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Aditya Date
@adityadate.bsky.social
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Studying primate communication @ the Pathways to Language group, Uni Tübingen | Master's student in Ecology, evolution and systematics, @ LMU Munich
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ehowaspi.bsky.social
Our New Paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour: 🚨 Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials! 🦧 www.nature.com/articles/s41.... See 🧵
Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials - Nature Human Behaviour
Howard-Spink et al. develop an empirically based model of orangutan diet development, which suggests that social learning is vital for orangutans to acquire varied diets.
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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gloriamurari.bsky.social
Are you a bachelor's / master's student looking for a thesis project or Erasmus Internship? We’re looking for someone to come and help us collecting data! If you’re interested, feel free to contact me! :)
November 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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iuliabadescu.bsky.social
We call this the alien ghosty phase of natal coat development in b&w colobus.
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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stephanielking.bsky.social
3 year postdoc funded by @ukri.org NERC on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins is now live - please share widely 🙏 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
University of Bristol Beacon House Queens Road Bristol, BS8 1QU, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 9000 Contact us
www.bristol.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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samanthacpatrick.bsky.social
We’re looking for an enthusiastic #PhD candidate to explore the resilience of sea turtle populations in a changing climate, supervised by Leo Clarke and myself. Interested in sea #turtles, #marine #biology, #conservation & #fieldwork in Cape Verde. Funded by ACCE+ NERC DLA tinyurl.com/dm573yrm
November 7, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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animal-prattle.bsky.social
Curious about genes and vocal learning in the wild?

Check this out!
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1️⃣High-res bioacoustics+pop-gen in a vocal learning bird in the Western Ghats 🇮🇳
2️⃣Spatial variation in song and genetics but no clear association bw the two
➡️Genetic and vocal variation shaped by distinct processes!
Figure 1: a) Sampling locations: All coloured dots represent locations sampled, with genetic data (N = 13) (Grasshills - GR, Poovar - PV, Munnar (MN), Eravikulam (EV), Anaimudi (AM), Meeshapulimala (MP), Mathiketten (MT), Bandar (BD), Kookal (KK), Berijam (BJ), Kodaikanal (KD), Highwavies (HW), with warm to cool colours along an east-to-west gradient, and green is the southernmost site. The solid outer circles are locations sampled for songs (N = 7). Playback experiments were conducted in one location - KD. The pale green-shaded area indicates the 1400m elevational contour encompassing the Annamalai-Palani plateau (north) and the Highwavies range (south); the base layer represents the terrain contours. The solid black line represents the state boundary of Kerala (left) and Tamil Nadu (right). The inset map shows peninsular India with a blue rectangle highlighting the Anamalai-Palani and Highwavies ranges.
November 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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andyradford.bsky.social
#animalcommunication
A different view on #acoustic #signals used as part of #animal #contests - after rather than before or during the fight.
#birds #mammals
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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jennifer-morinay.bsky.social
🚨 Come join the fantastic long-tailed tit team 🚨
🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds).
🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK.
🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025.
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...
Colour-ringed long-tailed tit
November 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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animalinvention.bsky.social
Our seminar on animal agency, between biology and philosophy, is back !
Check out the programme for the next sessions here !
We meet on the second Wednesday of each month, on Zoom, from 4 to 5 PM (UK time).
You’re very welcome to join ! :)

www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar...
Seminar Agency between Biology and Philosophy 2025/2026
Here, you will find the 2025-2026 programme, and general information about our seminar. The introductory post can be found here.ProgrammeThis year, we will meet each second Wednesday of each month, fr...
www.animalinventiveness.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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labwaggoner.bsky.social
Single antivenom nanobody protects against 17 different snakebites @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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@andreaslaustsen.bsky.social
Single antivenom protects against 17 different snakebites
Researchers immunized an alpaca and a llama with snake venoms, and combined some of the antibodies produced into a potent cocktail.
www.nature.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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viveknityananda.bsky.social
New #PhD ad alert!
Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England?

Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information.

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The cognitive ecology of wild bumblebees
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October 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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science.org
Talk about an in-flight meal.

For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn
October 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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pnas.org
Researchers gave female canaries testosterone, which causes them to sing. Two-photon in vivo imaging reveals that songs emerge due to changes in brain cell function rather than by increasing the size of a key brain region, as was once thought. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/pn1750XhFL5
A pair of canaries from the canary breeding colony of the Max Planck Institute of Biological Intelligence in Seewiesen, Germany. CREDIT: Stefan Leitner
October 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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meanwhileina.bsky.social
Opening for PhD position (3.5 years) on

Language Evolution | Computational Modeling | Primate Communication

Joint project with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social & @elmanubohn.bsky.social at @unituebingen.bsky.social in CRC "Common Ground".

Share, apply, or reach out for details!

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PhD Researcher (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 75%)
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October 16, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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iuliabadescu.bsky.social
Young chimps play weird with tools and other objects & this can lead to innovation! Moss sponging, doll play, leaf clipping to ask for carrying. If copied and retained, rare kid innovations can contribute to cultural complexity 🧪🔬🐵
My fav article I've ever worked on: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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isf-oeaw.bsky.social
📢 Open PhD position at our Institute: Bioacoustics / cheetah vocal communication 🐆🎶
You’ll study the cheetah’s high-pitched “chirps” that sound surprisingly like birds 🐦— exploring their acoustic structure and function. 👉 Details and application: www.oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=34u4...
October 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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thecharleywu.bsky.social
Fully-funded 4-year #PhD in Cultural Evolution! Join my @erc.europa.eu project exploring how compression & compositionality drive cultural innovation: hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur...
Apply by Nov 12!
Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! 🙏
ERC funded PhD position on Cultural Evolution
ERC funded PhD position on Cultural Evolution posted on October 16, 2025 We are currently seeking a highly motivated individual for a ful...
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October 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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sheldonbirds.bsky.social
Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Examples of some recent papers from graduate students in my group - a full list of recent papers and preprints can be found here (https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=pTdxVdIAAAAJ) and profile of the group here: https://egioxford.web.ox.ac.uk/members The annual Wytham Field Team Photo! Celebrating a successful field season with great food & good company - May 2025 Front view of the Life & Mind Building, which opened in Oct 2025: The new home of Biology at Oxford
October 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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nicoleackermans.com
Violence, scientific DRAMA, and misunderstanding!
Who first asked if woodpeckers get headaches, or if rams are immune to brain damage?
New Paper! I trace the history of human thought on brain injury in head-hitting animals, and it's a wild ride. 🧪 🏺
A thread - 1/🧵
doi.org/10.1002/ar.7...
Graphical abstract for A history of human thought on brain injury in head-hitting animals. Humans have hypothesized about headbutting for centuries. Biological misunderstanding has often been the cause of "invulnerability" theories. An accumulation of biological misinterpretation has led to the belief that animals are immune, despite evidence that headbutting causes brain injury.
October 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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zoegoldsborough.bsky.social
Want to know more about monkeys kidnapping other monkeys?🐒 I had an amazing chat together with @bjjbarrett.bsky.social on @sidedoorpod.bsky.social about the Coiban capuchins and their wild antics. Science really is stranger than fiction! Listen 👂 here: www.si.edu/sidedoor/mon...
October 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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aibsbiology.bsky.social
Too cute to be wild: what teddy bears reveal about our disconnection from nature. #AIBS #BioScience #viewpoint doi.org/10.1093/bios...
October 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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artinsociety.bsky.social
This sandal, woven from grasses and twigs about 650 years ago, has been found in the nest of a bearded vulture, preserved in the cool dry air of a cave in southern Spain (National Geographic; photo Sergio Couto)
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October 3, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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arispeshkin.bsky.social
⭐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
October 3, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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karoger.bsky.social
On Monday, October 6th I’ll be presenting the @manydogsproject.bsky.social at the @btscon.bsky.social. 🐕✨

Looking forward to introducing the ManyDogs Project ☺️

#btsconference #manydogs2 #manydogsproject #onlineconference
October 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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cataranea.bsky.social
I love the way science used to be written. Is it necessary to know that the author was pushing his baby in a pram while making observations of insects? Perhaps not, but it provides delightful context, while assuming the reader is familiar with his previously published baby-wheeling-related work.
A screenshot of some text of a paper, with the following sentence highlighted: "One July evening last summer, while engaged in wheeling the baby (another one this time) through some tall grass in the corner of my yard, I noticed..." It continues "an Ammophila attached to a grass-stem in the peculiar..."
September 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM