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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

Australian printmaker Rachel Newling is inspired by the floral and fauna of her homeland.
'Grey Headed Flying Fox', hand coloured linocut #ReframjngWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring three bats hanging upside-down in branches of a tree with green leaves and orange blossoms

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Prof Helen Bostock @oceanhelen.bsky.social · 3d

Diversity in research. How can we take into account the extra burden of publishing in English for those who are not native speakers? With AI can we now translate and look at publications from any language? @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social

Who gets to do science? A demand for English is hurting marginalised researchers

Everyone, no matter their background, should have an equal chance to work in science – but there are huge systemic barriers.

theconversation.com

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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 4d

🚨𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗮𝘀𝘁𝘀!
www.ehbea2026.com is now live for our 2026 European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association (EHBEA) conference in Leiden (NL🇳🇱) Check for 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻, first 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 & the [𝗔𝗜]𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸!
🗓️ 14–17 Apr 2026 | CBEN pre-conf 14 Apr
📍Pesthuis
#EHBEA2026

Overview | EHBEA2026

www.ehbea2026.com

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Christos C. Ioannou @ccioannou.bsky.social · 14h

📣 @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

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Animal Behaviour Collective @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social · 11h

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Animal Behaviour Collective @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social · 29d

careers.tnc.org/us/en/job/JR...

Postdoctoral Health Analytics Scientist, Global Science in Global | Science at The Nature Conservancy

Apply for Postdoctoral Health Analytics Scientist, Global Science job with The Nature Conservancy in Global. Science at The Nature Conservancy

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · Sep 10

Eres un chileno/a, mexicano/a o otra persona latinoamericana que quiere hacer un doctorado en la tema de programas educativas de imagen corporal en escuelas? Tenemos una beca en Durham para unirse en nuestra proyecto! Puedes ver las detalles y aplicar aqui 👇
#Psicología
#antropología
🇨🇱🇲🇽🇳🇮🇵🇷🇦🇷🇨🇷🇭🇳🇸🇻🇺🇾🇵🇾🇵🇪🇧🇴🇨🇺

Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · Sep 10

PhD post! 2 students sought to join the BIRES project, taking a body image intervention developed in Nicaragua and Colombia and examining how (and if!) It can be adapted in other LatAm and African youth.
Please share with your students.

#PsychSciSky
#Anthropology

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Title of Project: Examining school-based body image interventions in Africa and/or Latin America

Start Date: January, April or October 2026

Application Deadline: 20th October 2025

For more information including how to apply please see: PhD advert BIRES studentship

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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · Sep 11

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised!

3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution

2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.

Please share and apply!

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Fees and Funding - Durham University

www.durham.ac.uk

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Animal Behaviour Collective @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social · Sep 11

@delphinedemoor.bsky.social was present at the Behaviour 2025: XXXVIII International Ethological Congress and took the opportunity to spread the ABC mission 👏

We’ve prepared resources, like logos and email templates, for everyone to reach more students, mentees, donors: linktr.ee/animalbehavi...

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ASAB @asab.org · Aug 29

Attention #Behaviour2025 ! Can’t wait for the next conference? Good news, the deadline for abstracts for #ASABWinter2025 has been extended !

Winter ASAB 2025
December 15th-16th
Edinburgh
ASABwinter.github.io/2025/
How sensory information affects behaviour

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Animal Behaviour Collective @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social · Aug 27

If you are a grad student, ECR, or faculty - sign up to be a mentor or a contributor!
We're a fun group and each small contribution goes a long way to make animal behavior research more inclusive for undergraduate students all over the world! 🐝

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Animal Behaviour Collective @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social · Aug 27

Folks attending @behaviour2025.bsky.social in the city of joy!! 📣 Visit poster #72 to catch @delphinedemoor.bsky.social & @stotra.bsky.social repping Team @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social
Learn more about our collective 🐝 🐝🐝

Delphine De Moor @delphinedemoor.bsky.social · Aug 27

Want to help make the field of animal behaviour more accessible to help? Visit the @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social at poster 72 to learn about how to apply for microgrants and mentorship, become a mentor or financial contributor. 🐝🐝🐝
@behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Stotra Chakrabarti, PhD @stotra.bsky.social · Aug 27

Folks looking for support/guidance/mentorship in Animal Behaviour, pls come talk to us! We are representing @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social at #Behaviour2025 @asab.org poster session!! What a joy to be able to do this with colleague phenomenal @delphinedemoor.bsky.social and @emmasmcewen.bsky.social 🐝🤝

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Animal Behaviour Live @animalbehaviour.live · Aug 7

✨3 months until our online conference ! ✨

Discover our amazing plenary speakers in this video! Feel free to share with anyone who might be interested in attending. 🙌

Free registrations here : ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org

#animalbehaviour #ethology #onlineconference #ABL2025

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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · Aug 6

Early career researcher who'd love a mentor? Or mid-career (onwards) looking to give back AS a mentor?

Sign up below for the new round of Guillemates 🥰🐧
Mentees👉 forms.gle/cdktNREkhUDb...
Mentors👉 forms.gle/uwA9X9giUPnA...

Such a great learning (or supporting!) opportunity 👩‍👩‍👦‍👦
Pls share! #seabirds

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Danai Papageorgiou @danaipapageorgiou.bsky.social · Jul 24

That's a captivating podcast that I really enjoyed! Highly recommended ;-)

Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · Jul 24

Children are often cast as passive vessels into which we pour culture. But children create cultures of their own—vibrant ones with special properties.

Just one of the topics discussed in our recent episode with @dorsaamir.bsky.social & @sheinalew.bsky.social!

Listen: disi.org/varieties-of...

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Juliano Sarmento Cabral @jsarmentocabral.bsky.social · Jul 10

Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt

Programmer in Ecological Modelling

Full-time, permanent, EG 10, Reference number: 2025/72

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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · Jul 31

Registration for the ASAB conference is now open - come join us!

ASAB @asab.org · Jul 29

Join us for #ASABWinter2025 in Edinburgh Dec 15-16 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Abstracts for posters/talks due Aug 29

More details here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · Jul 31

We are doing a Hackathon! 💻 Together with senior editor @nhcooper123.bsky.social , we'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible... (1/2)

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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · Aug 1

Remember to keep dogs on lead near breeding seabird colonies!

wordsfromwez.bsky.social @wordsfromwez.bsky.social · Jul 28

Little terns dead after dog attacks at Norfolk beach | Eastern Daily Press share.google/ryighi5PKWGC...

Rare seabirds dead after dog attacks at beach

Four little terns have died at one of the most successful colonies in recent years along the Norfolk coast.

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Animal Behaviour Collective @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social · Jul 20

Get to knows us better : linktr.ee/animalbehavi...

Animal Behaviour Collective | Twitter, Instagram, Facebook | Linktree

Organising microgrants and mentorship for students in animal behaviour 🐝

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Animal Behaviour Collective @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social · Jul 20

Let's start the week with amazing news!
During the last round of ABC microgrants, we were able to fund 6 students, and in total £1270!

This means that since 2021, ABC total grants distributed have just reached the £26.000 mark 🥳

Thank you to every person who ever donated!

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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)

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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primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social · Jul 19

Please consider helping us support the next generation of primatologists! Any support is greatly appreciated, and will help us host this fantastic event for the second time! 🐒

primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social · Jul 17

We need your help to raise money for our Field Skills Workshop! 🤝 Our workshop provides critical training for emerging primatologists who otherwise would not have opportunities to gain field experience. Consider donating to support this goal via the 🔗: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Help raise £1000 to Support the PSGB Field Skills Workshop 2025 – JustGiving Crowdfunding

Iʼm raising money to Support the PSGB Field Skills Workshop 2025. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

www.justgiving.com

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Animal Behaviour Collective @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social · Jun 26

Is there any work you would like to see highlighted at ABC this month?

Animal Behaviour Collective @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social · Jun 20

We believe that diversity & inclusion are a must for good science. This is why we support students from historically excluded groups, including LGBTQIA+ students. With this year's anti-LGBTQIA+ and specifically anti-trans measures, we feel it's more important than ever to state this.

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Animal Behaviour Collective @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social · Jun 26

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