The caterpillar of the fruit-piercing moth has evolved a unique defense against potential predators: it overwhelms them with the sudden realization that they are but another drifting speck in a vast, beautiful, bewildering cosmos 📷 Arabinda Pal bit.ly/38u2AeL

The first theoretical paper on wild Goffins/#ManikTilgnoi is finally published 🙂📄 The preparation process was a wild ride, spanning multiple continents, islands, and hotel rooms. Enjoy! #CockyCognition #animalcognition #behavioralscience #BehavioralEcology Mark O'Hara

Happy #WorldParrotDay2022! 🦜🥳 It is a day to celebrate these wonderful and intelligent creatures. They deserve our respect and care #Parrots #ParrotDay #BirdTwitter #birdconservation #TanimbarCorella #BestOfCrest #WildAndFree #BornToBeWild

Looking for a MSc project in #AnimalBehaviour AnimalEcologyPotsdam ? Interested in behavioural adjustments to urbanisation? Look no further! Camera-trap monitoring, behavioural observations, and free-living small mammals are waiting for you! Get in touch if interested! #UniPotsdam

Goodbye #Groningen! Thank you ECBB 2022 for this superb scientific meeting! Beautiful town, friendly people, great conference ambience, and (last but not least) local delicacies and flavours 🙂 #maatjes #croquettes #eierbal #kapsalon #snackbar #FEBO

Goodbye #Stockholm! Thank you ISBE 2022 for this scientific marathon! 🙏 It was a wonderful chance to socially re-connect 🙂 The #archipelago is spectacular, the pastries are delicious, and some desserts even come with a (choco) #NobelPrize 😉 #PeerToPeer #GrindaIsland #fikadags

*Postdoc coming soon* ⁦⁦We’ll be recruiting a postdoc later in 2022 for 3+ yrs to work on ⁦Natural Environment Research Council⁩ project to quantify effects of climatic variance on selection & evolution in ⁦Wytham Tit Study⁩ and Europe with Dr Charlotte Regan⁩ & SPI-Birds⁩ ⁦⁩ - get in touch

A great opportunity to work with New Caledonian crows! Postdoc job offer at: scholarshipdb.net/jobs-in-German…

"A set of principles and practical suggestions for equitable fieldwork in biology" is now out in PNASNews! pnas.org/doi/full/10.10… 1/n

Im #HIRING !🚨 Im looking for a research assistant to assist with fieldwork in Sumatra, Indonesia, studying #Orangutans .🦧 All project related expenses are paid for, and a small stipend is provided! Please share! #SciComm #ResearchAssistant #Academia #WildlifeJobs #Volunteer

Please retweet! I am looking for a new PhD student for Fall 2023 to work on long-term research on the endangered snail kite and its wetland environment. Lots of potential for novel behavioral, ecological, evolutionary, and conservation focused research! Contact me UF IFAS Wildlife

Check out the new special issue, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences on “Cognition in the Wild”, where we had the opportunity to contribute 🤠🙌 #animalcognition #fieldwork #cockatools Mark O'Hara

Getting ready for a new fieldwork season! 🤠 Let the tetris packing game begin… 🧳📹🧭🔦⚙️⛺️👕 #BehindTheScenes #PhotosOfMyLife #fieldworklife #tech4wildlife

About to fly Vienna-Istanbul-Jakarta! ✈️ We managed to pack all gear and even to close the bags 🧳🧳🎒🎒👜💪😎 Combined luggage: ~90kg. Personal items? ~10kg #biologistlife #runningoncoffee #gearjunkie #packingskills

What a pleasure to see our #fieldwork projects depicted as a funny #videogame and a beautiful #sciart! 😃 #birdcognition #scicomm #TraumJob PS: Dear CD PROJEKT RED, perhaps The Witcher could use a Cockatoo Expansion Pack? After all, goffins are magical creatures… 😉

🚨Please share widely🚨 We're looking to hire an enthusiastic PhD student working on the coordination of joint action in human children of two societies, as part of our VolkswagenStiftung-funded project on communicative plasticity in🐵🦧🗣️ Deadline June 30th. t.ly/64oLL

There is still time to register for the upcoming #ISSABC2023! It’s also hybrid (online student fee: $10)! issabc.org/register/ 🧑‍💻 There are fee waivers for participants without funding and discounts for global south: issabc.org/travel-grants-… 🙂 #hybridconference #openscience

Back from #Behaviour2023 #conference in #Bielefeld! Thank you Behaviour 2023 for the opportunity to present our work on wild #Goffins 🙏 It was a wonderful scientific/social week with unlimited coffee/pretzels! 🥨 Conferences organised by fellow scientists are always the best 🙂

The "Before" and "After" of a #conference presentation... Next time, maybe the slides will be ready before the event 👩‍💻😅 Theresa Rössler for the photo! #BehindTheScenes #Behaviour2023

The Goffin Lab Tanimbar team is on the move again! ✈️🌏 We're delighted to greet a new member, welcome Ondrej Fiser 🤠 #fieldwork #research #Indonesia #Bogor