3 year postdoc funded by @ukri.org NERC on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins is now live - please share widely 🙏 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Our new paper offers an explanation for the universal law that "under carefully controlled conditions.... an animal behaves as it damn well pleases." We explore how stochastic mechanisms may play an underappreciated role in generating individuality. (1/7 🧵) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I haven't posted here for awhile but we've had several papers come out that I'm excited about, so check out this #WildCo roundup of recent publications! @wildco.bsky.social @forestry.ubc.ca (thread: 1/6)

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

New online! The functional adaptations of mammalian brain structures through a behavioural ecology lens

📣 Honouring Frans de Waal’s spirit of curiosity & empathy 🧠🐒 The Frans de Waal PhD Dissertation Prize 2026 is now open for submissions. Celebrating #Primatology, #Ethology & the evolution of social behaviour. 🏆 Announced at #CBEN2026 (Leiden, Apr 14) ⏰ Apply by Jan 15, 2026! @ehbea2026.bsky.social

Why are polar animals compact, while tropical ones are lean with long limbs and ears? Bergmann’s rule and Allen’s rule explained in our new #EcolClips www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKG6... #Ecology #biodiversity #climatechange #teaching #theory #species #animals

Juvenile songbirds acquire key life skills primarily from siblings and non-parent adults, with sibling influence surpassing that of parents in species with limited parental care. doi.org/g9578b

🏝️4-year funded PhD opportunity to study biodiversity change on islands Work with datasets of mammals, birds & plants 🐦‍⬛🦌🌳 Supervisors: @sandranogue.bsky.social & myself 👉 Apply by 27 Oct 2025 More info: 🔗 creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/... #PhD #Ecology #Palaeoecology #Biodiversity

Come join us in Italy in January for the Predator-Prey Interactions GRC— full program is now up! And we have some funding to support ECRs! www.grc.org/predator-pre...

🚨PhD offer 👩‍🎓: Fascinated by island biodiversity, palaeoecology & human impacts on ecosystems? 🌴🦜🌍 Join @creaf.cat to explore how island life changed over the last 11,700 years. Deadline: 27 Oct 2025 Selection: ~November Starting: ~January 2026 Supervision: @sandranogue.bsky.social & me More info👇

Excited to share our latest paper from our on-going #BritishCarnivoreProject, showing that encounters with wild red #foxes could be an important gateway to broader #nature connectedness in people, particularly in cities. 🦊🍃🏙️ Link here: doi.org/10.1080/1087...

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

📢I’m excited to share that my second dissertation chapter has now been published in Ecology Letters! We used stable isotope analysis to examine if urbanization influences individual dietary specialization 🧪 🧵 Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/ele.... #OpenAccess #UrbanEcology #UrbanWildlife

Making the most of the weekends in Vancouver visiting UBC with some weekend boulders in perfect Squamish : )

Out today in Nature is the most exciting dinosaur paper I've ever been involved in - led by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social we describe a partial skeleton of the UTTERLY BIZARRE Spicomellus from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco, the oldest known ankylosaur. (1/x) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very happy to share that I've been awarded the 2025 @ecolsocaus.bsky.social "Next Generation Ecologist" award. I'll be giving a plenary at the ESA2025 in Adelaide. See you there!! www.ecolsoc.org.au/news/2025-ne...

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

🦩🦩🦩 First paper from my last postdoc at @tourduvalat.bsky.social, co-first authored with Hugo Cayuela, is now published in @pnas.org. Thanks to a wonderful dataset on the Greater Flamingo in southern France, we investigated the relationship between migratory behaviour and ageing. 🦩🦩🦩

Native Species? 🌎🌐🐺🦉 Cultural Paradigms in Conservation @lilyvaneeden.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/c/1lac31R~ea...

our paper on how light pollution affects bird vocal behavior is out today in Science!! w/ @brentpease.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Millions of audio recordings of hundreds of bird species have revealed that artificial light is making the birds wake up earlier and go to bed later.

New @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social paper out today in @royalsociety.org Biology Letters. We found adult jackdaws can learn to tolerate usually bullied or ignored juveniles when they provided information about a new foraging resource. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Lab member Lara Blumenstiel is currently wrapping up the last stage of training before moving on to cognitive testing. Sydney's clever cockies are playing her custom puzzle-box like pros!

Yesterday I discovered that ChatGPT's PhD-level expertise didn't extend to bird anatomy. This morning I thought, perhaps I was being too hard on the half-trillion-dollar company. Birds are a little weird, anatomically speaking. Let's try something more familiar. A mammal. Behold.

So Elsevier / ScienceDirect is now actively and intentionally including machine-generated pseudoscience on its pages next to the work of academics @irisvanrooij.bsky.social --> irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

BEHAVIOR IS THE WAY

Wolves use diverse tactics to track partially migratory prey. Cool paper !! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Linking individual animal behavior to species range shifts under climate change" http://dlvr.it/TM7Znf ‪@kwasiscientific.bsky.social, Amy L. Angert, ‪@kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social‬ @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social

Our new study shows how animal biodiversity loss is a climate problem: tropical forests recover far less carbon where seed dispersers have declined. We’re not just losing forests – we’re losing their ability to regrow. Reversing that trend could align biodiversity recovery with climate solutions.🧵

What are the evolutionary implications of changes in fire regimes for animals? We explore this in our new paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social 📖 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... with @mwtingley.bsky.social‬ @jgpausas.bsky.social & team #Biodiversity #FireEcology #EcoEvo 🔥🦎🧬

Why do treehoppers look so weird?! Our latest paper, out this week in @pnas.org, suggests a perhaps unexpected reason - static electricity ⚡ We show that treehoppers can detect the electrostatic cues of predators and that their crazy shapes may boost their electrosensitivity! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Out now: The physiological costs of leadership We reveal that initiating movements—especially when attempting to initiate against a majority and when there is directional conflict—drives elevated heart rates in vulturine guineafowl www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @currentbiology.bsky.social

These meetings are always amazing, and this one is in…Tuscany, Italy. Integrating Theoretical Models and Big Data to Understand Predator-Prey Dynamics www.grc.org/predator-pre... January 25 - 30, 2026 Come along!

Join us!!

The first paper from my postdoc is finally out! In collaboration with @kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social and Amy Angert, we outline how behavioral plasticity influences animal species’ distributions and can improve our understanding of range shifts under climate change! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Urbanization enhances biodiversity loss. Yet sometimes cities may *paradoxically* shelter species threatened by other components of global change We studied if urban areas are sheltering an endangered iconic lizard 🦎 from a rapidly spreading predator 🐍 in Ibiza👇 📸G. Casbas doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

The brains and social lives of animals shape predator-prey interactions. We explore the extent of this relationship in our 2024 @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social review. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Missed out on an ARC Future Fellowship, despite being scored an A by all three assessors. It's a reminder to not read too much into the detailed assessor reports. If my experience is not an unusual one, it appears they don't count for much.

The WildCo Lab @wildco.bsky.social is recruiting 2 postdocs in quantitative ecology to work on mammal population estimation and monitoring from camera trap data. 🐺🐻🦌📷📈 Please share the word or apply to join us at UBC in lovely Vancouver, Canada! wildlife.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2025/0...

While scientific evidence is often seen as objective, the process of collecting, interpreting, and applying evidence is heavily influenced by political considerations, power dynamics, and the specific context in which it is used. academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...

I am happy to share my final PhD chapter in @oikosjournal.bsky.social The 2019–20 wildfires altered vegetation structure yet had little effect on most species’ relative abundance. However, several species shifted their diel activity in burnt landscapes. doi.org/10.1002/oik.... #FireEcology

🐠🦈 Just out: In this paper we ask "How has reef trophic structure changed since humans started removing predatory fishes from Caribbean coral reefs?". www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com

Important work!!

The Predatory Intelligence Hypothesis. Happy to share this new preprint about how predator-prey interactions drive cognitive evolution and maintain cognitive variation. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/d...

Make sure to follow @isbe2026.bsky.social for all the latest info on the next International Society for Behavioral Ecology Congress in 2026. And while you're at it, check out the cool logo...

Are you a regular user of phylopic.org? Or maybe you are fond of prehistoric creatures? Consider helping the creator of PhyloPic, @tmkeesey.bsky.social, to fund his new Paleocene comic book: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kee... It is really nice, check the trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs6N...

Come join us here at Monash. Supportive research and teaching environment. Fantastic colleagues. Inclusive. A great place to work. And Melbourne, Australia, is a wonderful place to live…

Interested in predator / prey / collective behaviour in fishes? With or without anthropogenic change? I am keen to help develop MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship applications - get in touch! Please spread the word! marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post... @erc.europa.eu @asab.org