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New from us: Lantau, Hong Kong, water buffalo ⬇️⬇️🐃🐃🐃 #Preprint ⬇️

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In the interest of stress reduction, please take a moment to enjoy this nice Silvereye, looking a bit borby and floofed up after a bath. Churchill National Park, Victoria, Australia

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A Pied Wagtail is taking a lil' stroll through your scroll... Nice!

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Each January, @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour publishes its 'Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching': www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Please read and implement. #AnimalEthics #AnimalBehaviour

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ASAB will also be at #Behaviour2025 in Kolkata, India, this summer (Aug 25-30). Abstract submission is currently open! #ASABWinter2024

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It was amazing to get to give a talk on colonial legacies in Animal Behaviour, work has been ongoing for a long time behind the scenes, hopefully there will be more to come! #ASABWinter2024 #DecolonisingSBS

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That’s a wrap! There’s nothing quite like seeing ecologists and practitioners come together, sparking new ideas and collaborations. We can’t wait to bring this energy to Edinburgh next year. Until then, stay connected and stay inspired!

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Thanks #ASABWinter2024, you were amazing! Well done to the organisers for an inspiring conference. Many important issues raised and good practices shared for addressing bias in animal behaviour research ❄️ @asab.org

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Great work by PhD student Micky Ahn 🎉! Make sure to check this one out if interested in equine or wildlife parasitology, and/or DNA metabarcoding of mixed parasitic infections aka #nemabiome 🐴🪱👇🏻

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Excited to be attending #ASABWinter2024 for the next two days and presenting a virtual poster! Really looking forward to all of the talks and will hopefully get to chat to people online about my poster and research 🐃 @asab.org

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Hello Liverpool! Tania Perroux and I will be presenting our research on the feral cattle at poster session 1 at #BES2024 tomorrow night - come say hi! @britishecolsoc.bsky.social

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Hiding from Monday #MondayMotivation

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New starter pack on farm animal welfare specifically - look here #farmanimalwelfare scientists 👇🏼

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1/2 Interesting piece in @mongabay.bsky.social on what losing older animals means for a species. Animal Cultures are really important for long term survival news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

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Congratulations to Prof. Josephine Pemberton on being awarded the prestigious Genetics Society Medal! 🏅 Her groundbreaking contributions to genetics, from understanding natural populations to evolutionary biology, continue to inspire us all. genetics.org.uk/medals-and-p...

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Still finding it hard to reconnect with everyone from Twitter (X) so here’s an attempt at finding all animal behaviourists, ethologists, behavioural ecologists etc, working with animal behaviour. Just pop a comment and I’ll add you to the list - let’s reconnect 😃 #appliedethology go.bsky.app/8oJ3A8E

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Some Fridays are for rumination ☀️🐮🍃 #mammals 📷 OM2 🎞 HP5, ISO 400

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Two papers on a couple of high-profile rewilding-related cases in Spain showing the importance of historical ecology in informing conservation. Rewilding through inappropriate species introduction: The case of European bison in Spain 🌍 🧪 #bioinvasions conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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And because I was FAR too excited for Eras on Friday to share sharing my visit with Tiktaalik at the Royal Ontario Museum (on loan) before the festivities 🫶 Thumbs up to evolutionary research! Thumbs down to evolving thumbs in the first place so we can spend our earthly time doing emails 😅

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Made my way back on Lundy after 3 years! 🌄 Time to stare at some sparrows @jj255.bsky.social

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Just a mid-week Moorhen skating through your frosty feeds...

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1 week to go! Register now for this fascinating seminar 👀

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the first starter pack is already full so here is pack no. 2 with even more wonderful ethologists! as before, let me know if you would like to be included and also feel free to nominate others! 🌍🧪😊 go.bsky.app/JS5YC4s

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Funded PhD Available at the University of Exeter. Loneliness is a global epidemic. We want to use field experiments in wild rabbits to understand why our social connections change with age. Deadline: 11th Dec More info & how to apply here: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...

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Tania Perroux and I will be presenting our latest feral cattle projects on subtropical heat effects and behavioural synchrony December 2nd, 14:00 (Hong Kong Time). More information and registration by QR code in the poster attached ☀️🐄🍃

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Bison, Lamar Valley, Yellowstone National Park. May, 2019. 🔗 https://www.allencompassingtrip.com/2828/bison 📷 Fujifilm X-T3 + XF100-400mmF4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR 🎞 400 mm – 1/1250″ – f/8 – ISO 1600 🏷️ #Bison #Mammals #Photography #Wildlife

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I think hugging the wall heaters is a meerkat's equivalent to getting a sunrise lamp to combat S.A.D 🤭

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Meerkat skull with my favourite Kalahari flowers 🌺 skull approximately to actual size! all design and tattooing credit to Holly Valley tattoo 🫶🏼 #ScienceInk

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New invasive species found in Hong Kong, be careful around Pacific Place everyone 🙏

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🎶 It’s me, hi! 🎶 🎶 I’m the problem, it’s me 🎶 Did you know - 99% of camera trap photos taken in Tasmania are of brushtail possums messing with equipment…

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Can't beat a #FlyDay Curlew. 😍

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Bangor was magical in the fog tonight

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Brilliant to be able to announce as co-lead of the Bristol DLA we have secured £14M to fund the maximum of 15 studentships year from NERC for the next five years! Uni. Bristol press release: www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2024/no... An exciting time to join Bristol as a PhD researcher

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I made a Black women in tech starter pack because I couldn’t find one and it annoyed me. go.bsky.app/5upv7SQ

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Hello BlueSky! I had a Twitter account but I don't find it relevant anymore. I'm joining to see if fellow ecologists and wildlife biologists are here! My name is Sebastian Zavoico and I am enamored by the Arctic. Through my MS and current PhD, both at UA Fairbanks, I have focused on how Arctic...🧵

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Typhoon on the way in Hong Kong, these guys are probably halfway up a mountain right now ☀️😊🌧

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How charming! This Long-tailed Tit appears to have found a perch in your feed. 😍

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Our paper is out in the new issue of Ornithology: "Effects of age, breeding strategy, population density, and number of neighbors on territory size and shape in Savannah Sparrows." @amornith.bsky.social Free access: tinyurl.com/3zxssu99 We made 5 discoveries about territory size in birds... [1/7]

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GBBO is a conservation non-profit working to conserve birds and their habitats in the Great Basin and beyond through research, partnerships & education. Thanks for putting this feed together! As for favorite birds - all of them! But you can never go wrong with a Western Tanager.

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Join us for a free online seminar about ecology and conservation by Prof. Susanne Shultz. Date: Wednesday 27 November 2024 Time: 17:00 Hong Kong Time, 09:00 United Kingdom Time Scan the QR code below or use the link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... to register.

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Job Alert! New postdoc position in our lab investigating cognitive biases in wild bumblebees. Thanks to Wild Animal Initiative for the funding. Position for 31 months. Deadline: December 9th. Please apply/boost #PostdocJob #AcademicJobs #Bees jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

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First-winter female Snow Bunting 📷 trapped and ringed during a nocturnal survey of SW Field last night, plus two re-trap Snipe - originally ringed in Oct 2016(!) and Mar 2024. Four Hawfinch in Millcombe best from today @birdguides.bsky.social #ukbirding

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Coming up soon - Oct 28! Short talks aimed at 15-18 year olds. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-hist...

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The Helmet Vanga is easily my favorite bird. Like, what's going on with that bill!?

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Some scenes from Yellowstone National Park in autumn. So far, it's been my favorite national park. 📷 🦊

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This comic is my paper with @richardmoore.bsky.social & Rossano in which we propose that having similar bodies and similar behaviour is actually really rather important and that apes can make use of this similarity in forming mutually understandable gestures onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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First peoples’ names for Australian birds? Only with free, prior and informed consent | www.tandfonline.com/... |Emu | #ornithology 🪶

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Short-eared Owl trapped and ringed last night 📷 Tom Williams. Today, Lapwing, 5 Golden Plover and Great Northern Diver all new-in, plus Short-toed Lark still present #ukbirding @birdguides.bsky.social

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Autumn skies fill with honking Pink-footed Geese — kicking off our #AutumnArrivalSpotlight series! 🍂 Arriving from Iceland and Greenland to grace our wetlands, who’s spotted their signature V-formation?

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