Delighted to see this mammoth effort led by @sevans.bsky.social, together with @mevisser.bsky.social, Arie van Noordwijk and Henri Bouwmeester out in @plosbiology.org.

PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · 24h ago

Why do we not see evolutionary change in heritable, fitness-related traits in free-living populations? @erikpostma.bsky.social &co use the #evolution of clutch size in great tits to show the importance of gene flow in explaining contemporary evolutionary change and stasis 🧪 buff.ly/ngAKH6r

Animals are known to prefer kin as social partners. But non-kin bonds are surprisingly common too. So, who forms them, how stable are they & what drives them? In our new @animbehsociety.bsky.social paper we tackle these overlooked questions in free-living rhesus macaques: tinyurl.com/mwsbkjve (1/5)

Britain’s ‘Spotted hyena age’. #matrilineal #spottedhyena

Michael Le Page@mjflepage.bsky.social · last mo.

Roman accounts of women in Britain ruling and having multiple partners were dismissed by some later historians. But the largest study yet of DNA from Iron-Age Britain backs those accounts £ 🧪 www.newscientist.com/article/2584...

Dwarf mongooses adjust space use, information provisioning & resource defence dependent on the relative group size of neighbours to help mitigate threats from both well-matched competitors and more dangerous larger rivals #conflict #mammals @bristolbiosci.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dwarf mongooses pre-emptively alter their behaviour relative to the threat posed by different rival groups - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Using 10 years of GPS data and behavioural observations, the authors show that wild dwarf mongooses pre-emptively alter their behaviours, including space use and sentinel calling, in relation to the l...

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Hoping y'all enjoyed the hyeclipse 😉 🌞🍪 #Eclipse

Question: do I know anyone near Nantes who would be willing to pick up a dead gull-billed tern and its logger? L49 has sadly been killed near a road. I’d be very grateful for a picture and the logger and would of course reimburse postage.

Eight canopy bridges installed in Brazil saw 15,000 wildlife crossings in 15 months—with zero roadkill recorded. Led by biologist Fernanda Abra, Project Reconecta's low-cost design is now the national standard to curb millions of road deaths across Brazilian highways. Suzana Camargo reports.

Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings

For some of the world's rarest monkeys, the path to survival now runs through a simple network of ropes.

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2018 JWildlManage commissioned a model to question that prolonged, intense selective hunting leads to evolutionary shrinkage of mountain sheep horns. Then stonewalled rebuttal, despite positive referee comments, 6-mo COPE probation for unethical behavior. Rebuttal: 🧪 www.nwsgc.net/proceedings/...

Nice piece about our recent study on play behaviour in Spotted #hyenas. phys.org/news/2026-07...

The language of play: Hyenas use facial expressions and vocalizations to de-escalate

Scientists observed spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) playing in the wild and found that their precise, sophisticated communication is on par with that of many primate species. Hyenas play and romp wit...

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I compiled a list of 350 #funding opportunities for #postdoctoral research #fellowships: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J2M_tQgoqV4ivpfEClh9qs9f2KQN2O1G3Jpda2aoHfQ/edit?usp=sharing I realized I should share this again after mentioning it to some folks at the #EFP2026

Primate Profiles #49: Guianan Red Howler The only record of "tool use" by these monkeys (according to the book I'm currently using) is an adult male hitting a sloth with a large stick. A monkey with a big brain, but maybe questionable morals? 🐒 Image: @fernandofariasbirding (iNat.org)

What is the replication crisis? Is it a problem in Ecology and Evolution? Can journals help us fight it? I'll be answering all these questions and more later this week in a free and open @sortee.bsky.social webinar. Come along to find out more!!

SORTEE@sortee.bsky.social · 3mo ago

For the June edition of the SORTEE workshop and webinar series, Dr. Joel Pick (@joelpick.bsky.social) will join us at 13:00 hrs UTC on June 25th to discuss the role of journals in fighting the replication crisis ✨ Sign up at: events.humanitix.com/webinar-what...

Check out our latest IZW press release together with the Institute of Virology, #Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, about West Nile virus (WNV) within Berlin urban area. The virus circulates between native 🦟mosquitoes & 🪶birds 👉https://www.izw-berlin.de/en/press_releases.html #urbanbiodiversity

In our new TREE paper, with M. Borgerhoff Mulder, S. Brosnan and E. Strauss we show that power in animal societies can be subject to control. When high-powered individuals use aggression to gain better access to resources, other group members can respond with "levelling". doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

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/...

🦊🦝🐿️Das IZW @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de ist mit dabei: Langer Tag der #Stadtnatur. Meldet Euch an! Erhaltet u.a. Einblicke in unsere Hyänen-Forschung @hyenaproject.bsky.social, lernt das Netzwerk "Wildtiernah Berlin" kennen...Nice pics, talks & more: 30.5. 👉 www.langertagderstadtnatur.de/angebote/det...

Erforscht wilde Tiere!,

Kennt ihr schon das WildtierMobil? Heute bieten wir euch exklusiv die Möglichkeit, bei uns am IZW einen Blick in unsere mobile Tierarztpraxis zu werfen! In unserem Hof warten außerdem spanne

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📢New study alert on #largecarnivore #conservation! 💻We modelled the impact of translocations on #Eurasianlynx (Lynx lynx) 🐾 across western +central Europe to find: 👉Most populations will remain stable in the near future but #populationconnectivity between Eastern & Western Alps is very poor...

Giving birth through an elongated clitoris, spotted hyena females know all about it. 😬 Spotted hyena newborns are fur balls of 3.5 kg that are born with their eyes open and teeth erupted.

Rebecca Sear@rebeccasear.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Human childbirth is not uniquely difficult among mammals: Birth complications are widespread across mammalian species, including in the wild www.univie.ac.at/en/news/pres...

❗Have you ever heard of the tamaraw or Oliver’s warty pig? So amazing! These rare species live in Mindoro, Philippines which is a #biodiversity hotspot with many endemic and threatened species. 🌴🐾📷 #CameraTrapping #EndangeredSpecies #WildlifeMonitoring

Our colleagues organizing a free workshop / training in #Vietnam on *Basic and Advanced Statistical Modelling*📈. Open now for registration! 👉Check out the two course modules (Aug & Dec 2026) & the objectives here: www.leibniz-izw-akademie.com/seminare/int...

Introduction to Basic and Advanced Statistical Modelling — Leibniz-IZW-Akademie

Introduction to Basic and Advanced Statistical Modelling Free workshop at the Institute of Advanced Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Target audience: Master’s students, PhD students, Earl...

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1/2 Adult play Although phylogeny predicts which primates play as adults (if play exists in one species, it is more likely to exist in close ones), it is whether or not the society is tolerant (and not despotic) that best predicts this behavior (paper) royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

"Can we take the grackle successes and apply them to threatened species, see if it helps them survive in human-modified environments?" Cool writeup and video short on #TheGrackleProject and #ManyIndividuals

UC Santa Barbara@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Have you ever been enjoying a meal outside when a black bird with yellow eyes comes to grab your food? That is likely a grackle, the focus of #UCSB researchers 🐦‍⬛ Studying grackles' success in human-modified environments could be the key to survival for endangered species: https://ow.ly/Trug50YRhtP

News from our #urban #squirrel project #Sciurus vulgaris #Berlin using #cameraTrapping and #CitizenScience:

Wildlife Biology@wildlifebiology.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Urbanisation and human activities influence the co-occurrence of red squirrels Sciurus vulgaris and meso-carnivores in Berlin, Germany vist.ly/4zmv8 #UrbanEcology #CameraTraps

This is a short article type, perfect for getting students started with the research process and with publishing. See more about this from Kate here: bsky.app/profile/kate... dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/t... We hope this is the first step in many journals seeking out replications

The value of close replications and how to get more of them: interview with Kate Laskowski

Welcome to our latest interview with the author of a recent interesting paper. Today’s interview was conducted by email with behavioral ecologist Kate Laskowski, first author of Laskowski et …

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Kate Laskowski@katelaskowski.bsky.social · 8mo ago

How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications. My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/ academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

🚨✨ JOB OFFERS ✨🚨 🧠 Interested in disgust and human disease avoidance? 🦠🤢 🎓 2 PhD positions (Montpellier 🇫🇷) + 1 postdoc (Stockholm 🇸🇪) now open! 📢 Exciting projects in VR, psychophysiology, psychoneuroimmunology, social behavior, and health 🧵 Details + deadlines in thread below!

New #hyena study ! 📢🧪 Spotted hyenas LOOOOOVE TO PLAY, even as adults! But how do these powerful carnivores make sure that everybody involved knows that they “just want to play”? 👉 They use a combo of visual and vocal signals, depending on the context! 🤓 doi.org/10.1007/s002... 1/5

Congratulations to An Nguyen on successfully defending his PhD!!! His work stands out by combining one of the largest #Camtrap datasets with advanced modelling to reveal how snaring drives #Defaunation in Vietnam - providing actionable insights for targeted #Conservation and #SpeciesProtection.

If you enjoyed the paper below👇👇, you might also be interested in our symposium on “Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in a Changing World” at the Nordic Oikos-GfÖ conference! The amazing Viktoriia Radchuk will be giving a talk, and we still have a few spots open, reach out to if interested! #NSO2026 🐦🌴🐝🌡️📉

Ecological Dynamics Dept. | IZW Berlin@ecodynizw.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Led by Viktoriia Radchuk, an international collaboration shows phenological shifts in response to changing temperatures allow populations to remain stable or even increase in numbers. Support from #sDiv @idiv-research.bsky.social

New #hyena study out @ecol-evol.bsky.social ! 📢🧪 What does it mean to be “high-ranking”? And does it always predict reproductive success? 🤔 Turns out: how you *measure* rank can change the answer. 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 1/5

The Effect of Social Rank on Reproductive Traits Depends on Rank Metric: Evidence From a Group‐Living Carnivore

In animal societies, one's social rank determines access to resources like food, mates, and allies. Using longitudinal data on 481 spotted hyenas, we tested two common social rank metrics with differ...

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Seeking a motivated postdoc (2+3 yrs) to study links between cognition, behavior, and fitness in lemurs at our long-term field site in Kirindy Forest, Madagascar. Join an interdisciplinary team working on wild populations. @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Apply here: www.dpz.eu