Behavioural ecologist at University of Bristol. Apart from paper postings, I don't post to this account any more as I'm sick of what Twitter has become.
PhD alert: "Linking sociality and fitness", mixing theoretical modelling and baboon-based fieldwork, currently on offer with me and Guy Cowlishaw at the Institute of Zoology. Deadline Monday 13th Jan - get in touch with me asap if you want to know more. findaphd.com/phds/project/fu…
My commutes to both school and postdoc work frequently involved avoiding either the grazing cows or their wet leavings. Losing them could be a big hit for the biodiversity on the commons, but I guess the city council also needs to pay for vital services
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PhD in hermit crabs, personality and human impacts on behaviour, part of the AIRES DTC. Based in Plymouth with me and with @SvenjaTidau in Bangor. Please share and if interested feel free to get in touch for more info!
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PhD position assessing the impact of extreme climate events on bumblebees at @BristolBioSci
Position with me, @englishse & @HugoBHarrison
Fully funded position for students of black heritage. #blackinSTEM
Please RT and circulate.
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🎉CONGRATS to Micha Claydon (@Bleaker_) for successfully passing his PhD viva. Big thank you to Anil Wipat from @ICO2S and Heather Whitney for examining. Looking forward to sharing some of Micha's science in print soon :) Thanks to @EPSRC for supporting this work.
ALT Image: A cavernous laboratory filled with sinister outdated equipment, pickled organs, a pentagram and a corpse on a slab. Outside the window, bats fly past the moon while at a desk an angry-looking woman with crazed hair and a lab coat writes in a ledger.
Caption: Janet had not imagined that being an evil scientist would involve so much evil paperwork.
How and why do age and sociality intersect? Check out the new Special Issue put together by @JoshAFirth that I had the privledge to help guest edit. PS. 10 points to those who correctly tell Josh which is the oldest monkey in the cover photo 😂
Our Special Issue on Understanding Age & Society using animal populations is now published 🎉
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A big thank you to all the brilliant scientists who have contributed such cool research to this! 🙏Please share
Our Special Issue on Understanding Age & Society using animal populations is now published 🎉
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Full ToC: royalsocietypublishing.org/t…
A big thank you to all the brilliant scientists who have contributed such cool research to this! 🙏Please share
New project led by @JamesMakinson with 2 x PhD scholarships on bumble bees!
Join us to explore the effects of invasive bumble bees in Tasmania's natural and agro ecosystems. See link for more details tinyurl.com/462h3wsh
@PollinatorCons and colleagues have put together an excellent video on buzz pollination in Primula (Dodecatheon). Check it out here: youtu.be/fQsnPAWQqcI
I was asked to review for International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. Accepted task. Asked to see the data, which authors said would be made available. 4wks later - no data yet available. Requested again. Journal deselected me as reviewer. Poor practice, @elsbiomedchem.
Want to do #bioscience at #Uni? Concerned about #Animalresearch? @FRAMEcharity made this to help students coose the right course.
Wish I'd had this kind of nuanced info when doing my #Alevels, but things were a bit different over 3 decades ago...
[OVER 3 DECADES AGO. WELP. 🤯]
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