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Italian-themed lunch for our awesome Italian PhD visitor, Marta Favero (front left in group photo), whose research stint in the #BobWongLab is soon coming to an end. Marta has been studying impacts of chemical pollution on behavior through ontogeny in brineshrimp. Giovanni Polverino

🚨 Big news everyone! 🚨 We have decided to extend our abstract deadline for #ASABSpring2025 until the 28th of February! That gives you two more weeks to send us your applications🎉 Register here: tinyurl.com/884wzzsy

Please share. We are #hiring #PhD students to work on #citizen #science, #insect #migration, or #insect #conservation. If interested, please email me. You can find more about our research interests and contact information here. shawanchowdhury.com.

We have 125+ signatures (mostly biologists) to nominate ARC Tracker (now on Blue) for a Eureka Prize. But we want more: ARC Tracker has 3000+ followers. Repost & spread the word. We especially want folk in the humanities, social sciences, etc to sign.🙏 forms.gle/xvqhAFsqRKya4n…

How does long-term (multigenerational) exposure by widespread pharmaceutical pollution affect the interplay between behavioural, life-history and reproductive traits in fish? Open access paper led by Upama Aich & Giovanni Polverino now out in Journal of Animal Ecology 👇 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Explore how bite-sized learning strategies can enhance student engagement and retention. 🎓 Join our faculty webinar - "10-Minute Boost: Microlearning for STEM+ Faculty" 🗓️ Date: April 2 🕑 Time: 3 PM (AEDT) ✅ Reserve your spot! Register now: bit.ly/4hPU5IW

Extension of Early Bird Registration Deadline of #behaviour2025 to April 15 We understand that delays can be worrying. Therefore we are extending the deadline due to delay in abstract decisions Further updates: behaviourindia2025.in #AnimalBehavior #ScienceConference

Eucalypts are among the most important trees used for forestry purposes worldwide, but how do these exotic plantations affect native wildlife? Check out our new Open Access review in Biological Reviews led by Maider Iglesias-Carrasco. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… 📸 Pat Tomkins

🚨 Lecturer in Animal Behaviour position The University of Waikato 🎓. Fantastic opportunity for someone passionate about teaching & research in animal behaviour, preferably on birds, amphibians, reptiles or bats. 📍 Hamilton, NZ Closes: 4th May 2025 🔗 seek.co.nz/job/83279795?t…

🚨 Tenure-Track Prof./Assoc. Prof./Asst. Prof. in Ecology & Biodiversity position at Hong Kong University. Folks with plant 🌱 conservation & ecological genetics expertise are encouraged to apply. 📍 Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong Closes: 30th June 2025 🔗 jobs.hku.hk/en/job/531611/…

Super happy to see our new article on how pharmaceutical pollution can influence salmon migration out in Science Magazine! This was a huge effort by a great team of researchers over the last few years! You can read the paper here: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…!

Here’s a great write up of our recent Science Magazine article, and the threat of pharmaceutical pollution to aquatic environments more broadly, in Vox by Benji Jones! Michael Bertram Tomas Brodin SLU Wild Research vox.com/down-to-earth/…

🎉 Huge congrats to PhD student Gabriel Melhado, who received an award at the ASAB 2025 conference in Liverpool for presenting his research on how pharmaceutical pollution impacts the behaviour and immune system of our Aussie native rainbowfish. Way to go, Gabriel! 🐠🔬

Explicit value trade-offs in conservation: integrating animal welfare. Check out our latest paper, led by Kate Lynch, in Trends in Ecology & Evolution. Click here for free access to the article for the next 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kzlecZ3X3uwI #BobWongLab 📸 Patrick Tomkins

Fantastic to see our new paper out today in Biological Reviews (Cambridge Philosophical Society) on incorporating experimental approaches into movement ecology research. The project was amazingly led by Whitney Hansen, PhD, with a great group of co-authors! Paper 👉onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/br…

Negative effects of global pollutants on behavioural #plasticity and #individuality: polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons #PAHs are as bad as pharmaceuticals! Congrats to Marta Favero for her 1st 1st-authored🗞️published in Animal Behaviour 👉sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #PolverinoLab

Some of our group’s work from SLU Wild Research on how pharmaceuticals can affect animal movement and behaviour presented at #SETAC2025 in Vienna today! Come down for a chat to find out more about this research in the poster session this afternoon! Tomas Brodin Michael Bertram

If you are a domestic student interested in working on insect migration/conservation or citizen science Monash University, please reach out ASAP. The domestic round deadline is May 31st. You can find more about our research interests here. shawanchowdhury.com.

Massive congratulations to co-supervised University of Canterbury PhD student Emily Beasley (below, centre) who submitted her thesis today. Emily studied sexual selection in pipefishes, including here in Australia, and was great fun to hang out with in the field. #BobWongLab

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