Happy to share our last work just published in @animalecology.bsky.social. With @claire-doutrelant.bsky.social and Peter Pearman. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @cnrs.fr @biology.ox.ac.uk

Oh, the joys of fieldwork this time of the year!

Working on an experimental acoustic data explorer - particle & background iterations. #datavis #dataviz

New preprint in collaboration with @babeheim.bsky.social: Vocal mimicry in corvids. We describe vocal mimicry, i.e., copying of sounds produced by another species or the environment, in 31 out of 128 corvid species (24%). (1/2) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A beautiful day for fieldwork — soaking in the sounds of early spring

This cool visualisation by @nilomr.bsky.social of great tit song (or is it the clangers? - 🔊 on) reminded me of how enjoyable it was to talk at length to @sykhalid.bsky.social @timcoulson.bsky.social on @scienceofthetimes.bsky.social about our great tit song paper: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

New paper on the demographic drivers of cultural evolution in Great Tit song published today - epic work led by @nilomr.bsky.social with help from @andreaestandia.bsky.social Ella Cole & Sara Keen. Why did we do this, and what did we find? 🧵 follows: 1/n www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Theory tells us that demography, i.e. pop turnover, immigration & age structure, must be important to animal culture but evidence is rare. Here this cool study on song in the famous great tits of Wytham Woods shows what is possible 🐦 www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...