PhD Candidate at the University of Western Australia looking at communicative complexity in WA magpies & Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins.
Joined December 2021
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2 Jun 2023
This marks the end of 270 days in the field with these trouble makers. I am just about ready to never see a magpie again (I hear them in my sleep at this point🫠🦅)
Now straight to Shark Bay for dolphin season🐬
Will be glad of a big nap and a holiday when this is all over 🥴
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13 Apr 2023
Sometimes you fight the worm, sometimes the worm fights back 🪱
‘Fat Tony’ struggling to win tug-of-war with their breakfast this morning.
8 months into magpie fieldwork, 1 month to go 🥹🏁
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13 Mar 2023
Hot off the press! Perverse outcomes from fencing fauna. We find that a population of havened woylies show weakened anti-predator responses after 10 years isolated from predators. Read more below🧵
doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.202…
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15 Dec 2022
Very hard to conduct serious research when your study species is trying to eat your toes…
This little one is 11 weeks post-fledge and already very sure of themself…and very peckish👀
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10 Oct 2022
PhD student attending first big conference, with advisor.
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10 Oct 2022
Please please please don’t “rescue” any fledglings this season! Their parents are nearby and will be back with a worm or two in a jiff 🪱
10 Oct 2022
Today @G_Blackburn_ and @StephLMason returned a fledgling to its family for a happy reunion! This fledgling was picked up by a person who thought it was in trouble. Just a reminder: magpie fledglings walk on the ground. They are ok! Pls don’t pick them up unless injured!
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5 Sep 2022
Had an amazing time training with @ResearchDolphin last month! Excited to head back next year to commence data collection for my dolphin chapters 🐬
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5 Sep 2022
But for now…
Feels good to be back with my feathered friends!
My magpie field season commences with finding everyone’s nests so I can be ready to go when the new batch fledge! 🪺
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19 Aug 2022
Made a playlist for your weekend hike
ALT A screenshot of an empty Spotify playlist titled “Songs people on the trail want to hear from your Bluetooth speaker.” In the space where music usually populates is a sentence: “There doesn’t seem to be anything here.
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19 Aug 2022
We are celebrating 40 years of research on the #Gathaagudu #SharkBay dolphins 🥳, founded by Richard Connor and Rachel Smolker in 1982. SBDR has shed important light on male cooperation, cultural evolution, dolphin ecology communication @UZH_Science @BristolBioSci @BiolSci_UWA
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8 Aug 2022
Amidst terrible fomo seeing all the cool conferences, I’ve been dying to share the news of our latest discovery 🥳 You thought jumping spiders peaked in their coolness? Buckle up!!! We need to talk about #jumpingspiders potentially #dreaming. @PNASNews
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8 Aug 2022
You beauty!
Just landed in Shark Bay for 3 weeks of training with the Shark Bay Dolphin Research Team. Stay tuned for dolphpics 🐬 @ResearchDolphin
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24 Jun 2022
My thoughts on the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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18 Jun 2022
Brb, changing my PhD to mole things
14 Jun 2022
Time for the annual outing of my best ever nature spot - Mr Mole!
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1 Jun 2022
I don’t believe Dutton is truly sorry for walking out on the Apology. He’s only sorry that, instead of becoming a folk hero, it exposed him as an uncaring far-right ideologue. He should never be PM. The Canberra Times asked me for my view, so here it is: canberratimes.com.au/story/7…
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Stephanie Mason (she/they) retweeted
25 May 2022
The idea that an 18-year-old can walk into a store and buy assault weapons is just wrong.
What in God’s name do you need an assault weapon for except to kill someone?
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28 May 2022
Anyone else’s research assistant constantly licking their knees and asking to share their lunch?
Beginning to think this isn’t a professional working relationship…
(We won’t talk about the part where she sleeps on my bed, or follows me into the bathroom…👀)
ALT White bulldog x boxer in an office looks at camera with a wide smile, suspiciously close to researcher’s lunch
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23 May 2022
Rewilding is not
- sowing some wildflowers
- walking in the country
- introducing charismatic species
Rewilding is, establishing self-sustaining ecosystems over large areas
Co-opting #rewilding downplays the message on how much needs to be done to solve the #EcologicalEmergency
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