Nick Jones
@nickarjones.bsky.social
Animal behaviour researcher. Exploring fish behaviour and cognition across a range of species: from Archerfish to zebrafish. Currently at uni Bayreuth, Germany.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nick-Jones-43
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nick-Jones-43
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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...
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
#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...
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...
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Oxygen supersaturation has been reported to protect aquatic animals from heat waves. We tested this in a large collaborative experiment on many species of fish and crustaceans. Our new paper in @plosbiology.org shows that the effect of hyperoxia on thermal tolerance is negligible. Unfortunately.
November 5, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Oxygen supersaturation has been reported to protect aquatic animals from heat waves. We tested this in a large collaborative experiment on many species of fish and crustaceans. Our new paper in @plosbiology.org shows that the effect of hyperoxia on thermal tolerance is negligible. Unfortunately.
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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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Interested in thermal biology? Please join our new and growing grass roots initiative, the Thermal Ecology Alliance, initiated by @patricepottier.bsky.social. 🧪🐟🦑🌡️
Sign up here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org#participation
Check who already signed up:
www.thermalecologyalliance.org#community
Sign up here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org#participation
Check who already signed up:
www.thermalecologyalliance.org#community
November 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Interested in thermal biology? Please join our new and growing grass roots initiative, the Thermal Ecology Alliance, initiated by @patricepottier.bsky.social. 🧪🐟🦑🌡️
Sign up here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org#participation
Check who already signed up:
www.thermalecologyalliance.org#community
Sign up here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org#participation
Check who already signed up:
www.thermalecologyalliance.org#community
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Our new study: territorial cichlids ramped up metabolic rate around conspecifics, while cardinal tetras showed little change. And only in tetras did individual sociability relate to metabolic rate. Energetic consequences of “social living” depend on social system. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
November 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Our new study: territorial cichlids ramped up metabolic rate around conspecifics, while cardinal tetras showed little change. And only in tetras did individual sociability relate to metabolic rate. Energetic consequences of “social living” depend on social system. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Interested in pursuing a PhD in animal mating behaviour and zoo conservation? Want to help understand whether mate choice can improve conservation breeding outcomes? I'm advertising a project with colleagues at the amazing Chester Zoo, see: tinyurl.com/47zjtj8e
Please share!
Please share!
ACCE+ DLA Programme: Harnessing the power of mate choice to improve conservation breeding outcomes at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - ACCE+ DLA Programme: Harnessing the power of mate choice to improve conservation breeding outcomes at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Interested in pursuing a PhD in animal mating behaviour and zoo conservation? Want to help understand whether mate choice can improve conservation breeding outcomes? I'm advertising a project with colleagues at the amazing Chester Zoo, see: tinyurl.com/47zjtj8e
Please share!
Please share!
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Award alert! 🎖️🚨 Every other year, the Ethologische Gesellschaft awards the Niko Tinbergen Award to outstanding post-doc level researchers in Behavioural Biology (<=6yrs post PhD exam).
...and this year is one of these years! Please send us your nominations! 🫵 Infos: www.etho-ges.de/wordpress/aw...
...and this year is one of these years! Please send us your nominations! 🫵 Infos: www.etho-ges.de/wordpress/aw...
Awards – Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V.
www.etho-ges.de
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Award alert! 🎖️🚨 Every other year, the Ethologische Gesellschaft awards the Niko Tinbergen Award to outstanding post-doc level researchers in Behavioural Biology (<=6yrs post PhD exam).
...and this year is one of these years! Please send us your nominations! 🫵 Infos: www.etho-ges.de/wordpress/aw...
...and this year is one of these years! Please send us your nominations! 🫵 Infos: www.etho-ges.de/wordpress/aw...
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The #brain is often viewed as rather separate from the rest of body. One way it is separated somewhat is the BBB — the blood-brain-barrier.
Fabulous primer by @axelmontagne.bsky.social and Audrey Chagnot
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Fabulous primer by @axelmontagne.bsky.social and Audrey Chagnot
www.cell.com/current-biol...
The blood–brain barrier
Here, Audrey Chagnot and Axel Montagne discuss the structural and functional features
of the blood–brain barrier and the association of its disruption with various pathologies.
www.cell.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The #brain is often viewed as rather separate from the rest of body. One way it is separated somewhat is the BBB — the blood-brain-barrier.
Fabulous primer by @axelmontagne.bsky.social and Audrey Chagnot
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Fabulous primer by @axelmontagne.bsky.social and Audrey Chagnot
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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⚠️ ONE WEEK TO GO! Are you an FSBI member and know someone who should be nominated for an FSBI medal (Beverton, Le Cren and FSBI medals)? We need you! Nominate them here fsbi.org.uk/fsbi-medals/ and nominees don't have to be FSBI members! Deadline 5/11/25
FSBI Medals - Fisheries Society of the British Isles
Fisheries Society of the British Isles have four FSBI Medals. Three medals are awarded to nominated candidates and one to a EC journal author
fsbi.org.uk
October 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
⚠️ ONE WEEK TO GO! Are you an FSBI member and know someone who should be nominated for an FSBI medal (Beverton, Le Cren and FSBI medals)? We need you! Nominate them here fsbi.org.uk/fsbi-medals/ and nominees don't have to be FSBI members! Deadline 5/11/25
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New research shows that rearing #environment influences morphology and asymmetry in an #endangered salmonid: a natural #river rearing environment results in the most symmetrical #salmon doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70149 #hatcheries #aquaculture #JFB
October 27, 2025 at 8:14 AM
New research shows that rearing #environment influences morphology and asymmetry in an #endangered salmonid: a natural #river rearing environment results in the most symmetrical #salmon doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70149 #hatcheries #aquaculture #JFB
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Your chance to contribute to an exciting special issue on personality research in Personality Science!
Don't hesitate to contact the guest editors (see below) to propose a manuscript
Don't hesitate to contact the guest editors (see below) to propose a manuscript
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS!
Special Issue ‘Towards an integration of personality research across psychology and biology’ in Personality Science
Editors: Mitja Back, Barbara Caspers, @mdammhahn.bsky.social & @niclaskuper.bsky.social
Submit your proposal before November 30!
More info tinyurl.com/y9demmtt
Special Issue ‘Towards an integration of personality research across psychology and biology’ in Personality Science
Editors: Mitja Back, Barbara Caspers, @mdammhahn.bsky.social & @niclaskuper.bsky.social
Submit your proposal before November 30!
More info tinyurl.com/y9demmtt
October 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Your chance to contribute to an exciting special issue on personality research in Personality Science!
Don't hesitate to contact the guest editors (see below) to propose a manuscript
Don't hesitate to contact the guest editors (see below) to propose a manuscript
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Check out our new methods paper for automated length and body shape measurements in animals!
Ever needed to measure the morphological features of your organism across hundreds of images? 🤯 HusMorph uses #MachineLearning to detect morphological landmarks in the image, speeding up your #ImageAnalysis time!
Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/conp...
Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/conp...
October 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Check out our new methods paper for automated length and body shape measurements in animals!
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Excited to share our latest publication: "Diversity and Biological Characteristics of Anguillid #Eels in Tanzanian #River Systems: Implications for #Conservation." Dive into the fascinating world of these unique eels and learn how we can protect their #habitats! #BIOEELS doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70123
doi.org
October 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Excited to share our latest publication: "Diversity and Biological Characteristics of Anguillid #Eels in Tanzanian #River Systems: Implications for #Conservation." Dive into the fascinating world of these unique eels and learn how we can protect their #habitats! #BIOEELS doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70123
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Very timely special issue! If you’re working on how human altered environments impact social cognition (social learning, decisions in a context, communication…) or how social cognition can help deal with the challenges and opportunities of human altered environnements, consider submitting!
Excited to announce that Eli Garcia-Pelegrin and I are co-editing a special collection for Animal Cognition on "Social Cognition in a Human World". Do you study how urbanization, pollution, heat stress, fragmentation, ... affects cognition? We want to hear from you! link.springer.com/collections/...
Social Cognition in a Human World
As humanity exploits and reshapes the environment to accommodate for development and population growth demands, animals need to adapt to these human-induced ...
link.springer.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Very timely special issue! If you’re working on how human altered environments impact social cognition (social learning, decisions in a context, communication…) or how social cognition can help deal with the challenges and opportunities of human altered environnements, consider submitting!
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Are you an FSBI member and know someone who should be nominated for an FSBI medal (Beverton, Le Cren and FSBI medals)? We need you! Nominate them here fsbi.org.uk/fsbi-medals/ and nominees don't have to be FSBI members! Deadline 5/11/25
FSBI Medals - Fisheries Society of the British Isles
Fisheries Society of the British Isles have four FSBI Medals. Three medals are awarded to nominated candidates and one to a EC journal author
fsbi.org.uk
October 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Are you an FSBI member and know someone who should be nominated for an FSBI medal (Beverton, Le Cren and FSBI medals)? We need you! Nominate them here fsbi.org.uk/fsbi-medals/ and nominees don't have to be FSBI members! Deadline 5/11/25
🐟 Our special issue "Measuring Fish Cognition: Empirical-based Guidance for Designing Cognition Assays" is out! From acclimation protocols to automated tracking, these studies tackle a range of methodological issues. Check it out: tinyurl.com/vdprfbf4 #FishCognition #AnimalBehaviour
Special Issue: Measuring fish cognition: Empirical based guidance for designing cognition assays: Journal of Fish Biology: Vol 107, No 4
The <em>Journal of Fish Biology</em> is a leading international ichthyology journal, addressing all aspects of fish biology, their exploitation and importance to human society.
tinyurl.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
🐟 Our special issue "Measuring Fish Cognition: Empirical-based Guidance for Designing Cognition Assays" is out! From acclimation protocols to automated tracking, these studies tackle a range of methodological issues. Check it out: tinyurl.com/vdprfbf4 #FishCognition #AnimalBehaviour
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#JFB: The nuclear-follower association between the zoobenthivorous Asian sheephead wrasse 𝘚𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘺𝘱𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴 and the piscivorous Japanese amberjack 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘢 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘯𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘢 doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70140 #FishSci
doi.org
October 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
#JFB: The nuclear-follower association between the zoobenthivorous Asian sheephead wrasse 𝘚𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘺𝘱𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴 and the piscivorous Japanese amberjack 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘢 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘯𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘢 doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70140 #FishSci
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Abstract submission for #CO32026 is now open, join us next April in Montreal 🎉🍁🦫 Submit for a symposium by November 14th, or for an individual talk or poster by December 12th.
Information on the conference and a link to the member portal where you can submit: comparativecognition.org/conference.php
Information on the conference and a link to the member portal where you can submit: comparativecognition.org/conference.php
Comparative Cognition Society - Conference (CO3)
comparativecognition.org
October 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Abstract submission for #CO32026 is now open, join us next April in Montreal 🎉🍁🦫 Submit for a symposium by November 14th, or for an individual talk or poster by December 12th.
Information on the conference and a link to the member portal where you can submit: comparativecognition.org/conference.php
Information on the conference and a link to the member portal where you can submit: comparativecognition.org/conference.php
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Exciting ASAB news: increased grant money 💰💰 😍😍
📣 @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 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Exciting ASAB news: increased grant money 💰💰 😍😍
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After the calamitous news last week that 75,000 farmed #salmon had escaped in #Scotland, I wrote this Conversation article exploring why this is such bad news and what it means for wild salmon: doi.org/10.64628/AB....
#Environment #Aquaculture #FishFarming #Fish #Pollution #Genetics
#Environment #Aquaculture #FishFarming #Fish #Pollution #Genetics
Almost 75,000 farmed salmon in Scotland escaped into the wild after Storm Amy – why this may cause lasting damage
Scientists warn escaped farmed salmon could interbreed with wild fish, further endangering Scotland’s fragile populations.
doi.org
October 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
After the calamitous news last week that 75,000 farmed #salmon had escaped in #Scotland, I wrote this Conversation article exploring why this is such bad news and what it means for wild salmon: doi.org/10.64628/AB....
#Environment #Aquaculture #FishFarming #Fish #Pollution #Genetics
#Environment #Aquaculture #FishFarming #Fish #Pollution #Genetics
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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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With just 5 years remaining to protect 30% of our land for nature, we urgently need to boost nature in our National Parks and National Landscapes.
Any weakening of laws protecting these vital areas for nature recovery would be a serious backwards step.
🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Any weakening of laws protecting these vital areas for nature recovery would be a serious backwards step.
🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups
Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
With just 5 years remaining to protect 30% of our land for nature, we urgently need to boost nature in our National Parks and National Landscapes.
Any weakening of laws protecting these vital areas for nature recovery would be a serious backwards step.
🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Any weakening of laws protecting these vital areas for nature recovery would be a serious backwards step.
🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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These beautiful aliens are really helpful for understanding the role of behaviour in biological invasions and responses to climate change. So happy about our work on distinct strategies for coping with thermal stress in native and non-native nudibranchs, just published here doi.org/10.1007/s105...
October 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
These beautiful aliens are really helpful for understanding the role of behaviour in biological invasions and responses to climate change. So happy about our work on distinct strategies for coping with thermal stress in native and non-native nudibranchs, just published here doi.org/10.1007/s105...
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Yo #teamfish, major dream job alert!
Job Alert! Assistant Prof of Fish Ecology at
@wfcbucdavis.bsky.social, with a focus on freshwater and anadromous coldwater fishes. This is a wonderful and supportive place to work. Please share with your fishy friends! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07351
@wfcbucdavis.bsky.social, with a focus on freshwater and anadromous coldwater fishes. This is a wonderful and supportive place to work. Please share with your fishy friends! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07351
Assistant Professor of Fish Ecology
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
October 3, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Yo #teamfish, major dream job alert!