👏Congratulations @josharbon.bsky.social on a fantastic new #TREE review from #NERC funded postdoc. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... #OpenAccess; please share. 💬If you're at #ISBE2026 & interested in #pre-emptive behaviour and/or intergroup #conflict, seek Josh out for a chat. @isbe2026.bsky.social

Do humans and birds share an eye for design? 🐦🎨 For my Master's diss, I’m testing if we share aesthetic tastes with bowerbirds. I need 100 responses to finish! Visual, anonymous & under 5 mins. Link: exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 🧪 cc: @scienseed.com #AcademicSky #SciComm

A recent paper by Sheina Lew-Levy & @dorsaamir.bsky.social highlights the vital role of children in human cultural evolution. @katiemcauliffe.bsky.social and I argue that the same is true in other species. Youngsters are a powerful cultural force! tinyurl.com/2v75zevc @uniexecec.bsky.social

If you have (or will soon) complete your PhD & would like to join a thriving cultural evolution research group in NEW ZEALAND, drop me a line. UoA offers a handful of funded research fellowships. Applications must be made by a faculty member. Deadline August. Pls share with your students

🚨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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🥁 Announcing our latest research grants! This year, we're funding 13 research projects that will advance wild animal welfare science. Visit our blog to learn more.👇️

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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Why do habits evolve? New theory suggests forming and breaking habits can free cognitive resources for other tasks—like staying alert to predators—making behavior more flexible, not less academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

Evolution of behavioral flexibility and the forming and breaking of habits

The forming and breaking of habits has long been a focus of study in psychology, as well as appearing in many discussions about human behavior. Surprisingl

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A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution shows that wild dwarf mongooses pre-emptively alter their behaviours, including space use and sentinel calling, in relation to the level of threat posed by the size of rival groups. go.nature.com/4w9P0Tf 🧪

The University of Exeter is not in budget deficit. Yet are proposing to cut 150 academic jobs. This include my job. Please sign and share the petition, write our Vice Chancellor, to your MP, and get the word out about the act of self harm this university is about to commit. c.org/yKcx6Zr29H

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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Interested in the evolutionary genomics of host-pathogen interactions or the evolutionary ecology of senescence? 1 week left to apply for the two postdoc positions in our badger - bovine TB project🦡🦠🧪🧬👇

Barbara Tschirren@btschirren.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We are recruiting 🌟2 postdoctoral researchers🌟 for a NERC Large Grant project on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of badger - bovine tuberculosis (bTB) interactions.

New paper with Ángel Jiménez, @keith-jensen.bsky.social, Lei Chang and Hui Jing Lu Limited evidence that reputation-based partner choice facilitates information sharing in humans royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Limited evidence that reputation-based partner choice facilitates information sharing in humans

Abstract. A necessary prerequisite for the accumulation of beneficial knowledge, or ‘cumulative cultural evolution’, is the sharing of information via soci

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When are chimpanzees more rational than humans - and why? Read here: nicholaraihani.substack.com/p/when-are-c...

When are chimpanzees more rational than us—and why?

When economists build models of how humans are expected to behave, they have to make some simplifying assumptions.

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The WISDOM OF CROWDS emerges in flocks of thousands of migrating songbirds! Excited to share our work published by @aaas.org in Science Advances! doi.org/10.1126/scia...

The wisdom of crowds emerges in flocks of thousands of migrating songbirds

Larger flocks of migrating songbirds orient more accurately toward their population’s migratory direction than smaller flocks.

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My department has funding for 2-year MByRes studentships (full tuition fees and research allowance) on ecosystem resilience, broadly defined. Apply to do a project with me modelling social-ecological networks. #culturalevolution #socialnetworks ecologyconservation.exeter.ac.uk/masteer-coho...

🔴 PhD advert alert! Want to do a PhD working on ocean protection and restoration in a vibrant research community @exetermarine.bsky.social? Link here!! DM or email me if you'd like a chat about this opportunity :) Please share University of Exeter website: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Passive acoustic monitoring to inform evidence-based policy for coral reefs. PhD (Royal Society Funded) at University of Exeter on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Passive acoustic monitoring to inform evidence-based policy for coral reefs. PhD (Royal Society Funded) at University of Exeter, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Field stations are the inspirational lifeblood of many research projects, providing essential facilities and infrastructure, and in our new Perspective series researchers from across the globe tell us about the incredible field stations where they work journals.biologists.com/jeb/collecti...

Dwarf mongooses change their pre-emptive behaviour relative to the size of their neighbouring rivals🐻🥊 We leveraged 10 years of behaviour and GPS data to investigate the pre-emptive behavioural changes mongooses make to navigate a landscape of intergroup conflict: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🤗 Delighted that a dwarf #mongoose has made the front cover of #ProcB 📑 Their #grooming & #sentinel exchanges inspired the modelling of biological #markets in our new paper: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 👥 @beckypadget.bsky.social #AndyHigginson 🎓 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org

Food production does more harm to wild species than any other sector of human activity, but how to limit this impact is a contested topic. Join Professor Andrew Balmford FRS on 16 June as he explores how we feed the world without costing the earth: https://bit.ly/42PqGJy

Sexier in the city? Urban male great bowerbirds decorate bowers with human-made objects, creating brighter and more varied displays than rural males. Males strongly prefer human-made objects over natural ones, possibly boosting their appeal to females! shorturl.at/lcNY2 @royalsocietypublishing.org

Humans can be highly effective teachers, but why? In our new review we propose a framework to understand how teaching occurs across species. tinyurl.com/yc7dswvm @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social @proffrancescahappe.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @evolutionaryanthro.bsky.social

New paper, led by @lomasresearch.bsky.social. We consider the cognitive processes enabling teaching across species, human societies, and neurodiverse populations. tinyurl.com/yc7dswvm @proffrancescahappe.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @evolutionaryanthro.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk

The Cognitive Foundations of Teaching

The propensity to teach is vital to human cultural evolution and to our ecological dominance of the planet, but its cognitive foundations remain poorly understood. Traditional explanations argue that...

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🎉New paper alert 🥳 Does proximity of breeding hollows influence foraging associations in wild cockatoos? doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... (🧵—1/2) With @lucymaplin.bsky.social , A. Csak

New pre-print out, how behaviour shapes camouflage evolution for spiders! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article... More evidence of stripes as an effective collision mitigation strategy for wind turbines. This time, a literature review @sjportugal.bsky.social!

Bio-informed blade patterns for mitigating bird collisions with wind turbines

Abstract. Although the rapid expansion of wind energy is essential for achieving carbon net zero targets, it may conflict with ecological objectives aimed

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Happy centenary, David! Attenborough’s 100 most spectacular TV moments

Happy centenary, David! Attenborough’s 100 most spectacular TV moments

He has been besieged by birds, had 120m crabs try to crawl up his trouser leg and stayed cool beside an erupting Icelandic volcano. As David Attenborough turns 100, we celebrate his most extraordinary adventures

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Fabulous postdoc opportunity on choughs with the brilliant @drrmiller.bsky.social ! Closes 5 June.

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Postdoc Opportunity! 4-year @royalsociety.org funded post @uniexecec.bsky.social: “Understanding the role of individual cognitive variation in reintroduction biology”. Closes: 5 June 2026. More info & to apply: careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/78... Wt: @paradiseparkhayle.bsky.social & Wildwood Trust

What is the role of social learning in adopting novel food? Study of urban #cockatoos by @julia-penndorf.bsky.social @clevercockierp.bsky.social &co shows that they rapidly adopt novel food via #SocialLearning, with juveniles showing conformist preferences @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4uq6NVq

New paper out, which started during hackathons at the Big Team Science Conferences. A pleasure to be a part of this - big thank you to the whole authorship team, particularly to the leads @vaidis.bsky.social @epronizius.bsky.social @mamsmandrill.bsky.social

Ekaterina (Katja) Pronizius@epronizius.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New paper🎈: Lessons Learned from Big Team Science Projects in Cognitive Science in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art... We share practical, experience-based strategies for running large-scale collaborations - from project structure to ethics, funding, & AI use.

Job Alert 🚨 - please share! My brilliant friend and collaborator, Fumihiro Kano, is launching a new Ecological & Collective Cognition lab at Kyushu University, and has postdoc, grad, and tech openings! Lab video: youtu.be/rXT-yjQzJxU More details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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