What do you spend more time reading? (be honest)

Instant classic. highly recommend to everyone studying animal social networks. resolves so many problems in such a philosophically satisfying way Daniel Redhead Richard McElreath 🦔 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Gerald Carter Richard McElreath 🦔 All credit goes to Ben Kawam, who’s a brilliant science doing some super important work!

Congratulations, Dr. Imran Razik from Gerald Carter lab! 🦇 🦇 🦇 Smithsonian Panama #vampirebats #bats #socialbonding #gradlife #dissertation #evolutionarybehavior

New paper on complex floral rewards and pollinator cognition out in Trends in Ecology & Evolution! Dr. Claire Hemingway Dr Felicity Muth Smruti Pimplikar and Fiona MacNeill! #pollinators #bees tinyurl.com/aufh6x94

We recently preprinted our meta-analysis of spatial and social behaviour in wild animal systems! Have a read if you're interested in density dependence, disease transmission, network scaling and structuring, or comparative behavioural work: doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… (1/4)

Are you a data-driven research scientist interested in working on one of the largest conservation challenges facing bats in North America? Join us at Bat Conservation International as a White-nose Syndrome Research Scientist! workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default…

This last chapter "Horoscopes" is only 3 pages but I keep thinking it should be at the start of the book, because it is about scientific and social context of statistics. Anyway here it is:

What happened when MIT stopped paying Elsevier? Not much except they are saving a lot of money. "MIT is interested in collaborating with other libraries to reinvest these funds in community-controlled open publishing initiatives..." sparcopen.org/our-work/big-d…

Re-evaluating the relationship between female social bonds and infant survival in wild baboons dlvr.it/TCBKZp bioRxiv

Interested in intergroup conflict? Evolutionary game theory? Animal strategies? Join us for a talk by Dan Sankey (Dan Sankey) on his new Nature Communications paper: "The evolution of democratic peace in animal societies" Thurs 29th August 4pm UK time Link: tinyurl.com/animal-democra…

Evidence of HARKing in mouse behavioural tests of anxiety | Royal Society Open Science royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Introducing UCLA's NEW 🧠Center for Friendship Research🧠 Science needs to pay more attention to FRIENDSHIP. So, we're doing that! The multi-faculty center will help lead the way in forwarding a science of friendship. Let's be friends!👇 center-for-friendship.com

Are you a behavioral ecologist who cares about open science? You’re in good company: >30% of SORTEE members list ‘behavioral ecology’ as a primary research area! Also going to #ISBE2024? We’re having a meet-up after Monday’s poster session. Details here: tinyurl.com/SORTEE-ISBE

Fantastic program for the corvid vocal communication conference next week! Just sent out to participants, check your inbox. There is still time to register if you would like to attend: covco2024.github.io

📢 #Call for SNSF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 This highly competitive call is aimed at researchers who wish to obtain a position in a non-profit research institution in Switzerland for a period of 12 to 24 months. 🗓️Deadline: 2 December 2024 sohub.io/6afa

Our lab at Cornell is hiring a postdoc to lead investigations of viral #zoonoses in #Bats and develop strategies for pandemic prevention. Background in #DiseaseEcology, #OneHealth, #EEID, or epidemiology. More details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28001

New in @sciencemagazine, we show that spatial cognitive ability is associated with longevity in food-caching Mountain Chickadees. And Vladimir Pravosudov’s photo was selected for the cover! #ScienceResearch. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 1/n

Role of auditory feedback for vocal production learning in the Egyptian fruit bat: Current Biology cell.com/current-biolog…

A class action antitrust lawsuit against the big publishers of academic journals was filed this week, saying they "conspired to unlawfully appropriate billions of dollars that would have otherwise funded scientific research." dailynous.com/2024/09/13/jou…