New paper out in iScience. We found the pattern of Guinea baboon meat transfers follows the shape of their nested multi-level society. Transfers of meat are more tolerant at the lower levels of the society and are more likely to occur along stronger social relationships. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Interested in a PhD disease ecology? Post advertised at @uni-of-edinburgh.bsky.social with @thedickvet.bsky.social & the @roslininstitute.bsky.social, to work on viral & parasitic disease transmission in grey squirrels for red squirrel conservation 🐿️ details here: e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...

the IUCN have passed the Longevity Conservation motion put forward to them by @kellerfish.bsky.social and @pili-scotland.bsky.social and based on the paper we wrote on the value of older individuals in animal societies. www.cdu.edu.au/news/global-...

Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🚨Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my group🚨 🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?🐾 Find out by studying meerkats! 🧪Epigenetic clocks ✨Bioinformatics 📊Long-term data 🌍Kalahari fieldwork 💡Big evolutionary questions Get in touch or APPLY NOW Please share! www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

What are you looking at? 👀🦓 Happy #FieldworkFriday, and today I'm posting zebras for Jo other reason than that zebras are cool 😎 My only question: why isn't everything zebra striped?! It's thermoregulatory, it's camouflage, it's protection from biting flies... Why can't I be stripy?!

Social relationships are powerful predictors of fitness across social animals. But *why*? In our new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper, we outline testable predictions for why relationship quality and quantity adaptively vary across socio-ecological contexts. tinyurl.com/55dnkeh7

This is a fantastic piece, with some wonderful animations showing the movement patterns of different birds. I had no idea that there are hurricane-chasing birds! 😱🌪️

❓ Want to join us? 📢 Fully funded #PhD for UK-domiciled Black heritage candidates 🐵 Biological market monitoring & manipulation in social animals #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork 👥 With me, #LaurenBrent & #PatrickKennedy 🎓 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social ℹ️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🙏Share widely

Please RT! 🚨 4-year PhD position in my lab (Oct 2026 start) 🚨 Molecular and genomic insights to sexually antagonistic genes Application deadline: Dec 2, 2025 biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/mol...

2025. How Europe's largest bat [greater noctule (Nyctalus lasiopterus] catches and eats birds mid-air phys.org/news/2025-10...

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

This week on #PhotographyFriday is a bad photo taken through my friend's binoculars.... But I saw an Osprey at the Otter Estuary! 😁 This handsome juvenile male has come down from the Tweed valley in Scotland, at the start of his migration, and seems very content in Devon 🦅

3yr PDRA at @exeter.ac.uk with @york.ac.uk and Centre for Whale Research, studying how killer whale social relationships change with prey availability, partner loss and social info. A fantastic team & unique longterm dataset. Deadline 19 Oct! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/postdoctoral-research-associate

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!