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. 🐟🐠
Christina Hansen Wheat
@chansenwheat.bsky.social
Assistant professor in animal behaviour, PI of canidresearchgroup.com. I study how canid behaviour evolves and develops. Scientific integrity advocate. Florida Man wrangler, husky enthusiast and occasional butterfly catcher. Dog watching > people watching.
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
🐾 DOG OWNERS WANTED! 🐾 Help us understand how early life experiences impact adult dog behaviour by filling out the survey below...and tell all dog owners you know to do the same. Swedish: survey.liu.se/Survey/13900 English/EU: survey.liu.se/Survey/14070 English/US: survey.liu.se/Survey/14086 🧪🌍🦊🐶
David Attenborough turned an impressive 100 years yesterday but could we perhaps also talk about how Janis celebrated her 12th birthday on the very same day and that is worth noting as well? #dogsofBlueSky 🐶🐾
We want to thank all our dog participants in Arizona who helped further canine science during our first round of testing. Here is a small selection of the fuzzy data points in our slowly growing dataset. Great collaboration btw the Canid Research Group & the Canine Science Collaboratory #datadogs 🧪
What I did for work this week? I spent HOURS searching the internet for the best realistic stuffed dogs for an experiment on conspecific sociability (without comparison the most profound rabbit hole of my career) and then I purchased a couple of candidates... *to be continued* 🧪 🦊 🌍 🐾 #Academia
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Check out this thoughtful paper and amazing initiative on replication in the field of behavioral ecology. Will definitely incorporate this into my undergrad courses! 🧪 🌍 🦊
Kate Laskowski@katelaskowski.bsky.social · 6mo agoHow do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications. My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/ academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
🎉 Celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Join my inaugural lecture Social by Nature — exploring how social worlds shape animal minds 11 Feb 26 • 18:00–19:00 GMT • Cambridge + Online Register: www.aru.ac.uk/events/inaug... #EveryVoiceInScience #WomenInSTEM #LGBTQHistoryMonth
🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 2-year postdoc in canine behaviour at Linköping University, Sweden. #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs liu.se/en/work-at-l...
Interested in open, reliable & transparent science in ecology & evolution? Become a member of the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology @sortee.bsky.social! Membership is open to all and it's optional to join at no cost 👉 sortee.org/join/
Some days in canid research are just unbearable… 🧪🦊 🐾 🐶
🚨 PhD position in behavioural evolution 🚨 Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve. Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs liu.se/en/work-at-l...
“…approximately one in six papers across the natural and life sciences mischaracterize the findings in a paper they cite” 🧪 🌎 #AcademicSky www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Lazy’ authors? One in six scientific papers mischaracterize work they cite
New study of long-standing problem takes novel approach, asking cited authors to evaluate accuracy
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JOB ALERT 🚨 Tenure-track assistant professor in population genetics, comparative genomics and/or bioinformatics applied to biodiversity monitoring and conservation biology at Aarhus University, Denmark. Aarhus is super nice y'all. Apply! 🧪 🌍 🧬 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs tech.au.dk/en/about-the...
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Biodiversity Research Using Genetics - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Aarhus University
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We are seeking a full-time Managing Editor for our journal Animal Behaviour. This editor will be involved in all stages of the publication process & must have a general understanding of the topics covered. Position starts Oct 1, application deadline July 31. More details: www.asab.org/opportunities
Opportunities — ASAB
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"Should we really set time and space apart for things that distract us from our jobs? Yes we should, because many of the breakthroughs in science were made by people who were distracted." 🌍 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
JOB OPPORTUNITY in the United Nations Environment Programme! The Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds is hiring and executive officer. Location: Bonn, Germany. 🌍 🧪 🦉 #ScienceJobs
Convention on Migratory Species (CMS)@cms.int · last yr.#JobOpportunity! Are you passionate about migratory waterbirds? And do you have managerial skills? Join and lead the AEWA Secretariat and contribute to species conservation from an international perspective! Click to apply by 26 April 2025: careers.un.org/jobSearchDes...
Permanent job in lovely Aarhus, Denmark, as a special consultant in biodiversity and nature conservation. www.au.dk/om/stillinge... 🧪 🌍 🦊 #WomenInSTEM #ScienceJobs
Special consultant with expertise in biodiversity and nature conservation - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet
Ledig stilling ved Institut for Ecoscience - Biodiversitet, Aarhus Universitet
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Great piece by Adam Rutherford on the moral and ethical implications of the current woolly mammoth revival hype. Not to mention the colossal (pun very much intended) waste of money this "endeavor" is 🧪 🌍 🦊 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reviving the woolly mammoth isn’t just unethical. It’s impossible | Adam Rutherford
At a time when US scientists are under attack from their own government, the illiteracy around these elephantine fantasies is dangerous, says geneticist Adam Rutherford
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JOB ALERT! Associate Professor position in Animal Biology available at Linköping University, Sweden. Areas of interest include ecology, physiology, evo-devo and genetics. 🧪 🌍 🦊 🐟 🦉 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM #HigherED #ScienceJobs liu.se/en/work-at-l...
Associate professor in animal biology
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Important paper on Positive Animal Welfare (PAW) for all researchers and other professionals working with animals 🧪 🌍 🦊 🦇 🦉 🐟 🐾 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM #HigherED
COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT)@liftcostaction.bsky.social · 2y agoExcited to share the first paper from our COST Action! 🎉 This PAW definition paper has been a huge collaborative effort that we hope will help shape research directions and inspire scientific progress for the benefit of animals and humans alike. 🐾🌍 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM #HigherED #ScienceJobs
Animal Ecology Uppsala@animecol-uu.bsky.social · 2y ago📣 We are recruiting! Please spread the word! We look to hire an associate professor in animal ecology, specializing in evolutionary ecology. Apply by Feb 7 2025. Come join us in Uppsala, Sweden! Application page and contact info 🔗👇 #ecology #evolution #job www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
At Stockholm University, we are now starting a 2-year Master’s programme in Evolutionary Genomics! Topics include population genetics, phylogenetics, molecular & genome evolution, DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, and palaeogenetics. Please spread the word! www.su.se/english/sear...
Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds | PNAS
Research funding systems fundamentally influence how science operates. This paper aims to analyze the allocation of competitive research funding fr...
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🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #EcoEvoECRcareer
WildCRU, Oxford@wildcru.bsky.social · 2y agoApplications are closing on 8th January for two doctoral research opportunities in wildlife conservation. Both projects are part of the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme which supports conservation of this rare and threatened canid. 👉 bit.ly/4h198zq @oxfordbiology.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
This is a catastrophe. While Finland has downgraded the MDPI and Frontiers journals to level 0 (meaning these publications are not recognized for research evaluation purposes), Germany has signed an agreement to promote publications in MDPI journals.
Graham Kendall@grahamkendall.bsky.social · 2y agoOver 100 German Universities Partner with #MDPI in New National Agreement
Clive Wynne and I wrote a review about dogs, and how their great potential as a model species in behavioral ecology and evolution is overlooked. Several misconceptions have likely led to this and I will break them down in a thread...1/6 🧪 🐶 🦊 🌍 #AcademicSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The unfulfilled potential of dogs in studying behavioural ecology and evolution during the Anthropocene
Dogs have the potential to be an exceptional resource for studying ecological, behavioural and evolutionary processes. However, several widespread mis…
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"Publishers selling papers to train AIs" was perhaps not the direction I was hoping to see the already questionable scientific publishing scheme take 🧪 🌍 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Publishers are selling papers to train AIs — and making millions of dollars
Generative-AI models require massive amounts of data — scholarly publishers are licensing their content to train them.
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