Yitzchak Ben Mocha
@benmocha.bsky.social
Ethologist. Postdoc at CASCB @cbehav.bsky.social. Animal and human rights advocate. Curator of the Cooperative Breeding Database: @co-breed.bsky.social
Israel is an apartheid state! ישראל היא מדינת אפרטהייד, מש"ל www.haaretz.co.il/news/law/202...
שופט העליון שטיין: למי שקורא לישראל מדינת אפרטהייד אין מקום לדרוך בה
הדברים נאמרו בדיון בעתירות של ארגונים הומניטריים שנאסר עליהם לפעול בעזה ובגדה. אתמול דרשו שופטי העליון להסיר חוות דעת רפואית מעתירה אחרת על המצב ההומניטרי בעזה בנימוק שהיא "כוללת האשמות נגד צה"ל והמדי...
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We are looking for a motivated and collaborative MSc student to join us @humboldtuni.bsky.social for their thesis on body mass inequality in Arabian babblers. Preferably based in Berlin. Co-supervised with brilliant @benmocha.bsky.social Call: danaipapageorgiou.weebly.com/join-us.html
Join our session in this great conference at a great location! Please DM me for questions! (also yitzchakbm@gmail.com)
Co-BreeD (Cooperative Breeding Database)@co-breed.bsky.social · 2mo agoJoin Co-BreeD at the "Avian Breeding Strategies: Patterns and Mechanisms" session at the upcoming Asian Ornithological Conference 2026 (14-17 Nov, Singapore). Submit an abstract to this session (www.aoc2026.sg/index.php) organised by Jianqiang Li and @benmocha.bsky.social
Do chimpanzees reflect on the beauty of dawn when they gaze at the sky? This is one of the questions that occupy @benmocha.bsky.social in his photographic work. @zukunftskolleg.bsky.social presents his photo exhibition "The Animal’s Inner World" in the library of #UniKonstanz. t1p.de/dpwb2
It’s official (get it in your diary!) 📅 🦅 The 16th Pan-African Ornithological Congress (PAOC16) will take place in Marrakech, Morocco, from 12 to 17 April 2027. The website is being updated—check back for details on symposia and abstract calls soon: paoc.africa #Ornithology #AfricanOrnithology
🚨REPOST PLEASE! 🙏🏻 Calling all South African 🇿🇦 zoology students! You have ONE more week to apply to our Collective Behaviour Field Course 📍Two weeks at the Kalahari Research Centre 🗓️ June 2026 💸 Fully funded Application details are at www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/cbfc DM for any questions
We're thrilled to announce the Ctrl-Z Award, a US$2,500 prize for researchers “who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record." Covered by @nature.com today; read more here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/03/10/a...
Keep calm and be transparent: advice from scientists who retracted their papers
Retractions correct the scientific record, but they have stigma attached to them. Some in the research community want that to change.
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A summary of the current Iran war in 2 minutes youtu.be/S-sqsvcZJ2w?... Next in line "Greenland operation"...
Putin's "Special Military Operation" Bop | PUPPET REGIME
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Field encounters when studying the #Arabian_babbler www.instagram.com/p/DTz13vaABlQ/
Universität Konstanz on Instagram: "[#UniKonstanz in the field] 🎧🔊 Sound on at the beginning of this video to hear the alarm calls of Arabian babblers. 🐦🎶 #Fieldwork often includes moments you cannot ...
64 likes, 0 comments - unikonstanz on January 22, 2026: "[#UniKonstanz in the field] 🎧🔊 Sound on at the beginning of this video to hear the alarm calls of Arabian babblers. 🐦🎶 #Fieldwork often include...
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How many cooperatively breeding bird & mammal species are there??? an ongoing research... follow @co-breed.bsky.social for updates!
Co-BreeD (Cooperative Breeding Database)@co-breed.bsky.social · 7mo ago1/4 To celebrate our 120th follower, we introduce the “cooperative breeding gauge”: measuring the % of cooperatively breeding species in Co-BreeD. It now presents the very initial % of cooperatively from our 1st published Co-BreeD dataset besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
A nice graphical abstract of our recent #ProcB paper (royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...) How global warming affects #sleep and activity patterns of even desert specialist birds #Arabian_babbler 👇
If you work on corvid ecology, behaviour, cognition, or conservation, this might be useful for you 👇 I’ve just published CORVIDATA in Scientific Data 🐦 doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/4)
CORVIDATA: A global dataset of morphology, ecology, sociality, and life-history in Corvidae - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - CORVIDATA: A global dataset of morphology, ecology, sociality, and life-history in Corvidae
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Nature Climate Change @natclimate.nature.com nicely covered our recent #ProcB paper (royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...). Read if interested in how global warming affects the #sleep of desert birds #Arabian_babbler 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Trapped between darkness and heat: desert birds (Argya squamiceps) initiate daily activity earlier (and terminate it later) in response to heat
Abstract. Diurnal desert endotherms must adjust the timing of their daily activity to mitigate physiological stress from ambient heat. Understanding the li
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Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.
May your year be blessed with accepts subject to minor corrections.
🐧🧊 Incredible underwater footage of penguin life, shot from the first person of one of them. 🇺🇦 This beauty was captured thanks to Ukrainian scientists from the Vernadsky Station in Antarctica, who put a GPS tracker and a tiny camera on the bird.
Fabulous @anticac.bsky.social wrote a beautiful highlight on our first #Co-BreeD dataset. She was also worried about how often Co-BreeD would be updated. Well, time will tell, but meanwhile, the second dataset about #allonursing (& update) is already under review ;)
Journal of Animal Ecology@animalecology.bsky.social · 8mo ago🌟 New research highlight for a paper that introduces a Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD), which is an open, peer-reviewed resource that collects data on cooperative breeding across birds and mammals, including humans. 📖 Read the full paper ➡️ buff.ly/DAE9htT
🌟 New research highlight for a paper that introduces a Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD), which is an open, peer-reviewed resource that collects data on cooperative breeding across birds and mammals, including humans. 📖 Read the full paper ➡️ buff.ly/DAE9htT
"Behavioural scientists are increasingly calling for context as a key to addressing pressing problems caused by human behaviour. However, despite its powerful ability to generate contextual hypotheses on the basis of relatively simple rules, ecological thinking is rarely applied to human behaviour"
Behavioural sciences need behavioural ecology - Nature Human Behaviour
Behavioural scientists want to see more consideration of context — so why are they not using tools derived from ecology, the science of all life in context? We invite behavioural scientists to align t...
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same ⬇️👏
Anthony Ricciardi@ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 8mo agoNo paper from me or my lab will ever be submitted to an MDPI journal - including any of their superfluous "special issues". I will very rarely (if ever) cite MDPI papers. And I will never review for them. deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/08/gues... The same goes for FrontiersIn journals, among others.
🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨 #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology "Multi-generational fidelity, ecological and social determinants of roosting in a cooperatively breeding bird (Argya squamiceps)" Ben Mocha et al. with SPE members Yitzchak Ben Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social @ Royal Society Open Science
Our second Co-BreeD manuscript was submitted. Follow @co-breed.bsky.social for updates! With @andyradford.bsky.social @maikewoith.bsky.social @michael-griesser.bsky.social @nataliekes.bsky.social @luciabruscagnin.bsky.social and more..
Co-BreeD (Cooperative Breeding Database)@co-breed.bsky.social · 8mo agoThe Co-BreeD dataset on AlloNursing was just submitted! It provides complementary data about allonursing for all 324 species previously included in Co-BreeD (besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) & adds >45 new species! 🐒 🐳🐐 Follow for updates…
WANTED! body mass data of wild #Arabian_babbler from any part of the world. Contribute data and join our study as co-authors. Contact: yitzchakbm@gmail.com
Follow Co-BreeD (@co-breed.bsky.social) to get updated estimates about how many cooperatively breeding birds and mammals there are!
Co-BreeD (Cooperative Breeding Database)@co-breed.bsky.social · 8mo agoHow many cooperatively breeding bird & mammal species are there? Co-BreeD constantly works to get a more accurate estimation for this question. We will now start sharing updated estimations in return for new followers! So help us get the 120th follower (= share!) & we will post our first estimation!
Marwan Barghouti's lawyer Ben Marmarelli: there are reports that Barghouti was badly assaulted in prison, they "broke his ribs, teeth, fingers and cut part of his ear". Israeli Prison Service refused to comment or let the lawyer meet with him.
❗️New paper co-authored by MIZ PAS researchers ❗️ ℹ️Roman Gula & Jörn Theuerkauf contributed to a new cooperative breeding database for birds and mammals, Co-BreeD, published recently in animalecology.bsky.social. 👇
Co-BreeD (Cooperative Breeding Database)@co-breed.bsky.social · 10mo ago1/6 The Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD) is alive! Co-BreeD covers key biological parameters relevant to cooperative breeding research in birds and mammals. Get your copy of this updateable & open-access database: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @animalecology.bsky.social
📢Out in the NEW issue of @animalecology.bsky.social is our hugely #collaborative paper: An integrative, peer-reviewed and open-source cooperative-breeding database (Co-BreeD) #mammals #birds #cooperation #openscience #datasets #alloparents Led by @benmocha.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1365...
An integrative, peer‐reviewed and open‐source cooperative‐breeding database (Co‐BreeD)
Co-BreeD is the first updatable and open-source database dedicated to cooperative breeding. It enables continuous, non-binary measurement of cooperative breeding, transforming how we study breeding s...
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