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Menopause not only occurs in humans, but also several species of whales. And it’s a mystery why it exists! Charli Grimes’ research in killer whales indicates that postreproductive females reduce injury in their male offspring (but not their grand-offspring) #ASABSpring2024

⚡️Postdoc in sensory ecology!⚡️ 3 year position at Oxford Biology on colouration in fish schools! If antipredator colour, collective behaviour, fieldwork in nice places, and fun experiments with predatory fish is your thing, get in touch! Pls RT 🐟🐟🐠🐠💥jobs.ac.uk/job/DHJ328/pos…

Job Alert 📢 3yr The Leverhulme Trust funded postdoc on the Evolution of Animal Play 🐬🐒🐘 inc. fieldwork with the Shark Bay dolphins. Field experience with wild animals + quantitative skills essential. Come join our collaborative team! Pls share widely 🙏 jobs.ac.uk/job/DHP957/res…

New paper🎺 Working with BASC science team, we find that the total harvest of #woodcock, the number of people shooting them, and the proportion shot before the recommended date of Dec 1 have all⬇️in recent years OA paper & data onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… (short 🧵)

Who wouldn't want to work with this friendly bunch?! Lauren Brent Lisa Leaver @pauledwardrose Darren Croft Pheasants@Exeter Sam Ellis Natalie Hempel, nataliehempel.bsky.social

*Very* excited to see the last study of my PhD making the cover of Science Magazine on the macaques of Caribbean Primate Research Center. We show that ecological disturbances can alter selective pressures on social ties leading to persistent societal changes. shorturl.at/i2WIB 🧵👇

Four years on, the paper which prompted this thread was retracted but the ludicrous dataset the thread describes is still thriving in the academic literature (and beyond). Read our article and 🧵 below for examples statnews.com/2024/06/20/ric…

My first PhD chapter is out as a preprint! Together with @danielj_redhead, Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛, and Primate Behavioral Ecology @primbehavecol.bsky.soc, we propose a general analytical framework to study the causes of animal social network structure, using Bayesian & Causal modelling. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Some friends found this on a fence in rural Devon, UK and I am at somewhat of a loss. So I am applying to the collective wisdom of those left on Twitter...

I’m seeing a lot of anger and disappointment in badger circles today that the badger cull is ending, but not ending fast enough. Apologies for the long thread 🧵, but tet me explain why I think the news is the best it could be 1/25

Postdoc position available! Come to CRAB to work with Sam Ellis , me, Kenny Chiou & Noah Snyder-Mackler on comparative life-history evolution, as part of a new NIH grant on the social modifiers of lifespan. Apply by Oct 29 here: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecrui…

Excellent cetaceans of the Azores in the Guardian today. But I do feel the need to point out that this male is not "escorting" the group from "300m behind". Females lead the group. And males are reliant on their female group mates to survive. The escorting is the other way round

Less than 1 week left to apply for this new postdoc in CRAB: Generate lifespan data across species, and use these shiny new data to ask what drives one species to live longer than others🧐😎🐒. Info on how to apply below.

Our Special Issue on Understanding Age & Society using animal populations is now published 🎉 Intro: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… Full ToC: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2024/… A big thank you to all the brilliant scientists who have contributed such cool research to this! 🙏Please share

Last day to apply. Deadline TOMORROW!!

Thrilled to have the first project in my Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione fellowship published in PNASNews this week. With Vic Martignac, Sam Ellis and Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, we asked, what is a good social environment for a gorilla? And the answer was complicated... pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…