#PhD studentship available! Work on
“Social Modifiers of Molecular Ageing Across the Brain” with me, @eohomo & @SMack_Lab in @exeterpsych
Deadline Nov 2
@GW4BioMedMRCDTP
Project descrip: https://t.co/Y8fHC7KESZ
Other info: https://t.co/dMAAis1Ddt
Apply: https://t.co/AHg4Mlxt2M
Finally published! Association networks and social temporal dynamics in ewes and lambs 🐑 with @DarrenPCroft@EmilyPrice_96 Joss Langford @ciro Kate Lewis. https://t.co/p7wlezlRHr
We're still looking for #pheasant#nests. Now that it's starting to warm up, we hope they'll be a bit more active. If you find one in the SW of England, please let us know so that we can come to record the sounds that the hen makes.
REWARD OFFERED!
Postdoc opportunity: @NERCscience funded position working with Rufus Johnstone @Cambridge_Uni and collaborators on mathematical and computational modelling of the evolution of social life histories. Closing date 9 May - please RT https://t.co/znmcN85jPj
WANTED: PHEASANT NESTS
If you find a pheasant nest in S England this season, please let us know. We'd like to record the calls of the hen bird and measure eggs.
Pls RT. DMs are open
Bottle of whisky etc/box of chocs offered as reward
New zoom hobby: arranging participants in order of jumper colour (darkest to lightest, top left to bottom right).
Its been a long lockdown.
Lovely to catch up with everyone at Friday breakfast meeting as always.
New 🐷 research on the importance of social stability.
Keeping littermates together instead of social mixing benefits pig social behaviour and growth post-weaning
https://t.co/BD696NdJZ7
THREAD Are U stressed? Animation by @BedrinanaLuis shows 1 difficult week in the life of 1 #whale. BLUE DOT is 1 whale trying to feed while dodging heavy vessels traffic @ #Ancud Gulf 3/22/19 to 3/29/19 #shipstrikes#whales Paper @Nature https://t.co/EA2lt0F0l8 @alex_zerbini
2 x Leverhulme funded PhD studentships using GPS tracking to investigate navigation of Manx shearwaters @UniofOxford in the Oxford Navigation Group (@OxZooDept). If you’re interested in #seabirds, #islands and animal #behaviour/#cognition Details here: https://t.co/m5liGOT08x
Really enjoyed chatting with @mslucycooke for this @BBCRadio4 documentary about solitary living in animals while isolating at home. I am really missing my social interactions
We have a new preprint out! 'Animal social networks - an introduction for complex systems scientists'. With @Samellisq and @DarrenPCroft
https://t.co/JuoFgCjrjQ
Do the null models we tend use for animal social networks give relevant null distributions for regression? In our new pre-print, we show that using common permutation techniques leads to high false positive rates for regression in non-random networks.
https://t.co/tLUZVugfYH