Great opportunity for prospective PhD students: Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution:.

Gerry Carter and I wrote a wrote a Research Briefing on our latest @Nature paper looking at reciprocity in superb starlings. You can access the Briefing here (and the original paper itself is OA):.

RT @ColumbiaScience: A study of starlings in Africa shows that they form long-term social bonds similar to human friendships. https://t.co….

Our latest superb starling work in @nature. We observe long-term reciprocal helping relationships, and suggest reciprocity is an underappreciated mechanism promoting the stability of cooperatively breeding societies. Led by Alexis Earl and Gerry Carter.

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the superb starling project!

RT @Padraig_Kennedy: Want to do a PhD in social evolution? Unfazed by challenging fieldwork? You have 11 days left to apply for our PhD exp….

NYC subway now has private security to make sure people don’t sneak through gates. But guard told people to sneak over turnstile instead. They claim they are paid only to stop people at gates not turnstiles. WTF are you paying these people for @MTA ?.

Last year of the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology focusing on Integrative Research Investigating the Rules of Life Governing Interactions Between Genomes, Environment and Phenotypes. Next year’s focus will be on Understanding and Solutions for a Resilient Planet.

Pretty sad when @Columbia faculty hear about graduation being cancelled from @nytimes and not from the President. Add it to her long list of failures.

Working hard at dusk on the African savannah.

Grading papers down by the river with the subject of those papers foraging in the background.

Birders can get an HD video of an extremely rare half male-half female bird, but they can’t get a half decent video of an ivory-billed woodpecker? Hmmm….

So cool. Gynandromorphic honeycreeper.

RT @Padraig_Kennedy: **Funded PhD for UK students of Black heritage**. “Power games in the wild: the social evolution of dominance”.https:/….

RT @rosvall_lab: 📢💥We're hiring, TT position in ANIMAL BEHAVIOR!! 🐦🐸🐝🪰🦋🐟🐁 #job #academia @iu_eeb @IU_CISAB. Apply by 11/15/23 here: https:/….

Our latest theory paper thinking about group size and structure in animal societies using insider-outsider conflict theory. @ShengFeng_Shen

Columbia’s Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environtmental Biology is hiring an Evolutionary Biologist/Evolutionary Ecologist. Note that the deadline we begin reviwing applications is actualy October 6 (it took awhile for this to get posted).

RT @thednazoo: Dig into some Cape dune mole-rat data with the new genome assembly out today @thednazoo! Thank you to @jtung5 @DustRubenstei….

Generative AI is poised to change the way organismal and evolutionary biologists do science. In our latest preprint, we use these cutting-edge techniques to study the evolution of morphological diversty in butterflies and moths. @ShengFeng_Shen.