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Calling academic mothers affected by the pandemic! Send us your proposal for a new #ProcB Special Feature: ‘Despite COVID: showcasing new research in evolutionary biology from academic mothers & caregivers’ @LoeskeKruuk Dr. Sarah F. Brosnan Maurine Neiman 🐌 ow.ly/NGAV50F0Vre

Producers often need to learn in order to find/obtain resources, but did you know scroungers can also learn to hone their foraging strategy? It was super nice to work on this paper with Michael Reichert John Quinn et al.!

Post-doc alert!! Acoustic classification and biodiversity monitoring; 15 month post-doc with the awesome Yves Bas at the French Natural History Museum and collaborating with myself and Alex Lees on Amazonian acoustic data. DM and I'll fwd the PDF as I don't have a weblink.

Seems super useful... we should discuss it in our journal club! @EthanHermer

How do #humans evolve in #cities? In the last, fascinating chapter 16 of #UrbanEvolutionaryBiology, Stephen C. Stearns Stephen C. Stearns & Emmanuel Milot deliver a fascinating account of our own recent evolution - discussing selection, transhumanism & many other themes! By Oxford University Press.

Hopefully these results don't apply to humans as I'm planning to spend all of August immersed in a lake...

Very impressive, feels to me like a modern version of the famous milk-bottle top opening innovation and cultural transmission... but this time parrots are the stars! Clever use of citizen science with an interesting urban ecology angle, congrats to all authors.

Join us for the Animal Behavior Society 2021 conference's LGBTQA+ happy hour on Aug. 5. Program will be updated soon!

New Frontiers - Ecology & Evolution paper by Dr Lisa Evans found that #bumblebees able to learn to use a particular scent as a predictor of food rewards also had a longer foraging career & brought in more food (nectar & pollen) to their colony: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #OpenAccess #Pollinators

New meta-analysis by my wonderful PhD student Connor T. Lambert 🐀🦜🐠🦎 see thread👇for details. Dept of Psych UAlberta UAlbertaScience Graduate Studies

Anyone interested in doing a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships in my team on bee sensory systems, cognition, sentience, pollination biology, or computational neuroscience? Send a CV and let's start talking 🙂ec.europa.eu/research/marie…

Don't delay, come work with fumihiro kano and us on social cognition! Shape your specific research focus, and work in great research environment. Fully funded and open to all nationalities.

I had no idea this could happen here in Quebec/Ontario: lesoleil.com/actualite/le-f…

We're stocking our lab colony (which survived through eggs in the fridge at the height of COVID) with wild crickets Gryllus pennsylvanicus. Many caught around uOttawa, thanks to this fab team: @EthanHermer Katie Harrington Tricia Skelton Emma Brown and Matt Osborne!

Read this👇. Such a clear description of repeatability as a metric of animal personality, including its limitations. And totally spot on use of a spice girls gif. Need I say more?

Week 130: an interview with Current Biology My life history explained with many failures, and wonderful pieces of advice I got along the way (e.g. Terry Burke) #Academia Dedicated to young scientists #ECR & #phdlife authors.elsevier.com/a/1e7P43QW8Rwq…

Very exciting job opportunity!

**🚨Open PhD position🚨** Want to use a variety of cool methods to understand cognitive evolution in wild parrots? Come join us! The fully funded PhD will be a joint award at Science & Medicine at ANU (OZ) and MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social (DE), and is open to all nationalities: ab.mpg.de/445655/Aplin

New paper! Julie Morand-Ferron John Quinn and I examine how proactive interference and sampling strategies affect learning and reversal learning in #birds. Part of a special issue of Learning & Behavior honoring David Sherry link.springer.com/article/10.375…