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George Hodgson

@ghodgson.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral fellow interested in sociality, social cognition and animal behaviour. Fond of fish, molerats and trees 🐄

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Veronica Anrathi @disarmonia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have nothing to say at this point. We should not live like this. This is what’s being done to Kyiv every single day now, while the world is silent. They don’t even bother to “stand with Ukraine” anymore. Nobody gives a shit. Just a slaughter with complete impunity.
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Merin Reji Chacko @merinrejichacko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
P.S.- I'll be presenting some of my new work with @bexplo.bsky.social on how livestock shapes grassland diversity, so come say hi!
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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I asked undergrad field techs to do a simple task, which was record when storm-petrels in our long-term study site had damage. The following is a partial list of the codes they used to indicate 'no damage'
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Alizée Vernouillet @vernouilleta.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Thank you to all the amazing speakers @lisandrinamari.bsky.social @drfayclark.bsky.social @cortesedaphne.bsky.social @camilletroisi.bsky.social Urša Blenkuš @vitorhbf.bsky.social for sharing their research on Social Cognition in a Human World! It was a pleasure to chair this symposium! #ECBB2026
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We never imagined how far that dream would travel, into homes, into hearts, into the way generations imagined what we could still become. In a world that often feels as divided as ever, maybe that's exactly why we need it now: a reminder that unity was always the point.
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Arjun Amar @arjundevamar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Proud day at the Fitzpatrick Institute of #AfricanOrnitholgy as we graduate several of our students with MSc and PhDs Degrees
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Day 4 opened by @biobiiana.bsky.social with her talk on poison frog behaviour, morphology and life history under anthropogenic stress
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Emily Gilford @emilygilford.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I had a great time at #ECBB2026 in Cambridge last week 💚 This conference really highlighted the importance of studying animal behaviour change in the Anthropocene 🐒 Thanks too to anyone who came to chat at my poster! I was delighted to be awarded the runner up poster prize @ecbb2026.bsky.social
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Tania Perroux @tania-perroux.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Our latest feral cattle paper “Are individual differences in social behaviour a cause or a consequence of endoparasite infection in feral cattle?” is out today in open access in Animal Behaviour doi.org/10.1016/j.an... @ghodgson.bsky.social @amcell.bsky.social Details below:
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Sarah McKissack @sarah-mck.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
An inspiring four days spent at #ECBB2026. I was lucky enough to both volunteer and present, offering great opportunities to learn from so many engaging and knowledgeable researchers from across the field. Please check out my master's project poster and get in touch to chat!
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Emily Gilford @emilygilford.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I’m excited to be presenting some of my work on Thursday at #Ento26! 🪲 We investigated whether sublethal pesticide exposure impacts cricket behaviour.. come along at 9:45AM on the 10th in the Small Chemistry Lecture Theatre to find out more! 🦗 @royentsoc.bsky.social
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Krishna Balasubramaniam @krishsubramaniam.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Brilliant, entertaining, but above all eye-opening stuff from Christopher Schell, on how redlining and structural racism has impacted the urban ecology of #coyotes in American cities! @ecbb2026.bsky.social #ECBB2026 🐺
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Katy Willcox, PhD @katywillcox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Had such a fun week at @ecbb2026.bsky.social !! Lots of exciting talks and so many lovely and inspiring people. Very grateful to the organisers & to ASAB for my travel grant! 🐤 #ecbb2026
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#ECBB2026 We hope everyone had a fantastic time over these past four days! We would like to take a moment to thank our volunteers for their outstanding help and our organising committee for their monumental efforts! See you in Dublin for #ECBB2028
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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UN approves new world map to end centuries of shrinking Africa on the page • FRANCE 24 English
YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English
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Simon Coates @simonjcoates.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The only reason I can think of as to why there are fewer than 50,000 signatures here is that people haven't seen it yet. — Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now — goodlawproject.org/petition/jas...
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A reminder that this was started by a “Race Realist” who got fired by Cambridge for being racist and the media interviewed him and lapped it up
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Urban Vervet Project @urbanvervetproject.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🚨🐒Join the Urban Vervet Project! We are currently looking for a research assistant to strengthen our on-site team at the beautiful Simbithi Eco Estate in South Africa. More info below 👇 @sofiaforss.bsky.social
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
🤗Delighted our review on pre-emptive behaviour in a landscape of intergroup conflict is out now in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social 🎓Resulting from endless fascinating chats with @josharbon.bsky.social #warfare #NERC #conflict #mammals #birds @bristolbiosci.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
Dwarf mongoose acting as a sentinel looking out for rival groups in South Africa.Green woodhoopoes allopreening one another in anticipation of conflict with rival groupsMeerkats standing together in the face of a threat from a rival group
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Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB) @crab-exeter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Thanks to our colleagues from around the world who signed the Open Letter against redundancies in CRAB. The letter surpassed 700 signatures in just over 1 wk. We hope execs will now see the harm they are doing to the University of Exeter's global reputation. sites.google.com/view/save-cr...
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As of 2026-07-14, this open letter has been signed by 754 people Signatories include 198 Professors and members of 11 National Academies, including 12 Fellows of the Royal Society (FRS) Signatories a...
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ASAB @asab.org · 09/07/2026
It's official: #Behaviour2027 is happening in Vienna next summer!
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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
@crab-exeter.bsky.social are a fantastic group of researchers, and a real beacon of excellence for Exeter. What a huge and deeply sad act of self sabotage this would be. Please consider signing their open letter👇🏻
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Lauren Brent @ljnbrent.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The University of Exeter is not in budget deficit. Yet are proposing to cut 150 academic jobs. This include my job. Please sign and share the petition, write our Vice Chancellor, to your MP, and get the word out about the act of self harm this university is about to commit. c.org/yKcx6Zr29H
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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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Beniamino Tuliozi @btuliozi.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Lifetime fitness (lifetime reproductive success) and annual survival are heritable and genetically correlated in wild female baboons! Moreover, nearly all of the genetic variance in LRS can be attributable to survival to first reproduction. Out at Evolution now: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
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Lifetime fitness and annual survival are heritable and highly genetically correlated in a wild primate population
We estimated the additive genetic variance (VA) and heritability of lifetime and time-limited fitness in a wild female baboon population in Kenya. We found
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
2026. Domestic goats can follow the direction of human voices to solve a hidden-object task. new from us, led by @chimpsahoi.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🤗 Delighted that a dwarf #mongoose has made the front cover of #ProcB 📑 Their #grooming & #sentinel exchanges inspired the modelling of biological #markets in our new paper: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 👥 @beckypadget.bsky.social #AndyHigginson 🎓 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org
Front cover of issue of Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B featuring a dwarf mongoose acting as sentinel
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
new, in press: Are individual differences in social behaviour a cause or a consequence of endoparasite infection in feral cattle? www.researchgate.net/publication/... led by @tania-perroux.bsky.social #AnimalBehaviour via @asab.org
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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Excellent opportunity here: a 5 year senior research fellowship in Life Sciences (broadly defined) at All Souls College Oxford. Many opportunities to work with the diverse & inclusive community here in @biology.ox.ac.uk here in the brand new Life & Mind Buiilding www.asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctora...
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships | All Souls College
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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
A small scarab soaked in waterfall mist. The metallic green on the beetle is not pigment, but structural color (a result of micro-structures that reflect only certain wavelengths). If you look closely within the droplets, the green is refracted into other hues. (Dichelonyx sp.; Montana) #Bugsky 🌿🐙📷
A macro photo, side view, of a green beetle with orange legs and a dark thorax and head. The beetle is covered in drops of water of all different sizes (from a waterfall nearby). The beetle is clinging to a wet rock covered in pale yellowish-green lichen. The water droplets act like little prisms, refracting the light into highlights of purple and blue on the beetle's green back.
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Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The Four-spotted Chaser (Libellula quadrimaculata).
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
New @econovoau.bsky.social paper in Global #Ecology & #Biogeography - on #ungulates in North American ecosystems. Key point: alien ungulates can enhance herbivore diversity & partially restore lost #ecosystem functions 🦌🌿🐂 🐎Link in comment #Rewilding #Megafauna #Macroecology #TIBS2026
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Will Smith @willjsmith.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Separately, whilst on St Kilda last month working on these endemic Wrens, a Redpoll which flew into our nets already had an ID ring. Turns out it was ringed in September 2025 as a first-year bird, on Sula in Norway. That's 1135km away from St Kilda! @jezierskimt.bsky.social @stkildawhs.bsky.social
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League Against Cruel Sports @leagueacs.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
We have a rare chance to speak up for animals who cannot speak for themselves. Foxes, stags, hare, otters and mink are still being chased and killed under the smokescreen of ‘trail’ hunting.
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Kai Caspar @nomascus.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
New study on the evolution of primate cognition, brain size, sensory and motor functions, prompted by "recent work showing fishes perform as well as primates on various cognitive tests." 🐟🦍🧪 Great to see such broad comparative perspectives driving research. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Sensorimotor Complexity and Cognition as Predictors of Primate Brain Size
Objectives As animal brain size increases, cognitive performance generally increases. However, other key brain functions, such as the regulation of somatic processes, processing of sensory input, an...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Nigel Farage registered ‘absent’ from the last 77 votes in Parliament Official Parliamentary figures reveal that Reform leader Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote for anything in the last 11 weeks... www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/whe...
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Working hard? Nigel Farage registered 'absent' from the last 77 votes in Parliament
Official Parliamentary figures reveal that Reform leader Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote for anything in the last 11 weeks...
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Rory (they/them) @roryq.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Also, it's obvious that the ambiguity is the point. The pro-AI world doesn't want us to be able to distinguish different kinds of AI. It wants us to accept GPT with the same enthusiasm we welcome breast cancer detection and LLMs for bird conservation. But fuck 'em. Be specific.
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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Not a sentence I’d expected to read when I got up this morning. Remarkable finding!
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
🌿 We are hiring a new 2-yr postdoc in @econovoau.bsky.social at @aarhusuniint.bsky.social, on large-#herbivore ecology, trophic #rewilding & novel ecosystems- asking when alien & feral #ungulates enhance biodiversity & when they contribute to degradation🐪🐎🦓 Deadline: 28 June 2026. Details below 👇
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
📢Out now in #ProcB our NEW paper on how #reward inequity can promote production of #publicgoods and #free-riding 👏Congratulations @beckypadget.bsky.social as lead author 👥With #AndyHigginson @royalsocietypublishing.org @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @crab-exeter.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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Reward inequity can promote both public goods production and free riding
Abstract. When animals in groups cooperate, individuals sometimes produce a ‘public’ good that benefits many or all group members and receive a private rew
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Ashkaan K. Fahimipour @akfbio.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Reptiles with longer Wikipedia pages tend to be bigger. The relationship is a power law with exponent = 0.85. I guess humans really like writing about big lizards? The longest article is the Komodo Dragon.
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BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
A dynamic image of a Buff-breasted Sandpiper in Lincolnshire won Monday's Photo of the Week!
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Photo of the Week: 11-17 May 2026
A brilliantly composed image of a Buff-breasted Sandpiper stands out among this week's images.
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ASAB @asab.org · 22/05/2026
Reminder that a lot of grants are due in little over a week (June 1)! This includes Research grants, Undergraduate Project scholarships and the ECBB Conference Attendance/Childcare/Accessibility grants 💸🏃 www.asab.org/grant-overview
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Grants Overview — ASAB
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Job alert! Apply via www.bto.org/jobs Are you passionate about birds with an interest in data and admin? We're looking for someone to join our Surveys Team and support UK bird surveys. 📆 Full time, Permanent. 📍 Thetford, Norfolk (Hybrid). 📝 £29,754 per annum. Closing date: Sunday 7 June
A Pied Flycatcher perches on a branch showing its striking black and white plumage against a green background. Wording alongside reads: Surveys Support Officer.
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Catherine Sheard @sheardcat.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
My former officemate Camille Troisi, an excellent scientist and top-tier human, now at the Université de Rennes, is currently recruiting a PhD student on the relationship between urbanisation and social learning (in birds!) sdrive.cnrs.fr/s/2HtQ8caBRd...
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Our new paper has been published today, "Sex and spatial proximity affect ungulate behavioral synchrony" peerj.com/articles/21331 via @peerj.bsky.social #AnimalBehaviour #Zoology led by @ghodgson.bsky.social
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George Hodgson @ghodgson.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
New paper alert!! Excited to announce our latest feral cattle paper ‘Sex and spatial proximity affect ungulate behavioral synchrony’ is out today open-access in PeerJ @peerj.bsky.social by myself, Kate Flay, @tania-perroux.bsky.social and @amcell.bsky.social (1/6) peerj.com/articles/213... #zoology
Photograph of two brown feral cattle in Hong Kong standing next to a path and staring at the camera
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John Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
If you are interested in learning to identify the UKs ground beetles there are free guides to download on my website johnwalters.co.uk/publications...
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
It’s May, so no more seed and peanuts in bird feeders. BTO Senior Research Ecologist Dr Kate Plummer, part of the Technical Steering Group that carried out the evidence review on which the new guidance is based, sets out the reasoning behind the changes in this BTO blog ➡️ www.bto.org/our-work/new...
Two Greenfinches perch on a hanging bird feeder.
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Merin Reji Chacko @merinrejichacko.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
🌱🐝 New paper out!! Can flower-rich gardens buffer #pollination services in densifying cities like #Zurich? We find the answer is #trait dependent: no one-size-fits-all. #Urban green spaces need local floral richness and landscape-scale measures to support #pollinators doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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No one‐size‐fits‐all: Trait‐dependent effects of local plant diversity on pollinators and pollination service in a densifying city
Increasing local floral richness can support pollination success of specialised plants in dense urban landscapes. However, a floral enrichment strategy alone is less effective for generalist plants, ...
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Claudia Wascher @wascherclaudia.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Really looking forward to speaking about corvid cognition at the upcoming “Nature of Intelligence: Bridging Animal and Artificial Intelligence” Theo Murphy meeting (21–22 September 2026, Bristol, UK). Thanks to the organisers for an exciting programme and @royalsociety.org for support.
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