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Macrobehaviour Lab

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Uniting #behavioural ecology with #macroecology to gain fundamental insight, & understand + predict rapid responses to #environmental change sallykeith.weebly.com

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Dr Katherine Whyte @kateywhyte.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Delighted to share this work from my PhD, which is now published in Animal Conservation: 🎉 zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Huge thanks to my co-authors, and to all the funders who supported this work. #MarineMammals #OffshoreWind #RenewableEnergy #AnimalMovement #Seals
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
ONE WEEK LEFT to apply 2 UKRI-funded Senior Research Associates; intersection of behaviour, conservation + AI (coral reefs/UK waters) 1x2yr9mth; 1x2yrs. TWO WEEKS LEFT for the 3rd position on behavioural ecology (2yrs9mth) More info here sallykeith.weebly.com/team.html @lec-reefs.bsky.social
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Cool article on our PhD student Annabell Klinke's research, asking are fish less smart on less structurally complex reefs? womenlovetech.com/world-first-... @lec-reefs.bsky.social
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Will Coral Reef Collapse Make Fish Less Intelligent?
Marine biologist Annabell reveals how coral reef collapse could affect fish intelligence, with insights on what reef degradation means for underwater life.
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Macrobehaviour Lab @macrobehaviour.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Paper #3 of the last week (the lab is on fire!) from @lisabe.bsky.social seeing if ickle fish are more tempted by grown up fish than by healthy habitat when things get tough
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Macrobehaviour Lab @macrobehaviour.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
And the 2nd paper from @jamesboon.bsky.social on the same day! This one involved many hours swimming around with a 3D printed fish on a stick, scaring fish. Who said science wasn't fun?!
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Macrobehaviour Lab @macrobehaviour.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Congrats @jamesboon.bsky.social on getting this PhD chapter out there and powering through the logistics of deep dives!
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
PAPER: Territorial damselfish are more aggressive to neighbours if their neighbour is larger, but this weakens If they don't know each other link.springer.com/article/10.1... Led by my awesome former PhD student @sheppardcat.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @envisiondtp.bsky.social #FishInBottles
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Familiarity mediated by body size predicts intraspecific aggression in farming damselfishes - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Abstract Aggressive territoriality can have significant benefits for resource acquisition yet is a costly behaviour. Selection should therefore favour mechanisms that allow individuals to modify their...
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Cher Chow 周馥溢 @cherfychow.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
🚨New data paper/open data alert!🚨 BioTIME v2.0 is out now! We've expanded the database with improved spatial and taxonomic coverage, with a new R package! As always, free, public, and open acess :) Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Database: biotime.st-andrews.ac.uk
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BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series
Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The up...
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