Yitzchak Ben Mocha
@benmocha.bsky.social
Ethologist.
Postdoc at CASCB @cbehav.bsky.social.
Associate editor at #ProcB.
Animal and human rights advocate.
Curator of the Cooperative Breeding Database: @co-breed.bsky.social
Postdoc at CASCB @cbehav.bsky.social.
Associate editor at #ProcB.
Animal and human rights advocate.
Curator of the Cooperative Breeding Database: @co-breed.bsky.social
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The Cooperative Breeding Database (Co-BreeD) joined Bluesky!
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1/3 Testimonies from the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the West Bank (www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/202...):
"I recalled my previous tour in the military reserves, eight months ago. We were sitting over a cigarette, and one of the friends said..
"I recalled my previous tour in the military reserves, eight months ago. We were sitting over a cigarette, and one of the friends said..
הם גדלו בלב הימין המתנחלי. היום הם נחושים להחיות את השמאל הישראלי
אנשי השמאל האמוני ראו מקרוב איך קבוצה קטנה משנה אט־אט את פני החברה הישראלית. כעת הם מתכננים לעשות אותו הדבר — מהצד הנגדי
www.haaretz.co.il
November 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
1/3 Testimonies from the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the West Bank (www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/202...):
"I recalled my previous tour in the military reserves, eight months ago. We were sitting over a cigarette, and one of the friends said..
"I recalled my previous tour in the military reserves, eight months ago. We were sitting over a cigarette, and one of the friends said..
Trapped between darkness and heat: desert birds (Argya squamiceps) initiate daily activity earlier (and terminate it later) in response to heat | royalsocietypublishi... | Proceedings of the Royal Society B | #ornithology 🪶
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Trapped between darkness and heat: desert birds (Argya squamiceps) initiate daily activity earlier in response to heat #ProcB #OpenAccess #Ecology #Behaviour royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
November 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Trapped between darkness and heat: desert birds (Argya squamiceps) initiate daily activity earlier in response to heat #ProcB #OpenAccess #Ecology #Behaviour royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
1/ Social groups of a bird species use the same roosting trees for ≥15 years & ≥4 generations! To the best of our knowledge, this is the longest documented roosting site fidelity among cooperatively breeding birds & mammals.
Check out our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Check out our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
November 26, 2025 at 8:21 AM
1/ Social groups of a bird species use the same roosting trees for ≥15 years & ≥4 generations! To the best of our knowledge, this is the longest documented roosting site fidelity among cooperatively breeding birds & mammals.
Check out our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Check out our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Check out the story behind our work on Co-BreeD, written by fabulous @maikewoith.bsky.social and published as a blog in @animalecology.bsky.social
animalecologyinfocus.com/2025/11/11/h...
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How Co-BreeD can change how we see cooperation in animals
This blog post is provided by Maike Woith and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “An integrative, peer-reviewed and open-source cooperative-breeding database (Co-BreeD)”, wh…
animalecologyinfocus.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Teaser! 🐦 ☀️ 😴
Our paper about #sleep and #climate_change in desert birds will be published next week in #ProcB of the @royalsocietypublishing.org Meanwhile, you can enjoy the issue's cover featuring our magnificent #Arabian_babbler:
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Our paper about #sleep and #climate_change in desert birds will be published next week in #ProcB of the @royalsocietypublishing.org Meanwhile, you can enjoy the issue's cover featuring our magnificent #Arabian_babbler:
royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rspb/cur...
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 292, No 2058
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 7, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Teaser! 🐦 ☀️ 😴
Our paper about #sleep and #climate_change in desert birds will be published next week in #ProcB of the @royalsocietypublishing.org Meanwhile, you can enjoy the issue's cover featuring our magnificent #Arabian_babbler:
royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rspb/cur...
Our paper about #sleep and #climate_change in desert birds will be published next week in #ProcB of the @royalsocietypublishing.org Meanwhile, you can enjoy the issue's cover featuring our magnificent #Arabian_babbler:
royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rspb/cur...
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"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 systems across taxa..."
Read the full paper here: buff.ly/pIjeNRR
@co-breed.bsky.social
Read the full paper here: buff.ly/pIjeNRR
@co-breed.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
"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 systems across taxa..."
Read the full paper here: buff.ly/pIjeNRR
@co-breed.bsky.social
Read the full paper here: buff.ly/pIjeNRR
@co-breed.bsky.social
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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.
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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.
Reposted by Yitzchak Ben Mocha
מחפש את השמות של המתנחלים מהסרטון שהתעללו ורצחו באכזריות כבשים וטלאים בסמוע. מי שיודע/ת בבקשה כתבו לי בפרטי. חשאיות מובטחת. תודה
November 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
מחפש את השמות של המתנחלים מהסרטון שהתעללו ורצחו באכזריות כבשים וטלאים בסמוע. מי שיודע/ת בבקשה כתבו לי בפרטי. חשאיות מובטחת. תודה
#speetol2025 attendees! If you have parental care data from wild birds or mammals, please discuss cooperation with @co-breed.bsky.social.
We offer FAIR co-authorship for data contributors.
I will be available during today's poster session.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We offer FAIR co-authorship for data contributors.
I will be available during today's poster session.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
October 31, 2025 at 9:23 AM
#speetol2025 attendees! If you have parental care data from wild birds or mammals, please discuss cooperation with @co-breed.bsky.social.
We offer FAIR co-authorship for data contributors.
I will be available during today's poster session.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We offer FAIR co-authorship for data contributors.
I will be available during today's poster session.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Cooperative-Breeding Database is online!
Get your own copy of the unprecedented data on cooperative breeding in birds and mammals!
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Get your own copy of the unprecedented data on cooperative breeding in birds and mammals!
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1/6 The Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD) is alive! Co-BreeD covers key biological parameters relevant to cooperative breeding research in birds and mammals. Get your copy of this updateable & open-access database: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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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....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
The Cooperative-Breeding Database is online!
Get your own copy of the unprecedented data on cooperative breeding in birds and mammals!
@maikewoith.bsky.social @carsten-schradin.bsky.social @michael-griesser.bsky.social @dustinrubenstein.com @luciabruscagnin.bsky.social @vbaglione.bsky.social
Get your own copy of the unprecedented data on cooperative breeding in birds and mammals!
@maikewoith.bsky.social @carsten-schradin.bsky.social @michael-griesser.bsky.social @dustinrubenstein.com @luciabruscagnin.bsky.social @vbaglione.bsky.social
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86% of those who voted among the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars support this: "Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)".
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says
The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.
www.reuters.com
September 1, 2025 at 10:48 AM
86% of those who voted among the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars support this: "Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)".
Reposted by Yitzchak Ben Mocha
Reposted by Yitzchak Ben Mocha
staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...
Trump ambushes South African president in Oval Office with video | CNN
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa sat in awkward silence as he listened to a video US President Donald Trump played in the Oval Office. CNN’s Larry Madowo reports that Trump was pushing debunked...
www.cnn.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...
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Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
May 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
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Just passing along some friendly advice on how to approach potential changes to the Australian health care system @drruthmitchell.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Just passing along some friendly advice on how to approach potential changes to the Australian health care system @drruthmitchell.bsky.social
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Bik had reported the Oncogene papers to the journal in 2019. In February 2024, Bik sought an update and Springer Nature told her the investigation was still ongoing.
May 4, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Bik had reported the Oncogene papers to the journal in 2019. In February 2024, Bik sought an update and Springer Nature told her the investigation was still ongoing.
"Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims." (Wikipedia) = Israel is a terrorist state!
www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...
www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...
Israeli drones hit Gaza aid flotilla in international waters off Malta, NGO says
A ship carrying humanitarian aid and activists heading for Gaza was attacked by Israeli drones while in international waters off Malta early Friday, said Freedom Flotilla Coalition, an international…
www.france24.com
May 2, 2025 at 9:56 AM
"Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims." (Wikipedia) = Israel is a terrorist state!
www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...
www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...
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International Workers' Day (1 May) was established as a labor holiday in memory of the Haymarket Massacre in Chicago that occurred during a workers' demonstration in May 1886.
The demonstrators were demanding to legally limit workdays to eight hours.
The demonstrators were demanding to legally limit workdays to eight hours.
May 1, 2025 at 7:16 AM
International Workers' Day (1 May) was established as a labor holiday in memory of the Haymarket Massacre in Chicago that occurred during a workers' demonstration in May 1886.
The demonstrators were demanding to legally limit workdays to eight hours.
The demonstrators were demanding to legally limit workdays to eight hours.
Stop Israel!
“ #Gaza: children are starving.
The Government of Israel continues to block the entry of food and other basics.
A manmade and politically motivated starvation.
Nearly 2 months of siege.
Calls to bring in supplies are going unheeded.”
— UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini
The Government of Israel continues to block the entry of food and other basics.
A manmade and politically motivated starvation.
Nearly 2 months of siege.
Calls to bring in supplies are going unheeded.”
— UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini
April 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Stop Israel!
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The Cooperative Breeding Database has a logo!
Hopefully, the first dataset on the prevalence of breeding events with alloparents across bird and mammal populations will be made public soon!
Made by nataliekes.bsky.social
Hopefully, the first dataset on the prevalence of breeding events with alloparents across bird and mammal populations will be made public soon!
Made by nataliekes.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The Cooperative Breeding Database has a logo!
Hopefully, the first dataset on the prevalence of breeding events with alloparents across bird and mammal populations will be made public soon!
Made by nataliekes.bsky.social
Hopefully, the first dataset on the prevalence of breeding events with alloparents across bird and mammal populations will be made public soon!
Made by nataliekes.bsky.social
Reposted by Yitzchak Ben Mocha
On Sunday, April 6, Mama gave birth to her first offspring, a little female. She sits relaxed lent against a tree and the babies foot dangles out between her legs. Mama is daughter to Mystere, one of our oldest females (ca. 50 y) in the North Group, observed since 45 years! Welcome to the world.
April 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
On Sunday, April 6, Mama gave birth to her first offspring, a little female. She sits relaxed lent against a tree and the babies foot dangles out between her legs. Mama is daughter to Mystere, one of our oldest females (ca. 50 y) in the North Group, observed since 45 years! Welcome to the world.
Could not believe this post until I opened the link and read it myself... insane
Get this: Commerce is slashing $ to Princeton's world-renowned climate research b/c modeling changes to Earth systems is "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety,' which has increased significantly among America’s youth."
No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University
On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...
www.commerce.gov
April 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Could not believe this post until I opened the link and read it myself... insane
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Now in its sixth year, the KT Boost Fund – a collaboration between the @klaus-tschira-stiftung.de and GSO* – provides postdoctoral researchers in the Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Computer Science with the freedom to think boldly at a crucial career stage.
April 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Now in its sixth year, the KT Boost Fund – a collaboration between the @klaus-tschira-stiftung.de and GSO* – provides postdoctoral researchers in the Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Computer Science with the freedom to think boldly at a crucial career stage.
The University of Haifa actively denies the ethnic cleansing being carried out by the State of Israel and censors *evidence* of it!
Boycott the University of Haifa!
www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/cine...
Boycott the University of Haifa!
www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/cine...
אוניברסיטת חיפה ביטלה הקרנה של הסרט "אין ארץ אחרת"
הארץ
www.haaretz.co.il
April 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The University of Haifa actively denies the ethnic cleansing being carried out by the State of Israel and censors *evidence* of it!
Boycott the University of Haifa!
www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/cine...
Boycott the University of Haifa!
www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/cine...