Charles Darwin’s “On the origin of species” 1st edition, with the typo on page 20. Courtesy of the Zoology Library Dept of Zoology Cambridge University

OPEN PHD POSITION: Understanding the elements that shape the ontogeny of migration in #storks . Join my group Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior to explore which factors shape migratory decisions.IMPRS-QBEE
imprs-qbee.mpg.de/69191/fully-fu…. Please RT. Deadline Nov 20th. Get in touch.

We are absolutely delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Rebecca Kilner FRS Rebecca Kilner as the new Head of Department @camzoology. We wish you all the best in your new role!

In this new OA paper led by Christoph von Beeren, we provide the first comprehensive inventory of the diverse beetle fauna associated with the refuse deposits of Eciton army ants. Lots of new species, and some unexpected specialists. 丸山宗利 Maruyama🍥

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Applications for the SCB 2023 Graduate Student Research Fellowship Awards are now open!
The fellowship is designed to support grad students who need assistance with costs toward field expenses in order to complete their degree.
Deadline: October 21. conbio.org/mini-sites/scb…

We are happy to announce that ANTS 2024 will be in
Konstanz, Germany.
Oct 9-11, 2024

Submission deadline: March 24, 2024

We are very much looking forward to meeting you there!

#Konstanz Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour Universität Konstanz #swarm #robotics #optimization #aco #pso
uni-konstanz.de/ants-2024/

Over the moon to share the cornerstone of my PhD dissertation

Animals as sentinels of the environment; aka can animals predict weather?!
nature.com/articles/s4155…

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If you played it, you’ll get the reference 小島秀夫

Wasps have a reputation for aggression, stings & contributing little to society.

But we spent time training enthusiastic wasps to learn - we hope to convince you of their intelligence & value in pollination & biocontrol.

The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand Adrian G Dyer

theconversation.com/many-people-ha…

“This news will be acclaimed with a rare level of consensus across the scientific community here and on mainland Europe'

UK scientists are again able to apply for Horizon Europe funding, delighting researchers
nature.com/articles/d4158…

Unveiling global species abundance distributions rdcu.be/dlouW

Using >1 billion occurrence records from GBIF @ecoevo.social/@gbif , the authors show that the global species abundance distribution of 39 taxonomic classes of eukaryotes is best fit by a Poisson log-normal distribution

SMART-BARN : Scalable multimodal facility to track insects, birds and mammals in large groups with sub-mm precision. Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour Universität Konstanz Mate Nagy fumihiro kano Nora Carlson, Jens Koblitz, Martin Wikeslski Iain Couzin.
Paper in Science Advances: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Join us! We have two fully funded PhD positions available in my WWTF VRG Group Universität Wien investigating the ontogeny and individual variation in extractive foraging. All info here: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Scientific… and jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Scientific…
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Brilliant work done by Laure-Anne Poissonnier and coauthors on how ‘Ants combine object affordance with latent learning to make efficient foraging decisions’, now published on #PNAS doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

Super happy to have presented the first results of my Humboldt project. If you want to hear more about it it will be out in PNAS next week! #Behaviour2023

#OnThisDay in 1858, a seminal journal article comprised of papers by Alfred Russel Wallace FRS and Charles Darwin FRS on the theory of evolution by natural selection was published by the The Linnean Society of London, the first public announcement of the theory. bit.ly/3k8fq4u

Time to say goodbye to #Bielefeld #Behaviour2023 Behaviour 2023

Behavioural variation and division of labour in clonal ant societies by Yuko Ulrich at 10:10, Hall 4 Behaviour 2023 #Behaviour2023

If you are at Behaviour 2023 today and want to know about socially transferred molecules in #ants , check out Sanja Hakala’s talk at 10:30, Hall 3. #Behaviour2023

Thanks to all who came to my talk about #tracking #social fluids in #ants at Behaviour 2023. I got a lot of useful feedback. Yet, I didn’t manage to talk to everyone who approached me... but if you’re one of those, please contact me! It’d be a pleasure to chat online!