Elizabeth Hobson
@elizabethhobson.bsky.social
Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati, working on animal sociality, cognition, networks, conflict, & hierarchies. (she/her)
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Friends, I’ve had a few guest scientists cancel, which means that if you’re interested and can get to Miami next week or the week after, I may have a spot for you to join us for a day of shark research!
November 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Friends, I’ve had a few guest scientists cancel, which means that if you’re interested and can get to Miami next week or the week after, I may have a spot for you to join us for a day of shark research!
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My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com
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The Animal Behavior Society (ABS) is seeking proposals for a freelance editorial assistant to assist our full-time Managing Editor for the journal Animal Behavior! Initial contract will be for 4 months & renewable. Send your proposal by Nov 14!
www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/news.php...
www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/news.php...
The Animal Behavior Society
www.animalbehaviorsociety.org
November 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The Animal Behavior Society (ABS) is seeking proposals for a freelance editorial assistant to assist our full-time Managing Editor for the journal Animal Behavior! Initial contract will be for 4 months & renewable. Send your proposal by Nov 14!
www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/news.php...
www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/news.php...
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Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️
November 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️
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Look at this adorable regent parrot fuzzball 😭😭😭💚💚💚
October 31, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Look at this adorable regent parrot fuzzball 😭😭😭💚💚💚
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Last night I watched over 100 pelicans feed just off the coast after sunset. Here's one of them. 17 frames taken from a sequence of 44 over 2.5 seconds. Incredible dinosaurs!!! 🪶
October 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Last night I watched over 100 pelicans feed just off the coast after sunset. Here's one of them. 17 frames taken from a sequence of 44 over 2.5 seconds. Incredible dinosaurs!!! 🪶
Congratulations Dr. Claire O'Connell on her successful dissertation defense!
October 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Congratulations Dr. Claire O'Connell on her successful dissertation defense!
Congratulation Dr. Xavier Francis on his successful dissertation defense!
October 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Congratulation Dr. Xavier Francis on his successful dissertation defense!
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Chinese national interested in a PhD using fish?
Fully-funded scholarships @bristolbiosci.bsky.social from the China Scholarship Council-University of Bristol
Success rates are high, check out the details here and get in touch:
www.bristol.ac.uk/students/sup...
Please circulate widely!
Fully-funded scholarships @bristolbiosci.bsky.social from the China Scholarship Council-University of Bristol
Success rates are high, check out the details here and get in touch:
www.bristol.ac.uk/students/sup...
Please circulate widely!
October 29, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Chinese national interested in a PhD using fish?
Fully-funded scholarships @bristolbiosci.bsky.social from the China Scholarship Council-University of Bristol
Success rates are high, check out the details here and get in touch:
www.bristol.ac.uk/students/sup...
Please circulate widely!
Fully-funded scholarships @bristolbiosci.bsky.social from the China Scholarship Council-University of Bristol
Success rates are high, check out the details here and get in touch:
www.bristol.ac.uk/students/sup...
Please circulate widely!
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I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).
POSITIONS
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October 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).
Come learn how parakeets pick their fights -- Defense talk is TODAY! Anyone interested is welcome to join by zoom: tinyurl.com/42uaeb6n --> "Join this meeting"
I’m excited to announce my PhD student Xavier Francis will be defending his dissertation research next week! His talk is Oct 28th (Tues) at 10:30-11:30 US eastern. Come learn how parakeets choose their fights! Anyone interested is welcome to join by zoom: tinyurl.com/42uaeb6n --> "Join this meeting"
October 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Come learn how parakeets pick their fights -- Defense talk is TODAY! Anyone interested is welcome to join by zoom: tinyurl.com/42uaeb6n --> "Join this meeting"
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#CrowCoG is hiring🚨MULTIPLE PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS 🚨for our 2026 field season (May - Sep)! Field and aviary-based positions - come help us study the remarkable tool-making New Caledonian crows. Apply here: bit.ly/3WlxxHE
October 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
#CrowCoG is hiring🚨MULTIPLE PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS 🚨for our 2026 field season (May - Sep)! Field and aviary-based positions - come help us study the remarkable tool-making New Caledonian crows. Apply here: bit.ly/3WlxxHE
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Somehow it was a long week despite not having all my usual classes.
Anyway, the Comedy Wildlife Photo of the Year finalists are out, go vote:
www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/fina...
Anyway, the Comedy Wildlife Photo of the Year finalists are out, go vote:
www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/fina...
These images are for viewing only and must not be copied :: Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards - Conservation through Competition
www.comedywildlifephoto.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Somehow it was a long week despite not having all my usual classes.
Anyway, the Comedy Wildlife Photo of the Year finalists are out, go vote:
www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/fina...
Anyway, the Comedy Wildlife Photo of the Year finalists are out, go vote:
www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/fina...
I’m excited to announce my PhD student Xavier Francis will be defending his dissertation research next week! His talk is Oct 28th (Tues) at 10:30-11:30 US eastern. Come learn how parakeets choose their fights! Anyone interested is welcome to join by zoom: tinyurl.com/42uaeb6n --> "Join this meeting"
October 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I’m excited to announce my PhD student Xavier Francis will be defending his dissertation research next week! His talk is Oct 28th (Tues) at 10:30-11:30 US eastern. Come learn how parakeets choose their fights! Anyone interested is welcome to join by zoom: tinyurl.com/42uaeb6n --> "Join this meeting"
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Banding owls really is a spiritual experience. The woods are dark and quiet save for the rhythmic “toot, toot, toot” of the audio lure. They seem vacant. Suddenly, a tiny nocturnal spirit drops in to bless you with its brief presence. Then it’s off, likely never to be seen again.
October 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Banding owls really is a spiritual experience. The woods are dark and quiet save for the rhythmic “toot, toot, toot” of the audio lure. They seem vacant. Suddenly, a tiny nocturnal spirit drops in to bless you with its brief presence. Then it’s off, likely never to be seen again.
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Oh yay! The tawny frogmouth is a very worthy winner of Bird of the Year 2025 (I voted for this bird).
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Tawny frogmouth named 2025 Australian bird of the year winner
Perennial runner up finally claims the crown in the biennial Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll, ahead of Baudin’s black cockatoo and gang-gang cockatoo
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Oh yay! The tawny frogmouth is a very worthy winner of Bird of the Year 2025 (I voted for this bird).
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
October 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
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That's a lotta birds
Neophobia compared in 1,439 birds of 136 species
Specialised diets and migration are associated with greater fear of new objects. Surprisingly, witnessing such objects in groups is also associated with greater fear.
(paper) journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
(blog) phys.org/news/2025-10...
Specialised diets and migration are associated with greater fear of new objects. Surprisingly, witnessing such objects in groups is also associated with greater fear.
(paper) journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
(blog) phys.org/news/2025-10...
October 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
That's a lotta birds
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WOW! Our survey of scientists who stopped using Twitter and started using Bluesky is now the #1 most-shared on social media article in the history of the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology! Thanks for reading it, everyone! @sicbjournals.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/icb/... 🧪
doi.org/10.1093/icb/... 🧪
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
doi.org
October 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
WOW! Our survey of scientists who stopped using Twitter and started using Bluesky is now the #1 most-shared on social media article in the history of the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology! Thanks for reading it, everyone! @sicbjournals.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/icb/... 🧪
doi.org/10.1093/icb/... 🧪
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📣 @asab.org grants BOOSTED! 📣
We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026.
Check out what we offer here:
www.asab.org/grant-overview
We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026.
Check out what we offer here:
www.asab.org/grant-overview
October 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
📣 @asab.org grants BOOSTED! 📣
We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026.
Check out what we offer here:
www.asab.org/grant-overview
We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026.
Check out what we offer here:
www.asab.org/grant-overview
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My lab is hiring a 2-yr hummingbird evolution and genomics postdoc and a 1-yr salaried research and lab tech. Both with full U. Wyoming benefits. Please spread the word! Info below. Best consideration date Nov 1, start dates early Spring 2026.
October 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
My lab is hiring a 2-yr hummingbird evolution and genomics postdoc and a 1-yr salaried research and lab tech. Both with full U. Wyoming benefits. Please spread the word! Info below. Best consideration date Nov 1, start dates early Spring 2026.
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This month, no colloquium but a special session about careers in network science! Join us and an all-star panel on October 29. Register here for a Zoom link: iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
This month, no colloquium but a special session about careers in network science! Join us and an all-star panel on October 29. Register here for a Zoom link: iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Hey grad students studying animal behavior! Need a little extra research $$? (Don't we all?)
Apply for an ABS Student Research Grant! We award grants up to $2,000 to grad students & give feedback on the proposals. Deadline Dec 15.
More info here: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-s...
Apply for an ABS Student Research Grant! We award grants up to $2,000 to grad students & give feedback on the proposals. Deadline Dec 15.
More info here: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-s...
October 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Hey grad students studying animal behavior! Need a little extra research $$? (Don't we all?)
Apply for an ABS Student Research Grant! We award grants up to $2,000 to grad students & give feedback on the proposals. Deadline Dec 15.
More info here: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-s...
Apply for an ABS Student Research Grant! We award grants up to $2,000 to grad students & give feedback on the proposals. Deadline Dec 15.
More info here: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-s...
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Pumped to share our work on bird behavior and the 2024 Eclipse, in today's @science.org. 100k bird vocalizations + 10k continent-wide observations from the public = really fun collab led by Liz Aguilar, with @juncowren.bsky.social @mathcancer.bsky.social @imillercrews.bsky.social #NSF
October 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Pumped to share our work on bird behavior and the 2024 Eclipse, in today's @science.org. 100k bird vocalizations + 10k continent-wide observations from the public = really fun collab led by Liz Aguilar, with @juncowren.bsky.social @mathcancer.bsky.social @imillercrews.bsky.social #NSF
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I have a fabulous undergrad who has a lot of experience with QIIME2 & using R to analyze microbiome data. She is looking for a job starting in January. Would love to learn more bench and field skills (will be getting some in her last 2 months). Open to academic, industry, government jobs in the US.
October 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I have a fabulous undergrad who has a lot of experience with QIIME2 & using R to analyze microbiome data. She is looking for a job starting in January. Would love to learn more bench and field skills (will be getting some in her last 2 months). Open to academic, industry, government jobs in the US.