Ethology is the scientific study of animal behaviour. Intelligence, cognition, sexual behaviour, personality, learning, sociality & all that cool stuff!
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Fish experienced with predation take fewer risks and enhance foraging success of naïve conspecifics: a benefit of sociality
#Fish #RiskTaking #Predation #Foraging #Sociality
doi.org/10.1093/beheco/araf0…
Oooh group based multi level natural selection! An investigation of sociality. sciencealert.com/marmots-jus…
Animal Behaviour retweeted
Calling All Animal Behavior Students!
Are you looking for guidance on career, job applications in animal behavior? Join the ABC Mentorship Matching Event and connect with mentors who can help support your journey!
Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… #AnimalBehavior
It is spring and time for a new round of mentorship matching!
This time we are also looking for new mentors, so if you are interested in supporting animal behaviours students do join us!
ALT Looking for a mentor? Sign up to our next Animal Behaviour Collective: Mentorship-Matching Event, March 26th 2 pm UK time on Zoom
ALT Want to support a student? Sign up as a mentor to our next Animal Behaviour Collective Mentorship-Matching Event, March 26th 2 pm UK time on Zoom
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If you’re attending #Behaviour2025, please fill out the form below concerning social events 🥰
From birdwatching to heritage walks … there’s some cool options! 😍
Register your interest here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
More details: behaviourindia2025.in/Social…
🗓️ Deadline: April 15! Don’t miss out! ⏳
Stay tuned for further updates.
👉🏻Here's the link of our website:
behaviourindia2025.in/
Animal Behaviour retweeted
We have received some great proposals, but we can make space for a few more. So if you have a great idea, submit a workshop proposal for @Behaviour2025 ! @asab_org @AnimalOpps @AnimalBehavLive @EthologyScience @IndSciFest @IndiaBioscience
We are pleased to announce the extension of the #behaviour2025 workshop submission deadline to 31st March, owing to ongoing interest from potential organizers.
For more details: behaviourindia2025.in/Regist…
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#ScienceConference
#ECRChat
Animal Behaviour retweeted
@EthologyScience @AnimBehSociety
What, preferably free, video tracking software are people using these days.? I’m gonna have videos with multiple pairings of spiders, need to uniquely identify and track the movement, proximity, and cannibalism in these pairs. @kajaya_kiwi
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Programme structure for #behaviour2025 is live!
Get ready for cutting-edge science, inspiring plenaries & exciting symposia!
Details for the programme overview:
behaviourindia2025.in/progra…
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#ScienceConference
#ECRChat #CollaborationInScience
Animal Behaviour retweeted
Researchers challenged longhorn crazy ants and humans with the same task: maneuvering a T-shaped object through two consecutive open doorways. Single humans always outperformed single ants, but ant groups could beat human groups. In PNAS: ow.ly/5vat50UwZAo
ALT A group of longhorn crazy ants (top) and a group of people (bottom) tackling scaled versions of the same geometrical maneuvering puzzle. CREDIT: Ofer Feinerman
Animal Behaviour retweeted
Call for #behaviour2025 workshops
Proposal submission deadline: January 15
Types:
Pre-conference: August 23-24
During conference: lunchtime sessions
Post-conference: August 30 post-lunch
behaviourindia2025.in/index.…
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#ScienceConference
#ECRChat
Animal Behaviour retweeted
📢 Save the date: UFAW International #AnimalWelfare Conference 2025
Registration & abstract submissions for talks & posters opening soon. We’re especially interested in abstracts featuring novel or innovative approaches to #animalwelfarescience.
Stay tuned for more details!
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The program for #ASABWinter2024 is online at asabwinter2024.github.io !
❄️4 plenaries, 22 talks, 66 posters, 15 virtual posters, a panel discussion, LGBTQIA+ networking, a mentor meet & greet and the ASAB AGM. We could not be more excited! ❄️
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Animal Behaviour retweeted
New PhD opportunity on social behaviour in the context of ecological disturbance. Sept 2025 start, funded by NERC @GW4plusDTP. Apply by Jan 13. Project and application details: exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/a…
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5 Fully-funded PhDs @BristolUni
•Outdoor cat welfare
•Boredom and welfare in 3 species
•Sentience in Galliforms + Molluscan inverts
•Cog bias in veterinary decision making
•AI behavioral monitoring of livestock
Deadline: Nov 15th, 2024
findaphd.com/phds/?Keywords=…
Animal Behaviour retweeted
Research postdoc position on Alpine bird conservation. University of Bern (Institute of Ecology and Evolution). Please distribute as broadly as you can.
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Less than 1 week left to apply for this new postdoc in @CrabExeter: Generate lifespan data across species, and use these shiny new data to ask what drives one species to live longer than others🧐😎🐒. Info on how to apply below.
Postdoc position available! Come to @CrabExeter to work with @Samellisq , me, @kchiou & @SMack_Lab on comparative life-history evolution, as part of a new NIH grant on the social modifiers of lifespan. Apply by Oct 29 here: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webre…
Animal Behaviour retweeted
Noxious, potentially painful stimuli is conveyed to the central nervous system of crabs - research by @EKasiouras Eleftherios Kasiouras providing more empirical evidence for pain in decapod crustaceans #crabs #crustaceans #animalwelfare mdpi.com/2079-7737/13/11/851
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JZAR | Evidence-based zoo #animalwelfare assessment: Putting #science into practice' #zooresearch #evidence #animalmanagement | 2nd glimpse of the forthcoming special issue due 31/Oct ➡️jzar.org/jzar @JZAR_EAZA @BIAZA @waza @ABWAK @zoos_aquariums @thezooscientist
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Running low on places, so make sure you register for #ASABWinter2024 soon! If you don’t manage to get a spot or can’t be there physically this year, don’t forget you can also register to attend virtually (or even better, set up a hublet!)
asabwinter2024.github.io/
ALT Addressing Biases in the Field of Animal Behaviour ASAB Winter Meeting 2024 12th and 13th December, Edinburgh
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🚨 Job alert 🚨
I am looking for a PhD and Postdoc to join @arc_mpib at @mpib_berlin and work with me, @rui__mata, @marcel_binz, and @susafiedler on using LLMs to improve the generalizability in the behavioral and social sciences and other topics related to LLMs.
The positions are fully funded for three years. Apply by October 13!
Thank you for sharing!
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Are comparable studies really comparable? Suggestions from a problem-solving experiment on urban and rural great tits
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