✨ Our grants are back! ✨
Young researcher in Complex Systems?
Apply for yrCSS grants to support:
💡 conferences / schools / workshops
🤝 research visits & collaborations
🌍 extra support for low-income countries
🗓️ Deadline: 20 March 2026
👉 yrcss.cssociety.org/grants/
Just over a week left to apply for this PhD project (unfortunately UK students only). If you're interested then please get in touch!
🚨 Can individual behavior enable the sustainable use of common goods (with no central policies)? 🚨
We explore this question in our PNAS Nexus paper:
“Self-organization of common good usage and an application to Internet services”
doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
w/ V. Mancuso, P. Castagno & M. Marsan
How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications.
My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/
academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
New (competition funded) PhD opportunity with me,
@iaciac.bsky.social and @dralgernon.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Higher-order networks and animal communication. Suited to someone keen on network science theory/computational modeling and keen to adapt this to ecology & evolution.
🔬 London 2026 🇬🇧 Complexity72h is open for applications!
Young researchers in #ComplexSystems, come to London, June 22–26, 2026 @nunetsi.bsky.social
What is Complexity72h? Participants form teams and work 72 hours on original research projects, guided by expert tutors.
More details below:
Fully funded #PhD studentships, start Sept 2026:
1. Weaponry and aggression in wild fiddler crabs, with me, Safi Darden, Martin How tinyurl.com/weaponsPhD
2. The emotional basis of behaviour, with me, Danny Williamson, Andy Higginson tinyurl.com/emotionsPhD
#AnimalBehaviour @crab-exeter.bsky.social
With @mattjsilk.bsky.social and @drwhale.bsky.social
⭐New paper!⭐
About generative network modelling - a key approach for understanding network structures.
First half:
We give a general introduction to generative network models
Second half:
We consider their use in animal behaviour research
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@asab.org Spring, aimed at ECRs, is coming to Bristol!
Conference grant DEADLINE for Developing Country Applicants (<£2500) or anyone needing an early decision for visas (<£750) is in ONE WEEK, 1st December.
www.asab.org/conference-g...
Referee statement also needed by then! 🐝🐜🦟🦂🐠🐟🐬🦎🐸🦆🐿️🦓
🌟New paper!🌟 Very happy to have been part of this fun project with @delphinedemoor.bsky.social and coauthors.
PhD opportunity: MOVE
Details: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...
Deadline: 12/01/26
Supervisors: @shoalgroup.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social, @wlallen.bsky.social, @nhcooper123.bsky.social, @marinapapa.bsky.social
Apply: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/p...
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www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
PhD studentship! Comparative Analysis and Modelling of Collective Behaviour in Natural and Artificial Systems.
**this scholarship for UK residents only, as defined by UKCISA regulations**
Details below! Please RT
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Less than 2 weeks left to apply for this! Come join us in @crab-exeter.bsky.social and as part of team MacaqueNet, to do some comparative social network and life-history research 🤩
Don't miss the satellite on Game Theory on Complex Systems at #CCS2025, with Sergey Gavrilets and Katerina Stankova already confirmed as invited speakers!
Join in Siena, Italy, and submit your abstract for a contributed talk this week to be part of it! 📬
The 'Complexity Research in Animal Behaviour' conference symposium (satellite) will be back at CCS this year!
A great place for complex systems researchers and animal behaviour researchers to connect.
Abstract submission is open!
sites.google.com/view/crab202...
Postdoc job alert! I'm hiring a 3-yr postdoc to work on our Social Modifiers of Primate Lifespans grant. Job info and how to apply below. Deadline June 1. Pls share! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
The stump of a felled pine tree is partially covered by a mound of wood ant nest material. The area around is grassy with thistles and reeds. The wood ant nest comprises a well-maintained thatch, with grass encroaching up the sides a little.
What happens when a wood ant network is disrupted? New Open Access research shows that it depends on the resource. Networks are resilient to the loss of random resources, but a targetted removal of a key resource changes network structure 1/2 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Using the BISoN R package to analyse your social networks? Have a question? Post in our new bisonR github, in the Discussions section.
github.com/bison-team/b...
I am hiring PhD students and Postdocs to join me in beautiful Copenhagen. Together, we will develop data science methods to improve epidemic preparedness.
Copenhagen is amazing, salary is good, we have plenty of funding, and a great community.
Read more..: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Done!
Reposting this starter pack for new users.
If you are doing research on animal social networks and would like to be added to the pack, just let me know.
If you are doing research on other types of networks, it would be great if you could help sharing this - many thanks!
go.bsky.app/39p1ccZ
Apparently the doi doesn't work for some people, so here's the full link: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... ☺️
So exciting to see MacaqueNet out into the world! 🤩
Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365...
Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/
You are already there :)
Done!
Comparative research in animal social behaviour—where are we at, and what’s next?
In our symposium at #Behaviour2025 (S20) we explore the power & pitfalls of comparative approaches—and how to unlock their full potential.
Join us to brainstorm, share ideas, and push the field forward together!
Recruiting a #PhD student to work on collective behaviour in real and artificial systems. Oct 2025 start. Working with @shoalgroup.bsky.social, Rob Heathcote, @willallennz.bsky.social, @joefresna.bsky.social, @marinapapap.bsky.social Advert: www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Deadline: 24.02
We're organizing a NetSci'25 satellite workshop on Directed Acyclic Graphs — if you're working on, e.g., citation graphs, pedigrees, causality, temporal-network event graphs, network representations of spacetime, or any other areas where DAGs play a role, please contribute! www.dagshop.xyz
For those interdisciplinary students/scholars who are having identity crisis, this is for you (from 2018):
"How to survive as an interdisciplinary being"
www.slideshare.net/slideshow/ho...
#NetSciX2025
