Our latest microgrant funding round is open now! 📢 Below is a reminder of what we do and don't fund. This round closes October 30th! Want to help us support students? Please spread the word, and donate if you can! For more informaition and to apply: opencollective.com/animal-behaviour-collective

🌍✨ Join us for #ABL2026! ✨🌍 The annual Animal Behaviour Live online conference returns on 12 November 2026, in just 2️⃣ months ! 🎓 This year’s theme is “Studying Animal Behaviour in a Changing World”. ✅ Registration is open to everyone! 🔗 Register for FREE here: ablaoc.sciencesconf.org

Appel à projets - Subventions de recherche Ouverture des candidatures le 2 septembre 2026 Fin des candidatures le 14 octobre 2026 + d'informations sur le site web de la Fondation Fyssen

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!

🐒 Work with primates? Have you observed 3 or more individuals grooming together? Polyadic grooming is barely documented and we know little about its distribution. Please take 1–2 minutes to fill out this short survey and share: forms.gle/cLPB1mnwrjJo...

Polyadic grooming in primates

survey about observations of polyadic grooming in primate species

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Save the date! 📅 PSGB is hosting an online workshop on the topic “Cognition for Conservation and Captive Care” (2nd September 2026). Check out the first look for our speakers working across primate behaviour and cognition & register your interest to receive the workshop link! 🐒 shorturl.at/HDvXA

🐶 As Section President for this year’s British Science Festival, I’m honoured to represent the amazing work we do at UoP Dog Cognition Centre, uncovering incredible cognitive abilities of dogs! #DogCognition #AnimalCognition #BritishScienceFestival www.britishscienceassociation.org/news/announc...

Announcing our British Science Festival 2026 Section Presidents

The British Science Association has announced the Scientific Section Presidents for the 2026 British Science Festival, which takes place from 16-20 September in Southampton, hosted by the University o...

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🐒 Post-doc Opportunity 🐒 ... annndd we're now also advertising a 3-year Research Fellow position at NTU as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project. More info: jamiewhitehouse.github.io/mappingconne... Apply here: vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Deadline: 19th June :) Please repost!

🐒 PhD Opportunity 🐒 I'm excited to announce that we are now welcoming applications for a 3-year fully funded PhD position at Nottingham Trent University as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project. More info: jamiewhitehouse.github.io/mappingconne... Apply here: tinyurl.com/PhDNTU

Research Assistant position working on eye-tracking and parenting cognition in macaques, linked to Yuri Kawaguchi's BBSRC Fellowship. Join us at NTU! @yurikawaguchi.bsky.social vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Research Assistant in Primate Cognition:Hybrid

Research Assistant in Primate Cognition working with captive rhesus macaques to improve animal welfare.

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🚨 4-year PhD 🚨 Study how disgust 🤢 shapes food avoidance 🙅 & immune responses 🩸 through VR 🎮 + lab exp + psychophysiology with @csarabian.bsky.social, Marie Charpentier (@mandrillusproject.bsky.social) & me ⏳ Oct 2026 | ⚠️ Deadline May 20 📍 Univ Montpellier 🇫🇷 --> euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422430

PhD for Thesis No. 2 of the SENS-ALIM Nexus: ‘Between disgust and immunity: Avoidance strategies and vulnerability to risks associated with foodborne pathogens’

- work environment: Humans are constantly exposed to pathogens in their environment. In addition to physiological immunity, a behavioural immune system enables the detection of risks and helps to avoi...

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Job 🚨 Please share!! We have a teaching track faculty opening in our undergraduate behavioral biology program at Johns Hopkins University Teaching animal behavior plus self-developed courses facultyjobs.jhu.edu/Positions/De... @jhu.edu @jhuartssciences.bsky.social

Fully funded PhD studentship on human dominance hierarchies and non-verbal behaviour, with lead Eithne Kavanagh. Join us at NTU! @eithnekavanagh.bsky.social www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-co...

Physiological health outcomes of dominance hierarchies in team-based contexts

Find out more about this fully funded PhD studentship opportunity.

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I’m advertising two position options (PhD/postdoc) within my lab - take a look below if you’re interested or send me a message ☺️ @uni-konstanz.de

IMPRS-QBEE@imprs-qbee.bsky.social · 7mo ago

One of our IMPRS Faculty Members, @heesenr.bsky.social , is currently looking for applications. Please follow this link for more information: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/125923/docto...

Back in Brussels for the 2026 edition of the Science is Wonderful event organised by the #MSCA. Very grateful for being selected and invited again by the European Commission to explain our research and inspire children 🐵 🌴 @jmicheletta.bsky.social @teresa-romero.bsky.social @francescadp.bsky.social

Marine Joly@marinemjoly.bsky.social · 2y ago

We had a fantastic time showcasing our research at the Science is Wonderful! fair organised by the European Commission in Brussels. Thanks to #MSCA for the invitation and to all children who visited our booth 😃 🐒 @francescadp.bsky.social @jmicheletta.bsky.social @teresa-romero.bsky.social

🎉 2025 SORTEE Commendation Award recipients: EcoEvoApps, Flipping the Script, JuliaPhylo, MacaqueNet, MorphoBank, and Virtual Australian Museum of Palaeontology (VAMP)! Congrats to all for advancing open, reliable, & transparent practices in ecology and evolution. 🔗 Learn more at sortee.org/awards/

📢📢📢Lectureships at Bristol!📢📢📢 We're hiring 3 x lecturers (=assistant professor) in Biological Sciences, across the discipline. Great department, great colleagues, great building, great city Details here: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

We are recruiting a Lecturer in Psychology: mss.port.ac.uk/ce0732li_web... and a Teaching Fellow: mss.port.ac.uk/ce0732li_web.... Come and join the Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology 🐶🐵🐴🐘🕷️🧒 www.port.ac.uk/research/res...

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

Our Science Perspective on Ianni et al - neural control of facial expressions involves voluntary pathways @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social www.science.org/eprint/EKJTZ...

Making faces

Facial expressions are produced through a coordinated system of voluntary and emotional pathways

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I’m thrilled to announce that I’m recruiting a funded PhD student at Nottingham Trent University to study the cognitive mechanisms underlying individual differences in parenting in rhesus macaques! Deadline: 2 February | Start date: April 2026

@primatesocietygb.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Fully funded PhD project available at Nottingham Trent University. Linked to a BBSRC funded grant, this project will investigate how primates perceive and respond to infants, combining cutting-edge cognitive testing with behavioural data. See 🧵

🚨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

🚨 Postdoctoral Opportunity for Female Scientists🚨 The University of Vienna is awarding at least 20 fully funded 4 year postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists Interested? Get in touch via direct message careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... #MicroSky 🧪 #PostDoc @univie.ac.at

Are you a UK national/resident and identify as Black, Asian, or a minoritised ethnic community? You can apply for a PhD with me and colleagues at Swansea as part of our NERC CROCUS doctoral training programme... and we develop the topic together. Please get in touch if eligible and interested!

⏰ 1 month left to apply for these fully-funded #PhD opportunities with us investigating social monitoring & manipulation. #bioacoustics #mammals UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6 NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp DM or email me if you have questions. Please spread the word. ☺️

Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage - Biological market monitoring and manipulation in social animals at Unive...

PhD Project - Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage - Biological market monitoring and manipulation in social an...

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BBS article on mechanisms of group cohesion in primates (Robin Dunbar), with our commentary proposing facial expression as one of those key mechanisms! @eithnekavanagh.bsky.social @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Fully-funded PhD position with Yuri Kawaguchi at NTU, associated with her BBSRC Fellowship on parenting in rhesus macaques. Join us! @yurikawaguchi.bsky.social @ntupsychology.bsky.social (note - open to UK students only) www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-co...

Enhancing welfare through cognitive assessment of parenting skills in captive managed animals

Find out more about this PhD opportunity funded by BBSRC, hosted through the NTU fully funded studentship scheme.

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Interested in the evolution of social behaviour? We have a fully-funded PhD opportunity on human social hierarchies, nonverbal behaviour and health! Supervised by myself, @bridgetwaller.bsky.social and @ellamcloughlin.bsky.social. Informal enquires encouraged! www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-co...

Physiological health outcomes of dominance hierarchies in team-based contexts

Find out more about this fully funded PhD studentship opportunity.

ntu.ac.uk

📢Two fully-funded #PhD opportunities to work with us: Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6 NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork

⚠️ New Postdoc or PhD position open (3 years+) ⚠️ 🚩Developmental milestones across cultures 🌍 Based @leuphana.bsky.social , in collaboration with @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social Please share/apply! Link: tinyurl.com/58dsn43u