If you're an ECR or postdoc in need of funding to travel for an experiment or to learn a new technique, make sure you apply for a JEB Travelling Fellowship www.biologists.com/grants/trave... #PostdocAppreciationWeek #NPAW #PostdocAppreciation Find out more at doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

GREAT opportunity for anybody interested in a PhD in animal behavior.

Zoë Goldsborough@zoegoldsborough.bsky.social · 6d ago

📣🎓 Open #PhD Position (3.5 years) 🎓📣 Want to come work with me on culture and social bonds in apes? 🐵 Apply to join my new group in the @livingingroups.bsky.social at @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social. Full job posting: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/131133/cultu... Deadline 📅 23 October 2026 Please share widely!

‼️SAVE THE DATE‼️ We are excited to welcome you for the next Culture Conference, taking place 31 March to 2 April 2027 at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social in Leipzig, Germany! Stay tuned for future announcements here & on the website 🔎 culture-conference.com

ACE Research Grant Alert 🚨! CES will give out two awards of up to $3000 each to support early career research projects in cultural evolution. The award is open to applicants worldwide, with an application deadline of October 9th 2026, 9:00 AM AoE. Applications: forms.gle/dsLdKQuNBH4W...

ACE Early Career Research Grants

CES will give out two awards of up to $3000 each to support research projects in cultural evolution. To learn more about the Advancing Cultural Evolution (ACE) initiative, see here. Deadline: Appli...

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Quick plug for our new resource, the Drosophila Species Stock Exchange. This is a database and mailing list that documents species currently in culture and the labs holding them. If you want to know more or sign up then please get in touch. See attached for more info and please share!

Interested in animal urbanization and human wildlife co-existence, join our team this fall 👇🏼

Urban Vervet Project@urbanvervetproject.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨🐒Join the Urban Vervet Project! We are currently looking for a research assistant to strengthen our on-site team at the beautiful Simbithi Eco Estate in South Africa. More info below 👇 @sofiaforss.bsky.social

On the tail of the announcement of my new Behavioural Conservation group at @idiv-research.bsky.social, I can also say... I'm hiring! We're looking for a Project Assistant (60% FTE) to join our "Conserving Cultures" project. Job posting: uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/1...

Project Assistant (m/f/d/x)

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Doing a short workshop about simulation-based inference on Thursday for @eslr.bsky.social! Come hang out :)

ESLR@eslr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨 ESLR Workshop coming up next week! 🗓 July 23, 2026 ⏰ 4pm CET Online Using bayesflow for likelihood free inferences by @masonyoungblood.bsky.social 🔗 Join at: calendar.app.google/RKMwxPeaGveM...

Calling all animal culture enthusiasts! The Association for Study of Animal Behaviour and the Primate Society of Great Britain are holding a joint meeting this December on "Social Learning and Culture" 👇

ASABPSGB2026@asabpsgb2026.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Registration and abstract submission for the joint ASAB-PSGB winter meeting in Edinburgh (December 8th - 10th) will be opening on the 1st of July! The theme is Social Learning and Culture. More details about the meeting and registration at: asabpsgbwinter.github.io//2026/

Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees

Problem-solving using novel solutions without explicit training is often considered a hallmark of cognitive flexibility. We investigated whether bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) could solve a novel obj...

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Do you want to know if birds can use hair-like feathers as high-frequency sound receptors during echolocation? Join our team as PhD student or postdoc and find out! ⬇️ www.bi.mpg.de/2809383/job_...

🚨We're hiring again, this time for a research assistant position 🚨 The position is to help with a project looking at learning and social behaviour in birds along an urban gradient Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆28th June deadline More info: shorturl.at/vBxiW #ringing #fieldwork

Don’t forget to get these in by Monday ! 🚨

ASAB@asab.org · 4mo ago

Reminder that a lot of grants are due in little over a week (June 1)! This includes Research grants, Undergraduate Project scholarships and the ECBB Conference Attendance/Childcare/Accessibility grants 💸🏃 www.asab.org/grant-overview

Interested in how social information is transmitted in networks? 🚨Join ESLR Workshop happening this week! 🗓 May 28, 2026 ⏰ 2pm CET Online Introduction to Bayesian Network-based diffusion analysis (NBDA) with STbayes by @mchimento.bsky.social 🔗 Join at: calendar.app.google/mNSksgpimmrs...

🎉🦜NEW PAPER ALERT 🦜🎉 Which social learning biases underly the acquisition of novel food in wild parrots ? We (@lucymaplin.bsky.social, @bjjbarrett.bsky.social, @sonjawild.bsky.social, @drjohnmartin.bsky.social) presented >700 cockies with a novel, artificial food (🧵1/6)

PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · 5mo ago

Adopting novel food is vital to colonize novel environments, but what is the role of social learning? Study of urban #cockatoos by @clevercockierp.bsky.social shows them to rapidly adopt novel food via #SocialLearning, with juveniles showing conformist preferences @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4uq6NVq

@lfanpsych.bsky.social set up this participant-driven ride share sheet for @hbes2026.bsky.social attendees arriving to the Rabat airport for #HBES2026 This is not managed by the local organizers or @humbehevosoc.bsky.social, but we're happy to spread the word. 

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HBES Rabat Ride Share (Self-organized)

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Conference update emails for #HBES2026 and #CESRabat will be sent soon. In the meantime, updated programs are live on both conference websites: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/hbes2026 airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026 Check them out! @ces2026.bsky.social @hbes2026.bsky.social

We have an open MSc Project Position at the Urban Vervet Project, and are currently looking for a motivated teammate to discover species interactions in a human altered environment 👇🏼 For more INFO👇🏼

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us: 🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦 Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆29th May deadline More info: tinyurl.com/yz28s96x Apply: tinyurl.com/2wpkb64y #cognition #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #birds 🙏Please Share

📣ATTENTION!!! Postdoc position on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees and Bonobos 🤩 With the APE Group & Wildminds Lab @nakedprimate.bsky.social Come join us!!! ✨Please RT✨ @efprimatology.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social

Fantastic double feature seminar today by @sabinenoebel.bsky.social on tradition, culture and mate copying in #drosophila and a superb theory study of the same by @srishtipatil.bsky.social ! It’s been a pleasure hosting you both here @cctb-wue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

Tomorrow I will give a joint talk with @srishtipatil.bsky.social at the @uni-wuerzburg.de to present our joint work with @gokhalecs.bsky.social just published in @pnas.org

Dear 🪰folks, for a project I am looking for D. buzzati, D. gaucha, D. recens and Z. sepsoides. Please get in touch if you have them in your lab and willing to share.

Looking forward to an amazing conference @cultconf.bsky.social

Thrilled to share our new paper with the brilliant @srishtipatil.bsky.social & @sabinenoebel.bsky.social ! 🎉 Can mate copying maintain phenotypic diversity with multiple male options to choose from? find out @ doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @dkfz.bsky.social @unihalle.bsky.social @cctb-wue.bsky.social

Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg@uni-wuerzburg.de · 7mo ago

How do animals choose a mate? Sometimes they follow their own taste, sometimes they copy others’ choices. This has an impact on the entire group, as a study from @cctb-wue.bsky.social & @gokhalecs.bsky.social shows. 📷 Chamika/Adobe Stock go.uniwue.de/gokhale-pnas

WILDLABS Awards 2026 "We are awarding $10,000 and $50,000 grants to up to 15 projects, each receiving up to one year of funding to advance their #conservation #technology work." https://wildlabs.net/funding-opportunity/wildlabs-awards-2026-express-your-interest-now Deadline 18 March 2026

The Culture Conference 2026 is already starting next week! 🥳 If you plan to attend in-person, please register ‼️before Sunday 22/02‼️ We are almost full, so don’t wait 😊 Online registration will remain open 💻 See you next week in Utrecht 🌇 To register:👇 culture-conference.com/registration/

Registration

Registrations for the conference and the pre-conference workshop are now OPEN! Register for the conference (26-27/02): Culture Conference 2026 – Registration form Register for the worksh…

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Travel grants 📣 For the 13th Toulouse Economics & Biology Workshop (June 1–2, 2026, @IAST) we have travel fellowships for PhDs & early-career researchers presenting a poster. Apply by Feb 27! Details: www.iast.fr/conferences/...

Four travel grants available for PhD students and postdocs to present their posters at the 13th Toulouse Economics and Biology Workshop! Apply by Feb 27th. www.iast.fr/conferences/...

13th Toulouse Economics and Biology Workshop

13th Toulouse Economics and Biology Workshop, Toulouse, TSE/IAST Building, June 1–2, 2026.

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Visiting Guillaume Isabel and Etienne Danchin at @cbitoulouse.bsky.social to discuss some new 🪰 projects. Great to be back in Toulouse