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@livingingroups

Dept. for the Ecology of Animal Societies @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social & @uni-konstanz.de. Posts do not represent the views of MPI, University of Konstanz , or lab leaders.

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3 Year Postdoctoral Fellowships in Animal Behavior

3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama!

Three positions, each including salary & a research budget.

Applications due April, 15th.

DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us!

stri.si.edu/academic-pro...

10.03.2026 08:28 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Professorship in population genetics in the field of evolutionary anthropology and medicine (W2) Faculties & Facilities

Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11.
www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...

05.03.2026 16:38 πŸ‘ 58 πŸ” 97 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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If you’re a Master’s student interested in movement ecology, biologging, noise & conservation, join me and some great collaborators for an internship on how wind turbines and associated noise shape lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni) movement and behaviour.

16.02.2026 13:37 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
An "extreme attack" by a peaceful ape
An "extreme attack" by a peaceful ape YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

It's world bonobo day, and there's so much more to learn about our closest living relative.

What happened to the bonobo "Hugo" last year shocked researchers. Without long-term studies like LuiKotale, Hugo's story would not be heard. @sonya-ofthejungle.bsky.social

youtu.be/tbt0otbGgS4?...

14.02.2026 10:41 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Check out our paper which came out last year
www.cell.com/current-biol...

14.02.2026 11:50 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Lise Meitner Excellence Programme is designed to attract and specifically promote exceptionally qualified female scientists.

The Lise Meitner Excellence Programme is designed to attract and specifically promote exceptionally qualified female scientists.

A position with prospects! We offer excellent researchers again the possibility to apply for a position as a Leader of a Lise Meitner Research Group in all areas of #science. Applications are possible between February 11th and April 15th, 2026. www.mpg.de/lise-meitner... #lisemeitnergroups

11.02.2026 08:31 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
Mercy Akinyi baut seit 2025 in Kenia eine Max-Planck-Humboldt-Forschungsgruppe auf. GefΓΆrdert wird sie fΓΌr mindestens fΓΌnf Jahre von der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft und der Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung. Foto: Β© Mia Collis

Mercy Akinyi baut seit 2025 in Kenia eine Max-Planck-Humboldt-Forschungsgruppe auf. GefΓΆrdert wird sie fΓΌr mindestens fΓΌnf Jahre von der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft und der Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung. Foto: Β© Mia Collis

Neugier, die keine Grenzen kennt: In Tana River im Osten Kenias erforscht Mercy Akinyi, wie Krankheiten zwischen Menschen, Nutz- und Wildtieren ΓΌbertragen werden. Die VeterinΓ€rmedizinerin baut dort seit 2025 eine Max-Planck-Humboldt-Forschungsgruppe auf. www.mpg.de/26123799/por... #womeninscience

10.02.2026 14:50 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Breaking News: #Animovesummerschool is back this year in #Africa. Please repost. Thank you!

#AfricanResearchers #ConservationScience #AnimalBehaviour
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

27.01.2026 14:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Selectus - Home

Job alert! The University of Zurich is hiring a professor for Evolutionary Anthropology and Primatology. Learn more here: www.appointments.mnf.uzh.ch/auth/Apply/0...

27.01.2026 16:25 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"animal2vec and MeerKAT: A self-supervised transformer for rare-event raw audio input and a large-scale reference dataset for bioacoustics" recently published! http://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70218 #bioacoustics #machinelistening #deeplearning

05.01.2026 08:55 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
ZUKOnnect Fellowship

β€œThe Zukunftskolleg Konnect Fellowships support early career researchers from Africa, Asia and Latin America, who do research that fits to one of the thirteen departments at the University of Konstanz.” www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

02.12.2025 22:43 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Hester and myself with her PhD hat.

Hester and myself with her PhD hat.

Happy and proud of the next fledgling of the Flack flock. Dr Hester BrΓΈnnvik @hbronnv.bsky.social defended her PhD thesis today. She has done a wonderful job. I could not be happier! @imprs-qbee.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

01.12.2025 17:27 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Countdown for #AnimoveCR at La Selva EstaciΓ³n BiolΓ³gica, Organization of Tropical Studies πŸ‘
We will see you tomorrow!
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animove-course.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social

29.11.2025 17:57 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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What we can learn from watching 100,000 animals in unbelievable detailβ€”from space By monitoring the movement, health, and environmental conditions of thousands of animals at once, Project ICARUS hopes to solve scientific mysteries.

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

28.11.2025 19:28 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸš€ Guess who’s back? πŸ›°οΈπŸ₯³πŸ’«
ICARUS, our global wildlife-tracking system, returns to orbit aboard the GENA-OT satellite, which launched from Vandenberg SFB today πŸŽ‰
This is step one for ICARUS 2.0: full global coverage, smaller sensors, near-real-time.
Congrats @animaltracking.bsky.social + team ICARUS

28.11.2025 19:09 πŸ‘ 62 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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After many years of trying to combine my 2 passions, art 🎨 and science πŸ‘©β€πŸ”¬, into something meaningful, i have created an educational #ChildrensBook! πŸ“š

✨ Meet The Rimba🦧, a gentle, lyrical tale about a wise orangutan guardian spirit who protects her rainforest home and the creatures who depend on it.

26.11.2025 08:26 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials - Nature Human Behaviour Howard-Spink et al. develop an empirically based model of orangutan diet development, which suggests that social learning is vital for orangutans to acquire varied diets.

Our New Paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour: 🚨 Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials! 🦧 www.nature.com/articles/s41.... See 🧡

24.11.2025 11:05 πŸ‘ 81 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 9

Noctule bat hunting. This is the next illustration of the series on animals moving in their environment. See more below... and more coming soon! #SciArt #art #bats

19.11.2025 14:08 πŸ‘ 166 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Burden of a failed error culture in biologging Driven by technological advancement and low cost, biologging has rapidly transformed the study of animal behaviour and ecology, providing unprecedente…

For your consideration, our paper about how we can build a better error culture around biologging is now out in Animal Behavio(u)r. A collaborative effort between researchers the veterinarians at @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

18.11.2025 08:47 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
Jonathan Eveso | The future of African vultures
Jonathan Eveso | The future of African vultures YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

How is climate change impacting African vultures? IMPRS student @jeveso.bsky.social, working with @safilab.bsky.social, tells us more about his work on climate and human impacts on African vultures, nature’s recyclers. @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

youtube.com/shorts/dbJp2...

17.11.2025 09:30 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Incredibly honored and utterly excited to have been asked to give a plenary at @isbe2026.bsky.social hope to see you in Turin! #ISBE2026 #sleep #behavior

17.11.2025 09:36 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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🚨STOP SCROLLING, IT’S AN EMERGENCY BROADCASTπŸ“£ This message will self-destruct in 10…9…8…7…⏰ …now that I have your attention:
πŸ§ͺOur new paper on Alerting Components in animal vocalization is out in AnimBehavπŸŽ‰
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#AnimalBehaviour #Bioacoustics #Communication

03.11.2025 10:58 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Exciting news!!

Ecodylic Science, a startup project led by Jacob Davidson and myself at the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior, has been awarded €219,000 in Phase 2 funding from the MAX!mize incubator program @maximize-incubator.bsky.social
More details here: tinyurl.com/4v3najcw.

21.10.2025 12:30 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4

🚨 PhD alert! IMPRS brain & behavior in Bonn just opened their calls for applications. Great PhD funding opportunities. Check it out! PS- I just joined their faculty, meaning you could do a rotation in my lab or even a PhD with me on spider sleep πŸ™ƒ Apply! 🚨

06.09.2025 08:48 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Call for Submissions for the Frans de Waal PhD Dissertation prize 2026

Call for Submissions for the Frans de Waal PhD Dissertation prize 2026

πŸ“£ Honouring Frans de Waal’s spirit of curiosity & empathy πŸ§ πŸ’
The Frans de Waal PhD Dissertation Prize 2026 is now open for submissions. Celebrating #Primatology, #Ethology & the evolution of social behaviour.
πŸ† Announced at #CBEN2026 (Leiden, Apr 14)
⏰ Apply by Jan 15, 2026!
@ehbea2026.bsky.social

13.10.2025 11:33 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3
Doctoral tips | IMPRS
Doctoral tips | IMPRS YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Is a PhD right for you? How should you prepare for this big step? Hear these answers from our IMPRS PhD students! @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

Reminder that the application for IMPRS-QBEE 2026 is now open, apply now!! Deadline Oct 31
imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/current

youtube.com/shorts/d233A...

13.10.2025 16:51 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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My pet sleeps all day and all night. Is that normal? Understanding pet sleep can help us support our furry family and create a more restful home for everyone

In the Guardian, Meg Crofoot weighs in (on behalf of wild animals) on our current obsession: healthy sleep.

Piece by @sarahsloat.bsky.social

@meg-crofoot.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de

www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

07.10.2025 12:13 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Analysis of communication and collective behavior in animal groups

⭐PhD position available!⭐
Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets
imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...

03.10.2025 07:40 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 67 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

Take note, repost far and wide. The Dechmann Lab are hiring ✨

29.09.2025 17:11 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Exeter Apply for the Postdoctoral Research Associate role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

3yr PDRA at @exeter.ac.uk with @york.ac.uk and Centre for Whale Research, studying how killer whale social relationships change with prey availability, partner loss and social info. A fantastic team & unique longterm dataset. Deadline 19 Oct!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/postdoctoral-research-associate

24.09.2025 08:42 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0