My years at CRAB as a PhD student impacted hugely, and in the most ➕ ways, the researcher I came to be. Even if I changed unis half way through, I’ll be forever grateful to the CRAB community for their support and encouragement. I hope the university realises how important they’re for our field!

Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB)@crab-exeter.bsky.social · 3w ago

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...

📢Major new partnership between Oxford & Cambridge museums will release over a million digitised specimen records of British plants & insects. https://ow.ly/rXlt50ZnG37 Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge, UK Research and Innovation, Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford #DiSSCoUK

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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Is 29,900 signatures a lot? It does sound like a lot.

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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📢 @asab.org Conference Attendance Grants for developing country applicants: deadline 1st AUGUST 📢 Up to £2500!!! Joint Winter Conference of ASAB and PSGB: “Social Learning and Culture” @asabpsgb2026.bsky.social #ASABWinter2026 @asab-meetings.bsky.social Full details: www.asab.org/conference-g...

We will soon be advertising a 3-year postdoctoral position at Bristol aimed at enhancing our modelling capacity to better characterise vegetation recovery & legacy effects following fire. Please keep us in mind if this is your speciality 😀 🔥🌳 🌱

⚠️ Students looking for experience, opportunities, Masters, PhDs etc in Animal Behaviour: the @asab.org mailing list is an invaluable source with exciting posts every few days. Sign up here: www.asab.org/mailing-list 📩

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📢 Approaches in Entomology, our new #OpenAccess journal, is now open for submissions! 🎉 It will publish innovative and exciting advances to methods and techniques, including ethics and philosophies, across the breadth of entomology 🔬 Submit your research 🔽 buff.ly/PfF2l49

Call for Papers!

RES Members and Fellows get a 20% discount on the APC! Visit our journals page for info.

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New paper in @pnas.org - using playback experiments we provide further evidence that bottlenose dolphins can use individual identity signals + social memory to guide decision-making. Female dolphins use individual vocal labels to track coercive males | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Looking for an ecology/conservation PhD? Check out this exciting wood ant project! 🐜🐜🐜 Excellent research group to work with, and excellent study system!

Tara Dirilgen@taradirilgen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📣 Funded* #PhD position (4 years) Wood #Ant #conservation project in Ireland🐜 @maynoothuniversity.ie Application close: 3 June 2026 More info: dirilgenecology.com/contact/ - @muresearch.bsky.social | @mu-gra25.bsky.social | @maynooth-bgs.bsky.social | * @npwsireland.bsky.social #findaphd

Link broke, but now alive again here! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Stephen Montgomery@ebablab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨Job claxon🚨 4-year #Postdoc available in our lab in @camzoology.bsky.social developing molecular and anatomical approaches to mapping evolutionary changes in the brain, using #Heliconiini butterflies. Come join us, we are nice. 🧪 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

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

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🚨 New bee paper in press, with @jamiesmithbio.bsky.social at Hull and @ejduncan.bsky.social at Leeds! Delighted to have this accepted - huge congrats to Jamie on the first paper out of his PhD 🥳 🎉 Read the paper in online early view form, here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Lasting Impacts of Sublethal Prepupal Heatwaves on Fertility-related Traits of the Solitary Bee Osmia bicornis

Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of heatwaves, which can have severe consequences for insect physiology, development, and repr…

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Join the Wildlife Health team at the Royal Veterinary College as a Lecturer in Wildlife Conservation/Ecology. We're looking for a new colleague to join our group with interests in wildlife, conservation, ecology, one health and related fields. Deadline: 29th May jobs.rvc.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at the RVC: Lecturer in Wildlife Conservation / Ecology

We invite applications for a Lecturer position in either Wildlife Conservation or Ecology in the Department of Pathobiology and Population Sciences (PPS). This is an exciting position within the Depar...

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Last chance to apply to be our Biological Data Manager! Visit www.bto.org/jobs to submit your application! 📆 Full time, Permanent 📝 £32,952 per annum 📍 HQ in Thetford, Norfolk (hybrid role) Deadline for applications: Sunday 17 May #Ornithology

Happy 100th birthday to David Attenborough! I was allowed to watch the 1980 daytime repeats of 'Life on Earth' when I was little, and vividly remember being awestruck by the alienness of the horseshoe crab sequence in ep 2, and wanting to dive in, learn more, and explore. Still holds true today!

🦟Infectious disease has shaped the deep history of our species, as new research co-authored by members of our Evolutionary Ecology Group reveals. @eegcam.bsky.social @mikleonardi.bsky.social @ceciliapad.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

University of Cambridge@cam.ac.uk · 3mo ago

Malaria was fundamental in shaping the course of human evolution, @camzoology.bsky.social researchers have found. Between 74,000 and 5,000 years ago, early humans in Africa avoided high-risk malaria areas, shaping the population structure seen today. Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/4tUdOxe

📢 Work with us! Want to join the team at the Royal Entomological Society? We have two fantastic positions available:  🦋 Conservation Project Officer - Closing date: 21 April  🪲 Consultancy Development Lead - Closing date: 27 April  Apply now 🔽

Work with us!

Join the team at the RES

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Come join us! We're recruiting 3 new academic posts in the School of Biology, University of Leeds, closing 23/04/26. Assoc Prof Plant Science tinyurl.com/4x48jc78 Assoc Prof Animal Biology tinyurl.com/2s4sk85s Lecturer in Ecology, Zoology, Biodiversity or Ecosystem Management: tinyurl.com/39dwp47j

Squirrels willing to climb higher to reach favourite food www.itv.com/news/westcou...

The squirrels even made Newsround - (solid work, @yavannab.bsky.social !) www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/ar...

Squirrels are willing to work harder for better rewards

Grey squirrels make a decision on whether or not to use more energy to get better food - according to scientists.

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Se pare că și veverițele sunt pretențioase la mâncare, nu doar oamenii www.descopera.ro/natura/21047...

Se pare că și veverițele sunt pretențioase la mâncare, nu doar oamenii

Veverițele sunt pretențioase la mâncare. În natură, mofturile alimentare nu sunt, de obicei, o strategie câștigătoare

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A mókusok a manduláért mindenre képesek qubit.hu/2026/03/27/a...

A mókusok a manduláért mindenre képesek

Az Exeteri Egyetem egy friss kutatása szerint a vadon élő állatok inkább többet másznak, hogy hozzájussanak a mandulához, mint hogy megegyék a könnyebben elérhető tökmagot.

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Squirrels love almonds, and will work harder to get them www.popsci.com/environment/...

Squirrels love almonds, and will work harder to get them

Pumpkin seeds, on the other hand, are just kind of meh.

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Höher klettern zum Lieblingssnack 🥜🐿️ www.deutschlandfunknova.de/nachrichten/...

Höher klettern zum Lieblingssnack

Extra nochmal zum Supermarkt gehen, um die Lieblings-Schoki zu kaufen statt die Kekse zu essen, die man noch zu Hause hat?

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Squirrels climb higher for better snacks | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Squirrels climb higher for better snacks

Squirrels are usually willing to climb higher to reach their favourite foods, new research shows.

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Really excited to have presented work from my Master’s on the fitness benefits of polyandry at the #ASABSpring2026 Conference in Bristol - and proud to have won best student speaker! ✨ It was a great few days meeting other researchers and listening to all the exciting work happening in the field! 🦋

I had a brilliant time presenting my first-ever poster on the first experiment of my PhD at #ASABSpring2026. It was such a friendly and welcoming atmosphere and it was a pleasure meeting so many like-minded students all working on exciting projects in animal behaviour.

Grateful to attend the @asab.org Spring Conference 2026 at the @bristoluni.bsky.social, my first international conference! Thanks to ASAB for the conference travel grant. Inspiring talks across diverse systems and great discussions. Thanks IISER Kolkata & Prof. @abhadra7.bsky.social for the support.

The #ASABSpring2026 ceilidh at Zerodegrees in Bristol! 🪩 Don’t forget, there will be more dancing fun at the gala dinner ceilidh at @ecbb2026.bsky.social, make sure you register for it!