Animal Behaviour

Ethology is the scientific study of animal behaviour. Intelligence, cognition, sexual behaviour, personality, learning, sociality & all that cool stuff!

[Behavioral Ecology @BehavEcol]

Fish experienced with predation take fewer risks and enhance foraging success of naïve conspecifics: a benefit of sociality
#Fish #RiskTaking #Predation #Foraging #Sociality

https://t.co/q12m9H0uO3

[Animal Behaviour @EthologyScience]

Oooh group based multi level natural selection! An investigation of sociality. https://t.co/A82sK4DbGy

[Animal Behaviour Collective @ABCmicrogrants]

Calling All Animal Behavior Students!
Are you looking for guidance on career, job applications in animal behavior? Join the ABC Mentorship Matching Event and connect with mentors who can help support your journey!
Sign up here: https://t.co/9LVc48eWFr #AnimalBehavior

[ASAB @asab_org]

If you’re attending #Behaviour2025, please fill out the form below concerning social events 🥰

From birdwatching to heritage walks … there’s some cool options! 😍

[Anindita Bhadra @Abhadra7]

We have received some great proposals, but we can make space for a few more. So if you have a great idea, submit a workshop proposal for @Behaviour2025 ! @asab_org @AnimalOpps @AnimalBehavLive @EthologyScience @IndSciFest @IndiaBioscience

[J. Chad Johnson @Lhesperus]

@EthologyScience @AnimBehSociety
What, preferably free, video tracking software are people using these days.? I’m gonna have videos with multiple pairings of spiders, need to uniquely identify and track the movement, proximity, and cannibalism in these pairs. @kajaya_kiwi

[Behaviour 2025 @Behaviour2025]

Programme structure for #behaviour2025 is live!

Get ready for cutting-edge science, inspiring plenaries & exciting symposia!

Details for the programme overview:
https://t.co/TDEbo7xjlr

#AnimalBehavior
#ScienceConference
#ECRChat #CollaborationInScience

[PNASNews @PNASNews]

Researchers challenged longhorn crazy ants and humans with the same task: maneuvering a T-shaped object through two consecutive open doorways. Single humans always outperformed single ants, but ant groups could beat human groups. In PNAS: https://t.co/nV1ZXoFpSh

[Behaviour 2025 @Behaviour2025]

Call for #behaviour2025 workshops
Proposal submission deadline: January 15
Types:
Pre-conference: August 23-24
During conference: lunchtime sessions
Post-conference: August 30 post-lunch

https://t.co/6O5H1dtAhc

#AnimalBehavior
#ScienceConference
#ECRChat

[UFAW @UFAW_1926]

📢 Save the date: UFAW International #AnimalWelfare Conference 2025

Registration & abstract submissions for talks & posters opening soon. We’re especially interested in abstracts featuring novel or innovative approaches to #animalwelfarescience.

Stay tuned for more details!

[ASAB @asab_org]

The program for #ASABWinter2024 is online at https://t.co/i34x7RmdfO !



❄️4 plenaries, 22 talks, 66 posters, 15 virtual posters, a panel discussion, LGBTQIA+ networking, a mentor meet & greet and the ASAB AGM. We could not be more excited! ❄️

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[Lauren Brent @ljnbrent]

New PhD opportunity on social behaviour in the context of ecological disturbance. Sept 2025 start, funded by NERC @GW4plusDTP. Apply by Jan 13. Project and application details: https://t.co/9ooDKh4KF0

[Animal behavior opps animalopps.bsky.social @AnimalOpps]

5 Fully-funded PhDs @BristolUni

•Outdoor cat welfare
•Boredom and welfare in 3 species
•Sentience in Galliforms + Molluscan inverts
•Cog bias in veterinary decision making
•AI behavioral monitoring of livestock

Deadline: Nov 15th, 2024

https://t.co/AAxKyBC7Wn

[Raphaël Arlettaz @RaphaelArlettaz]

Research postdoc position on Alpine bird conservation. University of Bern (Institute of Ecology and Evolution). Please distribute as broadly as you can.

[Lauren Brent @ljnbrent]

Less than 1 week left to apply for this new postdoc in @CrabExeter: Generate lifespan data across species, and use these shiny new data to ask what drives one species to live longer than others🧐😎🐒. Info on how to apply below.

[Lynne Sneddon @LynneUSneddon]

Noxious, potentially painful stimuli is conveyed to the central nervous system of crabs - research by @EKasiouras Eleftherios Kasiouras providing more empirical evidence for pain in decapod crustaceans #crabs #crustaceans #animalwelfare https://t.co/Qf0ZU3rzVe

[Prof Vicky Melfi @vicky_melfi]

JZAR | Evidence-based zoo #animalwelfare assessment: Putting #science into practice' #zooresearch #evidence #animalmanagement | 2nd glimpse of the forthcoming special issue due 31/Oct ➡️https://t.co/5reTAVoxCC @JZAR_EAZA @BIAZA @waza @ABWAK @zoos_aquariums @thezooscientist

[ASAB @asab_org]

Running low on places, so make sure you register for #ASABWinter2024 soon! If you don’t manage to get a spot or can’t be there physically this year, don’t forget you can also register to attend virtually (or even better, set up a hublet!)

https://t.co/fRNZG5xFu4

[Dirk Wulff @dirkuwulff]

🚨 Job alert 🚨

I am looking for a PhD and Postdoc to join @arc_mpib at @mpib_berlin and work with me, @rui__mata, @marcel_binz, and @susafiedler on using LLMs to improve the generalizability in the behavioral and social sciences and other topics related to LLMs.

The positions are fully funded for three years. Apply by October 13!

Thank you for sharing!

[Christian Nawroth @GoatsThatStare]

Are comparable studies really comparable? Suggestions from a problem-solving experiment on urban and rural great tits
https://t.co/eumF526wqa