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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m delighted to have become an @ukcge.bsky.social ‘Recognised Research Supervisor’ – 1 of the first 2 ever at the @bristoluni.bsky.social. The UKCGE reflective framework helped me identify strengths in what I've learned over many years & areas for continued development. @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
UKCGE 'Recognised Research Supervisor' award certificate
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Lola von Kietzell @lolavk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My first first-author paper is online today! Read it in @asab.org #AnimalBehaviour: Cooperatively breeding white-winged choughs use recruitment calls selectively in food-associated contexts. doi.org/10.1016/j.an... A dream to work with these social #birds and the fantastic #co-authors!
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🌟Congratulations to @lolavk.bsky.social on her 1st #Masters paper. 📢Out today in @asab #AnimalBehaviour: Cooperatively breeding white-winged choughs use recruitment calls selectively in food-associated contexts. @josharbon.bsky.social & I are #ProudSupervisors #birds doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
Lola von Kietzell conducting her Masters fieldwork in AustraliaWhite-winged choughs in AustraliaLola von Kietzell conducting fieldwork with white-winged choughs for her Masters
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Julia Machado @juliammachado.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Do you have experience working with meerkats or in animal affect/ welfare science? Are you UK based? If so, we may be able to offer you 1-2 hours of PAID work coding footage of zoo-housed meerkats for a project on meerkat-keeper relationships! Register your interest here: tinyurl.com/ntumeerkats
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Honoured to have been trusted with the opening #plenary at #ECBB2026 in Cambridge. A chance to showcase the fantastic work of many #ECRs and colleagues who make research & academia so fun. Thank you! Looking forward to enjoying the rest of a great conference. @asab.org @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The result of 10+ years of fieldwork & analysis of 1000s of data points is out now in @natecoevo.nature.com... and on the cover! Mongoose pre-emptive behaviour & intergroup conflict Congratulations @josharbon.bsky.social @juliekern.bsky.social #AmyMorris-Drake doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Cover of Nature Ecology & Evolution August 2026 issue featuring a dwarf mongoose
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Common Tern Project @commonternproject.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Question: do I know anyone near Nantes who would be willing to pick up a dead gull-billed tern and its logger? L49 has sadly been killed near a road. I’d be very grateful for a picture and the logger and would of course reimburse postage.
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Josh Arbon @josharbon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
New @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper out today. Interested in how animal groups pre-emptively adjust their behaviour to a landscape of intergroup conflict? The culmination of almost daily chats with @andyradford.bsky.social throughout my postdoc. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Honoured & humbled to have won the global #KeystoneAward for 'Outstanding Teaching & Mentoring' www.keg.com/keystone-awa... A HUGE thank you to all the amazing #ECRs I have been privileged to work with & who wrote such heart-felt testimonials 🙏 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social
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Danai Papageorgiou @danaipapageorgiou.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This @noemamag.com article by Ryan Huling, author of Hidden Nations, beautifully covers our Nature Sustainability paper with @merikatariina.bsky.social and @birchlse.bsky.social! If you can’t access it, let me know 😉 doi.org/10.1038/s418...
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Protecting animal cultures as World Heritage - Nature Sustainability
It is becoming increasingly clear that animal cultures have intrinsic, irreplaceable value, and yet they are not adequately protected by preserving habitat. The time has come for UNESCO to explicitly ...
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
🎉Out today: the labour of love that's our NEW paper showing dwarf #mongooses pre-emptively change #behaviour in anticipation of #intergroup #conflict... & this depends on relative group size (threat level). 👥Led by the brilliant @josharbon.bsky.social @natecoevo.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Josh Arbon @josharbon.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Dwarf mongooses change their pre-emptive behaviour relative to the size of their neighbouring rivals🐻🥊 We leveraged 10 years of behaviour and GPS data to investigate the pre-emptive behavioural changes mongooses make to navigate a landscape of intergroup conflict: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
🚨NEW paper in @asab.org #AnimalBehaviour - field #experiments testing how elevated within-group aggression & intergroup threat combine to affect mongoose #behaviour Led by @josharbon.bsky.social with @juliekern.bsky.social & #AmyMorris-Drake #mammals #bioacoustics #conflict doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
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Vlad Demartsev @animal-sounds.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
🚨REPOST PLEASE! 🙏🏻 Calling all South African 🇿🇦 zoology students! You have ONE more week to apply to our Collective Behaviour Field Course 📍Two weeks at the Kalahari Research Centre 🗓️ June 2026 💸 Fully funded Application details are at www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/cbfc DM for any questions
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us ❓Quantifying animal #movement patterns & behavioural #interactions in a changing world 👥Joint position in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #MacquarieUniversity 📆19th April deadline tinyurl.com/343acaev #maths #modelling #data #fieldwork #Australia 🙏PLEASE SHARE
Zebra finches in Australia; one of the study organisms for the PhDDwarf mongoose staring at a camera in South Africa; one of the PhD study organisms
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
CONGRATULATIONS to @laurenvane.bsky.social and #JamesRobertshaw on delivering such great talks at the #ASABSpring2026 conference. #ProudSupervisor #ECRs #PhD #Masters #meerkats #mammals #bioacoustics @asab.org @asab-meetings.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Lauren Vane giving her talk at the ASAB Spring Conference 2026 in BristolJames Robertshaw giving his talk at the ASAB Spring Conference 2026 in Bristol
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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
And #ASABSpring2026 is finished! A huge thank you to the organizer Sean Rands, his big group of volunteers, and Uni Bristol for hosting👏 Don’t forget ECBB (@ecbb2026.bsky.social) Sept 1-4 in Cambridge and our joint #ASABWinter2026 meeting with PSGB (@asabpsgb2026.bsky.social) Dec 8-10 in Edinburgh
Group of volunteers with Sean in the centre on a patio with a view of Bristol
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jfrobertshaw.bsky.social @jfrobertshaw.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Really pleased to have had the opportunity to talk about my work on meerkat intergroup conflict and pre-emotive behaviour at #ASABSpring2026 yesterday. Thanks to everyone who asked great questions!
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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Congratulations to @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social for winning the Christopher Barnard Award for Outstanding Contributions by a New Investigator! 🎉 Such an engaging talk on strategic social behaviour – including brinkmanship, blackmail and climatic sabotage at #ASABSpring2026 ! 🐝
Andy Radford shaking Patrick Kennedy’s handPatrick in front of a slide with a wasp reading “LIFE ADVICE FOR SELFISH GENES ASAB SPRING CONFERENCE 2026”
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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Afternoon #ASABSpring2026 talks on termite conflicts, baboon microbiomes, rat reciprocity, rabbit social associations, bird predation strategies, meerkat faecal intrusions & mongoose scents 🦗🦠🐀🐇🦅💩👃
Collage of students in front of slides
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Look to the sky tonight for March's full moon 🌕🍃 Also known as the Worm Moon, it marks the shift in seasons as the soil warms, earthworms re-emerge, and nature awakens. It has many other names including: Lenten, Plough, Crow, & Sap Moon. 🕖 Moonrise: 18:09*
A luminous full moon rises in the sky, prominently featured against the dusky blue of early night. In the foreground, a line of Eurasian cranes is silhouetted in mid-flight, their long legs and necks stretched out as they navigate by the moonlight.
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University of Bristol Biological Sciences @bristolbiosci.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
To celebrate Women in STEM day on Wednesday 11 February we’ve printed some banners to highlight some of the incredible work that the women of Bio Sci at Bristol have achieved over the years! Pop into the LSB for the remainder of Feb to check out who’s done what and when!
8 posters all describing influential women that have passed through Biological Sciences
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
🌟Huge CONGRATULATIONS to @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social who has won the @asab.org Christopher Barnard Award for Outstanding Contributions by a New Investigator. 🤗 Research on social evolution and what links climate & cooperation in a changing world, using #wasps as models. #worthywinner #ECR #proud
Dr Patrick Kennedy, winner of the ASAB Christopher Barnard Award.
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jfrobertshaw.bsky.social @jfrobertshaw.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Beyond proud to be recognised for my poster. Huge thanks to the organisers for such an interesting and inspiring event!
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jfrobertshaw.bsky.social @jfrobertshaw.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Delighted to have presented my work on meerkat inter-group conflict at my first conference! If you didn’t get the chance today, come and say hi tomorrow 👋 #ASABWinter2025
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
🌟 #MongooseMonday is upon us! 🌟 In dwarf mongoose groups, who provides #information matters. More experienced individuals are 'trusted' the most: doi.org/10.1093/behe... New group members take time to settle in: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... #acousticcommunication #mammals #fieldwork #experiments
Dwarf mongoose on sentinel duty in South Africa. Photo by Shannon Benson.Dwarf mongoose on sentinel duty in South Africa. Photo by Shannon Benson.
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Honoured & humbled to receive a #Nature #Award for #Mentoring in #Science yesterday. ☺️ Testament to the wonderful #ECRs I've been privileged to work with. THANK YOU to all who nominated me. 🙏 #proud #support @natureportfolio.nature.com @bristolbiosci.bsky.social www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/de...
Certificate for winning Nature Award for Mentoring in ScienceProfessor Andy Radford with some of his mentees at the University of Bristol
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
👋to @josharbon.bsky.social who has completed a truly outstanding #NERC-funded postdoc investigating #pre-emptive #behaviour in relation to #intergroup #conflict 👏 Loads of exciting #research, new #methods learned & an awe-inspiring level of help provided to others 🥇 Good luck in #Cambridge, Josh
Dr Josh Arbon out birding.Dr Josh Arbon with a meerkat in the Kalahari, South Africa.
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Lauren Vane @laurenvane.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
☀️New Paper!☀️ In @ecol-evol.bsky.social Dwarf mongooses lose body mass in hot weather due to limited behavioural plasticity With top co-authors: @josharbon.bsky.social, Amy Morris-Drake, @juliekern.bsky.social, @andyradford.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71963 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social 🧵⬇️
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Dwarf Mongooses Lose Body Mass in Hot Weather due to Limited Behavioural Plasticity
Using long-term data from wild dwarf mongooses (Helogale parvula), we demonstrate that on hot days (≥ 35°C) compared to matched cooler ones (≤ 33°C), mongooses emerged and commenced foraging earlier ...
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Apparently, it is 'World #Meerkat Day'. 🤷‍♂️ So what better excuse to post some photos of the #field team in action with the little critters, with thanks to the Kalahari Meerkat Project who make it all possible. @laurenvane.bsky.social @josharbon.bsky.social James Robertshaw @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Juvenile meerkat in the Kalahari.Masters by Research student Lauren Vane collecting data on wild meerkats in the Kalahari, South Africa.Masters by Research student James Robertshaw out in the field with a meerkat on his head.Dr Josh Arbon mimicking a meerkat... or vice versa.
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
The #Kalahari field season is in full swing for the team of @laurenvane.bsky.social, Josh Arbon & James Robertshaw, aided by the smallest of assistants. 😊 Not jealous of them AT ALL! Bring on the exciting #experiments and data... @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #meerkats #fieldwork #helpers
Researchers Josh Arbon and James Robertshaw watching a meerkat sentinel in the Kalahari.Meerkat pups climbing over the fluffy outer cover (wind shield) of a microphone being used by researchers in the Kalahari.Researcher Josh Arbon and a meerkat pondering life.Researchers Lauren Vane and James Robertshaw enjoying the sunset after a hard day of work in the Kalahari.
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