DigiFish: A flexible open-source tool for animating realistic virtual fish and reconstructing visual fields from tracking data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.02.755892v1
Katie Dunkley
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BBSRC Fellow at the University of Oxford
Thanks to our colleagues from around the world who signed the Open Letter against redundancies in CRAB. The letter surpassed 700 signatures in just over 1 wk. We hope execs will now see the harm they are doing to the University of Exeter's global reputation. sites.google.com/view/save-cr...
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As of 2026-07-14, this open letter has been signed by 754 people Signatories include 198 Professors and members of 11 National Academies, including 12 Fellows of the Royal Society (FRS) Signatories a...
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How do animals cooperate when they aren't even the same species? Our recent review paper dug deep into the literature... 1/ Read the full paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
Across the natural world, there are many fascinating ways in which animals, including humans, work together. In a new blog, @14katie41.bsky.social and some of her co-authors on a new review discuss how different animal species ‘talk’ to each other to make cooperation work 👇
The science behind communication in interspecies cooperation
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It was a real pleasure to co-lead this review, which brings together ideas from across the animal cooperation literature and 58 authors from different career stages and disciplines. We explore how communication shapes cooperation between animals and what we can learn from different systems 🐜🐠🦐🐦⬛🐬👩🔬.
🐜🐟🐦🐬👩🔬 What does it take for completely different species to work together? A global team of researchers explores the communication behind remarkable cross-species partnerships in a new review in Animal Behaviour. 📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.an... #AfricanOrnithology
📢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
Redtail parrotfish pulls up to the neon goby’s brain coral fish wash and day spa 🦜🐟💅🧠🪸 #redtailparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #neongoby #coralcitycamera
🐠 I’m hosting a paid summer research internship at Oxford on how fish communicate to manage cooperation and conflict 🐠 It’s part of UNIQ+ which is open to UK undergraduates from under-represented and disadvantaged backgrounds. ℹ️ More info & apply: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g... ⏰ Deadline: 18 Feb
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Projects available for entry in 2026As part of your UNIQplus Research Internship, you will be working on a project under the supervision of academic staff from our community of world-leading
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🐠 I’m hosting a paid summer research internship at Oxford on how fish communicate to manage cooperation and conflict 🐠 It’s part of UNIQ+ which is open to UK undergraduates from under-represented and disadvantaged backgrounds. ℹ️ More info & apply: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g... ⏰ Deadline: 18 Feb
UNIQplus projects | University of Oxford
Projects available for entry in 2026As part of your UNIQplus Research Internship, you will be working on a project under the supervision of academic staff from our community of world-leading
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❓ Want to join us? 📢 Fully funded #PhD for UK-domiciled Black heritage candidates 🐵 Biological market monitoring & manipulation in social animals #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork 👥 With me, #LaurenBrent & #PatrickKennedy 🎓 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social ℹ️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🙏Share widely
Postdoc job alert! I'm hiring a 3-yr postdoc to work on our Social Modifiers of Primate Lifespans grant. Job info and how to apply below. Deadline June 1. Pls share! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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Honoured to be joining the next cohort of @ukri.org BBSRC Fellows! Excited to kick off my project asking whether signalling promotes cooperative cleaner-client interactions (with the help of robotic fish 🐟🤖)! Hugely grateful for all the support, advice, and encouragement that’s helped me get here!
Congratulations to @14katie41.bsky.social and Samuel Fabian, who've been awarded 2025 BBSRC Fellowships! Katie will focus on mutualistic partnerships in fish and how they are maintained. Sam will focus on insects' aerial chases and what makes them successful 👇 bit.ly/3EqMBOG
From lots of color to no color at all! Meet the Midnight Angelfish (Centropyge nox). Yes, it's a real fish, and it's common in shallow coral-rich areas of the western Pacific. I photographed this one in Batangas, Philippines. #ichthyology
Come work with us on #eDNA and salmonid pathogens! 🐟🦠 Please share:
We are recruiting for #PhD opportunity funded by NERC RedAlert CDT investigating novel ways to identify #salmonid diseases in #freshwater ecosystems using #eDNA - closing date 7th Jan, full details here: findaphd.com?pj=176410 @thefsbi.bsky.social @sosbangor.bsky.social @nerc-eof.bsky.social
5 exciting PhD opportunities to join the Center for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter in Sept 2025. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro...
🚨Excited that the first chapter from my PhD is now out in Marine Biology. Here we show that #lionfish do not show any directional preferences for ambient #soundscapes during diurnal hours. 🔗link.springer.com/article/10.100… 🧵A thread to find out more:
Merry fishmas from the MBE group! 🐟
Projects are live for our DPhil in Biology! 'Should I do a PhD?' is a big question, and we have projects that span the biosciences to serve as inspiration. If you're considering a PhD, or know someone who is, take a look at all our projects! 👇 bit.ly/DPhilBiol
💥Potential PhD opportunities💥 If you like any combo of antipredator colouration, collective behaviour, fish, fieldwork in nice places, or robotics, please get in touch for opportunities at my new lab starting @oxfordbiology.bsky.social 🐟🐟🐠🐠 tinyurl.com/3xvtv8s9
10 days left to apply to become the next Charles Darwin and Galapagos Islands Fund Junior Research Fellow at Christ's College, University of Cambridge! 4 year postdoc with fieldwork in the Galapagos www.christs.cam.ac.uk/charles-darw...