ASAB
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We promote the study of animal behaviour, organise conferences, fund research & support the teaching of animal behaviour. Co-publisher of #AnimalBehaviourJournal. Posts by @raccoonologist.bsky.social. For meeting posts, follow @asab-meetings.bsky.social
🪰 Fruit flies! 🌡️ Temperature changes! 💋Mate attraction! 👃Pheromones!
Our November #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:
"Effects of natural temperature variation on male perception of female scents in Drosophila melanogaster"
Read here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123352
Our November #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:
"Effects of natural temperature variation on male perception of female scents in Drosophila melanogaster"
Read here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123352
November 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
🪰 Fruit flies! 🌡️ Temperature changes! 💋Mate attraction! 👃Pheromones!
Our November #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:
"Effects of natural temperature variation on male perception of female scents in Drosophila melanogaster"
Read here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123352
Our November #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:
"Effects of natural temperature variation on male perception of female scents in Drosophila melanogaster"
Read here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123352
🐦⬛Oriental magpie-robins!🪺Brood parasites!🥚Egg rejection!🗺️Geographic variation!
October #ASABEditorsChoice for #AnimalBehaviourJournal: 'Egg management strategies of a common cuckoo host in response to variable egg phenotypes across 3 geographical pop.’
Read: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123329
October #ASABEditorsChoice for #AnimalBehaviourJournal: 'Egg management strategies of a common cuckoo host in response to variable egg phenotypes across 3 geographical pop.’
Read: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123329
October 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🐦⬛Oriental magpie-robins!🪺Brood parasites!🥚Egg rejection!🗺️Geographic variation!
October #ASABEditorsChoice for #AnimalBehaviourJournal: 'Egg management strategies of a common cuckoo host in response to variable egg phenotypes across 3 geographical pop.’
Read: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123329
October #ASABEditorsChoice for #AnimalBehaviourJournal: 'Egg management strategies of a common cuckoo host in response to variable egg phenotypes across 3 geographical pop.’
Read: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123329
After mtgs resumed in person, Jo also worked to have a public lecture added to the winter mtg for school children, which has been wonderful.
Jo humbly attributes his success to all the volunteers, but under his extra long-term he has done a amazing job keeping the community together. Thanks Jo! 🤗
Jo humbly attributes his success to all the volunteers, but under his extra long-term he has done a amazing job keeping the community together. Thanks Jo! 🤗
October 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
After mtgs resumed in person, Jo also worked to have a public lecture added to the winter mtg for school children, which has been wonderful.
Jo humbly attributes his success to all the volunteers, but under his extra long-term he has done a amazing job keeping the community together. Thanks Jo! 🤗
Jo humbly attributes his success to all the volunteers, but under his extra long-term he has done a amazing job keeping the community together. Thanks Jo! 🤗
Jo is an Associate Prof at Uni Exeter and has studied many animals, including bowerbirds, beavers and pheasants. His focus has largely been on the evolution of cognition, with a gradual shift over his career from pure to applied research, working with animal charities, orgs and gov agencies… /2
October 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Jo is an Associate Prof at Uni Exeter and has studied many animals, including bowerbirds, beavers and pheasants. His focus has largely been on the evolution of cognition, with a gradual shift over his career from pure to applied research, working with animal charities, orgs and gov agencies… /2
Our inaugural #MeetASAB features someone you've all seen if you've been to a meeting in the last 7 years: Joah Madden (@pec-exeter.bsky.social)
Our former Meetings Secretary just finished a very long term, seeing us through the turbulence of lockdown to the first Behaviour mtg outside Europe... 1/
Our former Meetings Secretary just finished a very long term, seeing us through the turbulence of lockdown to the first Behaviour mtg outside Europe... 1/
October 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Our inaugural #MeetASAB features someone you've all seen if you've been to a meeting in the last 7 years: Joah Madden (@pec-exeter.bsky.social)
Our former Meetings Secretary just finished a very long term, seeing us through the turbulence of lockdown to the first Behaviour mtg outside Europe... 1/
Our former Meetings Secretary just finished a very long term, seeing us through the turbulence of lockdown to the first Behaviour mtg outside Europe... 1/
🐦Waxbills! 🥡Food competition! 🕵️Strangers! 🤬Social aggression!
Our September #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:
“Watchful of strangers: Waxbills redirect aggression from unfamiliar to familiar individuals”
Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123288
Our September #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:
“Watchful of strangers: Waxbills redirect aggression from unfamiliar to familiar individuals”
Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123288
September 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
🐦Waxbills! 🥡Food competition! 🕵️Strangers! 🤬Social aggression!
Our September #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:
“Watchful of strangers: Waxbills redirect aggression from unfamiliar to familiar individuals”
Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123288
Our September #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:
“Watchful of strangers: Waxbills redirect aggression from unfamiliar to familiar individuals”
Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123288
And our Geographic winner is Abhijith A V (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research) for “Contrasting morphological and acoustic trait spaces suggest distinct participant benefits in mixed-species bird flocks”
Read his paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
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Read his paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
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September 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
And our Geographic winner is Abhijith A V (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research) for “Contrasting morphological and acoustic trait spaces suggest distinct participant benefits in mixed-species bird flocks”
Read his paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
4/4
Read his paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
4/4
Our ECR winner is Kate Cornelsen (University of New South Wales) for “Predicting success of conservation translocations: prerelease screening tools for a threatened marsupial”
You can find her paper here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
3/4
You can find her paper here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
3/4
September 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Our ECR winner is Kate Cornelsen (University of New South Wales) for “Predicting success of conservation translocations: prerelease screening tools for a threatened marsupial”
You can find her paper here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
3/4
You can find her paper here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
3/4
Our student winner is @samyuktharajan.bsky.social (Stockholm University) for “Geographical variation in parental calls contextually shapes nestling songbird”
You can read her paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
2/4
You can read her paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
2/4
September 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Our student winner is @samyuktharajan.bsky.social (Stockholm University) for “Geographical variation in parental calls contextually shapes nestling songbird”
You can read her paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
2/4
You can read her paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
2/4
Congrats to all the poster winners at #Behaviour2025 🥳
August 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Congrats to all the poster winners at #Behaviour2025 🥳
And just like that, #Behaviour2025 is finished! Huge thanks to the organizers and everyone who made this happen!
August 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
And just like that, #Behaviour2025 is finished! Huge thanks to the organizers and everyone who made this happen!
Last plenary of #Behaviour2025 ! Hope everyone enjoyed the great talk by Toshitaka Suzuki 🐦
August 30, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Last plenary of #Behaviour2025 ! Hope everyone enjoyed the great talk by Toshitaka Suzuki 🐦
Great Gala dinner, especially when everyone got their groove on! 💃🏻 🕺🏻 #Behaviour2025
August 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Great Gala dinner, especially when everyone got their groove on! 💃🏻 🕺🏻 #Behaviour2025
Attention #Behaviour2025 ! Can’t wait for the next conference? Good news, the deadline for abstracts for #ASABWinter2025 has been extended !
August 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Attention #Behaviour2025 ! Can’t wait for the next conference? Good news, the deadline for abstracts for #ASABWinter2025 has been extended !
It may be 9am on Day 5, but of course nobody couldn’t miss @samellisq.bsky.social’s fascinating plenary on menopause in whales! 😍👵🐳 #Behaviour2025
August 29, 2025 at 3:37 AM
It may be 9am on Day 5, but of course nobody couldn’t miss @samellisq.bsky.social’s fascinating plenary on menopause in whales! 😍👵🐳 #Behaviour2025
Second poster session tonight was great! #Behaviour2025
August 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Second poster session tonight was great! #Behaviour2025
Public talk today by Mewa Singh on urban monkeys 🐒 #Behaviour2025
August 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Public talk today by Mewa Singh on urban monkeys 🐒 #Behaviour2025
Very enjoyable and busy first poster session tonight 😍 I’m sure everyone learned a lot! #Behaviour20255
August 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Very enjoyable and busy first poster session tonight 😍 I’m sure everyone learned a lot! #Behaviour20255
Starting day 3 of #Behaviour2025 with a plenary by Gene Robinson 🐝 🐝 🐝
August 27, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Starting day 3 of #Behaviour2025 with a plenary by Gene Robinson 🐝 🐝 🐝
It’s day 2 of #Behaviour2025 ! Beginning with a plenary talk by Rohini Balakrishnan
August 26, 2025 at 4:23 AM
It’s day 2 of #Behaviour2025 ! Beginning with a plenary talk by Rohini Balakrishnan
Hope everyone is getting well-mixed at the mixer this evening! #Behaviour2025
August 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Hope everyone is getting well-mixed at the mixer this evening! #Behaviour2025
The first plenary speaker of #Behaviour2025 : Prof Susan Alberts !
August 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM
The first plenary speaker of #Behaviour2025 : Prof Susan Alberts !
Our new meetings secretary @viveknityananda.bsky.social reminding everyone at #Behaviour2025 about our next conference #ASABWinter2025
We know everyone is busy but don’t forget the submission deadline for posters and talks is August 29 🏃♀️🏃🏃♂️
More information here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/
We know everyone is busy but don’t forget the submission deadline for posters and talks is August 29 🏃♀️🏃🏃♂️
More information here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/
August 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Our new meetings secretary @viveknityananda.bsky.social reminding everyone at #Behaviour2025 about our next conference #ASABWinter2025
We know everyone is busy but don’t forget the submission deadline for posters and talks is August 29 🏃♀️🏃🏃♂️
More information here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/
We know everyone is busy but don’t forget the submission deadline for posters and talks is August 29 🏃♀️🏃🏃♂️
More information here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/
