🚨📣 Calling everyone who lives or works with #elephants !! 📣🚨 help us to share, spread the word and find those to complete a short study on #elephant #posture for some fab research by @tapintothewild.bsky.social 🩵 how many responses can we get in a week? 🐘🌍🧠 Link: tinyurl.com/55vjsbxr

It was our #CCEPScienceDay yesterday!! We put on a fab day of presentations, poster sessions and activities to talk to students about our staff and student projects 📚🌍👩🏻‍🔬 and showcase the range of research happening across our centre!! 🐴🐶🐘🙊🦧

Landed in Botswana for my new fieldwork season !! Picked up my car, drove to the bush and settled into my tent. Now to wait for the eles!! 🐘🩶🇧🇼 @scdtp.bsky.social

We had a fab journal club today featuring the work of Jennifer Linden - a PhD student from @zslofficial.bsky.social / @ox.ac.uk - talking to us all about her research on African #wilddog conservation and climate change! 🌍🐶🐆

Check out this fascinating article about elephant knowledge, featuring our very own Dr. Lucy Bates 🧠🐘🌍

I used to read these A-Level Review magazines all the time at 6th Form… and now I’m published in one!! Check out the latest #PsychologyReview to read all about ethics in animal research, with stories from all my study species and discussion points for students! 🐭🐘🔬🙊 @hachettelearning.bsky.social

Iain Douglas-Hamilton, founder of Save the Elephants, passed away on Monday at the age of 83. Iain's work showed the world how deeply intelligent, social, and important wild elephants are, laying the groundwork for their protection. https://ow.ly/40L250XHymc

Fab day yesterday at the SCDTP @scdtp.bsky.social Final Year Conference listening to a range of fab research presentations - shoutout to my research centre pals who smashed their talks! 😍🐘🐴 #SCDTPFYC2526

Prepping some (colourful!) slides to chat to some @liverpooluni.bsky.social undergraduate students later!! 🐘🎓

Grateful to have been given the chance to present some captive elephant personality results at the @biaza.bsky.social Conservation and Human-Wildlife Conflict Conference 2025 🐘🐼🦁 a really inspiring couple of days and fab first conference!! ✨ @scdtp.bsky.social

We are hiring - PDRA position exploring how information access shapes social dynamics in killer whales. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social Prof Dan Franks (York) start 1st Nov (or ASAP) end 31st Oct 2028. Apps close on 19th Oct. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/p...

Starting to look at the data from my zoo visits looking at captive elephant personality! 🧠 Throwback to visiting Blackpool Zoo with my research assistant thanks to a generous @animal-welfare.bsky.social grant 🤩🐘🐾

Thrilled to have won Best Poster at the Uni of Portsmouth’s Festival of Doctoral Research #UoPDocFest last week! Thanks to everyone who stopped by to chat 🐘🧠💜 @scdtp.bsky.social

Face to face with my study species: the African savanna elephant 🩶🐘 #SCDTP

Very grateful for my Jana Robyest Trust Fund grant and Portsmouth Psychology grant for getting me on a plane to Botswana - and to the Elephants for Africa research camp! 🐘🩶 Here to scope out the national park for my PhD field season next year; what a beautiful place 🌍🇧🇼 #SCDTP @scdtp.bsky.social

Throwback to the start of the year when I helped organise the @scdtp.bsky.social Final Year Conference! Can confirm designing the programme is not as stressful as helping open the whole thing 😂🌅🎤💜 #scdtp