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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I recently had the amazing opportunity to attend @sebiology.bsky.social Annual Conference in Florence. This was my first time at an international conference, made even better by attending with a fantastic group of researchers from @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social!

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

See a crab, post a crab 🐚🦀 A common European hermit crab (Pagurus bernhardus) female, carrying eggs.

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Yesterday I had a fantastic time talking all things hermit crabs and animal personality for @soapboxscience.bsky.social. This initiative aims to give women and non-binary scientists a platform to tell the general public all about their research. Thanks to everyone who came along and asked questions!

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

On Monday I had a great evening at the National Marine Aquarium listening to @bd-stew.bsky.social and @molkjam.bsky.social talking about the recent bloom in octopus in the Southwest for the spring #PlyMSEF lecture. I think all lectures should be held in front of aquarium tanks in future!

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I was annoyed that I couldn't find a database of David Attenborough documentaries where I could search for a specific episode by topic. So I made it. attenborough-100.vercel.app

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Attenborough at 100 — A Nature Documentary Archive

Explore nearly 5,000 episodes across 90 series — from Zoo Quest in 1954 to Secret Garden in 2026. Search by animal, habitat, location, or theme.

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I can’t believe it’s already been a week since the #PlyMSEF Student Conference. I was part of the organising committee, which included the chance to chair the speed talk session. I also got another opportunity to present my poster on the effects of microplastics on hermit crab risk coping behaviour.

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Celebrating Plymouth #PirateWeekend 🏴‍☠️⚓️🌊. I’m particularly proud of the fact I didn’t have to buy a single new item for my costume; it was assembled entirely from things I already own.

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Chester Zoo Science @chesterzoosci.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Zoo visitors in organisations across the world can contribute to this. Keep an eye out for if your local zoo is participating...

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Celebrating #nationalzooloversday by hanging out with the Barbary macaques @monkeyforest.bsky.social in the sunshine.

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

As someone who found the process of attending my first conference a little bit mystifying, I thought I’d create a guide to walk you through the whole thing and share some of the tips and tricks I’ve picked up. Who knew finding a decent poster tube could be so difficult? #blog #phdstudent #academia

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Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The Artemis II crew is now beginning their journey home. Human's fascination with the moon has long woven its way into many aspects of our society, from religions, to art, and even pushing ourselves 252,756 miles away from our own planet to view the dark side of the moon.

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Chester Zoo Science @chesterzoosci.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🐻 Let's talk bear facts! ⛰️ Chester Zoo and Museo de Historia Natural (Bolivia) researchers recently published updated distribution data on species in the crucial inter-Andean dry forest region 🦊 Their evaluation included Andean bears, pumas, foxes and much more 📝 tinyurl.com/bolivianmamm... 🌎🧪

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(PDF) New distribution records of eighteen mammalian species (Artiodactyla, Cervidae, Tayassuidae; Carnivora, Canidae, Felidae, Procyonidae, Ursidae; Cingulata, Dasypodidae; Didelphimorphia, Didelphid...

PDF | We report new distribution records for 18 mammal species in Tarija, Bolivia. Tremarctos ornatus (Cuvier, 1825), Puma concolor (Linnaeus, 1771),... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Happy Easter! No better way to spend it than a visit to #TwycrossZoo.

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

A wonderful visit to @dudleyzoo.bsky.social today -getting to see Pascal the burrowing owl in the birds of prey display was a particular highlight.

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I visited #LondonZoo for the first time yesterday. Unsurprisingly The Secret Life of Amphibians and Reptiles was a real highlight (and yes that was mostly because I got to see a Chinese giant salamander for the first time, and yes, I have fallen in love). @zslofficial.bsky.social

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I had the incredible opportunity to attend #Anthropy26 at the Eden Project - a three-day conference bringing together leaders and organisations to shape the future of the UK. Growing-up watching Deadly 60, getting to meet Steve Backshall was certainly a highlight. @anthropyuk.bsky.social

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I had a brilliant time presenting my first-ever poster on the first experiment of my PhD at #ASABSpring2026. It was such a friendly and welcoming atmosphere and it was a pleasure meeting so many like-minded students all working on exciting projects in animal behaviour.

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Thank you to @chesterzoosci.bsky.social and @biaza.bsky.social for the chance to present my research on visitor effects on wild dogs at today’s BIAZA Research Conference. This was my first ever conference, and my first time presenting, so I really appreciated the friendly supportive atmosphere

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Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

What a wonderful weekend at Lyme Regis Fossil Festival!

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Had a wonderful first time at #lymeregis #fossilfestival. It had everything you could possibly want - interesting talks, book signings, palaeoart workshops, stalls full of merch, stunning weather, fossil hunting, good company, and best of all, a seal. I’ll be sure to return next year!

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Join me on the Chester Zoo Youth Board! Applications close Sunday 8th June. If you’re aged 18-26 and passionate about youth voice and conservation then apply today. I joined in November and I’ve already had the chance to get involved in so many opportunities #youthvoice #conservation #chesterzoo

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Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

It was lovely getting to see the painted dogs again at Chester Zoo with @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social now that they’re back on display in the Heart of Africa area. #wilddogwednesday

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

It may not be #wilddogwednesday, but I’m still very excited to see that they’re finally arriving @dudleyzoo.bsky.social. I’ll have to head over there again soon (and hopefully it will be 3rd time lucky trying to see wolverine kits).

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

As a very late entry for #invertefest - a contest between two beadlet anemones filmed as part of the Uob Biosciences’ Adaptations to Aquatic Environments field course @fieldstudiesc.bsky.social’s Dale Fort in Pembrokeshire

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Happy Easter - please enjoy this selection of reptile photos from some recent visits to Dudley Zoo (the link with Easter was meant to be that they lay eggs, but it turns out that prehensile tailed skinks are viviparous)

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

For this #wilddogwednesday we have the pack at West Midlands Safari Park enjoying some enrichment.

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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

First evidence of narwhal play They have been recorded for the first time using their tusks to stun their prey, as well as to manipulate them for no other purpose than play. (paper) www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar... (blog) studyfinds.org/video-narwha... (videos) figshare.com/s/b6171dd102...

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I need to take more photos for #wilddogwednesday, but the fact that they keep coming out blurry isn’t helping!

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

A few of my own photos from a very enjoyable trip to West Midlands Safari Park. It was a nice change getting to be a visitor rather than being there for data collection.

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Looking for photos for #WildDogWednesday I came across some I took at West Midlands Safari Park back in 2020. Even though they’re not great photos, I was excited to see the distinctive markings that I now use to identify these individuals for my data collection.

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Happy #worldwildlifeday. To quote Sir David Attenborough, “The natural world is the greatest source of excitement, the greatest source of visual beauty, the greatest source of intellectual interest”. I hope today you get to go out and experience the magic of nature and, in return, act to protect it.

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Happy #DarwinDay - here we have the Huxley Room @morethanadodo.bsky.social which I was lucky enough to see on a trip for Lapworth Museum volunteers. This is where the famous Great Debate was held in 1860 - the first public debate on Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection.

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Happy #womenandgirlsinscience day. To celebrate, you can now view the profiles introducing the new ASAB Student Subcommittee (including my own). @asabeducation.bsky.social is also putting them up on their Instagram story, so you can check them out there too. www.asab.org/expertvisitors

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Another week, another #wilddogwednesday. These photos were taken during the snow we had in November.

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

www.instagram.com/reel/DFpUAP6... For #TigerTuesday, I’m so excited to hear about the birth of three tiger cubs at West Midlands Safari Park recently. I’m hoping to go and see them soon, and also catch up with Lestari (the cub born in 2023) as she’ll presumably be moving somewhere new soon.

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I’ve decided that #wilddogwednesday needs to become a thing. I’m kicking things off this week with a video of the pack in the drive through enclosure at West Midlands Safari Park.

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

For this #caturday we have the snow leopards @twycrosszoo.bsky.social - and a reminder to check out my review of Twycross on @devilledtoads.bsky.social (just follow this link sites.google.com/view/deville...)

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

For #WhatsItWednesday we have ‘sea pork’ - the common name for a tunicate. Tunicates are marine invertebrates, and many live as a colony of zooids. The thing I found is the goopy protective ‘tunic’ they live in. I visited Rhyl just after bad weather, which probably ripped them off the sea floor.

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I was in the Mineral Gallery at the Lapworth Museum yesterday looking at the cinnabar, when a friend asked which was named first, the mineral or the moth?

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I might be studying African wild dogs, but that doesn’t stop me taking part in #caturday. Daseep and Joao on a recent visit to Dudley Zoo.

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Ari Ganahl 🦑🔞 @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

🦑 Squid Anatomy🦑 I am so genuine- if you are a marine biologist who has written or wants to write a comic, please consider this post my application. 🐡🌊💥

Squid

Parts of a squid are labeled: Mantle (covers organs), fin, gladius/pen (internal, chitin structure), arm, tentacles, eye, siphon (for moving with jet propulsion), beak, radula

Squid have 8 arms and 2 tentacles.

Arms are tapered and have suckers all along them.

Tentacles are more elastic and only have suckers on their ends.

Some species' suckers have rings of serrated teeth or hooks.

Cephalopods are measured by their mantle length, because their limbs are muscular hydrostats.

This means they expand and contract as needed and do not have a static length.

Inside a Squid

Drawing of a squid with internal organs labeled: Beak, complex brain, esophagus, pen/gladius, stomach, gonad, brachial heart, gill, systemic heart, ink sac

Squid have 3 brains- one behind each eye and a central, doughnut-shaped brain surrounding the esophagus.

If they take too big a bite, they risk damaging their brains.

Cephalopod means "head-foot," a reference to the structure of these molluscs.

Most cephalopods is the suckers in their arms to taste their environment to help determine what is or isn't prey.

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

It might feel like I’m the only student at the University of Birmingham who hasn’t seen the Oxfordshire trackways (check out Digging for Britain if you somehow missed it). However I can still join the Megalosaurus fun this #fossilfriday with the original jaw @morethanadodo.bsky.social

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I’m slightly obsessed with the Blaschka models, if you ever go to @nhm-london.bsky.social you must make sure you go and see them in the Treasures Gallery. It’s on my bucket list to see the Harvard glass flowers.

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Eleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

A selection of concerned looking primates from my recent visit to Dudley Zoo

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