🌟Huge CONGRATULATIONS to @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social who has won the @asab.org Christopher Barnard Award for Outstanding Contributions by a New Investigator. 🤗 Research on social evolution and what links climate & cooperation in a changing world, using #wasps as models. #worthywinner #ECR #proud

Almost four years on since we started work on this project, it feels surreal to have a copy in my hand. @stephanielking.bsky.social @darrencroft.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social

Friendship is magic: male dolphins with close friends age more slowly theconversation.com/friendship-i...

New paper out in @commsbio.nature.com: Social bonds decrease epigenetic age in male bottlenose dolphins rdcu.be/eUoID led by @liviagerber.bsky.social @researchdolphin.bsky.social

The ZSL Scientific Medal is also awarded to Professor Stephen Montgomery, @bristolbiosci.bsky.social whose research has provided insights into the relationships between ecological niche specialisation, brain structure, and cognitive function 🏅 @ebablab.bsky.social

I’m one of the lucky people to have been mentored by @andyradford.bsky.social and I can’t think of anyone that deserves this award more than he does 🙌🏻

Huge congratulations to @ebablab.bsky.social - can’t think of anyone more deserving! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Reposting now @samhill-cousins.bsky.social is on Bluesky - he is about to start an exciting PhD with @researchdolphin.bsky.social so follow him for more cool science!

New paper on dolphin motor synchrony led by master's student Sam Hill-Cousins with a fantastic team of co-authors @danaipapageorgiou.bsky.social @emmachereskin.bsky.social @researchdolphin.bsky.social 🐬🐬🐬: Male dolphins use synchrony to both maintain and strengthen their social bonds rdcu.be/eQ543

The final chapter of my thesis has just been published in Ecology and Evolution! @ecol-evol.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Here we find that the social environment, notably vocal and aggressive interactions, are linked to cognitive development in magpie fledglings.

An important ontogenetic perspective into the relationship between cognition and social interactions! Congrats @lizziespeechley.bsky.social! With collaborators @stephanielking.bsky.social @ceb-uwa.bsky.social Ben Ashton, Alex Thornton and Leigh Simmons

Don't just take my word for it ... @stephanielking.bsky.social and Denise Herzing provide insightful comments in this piece: www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-n...

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...

🎉 Excited to share the 2nd chapter of my PhD! From 270 eDNA samples across Shark Bay (🇦🇺), we identified 106 fish species and mapped their diversity with remote sensing — all non-invasively! 🌊🐠 A scalable framework for characterising marine biodiversity 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ddi.70074

🐬 Want to be part of a most excellent research team? See @stephanielking.bsky.social post 👇🏻 for a ⭐️ post-doc

Amazing opportunity for a post doc, fantastic team to work with, and a brilliant project... opportunities like this don't come up every day ......

A dream postdoc on an incredible population, building on over three decades of field research, and with a brilliant and supportive PI.

Amazing PhD opportunity with a wonderful bunch of supervisors 🫶

❓ 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

Huge congratulations @diandraduengen.bsky.social - your thesis was outstanding and a pleasure to read. Distinction with cum laude is so well deserved 👏🏻

⭐PhD position available!⭐ Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...

Incredible animal system, awesome science and the nicest group of people to work with - what’s not to like? ⬇️

Huge Congratulations @stephaniellaura.bsky.social - truly a thesis to be proud of!

New paper led by @josharbon.bsky.social. Adults jackdaws often bully youngsters, but we show they can learn to be tolerant and attend to juveniles as sources of information. @uniexecec.bsky.social. Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk & @swbiodtp.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Just another day in the bay #sharkbay #gathaagudu #dolphinresearch

A great privilege of my career is observing the Shark Bay dolphins. A firm favourite is Starlet - a 22 year old adult male whose father, Realnotch, dominated the alliance landscape. Starlet has inherited his father’s prowess and, with his allies, ranges widely to secure females and take on rivals.

Monkey Mia 🫶

Hello Shark Bay 🫶

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 🙏🏻

No, it's not a sulphur-crested cockatoo, but it is a clever cockie! Masters student Miro van den Berg is using light-weight BLE-tags to study the urban lives of the gorgeous gang-gang cockatoo. You can read more here: sites.google.com/site/lucymap...

We did some science. We found some things. Killer whales get by with a little kelp from their friends. Evidence of tool manufacture and use in resident killer whales - check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Huge loss for @bristolbiosci.bsky.social - you’ll be sorely missed @ebablab.bsky.social!! Hope @camzoology.bsky.social know just how lucky they are! 🦋🧠🍾

We are looking for a Research Assistant to contribute to our ongoing analysis of dolphin acoustic data from West Wales - collaboration between @wtsww.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social 🐬 Deadline is 29th June - please share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Two paper just out from the #clevercockieproject! @julia-penndorf.bsky.social reveals how cockies play politics when deciding who to aggress: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... & @barbaraklump.bsky.social describes a new 'drinking innovation': royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

🚨Anyone want a job?🚨 We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪 - cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo - bioinformatics and molecular biology Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n

Very grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk for awarding me a Research Fellowship to continue my work on dolphin communication and social cognition 🙏 @researchdolphin.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

May Fieldwork ❤️ #sharkbay #gathaagudu #research #dolphins

New theme issue in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B @royalsocietypublishing.org: Animal culture: conservation in a changing world Edited by @pbrakes.bsky.social, @lucymaplin.bsky.social, @emma-carroll.bsky.social, Alison L Greggor, Andrew Whiten and @ellengarland.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

Back in the place I love doing what I love #research #dolphinbehaviour #Gathaagudu #SharkBay #sponging #tool-use #soundplaybacks

Lovely new study by Peter Cook and colleagues - Ronan impressively shows how sea lions can precisely move in time with an auditory beat www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Incredible talk by @asab.org Christopher Barnard Award recipient @lirsamuni.bsky.social - beautiful talk that presented an impressive body of work. Research superstar 👏🏻🙌🏻

Great plenary for #ASABSpring2025 by @rmash.bsky.social on parental care and the evolution of genetic variation 🪲🪲🪲

🐳 UPCOMING BOOK ALERT 🐬 The Evolution of Cetacean Societies Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @andrewfoote.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social and myself Preorder available now press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... #whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour

It’s been such a pleasure to be part of this podcast and to introduce @amy-martin.bsky.social to the Shark Bay dolphins. Check out ‘Hark’ - the new season of @thresholdpodcast.bsky.social 🎧🐬🐟

🐳 UPCOMING BOOK ALERT 🐬 The Evolution of Cetacean Societies Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @andrewfoote.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social and myself Preorder available now press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... #whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour

🌟JOB ALERT🌟 We're hiring lecturers/senior lecturers @bristolbiosci.bsky.social Themes: ‘Evolution of life’, ‘Anthropogenic change’, ‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’ & ‘Sustainable food production’ That very much includes #AnimalBehaviour Deadline: 24th Jan 2025 bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

We want you to work with us! Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences: bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Huge congratulations to Dr Laura Palmer for passing her viva yesterday. It’s been a pleasure working with you and supporting your PhD. Laura, you are welcome back to @cbmwc.bsky.social any time. 🌊🐬🎤 🎶

Congratulations to Dr Laura Palmer for successfully passing her viva today with no corrections - what a wonderful achievement! 🥳🙌🏻 and big thanks to Steve Simpson and Claire Embling for examining @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @researchdolphin.bsky.social

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