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Need illustration for your presentations? 🐙🦦🐍Check out our open-source website dedicated to sharing scientific illustrations--> fr.momentoanimalis.com It’s a collaborative project possible thanks to the talented Alice Petzold and Bridget Vincent More illustrations to come !

#CrowCoG is seeking qualified applicants for🚨TWO FUNDED PHD POSITIONS🚨 Field and aviary work; international team; and of course, the tool-using New Caledonian crows. Full info here: bit.ly/3Pht46r Please RT!

There’s still time to apply! Deadline: 14 July. Live in New Zealand 🏝️ Science in New Caledonia 🥾Join a supportive and multi-disciplinary global team 🌏

In the dry savannah and shrublands, a tiny bird, the Anthoscopus minutus builds its nest from spider silk and plant fibres It builds a false entry and a blind chamber to avoid predation Watch it close the ‘door’ as it leaves, leaving the false one ajar

Hoping to start a PhD next year? Like macroevolution / mammals / morphology? Want to live next to the beach and just outside the Cairngorms? I'm advertising a PhD position at the University of Aberdeen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. Open to international students; deadline Nov 27! findaphd.com/phds/project/e…

Like big-scale evolution and also working with live animals? Think animal behaviour's super neat? Consider this (funded!) PhD position! Based at University of St Andrews, co-supervised by me & Sue Healy, open to international students, deadline Nov 27! findaphd.com/phds/project/e…

#CrowCoG is hiring up to six PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS for our 2024 field season (April - Sep) ‼️ Help us observe and conduct behavioural studies on the remarkable tool-making and using New Caledonian crows🏝️🇳🇨 Details: bit.ly/3MCorSg Please share ‼️

New paper out today! Most (but not all!) birds build nests. But what kind of nests? Where do they put them? How big are those nests? What's in them? Which parent builds, and how long does it take? In GEB, we present a global database of nest traits: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

One week left to apply (Deadline: 08 Dec) - come join the #CrowCoG 2024 field team!

Hermit crabs now use #plastic instead of natural shells for shelter - using iEcology, we show for the first time that this behaviour is widespread across species & geographical locations. Wonderful work by Zuzanna Jagiełło & Lukasz Dylewski. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Why do we see sex-biases in tool use in some primate groups but not in others? Read my 2nd PhD chapter, #openaccess in AmJournalPrimatology (doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23…) for an exploration of this question in an unique island system where white-faced capuchins use stone tools. A🧵(1/8)

Two years ago I was doing fieldwork working with this amazing model system, my Twitter post went viral! Today, the paper on nest architecture in Scaptotrigona depilis is out in Current Biology! You can download the full paper here authors.elsevier.com/c/1inWS3QW8S6D…

Animals can live alongside humans if they are risk-analysis experts. This is according to a new study in eLife - the journal by Alexis Breen (@alexisjbreen.bsky.social) MPI-EVA Leipzig & @dominik_deffner Max Planck Institute for Human Development. More: tinyurl.com/yc857kjj & elifesciences.org/articles/89315

🎉NEW PAPER🎉 w/@dominik_deffner out today in eLife - the journal "Risk-sensitive learning is a winning strategy for leading an urban invasion" 🐦‍⬛🏙️ Link: elifesciences.org/articles/89315 Preprint 🧵👇 MPI-EVA Leipzig Max Planck Institute for Human Development Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin)

Proud of my colleagues Alexis Breen (@alexisjbreen.bsky.social) @dominik_deffner who mastered a ton of probabilistic programming & evolutionary algorithms so they could push this work beyond the status quo, connect theory to empirical data in an algorithmic transparent way. Good modest slow cooked science

It's that time of year again - #CrowCoG is advertising for 🚨 MULTIPLE PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS (APRIL - SEP 2025) 🚨 to help us conduct field- and aviary-based study of the tool-making and -using New Caledonian crows! Advert: bit.ly/3Ys7O2c PLEASE SHARE!

Amazing team to work with ! 🐦‍⬛

Me too... Alexis Breen (@alexisjbreen.bsky.social).bsky.social 🦋