Mal Graham 🔸

Strategy director at @forwildanimals. Recently completed my PhD in the @SochaLab (@BEAMvt): I filmed snakes doing weird shit and wrote about it.

[Mal Graham 🔸 @wildanigraham]

We’re looking for new board members
@forwildanimals !
If you have experience with nonprofit leadership and are committed to wild animal welfare, check out this volunteer opportunity: https://t.co/AnPB5KrTgd

[Mal Graham 🔸 @wildanigraham]

You can find me at @wildanigraham .bsky.social

[Mal Graham 🔸 @wildanigraham]

I'm switching over to the other service as much as possible. But only ~11 of my followees have accounts -- please consider making the switch!

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

We're excited to see WAI Physiology Researcher Michaël Beaulieu's research highlighted in @karen_stockin's plenary talk on cetacean welfare at the @marinemammalogy conference this week! #PerthSMM2024 #SMM2024

📷: Michael Dähne

[Mal Graham 🔸 @wildanigraham]

Morris Animal Foundation accepting pre-proposals for reptile/amphibian health & welfare: https://t.co/plxuW4oilm

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

New paper in #BioScience! WAI researchers @SimonLiedholm, Luke Hecht, and Vittoria Elliott looked at how wildlife contraceptives might improve welfare, highlighting the neglected connection between welfare and population density. https://t.co/X9g9VwVTm7 (1/8)

[Mal Graham 🔸 @wildanigraham]

@forwildanimals outreach team is running a (5min) survey to understand roadblocks to becoming an animal welfare scientist. If you have ever or are currently pursuing a career as a wild animal welfare scientist, please help us out! https://t.co/DVBAN1HAC5.

[Eva Vivalt @evavivalt]

We are happy to release the first results of a RCT of a US program that provided $1,000/month unconditionally for 3 years to 1,000 individuals in the treatment group, with a group of 2,000 people receiving $50/month serving as the control.

These are sizable transfers. 1/ 🧵

[Mal Graham 🔸 @wildanigraham]

@cMadan Important to note that this study only examined one grant-maker's process. Hard to say whether the result is about proposal texts in general, or whether this panel's application form was particularly useless.

[Mal Graham 🔸 @wildanigraham]

Wild Animal Initiative is hiring a Major Gifts Officer. It's a great place to work and a cool topic to spend all your time talking about. Please share! https://t.co/Uhmi3pFcyF

[Mal Graham 🔸 @wildanigraham]

Bad headline but good article; exciting to see more attention to comparative consciousness work.

[Anil Seth @anilkseth]

1/2 Great piece on the New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness by @danfalk in @QuantaMagazine. BUT the headline is all wrong. https://t.co/sJEIbMRbfI

[Jeff Sebo @jeffrsebo]

The NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program is hosting a summit on June 21-22 2024 for scholars in all fields and career stages!

If you have interest in joining us, please let us know. And if you know others who might have interest, please share this post!

https://t.co/gi8dmGcuuI

[Mal Graham 🔸 @wildanigraham]

Wild Animal Initiative is hiring! Come work with me :)

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

Exciting news! 🚀 Wild Animal Initiative is on the lookout for a Science Writer & Editor to join our team. If you’re a skilled writer/editor ready to transform complex science into impactful content, let’s connect! 📚✨#ScienceCommunication #Job #AnimalWelfare

[Mal Graham 🔸 @wildanigraham]

@birchlse this was a very confusing part of being a philosophy and physics major in undergrad.

[Mal Graham 🔸 @wildanigraham]

My life in a tweet 😂

[Journal of Experimental Biology @J_Exp_Biol]

In their #JEB100 ECRSpotlight @wildanigraham discusses the difficulties of catching snakes in Australia, how a book changed their career path from physics to biomechanics and how caring for snakes changed this path again to studying animal welfare.

https://t.co/1uIqV9xXgT
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[Mal Graham 🔸 @wildanigraham]

On a personal note, this paper was a journey! Lots of fieldwork, lots of data, lots of headaches😂. It’s an honor that it was chosen for the cover of @J_Exp_Biol and for JEB’s early career researcher spotlight, which you can find here: https://t.co/JoavOpCRfb

[Mal Graham 🔸 @wildanigraham]

New paper: “Dynamic gap crossing in Dendrelaphis, the sister taxon of flying snakes” characterizes the kinematics of gap crossing movements in two Australian Dendrelaphis species and compares their behavior to flying snakes. Read it here: https://t.co/UO6wWR27GP

[Mal Graham 🔸 @wildanigraham]

I’d like to thank the Daintree Rainforest Observatory (@jcu_dro) for hosting half the fieldwork, @cclemente4 for hosting me in Australia, a slew of amazing undergraduate assistants, and Jabalbina Yalanji Aboriginal Corporation for permission to enter the Daintree National Park.