AWARDS This year we have, once again, prizes for the best presentations: the Vitor Almada Prize and the Springer Awards!
Portuguese Ethological Society (SPE)
@spetologia.bsky.social
Society founded in 1987 to promote the study of animal behaviour | Follow us for new research of #SPEmembers, new #actaethologica issues, and updates of activities Organização não governamental e sem fins lucrativos Portugal www.etologia.pt @spe.etologia
We are very excited to be joined by four great invited speakers for #SPE2026! Swipe to see! If you want to join them in presenting your work, register and submit your abstract here 👇👇👇: etologia.pt/congress-2026/
WORKSHOPS This year we will have a new addition and an extra day reserved for workshops - 9th December! Workshops will happen in @biopolis-cibio.bsky.social headquarters (Vairão).
🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨 #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology "Not always positive: tactile body stimulation does not lower aggressiveness and increases stress in the Siamese fighting fish" Gauy et al. with SPE member Marta Soares @ Fish Physiology and Biochemistry
We are very excited to be joined by four great invited speakers for #SPE2026!
🚨New study by #SPEmembers 🚨 #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology "Intersections Among Attachment, Empathy and Emotion Regulation in Middle Childhood" Pires et al. with SPE member António Santos @ International Journal of Psychology
We are excited to announce that BIOPOLIS-CIBIO @biopolis-cibio.bsky.social , Universidade do Porto, will host the 2026 Conference of the Portuguese Ethological Society (hashtag#SPE2026)!
🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨 #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology "Acoustic profiling of Atlantic seamounts: Insights towards cost-effective monitoring of remote marine ecosystems" Carriço et al. with SPE members Rita Carriço, Manuel Vieira, Paulo Fonseca, and M Clara Amorim @ Continental Shelf Research
🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨 #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology "A new southern limit for the distribution of African great apes: sympatric western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and central chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) confirmed in Mayombe National Park, Angola"
🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨 #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology "Influence of environmental conditions on the abundance of juvenile endangered Atlantic weasel shark (Paragaleus pectoralis) in an African nursery area" Varela et al. with SPE member Melanie Court @ Marine Biodiversity
🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨 #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology "The ocean as a laboratory for animal intelligence"
🦎*Please share!*🦎 The Swierk Lab is recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 27 / Spr 28 to study Neotropical anole 1) body coloration and visual signals or 2) predator avoidance, diving, and respiration. Please contact only by email. More info and contact details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1TGmC...
My dept/area is hiring! We're open to animal species/model and research area. UCD is an amazing place to do nonhuman animal work - major 🐒 center, a band new rodent vivarium in the Psych building, and capacity to house all sorts of other animals! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07812
Assistant Professor of Psychology - Biological Bases of Behavior
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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🦌💩🦠 PhD opportunity! I am recruiting a fully-funded PhD student at the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine to study the causes and consequences of gut microbiome variation in caribou. Start date is flexible. Please share!
🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨 #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology "Body tactile stimulation intensifies appeasement behavior in a cichlid fish" Silva et al. with SPE member Mara Soares @ Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨 #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology "Cuttlefish hatching success and camouflage ability under acute salinity fluctuations" Martins et al. with SPE member Melanie Court @ Marine Biology
🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨 #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology "Social Provisions in Adolescents’ Relationships With Parents, Best Friends, and Teachers: Validation of the Network of Relationships Inventory–Social Provisions Version" Ribeiro et al. with SPE member António Santos @ Int J Behav Development
Come join us, PhD and postdoc positions! Please spread! Supervisor @patricepottier.bsky.social (patricepottierlab.com), me as co-supervisor. Impacts of climate change on different life-stages in fish.🐟🧪 PhD web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103... Postdoc web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
There are still free spots for the 2nd edition of the 5-day course: "Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R", run in collaboration with the @eco-aeet.bsky.social This year we are running the event at beautiful and historic @ucoimbra.bsky.social (Portugal) Info: aeet.org/events/2026/... #rstats
Course Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R, 2ed
This course provides a practical introduction to modern methods of evidence synthesis, with a focus on systematic review and meta-analysis in ecology and evolution.
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Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology@cnc-uc.bsky.social · 4mo ago📚 Applications are open for the 2nd edition of the course Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis in R. 🗓️ Oct 19–23, 2026 📍 University of Coimbra 📝 Apply until Sept 18 🔗 www.cnc.uc.pt/pt/systemati... @ucoimbra.bsky.social
🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨 #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology "Social context overrides individual preference for structural enrichment of juvenile European seabass" Maia et al. with SPE member Esther Hoyo-Alvarez @ Applied Animal Behaviour Science
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📣 📣 📣 UPDATE: The 2026-2027 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resource! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ecoevojobs.net 2026-27
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🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨 #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology "Preference for body tactile stimulation varies in fish species from the same family" Gauy et al. with SPE member Marta Soares @ Applied Animal Behaviour Science
🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨 #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology "Interspecific variation in cleaning and cheating behaviours among coral reef cleaner fishes"
🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨 #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology "Baseline elemental profile of juvenile sharks from a multispecies nursery area off West Africa (Sal Rei Bay, Boa Vista Island, Cabo Verde)" Ramalho et al. with SPE members Melanie Court @ Marine Pollution Bulletin
🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨 #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology "Central administration of oxytocin increases social interaction and shoaling behaviour in guppies" Cabrera-Álvarez et al. with SPE member Maria Cabrera-Álvarez @ Behavioural Brain Research
🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨 #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology "Crepuscular vocal partitioning and thermal limits on calling behavior in the Bubbling Kassina (Kassina senegalensis) in a sub-equatorial savanna" Álvarez et al. with SPE member Paulo Fonseca @ Journal of Comparative Physiology A
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