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Alba Motes Rodrigo

@albamotesr.bsky.social
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Behavioral scientist investigating what it means to be social | I work with 🐒 and 🐜 | Passionate about medical applications of ethology | UNIL🇨🇭

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Christoph Völter @christophvoelter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a #PhD student and a #Postdoc to investigate #innovation in great #apes: PhD ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Postdoc ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Application deadline: August 17th. Please share widely!
A chimp solving a puzzle box problem. Photo credit: MPI-EVA
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Alba Motes Rodrigo @albamotesr.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Amazing week at @isbe2026.bsky.social speaking in the most humongous room ever about the legacy that vervet moms leave to their sons and catching up with superstars in collective behavior from the #almadalcosummerschool2025 @marinapapa.bsky.social @angela albi @pol fernandez lopez
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Alba Motes Rodrigo @albamotesr.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Fresh ant news hot off the press! 🐜 In our new paper @ebiantonygeorge.com and I combined automated behavioural tracking of 660 ants with experimental injuries and infections to find out (1) who cares for open wounds in ant societies and (2) what drives them to do so. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Social and spatial affinity drive wound care in ants | PNAS
In social animals, open wounds pose a risk not only for the injured individual but also for its wider social context, especially when the probabili...
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Alba Motes Rodrigo @albamotesr.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
❤️this project and team are just incredible and I feel so lucky to be able to contribute to unraveling the many wonders of vervet societies❤️
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Alba Motes Rodrigo @albamotesr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
To scan or to focal? Hopefully our new paper can help you make an informed decision based on your research questions and study system. Brilliantly guided by @delphinedemoor.bsky.social and les by @alexmielke.bsky.social
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Alba Motes Rodrigo @albamotesr.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Thank you so much tor inviting me to represent @manyprimates.bsky.social at #ehbea2026. A bit intimidating but very enjoyable to give my first talk as network co-coordinator.
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Vladimir Pravosudov @cognitiveecol.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).
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Alba Motes Rodrigo @albamotesr.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Just 1 week to apply! 4 year @erc.europa.eu funded PhD position working in an interdisciplinary team to study #culturalEvolution as a process of reuse, recombination, and creative re-engineering of past solutions. Details 👉 hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur... 🙏Please share!
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Alba Motes Rodrigo @albamotesr.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Grant and paper rejections on the same day should not be allowed… 🥲 but happy to back in the snowy mountains after a lovely field visit 🏔️
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Alba Motes Rodrigo @albamotesr.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
So great to catch up with Stef and the UVP mo keys on our way back home ♥️ thanks for having us ♥️
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Alba Motes Rodrigo @albamotesr.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
On day 3 at the Inkawu vervet project our fantastic master students did some more field experiments for @rachelaharrison.bsky.social ‘s project on social tolerance which has been now going on for over 2 years!
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Alba Motes Rodrigo @albamotesr.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Day 2 at the Inkawu Vervet Project was full of giraffes 🦒 and vervets munching on greens 🥬
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Alba Motes Rodrigo @albamotesr.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Great first day in the field at IVP with Rachel and our wonderful master students from @dee-unil.bsky.social and @durham.ac.uk
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Alba Motes Rodrigo @albamotesr.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Delphine’s awesome framework is out! So looking forwards to add real world data to this awesome theory ♥️congratulations my friend ♥️
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ManyBirds Project @themanybirds.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
🐦 Exciting news! Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology: “A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.” Led by the #ManyBirds Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @themanybirds.bsky.social
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A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia
Neophobia (the aversive response to novelty) varies considerably across species and individuals, and can impact adaptability and survival. This study assesses neophobia in 1400 subjects from 136 bird ...
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Elham Nourani @enourani.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
Golden eagle on the nest in Finland (by O. Karlin)
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Alba Motes Rodrigo @albamotesr.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
@thecharleywu.bsky.social is an amazing scientist and human being. If you want to do a phd in computational cognition/culture, this is a golden opportunity 👇🏼
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Alba Motes Rodrigo @albamotesr.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
New paper out led by Damien Neadle proposing a protocol for standardized implementation and reporting of reliability analysis.
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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Applications now open for UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evo Bio (1–6 Sept 2025, Lausanne)! Aimed at PhD students interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology questions like sexual selection, social & life-history evolution. Scholarships available. Pls share! www.shorturl.at/znk5g
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Alba Motes Rodrigo @albamotesr.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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Alba Motes Rodrigo @albamotesr.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
If you are wondering whether given the chance chimps recreate the famous bone-throwing scene from 2001 Space Odyssey, have a look at this paper we published a couple of years ago.
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Lauren Brent @ljnbrent.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
New year, new paper! We continue to unpick the interplay between ecological upheaval and sociality and show altered social structure could result in 2x disease transmission rates. Senior authored by the unstoppable @ctestard.bsky.social. In Ecology Letters: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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A Natural Disaster Exacerbates and Redistributes Disease Risk Among Free‐Ranging Macaques by Altering Social Structure
By simulating disease spread in free-living rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) before and after a hurricane, we demonstrate doubled pathogen transmission rates up to 5 years following the disaster, equ...
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Alba Motes Rodrigo @albamotesr.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I think it is absolutely wonderful that my first post here celebrates the fantastic work of @delphinedemoor.bsky.social. What a mammoth of a data base 😍 congratulations 🐬
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