How exciting! Check out our paper, published earlier this month, in #AnimalBehaviourJournal 🦗

ASAB@asab.org · 2w ago

🦗Crickets! 🔊Vibrational stimuli! 🚧Sensitization! 👥 Individual variation! Our #EditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: “Trait-specific responses to repeated stressor exposure reveal context-dependent learning in wild crickets” Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2026.123607

Great write-up of our new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper on how many animals exhibit pre-emptive behaviour in a landscape of intergroup conflict. Thanks #JordanJoseph at @earthdotcom.bsky.social #OpenAccess paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... @josharbon.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Earth.com@earthdotcom.bsky.social · 3w ago

Chimpanzees and other animals prepare for conflict long before they fight #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth

Our recent paper led by @oddjacobson.bsky.social recently covered by @mongabay.com

Mongabay@mongabay.com · 2w ago

A 33-year study on Costa Rica’s white-faced capuchin monkeys reveals that extreme climate events force the primates to abandon their social norms. Severe droughts cause food scarcity, driving intense competition, territorial sensitivity and shifting group dynamics. Adam Litchkofski reports.

I’m not presenting but do come find me to chat about pre-emptive behaviour (or any behaviour really)!

Andy Radford@andyradford.bsky.social · 2w ago

👏Congratulations @josharbon.bsky.social on a fantastic new #TREE review from #NERC funded postdoc. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... #OpenAccess; please share. 💬If you're at #ISBE2026 & interested in #pre-emptive behaviour and/or intergroup #conflict, seek Josh out for a chat. @isbe2026.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...

Online now: Pre-emptive behaviour in a landscape of intergroup conflict

Humans prepare for warfare in various ways, but we're not alone. Read how other species, from ants to apes, also exhibit behavioural flexibility in anticipation of encounters with rival groups in our NEW @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social review. Led by @josharbon.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

New @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper out today. Interested in how animal groups pre-emptively adjust their behaviour to a landscape of intergroup conflict? The culmination of almost daily chats with @andyradford.bsky.social throughout my postdoc. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

i love when a press release headline sounds like it was written by an aggrieved fish

So much support from the animal behaviour research community, and many others, who have signed this letter. Thank you. Your care, concern and kind words at this time provides such encouragement.

Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB)@crab-exeter.bsky.social · 3w ago

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...

The proposed job cuts at the University of Exeter threaten our amazing Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB). The support from the community over the last few weeks has been overwhelming. I really can't express how much it means to all of us. Thank you, everyone, for standing with us.

Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB)@crab-exeter.bsky.social · 3w ago

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...

Visiting and giving a talk at CRAB last year has been amazing. Our colleagues there have created a safe, supportive, and high-end scientific environment where students from different groups feel like a team and continue to inspire us all. Can't even imagine what the loss of CRAB would look like.

Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB)@crab-exeter.bsky.social · 3w ago

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...

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

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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Our new commentary rdcu.be/ftx6h in @natecoevo.nature.com written with folks from @inaturalist.bsky.social and @cornellbirds.bsky.social shows that use of AI to manipulate existing or create new wildlife images undermines the huge value of vast citizen science databases. 🌍🪰🪶 #Ornithology 🧵 1/10

Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI

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New paper! We simulated foraging trips of Northern gannets at Bass Rock to decipher what information individuals use to keep returning to the same foraging patches. Memory was the strongest driver, but it wasn't the whole story. 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1186/s404... 1/5

🌟CONGRATULATIONS🌟 #HarrySuter on his first #PhD publication out now in @royalsociety.org #ProceedingsB 📑Optimal foraging #modelling to better understand #self-control in non-human animals @bristoluni.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #cognition #ECRs #evolution doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Self-control: changing our perspective on performance

Abstract. To measure self-control in non-human animals, subjects are typically tested on how long they will wait for a larger–later food reward instead of

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We started @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social to make a small but real change to barriers students face. Since then, we disbursed >£26,000 in microgrants & matched >120 mentees w. mentors! In our new paper, in #AnimalBehaviourJournal's SI on Biases in Animal Behaviour, we share what we did, why, and how 🐝

Animal Behaviour Collective@abcmicrogrants.bsky.social · 4w ago

Our paper is out now! 🎉📝 We describe how we work to address barriers faced by students and early-career researchs in the animal behaviour field, through our mentorships and microgrants. We hope that this can inspire and provide practical resources for others hoping to do the same!

We have lift off! The first Pufflings are now leaving the Isle of May as birds are now independent. This is a big moment as they’ve never flown and not seen the sea before! Good luck :)

Interested in a postdoc position? Olfaction in poison frog tadpoles! Based in Germany with some field work in Costa Rica (bilateral funding, 3 years). Please share with your froggie and neuro/behavior contacts 🐸 www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

@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 · last mo.

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

Honoured & humbled to have won the global #KeystoneAward for 'Outstanding Teaching & Mentoring' www.keg.com/keystone-awa... A HUGE thank you to all the amazing #ECRs I have been privileged to work with & who wrote such heart-felt testimonials 🙏 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social

Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a PhD student and a Postdoc to investigate innovation in corvids within the “Comparative ecological innovation styles” project funded by @fwf-at.bsky.social. More info: barbaraklump.com Application deadline July 24th. Please share widely!

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

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We are looking for a motivated and collaborative MSc student to join us @humboldtuni.bsky.social for their thesis on body mass inequality in Arabian babblers. Preferably based in Berlin. Co-supervised with brilliant @benmocha.bsky.social Call: danaipapageorgiou.weebly.com/join-us.html

A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution shows that wild dwarf mongooses pre-emptively alter their behaviours, including space use and sentinel calling, in relation to the level of threat posed by the size of rival groups. go.nature.com/4w9P0Tf 🧪

excited about this one: using longitudinal movement data and dyadic models, we show that orangutan moms adjust their ranging patterns so their kids can play with age-mates independent of kinship, at personal costs. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Thanks to @earthdotcom.bsky.social for the super article about our new paper on how mongooses predict conflicts with rivals and pre-emptively change their behaviour in relation to relative group size. ☺️ Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415... @josharbon.bsky.social @ukri.org www.earth.com/news/dwarf-m...

Dwarf mongooses can predict conflicts with rival groups

Dwarf mongooses change how they move, call and rest beforehand, adjusting caution to the specific rival group nearby.

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☺️Lovely write-up about our new #mongoose paper on how they pre-emptively change their behaviour in relation to the #intergroup threat level. Thank you. @josharbon.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @ukri.org Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Article: scienceblog.com/wildscience/...

Mongooses Plan Their Battles Days Before the Enemy Shows Up

On a termite mound somewhere in the Limpopo bush, a dwarf mongoose hauls itself up onto its hind legs, scans the scrub, and starts to sing. It is a small, chirruping watchman’s song, the sound of a se...

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🎉Out today: the labour of love that's our NEW paper showing dwarf #mongooses pre-emptively change #behaviour in anticipation of #intergroup #conflict... & this depends on relative group size (threat level). 👥Led by the brilliant @josharbon.bsky.social @natecoevo.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415...