Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter. We aim to understand the mechanisms and functions of behaviour in humans and other animals. Come do an MSc with us! https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/courses/psychology/animal/
Super happy to share some work from my masters project with @cogwild.bsky.social 🪺 Using six years of data from blue tits, we show that wild birds make decisions about their nest design based on their reproductive success in the previous year. 📄 doi.org/10.1093/behe...
📢Out now in #ProcB our NEW paper on how #reward inequity can promote production of #publicgoods and #free-riding 👏Congratulations @beckypadget.bsky.social as lead author 👥With #AndyHigginson @royalsocietypublishing.org @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @crab-exeter.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
Reward inequity can promote both public goods production and free ridingAbstract. When animals in groups cooperate, individuals sometimes produce a ‘public’ good that benefits many or all group members and receive a private rewdoi.org
We asked the researchers at #ASABSpring2026 if they could summarise their posters in 10 words or less - and they stepped up to the challenge 😍 (Also watch to the end for a celebrity cameo⭐️)
Reminder from @helephantmylne.bsky.social to get involved with this year's City Nature Challenge #ASABSpring2026 www.citynaturechallenge.org
Looking for an interdisciplinary funded #PhD in #bees and #physics, #behaviour, #physiology, #neuroethology, modelling? Call open now. International students eligible. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... Centre for Research in Aimal Behaviour @crab-exeter.bsky.social Exeter campus.
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
Happy #PhotographyFriday! End of my first week as a postdoc in @crab-exeter.bsky.social and safe to say I think I've landed on my feet here 😁 some sun would be nice though.....
Bake your paper! Research tech extraordinaire, Macaela Skelton, made a cake of (some of) the study sites in the MacaqueNet database. She ran out of decorations before she could do them all 😆. Link to the paper that's been cake-ified: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
5 exciting PhD opportunities to join the Center for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter in Sept 2025. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro...
New PhD opportunity on social behaviour in the context of ecological disturbance with me, @mdekauwe.bsky.social, and others. Sept 2025 start, funded by NERC Apply by Jan 13. Project and application details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Exciting new NERC funded PhD opportunity available with us on #killerwhale #orca #behaviour and #conservation, co-supervised by Stephanie King, Sam Ellis and Dan Franks in partnership with The Center for Whale Research USA exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... - deadline 13th January 2025 #killerwhale
Pls RT: Interested in doing a PhD on the behaviour of #bees & other animals at CRAB Uni Exeter and Bristol Uni? Check out SWBio swbio.ac.uk www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/pr... (apply by 11.12.) & NERC GW4 www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/projects-202... @seanrands.bsky.social @bethbees.bsky.social apply by 13.01.