New paper in Animal Behaviour 🐕 In 650 free-ranging dogs, social context and sex shaped begging more strongly than immediate gaze or food cues. Big thanks to the whole team! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Begging for morsels: social context and sex shape begging in free-ranging dogs

Interspecific communication plays an important role in mediating human–animal interactions, particularly in contexts involving access to anthropogenic…

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I have a PhD project to look at the impact of climate change on an endangered WA skink 🦎. Applicants interested in herpetology, thermal ecology and collaborating with First Nations are encouraged to apply. Apply now: www.murdoch.edu.au/study/schola... Lab website: www.nicholaswulab.com

Excited to present my digital poster at #ISAZ2026 tomorrow, July 1 at 4:30 PM! 🐾 We found free-ranging dogs use scent marks to distinguish sex & group identity to navigate territory. 🐕👃 Work from abhadra7.bsky.social's lab. See you there isazofficial.bsky.social! #AnimalBehavior #CanineScience

New paper alert: How Much Is Enough? An Empirical Test of the Resource Dispersion Hypothesis -Ecology and Evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Testing the Resource Dispersion Hypothesis in free-ranging dogs shows urban resources reshape space, not group size. @abhadra7.bsky.social.

How Much Is Enough? An Empirical Test of the Resource Dispersion Hypothesis

We provide evidence in support of the Resource Dispersion Hypothesis in free-ranging dogs of India.

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New paper out today in Ecology and Evolution! Link below. Congrats PhD student @smthmpsn.bsky.social, on your first paper. All about how wild birds learn to avoid a novel aposematic warning signal. And a nice nod to Britney Spears in the paper title.

Humbled by the reviewers’ comments—and inspired to keep pushing forward! After years of fieldwork, learning, failing, growing—this is the kind of moment you hold on to. Grateful beyond words. Huge thanks to my supervisor @abhadra7.bsky.social for the unwavering guidance through it all. #PhDLife #FRD

Love this! Arting Science is a brilliant initiative bringing together Indian folk art and scientific concepts. Check out how students at IISc are using art to convey complex research. #ArtMeetsScience #IISc #ScienceCommunication www.iisc.ac.in/arting-scien...

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IISc is the premier institute for advanced scientific and technological research and education in India.

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✨Planning for a Rakhi gift? Why not give a day pass to a delegate as a gift? ✅Covers everything for a day- all talks, symposia, workshops and food of an international conference! Hurry, limited passes available for each day!

Behaviour 2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social · last yr.

✨Learn, Connect, Network 🎟️ Introducing the DAY PASS for Behaviour 2025 – your opportunity to access world-class talks, symposia, workshops, and networking with global leaders in animal behaviour! 📅 Choose your day between 25–30 August 2025 and dive into the world of animal behaviour. Scan the QR!

Want to know where to start to make your garden more nature friendly? Start here with advice from phys.org 🌍 #UrbanEcology #GardenEcology #BiodiversityAction phys.org/news/2025-08...

🦋 New from #WikiLovesButterfly: A Little Girl and the Secret World of Butterflies — a magical story to spark curiosity in young minds. Co-written & designed with love, now available under CC BY 4.0. Read, share, adapt! Let us know your thoughts! #ButterflyOutreach #SciComm #CCBY4 #Outreach

📣Hurry up, the registration deadline is near! Regular Registration deadline for Behaviour 2025 has been extended to 31st July, 2025. Register here: conferenceindia.in/behaviour202... We welcome registrations from experts and enthusiasts in the field and look forward to seeing you in Kolkata soon!

Behaviour 2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social · last yr.

📣Extension of Registration Deadline Regular Registration deadline for Behaviour 2025 has been extended to 31st July, 2025. Register here: conferenceindia.in/behaviour202... We welcome registrations from experts and enthusiasts in the field and look forward to seeing you in Kolkata soon!

📢 Last 2 days left for Ethology in Focus!!! Submit here: behaviourindia2025.in/Ethology-in-... 📌 Don't miss the chance to showcase your photographs globally. Scan the QR code mentioned in the post to access the submission form. bsky.app/profile/beha...

Behaviour 2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 Deadline Extension Alert!!! ✨Good news! You can still share your photographs with us! Due to numerous requests, we are happy to extend the contest deadline till July 7, 2025. Scan the QR code mentioned in the post to access the submission form !

Please share: PhD scholarship opportunity in mathematical ecology on the value of information for improving ecological management, open to international students, with a great team @hugepossum.bsky.social, Katriona Shea, Kate Helmstedt, & me at UQ, Australia 🌍 🧮, study.uq.edu.au/study-option...

📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground! 🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome. 🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13 🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq Please share! @elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social

Marlen Fröhlich@marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉Exciting times ahead for @elmanubohn.bsky.social, Michael Franke, and me! We will soon be advertising 2 PhD positions (linguistics/biology/psychology) for our SFB subproject "Modeling Great Ape Signaling Behaviour" 🧮 🐵 Stay tuned!

PhD positions in bird cognition and behavior at the University of Hong Kong are open for motivated candidates. Applicants should have a biology background. Apply to Dr. Simon Sin at sinyw@hku.hk. More info: www.simonywsin.com. #phd

📢 Abstract submissions for Animal Behaviour Live Annual Conference are now OPEN! 🗓 Deadline: 7 Sept 2025 🎤 Choose from: 🔹 15-min live or recorded talk 🔹 5-min pre-recorded video poster (our classic format!) 📄 Submit here: ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org #ABL2025

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution Award: $265,800 for 3 years worth of full time support Eligibility: entering or applying for Ph.D. programs in biology or a subfield of the life sciences during fall 2025 Deadline: LOI due July 31, 2025 www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... 🧪 🧠

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution

The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

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This is fascinating!

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Meet the MIT engineer who invented an AI-powered way to restore art

✨Introducing the Jury members for Ethology in Focus.✨ behaviourindia2025.in/Ethology-in-... We are pleased to have Gabriela Staebler and Dhritiman Mukherjee as our jury members.

Capture behaviour in a frame. Submit your best shot to the Behaviour 2025 Photography Competition! Submission extended!

Behaviour 2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 Deadline extended ✨ Now you can submit your creative ideas and photographs till June 30th 2025. The deadline for the submission of photos for Ethology in Focus contest has been extended to June 30th. 📷 Keep on capturing the glimpses of animal behavior through your lens and share with the world

Looking for #PhD in behavioural and applied ecology? Our project will determine the importance individual level variation in #seabird #foraging for assessing the impact of wind farms @jon-seabirds.bsky.social @jaycee161.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Fundamental Interaction Niches: Towards a Functional Understanding of Ecological Networks' Resilience | doi.org/10.1111/ele.... | Ecology Letters | #ornithology 🪶

Our article just got accepted!🥳 Pre-prof: Fair game: Urban free-ranging dogs balance resource use and risk aversion at seasonal fairs url:https://academic.oup.com/cz/article/doi/10.1093/cz/zoaf030/8156446 #FRDs #dogs #doghumaninteractions #urbanadaptation @abhadra7.bsky.social

Witnessed begging in free-ranging dogs? What’s behind their strategies? How do they read us? Our new preprint uncovers how social context and human gaze shape dog-human communication. @animalcognition.bsky.social #DogBehaviour #InterspeciesCommunication #UrbanEcology arxiv.org/abs/2505.17770

An Eye for a Treat: Human Gazing Modulates Begging by Free-ranging Dogs

Interspecific communication plays a critical role in mediating human-animal interactions, particularly in contexts involving access to anthropogenic resources. This study investigates the influence of...

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2025. Individual decision-making and collective animal behavior | PNAS www.pnas.org/post/podcast...

Please share. We are hiring domestic/international #PhD students to work on citizen science, insect migration/conservation at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. If interested, please email me. You can find more about our research interests here. shawanchowdhury.com.

Pre-print alert! We've tested the Resource Dispersion Hypothesis in #FRDs. A huge shout out to all my co-authors. Looking forward to submitting our work soon!! arxiv.org/abs/2504.11557

How Much is Enough? An Empirical Test of the Resource Dispersion Hypothesis

Free-ranging dogs (Canis familiaris) thrive in diverse landscapes, including those heavily modified by humans. This study investigated the influence of resource availability on their spatial ecology a...

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Eusociality evolves more readily in haplodiploid #insects because of an inflated #genetic relatedness between sisters - the transition rate from solitary to eusocial life was 15-100 times higher in haplodiploid than diploid lineages www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Eusociality evolved at a much higher rate in haplodiploid insects

As a corollary to inclusive fitness theory, W.D. Hamilton’s famous haplodiploid hypothesis proposed that eusociality evolves more readily in haplodiploids because of an inflated genetic relatedness be...

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