Our seminar on animal agency, between biology and philosophy, is back !
Check out the programme for the next sessions here !
We meet on the second Wednesday of each month, on Zoom, from 4 to 5 PM (UK time).
You’re very welcome to join ! :)
https://www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar-agency-between-biology-and-philosophy-2025-2026
#agency #animalagency #animalbehav #behaviour #philbio #animalbehaviour #philosophy #EvoutionaryBiology #behaviouralecology
Thrilled to welcome Dr V V Binoy (NIAS, India) as a plenary speaker at #ABL2025. 🙌
Dr Binoy will explore how his team integrates stakeholders’ perceptions with their research on behavioural insights of mahseer megafish—bridging science, conservation, and community to protect India’s ‘Tiger of the River’. 🐟🐅
#Conservation #Mahseer #FreshwaterEcology #BehaviouralEcology
Thrilled to announce the 4th plenary speaker at #ABL2025. 🙌
Dr. Sabrina Amador-Vargas (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) explores how birds use fungal fibres in their nests to defend ant attacks. 🪹🐜 A cool talk on fascinating intersections of mutualism & adaptation awaits us! 🐦🍄
📣 SEMINAR SERIES 2025 📣
Join us for a deep dive into how leaf-cutting ants build, ventilate, and regulate climate in their underground empires.
🗓️ Tuesday 29 July – 14:00 GMT
🎙️ Prof. Dr. Flavio Roces (University of Würzburg)
📍 Live on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORcq-fVZHQ
✅ Free & open to all – no registration needed!
#LeafCuttingAnts #BehaviouralEcology #InsectArchitecture
Check out my recent #JFB Editor's Choice: "Pick on someone your own size! Arctic grayling do". It contains one of JFB newest features, embedded videos! Bringing research to life. What better way to demonstrate this feature than with video of #ArcticGrayling feeding aggregations in the crystal clear waters of an Alaskan river https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.16073
It highlights this original study by Holubová et al https://doi.org/10.1111/JFB.15974
#FreshwaterEcology #BehaviouralEcology #Alaska #FishSci
New publication: Limited immediate effect of #artificiallight of realistic intensity on flight behaviour of commuting #pondbat. #Myotisdasycneme #ALAN #behaviouralecology #lightpollution
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2025.05.007
Our ZOOM session TONIGHT with leading researcher of hunter-gatherers Vivek Venkataraman
🌗 TUESDAY May 20 🌘6:30pm (London UTC + 1)
Vivek Venkataraman
'The meanings and dividends of Man the Hunter'
ZOOM only ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak
Vivek writes:
'The phrase Man the Hunter is associated with sexist theories of human evolution, but wildly disparate use of the phrase has led to unnecessary scientific disagreement and popular misunderstanding. In this talk, which follows a recently posted collaborative paper with other hunter-gatherer scholars, I ask: what does Man the Hunter mean?
I distinguish three historical meanings of Man the Hunter; first, the 1966 conference; second, popularized sexist theories of human origins; and third, the human behavioral ecology of hunter-gatherers. I then trace the historical development of these three meanings of Man the Hunter, situating their origins in evolutionary biology, ethnology, feminist studies, ethology, genetics, and other disciplines. This allows us to ask: how are these meanings connected intellectually? After presenting a surprising answer to this question, I conclude by offering suggestions for improving scientific and popular discourse regarding Man the Hunter.'
Vivek is a biological anthropologist who employs evolutionary approaches to the study of foraging behavior, energetics, and health. He earned his PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Dartmouth College and conducted postdoctoral work at Harvard University and the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse. He is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary. His present research focuses in Malaysia, where he is one of the Principal Investigators of the Orang Asli Health and Lifeways Project (OA HeLP), which studies the rise of chronic non-infectious diseases over time due to rapidly changing environments. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Hunter-Gatherer Research.
Everybody welcome!
Please join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak
#huntergatherers #sexualdivisionoflabour #manthehunter #gender #anthropology #behaviouralecology #humanorigins
Alecia Carter and I are launching a new online seminar!
The aim is to bring together biologists & philosophers to explore the concept of animal agency.
A preliminary session will be held on 5 December.
Feel free share to anyone who might be interested!
#AnimalBehaviour #EcoEvo #PhilBio #behaviouralecology #Agency
https://www.animalinventiveness.com/post/new-seminar-series-agency-between-biology-and-philosophy
Proboscis extension reflex (PER) is fairly well known in honeybees/bumblebees now - bee learns to associate a stimulus (e.g. odour) with food, and starts extending the proboscis when it smells the odour, even without food. (Pavlovian type stuff.) Mandela Fernández-Grandon & team have been adapting the assay to work on restrained hoverflies. #Ento24 #Syrphidae #BehaviouralEcology
Hot from the press, with Richard Mann
and @elva: 🐜 Random walks with spatial and temporal resets can explain individual and colony-level searching patterns in ants
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2024.0149
#physics #ants #animalmovement #animabehaviour #randomwalk #behaviouralecology
New publication: Sea-level rise causes #shorebird population collapse before habitats drown. #behaviouralecology #climatechange #conservationbiology #ecologicalmodelling #populationdynamics
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02051-w
From black hole physics to theoretical behavioural ecology. John M McNamara giving an inaugural lecture in Budapest, Hungary: "The art of the state, modelling the endpoints of evolution by natural selection". (Don't miss the famous photos of Alasdair Houston and John from the 70s)
#Science #Biology #Ecology #Evolution #EvolutionaryTheory #EvolutionaryBiology #AnimalBehaviour #Behaviour #BehaviouralEcology #bird #ParentalCare #GameTheory #Lecture #Bristol
Since September, I've embarked on a permanent position at SCIMABIO-Interface. Excited to apply #PopulationDynamics #BehaviouralEcology & #BayesianStatistics to engage w. managers & stakeholders. Science-Policy Interface is essential for effective #Fish #Conservation! 🐟
We welcome Julius Lissy as new member @Mol_Ecol @uniinnsbruck !
He does his master thesis on temporal activity patterns of the Eurasian #beaver using wildlife cameras
#foragingecology #behaviouralecology #ecology #riverecosystems #Castorfiber
We welcome Davina Dietrich as new member @Mol_Ecol @uniinnsbruck!
She does her master thesis on the asynchrony in growth of #SnowFinch nestlings in a @BOKUvienna and @Vogelwarte_scie project
Interested in your suggestions for #conferences in 2023/24 are online/hybrid in following fields: #conservation #carnivores #felids #ecology #ClimateChange #HumanWildlifeConflict #WildlifeTrade #IndigenousRights #BehaviouralEcology #Zoonosis. Thanks! #AcademicMastodon #research
@davidho were you on the boat? How did this come about? Playing catch with each other, dropping it and the beluga happened to turn up and return it? Or did you spot the beluga and someone thought "let's see if if plays fetch"? Loved watching this anyway, but interested in the #BehaviouralEcology of it 😁
