Social play is key for development in many animals, yet how solitary species with single young acquire playmates has remained a quandary. We unlock this using long-term data from 31 Bornean orangutan mother-offspring pairs in our new publication in PNAS. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2621225123. 🧵

🧑‍🎓 [Jan-June 2027] We offer two 6-month research projects (Master's thesis or gap-year internship) on meerkat vocal communication 🎤 at the University of Zurich 🇨🇭 Check it out! mathildemartin-research.com/wp-content/u...

soon to be 4 once i get my ish together

Ari Strandburg-Peshkin@arispeshkin.bsky.social · 3d ago

We are offering 3 #PhD positions in our Ecology of Animal Societies Department @livingingroups.bsky.social at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior - check them out! imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/current

We are offering 3 #PhD positions in our Ecology of Animal Societies Department @livingingroups.bsky.social at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior - check them out! imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/current

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📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us ❓Quantifying animal #movement patterns & behavioural #interactions in a changing world 👥Joint position in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #MacquarieUniversity 📆19th April deadline tinyurl.com/343acaev #maths #modelling #data #fieldwork #Australia 🙏PLEASE SHARE

Just a little over two weeks to apply!

Ecology of Animal Societies@livingingroups.bsky.social · 7mo ago

3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama! Three positions, each including salary & a research budget. Applications due April, 15th. DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us! stri.si.edu/academic-pro...

Interested in automating lab experiments or tasks with camera-trackable animals? We (@vivekhsridhar.bsky.social, @domroche.bsky.social, @iplanass.bsky.social) are launching TracktorLive, a real-time #python package for tracking and response. Video below by @iplanass.bsky.social [1/4]

🚨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

New paper from us: "A dataset of insect sounds from 459 species for bioacoustic machine learning", published in Scientific Data, led by Marius Faiß https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-07123-4 #bioacoustics #datasets

I’m advertising two position options (PhD/postdoc) within my lab - take a look below if you’re interested or send me a message ☺️ @uni-konstanz.de

IMPRS-QBEE@imprs-qbee.bsky.social · 7mo ago

One of our IMPRS Faculty Members, @heesenr.bsky.social , is currently looking for applications. Please follow this link for more information: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/125923/docto...

3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama! Three positions, each including salary & a research budget. Applications due April, 15th. DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us! stri.si.edu/academic-pro...

If you’re a Master’s student interested in movement ecology, biologging, noise & conservation, join me and some great collaborators for an internship on how wind turbines and associated noise shape lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni) movement and behaviour.

Researchers from #UniKonstanz, @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social and the University of Zurich have investigated how meerkats use vocal exchanges – rather than physical touch – to maintain social bonds and manage their complex group hierarchies. t1p.de/okuf3 Vlad Demartsev

🧪Before the day begins, meerkats share a unique ritual. After emerging from their burrows, they spend up to an hour "sunning" to warm up for the day. During this quiet time, they produce soft, tonal "sunning calls". Just standing, sunbathing, and calling. But why❓ #bioacoustics #meerkats #kalahari

Excited to announce our courses for #MovementEcology.🤗 This year we will be in #Africa @mpalarc.bsky.social at Mpala Research Centre. Starting with a basic R course designed for #AfricanResearchers, followed by a two-week international Animove workshop. animove.org/basic-r-cour... Please share 👍

Are you (or do you know someone) recently graduated from undergrad looking to beef up your skills and experience prior to starting grad school/career? Do you like social drama and parakeets? Come join my team! I'm looking for two people to start very soon!! tinyurl.com/59rf8jcy

How sophisticated is vocal communication in rails? A team involving #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social biologists shows that pūkeko combine sound elements across two levels of organization into call sequences – a complexity previously unknown in non-vocal learners. t1p.de/lj6an

🚨🧪Listening to animals at scale is hard. animal2vec does the listening for you, automatically finding and classifying animal calls in huge datasets. Plus: MeerKAT, a massive new meerkat vocalization dataset, now public. #bioacoustics besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/99RWYS...

Dan Stowell@danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9mo ago

"animal2vec and MeerKAT: A self-supervised transformer for rare-event raw audio input and a large-scale reference dataset for bioacoustics" recently published! http://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70218 #bioacoustics #machinelistening #deeplearning

Konstanz school of Collective Behavior will take place again from 20th July to 7th August , 2026. We have an amazing line up of speakers covering state of the art research on collective behavior across systems. Application deadline : March 15th Details here: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/applica...

“The Zukunftskolleg Konnect Fellowships support early career researchers from Africa, Asia and Latin America, who do research that fits to one of the thirteen departments at the University of Konstanz.” www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Our group is looking for two MSc students to conduct a one-year research project on meerkat navigation and vocal activity at the University of Zurich and the Kalahari Research Center. Please share around!

🚨Who wants to work with Kalahari meerkats? A MSc project with @mathildemartin.bsky.social at the University of Zurich. #bioacoustics 🧪

I have some brilliant news to share! I recently received a DFG-funded Emmy Noether 6-year grant to establish my own group in Germany. I will soon be looking for a PhD student and a research assistant to join the team and investigate how the balance of power is maintained in animal societies.

🚨STOP SCROLLING, IT’S AN EMERGENCY BROADCAST📣 This message will self-destruct in 10…9…8…7…⏰ …now that I have your attention: 🧪Our new paper on Alerting Components in animal vocalization is out in AnimBehav🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #AnimalBehaviour #Bioacoustics #Communication

Less than a week left to apply!

Ari Strandburg-Peshkin@arispeshkin.bsky.social · last yr.

⭐PhD position available!⭐ Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...

🚨 PhD alert! IMPRS brain & behavior in Bonn just opened their calls for applications. Great PhD funding opportunities. Check it out! PS- I just joined their faculty, meaning you could do a rotation in my lab or even a PhD with me on spider sleep 🙃 Apply! 🚨

IMPRS for Brain and Behavior@imprsbb.bsky.social · last yr.

📢Apply now! Join our IMPRS for Brain&Behavior to pursue a #PhD in #neuroethology. Learn how brain circuits are linked to interesting animal behaviors! 📅 Deadline: October 31, 2025 🔗 imprs-brain-behavior.mpg.de #neuroscience #Neuroskyence #neurojobs #sciencejobs #PhDsky #PhDOffers #FundedPhD

🚨Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my group🚨 🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?🐾 Find out by studying meerkats! 🧪Epigenetic clocks ✨Bioinformatics 📊Long-term data 🌍Kalahari fieldwork 💡Big evolutionary questions Get in touch or APPLY NOW Please share! www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

⭐PhD position available!⭐ Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...

Analysis of communication and collective behavior in animal groups

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