#Bumblebees take it easy when out and about earlier or later in the day.Katy Chapman 🐝 designed a clever method to observe at low light levels the slowing down of departures at the nest exit, with some bees even turning around. An opportunity to decide when to start/stop #foraging

🚨NEW ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR PAPER! Check out Joe's brilliant first paper on cricket boybands! 🦗🎶 Summarised in this excellent thread 👇 Congrats Joe 🙌🎉

Why have a lawn like this...

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When you can have a lawn like this?

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#NoMowMay

If you have money to spare, please consider donating to the Animal Behaviour Collective fundraiser! It is guaranteed to go to an animal behaviour student in need (proof in the open finances!) 🐵

Our fundraiser is open! Donate using the following link! Help us support 23 new scientists this year! opencollective.com/animal-behavio…

We have some new awesome designs in our RedBubble store! A cheeky Sulawesi macaque, a beautiful emperor moth, and a happy common magpie - check them out redbubble.com/people/ABCmicr…
Plus, every purchase helps us to finance small microgrants to animal behaviour students :)

Thanks Defunct ASAB Conference and the #ASABangor team for curating such a friendly atmosphere for my first in-person PhD talk (never too late with 2.5 months left...)

At the start of April we will have approx £500 to distribute to animal behaviour students in financial need, but we have over £6000 in pending applications. If you can afford to contribute, please do - every little counts: opencollective.com/animal-behavio…

Wish I could be there to support the picket line today Exeter UCU 👏 PGRs support the strikes, we know staff working conditions are student learning conditions. They are fighting for their & our careers & futures #ucuRISING

2nd chapter of the thesis is out now 🥳
cell.com/iscience/pdf/S…
The pre-print has been available for a while, but for those who have not read it or don't want to read the full MS:
We explored two mechanisms by which sociality could influence survival and found evidence for one!

Really excited to share that our paper showing how sociality can mitigate risk of injury & thereby enhance survival in rhesus macaques is now out in iScience journal! 🙉

Led by the amazing Melissa Pavez Fox. Check out the great 🧵 below, in English and Español!

Interested in #social #behaviour ?

Looking for a #PhD ?

Golden opportunity with Sam Ellis and me on NERC GW4+ Doctoral Training Partnership project: exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/…

Deadline: 9th Jan 2023

CRAB University of Exeter University of Bristol Biological Sciences University of Bristol Natural Environment Research Council

You know what’s cool? Social behaviour.

You know what is also cool. Rabbits.

Put them together here: #PhD with me +Dwarf Mongoose on the social behaviour of rabbits on Exeter campus- apply and more info here:
exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/…

deadline 9th Jan.

Get in touch!

🎆🚨Before lighting your bonfires this week check out our 'Bonfire Checklist for Hedgehogs' 🚨🎆 #RememberHedgehogs

People's Trust for Endangered Species Hedgehog Society ZSL ZSL Science

🐝New #bumblebee #SensoryEcology paper out today in #AnimalBehaviour !🐝
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
How do bumblebees forage when light is declining before sunset?
A thread🧵 1/10

📢Funded PhDs📢Applications for South Coast Biosciences DTP 2023 are now open!
I'm offering a project Sussex Life Sciences in partnership with Dave Goulson + Daniel Ingram DICE Kent on the benefits of perennial crops to #UrbanAgriculture + #Biodiversity . Pls RT!
More info👇👉 tinyurl.com/mwjxanr3