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ASAB @asab.org · 25/04/2025

Congrats to the #ASABSpring2025 student winners: Talks: Justin Tsz Hin Lo, Francesca Angiolani-Larrea and Gabriel Melhado Posters: @madelinedavis.bsky.social, Kirstin Gaffney and Jakob Wiil Flash talks: Jillian Hendricks and Helana Norman Prizes generously donated by @jthermbiol.bsky.social 🥰

Shots of the winners holding their certificates in front of the journal of thermal biology banner

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Rebecca Lowes @rebeccalowes.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

A busy few months being on the student subcommittee for #ASABSpring2025 - all worth it in the end!

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gabrielmelhado.bsky.social @gabrielmelhado.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

What a day! 🤩 Presented my research on pharmaceutical pollution and its effects on fish behaviour and immunity at #ASABSpring2025 Conference — and took home 3rd place! Super grateful for the experience, the inspiring talks, and the fantastic people I met. @asab.org #BobWongLab

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Niko Sirmpilatze @nikosirmpilatze.com · 25/04/2025

Had a blast at #ASABSpring2025, presenting movement and meeting many enthusiastic early career researchers. If you're into tracking animal movements in videos, do apply for the "Animals in Motion" workshop I'm organising in London this August: neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...

A schematic representation of "Movement: a Python Toolbox for Analysing Motion Tracking Data".

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ASAB 2025 @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

THANK YOU EVERYONE 🌟 It's all of you who made today special, we loved having you here at LJMU. Until the next time 🎤⬇️💥 #ASABSpring2025

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ASAB 2025 @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

... and just like that we've wrapped up our #ASABSpring2025 talks 🦭 Make sure to stick around for the presenter awards 🏆

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ASAB 2025 @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Yes we do 😎😎😎 Tag us to show us your own unique conference experience #ASABSpring2025

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ASAB 2025 @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Does this remind anyone of something? 🐑 youtube.com/shorts/jqBTK...

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ASAB 2025 @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

What an incredible talk on baboon gesturing and intentionality from our student plenary speaker Elisa Fernandez Fueyo 🐒 #ASABSpring2025

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ASAB 2025 @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Lunch and our poster sessions are nearly over- it's time for some more talks 🥪 #ASABSpring2025

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ASAB 2025 @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I have run out of fun captions but keep the talks coming folks! 😎 #ASABSpring2025

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ASAB 2025 @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

A great start to the day from our second plenary speaker, Dr Jolle Jolles, talking about collective movement behaviour in fish 🐟 #ASABSpring2025

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ASAB @asab.org · 25/04/2025

Lots of excellent food and fun last night at Bundobust! For those of you who had too much fun 🍻 - grab yourself a coffee or two, we’ve got a lot ahead of us for the last day of #ASABSpring2025!

A collage of folks at tables with Indian street food

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ASAB @asab.org · 25/04/2025

It’s the last day of #ASABSpring2025 - are you at LJMU yet? You should be! Let’s goooooooo

9:30 Plenary 2
10:30 Standard Talks
11:15 Coffee Break
11:45 Standard Talks
13:00 Flash Talks
13:15 Lunch
14:00 Poster Session (evens)
15:00 Student Plenary
15:40 Flash Talks
16:00 Coffee Break
16:15 Flash Talks
16:30 Standard Talks
17:15 Awards & End

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Dr Danni Hinchcliffe @dannihinchy.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Day 2 of @asab.org spring conference @ljmuofficial.bsky.social starts with a great plenary from Dr Jolle Jolles @ceabcsic.bsky.social presenting innovative collective behavioural experimental work on fish inc. designing his own tech (backpacks for 🐟!) to collect/analyse movement data #ASABspring2025

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ASAB @asab.org · 25/04/2025

I think we can collectively say that we all enjoyed the plenary by Jolle Jolles this morning! 🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟 #ASABSpring2025

Jolle in front of a slide of schooling fish reading “From Individual Heterogeneity and Collective Behaviour to Environmental Change
ASAB Spring Conference 2025”

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Liran Samuni @lirsamuni.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Grateful and honored to receive this award. Thank you @asab.org !!

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ASAB 2025 @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

What a day ☺️ Can't wait to see everyone tomorrow 👋 #ASABSpring2025

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ASAB 2025 @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The best part of the day, is (in my opinion) our dinner at Bundobust! 🍲 Has been great to see everyone here 🕺

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ASAB 2025 @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

We also had some more funky animal behaviour talks 🐆🦨🦔🐢🐀🐟🦀🦓 #ASABSpring2025

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ASAB 2025 @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

In the second half of our day our Chris Bernard Award Winner Liran wowed with her talk on bonobo and chimp cooperative behaviours 🐵

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ASAB @asab.org · 24/04/2025

Summary of today’s #ASABSpring2025 talks: 🪲🐘🐦🦐🦍🐠👯‍♀️🪳🐝🦌💻🦍🐝🐦🐄🐟🐸🐗🐦‍⬛ Great job all! 👏🏻🙌👏🏻🙌👏🏻🙌👏🏻🙌

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Dr Danni Hinchcliffe @dannihinchy.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

My highlight so far of the @asab.org Spring conference @ljmuofficial.bsky.social is the opening plenary from @rmash.bsky.social evidencing how parental care in burying beetles shapes evolution of variation within their gene pools over generations. Take home? Parental care = ⬆️ fitness #ASABspring2025

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ASAB @asab.org · 24/04/2025

Great plenary for #ASABSpring2025 by @rmash.bsky.social on parental care and the evolution of genetic variation 🪲🪲🪲

Dr Mashoodh in front of a slide of assorted animals that reads “Parental care shapes the evolution of molecular genetic variation
Rahia Mashoodh, PhD
Center for Biodiversity & Environment Research
Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment
University College London”

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Dr Sophia Daoudi-Simison @sophiadaoudi.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Great example of successful citizen science #ASABSpring2025

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ASAB 2025 @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

It was great to have you, we will miss the flatcaps 🧢

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Tom Land @tom-land.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Had the absolute pleasure of talking about getting science to screen at ASAB2025. Thanks to everyone who helped put this together, and let us loose to speak.

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Monica McCard @monicamcc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

First set of Flask talks Day 2 #ASABSPRING2025 @asab.org @ljmuofficial.bsky.social were excellent, looking at sleep behaviour in fish, species network structures, parental care, behaviour plasticity of honey bees, social inheritance and using Python for animal movement

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Monica McCard @monicamcc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Great set of morning talks on day 2 of #ASABSPRING2025 @asab.org @ljmuofficial.bsky.social from Axelle Delaunay on allomaternal care in elephants; Holgate Fourie investigating social bonds in birds; Maria Favero looking at pollution in brine shrimp and James Brooks invesitgating drumming in chimps

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PEC Exeter @pec-exeter.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Welcome to Liverpool and thanks to the great team there who have put together #asab2025 My last intro to an asab meeting. It's been a great role to have taken on and I've enjoyed it hugely

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Eloise Newman @eloisenewman.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Great to present at #ASABSpring2025 🤞 to finishing the manuscript soon!

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Nicola Koyama @nicolakoyama.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Great flash talks 💥 sleep in fish @helenanorman.bsky.social, the friendship paradox @eloisenewman.bsky.social, parental care in roaches: Georgia Cash, behavioural plasticity in bees: Gifty Jacob, social inheritance in red deer: Hannah Lemon, motion tracking: Nikoloz Sirmpilatze #ASABSpring2025 #ASAB

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Nicola Koyama @nicolakoyama.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Fascinating talk from Helga Fourie from CIBIO Portugal at the #ASABSpring2025 conference: Proximity promotes social partner choice in weaver birds. #asab

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Dr Sophia Daoudi-Simison @sophiadaoudi.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

First set of flash talks 1-3 #ASABSpring2025

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Caterina Berardo ✨ @caterinaberardo.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Today I’ve learnt something new from my friend @blahttodea.bsky.social about mother-offsprings relationship in🪳 #AsabSpring2025

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Nicola Koyama @nicolakoyama.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Fascinating talk from Christopher Barnard Medal winner @lirsamuni.bsky.social contrasting chimpanzee and bonobo cooperation and conflict #ASABSpring2025 #ASAB

Liran Samuni giving the Christopher Barnard Award lecture at ASAB spring conference 2025

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ASAB 2025 @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

It's also been amazing to see the immense variety of species and subject matters in our first poster session 😆 #ASABSpring2025

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ASAB 2025 @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

After this we had our first talks and flash talks- there have been some SUPER interesting presentations so far🤯 #ASABSpring2025

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ASAB 2025 @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

We kicked off the day with a talk from our first plenary speaker Dr Rahia Mashoodh 🐜 about parental care and it's influence on genetic variation 🧬 #ASABSpring2025

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ASAB 2025 @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Thanks to everyone who came today- it was an amazing time! Especially a massive thanks to our guests and collaborators who made today possible 🎉 We will see you tomorrow morning 😴 for our main #ASABSpring2025 conference 🦤

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ASAB 2025 @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

We ended the day with some INCREDIBLE short films 🎥 on all manner of animal behaviours! #ASABSpring2025

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ASAB 2025 @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

The second part of our workshop was dedicated to storyboarding ✍️ ideas for natural history films! It was amazing to see everyone get stuck in 🤗

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ASAB 2025 @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Our #ASABSpring2025 conference kicked off with a blast (from the past) today🔥 We had an incredible talk by Dr. Tom Fletcher and Tom Land from Silverback Films 🦍, accompanied by Camilla Affleck from Liverpool Screen School 📽️ and Prof. Peter Falkingham from LJMU 🦖

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