Please find below a list of international meetings that are likely to be of interest to those studying Behavioural Biology. For a comprehensive overview of upcoming conferences and congresses across all areas of Biology, please refer to the calendar in The Virtual Library of Biology.

2025

International Remote Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution (FINE), 2025
TBD, every Tuesday 11:00 (New York)/17:00 (Paris) live on YouTube and Zoom with recordings

FINE is a platform that aims at bringing together people worldwide, who are fascinated by social evolution. Every week, there will be a presentation from a leading expert about sociality of naturally occurring populations, including theoretical and comparative studies on animal sociality. This seminar series provides a great opportunity for junior scientists to interact with leaders in social evolution research. It also aims at promoting scholarly activity of members of traditionally under-represented groups and from developing nations.

The presentations take place every Tuesdays at 11:00 (New York)/17:00 (Europe) and last 45min, followed by 1 hour general discussion. They can be viewed online via Zoom or screened live on YouTube as webinar, where they will be stored for anyone to watch later.

Everybody fascinated by the social evolution is welcome to join the seminar. If you are interested, please contact any of the hosts, Loren Hayes (loren-hayes@utc.edu), Carsten Schradin (carsten.schradin@iphc.cnrs.fr) or Eduardo Fernandez-Duque (eduardo.fernandez-duque@yale.edu). You will then get reminders of upcoming seminars with the respective Zoom and YouTube links.

For more information please see here and find the recordings of previous talks here.

Annual Meeting of the Ethological Society, 2025
19 February – 21 February 2025, Tutzing, Germany

The Annual Meeting of the Ethologische Gesellschaft in 2025 will take place in Evangelischen Akademie in Tutzing, 19-21 February 2025, hosted by Wolfgang Goymann and Henrik Brumm based at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Seewiesen. Confirmed plenary speakers will be Bettina Wachter, Hanna Kokko and Jens Krause. We invite all behavioural biologists, including members and non-members of the Ethological Society, to present their work and discuss it with colleagues in person. Everyone is welcome and appreciated, whether you are a student, an early career researcher or a more senior person.

In addition to talks and posters on all aspects of behaviour, we are delighted to announce an extravaganza: the 2025 meeting will feature a special Symposium on Evolutionary Behavioural Genetics, organised by Richard Merrill (LMU Munich) and Clemens Küpper (MPI for Biological Intelligence): “A mechanistic understanding about the diversity and evolution of behavioural phenotypes requires knowledge about the underlying genetic variation. Recent years have seen tremendous progress in linking distinct behavioural strategies with variation at the level of DNA sequence, gene regulation and expression. The aim of this symposium is to provide an update on current advances to characterize the molecular links between genotypes and behavioural phenotypes in a broad range of animal taxa.”

International Conference on Comparative Cognition, 2025
26 March – 29 March 2025, Albuquerque – NM, USA

The 32^nd annual Conference on Comparative Cognition (CO3) is March 26 – 29, 2025, in Albuquerque, NM. Join the society for four days of science in the sun! Abstract submission and conference registration will open in November 2024. The topic will be Animal Cognition, broadly conceived to include all research on animal learning, memory, and perception.