The only reason I can think of as to why there are fewer than 50,000 signatures here is that people haven't seen it yet. — Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now — goodlawproject.org/petition/jas...

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Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.

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A reminder that this was started by a “Race Realist” who got fired by Cambridge for being racist and the media interviewed him and lapped it up

Thomas Li@tomli80.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tragic and needless loss. He was treated as just notch in a DEI culture war against DEI by those in the press - over a furore started by a disgusting, partisan racist. For shame, if they could feel any.

🚨🐒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

🤗Delighted our review on pre-emptive behaviour in a landscape of intergroup conflict is out now in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social 🎓Resulting from endless fascinating chats with @josharbon.bsky.social #warfare #NERC #conflict #mammals #birds @bristolbiosci.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

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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It's official: #Behaviour2027 is happening in Vienna next summer!

Behaviour 2027@behaviour2027.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are excited to announce that #Behaviour2027 (XXXIX International Ethological Congress) will be taking place in Vienna, Austria! We are looking forward to having you all join us next year from August 23-27. Please follow and share!

@crab-exeter.bsky.social are a fantastic group of researchers, and a real beacon of excellence for Exeter. What a huge and deeply sad act of self sabotage this would be. Please consider signing their open letter👇🏻

Stu West@stuwest.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The University of Exeter have announced a programme of academic staff cuts, including all of www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro... Sign the open letter of support at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @crab-exeter.bsky.social

The University of Exeter is not in budget deficit. Yet are proposing to cut 150 academic jobs. This include my job. Please sign and share the petition, write our Vice Chancellor, to your MP, and get the word out about the act of self harm this university is about to commit. c.org/yKcx6Zr29H

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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Lifetime fitness (lifetime reproductive success) and annual survival are heritable and genetically correlated in wild female baboons! Moreover, nearly all of the genetic variance in LRS can be attributable to survival to first reproduction. Out at Evolution now: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Lifetime fitness and annual survival are heritable and highly genetically correlated in a wild primate population

We estimated the additive genetic variance (VA) and heritability of lifetime and time-limited fitness in a wild female baboon population in Kenya. We found

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2026. Domestic goats can follow the direction of human voices to solve a hidden-object task. new from us, led by @chimpsahoi.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

🤗 Delighted that a dwarf #mongoose has made the front cover of #ProcB 📑 Their #grooming & #sentinel exchanges inspired the modelling of biological #markets in our new paper: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 👥 @beckypadget.bsky.social #AndyHigginson 🎓 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org

new, in press: Are individual differences in social behaviour a cause or a consequence of endoparasite infection in feral cattle? www.researchgate.net/publication/... led by @tania-perroux.bsky.social #AnimalBehaviour via @asab.org

Excellent opportunity here: a 5 year senior research fellowship in Life Sciences (broadly defined) at All Souls College Oxford. Many opportunities to work with the diverse & inclusive community here in @biology.ox.ac.uk here in the brand new Life & Mind Buiilding www.asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctora...

A small scarab soaked in waterfall mist. The metallic green on the beetle is not pigment, but structural color (a result of micro-structures that reflect only certain wavelengths). If you look closely within the droplets, the green is refracted into other hues. (Dichelonyx sp.; Montana) #Bugsky 🌿🐙📷

The Four-spotted Chaser (Libellula quadrimaculata).

New @econovoau.bsky.social paper in Global #Ecology & #Biogeography - on #ungulates in North American ecosystems. Key point: alien ungulates can enhance herbivore diversity & partially restore lost #ecosystem functions 🦌🌿🐂 🐎Link in comment #Rewilding #Megafauna #Macroecology #TIBS2026

Separately, whilst on St Kilda last month working on these endemic Wrens, a Redpoll which flew into our nets already had an ID ring. Turns out it was ringed in September 2025 as a first-year bird, on Sula in Norway. That's 1135km away from St Kilda! @jezierskimt.bsky.social @stkildawhs.bsky.social

Michał Jezierski@jezierskimt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our (Jenny Dunn, Carolina Chagas, @willjsmith.bsky.social) paper on the evolution of island Wrens is finally out @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social! We describe the evolution of island gigantism in the St Kilda and Shetland subspecies. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...

We have a rare chance to speak up for animals who cannot speak for themselves. Foxes, stags, hare, otters and mink are still being chased and killed under the smokescreen of ‘trail’ hunting.

New study on the evolution of primate cognition, brain size, sensory and motor functions, prompted by "recent work showing fishes perform as well as primates on various cognitive tests." 🐟🦍🧪 Great to see such broad comparative perspectives driving research. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Sensorimotor Complexity and Cognition as Predictors of Primate Brain Size

Objectives As animal brain size increases, cognitive performance generally increases. However, other key brain functions, such as the regulation of somatic processes, processing of sensory input, an...

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Nigel Farage registered ‘absent’ from the last 77 votes in Parliament Official Parliamentary figures reveal that Reform leader Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote for anything in the last 11 weeks... www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/whe...

Working hard? Nigel Farage registered 'absent' from the last 77 votes in Parliament

Official Parliamentary figures reveal that Reform leader Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote for anything in the last 11 weeks...

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Also, it's obvious that the ambiguity is the point. The pro-AI world doesn't want us to be able to distinguish different kinds of AI. It wants us to accept GPT with the same enthusiasm we welcome breast cancer detection and LLMs for bird conservation. But fuck 'em. Be specific.

Rory (they/them)@roryq.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Constantly annoyed by the fact that when mentioning the evils of AI, someone always feels the need to 'splain that there's good AI (LLMs for cancer detection etc) and bad AI (GPT, Claude, etc) as if we aren't all annoyed by the semantic ambiguity of "AI" covering a multitude of sins.

Not a sentence I’d expected to read when I got up this morning. Remarkable finding!

Science Magazine@science.org · 3mo ago

Researchers have identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation. https://scim.ag/4nTQ3nq

🌿 We are hiring a new 2-yr postdoc in @econovoau.bsky.social at @aarhusuniint.bsky.social, on large-#herbivore ecology, trophic #rewilding & novel ecosystems- asking when alien & feral #ungulates enhance biodiversity & when they contribute to degradation🐪🐎🦓 Deadline: 28 June 2026. Details below 👇

📢Out now in #ProcB our NEW paper on how #reward inequity can promote production of #publicgoods and #free-riding 👏Congratulations @beckypadget.bsky.social as lead author 👥With #AndyHigginson @royalsocietypublishing.org @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @crab-exeter.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Reward inequity can promote both public goods production and free riding

Abstract. When animals in groups cooperate, individuals sometimes produce a ‘public’ good that benefits many or all group members and receive a private rew

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Reptiles with longer Wikipedia pages tend to be bigger. The relationship is a power law with exponent = 0.85. I guess humans really like writing about big lizards? The longest article is the Komodo Dragon.

A dynamic image of a Buff-breasted Sandpiper in Lincolnshire won Monday's Photo of the Week!

Photo of the Week: 11-17 May 2026

A brilliantly composed image of a Buff-breasted Sandpiper stands out among this week's images.

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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

Grants Overview — ASAB

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Job alert! Apply via www.bto.org/jobs Are you passionate about birds with an interest in data and admin? We're looking for someone to join our Surveys Team and support UK bird surveys. 📆 Full time, Permanent. 📍 Thetford, Norfolk (Hybrid). 📝 £29,754 per annum. Closing date: Sunday 7 June

My former officemate Camille Troisi, an excellent scientist and top-tier human, now at the Université de Rennes, is currently recruiting a PhD student on the relationship between urbanisation and social learning (in birds!) sdrive.cnrs.fr/s/2HtQ8caBRd...

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Our new paper has been published today, "Sex and spatial proximity affect ungulate behavioral synchrony" peerj.com/articles/21331 via @peerj.bsky.social #AnimalBehaviour #Zoology led by @ghodgson.bsky.social