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gilbertroberts.bsky.social
Free-range academic studying the evolution of behaviour in animals including humans. Cooperation, reputation, interdependence.
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Dream PhD opportunity, doing important and pioneering work on how humans and other animals solve problems that require them to work together to sustain resources (like the planet!)! Creative, brilliant, and supportive mentor!

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Brown hares can currently be shot all-year round , despite an estimated decline of 80% in the last 100 years . Please sign the petition now calling on the Govt to introduce a close season from Feb – Sept . Thank you !

submitted 29 days ago • 24 comments

Puffin therapy

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Our latest superb starling work in @nature.com. 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 @gerrycarter.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Revised preprint. Charles Efferson and Ernst Fehr claim that reciprocity does not work. In a Nature paper they falsely claim that between-group competition rescues cooperation. Here I show that a simple error in their model is responsible for their false claims www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Listening to PetShopBoys Suburbia (1986). Timeless, except perhaps for updating "where's a policeman when you need one to blame the colour TV" to "where's a politician when you need one to blame social media". www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VCq...

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Puffin cam from Northumberland is back @ehbea2025.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/aMaNSZU...

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22 mins on autoredial app to be told surgery fully booked with people who somehow got through. Travel insurance want evidence but surgery says they are there to treat people not sign forms. Fever and coughing up blood so this is no surprise. Got appt in end but.. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Wonder how many other folks spent Easter with the @ehbea2025.bsky.social conference cold. At least it wasn't covid at this conference (as far as I know), which makes a change! 🤒

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Two more weeks to apply! Spread the word and reach out with any questions.

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Lots of souvenirs for those who liked the @ehbea2025.bsky.social theme - www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

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Another journalist murdered www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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This sounds great! Shame I don't think I count as early career!

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✨️The EHBEA 2025 Starter Pack is Here! ✨️ - Follow #EHBEA2025 conference presenters & attendees! 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 - Attending EHBEA?? Comment bellow or send us a message to be added! #CoolEvoScience #HumanBehaviour #SharingResearch @ehbea.bsky.social go.bsky.app/83e84Ca

submitted 62 days ago • 4 comments

Heading north to #ehbea2025 where there’ll be a Stand Up For Science panel session on Wednesday. So attendees, please bring your best ideas for how evolutionary behavioural scientists can push back against political misuse and suppression of science

submitted 63 days ago • 3 comments

Passed on without comment www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Top marks to the author for working in the biscuit gag www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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as Elon Musk continues to shred science, Mike Taylor reflects on inaction by @royalsociety.org svpow.com/2025/04/04/t...

submitted 72 days ago • 4 comments

Lovely film about Tim Birkhead's long-term study of Guillemots on Skomer. More than half a century of study of this population: this kind of continuity critical for understanding vitality of these important populations. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... vimeo.com/1063680641/2...

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