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PLOS has issued a statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity. We are determined to stand firmly behind our mission, our values and our principles, and against any attempt at censorship or undermining of the core principles of scientific inquiry. plos.io/3D4O8cH

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The Animal Behavior Society supports science and our members. Please share this message with our community and beyond. Read the full letter here: myemail.constantcontact.com/ABS-Supports...

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I have been critical of on campus DEI implementation, at least insofar as I’ve experienced it as a staffer, but I agree 100% with Ian here. What’s under attack is something much more fundamental and should be treated as such.

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Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

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Mobbing sequences of American wrens elicit mobbing responses in European tits Very nice to see this out in #AnimalBehaviourJournal! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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New paper alert! Community algorithms reveal song type themes in Adelaide’s warbler song type sequence networks (🧵 1 /5) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Sabotage. Criminal sabotage. "[The NSF] is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday." www.eenews.net/articles/sci...

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This is how you do it. Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social Read their whole email to membership here mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...

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New paper alert 📢📢📢 Study from the Taï chimpanzees shows that some gestures used by chimpanzees reflect dialects and that human activity has led to loss of cultural signal use. Please read here: Signal traditions and cultural loss in chimpanzees: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

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New #PhDposition (cultural psychology) at the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at MPI-EVA: the project focuses on social cognition and will involve research in Germany (Leipzig), Namibia and Polynesia. Application deadline: March 1st, 2025 www.eva.mpg.de/comparative-...

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What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.

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Here's one of the remarkable entomologists I include in my upcoming graphic novel Insectopolis. He deserves to be credited as the brilliant pioneer that he was. #entomology www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

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Dr. Margaret Strickland Collin’s studied termites, and was the first Black woman to earn PhD in entomology. siarchives.si.edu/blog/margare... #BlackHistoryMonth #28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory

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Do you know a parrot that talks or sings? We are always looking for more recordings of pet parrots to help us understand language, musicality, and interaction of various information types in vocal signals. #manyparrots #bioacoustics www.manyparrots.org

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A single gene underlies male mating morphs in ruff sandpipers, a new Science study finds. The results show how evolutionary changes in a single gene's structure, sequence, and regulation can drive significant diversity within a single species. Learn more in our new issue: https://scim.ag/4arzNmU

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Vocal communication in corvids: a systematic review. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... In our new paper we review 130 papers and summarise empirical evidence for socioecological factors affecting vocal communication, as well as evidence for vocal learning in different corvid species.

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Hey! Do you prefer your books in paperback form? Do you like birds and stories of scrappy scientists figuring stuff out? My really fun book comes out in paperback on March 18 (and you can preorder the paperback edition now)! 🪶 bookshop.org/p/books/flig...

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We all know what they also want to say.

submitted 45 days ago • 26 comments

I am truly honoured to receive the @compcogsoc.bsky.social Early Career Award & invite to present at the CO3 conference in March 2025, Albuquerque, US. Incredibly grateful to my family, friends, colleagues, collaborators, mentors & mentees for all your support – thank you so much! 🥰❤️

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Reminder that there is a special issue in #AnimalBehaviourJournal based on the theme of #ASABWinter2024 : Addressing Biases in Animal Behaviour ! You don’t need an invite, but do feel free to send an email to check that your topic is fits 😄📧 Due by June 13 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

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Where are all the field studies? This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer. A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork) www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

submitted 49 days ago • 9 comments

My wonderful friend, Emma Greig, tragically passed on Christmas Eve after a cancer battle. Emma was the Project Leader of Project FeederWatch at @cornellbirds.bsky.social. She was also a prolific field ornithologist, and I was lucky to work with her on many fairywren projects. 1/2

submitted 56 days ago • 17 comments

The first of firsts is out! 😁🥳 From my PhD project on object play in wild ravens: here we validated findings from captivity and propose that object play in ravens likely serves dual functions - exploration of the physical as well as social environment! Link to paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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i genuinely try to be open about the usefulness and advantages of llms and try entertain ideas I deeply disagree with. and there’s a current trend that attempts to occupy a middle-ground position where people claims to find useful use cases while at the same time claiming to be critical 1/

submitted 58 days ago • 11 comments

for the potato fears not death

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Our research group has a !NEW PAPER! out on soil ecoacoustics - The efficacy of acoustic indices for monitoring abundance and diversity in soil soundscapes in Ecological Indicators. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... A 🧵 on soil ecoacoustics... #science #ecology #ecoacoustics #bioacoustics

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Turkey has become the EU's prime destination for plastic waste exports. In SUITS latest Policy Brief, Dr. Burcu Binboğa explores how EU waste is often not-as promised-recycled, but ends up being dumped or burned in Turkey. Read the brief & policy recommendations here: www.su.se/institute-fo...

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Parasitoids FTW!!! Illustration in homage to Eric Carle by Sloan Tomlinson

submitted 131 days ago • 3 comments

Read all about it. 🙌 @ipbes.bsky.social I always learn so much from interdisciplinary studies like what IPBES colleagues are attempting with the nexus and transformative change assesment work.

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New from me today in @technologyreview.com: for decades, scientists have dreamed of tracking migratory birds by listening in on their short, species-specific flight calls. Now, a new machine learning tool is unlocking a treasure trove of auditory data for the first time. 🐦🎙️ #naturewriting #scicomm

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Nicely done. Also, this is a cool paper (by @mdrelichman.bsky.social, @jvoth.bsky.social, and J Vidal-Robert). www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

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Clive Wynne and I wrote a review about dogs, and how their great potential as a model species in behavioral ecology and evolution is overlooked. Several misconceptions have likely led to this and I will break them down in a thread...1/6 🧪 🐶 🦊 🌍 #AcademicSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Congratulations to @aru-biology.bsky.social Prof Anna Nekaris for receiving the Osman Hill Medal from the @primatesocietygb.bsky.social #ARUproud

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Vocal plasticity: Bonobos pick up the local accent when they arrive in a new group. New paper by ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab & Co 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #bioacoustics #animalbehavior #animalbehaviour #ape #voice

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PhD position available 🚨Öncu Maraci is looking for a #PhDstudent to study the impact of #anthropogenicnoise on fitness-related behaviours, #geneexpression profiles, and #gutmicrobiome in #birds. Read all about it here: tinyurl.com/4xknfw8n

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I am very happy to share our new paper on the genetics of some of the first modern humans who ever lived in Europe! We sequenced nuclear DNA from 13 specimens from Ranis in Germany, and found that they belonged to at least 6 individuals. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/n)

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ASAB will also be at #Behaviour2025 in Kolkata, India, this summer (Aug 25-30). Abstract submission is currently open! #ASABWinter2024

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My first first-author paper on children's math development has been published! Here is the summary of the results 👇

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Final plenary by @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social concerning the language barriers in science. The hurdles for non-native English speakers are significant! #ASABWinter2024 Also, our congratulations to Tatsuya for winning the @britishecolsoc.bsky.social Equality and Diversity Champion award this week!

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Brilliant plenary by @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social - although this is something I have frequently thought about, it is confronting to see it laid out baldly. #ASABWinter2024

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The first @themanybirds.bsky.social study on neophobia has finally been released as a preprint! Together with 120+ collaborators, we studied avoidance behavior in 136 bird species, revealing both phylogenetic and ecological signatures. Very proud to be involved! 🧪🪶 doi.org/10.31219/osf...

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