Jordan McDowall

@forwildanimals PhD student at @UniofExeter |
Researching welfare in wild jackdaws @CornishJackdaws 🖤 | Thermal imaging | Trainee ringer |

N'Irish ☘️ | Kernow

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

[Wild Animal Initiative | @wildanimalinitv.bsky.soc @forwildanimals]

Our latest paper is out in #BioScience now. We look at the neglected connection between welfare and population density, demonstrating how wildlife contraceptives could alleviate resource competition and associated negative welfare effects. https://t.co/mISeW09aGj

[Luca G. Hahn @lucaghahn]

This year's @ESLRSociety workshop will take place at @MPI_EvolBio soon. If you're interested in discussing processes in networks, and would like to share your own related research, remember to sign up!

[University of Exeter CEC @UniExeCEC]

The Cornish Jackdaw Project captured a mother jackdaw attending to her chick the moment it hatched in one of their nest boxes.

By studying how jackdaws’ cognitive abilities allow them to survive and reproduce, they're helping to reveal how intelligence evolves.

@CornishJackdaws

[Grace Blackburn @G_Blackburn_]

Our new paper investigating if there is a relationship between social and physical #cognitive tasks in #magpies is out now in @SpringerANCO! @mandy_ridley @Ben_Ashton9 @CornishJackdaws
https://t.co/V3wKUO3q5d

[Wild Animal Initiative | @wildanimalinitv.bsky.soc @forwildanimals]

We're honored to be quoted in @9brandon's new book!

Meet the Neighbors asks what responsibility we have to wild animals — a question that motivates our work at WAI. We believe that understanding our nonhuman neighbors' experiences and developing tools to help them requires the kind of scientific investigation that we work to promote.

[Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen @ejcvanleeuwen]

We are looking for two PhD students interested in cumulative culture in great apes. By using observational, experimental and computational methods, we aim to test whether precursors of human culture are present in chimpanzees and bonobos.

https://t.co/33C16VwPNc

[Laura Kelley @lauraakelley]

👇 last minute PhD studentship available to start in September 2024, deadline to apply 29th July! https://t.co/5XTr0s6W2x

[Wild Animal Initiative | @wildanimalinitv.bsky.soc @forwildanimals]

Physiology Researcher Michaël Beaulieu's new paper demonstrates how to validate welfare indicators using existing research, eliminating the need to subject animals to potentially distressing experiments. Read more in our deep dive: https://t.co/Nj4flxiXgH

[Dr. Andrew Mooney @andymooney13]

🚨 Come join us at Dublin Zoo! We’re looking for a permanent, full-time Behaviour and Welfare Scientist to join our growing Conservation & Science Team.

https://t.co/4QwQnEmwyf

[Monica Battini @Chiucc]

Position: PhD position on exploring emotions through bioacoustic and behavioral analysis to enhance farm animal welfare
Where: University of Milan, Italy
When: Start 1st October 2024, deadline for application 27th June 2024
https://t.co/ByANSUfEz5
Contact [email protected]

[Luca G. Hahn @lucaghahn]

Excited to co-organise this year's @ESLRSociety workshop together with @AVezyrakis @ahnisnaahsi @DarmFrag! We are looking forward to discussing processes in networks with great plenary speakers and all participants. Registration is now open!

[Wild Animal Initiative | @wildanimalinitv.bsky.soc @forwildanimals]

The latest article from Michaël Beaulieu on our science team encourages biologists to include oxidative status markers in their toolbox to better measure, monitor, and perhaps also improve the welfare of animals in their natural habitat. https://t.co/oYxWHmUEd4

[Jordan McDowall @Jackdaw_Jordan]

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[Jordan McDowall @Jackdaw_Jordan]

@erik_postma @UniExeCEC Well done!! Soooo well deserved 😊

[Royal Society Publishing @RSocPublishing]

#ProcB Aggressive interactions influence #cognitive performance in Western Australian #magpies https://t.co/ex3ZyH5ekV #Behaviour #Evolution @mandy_ridley @LizzieSpeechley #OpenAccess @Ben_Ashton9 @CornishJackdaws @_StephanieLKing

[Jordan McDowall @Jackdaw_Jordan]

The difference in eye colour from a chick to an adult 😍 💙 🤍@CornishJackdaws

[Wild Animal Initiative | @wildanimalinitv.bsky.soc @forwildanimals]

#WildWelfareWednesdays are back! In this series, we explore scientific papers through the lens of wild animal welfare. This week: how changes in an animal’s environment affect their mental experiences of the world. https://t.co/DIY5N8ZwXB (1/7)

[Josh Arbon @JoshJArbon]

Book chapter written with @CornishJackdaws published alongside many fabulous accounts from social learning to cultural evolution and everything in between!

https://t.co/s0vvF94csf

[Guillam E. McIvor @GuillMcIvor]

From 9.5g to 240g in just 26 days! Today we ringed the first @CornishJackdaws chick of the year. While his sibling was delightful, this little fellow was by all accounts self-important and obnoxious. I wish him well.