#ISBE2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your abstract by 15 December 2025 on www.isbe2026.com @behavecol.bsky.social

Meet our plenary speaker Renata Sousa-Lima! Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil), Renata ‘s research focuses on bioacoustics of aquatic mammals and has pioneered the field of ecoacoustics and soundscape ecology in Brazil.

Meet our plenary speaker Eva Ringler! Professor at the University of Bern, Eva Ringler and her research group are interested in understanding variation in animal behaviour from an ecological and evolutionary perspective focusing on Neotropical poison frogs and glassfrogs.

Meet our plenary speaker Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi Director of the India Program for the Snow Leopard Trust working on snow leopards and human-wildlife coexistence in the high Himalaya. His work focuses on the interactions between large carnivores, their wild prey, and farming communities.

Meet our plenary speaker Felicity Muth! Assistant professor at the University of California Davis, her lab group are broadly interested in cognition, especially aspects of learning and memory that have a clear function in the natural world, focusing on captive and wild bumblebees.

Meet our Plenary Speaker Daniela Rößler Fueled by curiosity and a deep love of natural history Daniela discovered a REM-like sleep state in spiders and uses integrative field, lab and comparative approaches to investigate the function, ecology, and evolution of sleep across the spider tree of life.

Honored to announce the Hamilton Lecture 2026! Leigh Simmons, Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Western Australia has made an outstanding contribution to the field of sexual selection acting from the whole organism to its gametes, and to our Society.

@karendeepsidhu.bsky.social tells us about how monogamy/polygamy alters responses to heatwaves in burying beetles (well a 25oC Scottish heatwave anyway)

tinyurl.com/UoATransphobia ☝️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 im sure many of you are aware of hostility towards #trans staff & students in my department myself & other ECRs have published a desperate call for action on #transphobia from departmental and university management please read, share and SIGN IN SOLIDARITY ❤️

Right, you fucks, if you live in the UK sign this. If you don’t live in the UK share it as some of your followers might and they should sign this.

Apt-Get@aptget.bsky.social · 2y ago

Friends, a petition I've created to go to Parliament for the protection of Trans Healthcare in the UK has just gone live. If you are in the United Kingdom, please sign and share this. If you are not in the United Kingdom, please share it. #Trans #LGBTQ #UK petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

My latest article examines the #environmental impact of the #Gaza conflict. As @pmbigger.bsky.social from @cplusc.bsky.social noted: A substantial portion of land has now been destroyed, making it much harder to achieve any level of food sovereignty once the #genocide ends. More: shorturl.at/C1v1R

“It's amazing how pollution has dropped in #Paris in 15 years. @annehidalgo.bsky.social has filled the city with bike-lanes & not only has she reduced pollution by 40% but she’s also been re-elected.” Trading car space for green space, bike space, kid space…trading pollution for people. Good trade.

Alejandro Cencerrado 7291@alexbici.bsky.social · 2y ago

Es alucinante cómo ha bajado la contaminación en París en 15 años. Anne Hidalgo lo ha llenado todo de carriles bici y no sólo ha reducido la contaminación en un 40%, sino que ha sido reelegida.

Postdoc @ evol-lab. A Leverhulme funded 3-year postdoc studying body shape evolution (through a sexual conflict lens) on Exeter's Penryn (UK) campus. Starts April 2025. Contact David Hosken @ U of Exeter for detail.

#BIPOC voices are often missing from autistic spaces, so here is a BIPOC starter pack! 😊 go.bsky.app/TtXfpAt #racialequality #antiracism The image of autism as “only white boys” leads to underdiagnosis, discrimination & isolation for many Our autistic community is much more diverse than that! ❤️

Final talks of #ASABWinter2024 by Kate Otter, @karendeepsidhu.bsky.social, @natacharossi.bsky.social / @animalbehaviour.live & Marina Paradopoulou Finishing with teaching queer & feminist perspectives in biology, addressing colonial bias, online outreach & gender ratios in academic publications.

It was amazing to get to give a talk on colonial legacies in Animal Behaviour, work has been ongoing for a long time behind the scenes, hopefully there will be more to come! #ASABWinter2024 #DecolonisingSBS

Amazing to hear more in depth about helicopter research/parachute science with some colonial context! #ASABWinter2024

Dr Sophia Daoudi-Simison@sophiadaoudi.bsky.social · 2y ago

@nicolakoyama.bsky.social talking about the “who, what, where” of animal behaviour research @asab.org #ASABWinter2024

Congratulations to the 2024 ASAB medal winner Rebbeca Kilner🏅 We award this medal annually for contributions to the science of animal behaviour, through teaching, writing, broadcasting, research or for work on behalf of the association. Any member can nominate candidates! #ASABWinter2024

Great to see @asab.org speakers promoting of the value of traditional indigenous skills, and how certification allows for a range of benefits (including better salaries for locals in grant applications). #ASABWinter2024

Final plenary by @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social concerning the language barriers in science. The hurdles for non-native English speakers are significant! #ASABWinter2024 Also, our congratulations to Tatsuya for winning the @britishecolsoc.bsky.social Equality and Diversity Champion award this week!

First talk session wrapped up at #ASABWinter2024 and my mind is racing with all these new understandings of biases! Can't wait for what's to come!

The sad truth is this isn't even everything, this department's transphobia and racism is completely out of control and continues to hurt so many people

Jack 🦠@jack-d-barber.bsky.social · 2y ago

reflecting on the past year of #queerphobia in my department (school of Biological sciences) at bsky.app/profile/unio... TW: #transphobia • posters torn down • posters defaced with penis stickers • transphobe invited by management to give #EDI workshop (1/5) #PhDSky #AcademicSky #QueerInSTEM

When I try to explain how things are actually getting worse, people look at me like I'm crazy.This piece is spot on. #SIStem (senior #womeninSTEM)

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Women full professors are 19% more likely than men at the same career stage to leave academia, as compared with 6% for women assistant professors and 10% for associates."

reflecting on the past year of #queerphobia in my department (school of Biological sciences) at bsky.app/profile/unio... TW: #transphobia • posters torn down • posters defaced with penis stickers • transphobe invited by management to give #EDI workshop (1/5) #PhDSky #AcademicSky #QueerInSTEM

"Anyone who considers themselves a member of the STEMM community is welcome to sign. Please go to: forms.gle/oHqgSPGpiYte..., and provide your name, affiliation, and field of study."

Dr. Brendan Anderson@fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 2y ago

Around this time last year @boyswillbebugs.bsky.social, @allomygale.bsky.social, @spissatella.bsky.social, @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social and I published an open letter on supporting transgender persons in STEMM. We have decided to open to additional signatures 🧪⚒️🦑 medium.com/@transrights...

I'm very happy to share with you the results of a collaborative experiment between the Catawba Indian Nation and faculty, staff, and students at Davidson College. Yield, growth, and labor demands of growing maize, beans, and squash in monoculture versus the Three Sisters🌽🫘🎃 A few take home points:

#CiteBlackScholars

John Holbein@johnholbein1.bsky.social · 2y ago

Papers written by non-white economists receive 5.1% to 9.6% fewer citations than those written by white economists. This disparity is not attributable to differences in research quality, author ability, or visibility. However, this racial gap has declined by quite a bit in recent years.

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

Really important and vital Runnymede Trust report on rising Islamophobia in the UK, and the intensification of racism, with a foreword by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social www.runnymedetrust.org//publication...

Islamophobia: the intensification of racism against Muslim communities in the UK

Perspectives paper highlighting how Islamophobia is growing in the UK, and its structural nature across British society.

runnymedetrust.org