It’s the one year anniversary of ISBE2024 in Melbourne, Australia. So many fond memories. And now it’s time to start thinking about the 2026 congress in beautiful Torino, Italy. For further information, follow @isbe2026.bsky.social or visit isbe2026.com.
September 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
It’s the one year anniversary of ISBE2024 in Melbourne, Australia. So many fond memories. And now it’s time to start thinking about the 2026 congress in beautiful Torino, Italy. For further information, follow @isbe2026.bsky.social or visit isbe2026.com.
That's me! Thanks Kate!
What a great conference that was.
If anyone's interested here are the papers I spoke about at #ISBE2024 -
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
and
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
What a great conference that was.
If anyone's interested here are the papers I spoke about at #ISBE2024 -
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
and
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
November 12, 2024 at 3:15 PM
That's me! Thanks Kate!
What a great conference that was.
If anyone's interested here are the papers I spoke about at #ISBE2024 -
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
and
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
What a great conference that was.
If anyone's interested here are the papers I spoke about at #ISBE2024 -
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
and
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
¿Sueñan las arañas? y ¿Con qué sueñan?
Acerca del sueño REM en las arañas, y cómo lo estudia el equipo de @RoesslerDaniela.bsky.social (quién dio una de mis charlas favoritas del #ISBE2024)
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Acerca del sueño REM en las arañas, y cómo lo estudia el equipo de @RoesslerDaniela.bsky.social (quién dio una de mis charlas favoritas del #ISBE2024)
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Do Spiders Dream Like Humans Do? This Researcher Wants to Find Out.
During the pandemic, Daniela Rößler felt cooped up. She couldn't go out. So she started looking around her for her next research project. She found a really ...
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October 31, 2024 at 7:32 PM
¿Sueñan las arañas? y ¿Con qué sueñan?
Acerca del sueño REM en las arañas, y cómo lo estudia el equipo de @RoesslerDaniela.bsky.social (quién dio una de mis charlas favoritas del #ISBE2024)
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Acerca del sueño REM en las arañas, y cómo lo estudia el equipo de @RoesslerDaniela.bsky.social (quién dio una de mis charlas favoritas del #ISBE2024)
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One of the birds I most wanted to see in #Australia was the Tawny Frogmouth. Fortunately, #ISBE2024 delegates were sharing #BirdKnowledge and I was able to admire this beautiful mama on a nest in @Melbourne 😍🪶
#Birds #Birding #BirdsSeenIn2024
#Birds #Birding #BirdsSeenIn2024
October 29, 2024 at 4:07 PM
One of the birds I most wanted to see in #Australia was the Tawny Frogmouth. Fortunately, #ISBE2024 delegates were sharing #BirdKnowledge and I was able to admire this beautiful mama on a nest in @Melbourne 😍🪶
#Birds #Birding #BirdsSeenIn2024
#Birds #Birding #BirdsSeenIn2024
The Lizard Lab had a great week at ISBE in Melbourne a few weeks back. We had lab alumni, honorary and current members all give great talks! Well done everyone! #isbe2024
October 17, 2024 at 11:39 PM
The Lizard Lab had a great week at ISBE in Melbourne a few weeks back. We had lab alumni, honorary and current members all give great talks! Well done everyone! #isbe2024
Had the best time at #ISBE2024! Always a pleasure to present this research 🌮🍆💦👋🦧, but even more fun to discuss it with awesome behavioural ecologists in such a welcoming setting!
@matildabrindle.bsky.social bringing ISBE2024 home with a bang, showcasing her incredible work on masturbation in primates. 🐒❤️ Standing room only! @oxfordbiology.bsky.social
October 17, 2024 at 9:26 AM
Had the best time at #ISBE2024! Always a pleasure to present this research 🌮🍆💦👋🦧, but even more fun to discuss it with awesome behavioural ecologists in such a welcoming setting!
The reason is simple: not every prey is attacked every time a predator attacks someone. Below this threshold value for the trophic asymmetry, prey are predicted to be ahead.
It was really fun to be able to celebrate the acceptance of this paper at #ISBE2024, for once we were all in the same city!
It was really fun to be able to celebrate the acceptance of this paper at #ISBE2024, for once we were all in the same city!
October 9, 2024 at 3:39 AM
The reason is simple: not every prey is attacked every time a predator attacks someone. Below this threshold value for the trophic asymmetry, prey are predicted to be ahead.
It was really fun to be able to celebrate the acceptance of this paper at #ISBE2024, for once we were all in the same city!
It was really fun to be able to celebrate the acceptance of this paper at #ISBE2024, for once we were all in the same city!
November 20, 2024 at 1:11 AM
@matildabrindle.bsky.social bringing ISBE2024 home with a bang, showcasing her incredible work on masturbation in primates. 🐒❤️ Standing room only! @oxfordbiology.bsky.social
October 4, 2024 at 7:01 AM
@matildabrindle.bsky.social bringing ISBE2024 home with a bang, showcasing her incredible work on masturbation in primates. 🐒❤️ Standing room only! @oxfordbiology.bsky.social
Closing out the conference, Kavita Isvaran’s Hamilton Lecture shows her foundational work on female competition. Not just sexual role reversal, lots of females compete over resources and limited access to males.
#ISBE2024
#ISBE2024
October 4, 2024 at 4:23 AM
Closing out the conference, Kavita Isvaran’s Hamilton Lecture shows her foundational work on female competition. Not just sexual role reversal, lots of females compete over resources and limited access to males.
#ISBE2024
#ISBE2024
Last talk! Laura Ryan models motion and shark visual systems, to show that surfers do in fact look a lot like seals. We’re going to need a bigger experiment to test how these shapes impact shark bites.
#ISBE2024
#ISBE2024
October 4, 2024 at 2:27 AM
Last talk! Laura Ryan models motion and shark visual systems, to show that surfers do in fact look a lot like seals. We’re going to need a bigger experiment to test how these shapes impact shark bites.
#ISBE2024
#ISBE2024
Mistaken identity! Laura Ryan shows that from a shark's perspective, man, do surfers and swimmers sure look a lot like the shark's typical pinniped prey #ISBE2024
October 4, 2024 at 2:27 AM
Mistaken identity! Laura Ryan shows that from a shark's perspective, man, do surfers and swimmers sure look a lot like the shark's typical pinniped prey #ISBE2024
How does risk of predation alter mating decisions? Viraj Torsekar shows bigger male and female isopods try to get the safer burrows forcing the smaller (less competitive) individuals to settle for risky burrows. Alters patterns of assortative mating! #ISBE2024
October 4, 2024 at 2:13 AM
How does risk of predation alter mating decisions? Viraj Torsekar shows bigger male and female isopods try to get the safer burrows forcing the smaller (less competitive) individuals to settle for risky burrows. Alters patterns of assortative mating! #ISBE2024
Robert Brooks is here to make a pitch to apply techniques from Behavioral Ecology to study deep machine learning. I’m going to just say that that’s a good idea and leave my thoughts on the comparison between early human v. animal exceptionalism and the skepticism around AI for later.
#ISBE2024
#ISBE2024
October 4, 2024 at 2:12 AM
Robert Brooks is here to make a pitch to apply techniques from Behavioral Ecology to study deep machine learning. I’m going to just say that that’s a good idea and leave my thoughts on the comparison between early human v. animal exceptionalism and the skepticism around AI for later.
#ISBE2024
#ISBE2024
@Jordan_SMartin presents data supporting his Social Drive hypothesis. Feedbacks between fluctuating selection and social interactions promotes social plasticity. Tsimane women fertility better predicted by social interactions and IGEs than direct genetic effects #ISBE2024
October 4, 2024 at 2:01 AM
@Jordan_SMartin presents data supporting his Social Drive hypothesis. Feedbacks between fluctuating selection and social interactions promotes social plasticity. Tsimane women fertility better predicted by social interactions and IGEs than direct genetic effects #ISBE2024
As we all know (but not, like, from personal experience) physical combat is costly. Mohammadali Dashtbali shows that the optimal level of aggression does not depend on the honesty of signals. Lots of other cool stuff here, check out the paper!
#ISBE2024
#ISBE2024
October 4, 2024 at 1:57 AM
As we all know (but not, like, from personal experience) physical combat is costly. Mohammadali Dashtbali shows that the optimal level of aggression does not depend on the honesty of signals. Lots of other cool stuff here, check out the paper!
#ISBE2024
#ISBE2024
Gabrielle Welsh studies the fantastic field cricket song evolution, shows clear differences based on location and lab vs field.
#ISBE2024
#ISBE2024
October 4, 2024 at 1:44 AM
Gabrielle Welsh studies the fantastic field cricket song evolution, shows clear differences based on location and lab vs field.
#ISBE2024
#ISBE2024
Sanele Nhlabatsi presents work documenting honey-hunting mutualism between humans and birds in Eswatini. Humans typically use instruments to bring in the birds, that guide the humans to a bee's nest and then give the birds a tasty reward #ISBE2024
October 4, 2024 at 1:41 AM
Sanele Nhlabatsi presents work documenting honey-hunting mutualism between humans and birds in Eswatini. Humans typically use instruments to bring in the birds, that guide the humans to a bee's nest and then give the birds a tasty reward #ISBE2024
Plenty of animals have quick copulation, but the half beaks do the deed in 40ms. When it comes to courtship though, males put in the time to assess and court females. John Fitzpatrick shows males prefer large gravid spots (b/c diet? Repro Cycle?)
#ISBE2024
#ISBE2024
October 4, 2024 at 1:24 AM
Plenty of animals have quick copulation, but the half beaks do the deed in 40ms. When it comes to courtship though, males put in the time to assess and court females. John Fitzpatrick shows males prefer large gravid spots (b/c diet? Repro Cycle?)
#ISBE2024
#ISBE2024
Those beautiful cricket songs are great at attracting females. But on the island of Hawaii, these songs are also attractive to deadly parasotoids. @RobinMTing summarizes their work investigating how novel cricket morphs arise in response to these conflicting pressures #ISBE2024
October 4, 2024 at 1:13 AM
Those beautiful cricket songs are great at attracting females. But on the island of Hawaii, these songs are also attractive to deadly parasotoids. @RobinMTing summarizes their work investigating how novel cricket morphs arise in response to these conflicting pressures #ISBE2024
Always tough to decide which talk to go to, but I followed people into Arezo Shamsgouara’s talk on male mate-copying in Pygmy Halfbeak. Males seem to prefer hanging out with male-female pairs.
#ISBE2024
#ISBE2024
October 4, 2024 at 1:11 AM
Always tough to decide which talk to go to, but I followed people into Arezo Shamsgouara’s talk on male mate-copying in Pygmy Halfbeak. Males seem to prefer hanging out with male-female pairs.
#ISBE2024
#ISBE2024
Raphael Ritter is dissecting Hamilton’s rule in subsocial saw flies, which coordinate a sticky chemical defense. Large groups do better and are less impacted by cheating.
#ISBE2024
#ISBE2024
October 4, 2024 at 12:27 AM
Raphael Ritter is dissecting Hamilton’s rule in subsocial saw flies, which coordinate a sticky chemical defense. Large groups do better and are less impacted by cheating.
#ISBE2024
#ISBE2024
Megan Lambert turns to weightier matters showing that kea parrots quickly learn to discriminate (but not infer or remember?) object weight. This sort of thing is trivial for humans, but may actually tricky for many primates.
#ISBE2024
#ISBE2024
October 4, 2024 at 12:09 AM
Megan Lambert turns to weightier matters showing that kea parrots quickly learn to discriminate (but not infer or remember?) object weight. This sort of thing is trivial for humans, but may actually tricky for many primates.
#ISBE2024
#ISBE2024
Gabby Jarvis is doing some adorable wallaby field work, showing that wallaby’s seem to respond to phantom decoys, switching away from similar foods.
#ISBE2024
#ISBE2024
October 3, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Gabby Jarvis is doing some adorable wallaby field work, showing that wallaby’s seem to respond to phantom decoys, switching away from similar foods.
#ISBE2024
#ISBE2024