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Alena Lemazina
@alenalem.bsky.social
Animal communication, neuroethology
Postdoc @MPIBR
Naked-mole rat research 🍠
Scientific illustrator: behance.net/alem3
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My first official post to say see you at #SfN2025! I'm presenting some new ephys work with @healeylab.bsky.social looking at auditory responses to chick calls in zebra finch parents! 🐦🧠🔊🐣 Tuesday @ 2pm (PSTR346, Vocal/Social Communication). ALSO ~ my lab is opening soon and we're HIRING!! (see ⬇️)
November 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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🐦 EcoBird is hiring a Postdoc in animal cognition!

Join us + @themanybirds.bsky.social to investigate innovation & problem-solving in birds.

📅 Start: as early as Jan 2026
🌍 Funded through UGent’s international mobility scheme

More info & how to apply ↓
www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
Postdoctoral fellow
www.ugent.be
November 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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This fabulous article catalogues, with evidence, the cognitive risks we face if we use #genai for #science: "Artificial intelligence and illusions of understanding in scientific research" https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07146-0
Artificial intelligence and illusions of understanding in scientific research - Nature
The proliferation of artificial intelligence tools in scientific research risks creating illusions of understanding, where scientists believe they understand more about the world than they actually do.
www.nature.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Any students/ ECRs dreaming of attending #WSC4 in Tasmania next year but not sure their budget can stretch? 💰🚫

No worries, @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social have got you covered! Apply for a travel award today 😊🙌✈️

See you in Australia! 🦘
✈️ WSC4 Travel Awards are here!
Supporting students, early-career researchers & conservation practitioners to attend the 4th World Seabird Conference.

📅 Apply 1 Oct 2025 – 15 Jan 2026
More info on the Registration page.

🔗https://bit.ly/4nAYG4j

#WSC4 #Seabirds #Research
November 7, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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🚨Who wants to work with Kalahari meerkats? A MSc project with @mathildemartin.bsky.social at the University of Zurich.
#bioacoustics 🧪
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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#PhD position!

Comparing #foraging and #cognition in #hummingbirds and #bumblebees

Fieldwork in the Canadian Rockies, lab experiments at @newcastleuni.bsky.social, and ecological modelling at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

Details (including my email) here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
From preferences to pollination: do hummingbirds and bees differ in how they choose flowers?
iapetus.ac.uk
November 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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🔊Funded PhD positions in (very technical aspects of) bioacoustics with Peter Balazs (ITU, Austria) career.it-u.at/en/Job/73280
PhD Student
career.it-u.at
November 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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I have some brilliant news to share! I recently received a DFG-funded Emmy Noether 6-year grant to establish my own group in Germany. I will soon be looking for a PhD student and a research assistant to join the team and investigate how the balance of power is maintained in animal societies.
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Our Behavioural Brain Research special issue on Ultrasonic Communication in Rodents is growing, rapidly – and actually a lot faster than I manage to post about it. Nine new manuscripts got accepted since my last post. Quite impressive work. Check it out:
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
November 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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🚨 Come join the fantastic long-tailed tit team 🚨
🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds).
🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK.
🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025.
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...
November 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Interested in early life learning and cognitive development ? In our new pre-print we present data on developmental trajectories of three cognitive traits spanning wild meerkat pups critical life transitions 👇🏼
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Developmental trajectories of cognitive traits in meerkats match socio-ecological demands
Understanding cognitive development is fundamental to contextualize adult cognitive phenotypes, and thus the operational pathways for cognitive evolution. The ontogeny of specific cognitive traits is ...
www.biorxiv.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Want to see what a Neuromatch course is like…on your own time? Our full course materials are freely available for anyone to explore, anytime.

While the live courses include team projects, TAs, and learning pods, the content itself is always open.

➡️ neuromatch.io/open-educati...
November 6, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Harvard's environmental postdoc grant (2yrs, 90k pa + extras) www.environment.harvard.edu/environmenta...
The Environmental Fellows Program | Harvard University Center for the Environment
www.environment.harvard.edu
November 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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The conference is next week!✨

Join us on 13–14 November for a rich two-day schedule of fascinating talks on animal behaviour 🦋🐟🐆

💻 Free, online & open to all worldwide
👉 Explore the program and register 🔗 ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
November 4, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Slow down and really see nature. Join artist–zoologist Bella Charlton for a free online workshop on #NatureJournaling - hosted by SCB and Current Conservation.

🗓️ Nov 14, 2025 | 8–9 AM ET
🎨 Open to all, no drawing experience needed!
👉 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#SciComm
November 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Guess who's back! 🦇

55 years missing: An international team led by the museum rediscovered the Turkestan long-eared bat in the Karakum Desert. Endemic species like 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘬𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴 reveal how life adapts – and why protecting unique habitats matters. 🌏

📹 Christian Dietz
#biodiversity #bats
November 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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The published version of our study on the early-life transition from isolation USVs to adult-like USVs in juvenile mice is out in Animal Behaviour!

authors.elsevier.com/a/1m1YDmjMA4GP

bsky.app/profile/kati...
November 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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🎼What is octave equivalence?
🎶Do animals use notes and octaves?

In the second episode of Acoustic World, we talk about it with @mhoeschele.bsky.social from ARI Vienna’s "Musicality and Bioacoustics" group.

Free now on Spotify

open.spotify.com/episode/7m6Y...

#acousticworld #bioacoustic #podcast
A choir which sounds different
open.spotify.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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🔊 Check out our new work led by @wascherclaudia.bsky.social for a deep dive into corvid calls 🖤
"Unsung Songbirds: Advances in the Study of Corvid Communication" - a new review paper (preprint) https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/10600/ Corvids are amazing, so I'm v pleased to be a small part of this review led by Claudia Wascher and Valerie Dufour. #corvids #bioacoustics
Unsung Songbirds: Advances in the Study of Corvid Communication
ecoevorxiv.org
October 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Hi, is there anyone in my network who studies caecilians, specifically maternal dermatophagy? I have questions 🧐
November 1, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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📢 The call for task proposals for DCASE Challenge 2026 has been published dcase.community/articles/cal... Don't hesitate to contact
@annamariamesaros.bsky.social and @rserizel.bsky.social if you consider organizing a task.
Call for task proposals for DCASE2026 - DCASE
The DCASE Steering Group invites proposals to organize...
dcase.community
October 31, 2025 at 3:56 PM