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Eloise Newman @eloisenewman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you are like me and a bit too invested in the new series of the #traitors, you might like this (rough) #network analysis I did on who will be pivotal in this series, inspired by the BBC News article on connections between the celebrities #celebritytraitors www.eloisenewman.co.uk/posts/blog/2...

A social network of the cast of the celebrity traitors UK series 2 with colourful connections depicted the type of connection between celebrities

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Paul Dufour @pauldufour80.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The second target species for these Bluetooth tags was the Blue Tit, to test their potential for studying irruptive migratory movements. The first results, after a few days, are just so cool. Still pretty crazy to think that we can follow the migration of such a small bird in (almost) real time! 😎

the migration route and detection points of a blue tit that was tagged in Pape, Latvia.

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Eloise Newman @eloisenewman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is so cool! Looks like a neat tool to use.

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Devi Satarkar @devisatarkar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Heavier great tit nestlings 🐥 usually end up as heavier adults 🐦. Is this always a strong correlation? Our new preprint shows that the strength of this 'silver-spoon' association shifts continuously with environmental context, and is stronger in harsh conditions! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

14-day old great tit (Parus major) nestling in hand. Bird handled under appropriate BTO licence.

Adult great tit (Parus major) in hand. Bird handled under appropriate BTO licence.

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Eloise Newman @eloisenewman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Fantastic to have attended “Modelling Epidemics with Julia” at the LSHTM run by Simon Frost, Sandra Montes and @seabbs.bsky.social My first formal foray into #julia and gosh! How powerful it is for modelling. Exciting to see the toolkit available for modelling outbreaks! Will be using in the PhD!

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 18/09/2026

How local is local adaptation? Researchers transplanted more than 700 lab-raised stickleback fish among lake and stream environments, finding that adaptation to specific sites can outweigh adaptation to broader habitat differences. In PNAS: ow.ly/yTOk50ZP97o

Two threespine stickleback fish. Image credit: Marius Roesti.

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 19/09/2026

Gut microbes are important for animal development, immunity, and overall health. This new #RSOS paper studied gut bacteria in Atlantic #puffin chicks and adults from six UK populations: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... @eveliinahanski.bsky.social

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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Such an impressive compilation of data from tracked birds across (most of) the global range and diversity of Whimbrel in this new collaborative paper in Ibis: look at the map - so many major transoceanic movements onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Rona Learmonth @rona-learmonth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New preprint! 🐛 doi.org/10.64898/202... We experimentally reared winter moths to show how plasticity to temperature affects phenology not just directly, but through carry-over effects across life stages With Lea Beaupere, @ellafcole.bsky.social @andreaestandia.bsky.social @sheldonbirds.bsky.social

Schematic of cross-temperature rearing experiment. For a single female’s clutch, eggs are split into sub-clutches in hot, warm, mean, cool and ambient treatments (labelled and illustrated by box colour) for hatching and rearing to pupation. The timing of individual pupation is recorded, and each pupa reassigned across the temperature treatments. This reassignment is shown for the cool treatment only. After adult emergence, individuals were mated within matching early- and late-life treatment combinations, and their clutches re-split between mean and hot treatments only. Again, the reassignment is shown for the cool treatment only. Ambient treatments shown here below the dashed line were not used in full analyses as their temperature regimes are more variable and so not comparable to experimental temperatures. Sample sizes for each life stage are therefore given only for the four experimental treatments included in full analyses.

Late-instar winter moth caterpillar on oak leaf

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Patrick Lewin @plewin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Excited to share my second published PhD chapter out now in Current Biology! @cellpress.bsky.social 🧵 below but tldr: birds are known to use the magnetic field to navigate. But is magnetism the whole story? We find that an amazing avian navigator doesn’t seem to rely on magnetic cues at all.

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Erin Siracusa @erinsiracusa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Animals are known to prefer kin as social partners. But non-kin bonds are surprisingly common too. So, who forms them, how stable are they & what drives them? In our new @animbehsociety.bsky.social paper we tackle these overlooked questions in free-living rhesus macaques: tinyurl.com/mwsbkjve (1/5)

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 03/09/2026

Nothing, absolutely nothing, says your nodes need to be circles

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Edward Grey Institute @egioxford.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Remember the summer heatwaves in the UK in 2026? The late May heatwave was exceptional: an event +4.3 sd above mean - likely to occur only once every few decades under normal conditions. It was also unusual in being early and coinciding with tit breeding season. What consequences did it have? 🧵1/n

Temperature fluctuations in Wytham Woods between 15 May and June 15 for 2023-2026. Orange and green lines represent mean hourly temperatures from 218 temperature loggers in 2026 (orange) and 2023-2025 (green). The grey line and ribbon represent the mean daily temperature ± mean daily temperature range from the Central England Temperature dataset (CET; 1772-2025)

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Eloise Newman @eloisenewman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This makes me so happy - feels rare to have good news

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George Rabin @ghtrabin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Delighted that my master's project @biology.ox.ac.uk about social trade-offs in a wild population of birds is now published in Animal Behaviour @asab.org doi.org/10.1016/j.an... 🧵

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Rona Learmonth @rona-learmonth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Excited to share this joint first-author paper with @andreaestandia.bsky.social, now out in @royalsocietypublishing.org! We combined translocations, common garden experiments and genomic analyses to test for local adaptation to individual tree phenology in winter moths 🌳🐛 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

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No evidence of fine-scale local adaptation of winter moths to variable tree phenology | Proceedings B | The Royal Society

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 26/08/2026

Join Professor Kayla King for the Francis Crick Prize Lecture on 14 October 2026. @kayla-king.bsky.social will explore the rapid evolution of pathogens across the tree of life. She will also reveal what drives evolutionary changes in pathogen virulence: royalsociety.org/science-even...

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...

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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab

Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...

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Luís M. Silva @luismsilva.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

New paper out in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! 🎉 Who drives disease transmission? The answer seems obvious: measure who releases or disperses the most parasites. But after dissecting transmission step by step, we found that’s often not the case. 👇 🧵 #EvoSky #IDSky www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Transmission heterogeneity emerges from uncoupled parasite shedding and spreading

Silva et al. show that disease transmission emerges from multiple ecological bottlenecks rather than a single host trait. Separating parasite shedding from downstream infection success reveals why hos...

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Eloise Newman @eloisenewman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Figured out how to turn Gemini (mostly) off: on Google drive go to settings > privacy > manage Workspace smart (!) feature settings > turn off Then, manage apps > unclick use by default

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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Looking for an Associate Prof position? Interested in behavioural ecology & cultural evolution? Come join us at the Dpt of Ecology and Evolution in Lausanne🇨🇭 @dee-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! Great department & great place to live. Pls RP. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

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Eloise Newman @eloisenewman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Particularly finding the Google docs Gemini integration irritating

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Jocelyn Poissant @jocelynpoissant.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If you are interested in fitness and microbiomes in wild animals, you should definitely check this one out. New @sihorses.bsky.social preprint by @mstothart.bsky.social

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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

📢 JOB ALERT! 📢 I am recruiting a 30-month postdoc to work on modelling the vision of trilobites @hfspo.bsky.social ! If you like 3D data, fossils, and functional morphology, this is the one for you! 📆Deadline 27. Aug Pls contact me with any Qs and share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

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Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol

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Eloise Newman @eloisenewman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Giving a talk tomorrow at 11:45 am at #ISBE2026 about relationship disparity across animal systems 🐘🦓🦘🐋 Come find me in the Madrid room! The preprint under review is here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Eloise Newman @eloisenewman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

In the past I have had to change code from base and tidyverse to data.table to gain speed efficiency and reduce memory requirements. I wish I had this guide then!

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Eloise Newman @eloisenewman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Great to be at #ISBE2026. After a fantastic first day, excited for day two!

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Matthew Silk @mattjsilk.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Excited to be @isbe2026.bsky.social in Turin. For any #SocialNetworks researchers - planning an informal social tonight. Meeting at registration area after the poster session at 7pm. Please spread the word! #ISBE2026

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

New post, on AI 'never-skilling': kucharski.substack.com/p/dont-never...

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Eloise Newman @eloisenewman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I’ve seen a few of posts over the last few weeks about some journals using AI to determine who to invite as reviewers, overriding experts’ manual invitation. In a world where peer-review is becoming increasingly more important (bc AI) this makes me worried if other publishers follow this trend

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Luís M. Silva @luismsilva.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

1/🧵 Excited to finally share my latest paper (and my first solo paper)! 🎉 Pathogens evolve. Hosts respond. But does pathogen evolution simply change the magnitude of the host response, or does it reshape which host programmes are activated? 🤔 👇 doi.org/10.1038/s420... #Anopheles #EvoSky

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Host transcriptional signatures associated with disease tolerance and environmental persistence in a mosquito–microsporidian system - Communications Biology

Mosquito host transcriptomes reflect the evolution of contrasting microsporidian parasite life histories, linking virulence and environmental persistence to distinct gene expression programmes.

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Suvi Ruuskanen @suviruuskanen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

#ExE2026 Eloise Newman showing cool analysis on social networks across taxa

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Eloise Newman @eloisenewman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Sad that #ExE2026 is over - it was fantastic to visit Falmouth! Thank you so much to all the organisers. From the @egioxford.bsky.social we had a range of talks from @rona-learmonth.bsky.social @davididiaquez.bsky.social @celestineadelmant.bsky.social and Lucy Morley

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Dom Cram @domcram.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

How do animals cooperate when they aren't even the same species? Our recent review paper dug deep into the literature... 1/ Read the full paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

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Luís M. Silva @luismsilva.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Thank you for all the #ExE2026 organizers for one of the best conferences I ever been!! From the talks to the whole setup, was an unique experience! Looking forward for #ExE2027 in Edinburgh! :)

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Eloise Newman @eloisenewman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This is exciting to see. Before it very much dependent on how you were funded. I would be interested to see the details to see if universities are covering what some funding bodies are not. A shame for no changes for paternity leave (Note DPhil = PhD)

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ASAB @asab.org · 01/07/2026

It's official! You can now register for #ASABWinter2026 ❄️ It's nice to look forward to cooler times.😮‍💨 Deadline Aug 15

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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 25/06/2026

People always say "tell a story" but then don't explain how to do so! How is that helping? If we knew how to tell a story we wouldn't need the advice in the first place. 1/

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Eloise Newman @eloisenewman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Very timely! Giving a talk next week at #ExE2026 in Cornwall!

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Eloise Newman @eloisenewman.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Super interesting paper - interesting impacts for how we view animal social structures

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Tiffany Timbers @tiffanytimbers.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Thrilled to share that @minecr.bsky.social and my paper on Ten simple rules for teaching data science is now available from @plos.org Computational Biology! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

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Ten simple rules for teaching data science

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Eloise Newman @eloisenewman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Beautiful graphic from Celestine on the Wytham woods breeding season!

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Jørgen Søraker @jorgensoraker.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

🎦 I’ve had the pleasure of working with Chris Perrins lately. He has been a monumental figure within avian ecology for nearly 70 years. He is also a very nice and pleasant person. So, I sat down and chatted to him about his life in science. Here is the result. ⬇️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=W-7F...

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A life in science- Chris Perrins

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Happy Birthday David Attenborough! From the earliest days of television, to controller of BBC2, to bringing the wonders, beauty and fragility of the natural world to our eyes & attention - you’re a legend! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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Eloise Newman @eloisenewman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I’ve always wondered about the demographics of transmission studies on cruise ships as they tend to have older average age which may exacerbate transmission, or severity, further

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Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Is bigger always better? For social animals, group size is a dilemma: big groups face more internal competition, yet hold an edge over smaller neighbors. 33 years of data on 12 wild capuchin groups reveals how these forces shape behavior. Out today in *Nat Eco & Evo*: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Jamie Dunning @j-dunning.net · 01/05/2026

Here is our Biol. Rev. paper on the downsides of extra-pair behaviour in birds, expertly led (and summarised) by @jorgensoraker.bsky.social 🪶🧪

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Eloise Newman @eloisenewman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Super interesting video from Christophe Haubursin of trying to buy a scientific paper from a paper mill, particularly with the paper mill’s claims about connections with particular reviewers and editors/and the impact of open-access on the community. Highly recommend a watch!

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I tried to buy a scientific paper

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David López-Idiáquez @davididiaquez.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

In our new paper, published yesterday, we use the long-term data set of Wytham Woods to show that great tits have maintained stable temperature at breeding despite the almost 2ºC increase in Spring temperature. w. E. Cole, C. Regan & @sheldonbirds.bsky.social Link -> www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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