Krishna Balasubramaniam
@krishsubramaniam.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Conservation & Animal Behaviour @ARU-biology.bsky.social. Interests: 🐵 behaviour, human-wildlife interactions & 🦠, not to mention🦕 📸 🎥 📖 🍳🏏 ⚽️ &🍺 (he/him)
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Join us for the @ecbb2026.bsky.social at @angliaruskin.bsky.social in September! @asab.org meeting secretary @viveknityananda.bsky.social advertising our conference at #asabwinter2025
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Join us for the @ecbb2026.bsky.social at @angliaruskin.bsky.social in September! @asab.org meeting secretary @viveknityananda.bsky.social advertising our conference at #asabwinter2025
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We've crawled, swam, hopped, flew, scuttled and run through our ECBB 2026 Plenary Speaker list to reach the final plenary announcement.
Who is rounding off our speaker list?
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It's the fantastic Dr Christopher Schell!
Who is rounding off our speaker list?
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It's the fantastic Dr Christopher Schell!
December 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
We've crawled, swam, hopped, flew, scuttled and run through our ECBB 2026 Plenary Speaker list to reach the final plenary announcement.
Who is rounding off our speaker list?
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It's the fantastic Dr Christopher Schell!
Who is rounding off our speaker list?
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It's the fantastic Dr Christopher Schell!
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We've announced half of our ECBB plenary speakers already! Are you ready to keep going with our next reveal? Who could it be???
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It's the brilliant @andyradford.bsky.social!
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It's the brilliant @andyradford.bsky.social!
December 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
We've announced half of our ECBB plenary speakers already! Are you ready to keep going with our next reveal? Who could it be???
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It's the brilliant @andyradford.bsky.social!
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It's the brilliant @andyradford.bsky.social!
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Ready to meet our third plenary speaker? We are delighted to announce it's....
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The extraordinary @mherberstein.bsky.social
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The extraordinary @mherberstein.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Ready to meet our third plenary speaker? We are delighted to announce it's....
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The extraordinary @mherberstein.bsky.social
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The extraordinary @mherberstein.bsky.social
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Our call for symposia now open!
We are now accepting submissions for symposia, with submissions for oral/poster presentations invited from 31 January 2026.
For more info, or to download the proposal form, visit our conference page 👇
www.aru.ac.uk/science-and-...
We are now accepting submissions for symposia, with submissions for oral/poster presentations invited from 31 January 2026.
For more info, or to download the proposal form, visit our conference page 👇
www.aru.ac.uk/science-and-...
Call for symposia/papers - ECBB 2026 - ARU
Find out how to propose a symposium, paper, or poster for the European Congress for Behavioural Biology (ECBB) at ARU in Cambridge, 1-4 September 2026.
www.aru.ac.uk
December 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Our call for symposia now open!
We are now accepting submissions for symposia, with submissions for oral/poster presentations invited from 31 January 2026.
For more info, or to download the proposal form, visit our conference page 👇
www.aru.ac.uk/science-and-...
We are now accepting submissions for symposia, with submissions for oral/poster presentations invited from 31 January 2026.
For more info, or to download the proposal form, visit our conference page 👇
www.aru.ac.uk/science-and-...
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Line up! Slither up! Crawl up! Climb up! No matter how you're moving or on how many legs, it's time to find out our first ECBB 2026 plenary speaker.
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It's the incredible @ljnbrent.bsky.social!
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It's the incredible @ljnbrent.bsky.social!
December 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Line up! Slither up! Crawl up! Climb up! No matter how you're moving or on how many legs, it's time to find out our first ECBB 2026 plenary speaker.
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It's the incredible @ljnbrent.bsky.social!
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It's the incredible @ljnbrent.bsky.social!
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🚄✈️🐒 EFP2026 Mobility Grants are open!
Funding available for students, PhD, and postdocs to join the conference.
Deadlines:
– 15 Jan 2026: primate-range countries
– 13 Feb 2026: Europe
Apply here:
Primate-range countries: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/pri...
Europe:
www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/pri...
Funding available for students, PhD, and postdocs to join the conference.
Deadlines:
– 15 Jan 2026: primate-range countries
– 13 Feb 2026: Europe
Apply here:
Primate-range countries: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/pri...
Europe:
www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/pri...
December 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🚄✈️🐒 EFP2026 Mobility Grants are open!
Funding available for students, PhD, and postdocs to join the conference.
Deadlines:
– 15 Jan 2026: primate-range countries
– 13 Feb 2026: Europe
Apply here:
Primate-range countries: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/pri...
Europe:
www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/pri...
Funding available for students, PhD, and postdocs to join the conference.
Deadlines:
– 15 Jan 2026: primate-range countries
– 13 Feb 2026: Europe
Apply here:
Primate-range countries: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/pri...
Europe:
www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/pri...
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📢Out in the NEW issue of @animalecology.bsky.social is our hugely #collaborative paper:
An integrative, peer-reviewed and open-source cooperative-breeding database (Co-BreeD)
#mammals #birds #cooperation #openscience #datasets #alloparents
Led by @benmocha.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
An integrative, peer-reviewed and open-source cooperative-breeding database (Co-BreeD)
#mammals #birds #cooperation #openscience #datasets #alloparents
Led by @benmocha.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
An integrative, peer‐reviewed and open‐source cooperative‐breeding database (Co‐BreeD)
Co-BreeD is the first updatable and open-source database dedicated to cooperative breeding. It enables continuous, non-binary measurement of cooperative breeding, transforming how we study breeding s...
doi.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
📢Out in the NEW issue of @animalecology.bsky.social is our hugely #collaborative paper:
An integrative, peer-reviewed and open-source cooperative-breeding database (Co-BreeD)
#mammals #birds #cooperation #openscience #datasets #alloparents
Led by @benmocha.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
An integrative, peer-reviewed and open-source cooperative-breeding database (Co-BreeD)
#mammals #birds #cooperation #openscience #datasets #alloparents
Led by @benmocha.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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Come and join our lab! We have TWO fully funded PhD positions AND a paid field assistant opportunity in our Behavioral Ecology group @uni-goettingen.de & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Projects will be part of @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social & @sfb1528.bsky.social!!
Details in thread. Please re-post!
Details in thread. Please re-post!
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Come and join our lab! We have TWO fully funded PhD positions AND a paid field assistant opportunity in our Behavioral Ecology group @uni-goettingen.de & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Projects will be part of @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social & @sfb1528.bsky.social!!
Details in thread. Please re-post!
Details in thread. Please re-post!
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Tibetan macaques (Macaca thibetana) are endemic to east-central China. The largest of the macaques. Mostly terrestrial, they prefer to sleep in caves. Threatened by habitat loss; recent halts to deforestation may bring hope for population stability. Near Threatened.
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Tibetan macaques (Macaca thibetana) are endemic to east-central China. The largest of the macaques. Mostly terrestrial, they prefer to sleep in caves. Threatened by habitat loss; recent halts to deforestation may bring hope for population stability. Near Threatened.
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📢Two fully-funded #PhD opportunities to work with us:
Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation
UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp
Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork
Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation
UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp
Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork
November 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
📢Two fully-funded #PhD opportunities to work with us:
Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation
UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp
Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork
Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation
UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp
Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork
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New amazing open Postdoc position, w/t opportunities to 1) get closely involved in our next @themanybirds.bsky.social study on innovation and problem-solving; 2) work with @ecobird.bsky.social on avian innovation, cognition & invasiveness. Advert: www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
November 14, 2025 at 6:16 AM
New amazing open Postdoc position, w/t opportunities to 1) get closely involved in our next @themanybirds.bsky.social study on innovation and problem-solving; 2) work with @ecobird.bsky.social on avian innovation, cognition & invasiveness. Advert: www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
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New paper!
We propose a framework to empirically study animal social relationships by modelling social network (SN) data as time-series—that is, without the need to aggregate them over time.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We propose a framework to empirically study animal social relationships by modelling social network (SN) data as time-series—that is, without the need to aggregate them over time.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
New paper!
We propose a framework to empirically study animal social relationships by modelling social network (SN) data as time-series—that is, without the need to aggregate them over time.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We propose a framework to empirically study animal social relationships by modelling social network (SN) data as time-series—that is, without the need to aggregate them over time.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Great new paper by @mfhansen.bsky.social and Agustin Fuentes on human-macaque co-existence link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Human-macaque Co-construction of Behaviours: Sharing Spaces, Sharing Food, Sharing Lives - International Journal of Primatology
Humans and other-than-human-animals (animals) share spaces, food, and lives. This gives rise to possibilities of interspecific learning, social facilitation and interspecific communication, and the po...
link.springer.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Great new paper by @mfhansen.bsky.social and Agustin Fuentes on human-macaque co-existence link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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🚨Who wants to work with Kalahari meerkats? A MSc project with @mathildemartin.bsky.social at the University of Zurich.
#bioacoustics 🧪
#bioacoustics 🧪
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
🚨Who wants to work with Kalahari meerkats? A MSc project with @mathildemartin.bsky.social at the University of Zurich.
#bioacoustics 🧪
#bioacoustics 🧪
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New research shows meerkat social group membership strongly shapes gut microbiomes and beneficial bacterial co-occurrence, beyond individual health or environmental exposure. ⬇️
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@krishsubramaniam.bsky.social
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@krishsubramaniam.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
New research shows meerkat social group membership strongly shapes gut microbiomes and beneficial bacterial co-occurrence, beyond individual health or environmental exposure. ⬇️
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@krishsubramaniam.bsky.social
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@krishsubramaniam.bsky.social
‼️ Thrilled to share my first article on the Kalahari meerkats ‼️, in @animalecology.bsky.social! Group membership strongly influences gut microbiomes & especially the co-occurrence of beneficial bacteria, beyond animals' age or sex, disease status, or environmental exposure
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Impact of animal socioecology on gut microbial communities: Insights from wild meerkats in the Kalahari
Our study addresses critical gaps at the nexus of animal and microbial ecologies, adding much-needed empirical support to recent theoretical frameworks that have conceptualised gut microbiomes as bei...
doi.org
October 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
‼️ Thrilled to share my first article on the Kalahari meerkats ‼️, in @animalecology.bsky.social! Group membership strongly influences gut microbiomes & especially the co-occurrence of beneficial bacteria, beyond animals' age or sex, disease status, or environmental exposure
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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Snow leopards have the lowest genetic diversity of all big cats due to persistently small population sizes throughout their evolutionary history, which may make recovery from human hunting and habitat loss challenging. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/HM3350XeeBY
October 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Snow leopards have the lowest genetic diversity of all big cats due to persistently small population sizes throughout their evolutionary history, which may make recovery from human hunting and habitat loss challenging. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/HM3350XeeBY
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Social relationships are powerful predictors of fitness across social animals. But *why*?
In our new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper, we outline testable predictions for why relationship quality and quantity adaptively vary across socio-ecological contexts.
tinyurl.com/55dnkeh7
In our new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper, we outline testable predictions for why relationship quality and quantity adaptively vary across socio-ecological contexts.
tinyurl.com/55dnkeh7
October 16, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Social relationships are powerful predictors of fitness across social animals. But *why*?
In our new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper, we outline testable predictions for why relationship quality and quantity adaptively vary across socio-ecological contexts.
tinyurl.com/55dnkeh7
In our new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper, we outline testable predictions for why relationship quality and quantity adaptively vary across socio-ecological contexts.
tinyurl.com/55dnkeh7
Had the pleasure of meeting Jane Goodall once, in 2011 while in grad school in Buffalo NY. This clip captures how she related to and inspired the public just as much as she inspired generations of behavioural biologists, conservationists & women in STEM. 💔
youtu.be/IUeoqaZvkcU?...
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Jane Goodall On Voting To Save The Planet, And Why Male Politicians Are Like Chimpanzees
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
youtu.be
October 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Had the pleasure of meeting Jane Goodall once, in 2011 while in grad school in Buffalo NY. This clip captures how she related to and inspired the public just as much as she inspired generations of behavioural biologists, conservationists & women in STEM. 💔
youtu.be/IUeoqaZvkcU?...
youtu.be/IUeoqaZvkcU?...
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In memory of Dr. Jane Goodall, we're releasing a special podcast episode today. Ira Flatow shares his memories of the renowned primatologist, including a 2002 interview in which they discussed her groundbreaking discoveries and hopes for a better future.
Remembering Primatologist Jane Goodall
Trailblazing chimp researcher and conservationist Jane Goodall died on October 1 at 91.
www.sciencefriday.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
In memory of Dr. Jane Goodall, we're releasing a special podcast episode today. Ira Flatow shares his memories of the renowned primatologist, including a 2002 interview in which they discussed her groundbreaking discoveries and hopes for a better future.
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Fancy joining us?
Check out this excellent @royalsociety.org Career Development Fellowship:
royalsociety.org/grants/caree...
If you're eligible & are interested in social behaviour, vocal communication or anthropogenic impacts on wildlife, feel free to DM or email me.
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Check out this excellent @royalsociety.org Career Development Fellowship:
royalsociety.org/grants/caree...
If you're eligible & are interested in social behaviour, vocal communication or anthropogenic impacts on wildlife, feel free to DM or email me.
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Career Development Fellowship | Royal Society
This scheme provides the most talented early career scientists from underrepresented groups in STEM with research funding and high-quality training opportunities to build a strong base for a successfu...
royalsociety.org
September 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Fancy joining us?
Check out this excellent @royalsociety.org Career Development Fellowship:
royalsociety.org/grants/caree...
If you're eligible & are interested in social behaviour, vocal communication or anthropogenic impacts on wildlife, feel free to DM or email me.
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Check out this excellent @royalsociety.org Career Development Fellowship:
royalsociety.org/grants/caree...
If you're eligible & are interested in social behaviour, vocal communication or anthropogenic impacts on wildlife, feel free to DM or email me.
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Back in Thailand, to wrap up the fieldwork phase of our longtailed macaque 'social microbiome' pilot project! Huge thanks to my Project Assistants Tanatcha & Silakorn, & collaborators Suchinda Malaivijitnond, Sunchai Payungporn & Vorthon Sawaswong! Stories to emerge soon... 🐒 💩 🦠 ⛅️ 🇹🇭
August 31, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Back in Thailand, to wrap up the fieldwork phase of our longtailed macaque 'social microbiome' pilot project! Huge thanks to my Project Assistants Tanatcha & Silakorn, & collaborators Suchinda Malaivijitnond, Sunchai Payungporn & Vorthon Sawaswong! Stories to emerge soon... 🐒 💩 🦠 ⛅️ 🇹🇭
😎😎 symposium and discussion on comparative studies in animal behaviour, organized by @delphinedemoor.bsky.social, @ljnbrent.bsky.social & Anindya Sinha at @behaviour2025.bsky.social ! Was a pleasure to be part of a 👌 speaker lineup, & present my work on interspecific variation in 🐵 social behaviour!
Thank you to everyone who joined our symposium on comparative research in animal behaviour at @behaviour2025.bsky.social! It was great to see such interest & the discussions happening right after the symposium! Looking forward to continue the discussion! 🐅🦍🐍🐋🦘🦚🦏🐫
@asab.org
@asab.org
August 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
😎😎 symposium and discussion on comparative studies in animal behaviour, organized by @delphinedemoor.bsky.social, @ljnbrent.bsky.social & Anindya Sinha at @behaviour2025.bsky.social ! Was a pleasure to be part of a 👌 speaker lineup, & present my work on interspecific variation in 🐵 social behaviour!