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Vlad Demartsev @animal-sounds.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Who wants to work with Kalahari meerkats? A MSc project with @mathildemartin.bsky.social at the University of Zurich.
#bioacoustics 🧪

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Ari Strandburg-Peshkin @arispeshkin.bsky.social · 6d

Congrats! So exciting!

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Danai Papageorgiou @danaipapageorgiou.bsky.social · 6d

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.

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Vlad Demartsev @animal-sounds.bsky.social · 8d

🚨STOP SCROLLING, IT’S AN EMERGENCY BROADCAST📣 This message will self-destruct in 10…9…8…7…⏰ …now that I have your attention:
🧪Our new paper on Alerting Components in animal vocalization is out in AnimBehav🎉
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#AnimalBehaviour #Bioacoustics #Communication

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Ari Strandburg-Peshkin @arispeshkin.bsky.social · 16d

Less than a week left to apply!

Ari Strandburg-Peshkin @arispeshkin.bsky.social · Oct 3

⭐PhD position available!⭐
Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets
imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...

Analysis of communication and collective behavior in animal groups

imprs-qbee.mpg.de

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Daniela Rößler @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social · Sep 6

🚨 PhD alert! IMPRS brain & behavior in Bonn just opened their calls for applications. Great PhD funding opportunities. Check it out! PS- I just joined their faculty, meaning you could do a rotation in my lab or even a PhD with me on spider sleep 🙃 Apply! 🚨

IMPRS for Brain and Behavior @imprsbb.bsky.social · Aug 27

📢Apply now! Join our IMPRS for Brain&Behavior to pursue a #PhD in #neuroethology. Learn how brain circuits are linked to interesting animal behaviors!
📅 Deadline: October 31, 2025
🔗 imprs-brain-behavior.mpg.de
#neuroscience #Neuroskyence #neurojobs #sciencejobs #PhDsky #PhDOffers #FundedPhD

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Dom Cram @domcram.bsky.social · 26d

🚨Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my group🚨

🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?🐾

Find out by studying meerkats!

🧪Epigenetic clocks
✨Bioinformatics
📊Long-term data
🌍Kalahari fieldwork
💡Big evolutionary questions

Get in touch or APPLY NOW
Please share!
www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

A collage featuring some laboratory analyses, a schematic of the structure of DNA, a pocket watch in an elderly person's hand, and a family of wild meerkats.

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Elham Nourani @enourani.bsky.social · Oct 6

🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Golden eagle on the nest in Finland (by O. Karlin)

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Ari Strandburg-Peshkin @arispeshkin.bsky.social · Oct 3

⭐PhD position available!⭐
Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets
imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...

Analysis of communication and collective behavior in animal groups

imprs-qbee.mpg.de

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Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · Aug 28

Detail of two hyenas
#SciArt
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

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Ari Strandburg-Peshkin @arispeshkin.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Ari Strandburg-Peshkin @arispeshkin.bsky.social · Sep 7

🚨 Junior Research Fellow position (+possible PhD conversion) studying Emergent Collective Intelligence for Ephemeral Resource Tracking. Based with Akanksha Rathore at BITS Pilani (India) and including visits to Konstanz (Germany) to collaborate with us! Apply by 12 September. More info 👇

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Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups.bsky.social · Jun 25

We know some animals nap. But do they do it to make up for lost sleep?

Our joint study with Caroline Schuppli and the Suaq team dives deep into the sleep patterns of wild orangutans to find out their strategy for sleep homeostasis 🦧 💤

Paper @cellpress.bsky.social ▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

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Vlad Demartsev @animal-sounds.bsky.social · Jun 15

And just like that, the 2025 @cbehav.bsky.social Field Course has come to an end! What an incredible journey.

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Brendan Barrett @bjjbarrett.bsky.social · Jun 6

there has been a bunch of (many good) papers coming about about integrating Causal Inference and DAGS into research about behavior and ecology (i.e. doi.org/10.1111/brv....) but i thought it might be useful to show some example empirical papers that do so (see growing thread)...

Ecology needs a causal overhaul

Ecology has yet to embrace causal inference, yet most questions in ecology are causal. Despite the common use of terms that imply causation, such as “shapes”, “drives”, or “impacts”, many studies shy...

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Vlad Demartsev @animal-sounds.bsky.social · Jun 6

Day 4 is ON! 🇿🇦 Kicked things off with a talk from our former @cbehav.bsky.social Field Course student & TA Siyabonga Sangweni. He spoke about his work combining minimaly invasive and non-invasive methods for studying animals and also shared his inspirational professional journey.

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Vlad Demartsev @animal-sounds.bsky.social · Jun 4

Day 2 of the @cbehav.bsky.social Field Course: things are officially getting real! 😎 Kicked off with an early morning start, heading to the field. Today's mission: building ethograms and classifying behaviours.

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Vlad Demartsev @animal-sounds.bsky.social · Jun 3

Our 2025 @cbehav.bsky.social Field Course is officially underway! We rolled into the Kalahari Research Center, 🇿🇦 yesterday evening and kicked things off with our first group dinner. So excited for what's to come!

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Meg Crofoot @meg-crofoot.bsky.social · May 19

Ever feel like our culture has gone wrong? If so, we're maybe not alone. Check out this mind-bending story of the emergence of a behavioral tradition where capuchin monkeys abduct infant howler monkeys led by @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social and @bjjbarrett.bsky.social of @livingingroups.bsky.social !

Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups.bsky.social · May 19

Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)

An illustration of a white-faced capuchin monkey carrying a howler infant on their back while cracking nuts with a stone

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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · May 19

Cross-species teamwork from @livingingroups.bsky.social reveals unexpected similarities in three social mammals 🤔

By lead author @pminasandra.bsky.social with Emily Grout, Katrina Brock, Meg Crofoot, Vlad Demartsev, Amlan Nayak, Eli
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www.ab.mpg.de/679000/news_...

Very different mammals follow the same rules of behavior

Research hints at an underlying architecture that orders the movements of animals

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Zoë Goldsborough @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social · May 19

Hot off the press 📣: one of the most surprising and unsettling findings of my PhD. A novel social tradition emerged in the tool-using white-faced capuchins of Jicarón island… abducting and carrying the infants of another species. Thread with gifs, videos, and all the bizarre details 👇

Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups.bsky.social · May 19

Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)

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Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups.bsky.social · May 19

Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)

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Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups.bsky.social · May 16

Fascinating new results from @pminasandra.bsky.social have us scratching our heads here @livingingroups.bsky.social! Looking forward to seeing if these patterns hold across an even more diverse set of species.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Pranav Minasandra @pminasandra.bsky.social · May 16

🚨 Out this week in @pnas.org 🚨
The flagship paper from my PhD @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social - We show surprising statistical similarities in animal behaviour across states, individuals, and even species.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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