🎇✨Congratulations Prof. Susan Healy, our 2027 Research Award recipient (Uni. St Andrews, UK). A symposium + banquet will honor her contributions at the 2027 conference & a special issue will be published March 2028: 'In Honour of the Contributions of Susan Healy' #WomenInSTEM

#PhD position! Comparing #foraging and #cognition in #hummingbirds and #bumblebees Fieldwork in the Canadian Rockies, lab experiments at @newcastleuni.bsky.social, and ecological modelling at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social Details (including my email) here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

From preferences to pollination: do hummingbirds and bees differ in how they choose flowers?

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PLEASE SHARE 🚨🚨 6-month RA position available at the Univ. of St Andrews to work with Sue Healy (@cogwild.bsky.social), Simone Meddle (@simonemeddle.bsky.social) and I on the behavioural neuroendocrinology of early reproduction in zebra finches. tinyurl.com/577cx9tj Deadline: 03/12/2025 ⬇️

🚨New PDRA position available at the Healy Lab🚨 Project on avian nest construction. Duties will include conducting behavioural experiments with zebra finches on nest building. Post available for 24 months starting ASAP. Closing date 18 March www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

The #ASABWinter2024 conference on Addressing Biases in the Field of Animal Behaviour has been extraordinary. A huge THANK YOU to the volunteers & the organizers: @nicolakoyama.bsky.social @viveknityananda.bsky.social @wascherclaudia.bsky.social @cedricaumont.bsky.social & @cbenvenuto.bsky.social 😀

Prof Healy on her pod debut! manyminds.libsyn.com/nestcraft

Many Minds: Nestcraft

How do birds build their nests? By instinct, of course—at least that's what the conventional wisdom tells us. A swallow builds a swallow's nest; a robin builds a robin's nest. Every bird just follows ...

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Cool podcast with my colleague Dr Ellen Garland www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Uncharted with Hannah Fry - 15. Song of the Sea - BBC Sounds

A strange sound prompts an incredible discovery.

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🚨New paper alert 🚨 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A team effort between the #University of St Andrews, #University of Exeter and #University of Alberta. All done at the marvellous #Tswalu Kalahari Reserve. @cogwild.bsky.social

Architectural traditions in the structures built by cooperative weaver birds

Humans cooperate to build complex structures with culture-specific architectural styles. However, they are not the only animals to build complex structures nor to have culture. We show that social gro...

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And if you want the tl;dr, NPR did a pretty cool piece on this work 😉: www.npr.org/2024/08/29/n...

Congratulations to Maria Tello-Ramos, Sue Healy, and team for a BEAUTIFUL paper on weaver bird nest building and cultural traditions. This is one for the textbooks! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...