How do children and animals learn to make and use new sounds? Find out in the new issue of #PhilTransB 'Vocal learning in animals and humans' bit.ly/PTB1836 Edited by Prof Sonja Vernes, Bat Boffin🦇🌈 VMJanik Lab Tecumseh Fitch and Peter Slater School of Biology

Check out our new paper in Royal Society Publishing Phil Trans B about the cultural transmission of humpback whale song and the differences between Northern and Southern Hemisphere populations! With Robert Lachlan, Luca Lamoni and Ellen Garland royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… Royal Holloway Psychology

Fast or slow? Study reveals differences in how humpback whales change tune theguardian.com/environment/20…

Dr Lies Zandberg from Royal Holloway Psychology told us about her new research - with colleagues from Royal Holloway & University of St Andrews - that reveals why whale song culture differs between northern and southern hemispheres. Watch the video here: youtube.com/watch?v=EDMYU1…

The Challenges of Animal Translation newyorker.com/science/elemen… via The New Yorker

Job alert. Please RT. Really excited to announce that School of Biological Sciences, Monash is advertising two continuing teaching and research academic positions (Level B/C), one in plant sciences and the other in organismal biology of animals: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/… careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/…

📣Delighted to unveil our brand new research group website at cuco.group

We are looking for a population ecologist (tenure-track/senior researcher) working at the interface of individuals and populations, using our long-term population studies of hole-breeding passerines (4 populations, 1955-2021). See nioo.knaw.nl/nl/node/15022 and apply!

🚨 POSTDOC JOB ALERT 🚨 I’m recruiting a 2y postdoc to conduct experiments on social learning and cumulative culture. Applications close Jan 15th 2022. Please RT! Full job details at iast.fr/postdoctoral-p…

Some exciting new data collection happening in the woods… 👀 Stay tuned! #GreatTit #BlueTit #RaspberryPi

Building our own field audio recorders! In numbers (we've built 40 so far), we will be able to track cultural evolution within corn bunting dialects throughout breeding seasons with these! Thanks to Royal Holloway Psychology for support

Funded Phd Studentship! We have a four-year PhD studentship available on the topic of comparative cultural evolution in bird song. Includes fieldwork in Scandinavia and Japan (hopefully) and a citizen science project too! See here: cuco.group/positions for more details

Do you want to do a #PhD that will take you across the globe? We Royal Holloway Psychology have a *fully funded* PhD project on comparative #culturalevolution in bird song, involving fieldwork in Scandinavia/Japan & a #citizenscience project! See cuco.group/positions #animalbehaviour

5 days left to apply for our *fully funded* PhD project on comparative #culturalevolution in bird song, involving fieldwork in Scandinavia/Japan & a #citizenscience project! See cuco.group/positions #CulturalEvoJobs

A lab at Cambridge University that has revolutionised our understanding of intelligence in birds is set to close due to a loss of funding. “It is so sad that this is happening now, especially given there are so many unanswered questions,” says Nicola Clayton newscientist.com/article/231997…

PhD opportunity! Interested in humpback #whalesong, vocal learning and understanding individual differences? Come join my lab and work on this exciting PhD project. SMRU findaphd.com/phds/project/h…

Exciting post doc opportunity! Interested in humpback #whalesong, vocal learning and ontogeny? I am looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join my lab and work on this exciting project. Apply by 4 March: vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/25… SMRU

Join me as I drop a few #ValentinesDay related fish facts. 💕🐟 Tell me in the comments, which one of these #WorstFirstDates would you least like to be on.

Sinds vandaag kan iedereen weer meegenieten van #beleefdelente - en vanaf volgende maand ook weer van de koolmees! Onze mezenbloggers wachten met smart @beleefdelente ... x.com/beleefdelente/…