📢 ASSOCIATE EDITORS WANTED Join us! IBIS is looking for Associate Editors to join our editorial team and support the peer review process Read more and complete the application form: bou.org.uk/ibis/vaca... #ornithology 🪶

Looking for an Associate Prof position? Interested in behavioural ecology & cultural evolution? Come join us at the Dpt of Ecology and Evolution in Lausanne🇨🇭 @dee-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! Great department & great place to live. Pls RP. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

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Marc Gilles@marcgilles.bsky.social · 2w ago

Excited to present my new study on great tits tomorrow (Tuesday) at 16:30 at @isbe2026.bsky.social ✨

⏰️1 week left to apply! We're recruiting for an Associate Editor with data integrity expertise! 📊 join us in improving the clarity, transparency, & accessibility of ecological research. 🌳 more information on the role and how to apply can be found here 👉️ buff.ly/R8z4TLe

Do you have a background in behavioural ecology and are you interested in doing a PhD in Australia? I’m looking for new grad students so check out our website (BobWongLab.org) or come find me in Torino at #ISBE2026. 🐟🐠

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...

We’re now looking for evolutionary ecologists to join our committee to build #ExE2026 into the start of something great, not just a one-off. Details here: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/evol...

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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Still some time to apply to our postdoc position - deadline 3rd July. I'll be at #SMBE2026 if anyone would like to chat about it 😊

Susan Johnston@susanjohnston.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣🧬 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...

Guess I’m just gonna leave this video here as my intro tweet :) 🕷️💤 In my group, we study spider sleep! :) m.youtube.com/watch?v=BTcc...

Do Spiders Dream Like Humans Do? This Researcher Wants to Find Out.

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⚠️ Students looking for experience, opportunities, Masters, PhDs etc in Animal Behaviour: the @asab.org mailing list is an invaluable source with exciting posts every few days. Sign up here: www.asab.org/mailing-list 📩

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ASAB@asab.org · 2mo ago

There are four positions to join ASAB council beginning 2027: Ordinary Member, Membership Secretary, Communications Officer and Social Media Officer. Statements and nominations are due June 20! www.asab.org/opportunities

New paper out now! Biologically inspired warning patterns deter a passerine, Parus major, from digital turbine blades academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

Biologically inspired warning patterns deter a passerine, Parus major, from digital turbine blades

By mimicking the warning colours of animals that ward off birds, we can produce wind turbine patterns to which birds are averse, reducing the likelihood of

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Excited to share our new paper: Predictions from evolutionary theory for urban environments. We brought together empiricists and mathematical theorists to find common ground on where and how we can work together to better understand urban evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Predictions From Evolutionary Theory for Urban Environments

Urbanization drives rapid and extreme environmental change, profoundly shaping the ecology and evolution of populations. In this Perspective, we call for the integration and development of evolutiona...

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🚨We're hiring again, this time for a research assistant position 🚨 The position is to help with a project looking at learning and social behaviour in birds along an urban gradient Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆28th June deadline More info: shorturl.at/vBxiW #ringing #fieldwork

A colleague of mine, Willem Frankenhuis is hiring a PhD on "Mathematical Modeling of Adaptive Cognition in Stressful Environments" in the Department of Evolutionary and Population Biology (EPB) at IBED @uva.nl He is a great PI 😀 - apply now. Link is below www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3608...

PhD position in Mathematical Modeling of Adaptive Cognition in Stressful Environments

Are you interested in adaptive cognition and behavior in stressful environments? The Department of Evolutionary and Population Biology (EPB) at IBED is looking for a skilled, responsible, and organize...

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Across birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles and insects - urban animals are consistently bolder than their rural counterparts, according to a new global meta-analysis. 🌍🧪

The city mouse really is bolder than the country mouse - British Ecological Society

And so are most animals, according to global study.

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My former officemate Camille Troisi, an excellent scientist and top-tier human, now at the Université de Rennes, is currently recruiting a PhD student on the relationship between urbanisation and social learning (in birds!) sdrive.cnrs.fr/s/2HtQ8caBRd...

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Have you ever thought of all what animals can do when predation is not a big issue? In this review 👉 doi.org/10.1016/bs.a... @maribelrm.bsky.social @juancarvajalcastro.bsky.social and I show how aposematism can be viewed as an “umbrella trait” influencing multiple aspects of its bearers' lives🔴🟡⚫

We’re hiring a herpetology curator @nhm-london.bsky.social - come join us! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job...

Senior Curator in Charge, Herpetology:South Kensington

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I am hiring a PhD student to join our group in Lund, Sweden working on an ERC-funded project to untangle color and polarization vision in some amazing crustaceans – minute water fleas and pugnacious mantis shrimp! Please forward this to promising students. Apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

zoologie.uni-greifswald.de/en/organizat... We have an open PhD position in my group for someone interested in functional morphology, biology of reproduction and evolutionary biology. Please spread the word!🧪🕷🧪🕷🧪🕷🧪

🚨 New podcast episode out now! Tune in to hear Dr. Jessica van der Wal speak about how human communication used to cooperate with honeyguides varies regionally, much like human language does.. 🔊Listen on Soundcloud ➡️ buff.ly/ZiyHl1p 🔊Listen on Spotify ➡️ buff.ly/fNUdYkf

Well this is a big one the largest paper from my PhD is finally out! We show how direct lighting influences optimal camouflage! With shadows promoting the evolution of darker, striped patterns and countershading!! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Shining a light on camouflage evolution: Using genetic algorithms to determine the effects of geometry and lighting on optimal camouflage

Visual camouflage evolution in animals depends on both light’s interaction with its surroundings and the limits of what the natural observers of the camouflage can see. Changes in lighting – such as t...

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Even my study system is sexist! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/GZI5IZ...

It's tent caterpillar time in Amsterdam!

BBSRC, NERC and Future Leaders fellowships are fantastic opportunities for ECRs to transition to independence. My institute (IVES) at Liverpool Uni is keen to support applicants (vet/ecol/evol/infection/omics etc.). Get in touch with me (ives.fellowships@liverpool.ac.uk) if you're interested!

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Biologically inspired warning patterns deter a passerine, Parus major, from digital turbine blades

By mimicking the warning colours of animals that ward off birds, we can produce wind turbine patterns to which birds are averse, reducing the likelihood of

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Article @theconversation.com Europe on how, 40 years after the accident, #Chornobyl has transformed into one of the best nature reserves in Europe, and the toll that the current war in Ukraine is having on the area. theconversation.com/chernobyls-e...

Chernobyl’s exclusion zone is a beacon of biodiversity – but it faces new threats from Russia’s invasion

Chernobyl’s exclusion zone has become one of Europe’s biggest nature reserves.

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