An exhausting but inspiring 5 days at #ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social. As always, a highlight was getting to bring the Uni Zurich and Australian National University halves of our lab group together, as well as catching up with past lab members! Even better if 1m long pizza is involved...

📢 @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...

Dream PhD opening! Innovation in wild falcons! Application deadline Aug 1🦅

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!

Are you (or do you know someone) recently graduated from undergrad looking to beef up your skills and experience prior to starting grad school/career? Do you like social drama and parakeets? Come join my team! I'm looking for two people to start very soon!! tinyurl.com/59rf8jcy

Read about how animal cultures interact with human cultures and some of our recent work to conserve animal cultures in this fascinating article ->

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We have an exciting new position in our group for a PhD on parrot innovation !!! The position will be part of our new @fwf-at.bsky.social Emerging Fields project with @barbaraklump.bsky.social , @mohara.bsky.social , @christophvoelter.bsky.social and Justus Piater. Apply & share!!

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!

Join us on campus & online on Friday, 17 July 2026 at 3:00pm for a seminar by Jay Nicholson, PhD candidate from the Nicotra Group at the Research School of Biology. Details: biology.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

E&E PhD Exit Seminar: Vulnerability of culturally important plant species to drought and heatwaves in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park

Over the last three years of my PhD, I have been working with Anangu researching why ecologically and culturally significant plants are dying during extreme heatwaves and drought

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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

Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB) | Research Groups | University of Exeter

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Special thanks to Pablo Recio for doing the last talk at #ASSAB2026 about "Hormonal mechanisms of pair bonding in long-term monogamous reptiles"

The Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour has an Indigenous Student Membership Support Scheme. More info here: www.assab.org/index.cfm?mo... #assab2026 @animbehav.bsky.social 📸 artwork by Ginger Riley Munduwalawala

A fun talk by Lee DeSouza regarding the intelligent cockatoo with "Birds in the burbs: A cocka-two choice learning experiments" #ASSAB2026

Another great talk about the complexity and intelligence of cockatoo by Lisa Fontana and her talk "Experimental evidence for innovation and social learning in wild cockatoos" #ASSAB2026

Talk 2: comparing urban bird populations called "Evidence of learned recognition of heterospecific calls among mixed-species flock participants" by Edward Lawrence #ASSAB2026

By explaining how an Australian bird responds to the same species calls on a speaker, Brendah Nyahuthii informed us of this experiment "Testing the dear evening effect on a non-territorial group-living bird" #ASSAB2026

📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣 We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at Susan.Johnston@ed.ac.uk 🙂 Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

🚨 CES Elections 2026–2029 🚨 We’ve extended the nomination period for SIX Executive Committee positions: President-Elect, Treasurer, Secretary, 2x Executive Ordinary Members and Student Rep! 🗓 Nominations close: Jun14 🗳 Voting: Jun24–Jul8 📢 Results announced this summer forms.gle/9yX2SLcf82Vk...

Cultural Evolution Society Elections 2026: Nomination Form

Please use this form to submit your nomination(s) for the Executive Committee's open positions. On this page we will ask you for general details. The next pages allow you to choose the position(s) ...

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🎉New paper alert 🥳 Does proximity of breeding hollows influence foraging associations in wild cockatoos? doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... (🧵—1/2) With @lucymaplin.bsky.social , A. Csak

We are recruiting 🌟2 postdoctoral researchers🌟 for a NERC Large Grant project on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of badger - bovine tuberculosis (bTB) interactions.

Some more good news! Karajarri celebrate Australia’s first ‘Sea Country’ Indigenous Protected Area comprising of 237,489 hectares (nearly 587,000 acres) of marine and coastal ecosystems. It includes part of Malumpurr, the Karajarri word for Eighty Mile Beach. #ecology #goodnews #biodiversity

Karajarri celebrate Australia’s first ‘Sea Country’ Indigenous Protected Area

In northwestern Australia lies a remote and wildly diverse region called the Kimberley. There, the iron-red soils of the Pindan Country connect forests and the Great Sandy Desert, all bracketed by a v...

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CONGRATULATIONS to Prof John Long on his election as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences! So well deserved! science.org.au/news-events/... #bigwiginthehouse

We are inviting applications of motivated pre-doctoral researchers to join an exciting, HFSP-funded projct. 🧪🐦 🧠 @mpiforbi.bsky.social @hfspo.bsky.social FindAPhD.com share.google/eCgiK7GdjoQD...

PhD Programmes, Research Projects & Studentships in the UK & Europe

FindAPhD is a comprehensive guide to PhD studentships and postgraduate research degrees

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Is bigger always better? For social animals, group size is a dilemma: big groups face more internal competition, yet hold an edge over smaller neighbors. 33 years of data on 12 wild capuchin groups reveals how these forces shape behavior. Out today in *Nat Eco & Evo*: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Postdoc Opportunity! 4-year @royalsociety.org funded post @uniexecec.bsky.social: “Understanding the role of individual cognitive variation in reintroduction biology”. Closes: 5 June 2026. More info & to apply: careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/78... Wt: @paradiseparkhayle.bsky.social & Wildwood Trust

A rewarding collaboration between @saltu.bsky.social @klarawanelik.bsky.social @hanjabrrr.bsky.social @damienfarine.bsky.social @mchimento.bsky.social and myself. While single parasite infection can reduce latency to socially learn in GTs, co-infection with multiple parasites has a negative effect.

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Animals can learn by copying others, which helps them find food and survive. The Great tit, a small passerine is good at social learning. This #RSOS paper tested whether two common parasites affect how quickly the #birds could learn a new feeding task by watching others: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

🚨Another PhD opportunity🚨 Transgenerational heat stress effects on sheep behaviour Location: Adelaide University Contact: stephan.leu@adelaide.edu.au Details: stephanleu-ecology.com/phd-opportun... Application deadline: 17 May 2026

🎉🦜NEW PAPER ALERT 🦜🎉 Which social learning biases underly the acquisition of novel food in wild parrots ? We (@lucymaplin.bsky.social, @bjjbarrett.bsky.social, @sonjawild.bsky.social, @drjohnmartin.bsky.social) presented >700 cockies with a novel, artificial food (🧵1/6)

PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · 3mo ago

Adopting novel food is vital to colonize novel environments, but what is the role of social learning? Study of urban #cockatoos by @clevercockierp.bsky.social shows them to rapidly adopt novel food via #SocialLearning, with juveniles showing conformist preferences @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4uq6NVq

New paper from @julia-penndorf.bsky.social and the clever cockie research team! A wild experiment shows that cockies adopt novel foods via social learning, with info. transmitted across social networks & over space This works gives insight into how social learning enables niche expansion in cities

PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · 3mo ago

What is the role of social learning in adopting novel food? Study of urban #cockatoos by @julia-penndorf.bsky.social @clevercockierp.bsky.social &co shows that they rapidly adopt novel food via #SocialLearning, with juveniles showing conformist preferences @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4uq6NVq

📢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