I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited

A lively and light hearted moth vs butterfly discussion on The Infinite Monkey Cage with @janehillyork.bsky.social, @chrisjiggins.bsky.social, Katy Brand, @profbriancox.bsky.social & Robin Ince. Are you team butterfly or team moth 🦋💡? Listen to the episode in full: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

It's #FieldworkFriday! One of the things that I don't post much about is the people I've worked with. In the Australian outback, we went more than a little insane while watching the babblers, but the craziness was so much fun that I made friends I will never forget ❤️ @babblingbirds.bsky.social

Somehow it's already #PhotographyFriday again... Not quite sure where this week has gone! This one is from last Sunday, when I finally made it up to #Dartmoor for probably the first time since Covid! Sheep following an old mining cart track in front of Haytor Rocks, amongst the heather and gorse 🐑

Check out the graphical abstract for a paper recently published in Ecological Modelling. I have papers published in Ecological Modelling. Never again, I guess.

All of my usual #FieldworkFriday photos come from old trips, but this one is just from my own garden last weekend. I made the mistake of hand-digging a new flowerbed in a heatwave 🥵 and then planting it with plants that all like different soil types... But they have survived 5 days so far! 🏵️🌹🌸🕷️🐌🌿

3-year #Postdoc opportunity at the University of York! I am #hiring a Postdoc to join my URF project on exploring how #biodiversity change is unfolding in the #Anthropocene. Deadline: 10th August 2025. All details and the link to apply: shorturl.at/qOQst @anthropocenebio.bsky.social #ecology

Excited to share that we have just been awarded a NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant to work on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins. We will soon advertise a 3 year post-doc to join the team - drop me an email if you might be interested! Pls share widely 🙏🏻

I'm cheating for #FieldworkFriday because it's not my photo... I'm officially Dr Mylne! 🎓🎉 Thanks again to Dan Franks, @cmbeale.bsky.social, @anthropocenebio.bsky.social, @elephantkate, Julia Ferrari, Jakob Bro-Jorgensen, and Uni of York for all your support and guidance ❤️ #graduation #longboi

I've learnt a valuable lesson this morning: don't watch Deadpool and Wolverine the night before reading a paper on data pooling.... I'm now curious to know what the Deadpool variant "Datapool" would be like 🤔

A lot of academics’ political beliefs are indeed tied to their research, but not in a “I’m a liberal lefty and I suppress conservative views for fun” way, more in a “I do research on climate so I think net zero is important” way

Please share. We have a fully-funded PhD position on animal migration. If interested, please apply by 27 July. More about us: shawanchowdhury.com. @idiv-research.bsky.social @monashbiol.bsky.social @uq-cbcs.bsky.social #PhDposition #Ecology #Conservation #Migration #Rstats #AcademicTwitter

#WorldChimpanzeeDay seems a great time to share 2 #PhD opportunities on creativity in wild #chimps and #bonobos at University of Zurich @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social @nakedprimate.bsky.social

Spot the Moth 🧐

This week on a slightly late #FieldworkFriday, I present a blueberry. Enjoy 😁 Blue waxbills are one of my favourite birds in southern Africa for the simple reason that they're just so cute!

Earlier this year @charlielem.bsky.social undertook a 3 month @britishecologicalsociety.org POST Fellowship at the Houses of Parliament where she worked as a Committee Specialist for the Environmental Audit Committee. Find out about her experience & what she learnt: www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...

Colossal are likely trying to ‘de-extinct’ the moa by tweaking an emu genome. There’s 62 million years of evolution between an emu and a moa. For context, there’s only 42 MY between humans and howler monkeys. You simply can’t make a human with a GM howler monkey www.newscientist.com/article/2487...

Do you have field work experience? Do you want more? Our team wants YOU to manage our field site studying Kinda baboons in Kasanka National Park, Zambia! Start date is this August 2025 so apply ASAP! Job ad here: tinyurl.com/KindaBaboon

Some good news for Ash trees! 🥳🌳

It's Friday! Have a happy hippo enjoying their Friday pond day 😁 #FieldworkFriday

Trying to figure out how fishing might be something where trans women have a competitive advantage, and all I've got is that the chemicals that make the frogs gay also make fish into chasers.

I'm generally quite bad about posting non-mammals, so for a little change, here's a snake for #PhotographyFriday 🐍 photo from Botswana (I think...), but I honestly can't remember what this one is so if anyone knows, much appreciated!

Fab paper if you are confused about causal modelling, DAGs or how to decide what to control for (or not!) in regression models

This is big. An Australian energy company has been forced to admit that there is no substitutability between fossil fuel CO2 emissions (average life in the atmosphere of c1,000 years) and the projects/credits offered for carbon offsetting, largely shorter lived nature based avoidance/removal of CO2.

Gutting and inexplicable decision today to accept Flamingo Land's appeal to build their daft and overblown tourist development at Loch Lomond. Let's get loads of emails in to the Minister to tell him to stop it. Share this everywhere! Now! greens.scot/LochLomond

This #FieldworkFriday I'm reading about ageing monkeys from their #tooth wear, so here are some worn out #elephant teeth. No idea how old he was though! Eles get 6 sets of teeth in their life, after which they stay where the food is softest until they die, creating the infamous "elephant graveyard"

Wild! “Researchers have concluded that too many older fish have been removed from these waters, preventing the knowledge of the best spawning grounds being passed to younger, less experienced fish.”

If you happen to see a friend across the street, odds are you might raise an arm and wiggle your hand to say hello. Cuttlefish apparently do something similar—and that’s not the only arm gesture they use to communicate. Learn more: scim.ag/4j5nmQv

Massive thanks to @shoalgroup.bsky.social and Julia Ferrari for making my viva a very pleasant experience, and to my super supervisors Dan Franks, @cmbeale.bsky.social, Kate Evans and Jakob Bro-Jorgensen for all your help over the past 4 years 🐘

Successful viva and I am #PhDone 🎉 so long York, it's been a lot of fun 🍾🦆 #rosesarewhite #longboiforever

*Job Opportunity* #Seabird #Ecologist with @n-t-s.bsky.social. @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social #ornithology #biosecurity #seabirdersaturday www.nts.org.uk/volunteering-jobs/job-search/highlands-islands

Happy #FieldworkFriday! Let me present one of few photos I've ever taken of a maribou stork in which they don't look utterly disgusting: the silhouette! Hands down the ugliest of the ugly 5!

The UK would rather dim the sun than go to therapy (reduce our carbon emissions)

Why is the government and the news so indifferent to the meltdown happening in UK #HigherEd right now? Our universities are the envy of the world. Yet we are at risk of losing a generation of academics and damaging the sector beyond repair.

This. An emergency recall of parliament on a weekend for British Steel. Nothing at all for UK HE which employs far more people, has already shed 10,000 academic jobs, with several institutions on the brink of collapse. A reminder: we train all the doctors, teachers, engineers, nurses, lawyers &c &c

A slightly late #PhotographyFriday but here is a non-work update: I went #skiing for the first time in my life ⛷️ definitely a good break, because it took so much concentration to stay upright that I couldn't think about work at all! 😅 Remember to take work breaks folks!

Julia Fischer (@julxf.bsky.social; @primatenzentrum.bsky.social) is recruiting a field assistant to work at our field site CRP Simenti in Senegal to study the behaviour of Guinea baboons in their natural habitat. Paid position, run-time at least 15 months, starting Nov 2025 s.gwdg.de/ZzyGjT

This week on #PhotographyFriday, I am simply sharing my excitement that the amaryllis I have been lovingly tending to for 2.5 years has FINALLY decided to flower, after shedding all of its leaves then making possibly the most pathetic attempt at replacing them ever. Enjoy 😁🌺

I have spent this week searching a lot of papers on #baboons, so for #FieldworkFriday here is an old favourite photo of mine from the Zambian side of Mosi-Oa-Tunya (aka, Victoria Falls) 😁 Beware indeed!

Today I learnt that #echidna feet are "backwards". This must be something I once knew, having seen several during my masters fieldwork on birds, but clearly this was not information that my brain deemed worthy of remembering. My brain was wrong: it's awesome. Anyway, happy #FieldworkFriday 🤗🦔

What if we could compare animal social structures across time and space? Now we can! The MacaqueNet database spans 14 macaque species and 61 populations over 40+ years, unlocking new possibilities in comparative social behaviour research. 🔎 Explore the project at doi.org/10.1111/1365...

🚨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/...

We are hiring one 3yr post doc and one 2yr researcher to work on philosophy of science in the AssemblingLife project! Please distribute to possible applicants! Deadline: Feb 28 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Looking for a polar bear postdoc? Here's a really neat opportunity on a new project with a great group. www.yorku.ca/vpepc/facult...

Here's today's #OceanOptimism #EarthOptimism story: Wisdom, the oldest-known albatross, just had another chick! I believe I posted about her laying an egg, it has now hatched! 🧪🦑🌎 news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Happy #PhotographyFriday! End of my first week as a postdoc in @crab-exeter.bsky.social and safe to say I think I've landed on my feet here 😁 some sun would be nice though.....

I'm #PhDone! 🎉 Thank you so much to everyone who has helped me through to this point: Dan Franks, @cmbeale.bsky.social, Elephants for Africa and Uni of York. You've been amazing 🐘🦆🦢 Clicking that submit button was terrifying but I'm so excited to move onto the next step: postdoc here I come! 🎉🐒

Well I was hoping that this #PhotographyFriday would be a picture of me submitting my thesis..... Maybe next week! Instead, here is one of my favourite photos from my fieldwork: #elephants in a lightning storm! (Actually a still from a video because I couldn't get it in a photo...)

My review of Cooperative Transport in Ants (and Elsewhere) has received it's 100th citation! To celebrate: cooperative transport media! Oh, and of course a link to the paper: myrmecologicalnews.org/cms/index.ph...

#FieldworkFriday time! African Fish Eagle flying over the Makgadikgadi Pans in Botswana, on a day that was really trying to be stormy but wet season hadn't quite broken yet