We have an open MSc Project Position at the Urban Vervet Project, and are currently looking for a
motivated teammate to discover species interactions in a human altered environment 👇🏼 For more INFO👇🏼
🎉🦜NEW PAPER ALERT 🦜🎉
Which social learning biases underly the acquisition of novel food in wild parrots ?
We (@lucymaplin.bsky.social, @bjjbarrett.bsky.social, @sonjawild.bsky.social, @drjohnmartin.bsky.social) presented >700 cockies with a novel, artificial food (🧵1/6)
@lfanpsych.bsky.social set up this participant-driven ride share sheet for @hbes2026.bsky.social attendees arriving to the Rabat airport for #HBES2026
This is not managed by the local organizers or @humbehevosoc.bsky.social, but we're happy to spread the word.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Don’t forget to get these in by Monday ! 🚨
Do you want to know if birds can use hair-like feathers as high-frequency sound receptors during echolocation? Join our team as PhD student or postdoc and find out!
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www.bi.mpg.de/2809383/job_...
Julia Penndorf
Sofia Forss
Conference update emails for #HBES2026 and #CESRabat will be sent soon. In the meantime, updated programs are live on both conference websites:
airess.fgses-um6p.ma/hbes2026
airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026
Check them out!
@ces2026.bsky.social
@hbes2026.bsky.social
Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🚨We're hiring again, this time for a research assistant position 🚨
The position is to help with a project looking at learning and social behaviour in birds along an urban gradient
Position at
@ceec-research.bsky.social
📆28th June deadline
More info: shorturl.at/vBxiW
#ringing #fieldwork
Zach Garfield
Zach Garfield
ASAB
Dr. Susanne Hoffmann
Camille Troisi
Olli Loukola
📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us:
🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦
Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social
📆29th May deadline
More info: tinyurl.com/yz28s96x
Apply: tinyurl.com/2wpkb64y
#cognition #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #birds
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Camille Troisi
Problem-solving using novel solutions without explicit training is often considered a hallmark of cognitive flexibility. We investigated whether bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) could solve a novel obj...
Reminder that a lot of grants are due in little over a week (June 1)! This includes Research grants, Undergraduate Project scholarships and the ECBB Conference Attendance/Childcare/Accessibility grants 💸🏃
www.asab.org/grant-overview
Adopting novel food is vital to colonize novel environments, but what is the role of social learning? Study of urban #cockatoos by @clevercockierp.bsky.social shows them to rapidly adopt novel food via #SocialLearning, with juveniles showing conformist preferences @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4uq6NVq
PLOS Biology
Interested in how social information is transmitted in networks?
🚨Join ESLR Workshop happening this week!
🗓 May 28, 2026
⏰ 2pm CET Online
Introduction to Bayesian Network-based diffusion analysis (NBDA) with STbayes by
@mchimento.bsky.social
🔗 Join at: calendar.app.google/mNSksgpimmrs...
