#ISSABC2023 is underway! To kick off the first day, Sonja Wild is introducing us to the wonderful world of social learning!

And we kick off with a plenary talk by Dr. Rachael Shaw #ASSAB2023

Big study out today, lead by Mina Ogino, shows that environmental factors have a strong impact on social network structure. However, populations remain consistently different even after controlling for these, suggesting group-level 'social cultures'. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.10…

3 chicks! This is a first for us. We’ve been researching Sulphur-crested Cockatoos as part of the Big City Birds Project for 12-years, we’ve only seen 1 or 2 chick clutches until now! @BigCityBirds Help us learn more by reporting behaviours & sightings spotteron.com/bigcitybirds/i…

Some stories stick with us whilst others are all but lost to time: just think about how many people know Bram Stoker's Dracula versus how many are familiar with Richard Marsh's The Beetle, which outsold Dracula when they were both published but since fell out of print. 1/5

Abstract submission will close on March 15th. (website will soon be updated)

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Urban adaptation 😉 Please report Cockatoo bin-opening, including if you haven’t seen this behaviour. The survey takes 1-3 minutes. Your reports help us map this behaviour - thanks! clevercockies.com/annual-bin-ope… Lucy Aplin Dr Barbara Klump ABC Sydney

Our new OA article is out in Behavioral Ecology ! Tracking juvenile great tits across their first year of life, we document the dynamic changes in social strategies during transition to independence in a species with limited parental care. (1/2) doi.org/10.1093/beheco…

Precision foraging 😂 Help us map where Bin-Opening “is” and “is not” occurring - our annual survey takes 2-min. Thanks! clevercockies.com/annual-bin-ope… Please report behaviours and Wingtag sightings using the Big City Birds app 😉 spotteron.com/bigcitybirds/i…

🥳🤯 so happy to see this chapter of my phd with Lucy Aplin finally out in American Naturalist (link: doi.org/10.1086/730110) we use an agent based model combining both transmission and RL to formally explore many different flavors of population turnover on adaptive cultural evolution.

Have you seen cockatoos opening bins too? Help our researchers to learn more about these behaviours: clevercockies.com Biology at ANU Lucy Aplin

Unpredictable benefits of social information can lead to the #evolution of individual differences in social learning dlvr.it/T8Kxdf Nature Communications

New paper with Lucas Molleman and TườngVân Vũ on the evolution of individual differences in social learning! Check the summary by Lucas here:

Important, new work on social learning strategies by David Schultner Lucas Molleman & Björn Lindström!

It‘s today

We're excited to be hosting this year's European Conference on Behavioural Biology (ECBB) at the UZH Irchel campus. The theme is long term studies, and we've show-cased many of the studies currently underway at Universität Zürich UZH Science. One day to go!