@primbehavecol
At the Ostner-Schülke Lab at University of Göttingen and German Primate Center we focus on primate behavioral ecology & endocrinology and run the Phu Khieo Assamese Macaque Project in Thailand
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...
🐒 Would you like to study the fantastic Assamese macaques at the Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary in Thailand? Apply for a PhD position in our A2 project led by @primbehavecol.bsky.social!
⏰You can apply until tomorrow, December 20. More info here: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/open+posi...
Yes, positions are open to international students!
Postdoc position in individual-level incentives, social
learning, and payoff-biased imitation shape group-level accuracy in complex prediction and decision-making tasks in Konstanz
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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...
Awesome PhD opportunity, deadline in one week! Please re-post.
and finally, we offer a field assistant opportunity at our Assamese Macaque Project at Phu Khieo WS in Thailand
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⏰ deadline 18 Dec 2025
second PhD position is on social and ecological cognition in wild Assamese macaques at our long-term field site in the beautiful Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand
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⏰ deadline 20 Dec 2025
First PhD position is on the evolutionary basis of empathy using infrared thermography in Barbary macaques at Affenberg Salem, southern Germany
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⏰ deadline 20 Dec 2025
Come and join our lab! We have TWO fully funded PhD positions AND a paid field assistant opportunity in our Behavioral Ecology group @uni-goettingen.de & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Projects will be part of @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social & @sfb1528.bsky.social!!
Details in thread. Please re-post!
I am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇
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Would appreciate a re-post!
@evoldir.bsky.social
Examples of some recent papers from graduate students in my group - a full list of recent papers and preprints can be found here (https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=pTdxVdIAAAAJ) and profile of the group here: https://egioxford.web.ox.ac.uk/members
The annual Wytham Field Team Photo!
Celebrating a successful field season with great food & good company - May 2025
Front view of the Life & Mind Building, which opened in Oct 2025: The new home of Biology at Oxford
Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
A collage featuring some laboratory analyses, a schematic of the structure of DNA, a pocket watch in an elderly person's hand, and a family of wild meerkats.
🚨Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my group🚨
🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?🐾
Find out by studying meerkats!
🧪Epigenetic clocks
✨Bioinformatics
📊Long-term data
🌍Kalahari fieldwork
💡Big evolutionary questions
Get in touch or APPLY NOW
Please share!
www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
Dwarf mongoose
Rhesus macaques grooming
Meerkat
❓ Want to join us?
📢 Fully funded #PhD for UK-domiciled Black heritage candidates
🐵 Biological market monitoring & manipulation in social animals #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork
👥 With me, #LaurenBrent & #PatrickKennedy
🎓 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
ℹ️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🙏Share widely
The science funding crisis threatens the careers of future #behavioral ecologists BES
Super happy & very proud of @benkawam.bsky.social for publishing his 1st PhD chapter - a massive piece of work specifying a workflow for causal inference on network data. Support from DFG RTG 2070, @sfb1528.bsky.social @primatenzentrum.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de
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⭐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...
🚨 Master’s project!
Curious how birds find their way? 🧭🐦
Analyze decades of ringing data to study abnormal migratory routes and uncover what these deviations can reveal about the mechanisms guiding birds on their journeys. Drop me an email for details! #ornithology
www.vogelwarte.ch/de/wir/mitar...
Excited to share that the second paper of my PhD is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🍈🦜🍒🐒🍊🐿️
We show that the functional diversity of seed-dispersal interactions in tropical forests takes circa 20 years to recover after deforestation.
You can read it here: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Why women live longer than men. A new study #ScienceAdvances by an intl. research team led by Johanna Stärk and Fernando Colchero @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social traces the evolutionary roots of the #lifespan gap between women and men. tinyurl.com/yrt4ju9u & www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Use the next weekend to apply for the Camp Manager position @taichimpproject.bsky.social if you want to observe and protect wild chimpanzees, you are stress resilient and have good organisational skills, speak and write English AND French.👇
From policy to practice: Progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution #ProcB
@asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @eivimeycook.bsky.social tell us more in our blog royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...
Scientists discover the secret behind the shrew’s amazing ability to shrink their brains 🧠
The clever trick sheds unwanted weight without compromising too much on cognition.
Find the 5-letter word 👇
Study by @cecibaldoni.bsky.social Dechmann Lab #shrewcrew et al
www.ab.mpg.de/743885/news_...
📢Don’t miss this opportunity to gain insights into AI-powered #biodiversity research shaping the future of eco-informatics and #conservation!
We’re excited to welcome outstanding international speakers who will present and actively engage in our workshops.
www.biointakt.de/en/springsch...
I'm v excited to be recruiting a PhD student to work on badger behaviour and ecology! Starting date is March 2026; see the ad here, or message me for more details: www.gregalbery.me/s/March-2026...
📢 We are hiring! See below for more information ⬇️
3.5-year #Postdoc position on avian microbiomes and reproduction @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @niooknaw.bsky.social on a fully-funded ERC project focused on understanding the significance of reproductive microbiomes for host biology and fitness. Reach out for more info!
nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...
I'm very excited to share the central paper from my PhD out now in Science Advances. We investigated how social effects among neighbors shape the evolution of reproductive cooperation and the pace of adaptive population growth among the Indigenous Tsimane of Bolivia.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Excited to share that we have just been awarded a NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant to work on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins. We will soon advertise a 3 year post-doc to join the team - drop me an email if you might be interested! Pls share widely 🙏🏻
A bit early to advertise, but why not... 👉 I will be recruiting a post-doc to work on gut microbiome variation in wild ungulates starting at some point in 2026. Strong expertise with shotgun data and host phenotype-microbiome associations would be very valuable. Email me to discuss!