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shokosugasawa.bsky.social
Academic Track Research Fellow at Newcastle University. Studying object manipulation by animals without hands 🐝🐥🪺 animal behaviour, ecology, cognition, evolution. Dog and food lover. Mum. Views my own. she/her https://shokosugasawa.weebly.com/
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🚨Fully-funded PhD studentship on insect behaviour, cognition & muscles with me & @viveknityananda.bsky.social at @newcastleuni.bsky.social 🐝🍀🎓🙌Application deadline April 30, start date in September. Drop me an email if you have questions! www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...

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🚨New PDRA position available at the Healy Lab🚨 Project on avian nest construction. Duties will include conducting behavioural experiments with zebra finches on nest building. Post available for 24 months starting ASAP. Closing date 18 March www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

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British Antarctic Survey From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Yuko Hosaka, contemporary Japanese illustrator and printmaker #WomensArt

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Job alert🐦 2yr post-doc position with Prof. Sue Healy on project "Mistakes in Action: From the Normativity of Goal-Directedness to Novel Investigations of Avian Nest Construction"🪺 Start asap. Contact: sdh11[at]st-andrews.ac.uk @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

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'Bears On Star Mountain', handwoven blanket created by Navajo Master weaver and artist Ella Yazzie #womensart

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Happy #WomenAndGirlsInScience Day. To celebrate we have some free worksheets to share with your young people. asab.org/education-news Thank you to these brilliant women for taking part - Professor Dorothy Cheney, Professor Anindita Bhadra, Dr Danielle Lee and Professor Sue Healy #WomeninSTEM

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Cover artwork for the book 'The Moomins and the Great Flood' created by Finnish artist and author Tove Jansson in 1945 #womensart

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'Anatomy brooches' by Hiné Mizushima, Japanese, slow crafter, miniature collage artist, illustrator, stop-motion music video artist who lives in Vancouver #womensart

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Contemporary UK printmaker Hester Cox #womensart

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Brilliant BBC animated report by ecologist David Goulson on the vital role of insects in our ecosystems and the real threats of declining populations

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Honored that a piece I wrote made it to NYTimes. It’s about how my mom’s stroke changed my connection to time, science, and nature. What a privilege to honor my mom in Modern Love. Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...

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A student of mine is studying maternal wellbeing in people with and without pets. We're recruiting women who are either pregnant or up to nine months postpartum. Please share! app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/hull/petow...

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We’re #hiring Theory Fellows. 🥼 Our Computation & Theory research area is recruiting early-career scientists to test theories, collaborate across research areas & tackle fundamental questions in biology. Apply by Jan. 7 ➡️ janelia.link/theoryfellow... #computationalbiology

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Memorable week at the Strungmann forum on #navigation! Intense (seriously!) debates w/ Nachum Ulanovsky, Sylvia Wirth, Ken Cheng, @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social, Ken Lohmann, Michael Milford, Henrik Mouritsen, @davidpritchard.bsky.social, Benjamin Robira (+Group3 defector @jeanlaurens.bsky.social)

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Armadillo butt.

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gentle reminder you can always be put in the bird tube without warning

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I'm looking for a graduate student (master's level) to join my lab starting Fall 2025. If you know any undergraduates interested in termite behavior and evolution, please let them know!

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Check out the stunning mosaic of sand grains constructed by this tube dwelling worm from the genus Pectinaria. #WormWednesday

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I think about this at least once a week

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Inspired by @hleisthen.bsky.social and @denizhanpak.bsky.social I've put together a starter pack for neuroethology (broadly defined). Follow these people if you're interested in learning about the mechanisms underlying animal behaviour. Suggestions welcome! go.bsky.app/T5JTFzE

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Had an excellent first day back at work at @newcastleuni.bsky.social after 9 months of maternity leave thanks to my lovely colleagues incl. @viveknityananda.bsky.social ! Thank you for making me feel so welcome 🥰 So excited to get back into my identity as a scientist🐥🐝

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Congratulations to Maria Tello-Ramos, Sue Healy, and team for a BEAUTIFUL paper on weaver bird nest building and cultural traditions. This is one for the textbooks! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Hello! I’m a postdoc at U Chicago studying biomechanics, and animal communication. My paper with @natashamhatre.bsky.social is out in PNAS! Read on for thrills of acoustic tools, chills of models that take a week to run, excitement of uncovering acoustics misconceptions! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Hi! I'm Shoko, an animal behaviour researcher especially interested in how animals without hands (like birds & insects) handle objects like food & nest materials🐥🐝I am also v interested in systems & ideas for creating positive research culture🍀food & dog lover, Japanese citizen, UK resident🍙🐶

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