Ears to the Ocean - Saturday 8 June is #WorldOceanDay, which means acousticians, marine biologists and oceanographers around the world will be Tuning their Ears to the Ocean for #WOPAM Day 2024. More info at wo-pam.com/wopam-2024

Happy #WOPAM Day 2024!!! All around the world, acousticians, marine biologists and oceanographers are recording underwater soundscapes on #WorldOceanDay. Check out this magical mix from Alejandro Bernal, and join the community at wo-pam.com/wopam-2024

🔖#ASABEditorsChoice #AnimalBehaviourJournal ft: 🐦Great tits! 🌲Wytham woods!🎵The LARGEST publicly available birdsong collection from ONE pop! New acoustic data set by Nilo Merino Recalde, @AndreaEstandia, Loanne Pichot 🐋, Antoine Vansse, Ella Cole& @Ben_Sheldon_EGI 👇🧵 1/5

Amazing dataset on bird vocalisation has been made public. The article has stunning visuals to explain what's there and what could be done (see 🧵)

🚨NEW paper🚨 by brilliant #PhD student You Zhou using field #experiments on wild superb #fairywrens to provide compelling evidence (not just speculation) that noise #masks acoustic communication. With Rob Magrath Ecology&EvolutionANU University of Bristol Biological Sciences ASAB doi.org/10.1016/j.anbe…

🎺WANTED: Candidates for ASAB Meeting Secretary I've enjoyed 6 years as Meetings Secretary for the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, helping organise conferences and other meetings. It's been great, but I now have to step down. Details below Any Q's DM/email me

Like animal behaviour conferences? Want to make a big contribution to our field? Forget being a journal editor, ASAB ASAB are looking for a new meetings secretary. Details below, questions to Pheasants@Exeter Please RT!

This is one of the most important contributions you can make to the science of animal behaviour. ASAB is well funded by the journal, so the meetings secretary role is 'how to spend it', not 'how to pay for it'. You'll join ASAB council too, full of lovely folks (and me...).

Jo has done a fantastic job and will be sorely missed, but it is time for his much needed break! Please consider becoming a candidate for the new Meetings Secretary.

🚨NEW paper🚨 out today Royal Society Publishing about #lifehistory & #genetic relationships in dwarf #mongooses Led by Josh Arbon (find him at #ISBE2024 if interested) With Amy Morris-Drake, Julie Kern, Gabrielle Howell, Jeanette Wentzel, Hazel Nichols doi.org/10.1098/rsos.2…

Postdoc position available! Come to CRAB to work with Sam Ellis , me, Kenny Chiou & Noah Snyder-Mackler on comparative life-history evolution, as part of a new NIH grant on the social modifiers of lifespan. Apply by Oct 29 here: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecrui…

🌟CONGRATULATIONS🌟 to Josh Arbon for the #new paper AND the journal #cover. 👏 Life-history and genetic relationships in cooperatively breeding dwarf mongoose groups. University of Bristol University of Bristol Biological Sciences Natural Environment Research Council European Research Council (ERC) doi.org/10.1098/rsos.2…

🚨NEW paper🚨 out today in Behavioral Ecology led by the brilliant Josh Arbon Social and seasonal variation in dwarf mongoose home-range size, daily movements & burrow use. With Amy Morris-Drake Julie Kern Luca Giuggioli Natural Environment Research Council University of Bristol Biological Sciences University of Bristol doi.org/10.1093/beheco…

Pups, Parasites, and Predators: Oh My! 🐾 In dwarf mongoose groups, your group’s size and the season both shape how you move to survive. Bigger groups need more space, roaming farther for food. During breeding season, things get trickier: switching burrows becomes a priority

Coral reef nightlife becomes more predatory with light pollution 💡🐠 My first publication from my fsbi PhD at University of Bristol Biological Sciences is out today in Global Change Biology! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc… w/ Dwarf Mongoose, Prof. Steve Simpson, Jules Schligler, Suzanne Mills, @r_beldade 🧵(1/6)

🚨NEW paper🚨 out TODAY - the 1st from the brilliant #PhD of Emma Weschke 👏🍾🥇 Field #experiment showing coral reef nightlife becomes more predatory with light #pollution Global Change Biology doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70… w/ Suzanne Mills @r_beldade Jules Schligler Prof. Steve Simpson

🚨When the sun sets, coral reefs transform - but artificial light is disrupting this delicate balance by waking sleeping #fish and attracting predators - exposing these communities to danger. 🐟🐡🔦 brnw.ch/21wPwi2 University of Bristol Biological Sciences Emma Weschke Prof. Steve Simpson

🌟CONGRATULATIONS🌟 Emma Weschke on her 1ST #PhD thesis paper published in Global Change Biology 🥳🍾 Epic field #experiment with novel #infrared cameras to look at #ALAN effects on #coral #reef 🐠🐟 communities. doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70… #OpenAccess #ECR fsbi University of Bristol Biological Sciences

Join us! #PhD opportunity in behavioural ecology of fascinating social wasps University of Bristol Biological Sciences University of Exeter Dwarf Mongoose Andy D Higginson ESEB NERC GW4+ Doctoral Training Partnership University of Bristol Prof Seirian Sumner BBC Studios Please retweet!

🚨NEW paper🚨 out today in Royal Society Publishing testing combined effects of elevated #predation risk & anthropogenic #noise on dwarf mongoose #vigilance behaviour. #OpenAccess Lucy Westover, Megan Layton Amy Morris-Drake Julie Kern Josh Arbon University of Bristol Biological Sciences doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2…