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29 Nov 2024
* NEW #PhD * #Evolution #Ecology of Immune #Senesence in Wild Badgers with me, @B_Tschirren and our brilliant collaborators @ APHA, at @UniExeCEC in Cornwall. 50 year data sets immune analyses.
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See animalsocieties.org and apply here: exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/a…
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Andy Young retweeted
25 Oct 2024
Male birds help their parents less than females because they’re too busy scouting for new places to live and breed, according to new research from @uni_exe_cec.
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@exetergses @uniofexeteresi @p_capi @animalsocieties
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25 Oct 2024
Why do the sexes differ in their #cooperation within families? @p_capi @animalsocieties &co use #RadioTracking of cooperative #birds to reveal that sex differences in cooperation can arise from tradeoff between cooperation & dispersal #PLOSBiology plos.io/3NZKSBn
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22 Nov 2023
Cool new #cooperation paper - purple-crowned fairy-wren helpers help breeders more when they are UNrelated to the opposite-sex breeder (a potential mate). Rare evidence suggestive of direct benefits of helping. Will check our weavers! Cool stuff @NikiTeunissen @AP_BirdBehavEco 👌
20 Nov 2023
Our latest paper shows that how much fairy-wrens will help feed others' young depends on the type of breeders they are helping by doing so. It highlights how social context can play an important role in explaining cooperative behaviour.
Read it here: tinyurl.com/pcfwrsos
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17 Nov 2023
*New #evolution paper* Sparrow-weaver mothers lay larger eggs when they will have more help feeding chicks. Maternal reaction norms to help are *opposite* for egg size & nestling feeding rate. Cool. But why do this? 1 of 3. Fine work @p_capi. tinyurl.com/2djsp6zd #ExeterCEC
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22 Nov 2023
Please share if you like it 🤩 @UniExeCEC @UniofExeterESI @UniExeCornwall @UoE_Behaviour @RobbieAMcDonald @stubutchart @StuBearhop @ali__wilson @WaspWoman @nicholaraihani @BuryingBeetle @honeyguide @_EmCunningham_ @tomhouslay @PLOSBiology @RoyleResearch @lauraakelley @CommonTerns
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22 Nov 2023
Nice new paper from @Wild_Ecol_Cons - visitors (local income stream) keen to see wolves returning to protected areas on the German/Czech border... I would be too! 🤩. Great to have an evidence base for this. One of many stakeholders in a complex debate.
21 Nov 2023
Visitors to #NationalParks are key stakeholders, but what are their attitudes towards returning #wolves? 🐺⁉️
We (@Wild_Ecol_Cons) investigated this in a NEW PAPER using visitor surveys in Bavarian Forest 🇩🇪 and Šumava National Parks 🇨🇿
authors.elsevier.com/a/1i67o…
A summary:
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ALT A wolf in an animal enclosure at Bavarian Forest National Park (sourced from Wikimedia Commons)
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22 Nov 2023
@DaveHodgson00 and @erik_postma Of interest for rewilding / human-wildlife conflict elements of your fieldcourses... x.com/animalsocieties/status…
22 Nov 2023
Nice new paper from @Wild_Ecol_Cons - visitors (local income stream) keen to see wolves returning to protected areas on the German/Czech border... I would be too! 🤩. Great to have an evidence base for this. One of many stakeholders in a complex debate.
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21 Nov 2023
Great new paper on life-history trade-offs... meta-analytical confirmation of the missing (yet much invoked) -ve genetic covariance. So in a 'resource allocation trade-off' world, standing genetic variation within pops may lie more in resource acquisition than allocation. Cool.
21 Nov 2023
Always good to start the workday with a manuscript accepted
➡️Did you ever wonder what's the evidence for life-history trade-offs at the genetic level?
The answer is coming out soon @Ecology_Letters, but if you can't wait, the #preprint is available at: doi.org/10.22541/au.16879519…
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17 Nov 2023
Nice new thought piece by @Gfalbery & colleagues on the impacts of host ageing on infectious disease dynamics
17 Nov 2023
Age influences behaviour, which should affect our exposure and susceptibility to infection!
A bit belated, but I'm delighted to see this review out with @arsweeny and @webber_quinn. Give it a read if you're curious about behaviour, ageing, and disease: doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.…
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17 Nov 2023
2/3 We show helpers reduce mum's post-natal workload; may allow mums to invest > in egg (only mums can do). /or: We know helpers increase overall nestling feeding rate (tinyurl.com/38kv8jp2); may increase mum's benefit from investing in egg. Or: not adaptive (modest effect!)
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3/3 Why cool? -> helpers in cooperative breeders (e.g. us) could have cryptic maternally-mediated beneficial effects on pre-natal development. Our data implicate help not group size as mat reaction norms to *female* helpers (help twice as much as males; tinyurl.com/38kv8jp2)
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Andy Young retweeted
25 Oct 2023
Anyone looking for a PhD student interested in behaviour and evolution, but with an applied (welfare) twist? If so maybe you could join @C_C_Ioannou @erik_postma and me. Info app at exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/a…. More on the group at sites.exeter.ac.uk/wilson-gr… Pls RTWT
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Andy Young retweeted
30 Oct 2023
Exciting PhD project for competitive funding (start date Sept/Oct '24), exploring how gut microbiota affect pesticide resistance in aphids! The project is based at UExeter's wonderful Cornwall campus @uniexecec in collab w @Rothamsted: tinyurl.com/wuddbhew
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Andy Young retweeted
11 Nov 2023
In many societies (incl. humans), helpers assist with the post-natal care of the young. @p_capi @ali__wilson & @animalsocieties show that mothers in a wild cooperatively breeding #bird lay larger eggs when there's more help with nestling care #PLOSBiology plos.io/47mfAvU
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Andy Young retweeted
6 Jun 2023
I did this course many moons ago and it was one of the most rewarding and enjoyable experiences of my life. Also got into a PhD program straight out of it.
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6 Jun 2023
LOVE #EVOLUTION? LOVE #BEHAVIOUR? Join our MSc in Evolutionary & Behavioural Ecology here at the @UniExeCEC in Cornwall, where we're training the next generation of researchers! Places still available for Sept start... exeter.ac.uk/study/postgradu… PLEASE RT!
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6 Jun 2023
@NeeltjeBoogert @ali__wilson @b_longdon @ExeterMarine @DaveHodgson00 @StuBearhop @RobbieAMcDonald @BrendanGodley @TomTreg @SensoryEcology @jTroscianko @erik_postma @FLyLabEx @chrislaing80 @VJHobson
@profcallum @nicholaraihani @ElzeHesse
@edzewestra @B_Tschirren
@CornishJackdaws
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