'The consequences are becoming increasingly tangible. During June’s heatwave, the Danube Reg'l Waterworks warned that unless h'holds immediately reduced consumption, “water supply network could completely implode” — potentially disrupting supplies across central Hungary.' www.ft.com/content/1dc7...

In Hungary, a wetland paradise lost

Climate change is drying out a European nation long celebrated for rivers, lakes and fertile fields

ft.com

Job posting: Associate Professor in behavioral ecology and cultural evolution within the Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) at the University of Lausanne. Deadline for applications is 30.09.2026: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli... (there is a button to switch to English at the top right)

.The very talented and fun Jonathan Henshaw has two positions to offer! If you like theoretical eco-evo questions, don't hesitate. Also, Freiburg is a very pretty place PhD: uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb... Postdoc: uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

The Euro banknotes are being redesigned. Some of them feature European birds 🕊️! More info here www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknot... including a survey where you can share your opinions on the candidate designs

BirdLife Österreich@birdlife.at · 2w ago

🇪🇺 Die EZB hat heute die Entwürfe für die neue Euro-Banknotenserie veröffentlicht. Was uns besonders freut: die europäische Vogelwelt ist auf einigen der Designs präsent vertreten. Hier kannst du über dein Lieblingsdesign abstimmen: surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/neweuro/

1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:

And for people at #ISBE2026, I'll be presenting our study on Friday at 1 pm, room 500. We're happy to hear your thoughts and to show pictures of those beautiful birds!

Thomas MacGillavry@thomasmacgillavry.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ever wondered what the bizarre dances of male birds of paradise look like to females? Check out our new preprint! @izziehb.bsky.social @fusanilab.bsky.social “The geometry of visual signaling in a bird-of-paradise” ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

SORTEE is coming to #ISBE2026! 🎉 📢 Learn about open science at our presentation (Monday, July 20, 14:00–14:40) 🎲 Chat with our volunteers, test your knowledge with open science quizzes and games, and enter our prize draw at the SORTEE stall (all conference)

Wayne Williams highly acclaimed award winning photo of Crested Caracara x Scissor-tailed Flycatcher ! The brave little fly catcher is dive-bombing the much larger Caracara!

We're a bunch from Uni Wien and Vetmeduni to be joining ISBE! Calling attention to this for interested colleagues 😊

Alexander Schlatmann@aaschlatmann.bsky.social · 3w ago

With the conference just a few days away, I thought it would be nice to create an #ISBE2026 attendees Starter Pack to help us connect more easily. If you’re attending and would like to be included, send me a message or reply below! go.bsky.app/CiXGqQ7

🚨 There's ~3 weeks left to submit your creative works for our first fishy #SciArt competition! 🐟🎨📽️ You choose the medium (e.g. illustration or short video) & ZDMS supply the cash (as judged by our expert panel) 🤩 👉 For more guidelines & submission details, visit: www.zdmsociety.org/sci-art-comp...

1 week since we launched Living Biology, the @sebiology.bsky.social Podcast! I'm thrilled that so many people have listened to the first two episodes, and very proud to have shared some wonderfully inspiring stories from Declan Perry and Lucy Hawkes about their lives in science. Happy listening!

Living Biology

Podcast · The Society for Experimental Biology · Living Biology is the official podcast of the Society for Experimental Biology, exploring the people, ideas, and discoveries driving modern biological...

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Do you have a background in behavioural ecology and are you interested in doing a PhD in Australia? I’m looking for new grad students so check out our website (BobWongLab.org) or come find me in Torino at #ISBE2026. 🐟🐠

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!

🚨Check this neat initiative! ✨ And for online attendance: "No need to register to participate online. The link for online participation will be shared on this page." 👀 #AnimalBehaviour #Philosophy

ASAB@asab.org · 4w ago

We are sponsoring an interdisciplinary workshop at UCL on the topic of agency! Registration for attending in person is limited so sign up soon. Deadline for the ECR elevator pitch session is Aug 7. More info here: www.animalinventiveness.com/post/interna...

Dr Rachel Heyard joins us from the Centre for Reproducible Science and Research Synthesis in Zurich to discuss funding lotteries and other innovations in research funding allocation on July 7th. Register here: events.humanitix.com/webinar-lott...

SORTEE Webinar: Lotteries and innovations in research funding allocation

SORTEE Workshop & Webinar Series

events.humanitix.com

Natural history on canvas: Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats Just published in @pnas.org, OA for all eyes Led by the one-and-only @romero-vidal.bsky.social, with the amazing @elena-tena.bsky.social and Sonia Sánchez-Navarro @ebdonana.bsky.social LINK: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Really interesting take on the future of ecology in an AI world. The take home: experiments and long-term studies will have increasing value. @jdrakephd.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

AI, Comparative Advantage, and the Next Decade of Ecological Research

Click on the article title to read more.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Call me old-fashioned, but I always look at a paper before I cite it www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?

Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.

nature.com

Online Now: Timescapes of non-human experience

Timescapes of non-human experience

How can we investigate non-human experiences scientifically? Given substantial differences in sensory abilities and the private nature of consciousness, this remains an open question. In this review, we propose a way to gain empirical traction on one key feature of experience: its temporal structure, or ‘timescape’. Perceptual contents follow systematic temporal principles—synchronisation, revision, and persistence—and are sampled across attentional windows and vary in stability. These principles can be explored through temporal illusions and experimental paradigms. We conceptualise an animal’s timescape in terms of five key windows, all of which are experimentally testable, and analyse evidence across animal species to highlight varying timescapes. Together, these ideas lay the foundations for a research programme comparing the temporal Umwelts of non-human animals.

dlvr.it

🎓📢 PhD Alert 🎓📢 Three weeks left to apply for the PhD position on maintaining the balance of power in animal societies! www.hu-berlin.de/en/universit... @animalopps.bsky.social

Are you looking for a PhD on the intersection between evolutionary and ecological theory? Join us @univie. Fully funded PhD position in fundamental eco-evolutionary theory, open to international students. Apply by 13.7.2026: ecoevo.owlstown.net/search Reposting appreciated. #evolbio #evoeco #ecology

Jitka's EcoEvo Lab - Jobs

ecoevo.owlstown.net

We are looking for two field managers‼️Starting end of August South Africa 🌍 If you have fieldwork experience and want a job with added responsibility of overseeing the field activities, see below for more information. 🐣 Deadline 15/06/2026 sociableweaverproject.com/recruitment/... #fieldjobs

🚨We're hiring again, this time for a research assistant position 🚨 The position is to help with a project looking at learning and social behaviour in birds along an urban gradient Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆28th June deadline More info: shorturl.at/vBxiW #ringing #fieldwork

Thought provoking science commentary: "AI models assume that relationships remain stable over time, that training data are representative of future conditions, and that observations are independent. These assumptions are routinely violated in ecological systems." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"If writing about the science is where scientists figure out what their science actually means, then treating paper-writing as a decorative layer on top of formalized claims may remove important think-work from the writing process." Enjoyed this piece on replacing the scientific article.

Is the scientific paper due to be replaced?

AI is pushing scientific publishing to the brink. For neuroscience, the crisis may be an opportunity to finally connect findings across subfields.

thetransmitter.org

On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people. www.nsf.gov/funding/post...

We are VERY excited to announce the call for applications has just been released for the 5th CV4Ecology Short Course!! This two-and-a-half-week intensive program trains ecologists and conservation practitioners to develop their own AI tools for their own data. Tell your friends! Apply now!

we did 3177 playback experiments on 264 species of birds to learn why males alone defend territories in some species while pairs team up to cooperatively defend home turf in others. and now you can read about it with writing that is fun theconversation.com/its-a-sing-o...

It’s a sing-off! Myth-busting about birds and sex when it comes to defending the nest

Males aren’t the only angry birds defending their territory. A clever test finds which songbirds step up to fight off intruders and the role monogamy plays.

theconversation.com

📣 EvolDir is now managed by @eseb.bsky.social! We are delighted to be taking the reins and express our gratitude to both Brian Golding who began this service to the community in the mid-1980s and to @rdmpage.bsky.social who ran this account until now 👏 You can now find evoldir here: evoldir.net

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us: 🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦 Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆29th May deadline More info: tinyurl.com/yz28s96x Apply: tinyurl.com/2wpkb64y #cognition #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #birds 🙏Please Share