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Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB)
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Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter. We aim to understand the mechanisms and functions of behaviour in humans and other animals. Come do an MSc with us! https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/courses/psychology/animal/
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Happy #PhotographyFriday! End of my first week as a postdoc in @crab-exeter.bsky.social and safe to say I think I've landed on my feet here 😁 some sun would be nice though.....
February 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Bake your paper! Research tech extraordinaire, Macaela Skelton, made a cake of (some of) the study sites in the MacaqueNet database. She ran out of decorations before she could do them all 😆. Link to the paper that's been cake-ified: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
February 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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5 exciting PhD opportunities to join the Center for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter in Sept 2025. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro...
December 5, 2024 at 11:01 PM
The annual CRAB-mas quiz was a great success! The staff team won for the first time ever in the history of CRABmasses and received a crisp high five as reward.
December 11, 2024 at 1:29 PM
If our PhD studentships from NERC weren't enough, we've also got this one on offer on 🐇. Deadline Dec 11th
Funded PhD Available at the University of Exeter.

Loneliness is a global epidemic. We want to use field experiments in wild rabbits to understand why our social connections change with age.

Deadline: 11th Dec

More info & how to apply here: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
December 6, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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New PhD opportunity on social behaviour in the context of ecological disturbance with me, @mdekauwe.bsky.social, and others. Sept 2025 start, funded by NERC
Apply by Jan 13. Project and application details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
November 20, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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Exciting new NERC funded PhD opportunity available with us on #killerwhale #orca #behaviour and #conservation, co-supervised by Stephanie King, Sam Ellis and Dan Franks in partnership with The Center for Whale Research USA
exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... - deadline 13th January 2025 #killerwhale
November 29, 2024 at 2:08 PM
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Pls RT: Interested in doing a PhD on the behaviour of #bees & other animals at CRAB Uni Exeter and Bristol Uni? Check out SWBio swbio.ac.uk www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/pr... (apply by 11.12.) & NERC GW4 www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/projects-202... @seanrands.bsky.social @bethbees.bsky.social apply by 13.01.
December 3, 2024 at 10:48 AM
Come do a PhD in CRAB! Check out the studentships on offer below and apply by the 13th of Jan 🦀🐝🦊🐋🐒🐓
5 exciting PhD opportunities to join the Center for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter in Sept 2025. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro...
December 6, 2024 at 2:39 PM
the Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour is now posting here! Follow individual members and alumni via the CRAB starter pack 🦀 go.bsky.app/LSJ3ZBD
December 6, 2024 at 2:34 PM