The Shizuka Lab is recruiting a Ph.D. student for Fall 2024! Two full years of RAship support guaranteed! You can find out more about the lab and the position at shizukalab.com. If you have any questions about the lab itself, I'm happy to chat!(Spoiler alert, I love it)

GfP is back on track with our next GfP Conference scheduled for March 13-16 2024 in beautiful Konstanz. The webpage of the meeting is up at tinyurl.com/3v52f72k

Big news! We received NSF funding and we're now looking for a PhD student to help us study the ecogeography of social behavior in fairywrens. The student will be co-advised by Dai Shizuka and Allison Johnson. Details here: fairywrenproject.org/2023/10/26/wer…

My first PhD chapter is out today! This study took a lot of time and effort from many people: Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin Frants Jensen, PhD Eli Strauss Andrew Gersick Kay Holekamp . We have some cool stuff to say! 🧵 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Do social migrants choose less social routes as they age? In our new preprint, we show that juvenile white storks choose routes to overlap with other migrating storks—older birds are more independent! doi.org/10.1101/2023.1… @anflack Elham Nourani Wolfgang Fiedler MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

We're delighted to announce the first of our keynote speakers at #GfP2024 Universität Konstanz 💫🦧Maria van Noordwijk & Carel van Schaik🦧💫 ⏰ Two weeks left for early bird registration at #GfP2024 Sign up before Dec 15 for reduced conference fee⏩ uni-konstanz.de/gfp-2024/

Our paper on #hyena #cooperation is out in Royal Society Publishing 🥳! We (Dr. Lehmann is not here @jcbeehner Kay Holekamp Mara Hyena Project et al) show how long-term social bonds & short-term friendly intx help hyenas overcome barriers to cooperation during risky fights w/ lions: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

🤩I am so excited to share our newly published article "Review of the global research on Hyaenidae and implications for conservation and management", out today in Mammal Society Mammal Review. The result of TONS of work by some of us in IUCN SSC Hyaena Specialist Group. (1/n) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

What does it take to collar an entire #hyena clan? Check out our latest blog post to find out: movecall.group/post/collar-an…

Whole group tracking reveals that relatedness drives consistent subgrouping patterns in white-nosed coatis dlvr.it/T090cw

I would love to hear people’s thoughts about this invited article I wrote. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/et…

We report the discovery of convergence of a complex, composite trait through which two species of Nepenthes pitcher plants catapult their prey down the pitcher using rain power.

The last chapter of my Ph.D. thesis has been published Communications Biology. I studied how to monitor the vibratory communications of ground-dwelling arthropods and acoustic niche partitioning in the 'vibroscapes' under our feet. nature.com/articles/s4200…

Something I wish I’d understood about maternity leave as an academic, now that I’ve had time to reflect: it is obviously wonderful in life-changing and joyous ways, but it can also be a period of profound identity crisis. Vulnerability incoming (short thread)…

The top-cited article of 2022 from #PhilTransB, ‘The establishment and maintenance of dominance hierarchies’ reveals how different species establish and sustain hierarchies, highlighting future research possibilities. ow.ly/RiRw50QreAT #AnimalBehaviour

Ever wondered what the forest floor sounds like? Or how different spider species partition their signaling environment over space and time? Wonder no longer with this fantastic work out recently by Noori Choi! University of Nebraska-Lincoln Nebraska Bio Sci Nebraska Research rdcu.be/dxYoY

It's time to flip the script on hyenas. They're doting parents, intelligent problem solvers, and supreme hunters. National Geographic's cover story this month, which I wrote and Dr. Jen Guyton photographed, is out today! nationalgeographic.com/animals/articl…

It's finally out! Behind this article was more than a year of hard work by Christine Dell'Amore, Dr. Jen Guyton. My work w/Jen & contributing journalist ayenat mersie included plenty of late nights/early mornings, fieldwork fails, bushwacking, & buffalo. Awesome job, folks! 🥳 IUCN SSC Hyaena Specialist Group #hyena

🚨Field work position🚨 The Mara Hyena Project is looking for two research assistants to start year-long field positions in January 2025. Join our team and contribute to our long-term study on hyena behavior and ecology! Application review will start Aug 20th

Today I gave a rather important talk. Now I can add 2 letters before my name, which is cool.