - scienceofintelligence.de

How does sensory information shape animal behaviour?

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Was language ever an issue in an academic conference for you or are you too cool to admit it? @janirecas.bsky.social @christopherwmiller.bsky.social and I are collecting experiences and opinions to make conferences more comfortable for everyone, regardless of their language proficiency!

Janire Castellano Bueno, PhD@janirecas.bsky.social · 10mo ago

As a follow up, we are now focusing on language barriers. To make conferences inclusive for everyone, we need to understand peoples experiences with language at academic events. Please take a moment to fill in our survey and help shape more accessible conferences 🌍✍️ forms.gle/u8ESktcJP8Y6...

🌍 Have you experienced language barriers at academic conferences, or not at all? 📝 Take our short survey and help make conferences more inclusive and multilingual: forms.gle/u8ESktcJP8Y6... #DEI #JEDI #EDI #Academia #AcademicChatter

Really proud of this one. Our first study on innovative problem-solving in free-ranging small mammals is fresh off the press of Animal Cognition rdcu.be/eOHl3. We looked at what happens with human disturbance in a protected area...without disturbing our most precious collaborators!

🧪ETHOLOGY: Condition-dependent risk-taking in mice! 🐭💥🍔 Lopez-Hervas et al. show that diet quality and body mass shape mice’s reactions to risk — heavier or better-fed individuals play it safer, supporting the asset-protection hypothesis! Read here, it's #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1111/eth....

Condition‐Dependent Responses to Risk in a Small Mammal

Responses to a predation risk gradient vary as a function of the resource environment and individual condition in a small mammal.

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It was a pleasure to host a workshop on #LanguageBarriers yesterday at #Behaviour2025! Thank you to everyone who came along! @asab.org @behaviour2025.bsky.social @christopherwmiller.bsky.social @avezyrakis.bsky.social

Behaviour 2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social · last yr.

At #Behaviour2025, we celebrate diversity & inclusion. The workshop "Amplifying Global Voices: Removing Language Barriers in Student Research" fostered dialogue on challenges & solutions to make science more accessible & equitable across languages.

Thank you to everyone who joined our #LanguageBarriers workshop! 🎉 We had fantastic discussions and brainstormed practical solutions. We will work on these and bring them together, so watch this space! @christopherwmiller.bsky.social @avezyrakis.bsky.social #Behaviour2025

Our workshop on Language Barriers at academic conferences is tomorrow! 📅 27th August 2025 1.10pm 📍Hall 7 Hope to see you all there! #Behaviour2025 #LanguageBarrier #DEI #EDI #JEDI

Does language have to be a barrier for academic conferences? If you think that we can do things better, join our workshop at #Behaviour2025 and fill out this short survey - we'd love to hear your experiences and ideas!

Janire Castellano Bueno, PhD@janirecas.bsky.social · last yr.

🔔 Quick Survey #LanguageBarrier We are hosting a workshop on 26th August at #Behaviour2025 about making academic conferences more inclusive for multilingual researchers. If you have ever felt language impacted your conference experience, we would love your input! 👉 forms.gle/XkBDsocDS2ch...

Excited (& a bit terrified) to officially share our #R #package with the world 🤩 swaRmverse provides a pipeline to analyze #collective #motion #data, promoting more comparative work across the Swarm-Verse 🐐🦬🐦🐒🐟 🦖🐑🕸️ With @sjmgarnier @SHOALgroup 🙏

Think bold animals are the best problem-solvers? Think again. 🐭 New research shows shy mice are more persistent—and that makes all the difference. 🔍 Innovation is about showing up, not just being brave. 🔗 More Info: www.evolbio.mpg.de/3813083/mice... #AnimalBehavior #Science