ATTN: if you need an example of what it looks like for Black ppl to be excluded from birding/outdoor exploration, here’s 1. Jake asked why his post about #BlackBirdersWeek was taken down from the Tennessee naturalist fb. This is why #BlackBirdersWeek is NECESSARY.

🌟New🌟 paper in Behavioral Ecology We tested whether rearing fish 🐟 in different social environments for 6 months affects their brain 🧠 development and cognition open-access 👉🏼 doi.org/10.1093/beheco… Swiss National Science Foundation SUBIC Department of Zoology #fishSci #brain #cognition

like birds? like mountains? JOIN THE MOUNTAIN BIRD NETWORK Here's how it goes: 1) do a systematic bird survey of a mountain slope 2) your wildest dreams will come true info posted here: benjamingfreeman.com/mountainbirdne… (please share widely)

speaking of black bears 🐻, this one posed to let us know it was taking the food reward AND the puzzle box.

New paper on the string-pulling bumblebees now out in Insect Science: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

Come join us - UVP is on the search for an international or local South African team member 👇🏼

🚨🐒Urbanization makes monkeys more selective in their object exploration. In our new paper, we discuss the distinction btw anthrophilia and neophilia. @LindseyEll27284 @AlbaMotes1 Urban Vervet Project Koneen Säätiö Swiss National Science Foundation UZH Science SimbithiEcoEstate academic.oup.com/cz/article/doi…

#GreatAdaptations In parrots, new mates adopt chicks; similar patterns in owl monkeys. science.org/content/articl…

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Job Alert 📢 3yr The Leverhulme Trust funded postdoc on the Evolution of Animal Play 🐬🐒🐘 inc. fieldwork with the Shark Bay dolphins. Field experience with wild animals + quantitative skills essential. Come join our collaborative team! Pls share widely 🙏 jobs.ac.uk/job/DHP957/res…

How does urbanization affect wildlife? New paper out on the effect of urbanization on red foxes' exploration and fear when encountering a novel human-made object! 🤩 KLIVV Vienna Vetmeduni academic.oup.com/cz/advance-art…

Really nice paper by a bunch of star ecologists - striking that the best cougar habitat is in the east where they have been extirpated. Come on back kitty kitty! Kathy Zeller, PhD 🐾

Meerkats use two different types of interactions to stay in touch. Konstanz researchers Vlad Demartsev Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin from Universität Konstanz, MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social have now unraveled the vocal interactions of meerkat groups. Test the calls in our quiz and read more: campus.uni-konstanz.de/en/science/mee…

Hi friends, *need your help*! Right-wingers spammed our new doc Queer Planet w/ 1 star reviews on IMDB, bringing the rating rapidly from around 8/10 down to 4/10 within just a few days 😟. Please give us 9 & 10 star reviews to fight back! & share widely💛 m.imdb.com/title/tt281086…

In a detailed review and reflection, Simon Reader (@[email protected]) and I discuss and explore the definitions, approaches, and key questions in human and nonhuman innovation, under the lens of cultural evolution academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…

Why do primates have bigger brains🧠? Study Royal Society Publishing shows that it’s not for efficient foraging. In the Panamanian rainforest, Ben Hirsch and Meg Crofoot compared how capuchins, spider monkeys, coatis and kinkajous solve the same foraging puzzle. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2… 🧵

⛰️ Carnivore Monitoring Field Tech positions in Oregon & Idaho ⛰️ We are hiring 3 field techs to conduct non-invasive carnivore surveys on National Forest this fall, focusing on improving monitoring methods for rare mesocarnivores. jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id=9… Please share!

The first day of the Collective Behavior field course 🇿🇦. We met the students in Upington

No. This is not acceptable. The methods section is the single most important part of a scientific paper. If those details are relegated to supplementary materials, then it's not a scientific paper in a scientific journal.