Looking for an Associate Prof position? Interested in behavioural ecology & cultural evolution? Come join us at the Dpt of Ecology and Evolution in Lausanne🇨🇭 @dee-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! Great department & great place to live. Pls RP. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

💧“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.” 🌊 I chose the sea option last week and had the honour of being hosted by the Sea Mammal Research Unit Scottish Oceans Institute at the University of St Andrews. If you know its location & people you already know how special it is!

Our new paper on beluga spatial structure is now published in Animal Behaviour! Here is the story of what we found 🧵1/6 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @marine-valeria.bsky.social @dmennill.bsky.social @raincoast.org

Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a #PhD student and a #Postdoc to investigate #innovation in great #apes: PhD ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Postdoc ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Application deadline: August 17th. Please share widely!

Applications are open for SFI's 2027 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships. SFI is looking for recent Ph.D. graduates with strong quantitative and computational skills who want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research. Deadline: September 30, 2026 Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

Dream PhD opening! Innovation in wild falcons! Application deadline Aug 1🦅

Are you a neuroscientist or AI researcher with an interest in the nature of intelligence? Join us in Bristol for a residential scientific meeting examining how intelligence emerges in biological systems. You can also apply to present a poster at the meeting. royalsociety.org/science-even...

Join us on 16-17 November for our bicentenary symposium, Turning Points for Wildlife, as we bring together scientists, policymakers and practitioners to discuss how to navigate responsible species rescue for populations on the very edge of extinction 🌎 Find out more: bit.ly/4oYRkKf #ZSLat200

Turning points for wildlife: the choices that shape species survival | The Zoological Society of London

Ensuring today’s difficult choices give the most threatened species a real chance at tomorrow

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Excited to share that our paper on mirror use in octopuses is published today in @currentbiology.bsky.social! This is the first time mirror-mediated spatial navigation has been demonstrated in an invertebrate. 🐙 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Octopus bimaculoides can learn to utilize a mirror to localize a reward outside the line of sight

Mirror-mediated localization of hidden objects is well documented in vertebrates1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 but has never been demonstrated in inverteb…

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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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📣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

Sir David Attenborough turns 100 today🎉 For generations, his voice has brought the wonders of our planet into our homes - changing not just what we know about nature, but how we feel about it. bit.ly/42V8f6c

Join us in Barcelona for a postdoc! We are looking for candidates with a strong NLP/ML/AI background and an interest in linguistic diversity and human and machine cognition: dub.sh/blasi_nlp_po...

Come work at the Bristol Baby Lab! Postdoc recruitment starting soon; read up and get in touch with relevant people now. (I’m not involved in recruitment, but always happy to informally chat about what the Bristol developmental psychology scene is like.)

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We (Karla Holmboe, Mara Cercignani and @rogierk.bsky.social) will soon be advertising for a postdoc on BLOCCS (Bristol Longitudinal study Of Childhood Cognition from infancy to School), funded by the Wellcome Trust.

The Cognitive Tools Lab at Stanford (cogtoolslab.github.io) is recruiting two new research staff members to join in AY 26-27. Full-Time Lab Manager: forms.gle/UVwfx5wbY9Km.... IRiSS Predoc Researcher: iriss.stanford.edu/predoc/2026-.... Please share widely in your networks, thank you!!

Our institute @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social starting a new Masters program with the University of Leipzig. If you are a bachelors student graduating soon, and would like to get involved with our research during you MSc, consider applying :) www.uni-leipzig.de/en/studying/...

📣📣Abstract deadline extended! While we've received a number of abstracts already, we've decided to extend the submission deadline to 30 April. For more information about the conference, or to submit your abstract, visit our ECBB page! www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe...

Join us for the European Conference for Behavioural Biology (ECBB) 1-4 September 2026, Cambridge, UK! I'm thrilled to be giving a keynote talk on social cognition in a human world. Submissions for oral/poster presentations close 30 April. www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe...

Programme - ECBB 2026 - ARU

Find out about the programme for the European Conference for Behavioural Biology (ECBB) 2026, taking place at ARU in Cambridge from 1-4 September.

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I’m not sure orange is my colour, but the abundance of tigers is very pleasing!

Philosophers with an interest in animal welfare - call for abstracts now open for what promises to be a great workshop at Duke University. We welcome any work relating to the nature, measurement, and/or moral significance of animal welfare. Applications close June 1. law.duke.edu/laweconomics...

Philosophy of Animal Welfare Conference | Duke University School of Law

Conference to be held at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US, on Friday-Saturday November 20/21, 2026. This conference is organized by the Duke Center for Law, Economics, and Public Policy (CL...

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Princeton University in the spring! ☀️ 🎓🏛️ Was really cold for a while, but now things are looking up.

A Wes Anderson style shot of this morning’s commute…

Tell me you are lecturing in an old chemistry lecture theatre without telling me…

How and why does cognition vary so greatly between individuals and species? In @natrevbiodiv.nature.com, we propose the "Predatory Intelligence Hypothesis" which posits that the cognitive challenges associated with predator–prey interactions drive a cognitive co-evolutionary arms race rdcu.be/e5KIj

Join us for the second Wild Talks event of the year, hosted by @lucycooke.bsky.social, to celebrate the pioneering women who shaped ZSL's history, and those who continue to tackle conservation challenges today 🌍 Book your free ticket for 10th March now: www.zsl.org/news-and-eve...

Breaking Barriers: Women in Wildlife | The Zoological Society of London

Learn about the women who shaped ZSL's history, and those who continue to tackle conservation challenges today

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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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The #BiologyLetters Early Career Researcher Competition is back for 2026! You must be an #ECR to enter and submit your paper by 31 March 2026 for the chance to win £1000. Two runners-up will also receive £500 each. Find out more: ow.ly/aCgx50UCo2H #EarlyCareerResearchers

🚨Roll up, roll up, fully-funded #PhD deadlines approaching... 6th Jan: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6 8th Jan: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp Social monitoring & manipulation #meerkats #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork #long-termdata @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social @ljnbrent.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

We’ve had fun in the Bristol Psychology & Neuroscience Comparative Challenge Lab in 2025. 🧵 🎲 We’ve been zoning into games as tools to study the relationship between animal cognition and emotion. lnkd.in/euyDE3D3 🎮 We published research on time distortion during human flow state. lnkd.in/e-satPgt

🚨 Our new paper is out!! A call for CARE in animal behaviour: an holistic ethical research framework 🐾💚 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A call for CARE in animal behaviour: an holistic ethical research framework

Despite increasing awareness of animal welfare, there are vast discrepancies between legal protections and recommended practices for different species…

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