Does anyone know an environmental/marine sciences journal that - is not predatory - does not have submission fees Asking on behalf of a researcher in Gaza.
Keerthipriya P
@keerthipriyap.bsky.social
Postdoc researching animal behaviour (social behaviour in particular) and genetics. 🐘 🐿️ 🐦 🦆 🐒 Currently at the University of São Paulo (Brasil), previously at Colorado State University (USA) and JNCASR (Bengaluru, India)
📢 @asab.org Conference Attendance Grants for developing country applicants: deadline 1st AUGUST 📢 Up to £2500!!! Joint Winter Conference of ASAB and PSGB: “Social Learning and Culture” @asabpsgb2026.bsky.social #ASABWinter2026 @asab-meetings.bsky.social Full details: www.asab.org/conference-g...
Since 2013, researcher Mohammed Abu Daya has monitored fisheries' impacts on spinetail devil rays in Gaza. Operating from a displacement camp with limited resources, his ongoing work underscores the extreme conditions under which frontline marine data is being gathered. A interview by Lyse Mauvais.
Studying giant devil rays through war in Gaza: Interview with Mohammed Abu Daya
On the messaging platform WhatsApp, Mohammed Abu Daya’s profile picture features an aerial view of Gaza City before the current war. A clutter of high-rise buildings rises against the sky; at their…
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Don't forget about this excellent opportunity to share your joy and story-telling passion with younger generations! Expressions of interest are due on April 30th: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
He highlighted the importance of observing subtle changes in behavior, such as feather postures, and documented how slight changes in posture, feather erection, and gesture could have large, but non-obvious, communicative effects. Also, my favorite illustrative figures are from this paper.
Hi folks! Does anyone have experience banding killdeer? Please reach out, if so! I have a friend who would love to pick your brain about techniques
Horrible, and yet another example of free speech fans found wanting when it comes to certain issues.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon@jlmelenchon.bsky.social · 4mo agoLa police politique a convoqué une fois de plus Rima Hassan en garde à vue à propos d'un retweet du mois de mars. Il n'y a donc plus d'immunité parlementaire en France. Insupportable. La loi Yadan n'a pas été votée mais elle s'applique déjà ?
Laughing at the cat for checking behind the tv for the animals on the screen, but craning my neck in desperation when interesting behaviours go out of the frame in the videos I’m watching.
I don’t think I’ll get used to the idea of casually seeing marmosets while walking to work.
New OA paper @royalsocietypublishing.org: What can we learn from bonobos and bottlenose dolphins about the evolution of between-group cooperation? royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... Lovely collab with @lirsamuni.bsky.social Martin Surbeck and Richard Connor.
out now in Science: @loganjames.bsky.social collected pairs of sounds in 16 species where we *know* which sound is more attractive (to that species) he played them to ppl on themusiclab.org, asking, in each pair, which was nicer. humans agreed w other animals doi.org/10.1126/science.aea1202
I bought this when it came out in part because I’m an insect fan. I now recommend buying it as a Kuzhali Manickavel fan.
kuzhali manickavel/குழலி மாணிக்கவேல்@kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social · 5mo agoMe- Why can't we call it 'untitled'? Publisher- It has to be weird. With insects. Me- How about 'Insects are just like you and me except some of them have wings' hahaha Publisher- Yes. Me- Hahaha. Publisher- What hahaha. Me- What is happening right now www.blaft.com/collections/...
friends you can now pre-order my novel from Waterstones and get 25% off if you use the code FEB26! support weird fiction about government girls schools today! www.waterstones.com/book/a-compe...
A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School by Kuzhali Manickavel | Waterstones
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The 12th season of FINE starts the 24th of February with an exciting program. To register for weekly reminders and the video link email social.evolution.seminar@gmail.com
Endemic koloa maoli (Hawaiian Duck, Anas wyvilliana) shows preferential social associations, but not based on plumage or genetic relatedness https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.29.702521v1
🎉 Celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Join my inaugural lecture Social by Nature — exploring how social worlds shape animal minds 11 Feb 26 • 18:00–19:00 GMT • Cambridge + Online Register: www.aru.ac.uk/events/inaug... #EveryVoiceInScience #WomenInSTEM #LGBTQHistoryMonth
Sifting through Animal Behavior Society newsletters and came across a castigation of the field made by Dutch ethologist Adriaan Kortlandt in 1990. He states, "Ethology is supposed to be the study of behaviour, but the behaviour has become invisible." He also used to fight goats during lectures.
Trying to decide what I want to put up in the new place, the prettier prints or the creepy ones.
one of my favs paper from our Team in 2025: Strategic third-party interventions in feral ungulate affiliation url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... via @royalsocietypublishing.org 🐂
Strategic third-party interventions in feral ungulate affiliation
Abstract. Third-party interventions in agonistic behaviour play a key role in the maintenance of social relationships, but very little is known about how i
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New paper examining song type sharing between Rock Wrens in NoCo, with @laurynbenedict.bsky.social journal.afonet.org/vol97/iss1/a...
Journal of Field Ornithology: Song-type sharing between male Rock Wrens in northern Colorado
We examined song-type sharing and song-type co-occurrence among broadcast songs in a migratory population of a songbird with large and highly variable repertoire sizes, the Rock Wren (<em>Salpinctes o...
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A small but concrete task for today: Sameer Project told us on 12/25 that it costs $38 for 1 blanket, which can help keep a family that is in their 3rd winter in genocide (😢) warm. Can anyone join us today in donating the cost of one blanket to Sameer? Can you get 1 other person to join you?
A new year is a chance for new commitments. There's one you can make on any survival fund: click "weekly" or "monthly" (or stick the link in your calendar app) to ensure no family is forgotten. Help SIX families & a displacement camp of fifteen more: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
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Our friend Mai is facing a scary, lonely time with a high-risk pregnancy. She’s due in the next few days. Please continue to stand by her. Help with nutritious food, medicine, diapers. It matters. 10 HOURS LEFT. Give/find her link here. 211/1000
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
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Ten hours left; PLEASE SHARE. This goal is big because no one cared at all this week, but we need to make these weekly goals based on cost estimates from all six families & a camp—for their survival. Food, blankets, shelter. This, or death. Our choice. 400/2482
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
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Friends, support had stopped before this news, and the needs are ongoing, and survival funds are still about survival, and we have to distribute to the families today and tomorrow, ok? SIX families, food, water, medicine, 16 hours left. 0/640 chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
