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submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Cooperative breeding in a plural breeder: the vulturine guineafowl. Very nice to see this out in @ibisjournal.bsky.social! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... In this paper, we also discuss why cooperative breeding may have been under-detected in species like the vulturine guineafowl.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

The UK chancellor is either deeply dishonest or not too bright if she thinks Heathrow expansion can be reconciled with the UK's Paris 1.5-2°C & equity commitments. Either way, such traits make her ill-equipped for the job at hand. If she want's out of Paris, then join Trump & be honest about it.

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

Omg no how awful all that hard work taken and used for someone else’s profit

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

Funded PhD! Interested in nightjars? Interested in radio tracking and GPS tracking? We are looking for a PhD student to study the movement and cognitive ecology of this enigmatic crepuscular species with me and @dmitrykishkinev.bsky.social Link below - message or email for info. 3 days to apply!

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Vocal communication in corvids: a systematic review. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... In our new paper we review 130 papers and summarise empirical evidence for socioecological factors affecting vocal communication, as well as evidence for vocal learning in different corvid species.

submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵 In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians. We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties. with @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...

submitted 44 days ago • 169 comments

Interesting paper about the importance of fieldwork in Ecology. Totally agree, but I'm slightly biased!

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Back in the office. Forgot there was a reindeer eyeball on my desk! Fun! Gives me an excuse to share this again which we made last year: youtu.be/QNtzhNUukms?...

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Important publication coming later this year!

submitted 56 days ago • 9 comments

Fully funded PhD position available! Join us at @scienceanu.bsky.social to work on an exciting project that was recently funded by the ARC. Applications close 27th January. See our website for more details: sites.google.com/site/drfarin... Contact myself or @jamesklarevas.bsky.social for details.

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

@tommiekelly.com I'm sure you've seen this, but in case you haven't.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

On the left, my image. On the right, the Al image that was clearly trained on, and designed to plagiarize, my image. All Al generated imagery is inherently theft. It's unethical, environmentally disastrous, and does irreparable harm to both artists and society.

submitted 66 days ago • 350 comments

If anyone wants a bit of wholesomeness on this cold and barren Monday morning, here’s Real Betis fans raining down thousands of stuffed toys for disadvantaged children in their annual Christmas tradition

submitted 66 days ago • 13 comments

Our new paper just out in @NatureEcoEvo shows that barn owl colour morph interacts with the phase of the moon - white morphs have advantages in full moon nights. paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-0967-2 blog here:...

submitted 2005 days ago • 1 comment

Know anyone looking for a PhD? Like phylogenies and R programming? Think behaviour is really neat? Isabella Capellini, Domhnall Jennings, Karina Vanadzina, and I have a funded PhD project on parental care macroevolution, based at Queen's University Belfast! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

submitted 69 days ago • 3 comments

What could go wrong in a nation of gun toting maniacs.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

As for Fifa’s argument that football brings reform, that is disproven by… the last two World Cups Russia used 2018 to put on a positive face as it deepened plans for Ukraine and hybrid warfare The negligible reforms of 2022 are already being rowed back t.co/BePF1Y6isI

submitted 78 days ago • 6 comments

Want to use a unique dataset to study the spatial and temporal dynamics of genomic diversity and its drivers in a wild bird population? Apply for this #NERC #PhD position @uniexecec.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🐦🌍🧪🧬 #ExeterCEC #Vlieland #NIOO-KNAW

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

5 exciting PhD opportunities to join the Center for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter in Sept 2025. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro...

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

A $1b deal, for a tournament nobody cares about, from a company with Saudi money, the Saudis having just won the bid to host a world cup. Nothing dodgy here at all.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

!PhD opportunity! We are recruiting a student to use biotelemetry and modelling to understand bycatch in Europe's most endangered seabird, the Balearic shearwater. If you are interested come to our online Q&A session on 12th Dec. See advert below!

submitted 85 days ago • 3 comments

Another reason why this place is better than Xitter. Simply add these to your feeds and check in when you want to know what's going on. No need to follow a bunch of people. Same for most topics.

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

This day 11 years ago I started working for @sheldonbirds.bsky.social in Wytham Woods. Time flies!

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Fascists: Twitter V Reality #ge24 #speirgorm

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

New PhD opportunity on social behaviour in the context of ecological disturbance with me, @mdekauwe.bsky.social, and others. Sept 2025 start, funded by NERC Apply by Jan 13. Project and application details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

PhD Opportunity!! Come work with us (University of Exeter, RSPB & BTO) Diagnosing population decline in insectivorous birds. Inkd.in/eG58dQxs Contact me for more details ([email protected]). Please Share @britishbirds.bsky.social @ibisjournal.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

submitted 90 days ago • 5 comments

Time to boycott?

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Regarding Barbara Banda and the DSD issue. Women of colour are disproportionately affected by the threshold that determines who is a man/woman. Apart from Khelif, Semenya, etc, who’ve made the headlines, there are lots who don’t even make it to the big stages because of this science. Yet no one 1/

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment