Prof. of Behavioural Biology | cooperation, communication, cognition, corvids and physiology | equity & diversity research | addressing biases in animal behaviour https://claudiawascher.github.io/ she/her ♻️🌍💚|🏳️🌈 & 🏳️⚧️ ally|✊🏿 ally|🇪🇺|
Very proud of the special issue of Animal Behaviour I worked on with @wascherclaudia.bsky.social and @nicolakoyama.bsky.social on addressing biases in animal behaviour. Thanks to all authors- plenty of cool papers to read. Here's our editorial: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @asab.org
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📢 @asab.org Conference Attendance Grants for developing country applicants: deadline 1st AUGUST 📢 Up to £2500!!! Joint Winter Conference of ASAB and PSGB: “Social Learning and Culture” @asabpsgb2026.bsky.social #ASABWinter2026 @asab-meetings.bsky.social Full details: www.asab.org/conference-g...
Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a PhD student and a Postdoc to investigate innovation in corvids within the “Comparative ecological innovation styles” project funded by @fwf-at.bsky.social. More info: barbaraklump.com Application deadline July 24th. Please share widely!
Looking for more reasons to register for #ECBB2026? How about these excellent symposia topics? These twelve sessions, delivered by our fantastic moderators, will be joined by researchers of all career stages sharing their knowledge and insights into Animal Behaviour in the Anthropocene!
Wishing all of our members a happy Pride month!🌈 We here at ASAB strongly value diversity🫶 Speaking of which, did you know that ASAB has a ✨new✨ EDIA award? We seek to recognise an individual or group that has actively promoted inclusivity, equity, and diversity in the field! Nominations due Oct 1.
EDIA Award — ASABwww.asab.org
Coverage in the Guardian of our latest publication in Royal Society Open Science, with fantastic collaborators Alan McElligott (@amcell.bsky.social), Christian Nawroth (@goatswhostare.bsky.social), Federico Rossano and Simon Townsend. Paper threaded below! www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Goats can find food by following a human voice, study findsExperiments show 29 animals moved towards a treat-filled bucket 60% of the time when guided by a researcherwww.theguardian.comIt's paper double bill day! Paper 1: In @royalsocietypublishing.org the brilliant Luigi Baciadonna and I asked how variable #bee #optimism is. Individual bees do not make consistently optimistic choices over days even if the group is remarkably consistent. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...
Temporal consistency of judgement biases in bumblebeesAbstract. Judgement bias tasks are increasingly used to assess affective states in animals, yet the extent to which they might reflect transient states orroyalsocietypublishing.org
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Rob NobleTwo pleas from a journal editor: 1. If you're mid-career or senior and are declining a review, please recommend a junior colleague. 2. If you're early-career and want to be asked to review papers, please ensure editors can readily discover your expertise, current affililation, and email address.
There are four positions to join ASAB council beginning 2027: Ordinary Member, Membership Secretary, Communications Officer and Social Media Officer. Statements and nominations are due June 20! www.asab.org/opportunities
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New paper! We use simulations to test received wisdom on the observational sampling method to use and find that Altmann 1974 was right all along (never bet against Jeanne!). Focal follows capture rare, fleeting behaviours, scans captures long, common behaviours. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Observation methods in animal behaviour: a simulation study of performanceMost behavioural studies rely on systematic behavioural sampling, as observing and recording all behavioural events that occur is rarely feasible. Cho…www.sciencedirect.comReminder 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
Grants Overview — ASABwww.asab.org
Contribute to research on cross-cultural variation in taste, voting, decision-making! it's #Eurovision #ESC final night and my queer half-Austrian dual-scientist household is excited to replace homemade scorecards with this #CitizenScience 🧪 rating app 12points.science ✨🪩❤️🔥👯❤️🔥🪩✨ @eurovision.tv
Pantelis P. AnalytisMy team, Minsu Park and I just launched 12points.science. It’s a citizen science platform and app where you can rate, rank, and comment on Eurovision entries with your friends. There is a deeper research goal behind the glitter 🎤🧪 #Eurovision #OpenData
new, in press: Domestic goats can follow the direction of human voices to solve a hidden-object task scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/publicati...
a dog is running through a grassy field with a cow in the background .ALT: a dog is running through a grassy field with a cow in the background .media.tenor.com
Thank you all who submitted an abstract for #ECBB2026 in ARU, Cambridge. We received an amazing collection of abstracts and it'll be an exciting programme! Now's the time to register: www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe... @ecbb2026.bsky.social @asab.org @ethoges.bsky.social @spetologia.bsky.social
📄 New preprint: carrion crow communication For the first time, along with the University of León, we charted the vocal repertoire of a crow population and mapped it to social functions and behavioral context. 📄: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🔊: projects.earthspecies.org/cooperative-...
2025. Burden of a failed error culture in biologging. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... via @asab.org cc @asabeducation.bsky.social
Burden of a failed error culture in biologgingDriven by technological advancement and low cost, biologging has rapidly transformed the study of animal behaviour and ecology, providing unprecedente…www.sciencedirect.com
Our paper on decolonising field ecology was featured on a new BBC documentary as an example of how woke has gone too far on university campuses. Needless to say, I'm thrilled. This is impact! @biotropica.bsky.social 🌍 1/6
Abstract deadline (April 30th) for the European Congress for Behavioural Biology fast approaching!! Don't miss out! www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe...
#ECBB2026 Abstracts will close this week! For more information about topics, and how to submit, visit our Call for Abstracts page 👇👇 www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe...
Research Assistant position working on eye-tracking and parenting cognition in macaques, linked to Yuri Kawaguchi's BBSRC Fellowship. Join us at NTU! @yurikawaguchi.bsky.social vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Assistant in Primate Cognition:HybridResearch Assistant in Primate Cognition working with captive rhesus macaques to improve animal welfare.vacancies.ntu.ac.uk